Description: This is an image of a framed, oil painting made of masonite. The painting is signed, "A.F. Biehle.". The artist, August F. Biehle, was an Ohio artist from Cleveland. The painting depicts a fireplace and mantle with a clock on it. This painting is located in the first home in Zoar. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H79246
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Artists--Ohio; Art, American--Ohio; Biehle, August F., 1885-1979
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photographic postcard depicting the interior of a photography studio, possibly the studio of Walter Lauffer in Cardington or Mt. Gilead, Ohio, ca. 1907-1915. Walter Lauffer was a photographer, filmmaker and outdoorsman from Mt. Gilead, Ohio. A young boy appears to be napping on the left-hand side of the image. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05119
Subjects: Photography--Ohio; Art, American--Ohio; Photography - Studios and dark rooms; Children
 

Description: This photograph is of a photography dark room, probably that of Walter M. Lauffer, ca. 1920-1929. Lauffer was a photographer, filmmaker and outdoorsman from Mt. Gilead, Ohio. Developing photographs can be seen hanging on the right side of the image, along with various other photography equipment. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05120
Subjects: Photography--Ohio; Art, American--Ohio; Photography - Studios and dark rooms; Children
 

Description: Walter Lauffer developing a photograph in his darkroom, ca. 1920, surrounded by various photography equipment. Lauffer was a photographer, filmmaker and outdoorsman from Mt. Gilead, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05121
Subjects: Photography--Ohio; Art, American--Ohio; Photography - Studios and dark rooms
Places: Mount Gilead (Ohio); Morrow County (Ohio)
 

Description: Walter Lauffer working at film bench in his darkroom, ca. 1920. He appears to be splicing or editing film reels. Lauffer was a photographer, filmmaker and outdoorsman from Mt. Gilead, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05122
Subjects: Photography--Ohio; Art, American--Ohio; Photography - Studios and dark rooms; Motion picture film--History
Places: Mount Gilead (Ohio); Morrow County (Ohio)
 

Description: A mural of the "Spirit of U.S. Mail" as painted by Archibald M. Willard in the Fayette County Court House. For many years, the creator of this work of art remained completely anonymous. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06796
Subjects: Courthouses--Ohio; Fayette County (Ohio); Art, American--Ohio
Places: Washington Court House (Ohio); Fayette County (Ohio)
 

Description: "This Little Pig Went to Market" was painted by artist Lilly Martin Spencer in 1857. The painting is part of the Ohio Historical Society fine art collection. Spencer was born in England and raised in Marietta, Ohio. She received art training in Marietta and Cincinnati, Ohio, before moving to New York in 1844. Spencer was known for her domestic genre scenes. Her original art inspired mass-produced lithographs, which appealed to women's sensibilities regarding domestic life in the second half of the 19th century. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00778
Subjects: Spencer, Lilly Martin, 1822-1902; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Art, American--Ohio; Artists
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio); Marietta (Ohio); Washington County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Lilly Martin Spencer, ca. 1900. Angelique Marie "Lilly" Martin was born in England in 1822 to French parents Gilles Marie Martin and Angelique Le Petit Martin. In 1830, her family left England for New York, where Gilles Martin taught French. The family eventually settled in Marietta, Ohio, three years after arriving to the United States. Spencer was home schooled by her mother and began drawing landscapes and portraits at a young age. She became famous for her domestic scenes, which she was commissioned to paint for housewives and prominent local businessmen in Marietta and later for middle class homes in New York City. During the Civil War, Spencer's work took on a more serious tone and in the later part of the 19th century she began to focus on rural life and detailed landscapes. She studied with Ohio artists Sala Bosworth, Charles Sullivan, and James Beard. Lilly married Benjamin Rush Spencer, an English tailor living in Cincinnati, soon after meeting him in 1844. The couple had 13 children, seven of whom survived. In 1848, the family moved to New York City, where Lilly showed her work at the National Academy of Design and the American Art-Union. Despite her popularity, she did not get enough commissions to support her family and began experimenting with lithographs, eventually becoming one of the most popular producers in New York City. After a brief time in New Jersey, the family moved to a farm in Highland, New York, in 1879, where they lived until Benjamin Spencer died in 1890. Lilly Martin Spencer continued her art career until her death on May 22, 1902. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS972_B01F22_01
Subjects: Spencer, Lilly Martin, 1822-1902; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Art, American--Ohio; Artists
Places: Marietta (Ohio); Washington County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of an exhibit of early Ohio glass, possibly in the rotunda of the Ohio Statehouse. Since the early nineteenth century glassmaking has been one of the major industries of Ohio, and Ohio glass holds an important place in the development of the industry in the United States. According to Rhea Mansfield Knittle of Ashland, Ohio, whose book "Early American Glass" was published in 1927, the first glass house in Ohio was a Zanesville organized by a group of citizens and incorporated May 13, 1815, as the White Glass Works. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07538
Subjects: Other--Ohio Historical Society; Glass industry; Glassware; Art, American--Ohio; Artists--Ohio; Arts and crafts movement
Places: Columbus (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1990, this photograph shows the exterior of the Columbus Museum of Art, located in downtown Columbus, Ohio, in Franklin County. The first iteration of the museum was called the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts in 1878, which was in Sessions Mansion, home of Francis Charles Sessions, first president of the Commercial National Bank and founder of the Columbus Art School. The current building for the museum, located at 480 East Broad Street, opened in 1923. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06716
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio); Art museums; Museums; Art, American--Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Ohio
 

Description: Print showing campus buildings at Marietta College, from "Historical Collections of Ohio" by Henry Howe, 1847. Marietta College was established by Ohio's Congregationalists in 1835 and is one of Ohio's oldest continually-operating institutions of higher education. It was originally known as the Marietta Collegiate Institute and Western Teachers' Seminary, View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03999
Subjects: Education--Ohio; Cultural Ohio--Education; Art, American--Ohio; Universities and colleges--Pictorial works
Places: Marietta (Ohio); Washington County (Ohio)
 

Description: View of Main Street in Massillon, Ohio from "Historical Collections of Ohio" by Henry Howe, 1847. Massillon was settled as a port city along the Ohio and Erie Canal, on the east bank of the Tuscarawas River, in 1826. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04001
Subjects: Massillon (Ohio); Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood; Art, American--Ohio
Places: Massillon (Ohio); Stark County (Ohio)