Archiving Wheeling Is Here!

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SO JUST WHAT IS ARCHIVING WHEELING?

(And why should I care?) That’s a fair question.

Archiving Wheeling is an online community designed to showcase the local and regional history collections of the Ohio County Public Library and its heritage partners. Contributor posts will feature stories and images about the contents of each partner’s archival and special collections, highlighting historic photographs, postcards and other images, books, journals, letters, maps, prints, pamphlets, brochures, advertising ephemera and the like that are related to the history of Wheeling or the Upper Ohio Valley region.

The mission of Archiving Wheeling is to virtually connect these collections, providing a web-based community archive to facilitate access, by researchers and the general public, to materials that document the rich history of our region. It is hoped that greater public awareness of what is available will encourage people to consider donating important archival materials to the appropriate local organization so that these historically significant materials can be properly preserved, housed and accessed locally, where they originated and where they belong.

We look forward to sharing our collections and our journeys through Wheeling’s fascinating past with you, so watch for future posts coming “down the pike” from both the Ohio County Public Library as well as our heritage partners!

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