Description: Two men are photographed seated outside of 672 North High Street in the Short North neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. The storefront advertises furniture and appliances for sale, and a Coca Cola advertisement is mounted on the brick wall between the store and its neighbor. 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_B09F236_01
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Street photography; Short North (Columbus, Ohio); Furniture; Appliances; Stores and shops;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Woman using the built-in washing machine in the kitchen of a Lustron house to do laundry, ca. 1947-1950. Lustron homes were prefabricated, single-family homes constructed of porcelain steel. They were manufactured in Columbus, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01179
Subjects: Franklin County (Ohio); Prefabricated houses; Appliances; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
 

Description: This 1926 vacuum cleaner was manufactured by Air-Way Sanitizor of Toledo, Ohio. It includes attachments and a disposable bag and measures 52" x 77.47" x 12" (132 x 30.5 x 30 cm). Air-Way introduced the first vacuum cleaner with a disposable bag in 1920. The Air-Way vacuum was an improvement on the Hoover Company's electric vacuum cleaner, first produced in 1908, which used a cloth filter bag. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1661_1783047_001
Subjects: Business and Labor; Daily Life; Vacuum cleaners; Appliances
Places: Toledo (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads, "Seagrave corp." An unidentified man works on a coulter machine at the Seagrave corporation in Columbus, Ohio. The coulter is a type of metalworking machine tool that was created by the Automatic Machine Co. based in Bridgeport, Conn. It is used for planing new brasses and planing slide valves for reseating. Seagrave Corporation eventually became Seagrave Fire Apparatus, and is now the oldest' continuous manufacturer of fire apparatus in North America. The company was founded in 1881 in Detroit, Michigan, by Frederic Seagrave, and moved to Columbus, Ohio, in 1891. In 1963, it moved to Clintonville, Wisconsin where it is still located today. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F10_014_1
Subjects: Seagrave Fire Apparatus (Firm); Electric apparatus and appliances--Fires and fire prevention; Industries--Ohio--History--Pictorial works; United States. Work Projects Administration (Ohio)
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This vacuum cleaner was manufactured by Air-Way Sanitizor of Toledo, Ohio, 1926. It includes attachments and a disposable bag and measures 52" x 77.47" x 12" (132 x 30.5 x 30 cm). Air-Way introduced the first vacuum cleaner with a disposable bag in 1920. The Air-Way vacuum was an improvement on the Hoover Company's electric vacuum cleaner, first produced in 1908, which used a cloth filter bag. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: M00262
Subjects: Manufacturing industries--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business; Appliances
Places: Toledo (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph of the Hoover Company headquarters in Canton, Ohio, was taken in the 1930s or 1940s. A sign on the building reads "Hoover Suction Sweepers." The lower portion of the photograph appears to have been airbrushed. It measures 8" x 10" (20.32 x 25.4 cm). In 1908, inventor J. Murray Spangler was working as a night janitor. While cleaning rugs, the dust aggravated his asthma. He modified some existing equipment to collect the dust and dirt into a pillowcase. Spangler asked his cousin Susan Hoover to try the equipment. Her husband, W. H. "Boss" Hoover, was impressed with the "suction sweeper." At the time, the Hoover family business produced mostly horse harnesses and equipment. As the automobile grew in popularity, the leather shop began to fail and they were seeking new business opportunities. Hoover bought the patent from Spangler in 1908, retained him as a partner, and soon had six employees assembling six units a day in a corner of the leather goods shop. At the time, few homes had electricity, and they had difficulty selling the sweepers. Once W. H. Hoover took out an ad in the Saturday Evening Post offering a 10 day free trial, they were inundated with requests. The Hoover Company has since become a nationally-known manufacturer of vacuum cleaners. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3081_3675618_001
Subjects: Business and Labor; Hoover Company; Factories; Vacuum cleaners; Appliances
Places: Canton (Ohio); Stark County (Ohio)
 

Description: This laundry boiler was made by hand of tin. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H72457
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Appliances
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)