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Ohio Northern University yearbooks - Starting from 1910. Physical copies available through the ONU Archives.

A collection of Ohio Northern University's course catalogs from 1871 to the present. The university catalogs represent an important source of university history, and contain information academic programs and courses, university costs, rules and traditions, and faculty for each academic year.

A collection of journals sent to alumni of Ohio Northern University. This collection is still in development.

Chun C. Lee was an ONU student from 1924-1927 who was born in China and moved to America in 1911. Lee earned his BS in mechanical engineering from ONU in 1927, at which time he returned to China and served as an engineer in the city of Guangzhou (then Canton). Lee returned to America in 1954 as a refugee from the Chinese Communist Revolution. Digitized materials from the collection include his memoir "My Life Story" and a tribute to ONU professor Dr. Thomas J. Smull.

The Clara Sherick Correspondence collection consists of letters writtern to Sherrick from 1890-1894. The majority of the letters were written to Sherrick while she was a student at Ohio Northern University (then Ohio Normal University), and provide insights into the day-to-day life of Sherrick and her correspondents.

Grace Ingledue was enrolled at ONU from 1917-1922 as a student in the Preparatory School and the School of Expression. Ingledue later received a Ph.D. from Louisiana State University and in addition to being a professor she worked as an entertainer and radio station manager for WFIN in Findlay, Ohio. Select portions of the Ingledue papers have been digitized for this collection, most notably her diary from her senior year at Northern.