Description: A man reading a book in a parlor. This image comes from a collection of glass plate negatives of various Trumbull County and northeastern Ohio scenes, places, people and events taken by John E. Pickering and Edward D. Pickering from the 1880s to the 1910s. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08462
Subjects: Cultural Ohio; Books and reading; Daily life
 

Description: Photograph showing a woman as she reads a mystery novel in bed. The subject of the photo is a government milk tester who was also depicted at work in other photographs by Joe Munroe, 1948. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05908
Subjects: Women -- United States; Joe Munroe; Books and reading.; Dairy products industry
Places: New York
 

Description: Martha Kinney Cooper seated reading a book in the Governor's Residence. Upon her husband assuming Ohio's governor's seat on January 14, 1929, Martha Cooper dedicated her time as Ohio First Lady to honoring Ohio artists, authors, and musical composers. She took the leading role in establishing the Martha Kinney Cooper Ohioana Library. Intending to create a library to solely house the works of Ohioans, Cooper solicited donations from authors from the state. Initially, Cooper housed the collection in the solarium of the Governor's Mansion, but in 1935, the library moved to the State Library in Columbus. Martha Kinney Cooper was married to Myers Y. Cooper, the 51st Governor of Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07261
Subjects: Ohioana Library; Books and reading; Libraries--Ohio--History
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Page one of the book "Twenty East Broad as History Reflects It," published by City National Bank of Columbus, Ohio. This short text tells the history of the building located at 20 E. Broad Street in downtown Columbus, near the intersection of Broad and High Streets. This page includes an illustration looking east on Broad Street from the intersection. Known as the Hayden-Clinton Bank Building, the structure was built in 1869 by industrialist Peter Hayden. Nathan B. Kelley designed the bank building, an example of High Victorian Italianate style. It is on the National Register of Historic Places. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06942
Subjects: Books and reading; Banks and banking--Ohio; Historic buildings--Ohio--Columbus
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Two boys pose for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop. One boy sits before a music stand with a trumpet in hand as he looks into the camera. The younger boy lays on a rug with his chin in his hands, reading a book. This photograph was taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912. Like most of Ewing's work, it was taken in the region of southeastern Ohio and central West Virginia. Born in 1870 in Washington County, Ohio, near Marietta, Ewing most likely began his photography career in the 1890s. The 1910 US Census and a 1912-1913 directory list him as a photographer. A negative signed "Ewing Brothers" and a picture with his younger brother, Frank, indicate that Frank may have joined the business. After 1916, directories list Albert as a salesman. He died in 1934. The Ewing Collection consists of 5,055 glass plate negatives, each individually housed and numbered. Additionally, the collection includes approximately 450 modern contact prints made from the glass plate negatives. Subjects include infants and young children, elderly people, families, school and religious groups, animals and rural scenes. In 1982, the Ohio Historical Society (now the Ohio History Connection) received the collection, still housed in the original dry plate negative boxes purchased by Ewing. A selection of the original glass plate negatives were exhibited for the first time in 2013 at the Ohio History Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV71_B27_F2519
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Photographers--Ohio; Portrait photography--United States--History; Children; Families; Musical instruments; Books and reading
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: 1905 bookplate belonging to New York Reverend George Robert Hewlett (1878-1972). The image features a study containing religious items and an inscription over a bookcase that reads "My silent but faithful friends." The illustration is bordered by oak branches, leaves, and acorns. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05712
Subjects: Cultural Ohio--Literary Ohio; Bookplates; Books and reading
 

Description: This bookplate designed by Helen Gwendolyn Dunlevy Kelley depicts the mansion built by her grandfather Alfred Kelley on East Broad Street in Columbus. Her design incorporated Ionic columns to form the illustration's frame. (This style of column was placed at the entrances of the drive to the house.) Completed in 1838, the Greek Revival mansion was the home of Ohio lawyer, banker, and canal commissioner Alfred Kelley. The house was dismantled in September 1961, and the stones from the house, made from Ohio sandstone, are currently at the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, Ohio. Helen Gwendolyn Dunlevy Kelley Hack (1877-1960) was a noted miniaturist and sculptor. She studied in Paris and in New York City. She was the co-editor of "Edouard Remenyi: Musician, Literateur, and Man: An Appreciation" (1906). She married Charles Wesley Hack, a physician. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05713
Subjects: Cultural Ohio--Literary Ohio; Bookplates; Books and reading; Kelley, Gwendolyn Dunlevy, 1877-1960
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This color image features two whimsical illustrations from "Isn't It Funny?", a children's book published by Ernest Lister (1842-1909), famous for his firm's high-quality color printing and moveable books. These two images from "Isn't It Funny?" (ca. 1894) are titled "Mewsical Party" and "Dancing Lesson." Attired in fashionable clothing, cats and kittens of various ages and sizes are seen performing vocal music in "Mewsical Party." Under the watchful eyes of two mamas, a male dancemaster is teaching a bevy of female kittens in "Dancing Lesson." The artist is not credited in these illustrations; however, one image in the book, that of a rabbit, is attributed to Beatrix Potter. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06983
Subjects: Nister, Ernest; Children's literature; Books and reading; Illustration; Publishers and publishing
 

Description: This photograph shows a bookplate of Flamen Ball, Jr. (1809-1885), a Cincinnati attorney who was a law partner of Salmon P. Chase. The design features a shield decorated with three stars above a lion. A leaping stag is located above the shield. A wreath of oak leaves is tied with an an armorial ribbon bearing the Latin motto "Semper caveto," meaning "Be always on guard." Born in New York City, Ball moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, and studied law. Ball clerked for Chase before being admitted to the bar. He became United States District Attorney for Southern Ohio, but in 1862 he was commissioned a captain in the Union Army and served as an aide-de-camp to Gen. John E. Wool during the Civil War. After the war Ball resumed his law practice. He died in Glendale, Ohio, at age 76. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05714
Subjects: Cultural Ohio--Literary Ohio; Bookplates; Books and reading; Ball, Flamen
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This bookplate of Ophelia Fowler Duhme (dated 1854) shows a corner of a reading room or study with a frame. The owner's name and the date are inscribed on a drapery that hangs from the upper right corner. A desk and lamp are visible in the middle ground, in front of a bookcase. In the foreground are two cherubic infants busy reading and writing. Between them is a crest bearing Duhme's monogramed initials. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05715
Subjects: Cultural Ohio--Literary Ohio; Bookplates; Books and reading
 

Description: This engraved bookplate of Ophelia Fowler Duhme displays two banners placed over a field of leaves and berries (presumably strawberries). The top banner reads "ex libris" ("from the books") and the second bears Duhme's name. At the bookplate's top edge is the motto "Inter folia fructus" ("between the leaves, fruit"). "Brightside" is the name of the Charles and Ophelia Duhme House, Clifton Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio. Charles H. Duhme, jeweler and silversmith, married Olivia Fowler in 1888. "Brightside" was the name of their estate located on Clifton Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05716
Subjects: Cultural Ohio--Literary Ohio; Bookplates; Books and reading
 

Description: The bookplate of James McBride of Hamilton, Ohio, features a drawing of a contemplative scene. A seated woman is holding a book in her right hand, her chin resting on her left hand. A tree on either side of her frame the scene. A poem at the top of the bookplate reads: "An elegant sufficiency, content,/Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books,/Ease and alternate labour, useful life,/Progressive, virtue, and approving Heaven!" The Motto reads "Pro aris et focis" ("For our altars and hearths"), which was used to express attachment to everything most dear. The name "James McBride," written in script, appears at the bottom edge. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05717
Subjects: Cultural Ohio--Literary Ohio; Bookplates; Books and reading