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<h3 style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#444444">Ohio Archives Month Spotlights: Inland Rivers Library, Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#444444">The Society of Ohio Archivists <a href="https://ohioarchivists.org/committees/advocacy/"><span style="color:#21759B;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Advocacy
and Outreach Committee</span></a> is happy to announce that we will be spotlighting archives around the state again this year to celebrate archives month throughout October 2023. Each of our archives spotlights will feature places that house materials related
to the theme of the poster, <em><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Land, Water, & Air: Transportation in Ohio</span></em>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:black"><a href="https://ohioarchivists.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/p16998coll28_9729_large.jpg"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#21759B;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="300" height="241" style="width:3.125in;height:2.5104in" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D9FB53.C4272F60" alt="1895 informal group portrait with mostly women, one man, and several children wearing fine clothes and hats on the shores of a river with a steamboat in the background"></span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#444444"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#757575">Caption: Group waiting to board a steamboat at Evansville, Indiana, 1895. <a href="https://cdm16998.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16998coll28/id/9729" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:200%;color:#21759B;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Photograph
link</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#444444">About the Inland Rivers Library<o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#444444;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">By A&O Committee member Erin Wilson, Ohio University Libraries</span></em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#444444"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#444444">Have you ever wondered what life was like along the Ohio River when steamboats were the dominant form of transport? Whether you’re
interested in river travel, trade, navigation, or the history of local river towns, the <a href="https://chpl.org/services/special-collections/inland-rivers-library-collection/"><span style="color:#21759B;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Inland Rivers
Library</span></a> is one of the largest and most comprehensive collections documenting use of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and their tributaries.
<span style="background:white">Housed in the Genealogy and Local History Department of the Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library, the Inland Rivers collection includes materials dating back to the 1820s which present some of the earliest images and
descriptions of the steamboat era and its Ohio locales.</span> <i>Read the full story on the SOA blog:
<a href="https://ohioarchivists.org/ohio-archives-month-spotlights-inland-rivers/">
https://ohioarchivists.org/ohio-archives-month-spotlights-inland-rivers/</a></i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">Emily R. Gainer & Jane Wildermuth, SOA Marketing & Communications Committee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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