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<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/" target="_blank"><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 <a href="https://ohioarchivists.org/archives-month-poster-2023-announcement/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#21759B;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">poster</span></a>, <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>
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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 Natalie Fritz, Archivist and Outreach Director, Clark County Historical Society</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">This week we are shining a spotlight on the <a href="https://www.uakron.edu/libraries/archives/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#21759B;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">University
of Akron Archives and Special Collections</span></a>. The University was founded in 1870 as Buchtel College. The Archives and Special Collections are housed in the Polsky Building and they provide access to a wide variety of historical resources including
collections on the University’s history, the city of Akron and Summit, the surrounding county, the rubber industry, which was integral to the community’s development, and more. Important transportation related collections in the archives include the <a href="https://www.uakron.edu/libraries/archives/collections/collections-by-category.dot?cat=lighterthanair" target="_blank"><span style="color:#21759B;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Lighter-than-Air
Collections</span></a>. The images from the <a href="https://cdm15960.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15960coll3/search/searchterm/Goodyear%20Tire%20and%20Rubber%20Company%20Records!image/field/all!type/mode/exact!exact/conn/and!and/order/date/page/1" target="_blank"><span style="color:#21759B;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Goodyear
Tire & Rubber Company Records</span></a> are great for those interested in blimps and airships.
<i>Read the full spotlight on the SOA blog: <a href="https://ohioarchivists.org/archives-month-spotlight-university-akron/">
https://ohioarchivists.org/archives-month-spotlight-university-akron/</a></i><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/GoodyearBlimp.png"><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="152" style="width:3.125in;height:1.5833in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01DA065A.546C7BF0" alt="A black and white historic photograph of a large blimp with Goodyear printed on the side. A large hanger is in the background."></span></a></span><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#757575">The
ground crew hauls out the Goodyear blimp, The Puritan, from the Wingfoot Lake Hangar, for its first flight, July 3, 1938.</span></i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#444444"><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 co-chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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