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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 […]

March 24, 2025

Mrs. Husband’s Name: Identifying Women in the Columbus Citizen-Journal Photograph Collection

Archives Services Intern Taylor Grzesiek researches women formerly identified only by their spouse's surnames.

March 6, 2025

Collections Spotlight: Photographs from the Columbus Citizen-Journal

The newspaper's photograph collection gets a 2025 update, preserving more than 24,000 images and making them easier to access.

January 18, 2024

Yours Respectfully, Miss Elvira Johnson

By Wendy Korwin, Archives Services Manager Within large archival collections, certain names and voices stand out. From 2021-2023, archivists at the Ohio History Connection worked to catalog President Warren G. Harding’s papers and photographs. During this project, we identified thousands of correspondents (another blog post explores some of Harding's early letters). There were close, distant […]

December 14, 2021

Happy New Year from the Printer’s Devil

Have you ever received a Christmas card from your mail carrier? This is fairly common practice around the country. But do you know where this come from?

July 14, 2014

A prestidigitator could not do better with your soiled shirts!

April 11, 2014

Can You Pass the Test? Teacher Certification Exams in Ohio’s Historic Newspapers

February 24, 2014

Finding the Leaves of Your Family Tree in the Pages of Online Newspapers

August 2, 2013

Killed by Pitched Ball: Finding Ray Chapman on Chronicling America

June 15, 2011