Description: Photograph showing the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society museum showcases at Page Hall, 1910. This room was on the west end of the second floor and featured a glass roof. Formed in 1885 as the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, the organization eventually became known as the Ohio Historical Society and is now called the Ohio History Connection. Originally the society’s collections were held at the Ohio Statehouse in downtown Columbus, but in 1894, they were moved to Orton Hall on the Ohio State campus. The organization and its museum remained on campus, housed first in Page Hall and then in Sullivant Hall, until 1970, when they moved to their present location adjacent to the Ohio State Fairgrounds. As of 2014, Page Hall is home to the John Glenn School of Public Affairs. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC4489_004
Subjects: Ohio State University--History; Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society; Museum exhibits;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing the Archaeology museum of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society at Page Hall, 1908. Formed in 1885 as the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, the organization eventually became known as the Ohio Historical Society and is now called the Ohio History Connection. Originally the society’s collections were held at the Ohio Statehouse in downtown Columbus, but in 1894, they were moved to Orton Hall on the Ohio State campus. The organization and its museum remained on campus, housed first in Page Hall and then in Sullivant Hall, until 1970, when they moved to their present location adjacent to the Ohio State Fairgrounds. As of 2014, Page Hall is home to the John Glenn School of Public Affairs. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC4489_005
Subjects: Ohio State University--History; Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society; Museum exhibits; Archaeology;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing the Archaeology museum of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society at Page Hall, 1908. Formed in 1885 as the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, the organization eventually became known as the Ohio Historical Society and is now called the Ohio History Connection. Originally the society’s collections were held at the Ohio Statehouse in downtown Columbus, but in 1894, they were moved to Orton Hall on the Ohio State campus. The organization and its museum remained on campus, housed first in Page Hall and then in Sullivant Hall, until 1970, when they moved to their present location adjacent to the Ohio State Fairgrounds. As of 2014, Page Hall is home to the John Glenn School of Public Affairs. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC4489_006
Subjects: Ohio State University--History; Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society; Museum exhibits; Archaeology;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Exhibit cases lining hallway at the former museum of the Ohio Historical Society located at Fifteenth Avenue and N. High Street in Columbus, Ohio. The organization was formed in 1885 as The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and eventually became known as the Ohio Historical Society. Originally the group’s collection was held at the Statehouse, but in 1894 they moved to Orton Hall on Ohio State University’s campus. They remained on OSU’s campus until 1970 when they moved to their present location at the Ohio State Fairgrounds. The building in this picture is located at 15th Avenue and N. High Street. The title of the building was transferred to OSU in 1970 when the Ohio Historical Society moved to the Fairgrounds. The building was named after Joseph Sullivant, a member of the Board of Trustees. It has housed the Music and Dance Library, the Fine Arts Library, the Zoology Museum, the Hoyt Sherman Art Gallery. In 2013, the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum officially opened in the space. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07648
Subjects: Ohio Historical Society; Ohio History; Museum exhibits
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows Erwin .C. Zepp, Director of the Ohio State Museum, examining a pottery horn, one of the many objects included in the museum exhibition of Zoar arts and crafts. A pottery churn and woven basket rest on the table. Zepp was a professor in the Department of Fine Arts at The Ohio State University in the 1930s and worked closely with the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society (now called the Ohio History Connection). He began at the Ohio Historical Society (now the Ohio History Connection) as Assistant Curator of State Memorials in 1933 and served as director 1947-1964. Zoar Village is one of the historic sites acquired by the Ohio Historical Society under his tenure. Led by Joseph Bimeler (sometimes spelled Bäumeler) in 1817, a group of Lutheran separatists left the area of Germany known as Wurttemberg and eventually established the small community of Zoar in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. The community of Zoar was not originally organized as a commune, but its residents had a difficult time surviving in 1818 and early 1819. As a result, on April 19, 1819, the group formed the Society of Separatists of Zoar. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P365_B14F03_01
Subjects: Zoar (Tuscarawas County, Ohio); Society of Separatists of Zoar; Museum exhibits; Museums
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of the library and office of the Archaeology Department of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society when it was housed in Page Hall on the Ohio State University campus, 1905. This was the south central room on the second floor of Page Hall. Formed in 1885 as the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, the organization eventually became known as the Ohio Historical Society and is now called the Ohio History Connection. Originally the society’s collections were held at the Ohio Statehouse in downtown Columbus, but in 1894, they were moved to Orton Hall on the Ohio State campus. The organization and its museum remained on campus, housed first in Page Hall and then in Sullivant Hall, until 1970, when they moved to their present location adjacent to the Ohio State Fairgrounds. As of 2014, Page Hall is home to the John Glenn School of Public Affairs. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC4489_001
Subjects: Ohio State University--History; Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society; Museum exhibits; Archaeology;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of the library of the Archaeology Department of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society when it was housed in Page Hall on the Ohio State University campus, 1910. Visible on the far wall is a poster for the annual Ohio State-Michigan football game. Formed in 1885 as the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, the organization eventually became known as the Ohio Historical Society and is now called the Ohio History Connection. Originally the society’s collections were held at the Ohio Statehouse in downtown Columbus, but in 1894, they were moved to Orton Hall on the Ohio State campus. The organization and its museum remained on campus, housed first in Page Hall and then in Sullivant Hall, until 1970, when they moved to their present location adjacent to the Ohio State Fairgrounds. As of 2014, Page Hall is home to the John Glenn School of Public Affairs. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC4489_003
Subjects: Ohio State University--History; Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society; Museum exhibits; Archaeology;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing a printing press and high wheel bicycle from the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society on display at Page Hall, 1908. Formed in 1885 as the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, the organization eventually became known as the Ohio Historical Society and is now called the Ohio History Connection. Originally the society’s collections were held at the Ohio Statehouse in downtown Columbus, but in 1894, they were moved to Orton Hall on the Ohio State campus. The organization and its museum remained on campus, housed first in Page Hall and then in Sullivant Hall, until 1970, when they moved to their present location adjacent to the Ohio State Fairgrounds. As of 2014, Page Hall is home to the John Glenn School of Public Affairs. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC4489_002
Subjects: Ohio State University--History; Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society; Museum exhibits;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph documents visitors to the Ohio Historical Society's exhibit on communication. The exhibit was one of the first to open in the new Ohio History Center in 1970. The photograph measures 9.5" x 7.5" (24.13 x 19.05 cm). Founded in 1885, the Ohio Historical Society--now the Ohio History Connection--conducts a range of activities related to interpreting, collecting and preserving the state's heritage. In the last century, the organization has collected more than 1.5 million items pertaining to Ohio's history, archaeology, and natural history. Its services include managing the state archives, administering the state's historic preservation office, and operating a network of historic sites and museums. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3387_5837593_001
Subjects: Arts and Entertainment; Ohio Historical Society; Museum exhibits; Historical museums--Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Gary Ness, former director of the Ohio Historical Society, and Gilbert Dilley, former Society trustee, at the opening of "The First Ohioans" exhibit at the Ohio History Center in Columbus, Ohio, 1986. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06574
Subjects: Other--Ohio Historical Society; American Indian history and society; Museum exhibits
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Ohio's Battle Flag collection hanging in the plaza of the Ohio History Center in Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1970. The flags were displayed on the Center’s plaza level from the time the building opened in 1970 through the late 1980s, when they were removed due to conservation concerns. Many of the flags can still be seen on display in the Follow the Flag permanent exhibit. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03433
Subjects: Ohio Historical Society; Flags -- Ohio; Historical museums--Ohio; Museum exhibits
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows an exhibit at Western Reserve Historical Society in July 1944 which displays photographs, drawings, and architecture publications that Ihna Thayer Frary used as sources for his 1936 book "Early Homes in Ohio." Born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1873, Ihna Thayer Frary was a prominent American art and architecture scholar, whose primary interest was the architectural heritage of the region of northeastern Ohio known as the Western Reserve. In addition to serving as publicity and membership secretary of the Cleveland Museum of Art, he was a professor of Ohio and American architecture at the Cleveland Institute of Art and Western Reserve University’s School of Architecture. Over the course of his career, Frary was a design consultant for private clients and designed furniture, and was an active member of several prominent arts councils in the Cleveland area. In 1963, Frary and his two sons donated his entire photographic collection to the Ohio Historical Society (now the Ohio History Connection). The Ihna Thayer Frary Collection consists of 4,000 5 x 7 photographs of private residences, churches, taverns, and public buildings, as well as select rural buildings, bridges, archaeological sites, and public monuments. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P112_B54B_4777_01
Subjects: Frary, I. T. (Ihna Thayer); Photography--Ohio; Western Reserve; Architecture; Museum exhibits
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)