Intro & Chapter 1, top shelf
This shelf displays some of the rare books and photographs in the collection. There is also a postcard memorializing a historic oil tank fire near Toledo.
"TOLEDO"
By: Jessup W. Scott
Scott’s treatise outlined his argument for Toledo being the future great city of the world. To fulfill his dream, Scott founded the Toledo University of Arts and Trades to train Toledo’s young people for their role in this future great city. This institution eventually became The University of Toledo.
"The Struggles..."
By: David Ross Locke
Complete title: The struggles, social, financial and political, of Petroleum V. Nasby.
Publication: Toledo : Locke Pub. Co., 1880, c1872
David Ross Locke became editor of The Blade in 1865, and brought stability and success to the paper. Prior to coming to Toledo, Locke had achieved a national reputation as a satirical columnist writing under the pseudonym Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby. His “Nasby Letters” poked fun at the Democrats by pretending to be one. Locke continued to print the “Nasby Letters” in the Weekly Blade, which helped to expand the paper’s circulation beyond local readers. This book reprints some of Locke’s (Nasby’s) best columns. The book included an introduction by Charles Sumner, the known for being physically attacked in Congress by fellow senator Preston Brooks for an anti-slavery speech he made at the height of the controversy over the admission of Kansas to the Union.
New England Glass Co.
Boston, Mass., 1851
Image of the New England Glass Co. (East Cambridge on the Charles River) appeared in an article in Gleason's Pictorial by F. Gleason, published in Boston, December 6, 1851
"Men of Toledo"
Robert H. Cochrun. Men of Toledo: Those Whom you Meet in the Business and Professional Walks of The Commercial Key to the Lakes. Toledo, OH: 1895. This publication contains portraits of many of the early men of Toledo business and industry.
Postcard: oil tank fire
ca. 1910
Postcard, oil tank fire, ca. 1910. Donald Duhaime Collection, MSS-077. Finding an adequate supply of oil and natural gas was an important effort of those promoting industry in Toledo. Oil wells dotted the countryside around Toledo, especially in Wood in Hancock counties. This postcard depicts one of the hazards associated with such wells.