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Wooster Digital History Project

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Follis_WHS.jpg
1899 Wooster High School football team photo, featuring Charles Follis, who organized the team

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1902 Shelby Blues team photo, featuring Charles Follis

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Article informing that Serafino Zarlengo was building a new house on Palmer Street. Comments on the neighborhood of the East End, calling it a "pleasant surprise." Appeared in the Wooster Daily News on August 27, 1910.

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Article about Salvastine Salvatore and his son coming to Wooster with the help of Joseph DiGiacomo and Dominico Piscinelli, Appeared in the Wooster Daily News on April 25, 1910.

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This 1917 Wooster Daily Republican article describes an incident in which several College of Wooster students broke into a German classroom and removed the head from a portrait of Kaiser Wilhelm.

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This Wooster Daily Republican article describes an incident that occurred in Rittman , when a "harmless hobo" was mistaken for a German spy.

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This 1918 Wooster Daily Republican article states that an elderly Wooster woman was arrested for "pro-German talk," and later released with a warning.

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This map from the 1920 Census of Agriculture shows that most of Ohio's land was in use for agriculture before the Great Depression.

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This map from the 1920 Census of Agriculture highlights the importance of agriculture in Ohio before the Great Depression, when that much of the state's land was used for agriculture.

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An advertisement for the 1923 Wayne County Fair. We are able to see that while livestock is still the most prevalent attraction, cars are becoming popular. (It should be noted that before World War II, cars were an extravagance, so an auto show was…

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1950 Rubbermaid advertisement with the slogan "to lighten & brighten your housework"

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1962 Daily Record article celebrating the 50th anniversary of Dick Morrison's barber shop

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A 1964 Daily Record article entitled, "Wooster Negro Buys a Home - Ten Year Story Has a Happy Ending," that tells the story of Richard "Dick" Morrison Jr. and his struggle to buy a home in Wooster

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A Daily Record article entitled, "Housing is Rated Number One Problem of Wooster's Negroes," discussing the prevalence of housing discrimination in Wooster

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This 1964 Daily Record article, featuring an interview with Reverend Adams, in which he discusses his goals for the new church

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1968 Rubbermaid advertisement depicting a women scooping flour from a "space-saving cannister"

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A 1975 Daily Record article discussing the razing of Second Baptist in preparation for the construction of a new church building

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A 1985 Daily Record article discussion a group of Wooster business men, who proposed to build a large shopping complex with an attached parking garage as a means of saving the downtown economy

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A 2007 Daily Record article about the appeal of downtown lofts

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A 2009 Daily Record article describing the development of the downtown "entertainment district" and Main Street Wooster's campaign to grant more restaurants liquor licenses, the first of which was Muddy Waters Cafe and Grill

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A Daily Record article describing the 2011 Wayne County farm Tour, featuring both Local Roots and South Market Bistro

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Photo of West Liberty Street in the 1980s, businesses shown are Barney's Menswear and Crum Drugstore

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Program from a ceremony commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Jewish Community - with David Freedlander and Louis Licofsky. At the founding of the Knesseth Israel Temple in 1953, these two were thought to be the Temple’s first residents.

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Pictured here is the original wooden structure stadium built for fair attractions and events. Condemned by the state fire marshal in 1935, the Fair Board decided to build a new steel structure over it in 1936. While it seats about 1,100 people, fair…

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This sketch from Caldwell's Atlas of 1873 focuses on the farm of A.H. and B.C. Byers, located on the west side of Christmas Run south of Wayne Avenue. It was located so close to downtown Wooster that one can even see the steeples of churches in the…

Graham's first 4-H.jpg
A photo in 1904 of some of the first boys involved in Graham's clubs, formed into small teams of corn growers and tomato growers.

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Naturalization record of Abraham Greenbaum, Wooster’s oldest Jewish resident.

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The map shows the land used for organic production in the United States in 2007, according to the U.S. Census of Agriculture.

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Photo taken across the street from the remnants of Jacob's Lutheran Church, featuring the junction signs.
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