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Starting first with the "Boom and Bust" feature, we have
expanded this adventure slowly over time. Our Digital Exhibits are
intended to provide greater detail about our materials, to be
informative, and to be used for educational purposes. Enjoy your visit
now, and come back again.
A proposal for the 1998-1999 Library of Congress /
Ameritech National
Digital Library Competition (1998).
The Ohio Memory Project, which is administered by the
Ohio Historical Society, was begun in June 2000. The online scrapbook
brings together primary source materials from more than 330 archives,
historical societies, libraries, and museums around the state. You will
start with the items that our department has contributed.
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961), the Swedish diplomat who
became the second Secretary-General of the United Nations and who
received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1961, visited Ohio University on
February 5, 1958. This exhibit explores the story of the visit.
The Dance Collection illustrates over eighty years of modern dance, and chronicles the careers of two modern dance icons. It contains over 400 cubic feet of primary source materials including manuscripts, photographs, programs, posters, reviews, film and video. The website lists the contents of the collection, images of all material formats as well as performances. Sixteen choreographic works are viewable through streamed media, accessible from the moving image series link.
“Journalism & History: The Craft of Cornelius
Ryan.” Explore an exhibit, in PDF format, about the author
and his books on battles of the Second World War: The
Longest Day, The Last Battle, and A
Bridge Too Far featuring “Untold
Stories” from displays done in the Netherlands, England,
Athens, Ohio and Washington, D.C.
E.W. Scripps Papers 
Find information on issues of politics, journalism,
business, and family matters by viewing documents and photos from the
business and personal life of journalism pioneer E.W. Scripps
(1854-1926) in the Historic
and Archival database within OhioLINK's Digital Media Center.
For more information on the E.W. Scripps Papers, review the collection inventory.
You will find information on the records of the Office
of the Governor during George Voinovich's two terms as governor
(1992-1999), including the office's web site from then, copies of the
governor's speeches, photographs and more.
From July 2003 through December 2004 the Mahn Center
staff mounted five exhibits on various aspects of the University's
history. This gallery has selected images from the respective exhibits.
A virtual exhibit highlighting the Dard Hunter author
collection in the Mahn Center's rare book collections.
Athens County, Ohio turned 200 in 2005—and the
Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections observed the
occasion with an exhibit. This version of the exhibit includes, in a
selective fashion, some of the items that were a part of the exhibit.
They show, each in its own way, changes and continuities over time in
Athens County.
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