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A Database of Historical Images of Downtown Oberlin

With funding from the Ohio Humanities Council and the Stocker Foundation, the Electronic Oberlin Group and the Oberlin Historical and Improvement Organization are in the process of developing a searchable and Web-accessible electronic database of images of downtown Oberlin.

If you have images that you are willing to share with us, please contact Marilyn Fedelchak Harley at O.H.I.O. (phone 774-1700 or e-mail History@oberlin.net).

Below is a very small sampling of the nearly 400 images we have collected as of October 25, 2000.

Contributor: June Bailey Mock Republican Convention on Tappan Square, 1940, featuring Freda, the elephant	Contributor: John Gorske H.B. Dobyns Store, n.d.
Contributor: John Gorske Gayter's Ice Skating, ca. 1920s-30s	Contributor: Dennis Kirin South End Hose Company, ca. 1890s
Contributor: B. Locke/O.H.I.O. Blizzard of November, 1913	Contributor: Barbara Molyneaux Interior of Watson's Hardware, late 1800s

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