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Photograph of Massaro Avenue, taken in the "East End" neighborhood.

World War I portrait of Venanzo Tomassetti, a member of Company D, 146th Infantry, 37th Ohio Division.

St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception Church parochial school's class photo taken in 1912.

Photograph of the Lamplighters Social Club stand at the fair in 1948.

Photograph of the Lamplighters Social Club.

Photograph of the Town Hall constructed by the Italian Society in 1910.

Photograph of the DiGiacomo family.

Photograph of Incoronata and Joseph DiGiacomo found in Joseph DiGiacomo's biographical section in Dominic Iannarelli's A Touch of Italy in Wooster.

Photograph of Italian Society Citizenship Class of 1939

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

Lowry and Garber Drushal spoke of Herman’s fondness for helping children and his invaluable contributions to the community. Traditionally only faculty and trustees were part of the vote, but students and faculty wanted to honor Herman as well.

This is an image of an Amish horse and buggy on the street in Iowa.

In this rare letter from D.L. Freedlander, he celebrates the continued prosperity of the store and cites his decision to establish fixed prices as a reason for its success.

From the Daily Record, showing the extreme growth of the Temple in the 1950s.

This public sale notice emphasizes the diversity of crops on every small farm in Wayne County. The D. Y. Roebuck farm advertises their horses, cows, sheep, pigs, hay, corn, and seeds.

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

The original buildings of Wooster’s OARDC campus included laboratories, a creamery, a dairy barn, and greenhouses.

Charles E. Thorne became the first director of what eventually became OARDC from 1887-1921.

When OAES originally moved to Wooster none of the buildings were completed yet, but the campus eventually began to take shape in 1893.

A Bob Evans Restaurant replaced the historic old mill that once stood near the Oak Hill Cemetery signalling the symbolic end of mills in Wooster, which were once a major feature of the local economy.

A welcome sign on the Ramseyer potato farm, open to the public in autumn. One of the Sugar Creek Partners, Arden Ramseyer mentioned the importance of family and community-engagement, values which are clear through his business and are common to the…

John Larwill came with his brothers to Wooster in 1807. Contemporary historian Ben Douglas reported that Larwill became Wooster's Justice of the Peace in 1820 and married sixty-two couples during his tenure.

Photograph showing pioneer fireplace in Ashtabula county

This sketch from Caldwell's Atlas of 1873 features a mower from Excelsior Mower and Reaper Works of Cline, Seiberling and Co., in Doylestown, Ohio. The piece of innovative farm technology was sold in the mid-Nineteenth century to cut lodged and…

This piece of innovative technology from the mid-Nineteenth century was captured in a sketch by the Caldwell Atlas of 1873. It features a man cutting lodged and tangled grain with a mower from Cline, Seiberling and Co., of Doylestown, Ohio.

This sketch from Caldwell's Atlas of 1873 focuses on Benjamin Hershey's Mill Creek Farm, in Chippewa Township. It features a mill in the foreground, surrounded by fields of different crops.

This sketch from Caldwell's Atlas of 1873 shows the Fountain Hill Nursery of J. Gardner, two miles west of Orrville on the Wooster Road. As seen in the image, the nursery housed many different crops and animals side-by-side.

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…

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

The Daily Record article announces plans to open Local Roots Market in 2009