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Four tickets for the One Hundred and Tenth Commencement Mansfield Senior High School

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Four tickets for the One Hundred and Tenth Commencement Mansfield Senior High School held on June 8, 1956, at Arlin Field, Mansfield, Ohio.

Greek Revival Court House being Demolished

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The new courthouse at Park Avenue East and South Diamond had recently opened, making it possible to demolish the old one that sat on the north side of Central Park, facing North Park Street. This view looks at the columned front of the building. The…

Hedges School Float during the 150th Northwest Territory Parade

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A truck carries the float for Hedges School, in the background is the intersection of North Main and Fourth St,

Helen Keating Ott

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Mrs. Ott received her degree in library science from Case Western University and became the first children’s librarian at the Mansfield/Richland County Public Library. She would later serve four terms as president of the library board and serve as…

Helen Keating Ott in Children's Department

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Mrs. Ott received her degree in library science from Case Western University and became the first children’s librarian at the Mansfield/Richland County Public Library. Here she is helping children in the children's department.

Hog Day in Mansfield

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Photo taken on a snowy January day looking southeast across North Park Street to the Richland County Courthouse. The photo, which was probably taken from the second floor of a building near the corner of North Park and North Main Street, looks down…

Interior of Mansfield Savings Bank

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The $100,000 Mansfield Savings Bank, designed by local architect Vernon Redding, would be “one of the finest in the state,” constructed of reinforced concrete and granite. It would be one story with a basement and mezzanine. The bank would open on…

John Baxter

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In 1882 John and Emmett Baxter arrived in Mansfield to check out available land to relocate their father's factory. The Baxter Stove works would be located on Bloom Street, today East Fifth, past the tracks once the street was extended. John Baxter…

John E. Angle - Angle Groceries

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John E. Angle in front of his first grocery store at 8 and 10 South Park St. In 1912 Angle Grpcery moved to 18 South Park St. John E. Angle was born on June 18, 1861, in Shippensburg, Pa. He arrived in Mansfield, Ohio in 1880 and immediately…

John Sherman - Secretary of Treasury (1879)

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Portrait of John Sherman taken in 1879 when he was Secretary of the Treasury. On the back is a comment from his daughter, Mary Stewart Sherman. (I Prefer this one taken when he was Sec'y of the Treasury - 1879)