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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

Promotional advertisement for the Red Cross with the headline "Can You Sleep Tonight?" appeared in the Wooster Daily Republican in June 1917.

This image depicts the group of men who broke the first ground for the new St. Mary's of the Immaculate Conception. It now stands on the corner of Beall Avenue and Bowman Street

This is a unique example of the kinds of non-agricultural exhibits held at the fair. Such exhibits were crucial to the fiscal life of the fair- it was the link that brought agriculturalists and agricultural lay people into one place at one time to…

A 1917 Committee on Public Information poster featuring an inhuman looking German soldier and the words, "Beat back the Hun with Liberty Bonds!"

1942 Wartime Production Board poster proclaiming "America needs your scrap rubber" and describing what military products that rubber is used to produce