Description: Photograph showing the Fraternal Order of Eagles building and Eagles Club, located at 989-991 North High Street in the Short North neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. An older man in a shirt and tie looks out the window, directly beneath a hanging American flag. The Fraternal Order of Eagles is a fraternal organization founded in 1898, whose lodges are known as "Aeries." The High Street Photograph Collection is comprised of over 400 photographs of High Street in Columbus, Ohio, taken in the early 1970s. These photographs were taken primarily at street level and document people and the built environment from the Pontifical College Josephinum on North High Street in Worthington through Clintonville, the University District and Short North, Downtown and South Columbus. The photographs were used in a television photo documentary that aired on WOSU called "High Street." Photographers that were involved in this project were Alfred Clarke, Carol Hibbs Kight, Darrell Muething, Clayton K. Lowe, and Julius Foris, Jr. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV254_B08F220_01
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Street photography; Short North (Columbus, Ohio); Fraternal orders;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing the Fraternal Order of Eagles building and Eagles Club, located at 989-991 North High Street in the Short North neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. An older man wearing a flat-brim hat and tank top and using a cane passes by the window which displays an American flag. The High Street Photograph Collection is comprised of over 400 photographs of High Street in Columbus, Ohio, taken in the early 1970s. These photographs were taken primarily at street level and document people and the built environment from the Pontifical College Josephinum on North High Street in Worthington through Clintonville, the University District and Short North, Downtown and South Columbus. The photographs were used in a television photo documentary that aired on WOSU called "High Street." Photographers that were involved in this project were Alfred Clarke, Carol Hibbs Kight, Darrell Muething, Clayton K. Lowe, and Julius Foris, Jr. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV254_B09F230_01
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Street photography; Short North (Columbus, Ohio); Fraternal orders; Pedestrians
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing the Fraternal Order of Eagles building and Eagles Club, located at 989-991 North High Street in the Short North neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. An older man in a shirt and tie looks out the window, directly beneath a hanging American flag. The Fraternal Order of Eagles is a fraternal organization founded in 1898, whose lodges are known as "Aeries." The High Street Photograph Collection is comprised of over 400 photographs of High Street in Columbus, Ohio, taken in the early 1970s. These photographs were taken primarily at street level and document people and the built environment from the Pontifical College Josephinum on North High Street in Worthington through Clintonville, the University District and Short North, Downtown and South Columbus. The photographs were used in a television photo documentary that aired on WOSU called "High Street." Photographers that were involved in this project were Alfred Clarke, Carol Hibbs Kight, Darrell Muething, Clayton K. Lowe, and Julius Foris, Jr. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV254_B08F221_01
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Street photography; Short North (Columbus, Ohio); Fraternal orders; Pedestrians
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This program for the reopening of the Odd Fellows' Temple in Zanesville, Ohio, includes music and recitation to take place February 1, 1888. On the front of the program is a drawing of a spider with a fly in its web. The Independent Order of Odd Fellows are a international fraternal order open to both men and women with the goal of social good. These non-profit and member-owned organizations were set up with an intention to protect and care for their members and communities. The North American Fellowship was founded in 1819 by Thomas Wildey, based on the English Fellowship which had been founded in the 17th century. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS559_B13F19_007_1
Subjects: Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Fraternal orders; Zanesville (Ohio); Celebrations
Places: Zanesville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of a closed casket with wreaths at a cemetery. Behind the casket, a parked hearse can be seen. Because of the men seen wearing aprons on the left side of the photograph, it may be the funeral of a Freemason. This photograph was taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912. Like most of Ewing's work, it was likely taken in southeastern Ohio or central West Virginia. Born in 1870 in Washington County, Ohio, near Marietta, Ewing most likely began his photography career in the 1890s. The 1910 US Census and a 1912-1913 directory list him as a photographer. A negative signed "Ewing Brothers" and a picture with his younger brother, Frank, indicate that Frank may have joined the business. After 1916, directories list Albert as a salesman. He died in 1934. The Ewing Collection consists of 5,055 glass plate negatives, each individually housed and numbered. Additionally, the collection includes approximately 450 modern contact prints made from the glass plate negatives. Subjects include infants and young children, elderly people, families, school and religious groups, animals and rural scenes. In 1982, the Ohio Historical Society received the collection, still housed in the original dry plate negative boxes purchased by Albert J. Ewing. A selection of the original glass plate negatives were exhibited for the first time in 2013 at the Ohio Historical Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03850
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Funeral rites and ceremonies; Fraternal orders; Death--United States; Cemeteries
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: Portrait of a man seated before a hanging backdrop and wearing a suit. On his lapel he wears a small International Order of Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F.) pin featuring a bucking goat. This photograph was taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912. Like most of Ewing's work, it was taken in the region of southeastern Ohio and central West Virginia. Born in 1870 in Washington County, Ohio, near Marietta, Ewing most likely began his photography career in the 1890s. The 1910 US Census and a 1912-1913 directory list him as a photographer. A negative signed "Ewing Brothers" and a picture with his younger brother, Frank, indicate that Frank may have joined the business. After 1916, directories list Albert as a salesman. He died in 1934. The Ewing Collection consists of 5,055 glass plate negatives, each individually housed and numbered. Additionally, the collection includes approximately 450 modern contact prints made from the glass plate negatives. Subjects include infants and young children, elderly people, families, school and religious groups, animals and rural scenes. In 1982, the Ohio Historical Society (now the Ohio History Connection) received the collection, still housed in the original dry plate negative boxes purchased by Ewing. A selection of the original glass plate negatives were exhibited for the first time in 2013 at the Ohio History Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV71_B26_F2395
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Photographers--Ohio; Portrait photography--United States--History; Clothing and dress; Fraternal orders;
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: Dated to the early 1900s, this is an advertisement for a "Noble Grand" or "King Saul" costume sold by the Cincinnati Regalia Company in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Noble Grand costume includes a robe and headdress, and the advertisement also features three crowns and two javelins. The Cincinnati Regalia Company offered clothing for fraternal lodges like the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: VFM6288_01_1
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio); Advertisements; Costumes; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business; Fraternal orders
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image is a photograph of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Ohio, located in Chillicothe, Ohio. The building is located at an intersection in downtown Chillicothe. Visible in the photograph are parked cars, pedestrians, and signs for Western Union and the Ohio Valley Bank. The image was among the photographs produced by the Federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) between 1935 and 1943. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06396
Subjects: Freemasons; Fraternal orders; Architecture--Ohio; Chillicothe (Ohio); United States. Work Progress Administration
Places: Chillicothe (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing President elect Warren G. Harding with Lodge #23 of the Knights of Pythias in St. Augustine, Florida, 1921. Harding was a member of the Knights of Pythias, a fraternal order founded in 1864 and the first be chartered under an act of U.S. Congress. Warren Gamaliel Harding (1865-1923) was born in Corsica (now called Blooming Grove), a small town in Morrow County, Ohio. His family moved to Marion, where Harding taught school, briefly studied law, and worked occasionally as a reporter for a local paper before buying the Marion Star in 1884. Harding became popular as a local bandleader at political rallies, and for his skill as an orator. Willing to follow the lead of political bosses, Harding advanced rapidly in Ohio politics, serving as state senator and lieutenant governor. In 1914, Harding was elected to the U. S. Senate. He launched his famous "front porch" 1920 presidential campaign from the porch of his Victorian home in Marion. He won the presidency with sixty percent of the popular vote, promising a "return to normalcy" following the wave of reforms begun during Theodore Roosevelt's administration. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P146_B05_Lodge23
Subjects: Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923--Photographs; Presidents and Politics; Fraternal orders;
Places: St. Augustine (Florida);
 

Description: Photograph of Samuel Wilcox Clark (1846-1903), an African American educator, school administrator and author from Cincinnati, Ohio. Clark was also a Mason, and appeared in "An Official History of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge Free and Accepted Masons," published by William Parham in 1906. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: 366_1P217_Clark
Subjects: African American Ohioans; Educators; Fraternal orders; Freemasons;
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photomechanical print of Charles A. Cottrill, an African American who held the positions of Clerk, 1st Deputy Clerk, and Chief Deputy in the County Recorder's office in Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio. Cottrill was also a Mason, and appeared in "An Official History of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge Free and Accepted Masons," published by William Parham in 1906. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: 366_1P217_Cottrill
Subjects: African American Ohioans; City employees; Fraternal orders; Freemasons;
Places: Toledo (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This memorial to explorer John Wesley Powell is located near the county courthouse in Jackson, Ohio. Completed in 1938, the monument is built of stones donated by the Improved Order of Red Men. The image measures 2.75" x 2.75" (6.99 x 6.99 cm). Powell (1834-1902) was born in New York, but moved to Jackson with his family when he was four years old. He became interested in natural history as a boy and pursued a career in the field, becoming a curator at the Illinois State Natural History Society in 1858. He served in the Civil War, sustaining a serious wound in the Battle of Shiloh that required the amputation of his right forearm. In 1869, he took a team to explore the southwestern United States and became one of the first white men to navigate the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. From 1880 to 1894 Powell served as director of the United States Geological Survey and as director of the Smithsonian's Bureau of Ethnology from 1880 to 1902. The Improved Order of Red Men is one of the oldest fraternal organizations in the United States. It is supposedly descended from the Sons of Liberty, which during the colonial period worked secretly to achieve independence from England. The Ohio Council was organized in 1853, six years after the national organization, the Great Council of the United States, was founded in Maryland. Freedom, friendship, and charity were its main concerns. Its rituals and terminology were borrowed from American Indians, who were excluded from membership. Prominent members claimed by the order include Theodore Roosevelt, Warren G. Harding, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was adopted in 1930 at the DeWitt Clinton Hotel in Columbus. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3022_3636510_001
Subjects: Arts and Entertainment; Geography and Natural Resources; Monuments & memorials; Explorers; Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902; Rocks; Fraternal orders
Places: Jackson (Ohio); Jackson County (Ohio)