Browse Items (516 total)

This map shows undeveloped parts of Ohio in 1785 and sections numbered after the Land Ordinance of 1785.

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

A sign posted at a work site of the Wooster Downtown Economic Development Project, the precursor to Main Street Wooster

Front page of a pamphlet on the "History, By-Laws, Rules & Regulations of the Wooster Cemetery Association."

Map of the Wooster Cemetery

Photo of men working on the Wooster Cemetery grounds, 1904.

A map showing the streets that comprise downtown Wooster

1917 cartoon which appeared in the Wooster Daily News. Depicts "Uncle Sam" explaining that "meatless days" in the United States prevent "eatless days" for the European Allies

Scan from microfilm of a news article commemorating the cornerstone of the Jewish Temple. Headline reads: "Knesseth Israel Cornerstone Placed Sunday."

Daily Record Photo featuring the moment the Jewish community started building their temple.

October 25, 1918 Wooster Daily Republican article announcing that six deaths had occurred the previous evening as a result of Spanish Influenza

Wooster Daily Republican Article, dated August 15, 1917, describing the farewell ceremony held in honor of Wooster's first volunteer company to depart for service in WWI

Wooster Daily RepublicanArticle, "Wooater Boys in Region of New Drive," dated September 9, 1918, announcing Copmany D's participation in the capture of Verdun

1917 Wooster Daily Republican article entitled, "Station Helps in Food Crisis," decribing the Ohio Experiment Station's efforts to ameliorate the food shortage of WWI

1917 Wooster Daily Republican article decribing how Mabel Corbould, of the Ohio Experiment Station, has found ways of cooking bread with substitute flour for wartime conservation

1918 Wooster Daily Republican article describing the bravery of the young women who volunteered to nurse those stricken with Spanish Influenza

July 5, 1919 Wooster Daily Republican article describing the festivities of July 4th, when Wooster welcomed home more than 1,500 WWI veterans

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

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

A playful blurb from the Wooster Democrat three years after the University opened its doors indicates the town’s response to the new school.

Article in the Wayne County Democrat attacking the Wooster Weekly Republican for their pessimistic attitude toward the University of Wooster.

Gathering of the men of the "Bull of the Woods" Fire Company. The company is believed to have been the first in Wooster, established in about 1927. Men and cart probably standing on East Liberty Street.

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

Program shows the growth of the congregation in the 1950s and 1960s, as well as the existence of a Wooster Jewish Community Association.

Photograph of August Imgard, the man credited with bringing the Christmas Tree to Wooster. For many years, Wooster legend persisted that he brought the Christmas tree to the United States.

A line of fair-goers lead cattle across the race track, passing the fairgrounds' stadium.

Photo of an early farm in Wayne County, with a flock of sheep in the foreground, circa 1900.

Early photo of travelers to a farm in Wayne County.

A wagon train of new farmers to Wayne County, flanked by two wooden fences, traveling from Columbus to Wooster.

This photograph shows a man cutting wheat with a cradle and binding it by hand. In Paul Conkin's "A Revolution Down on the Farm," he describes the cradle as the second most important farming innovation of the Nineteenth century, after barbed wire.