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Background map for the Wooster Cemetery Tour Neatline exhibit.

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.

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.

A map of Italy with the regions of origin of Wooster's Italian community highlighted. Percentages under the region name details the portion of the community that came from each region.

Photograph of Italian Society Citizenship Class of 1939

Photograph of Albert Dix, owner of the Wooster Republican and later the Wooster Daily Record, looking up from a copy of the paper. Appeared in the Wooster Daily Record September 8, 1953 in a spread featuring a behind-the-scenes look at the newspaper.

Photograph of Albert Dix, owner of the Wooster Republican and later the Wooster Daily Record. Appeared in the Wooster Daily Record September 8, 1953 in a spread featuring a behind-the-scenes look at the newspaper.

Circular seal placed at the top of the folio of the June 28, 1998 issue of the Daily Record that commemorates the 100th year after Albert and Emmett Dix bought the Wooster Republican and entered the Wooster newspaper scene.

The first section of an editorial about the merge of the Wooster Republican and the Wooster Daily News. Appeared on the front page of the first issue of the Wooster Daily Record.

An illustration from an 1861 edition of Timothy Shay Arthur's 1854 temperance drama, Ten Nighs in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There. This story was presented in play form in the Quinby Opera House at the height of Wooster's activity in the temperance…

An illustration of the Sultana disaster in Harper's Weekly. It shows the steamer in flames and dozens of men stranded in the Mississippi.

Modern photo of Kauke Hall, the College of Wooster's famous landmark.

Photo taken for a "Rep. for Frick," of the original Old Main Building. Presumably, this is one of the photos that encouraged Henry Clay Frick to donate money to build a library for the new, Christian school.

Artwork depicting the original Old Main academic building on the University of Wooster's campus.

A sketch of the original Old Main building, focusing on the awkward middle section that the townspeople nicknamed "Bitter's Bottle," because it looked so much like a pill bottle.

View of Severance Hall (chemistry), constructed in 1902, from the academic quad of the College of Wooster

Portrait of Louis H. Severance, trustee of the University of Wooster, circa 1910

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

A 2007 Daily Record article about the appeal of downtown lofts

A graph charting the change in the types of businesses downtown, from the 1970s to today. Estimates are based on phone book listings.

223 W Liberty Street in 2013, visible businesses include Friendtique, Uptown Downtown Antiques, and The Wooster Book Company

Rear view of newly-built lofts in the Merchant's Block building on West Liberty Street, many are already sold

A photo of South Market Street, near the Square, in 2013.

Photo of a man watering a planter on the corner of West Liberty and South Market Streets, part of Main Street Wooster's beautification efforts

A photo of the gazebo on the northeast corner of the square, with banners advertising events downtown

A photo of a banner on the town square advertising the Ohio Light Opera

A photo of the town square, after it was rebuilt by the Cahmber of Commerce and Main Street Wooster

President Holden wrote his autobiography for his children in 1932 and it featured an extensive portion on his time as the President of the College of Wooster. He focused on the difficulties he ran into as he desperately tried to find donors for…

The photograph shows just how little remained of the campus’ main academic building after a fire ravaged the structure in 1901.