Description: This program is for a romantic Irish comedy-drama titled "Shamus O'Brien" by Fred Maeder, performed on Saturday evening, January 29, 1887. The actor in this production was Charles Verner, with singing and dancing soubrettes performed by Miss Annie Lewis. "Shamus O'Brien" was a ballad, reproduced here, written in 1850 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and later adapted into an opera. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS559_B13F20_006_1
Subjects: Theater--Ohio; Arts and entertainment; Performers; Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture;
Places: Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: This cantata was held on December 21, 1877, at Black's Music Hall in Zanesville, Ohio. The program includes ticket information, a list of the cast, a summary of each act, and a program for each act. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS559_B13F06_006_1
Subjects: Zanesville (Ohio); Theater--Ohio; Arts and entertainment; Performers
Places: Zanesville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows a billboard advertisement, managed by The Columbus Bill Posting Company, which is divided into three panels with each featuring a different company. The left panel advertises "The Light from St. Agnes" at B.F. Keith's Theatre featuring Bertha Kalich. The center panel advertises a performance by the Anderson Gaiety Company at the Hartman Theatre. The right panel promotes electricity in Columbus homes with the caption "Electricity in the Home; Just press the button, easy, quick, clean; Now on, see demonstration of everything electrical, 104 North Third Street." This photograph is part of the Columbus Railway, Power, and Light Company collection, consisting of 53 glass plate negatives with images related to the Columbus Railway, Power and Light Company in Columbus, Ohio. In the mid to late nineteenth century, there were many power and streetcar companies in Columbus, Ohio. These companies eventually merged into four main companies, and by 1914 all the remaining companies merged to form the Columbus Railway, Power and Light Company. In 1933, with 1,509 employees, the Company was the largest employer in Columbus, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV118_B01F25
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio); Electric utilities; Advertisements; Theater--Ohio; Arts and entertainment;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Taken in the 1910s, this photograph shows a series of billboard advertisements managed by The Columbus Bill Posting Company in Columbus, Ohio. The billboard on the left advertises a performance by the Al. G. Minstrels at Hartman Theatre. The billboard on the left is divided into two panels, with the left panel promoting electricity in Columbus homes with the caption "Electricity in the Home; Just press the button, easy, quick, clean; Now on, see demonstration of everything electrical, 104 North Third Street." The right panel advertises Garland Furnaces sold at Geo. Snyder & Son. This photograph is part of the Columbus Railway, Power, and Light Company collection, consisting of 53 glass plate negatives with images related to the Columbus Railway, Power and Light Company in Columbus, Ohio. In the mid to late nineteenth century, there were many power and streetcar companies in Columbus, Ohio. These companies eventually merged into four main companies, and by 1914 all the remaining companies merged to form the Columbus Railway, Power and Light Company. In 1933, with 1,509 employees, the company was the largest employer in Columbus, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV118_B01F37
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio); Electric utilities; Advertisements; Theater--Ohio; Arts and entertainment
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: The photograph shows three young women in band uniforms standing outside on a brick sidewalk in front of a house. The uniforms are dark with light embroidery and a hat. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's store, and later as a traveling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). Kinley was also an avid lifelong photographer, and the bulk of the Harry Kinley Collection is comprised of glass plate negatives documenting the Kinley family, the city of Upper Sandusky and Wyandot County and surrounding areas. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV30_B01F03_14
Subjects: Bands (Music)--Ohio; Arts and entertainment
Places: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Wyandot 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: Pictured here is a scene called "Toby Steps Out" from the play "The Girl and the Game," featuring actors Mary and Henry Rollins, George Hill, and Fred Campbell, with Catherine Reynolds starring in the leading roll of Nellie Mays. The note on the reverse of the photograph records that Reynolds' father, Thomas J. Reynolds, was the captain and owner of the Majestic, one of the last traveling showboats on the Ohio River. Built in 1920, the Majestic was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1989. It is currently permanently docked at the Cincinnati Public Landing and is a venue for comedies and musicals. This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F01_024_001
Subjects: Showboats; Theaters--Ohio; Actors--Ohio; Performing arts--Audiences; Entertainment; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Works Progress Administration; Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Places: Middleport (Ohio); Meigs County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows stage actors performing a scene from "No Mother to Guide Her" on Captain Billy Bryant's showboat. Captain Billy Bryant owned and operated several showboats on the Ohio River in the early 1900s, and in 1936 he published a memoir chronicling his career titled "Children of Ol' Man River." This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F01_025_001
Subjects: Showboats; Actors--Ohio; Theaters; Performing arts--Audiences; Entertainment; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Works Progress Administration; Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Places: Ohio
 

Description: This image shows the gravestone of Benjamin Russel Hanby in Westerville, Ohio. Hanby (1833-1867) was a famous composer from Westerville who attended Otterbein College and became a minister in the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. A music composer, he wrote "Darling Nellie Gray," (1856) which depicted some of the evils of slavery. He also wrote "Up on the Housetop" and "Who is He in Yonder Stall?" View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06467
Subjects: Composers; Multicultural Ohio--Religion in Ohio; Music; Arts and Entertainment; Cemeteries--Ohio
Places: Westerville (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: The monument in this photograph is at the grave of Benjamin Hanby. It is located in Otterbein Cemetery in Westerville, Ohio. Hanby (1833-1867) was a famous composer from Westerville who attended Otterbein College and became a minister in the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. A music composer, he wrote "Darling Nellie Gray," (1856) which depicted some of the evils of slavery. He also wrote "Up on the Housetop" and "Who is He in Yonder Stall?" The Ohio Historic marker near his grave reads "Song writer and minister of the United Brethren Church, Hanby was a graduate of Otterbein College, class of 1858, known throughout the world for inspiring songs, "Darling Nelly Gray," "Up on the House Top," and "Who is He in Yonder Stall?" Hanby died of tuberculosis at age 33 in 1867. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B14F10_001_001
Subjects: Composers; Multicultural Ohio--Religion in Ohio; Music; Arts and Entertainment; Cemeteries--Ohio
Places: Westerville (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Lily pond and music shell, City Park." The Greenville City Park covers over 100 acres and has activities from swimming to horseshoes. It offers entertainment for any interest. The modern city of Greenville stands on the site of Greene Ville Fort, built in 1793 by Anthony Wayne as a staging point for his 1794 campaigns against hostile Native Americans in the area. The modern city was founded in 1808 and by the turn of the twentieth century it was the main metropolitan center of Darke County. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F07_027_1
Subjects: Geography and Natural Resources; Parks--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Arts and Entertainment; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.
Places: Greenville (Ohio); Darke County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photographic reproduction of a poster for the Sells Brothers Circus. E. Sells, Lewis Sells and Peter Sells, proprietors of the circus, are pictured. When the circus was not traveling it was based in Columbus, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02746
Subjects: Circus; Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture; Arts and Entertainment; Businesses; Business--Ohio; Circus--United States--History
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)