Description: Members of the Women's Music Club of Columbus, Ohio, with string instruments, ca. 1930. Founded in 1881, the Women's Music Club is now known as "Women in Music – Columbus," and is the second oldest arts organization in Central Ohio. The group worked to bring leading musical performances to Columbus, and to allow a performance outlet for its own members. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05331
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio); Women--Societies and clubs--Ohio; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Music; Musical instruments; Musicians
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Members of the Women's Music Club of Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1930. Founded in 1881, the Women's Music Club is now known as "Women in Music – Columbus," and is the second oldest arts organization in Central Ohio. The group worked to bring leading musical performances to Columbus, and to allow a performance outlet for its own members. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05332
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio); Women--Societies and clubs--Ohio; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Music
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This broadside, published by the Soldiers' Aid Society of Akron, is a call to action to the "Loyal Women of Summit County." The text explains the purpose of and duties performed by societies and the Army Sanitary Commission, asks women to form local societies and instruct people on how to contribute goods for the Western Armies. The broadside has the names Mrs. E. Oviatt, Secretary, and Mrs. C.P. Wolcott, President of the Soldiers' Aid Society of Akron, at the bottom. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04292
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Soldiers--Ohio; Women--Societies and clubs--Ohio; Women--Ohio;
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a stereograph showing an organized protest held by women against the legal sale of alcohol. According to the a handwritten description on the reverse, the three women pictured are Mrs. Ward, Mrs. Dr. Israel Bedell and Mrs. Calkins. The stereograph is part of a collection consisting of twenty-six stereographs from a series published by Fred S. Crowell titled "The Whiskey Crusade in Ohio." The images document the activities of women who participated in the Temperance Crusade of 1873 - 1874 in Mount Vernon, Ohio. The Temperance Movement was an organized effort during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to limit or outlaw the consumption and production of alcoholic beverages in the United States. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC5354_001_01
Subjects: Temperance; Women--Societies and clubs--Ohio; Women social reformers - Ohio; Prohibition
Places: Mount Vernon (Ohio); Knox County (Ohio)
 

Description: Roxie Chambers and members of the Buckeye Women's Republican Glee Club, ca. 1940-1950. A singer and director of the South Methodist Church choir in Columbus, Chambers also directed the Buckeye Women's Republican Glee Club. Attending all the G.O.P. national conventions between 1932 and 1954, Chambers later became Republican State Central Committeewoman. When Chambers died in 1954, her pallbearers included Chalmers Wylie, James Rhodes, and other Republican dignitaries. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06310
Subjects: Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Women--Ohio--History; Women in the performing arts; Women--Societies and clubs--Ohio; Older women
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Roxie Chambers leading Buckeye Women's Republican Glee Club members in "Ohio, My Ohio," January 1952. A singer and director of the South Methodist Church choir in Columbus, Chambers also directed the Buckeye Women's Republican Glee Club. Attending all the G.O.P. national conventions between 1932 and 1954, Chambers later became Republican State Central Committeewoman. When Chambers died in 1954, her pallbearers included Chalmers Wylie, James Rhodes, and other Republican dignitaries. This photograph appeared in the February 11, 1952, issue of Life Magazine, illustrating a report of the Franklin County Republican pre-primary convention held the month before. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06311
Subjects: Political parties; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Women in the performing arts; Women--Societies and clubs--Ohio; Political culture--Ohio--History;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph depicts the first picnic held by the Ohio Girls' Club of Washington, D.C., held at Pierce's Mill in Rock Creek Park, Spring 1918. Founded in 1918, the club provided women who were natives of Ohio, but lived and worked in Washington, D.C., with the opportunity "of forming friendships, of making their social lives more pleasant, and of entertaining soldiers, especially from Ohio, stationed in the vicinity." Social events, activities for returning servicemen, and supporting charitable causes were among the club's activities. The club disbanded in 1982. Pictured in the first row are Gladys Prince and Esther Shoemaker Wiley. In the second row is Miriam Rhinestone Rominski, and in the third row, Leona Shields. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06347
Subjects: Women--Societies and clubs--Ohio; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Picnics
Places: Rock Creek Park
 

Description: Members and guests are pictured attending an Ohio Girls' Club of Washington, D.C. picnic hosted by Grace Young on June 23, 1934. Founded in 1918, the club provided women who were natives of Ohio, but lived and worked in Washington, D.C., with the opportunity "of forming friendships, of making their social lives more pleasant, and of entertaining soldiers, especially from Ohio, stationed in the vicinity." Social events, activities for returning servicemen, and supporting charitable causes were among the club's activities. The club disbanded in 1982. Pictured in the first row are: Fausta Puffenberger, Mary Kinney, Ruby Corbin, Anna Parks, Leona Shields and Fanny Davis; in the second row, Grace Young and Martha Montgomery; and in the third row, Arista Huber, Helen Wangness, Margaret and Emma Charters, Adah Fink, and Mrs. Ealy. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06348
Subjects: Women--Societies and clubs--Ohio; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Picnics
Places: Washington, D.C.
 

Description: In this photograph, members of the Ohio Girls' Club of Washington, D.C. celebrate Thanksgiving at St. John's Hospitality Center, 1948. Founded in 1918, the club provided women who were natives of Ohio, but lived and worked in Washington, D.C., with the opportunity "of forming friendships, of making their social lives more pleasant, and of entertaining soldiers, especially from Ohio, stationed in the vicinity." Social events, activities for returning servicemen, and supporting charitable causes were among the club's activities. The club disbanded in 1982. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06349
Subjects: Women--Societies and clubs--Ohio; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Holidays; Celebrations
Places: Washington, D.C.
 

Description: This photograph depicts the Ohio Girls' Club of Washington, D.C.'s 40th annual banquet, held at the Dodge Hotel on May 3, 1958. Founded in 1918, the club provided women who were natives of Ohio, but lived and worked in Washington, D.C., with the opportunity "of forming friendships, of making their social lives more pleasant, and of entertaining soldiers, especially from Ohio, stationed in the vicinity." Social events, activities for returning servicemen, and supporting charitable causes were among the club's activities. The club disbanded in 1982. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06350
Subjects: Women--Societies and clubs--Ohio; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Celebrations
Places: Washington, D.C.
 

Description: Group portrait of members of the Women's Music Club, Columbus, Ohio, 1935. Founded in 1881, the Women's Music Club is now known as "Women in Music – Columbus," and is the second oldest arts organization in Central Ohio. The group worked to bring leading musical performances to Columbus, and to allow a performance outlet for its own members. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05323
Subjects: Women--Societies and clubs--Ohio; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Music
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Illustration of "The crusading women of New Vienna," from Henry Howe's "Historical Collection of Ohio," 1909. This illustration shows an organized protest held by women in support of Temperance outside of an unidentified New Vienna saloon, likely during the ca. 1870 Whiskey Crusade. The Temperance movement was an organized effort during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to limit or outlaw the consumption and production of alcoholic beverages in the United States. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04044
Subjects: Temperance--United States--1870-1880; Women--Societies and clubs--Ohio
Places: New Vienna (Ohio); Clinton County (Ohio)