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This month we are partnering with the Center for A

This month we are partnering with the Center for Archival Collections at BGSU for #TBT ! Each week, we will feature photos from their University Archive Photograph Collection and show what those sites look like today. This week, the theme is student life.

Photo 1: An exterior shot of the University Hall, which now serves as the Office of Admissions, 1973. In the foreground, you can also see the University’s seal. The superstition is if you pass to the right of the seal, you will do well on your next test. If you pass to the left of the seal, you will fail your next test.

Photos 2 & 3 are of “Mac Beach”; the lawn area outside of McDonald Resident Hall. The first photo is from 1987, the second from 1979. While the hall and lawn area still exist today, they are much smaller, renovated to accommodate The Oaks Dining Hall.

Photo 4: A winter shot of Shatzel Hall, 1955. During that time, Shatzel was a women’s dormitory. Today, it is the home of the School of Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies, Philosophy, Romance Languages, Russian, German, and East Asian Languages, and Women's Studies.

Photo 5: The old football stadium, 1963. Today, this area is home to many different buildings, including Jerome Library, Education, East, Central, and Memorial Halls. Football games are now held at Doyt L. Perry Stadium.

The primary mission of the CAC is to actively acquire, preserve, and make accessible to researchers historical materials in northwest Ohio, Historical Collections of the Great Lakes, University Archives, Rare Books & Special Collections, and the National Student Affairs Archives. Emphasis is placed on local history, Great Lakes maritime history, women's history, the Civil War, education, and all aspects of the social, cultural, economic, and industrial history of northwest Ohio.

✨PARTNER SPOTLIGHT✨ Last night Chase Fleece, from

✨PARTNER SPOTLIGHT✨ Last night Chase Fleece, from the Wood County Park District (Carter Historic Farm) gave the third instalment of the 2026 Great Depression Lecture Series. If you missed the program, we will have it on the Wood County Museum's YouTube page later this month.

Our next Great Depression Lecture Series event will be on April 1st at 6PM. Come hear about The New Deal, FDR, Bureaucracy, and Economic Recovery.

These photos are from the third installment in the Great Depression Lecture Series, an America 250 program. This is a Wood County Park District lead event, in partnership with the Wood County Museum.

This event series is FREE to the public!

As part of Bowling Green's Sesquicentennial celebr

As part of Bowling Green's Sesquicentennial celebration in 1983, Joan Gordon (executive director of the Bowling Green Chamber of Commerce), along with several BGSU photojournalism students, created a photo display of citizens of Bowling Green. Photos continued to be added to the project until 1990.

Today we have a photo of Roger Vail of Vail Logistics and Uhlmans. The photo was taken in 1986 by an unknown photographer.

📷: Ohio Memory Project / Wood County District Public Library

This week’s #WhatIsItWendnesday is an anniversary

This week’s #WhatIsItWendnesday is an anniversary mug from the Charles E. Bartlett Insurance Agency.

Bartlett was born August 11th, 1925 in Clarksburg, West Virginia to Thomas B. and Marie (Gilliotte) Bartlett. By 1936 the family had settled in North Baltimore where Thomas became an insurance agent. Charles attended college briefly before enlisting in the Army in December of 1941, serving during World War II. Upon his return, Charles married Ellen Karuse on December 18th, 1946. The couple had 2 children; son, John (who preceded them in death), and daughter, Amy. Charles worked in the insurance field in Bowling Green until opening his own agency in 1953 at 102 South Main Street. By 1957 it was moved to 329 South Main and by 1986 the agency moved, again, to 121 East Court Street.

Bartlett was very involved in the Bowling Green community. Most notably, he served as mayor from 1972 - 1975. He also served for eight years on city council as councilman at large as well as representing the second and fourth wards. He was a member, and later chairman, of the Law Enforcement Committee for the Greater Toledo Area, chairman of the Wood County District Boyscots of America, secretary of the Rotary Club, trustee of the Independent Insurance Agents of Ohio, president of the Veterans Service Commission, and was awarded the Most Outstanding Male Citizen of Bowling Green in 1992.

Bartlett’s wife, Ellen, passed away on March 20th, 1990. He was remarried on August 19th, 1995 to Margret Miller. Bartlett passed away just months after on March 29th, 1996. Both he and Ellen are buried in Oak Grove Cemetery.

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