From the Collections Blog Archives - Ohio History Connection

October 13, 2025

Grant Awarded to Preserve LGBTQ+ Media

By Wendy Korwin This LGBTQ+ History Month, we’re delighted to share that the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is supporting the Gay Ohio History Initiative (GOHI) through its Recordings at Risk program! The grant program is made possible by funding from the Mellon Foundation. This grant will enable the Ohio History Connection to […]

October 6, 2025

The Archaeology Catalogs Part II: A Great Deal of Careful Work

The Ohio History Connection cares for world-renowned Archaeology collections through the use of a catalog whose origin dates back over a century. For this Ohio Archaeology Month, explore the history and application of the Archaeology catalog. If you missed our first post about the archaeology catalogs, you can read it here. To briefly review, the […]

September 29, 2025

A Snapshot of Oil Production in Ohio

Learn more about oil production in Ohio from its beginnings in 1814 to the present.

September 22, 2025

Who Was She? Researching Women in the Columbus Citizen-Journal Photographs

By Taylor Gresziek and Wendy Korwin Earlier this year, Archives Services intern Taylor Grzesiek shared her efforts to identify several women photographed in the Columbus Citizen-Journal who were listed only by their husbands’ names. Read more about Taylor's work here: “Mrs. Husband’s Name: Identifying Women in the Columbus Citizen-Journal Photograph Collection” We received several helpful […]

September 15, 2025

Dining at Lazarus

Take a trip down memory lane and revisit some of the dining options that were once available at the Lazarus Department Store.

September 2, 2025

The Crash of the USS Shenandoah

By Benjamin Baughman, History Curator On September 3, 1925, Ohio witnessed one of the worst disasters in aviation history when the USS Shenandoah rigid airship crashed in Noble County. Occurring over a decade before the Hindenburg disaster, the crash generated international headlines and led the U.S. Navy to significantly alter their designs for future airships. […]

August 18, 2025

Collections Spotlight: Lustron Corporation records

The Lustron Corporation was founded in the mid-1940s by Carl G. Strandlund, an engineer and vice-president of the Chicago Vitreous Enamel Products Company. In 1946, He went before a federal control board in Washington D.C. to request an allotment of steel to build prefabricated gas stations. He was denied by the board for fears they […]

August 11, 2025

Can Artificial Intelligence (AI) Benefit Natural History Collections?

Or: How a Comment About iNaturalist Led Me Down an AI Rabbithole Rather than an exhaustive report, this blog is intended to give a brief overview of the topic and jumping off points for further investigation. This blog was written without the assistance of AI writing tools. While identifying a butterfly on a social media […]

July 28, 2025

Mary Ann Martin Burkhart: Writer, Poet and Model

The archive of Ohio artist Emerson Burkhart provides an additional opportunity to consider the talents of his wife, Mary Ann Martin Burkhart.

July 21, 2025

A Brief History of the Golden-winged Warbler: Part II

Author’s Note: Be sure to catch up with A Brief History of the Golden-winged Warbler Part I, here. The Golden-winged Warbler was seemingly never common in Ohio. It had been variously described as a "transitory visitor" by Jared Kirtland in 1838; a "rare summer resident" by John Wheaton in 1879; and "irregular in distribution" by […]