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'Rip Van Winkle' title page photograph Save
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Description: The title page of this edition of Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" (East Aurora, New York: The Roycroft Shop, 1905) was designed by William Joseph (Dard) Hunter (1883-1966).
Hunter was born in Steubenville, Ohio, where his father, William Henry Hunter, ran a newspaper business. The elder Hunter was an advocate of hand crafts and also an amateur woodcarver. Dard (a family nickname) learned typesetting at his father's business and the mechanics of papermaking at a paper mill near his home. In 1900 the Hunter family moved to Chillicothe, Ohio, to run another newspaper, and Dard was its staff artist.
In 1904 Dard moved to East Aurora, New York, to join the Roycrofters, a community of craft workers and artists that was a branch of the Arts and Crafts Movement in the United States. Hunter created designs for books, leather, glass, and metal, and also tried his hand at pottery, jewelry, and furniture. He founded a correspondence school, the Dard Hunter School of Handicrafts.In 1910 he moved to Vienna, where he took courses in lithography, book decoration, and letter design. Afterward he settled in London, where he developed a fascination for papermaking.
In 1912 Hunter and his wife, Edith, moved to Marlborough, New York, where he designed and built a water-powered paper mill and designed a distinctive font that bears his name. In 1919 Hunter and his family returned to Chillicothe, where he worked and lived for the rest of this life. He founded Mountain House Press, a letterpress printing studio where he wrote and published 20 books on papermaking. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05955
Subjects: Hunter, William Joseph, 1883-1966; Roycroft Shop; Mountain House Press; Arts and crafts movement; Cultural Ohio--Art and Artists
Places: East Aurora (New York); Erie County (New York)
Image ID: AL05955
Subjects: Hunter, William Joseph, 1883-1966; Roycroft Shop; Mountain House Press; Arts and crafts movement; Cultural Ohio--Art and Artists
Places: East Aurora (New York); Erie County (New York)
Historiated letter "H" illustration photograph Save
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Description: Historiated initial "H" was designed by Dard Hunter for an edition of Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" (East Aurora, New York: The Roycroft Shop, 1905, p. 42). A historiated initial is an enlarged initial letter containing a painting relating to the text.
William Joseph “Dard” Hunter (1883-1966) was born in Steubenville, Ohio, where his father ran a newspaper business. At an early age the young Dard (a family nickname) learned about automatic typesetting machines at his father's business and about the mechanics of the modern paper mill across the street from his home. The elder Hunter, who was an advocate of hand crafts, was an amateur woodcarver and for a few years ran a pottery business with two partners. In 1900 the family moved to Chillicothe, Ohio, to run another newspaper business. Dard was its staff artist.
Four years later he moved to East Aurora, New York, to join the Roycrofters, a community of craft workers and artists founded in 1885 by Elbert Hubbard. The Roycrofters were a branch of the Arts and Crafts Movement in the United States.
Hunter created designs for books, leather, glass, and metal, and he also tried his hand at pottery, jewelry, and furniture. He founded a correspondence school, the Dard Hunter School of Handicrafts. In 1910 he moved to Vienna, where he took courses in lithography, book decoration, and letter design. Afterward he settled in London, where he developed a fascination for papermaking.
In 1912 Hunter and his wife, Edith, moved to Marlborough, New York, where he designed and built a water-powered paper mill and designed a distinctive typeface that bears his same. In 1919 Hunter and his family returned to Chillicothe, where he worked and lived for the rest of his life. He founded Mountain House Press, a letterpress printing studio where he wrote and published 20 books on papermaking. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05956
Subjects: Hunter, William Joseph, 1883-1966; Roycroft Shop; Mountain House Press; Arts and crafts movement; Cultural Ohio--Art and Artists
Places: East Aurora (New York); Erie County (New York)
Image ID: AL05956
Subjects: Hunter, William Joseph, 1883-1966; Roycroft Shop; Mountain House Press; Arts and crafts movement; Cultural Ohio--Art and Artists
Places: East Aurora (New York); Erie County (New York)
Historiated letter "O" illustration photograph Save
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Description: This historiated initial "O" was designed by William Joseph "Dard" Hunter for an edition of Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" (East Aurora, New York: The Roycroft Shop, 1905, p. 23). A historiated initial is an enlarged initial letter containing a painting relating to the text.
William Joseph “Dard” Hunter (1883-1966) was born in Steubenville, Ohio, where his father ran a newspaper business. At an early age the young Dard (a family nickname) learned about automatic typesetting machines at his father's business and about the mechanics of the modern paper mill across the street from his home. The elder Hunter, who was an advocate of hand crafts, was an amateur woodcarver, and for a few years he ran a pottery business with two partners. In 1900 the family moved to Chillicothe, Ohio, to run another newspaper business. Dard was its staff artist.
Four years later Dard moved to East Aurora, New York, to join the Roycrofters, a community of craft workers and artists founded in 1885 by Elbert Hubbard. The Roycrofters were a branch of the Arts and Crafts Movement in the United States.
Hunter created designs for books, leather, glass, and metal, and he also tried his hand at pottery, jewelry, and furniture. He founded a correspondence school, the Dard Hunter School of Handicrafts. In 1910 he moved to Vienna, where he took courses in lithography, book decoration, and letter design. Afterward he settled in London, where he developed a fascination for papermaking.
In 1912 Hunter and his wife, Edith, moved to Marlborough, New York, where he designed and built a water-powered paper mill and designed a distinctive typeface that bears his same. In 1919 Hunter and his family returned to Chillicothe, where he worked and lived for the rest of this life. He founded Mountain House Press, a letterpress printing studio where he wrote and published 20 books on papermaking.
View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05957
Subjects: Hunter, William Joseph, 1883-1966; Roycroft Shop; Mountain House Press; Arts and crafts movement; Cultural Ohio--Art and Artists; Literary Ohio
Places: East Aurora (New York); Erie County (New York)
Image ID: AL05957
Subjects: Hunter, William Joseph, 1883-1966; Roycroft Shop; Mountain House Press; Arts and crafts movement; Cultural Ohio--Art and Artists; Literary Ohio
Places: East Aurora (New York); Erie County (New York)
Dard Hunter's watermark photograph Save
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Description: Pictured is artist Dard Hunter's watermark, used as a paper specimen of a modern watermark in his book "Old Papermaking" (Chillicothe, Ohio: 1923). A watermark is a design embossed into a piece of paper during its production that is used to identify the paper and its maker. A watermark can be seen when the paper is held up to light.
Born William Joseph Hunter (1883-1966) in Steubenville, Ohio, Dard Hunter was a notable printer and papermaker. His father, William Henry Hunter, ran a newspaper business. The elder Hunter was an advocate of hand crafts and also an amateur woodcarver. Dard (a family nickname) learned typesetting at his father's business and the mechanics of papermaking at a paper mill near his home. In 1900 the Hunter family moved to Chillicothe, Ohio, to run another newspaper, and Dard was its staff artist.
In 1904 he moved to East Aurora, New York, to join the Roycrofters, a community of craft workers and artists that was a branch of the Arts and Crafts Movement in the United States. Hunter created designs for books, leather, glass, and metal, and also tried his hand at pottery, jewelry, and furniture. He founded a correspondence school, the Dard Hunter School of Handicrafts. In 1910 he moved to Vienna, where he took courses in lithography, book decoration, and letter design. Afterward he settled in London, where he developed a fascination for papermaking.
In 1912 Hunter and his wife, Edith, moved to Marlborough, New York, where he designed and built a water-powered paper mill and designed a distinctive font that bears his name. In 1919 Hunter and his family returned to Chillicothe, where he worked and lived for the rest of this life. He founded Mountain House Press, a letterpress printing studio where he wrote and published 20 books on papermaking. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05960
Subjects: Hunter, William Joseph, 1883-1966; Roycroft Shop; Mountain House Press; Arts and crafts movement; Cultural Ohio--Art and Artists; Chillicothe (Ohio);
Places: Chillicothe (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)
Image ID: AL05960
Subjects: Hunter, William Joseph, 1883-1966; Roycroft Shop; Mountain House Press; Arts and crafts movement; Cultural Ohio--Art and Artists; Chillicothe (Ohio);
Places: Chillicothe (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)
Elsie Janis photograph Save
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Description: Entertainer Elsie Janis (1889-1956) standing under a tree, probably at her Columbus home on 2018 N. High Street, ca. 1910. Elsie Janis began performing on stage as a very young child and made her professional debut at the Southern Theatre in Columbus when she was seven. At age ten she performed for President McKinley at the White House. As a teenager she was starring in musicals in New York City and London. During World War I, Janis became the first female entertainer to perform for the soldiers at camps near the front lines. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02735
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918--Women; Women in the performing arts; Arts and Entertainment
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
Image ID: AL02735
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918--Women; Women in the performing arts; Arts and Entertainment
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
Cedar Point photograph Save
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Description: Dated ca. 1935-1940, this photograph shows Cedar Point, an amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio, on Lake Erie. Cedar Point's history as an entertainment venue began in 1870, when German immigrant Louis Zistel opened a beer garden and bathhouse. Men and women bathed in Lake Erie, separated from each other by screens, and picnicked in the meadows and woods. In the 1880s, William Slackford and Benjamin F. Dwelle gained possession of the peninsula. They took advantage of the large beach and steamboat service to the resort made it a popular vacation destination. In 1888, Dwelle partnered with other Cedar Point landowners Louis Adolph, Adam Stoll, Jacob Kuebler and Charles Baetz to build the Grand Pavilion. The majestic structure housed an auditorium, dining room, and bowling alley. Under the direction of George A. Boeckling and the Cedar Point Pleasure Resort Company, the park added a roller coaster, the Breakers Hotel, a 1200-seat Opera House, and employee dormitories. Vacationers flocked to Cedar Point to see vaudeville acts and ride the roller coaster. This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F01A_002_1
Subjects: Cedar Point (Sandusky, Ohio); Aerial photography; Amusement Parks--Ohio--Pictorial works; Arts and Entertainment; Recreation
Places: Sandusky (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F01A_002_1
Subjects: Cedar Point (Sandusky, Ohio); Aerial photography; Amusement Parks--Ohio--Pictorial works; Arts and Entertainment; Recreation
Places: Sandusky (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
Cedar Point photograph Save
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Description: Dated ca. 1935-1940, this photograph shows Cedar Point, an amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio, on Lake Erie. Cedar Point's history as an entertainment venue began in 1870, when German immigrant Louis Zistel opened a beer garden and bathhouse. Men and women bathed in Lake Erie, separated from each other by screens, and picnicked in the meadows and woods. In the 1880s, William Slackford and Benjamin F. Dwelle gained possession of the peninsula. They took advantage of the large beach and steamboat service to the resort made it a popular vacation destination. In 1888, Dwelle partnered with other Cedar Point landowners Louis Adolph, Adam Stoll, Jacob Kuebler and Charles Baetz to build the Grand Pavilion. The majestic structure housed an auditorium, dining room, and bowling alley. Under the direction of George A. Boeckling and the Cedar Point Pleasure Resort Company, the park added a roller coaster, the Breakers Hotel, a 1200-seat Opera House, and employee dormitories. Vacationers flocked to Cedar Point to see vaudeville acts and ride the roller coaster. This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F01A_003_1
Subjects: Cedar Point (Sandusky, Ohio); Aerial photography; Amusement Parks--Ohio--Pictorial works; Arts and Entertainment; Recreation
Places: Sandusky (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F01A_003_1
Subjects: Cedar Point (Sandusky, Ohio); Aerial photography; Amusement Parks--Ohio--Pictorial works; Arts and Entertainment; Recreation
Places: Sandusky (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
Cedar Point photograph Save
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Description: Dated ca. 1935-1940, this photograph shows Cedar Point, an amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio, on Lake Erie. Cedar Point's history as an entertainment venue began in 1870, when German immigrant Louis Zistel opened a beer garden and bathhouse. Men and women bathed in Lake Erie, separated from each other by screens, and picnicked in the meadows and woods. In the 1880s, William Slackford and Benjamin F. Dwelle gained possession of the peninsula. They took advantage of the large beach and steamboat service to the resort made it a popular vacation destination. In 1888, Dwelle partnered with other Cedar Point landowners Louis Adolph, Adam Stoll, Jacob Kuebler and Charles Baetz to build the Grand Pavilion. The majestic structure housed an auditorium, dining room, and bowling alley. Under the direction of George A. Boeckling and the Cedar Point Pleasure Resort Company, the park added a roller coaster, the Breakers Hotel, a 1200-seat Opera House, and employee dormitories. Vacationers flocked to Cedar Point to see vaudeville acts and ride the roller coaster. This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F01A_001_1
Subjects: Cedar Point (Sandusky, Ohio); Aerial photography; Amusement Parks--Ohio--Pictorial works; Arts and Entertainment; Recreation
Places: Sandusky (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F01A_001_1
Subjects: Cedar Point (Sandusky, Ohio); Aerial photography; Amusement Parks--Ohio--Pictorial works; Arts and Entertainment; Recreation
Places: Sandusky (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
Walter Crane's bookplate Save
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Description: Walter Crane's bookplate, from p. 227 of "English Book-Plates, Ancient and Modern," by Egerton Castle (London: George Bell & Sons, 1893). Best known for his illustrations for children's books, Walter Crane was a leader of the Arts and Crafts movement in England. His bookplate is an example of the intricate ornamentation that characterized his artistic style. The floral motifs in the border surround a night scene with a crane peering over an open book. The initial "C" frames the central picture, and a fragment of a verse from the "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" is at the bottom. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05651
Subjects: Crane, Walter, 1845-1915; Bookplates; Arts and crafts movement; Cultural Ohio--Literary Ohio
Image ID: AL05651
Subjects: Crane, Walter, 1845-1915; Bookplates; Arts and crafts movement; Cultural Ohio--Literary Ohio
Howard Chandler Christy at Unveiling of "The Signing of the Treaty of Greene Ville" photograph Save
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Description: Three 5" by 7" (12.7 by 17.8 cm) photographs depict some of the celebrations in honor of the 150th anniversary of the Treaty of Greenville, which took place in August 1945. Events included a parade, an appreciation dinner for artist Howard Chandler Christy, and exhibition of the original Treaty of Greenville, on loan from the National Archives. The state of Ohio commissioned Christy (1873-1952), a nationally-known illustrator, to create the work for the 150th anniversary of the treaty that ended the Indian Wars in Ohio. The painting "The Signing of the Treaty of Greene Ville" was unveiled in a ceremony on August 3. Christy (in the white suit) can be seen sitting on the left in the first and second images. Governor Frank Lausche is seated next to him and can be seen addressing the crowd in the third image. Christy, born just south of Zanesville in Duncan Falls, Ohio, went to New York to study art at the age of sixteen. He began working at Scribner's Magazine in 1898 as an illustrator. During the Spanish American War, his illustrations of Cuba and Puerto Rico were seen around the United States. He returned to Duncan Falls after the war and began painting. By the early twentieth century Christy's elegant illustrations of women, collectively called "Christy Girls," appeared in Scribner's, Century, Ladies Home Journal, McClure's, and several books. Christy Girls were also used in recruitment posters during World War I. Christy began painting portraits after World War I; his best-known subjects were Calvin Coolidge, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Amelia Earhart, and Douglas MacArthur. The Depression of the 1930s changed Christy's artistic emphasis to historical subjects. In addition to the Greenville painting, Christy painted the "Scene of the Signing of the Constitution of the United States," which hangs in the Capitol in Washington, DC. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3220_3832019_001a
Subjects: Ohio Government; Military Ohio; American Indians in Ohio; Arts and Entertainment; Christy, Howard Chandler, 1873-1952; Treaty of Greenville; Treaties; Celebrations; Lausche, Frank John, b. 1895; Governors; Artists
Places: Greenville (Ohio); Darke County (Ohio)
Image ID: Om3220_3832019_001a
Subjects: Ohio Government; Military Ohio; American Indians in Ohio; Arts and Entertainment; Christy, Howard Chandler, 1873-1952; Treaty of Greenville; Treaties; Celebrations; Lausche, Frank John, b. 1895; Governors; Artists
Places: Greenville (Ohio); Darke County (Ohio)
Hawk effigy pipe photograph Save
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Description: This pipe in effigy (a likeness or representation) of a hawk was excavated from Tremper Mound, a Hopewell culture site located five miles north of Portsmouth in Scioto County. It was identified by archeologist William C. Mills as an eagle. Made of light gray or pale brown coral limestone, the curvature of the pipe platform is greater than other effigy pipes found within Tremper Mound. The pipe measures approximately 2.2" x 2.15" x 4.88" (5.5 x 5.2 x 12.3 cm). This pipe is part of a large collection of pipes found at Tremper Mound. The pipes were carved of Ohio pipestone, a silica-based material that can be easily carved when freshly quarried from the hills east of the Scioto River. The pipes represent a variety of animals significant to the Hopewell, including owls, wolves, deer and beaver. Skilled Hopewell craftsmen carved the pipes with flint knives and some are embellished with pearls or copper. In Ohio, the Hopewell Indians (100 B.C.-A.D. 500) built burial mounds and large earthen enclosures in geometric shapes (circles, squares, and octagons) to mark the places where the people gathered periodically to participate in many social and ceremonial events. Some of these sites were quite large--the Newark Earthworks complex extends over a 4-square-mile area. The Hopewell people also maintained a large trade network extending as far as the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming, the Florida coast and Appalachians, and northern Lake Superior. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1357_1763334_017
Subjects: American Indians in Ohio; Plants and Animals; Arts and Entertainment; Geography and Natural Resources; Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1-400); Mounds (Burials); Pipes (Smoking); Hawks; Birds
Places: Rush Township (Ohio); Scioto County (Ohio)
Image ID: Om1357_1763334_017
Subjects: American Indians in Ohio; Plants and Animals; Arts and Entertainment; Geography and Natural Resources; Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1-400); Mounds (Burials); Pipes (Smoking); Hawks; Birds
Places: Rush Township (Ohio); Scioto County (Ohio)
Roger Miller at the Ohio State Fair photographs Save
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Description: Two photographs of singer/songwriter Roger Miller were taken during a performance at the 1968 Ohio State Fair. Best known for his songs "King Of The Road," "Dang Me," and "Engine Engine No. 9," Miller won eleven Grammy Awards. Miller (1936-1992) also wrote songs for the Disney movie Robin Hood and a Broadway musical, Big River, based on Mark Twain's The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn. The slides measure 2" x 2" (5.08 x 5.08 cm). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3116_3737168_001
Subjects: Arts and Entertainment; Expositions and fairs; Music; Miller, Roger, 1936-1992; Composers; Singers
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
Image ID: Om3116_3737168_001
Subjects: Arts and Entertainment; Expositions and fairs; Music; Miller, Roger, 1936-1992; Composers; Singers
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)