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Toledo's Historical newspapers, magazines, and journals were critical to the information infratructure as well as the political and cultural life of the city and its community. While The Toledo Blade, Toledo's oldest newspaper, brought everydsay news to the desks and front steps of Toledoans, magazines and journals like Toledo Topics and Our Girls reported on the social and cultural life of Toledo. This exhibit presents information about these publications. Please visit back, as this collection is growing.
Toledo Topics: Life at the Top in Jazz Age Toledo
Essay by Timothy Messer-Kruse
For Toledo industrialists times could not have been better. For Toledo, as for the nation as a whole, the 1920s were a time of great industrial expansion. In that decade still driven by coal and steam Toledo was a major hub in the nation's transportation system. Its fifteen miles of riverfront loaded and unloaded over 4,000 freighters each year. It was an automobile center second only to Detroit. Its largest employer, Willys Overland, produced more cars in the 1920s than any other U.S. manufacturer but Ford. Glass was Toledo's other high tech industry. Its glass companies enjoyed a monopoly based on ownership of key patents on numerous production innovations.
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Toledo's Attic Essay
Toledo working women banded together in the early twentieth century for support and camaraderie. Our Club Girls Magazine stood for the "social and commercial education of young wage-earning women." Experience life for young working women through its pages. This exhibit is drawn from four issues of Our Girls Club Magazine, published in 1913 and 1914. The magazines are held in the Canaday Center of the University of Toledo's Carlson Library. No other known issues exist. If you have any copies of Our Girl's Club in your attic, please let us know!
LINKS TO HISTORIC PUBLICATIONS The Toledo Blade - Issues back to 1835 at the University of Toledo Libraries. Access recent issues here (last 30 days) Chronicling America - A Digital Library of archived newspapers at the Library of Congress Historical Newspapers Online (by State) International Coalition on Newspapers - Global Newspaper Digitization Projects Journal of Northwest Ohio - The journal (formerly known as the Northwest Ohio Quarterly, which started in 1929) is a publication of the Maumee Valley Historical Society with a focus on political, military, social, economic, cultural and ethnic history of Northwest Ohio (Maumee Valley, the Western Basin of Lake Erie, Toledo, and Lucas County). The following indices are accessible here:
