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The Morgan Bibliography of Ohio Imprints, 1796–1850 describes books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in Ohio, from the earliest in 1796 through 1850. The bibliography is compiled and maintained by Richard P. Morgan of the Morgan Library of Ohio Imprints. For each item described, the bibliography includes:
The bibliography includes names of libraries that own copies of these historical materials to aid in locating originals. Through a partnership with the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, many books formerly owned by the Morgan Library are now in the AAS collections.
The Morgan Library of Ohio Imprints is also compiling an Ohio Name and Institution Index of those names and institutions mentioned in the imprints.
| Choose a meaningful word or phrase from the description of a book: its author, title, publisher, or subject | temperance northwest territory laws |
| You can use the Boolean operators AND, OR, NOT in searching. The operators are not case sensitive. | columbus and sandusky turnpike reader or primer miami not university |
| Without an operator, words are AND'ed together | gaines perkins same as: gaines and perkins |
| Use double quotation marks for a phrase of adjacent words | "ohio canal" |
| Use parentheses to group terms | (colored or coloured) and people |
| Use * for truncation | emancipat* |
| Search author word or phrase | author=hall |
| Search title word or phrase | title="family director" |
| Search subject word or phrase | subject=shawnee |
| Combine title, author, subject | author=thomas and title=poems |
| Search Morgan control number | morgan=6104 |
| Use double quotation marks to search for AND, OR, NOT as a word rather than as a Boolean operator | all three words: white "and" higgins exact phrase: "white and higgins" |
| Include apostrophes and hyphens | firemen's insurance masons by-laws |
You can view the entire bibliography alphabetically by Author, Title, or Subject. Each option presents a list of alphabetical ranges to browse within, e.g. Abacus through Advertising Wrappers. Pick a range to view the individual entries.
October 2005