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Faces and Places: American History through Ohio Biography

• "Ulysses S. Grant" Carte De Visite
• Annie Oakley Photographs
• Eddie Rickenbacker
• Eddie Rickenbacker Photograph
• Eddie Rickenbacker Photograph
• Freedom Stairway
• Gemini Space Suit
• Jeffrey Tool Department
• John Glenn Campaigning for U. S. Senator
• Paul Lawrence Dunbar's picture along with the Dayton Central HS Class of 1890
• Scott Family Photograph
• Tecumseh Portrait
• Warren G. Harding Presidential Campaign Poster
• William Tecumseh Sherman on Horseback Carte de Visite
• Zane Grey Writing in his Morris Chair

Turning Points: The Constitution and American Democratic Institutions

• 1802 Ohio Constitution
• 1842 Letter Regarding African American Students
• Abraham Lincoln Funeral Obsequies
• Arthur St. Clair letter re: Gubernatorial Power
• Constitution Table
• Crusader's Appeal
• Equality Before the Law Pamphlet
• Let Ohio Women Vote
• National Anti-Mob and Lynch Law Association Brochure
• Ohio Woman Suffrage Association Broadside
• Suffragettes Demonstrate at Ohio Statehouse
• Will Ohio Make Good for Democracy

The United States in the World: American Foreign Relations

• 372nd Infantry Regiment on Broad Street
• 375th Criminal Investigation Division in Iraq
• Cincinnati German Day Poster
• Dayton Evacuation Plan
• Facts About Fallout Protection
• Ohio Flag in Vietnam
• Ohio Flag in Vietnam
• Ohio National Guard photograph
• William Howard Taft Foreign Policy Cartoon
• William Howard Taft Foreign Policy Cartoon
• World War II Poster

Migration and Immigration: The Peopling of America

• Cuyahoga County Ohio Atlas
• David Wilborn Ex-Slave Narrative
• German Day in Cincinnati
• Girls Sewing Instruction
• Immigrant Letter to Ireland
• Irish Cultural Garden Dedication
• Italian Cultural Garden Construction Photographs
• Jeffrey Fertilizer Loader
• John Rankin House Freedom Stairway
• Josephinum Pontifical College Photographs
• Licking County Naturalization Declarations of Intent
• Literacy and Citizenship Class, Mingo Junction, Ohio
• National Road, Photograph
• Ripley Anti-Slavery Minutes
• Underground Railroad Painting
• Wyandot Mission Paintings
• Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company's Blackburn Plat

Common and Uncommon Cents: American Economic History

• Akron Police Clash with Strikers
• Ashland University Postcards
• Best People on Earth Enter these Doors--Our Customers! Poster
• Carlin Store Ledger
• Central Labor Union Grievance Blank Forms
• Coxy's Army
• F. E. Schumacher Company Employees Photographs
• Ivorydale Factory Photographs
• Jeffrey Manufacturing Company Foundry
• Mounted Police and Strikers Stand-Off
• Ritty Dial Cash Register Patent Drawings
• Sunday Creek Coal Mine #6 Photograph
• Taylorsville Construction Camp Store Photograph
• Wadsworth Salt Company Photographs
• We'll Have Lots to Eat This Winter, Won't We Mother?
• Your Victory Garden Counts More than Ever

Differing Perspectives: Social Movements and Social Change

• 127th Ohio Volunteer Infantry - 5th United States Colored Troops
• African-American Dance Team
• Armbruster Gothic Set Designs
• Brotherhood Week Photograph
• Freedom Stairway
• Freedom Summer Volunteers
• Greene County Socialist Party Leaflet
• John Rankin House Freedom Staircase Photograph
• Martin Luther King, Jr. materials
• New Year Sentiment Card
• Nigerian Tells African Feeling on United States Newspaper Article
• Ohio National Guard Clearing Protestors from The Ohio State University Oval
• Ohio State University Vietnam War Protest Photographs
• Ripley Anti-Slavery Minutes
• Students Protesting on Oval at Ohio State University
• Suffragette on Horse
• Suffragettes Demonstrate at Ohio Statehouse
• Temperance Crusaders Seated Outside J. Rogers
• Uncle Tom's Cabin Book Cover
• Women's Suffrage Political Cartoon
• Women's Suffrage Political Cartoon
• Young Woman Detained by State Troopers

National Anti-Mob and Lynch Law Association Brochure

National Road, Photograph

World War II Poster