From: Elizabeth Nelson [mailto:enelson@ohiohistory.org]

The Ohio Historical Society announces the availability of a new microfilm edition of the Wilbur H. Siebert Collection, a premiere resource for studying the Underground Railroad. Siebert was a professor at the Ohio State University from 1891-1935. His research material on anti-slavery activity, collected over a period of fifty years, includes survey responses, interviews, and copies and notes from books, diaries, letters, photographs, newspapers, biographies, memoirs, speeches, annual reports, trial records, census records, and legislation. He organized his research by state and county, eventually binding his notes in volumes by location. A detailed finding aid is available online.

Microfilm may be borrowed through Interlibrary Loan or purchased for $50.00 per roll.

For more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/undergroundrr/.

Roll Contents:
1. Correspondence 1892-1954; "The Underground Railroad" lecture by Siebert; From "Slavery in California after 1848"; The "Underground Railroad" in Connecticut, Washington, D.C. and Illinois
2. The "Underground Railroad" in Illinois and Indiana
3. The "Underground Railroad" in Illinois and Indiana
4. The "Underground Railroad" in Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and Maine
5. The "Underground Railroad" in Maine, Kansas, Massachusetts and Michigan
6. The "Underground Railroad" in Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Missouri and New York
7. The "Underground Railroad" in New York
8. The "Underground Railroad" in New York and Ohio; Ohio's Network of the Underground Railroad Disclosed by Wilbur H. Siebert (Draft); The Mysteries of Ohio's Underground Railroad by Wilbur H. Siebert (Draft)
9. The "Underground Railroad" in Ohio
10. The "Underground Railroad" in Ohio
11. The "Underground Railroad" in Ohio
12. The "Underground Railroad" in Ohio and Pennsylvania
13. The "Underground Railroad" in Pennsylvania
14. The "Underground Railroad" in Pennsylvania
15. The "Underground Railroad" in Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Wisconsin and Southern States;
Fugitive Slaves in Canada
16. Fugitive Slaves in Canada; Photographs