Description: Postcard image showing a busy downtown street scene. Based on the "The Union" sign for The Union department store on North High and Long Streets, this photograph was taken two or three blocks north of Broad Street on North High. Trolley #296, marked "Oak St.," is visible in the street along with multiple horse-drawn carriages. A number of signs advertising various businesses can be seen on the right: a post office, a gramophone and phonograph store, and a trunk and umbrella shop. The photograph's date is based on the absence of the Atlas Building, which was build in 1905 just east of The Union, and is not visible in this photograph. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's department store, and later as a travelling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). He 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. This image was likely one of a series of postcards Kinley created and sold. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07803
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Neighborhoods--Ohio--Columbus; Photographers--Ohio; Cities and towns--Ohio; Central business district
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1886-1888, this photograph shows a street in winter in downtown Fostoria in Seneca County, Ohio. The snow covered street is lined with local businesses including Chas. Hays. Drugs, Toilet Goods, Tobacco, and Cigars, [?]rell and Godfrey's Drug Store, a bakery, and other shops. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00438
Subjects: Central business district; Stores and shops; Winter; Streets--Ohio
Places: Fostoria (Ohio); Seneca County (Ohio)
 

Description: Taken by photographer Walter Nice on April 11, 1919, this photograph shows World War I soldiers at ease on Broad Street in downtown Columbus, Ohio. A native of Wooster, Ohio, Walter "Dude" Nice was a photographer for the Columbus Dispatch and the Ohio State Journal. He was the only staff photographer for both papers from 1914 to 1920. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: N18G_B03_F105_01
Subjects: World War I; Columbus (Ohio); Military Ohio; Downtowns; Central business district
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Cinci., O., Sept 1937. Negro Colony, Mt. Auburn, Dorchester St. Cincinnati streets." This photograph shows a portion of Dorchester Street, which was occupied by the African-American community, in the Mount Auburn neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F02_03_01
Subjects: Central business district; Storefronts--United States--Pictorial works; Streets--Cincinnati (Ohio); Streets--Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Cinci., O., Sept. 1937. Club on East Fourth Street." and handwritten below is "taken from the Gate at the Taft Museum at 4th and Pike St." The tall building in the background is "The Phelps Apartments", located at 506 East Fourth Street in Cincinnati, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F02_05_01
Subjects: Central business district; Streets--Ohio--Cincinnati; Storefronts--United States--Pictorial works; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "View of Laurel Homes. Corner of Linn and Armory, Cincinnati, Ohio. June 8, 1941." On the left side are some of the four story buildings which are part of Laurel Homes. Lewings Sick Room Supplies is visible on the corner opposite. Laurel Homes was one of two Federal Housing Projects in Cincinnati's West End. Completed in 1938 and costing nearly eight million dollars, the 29 building units are made of buff brick cover a 15 block area and have 1303 apartments. Rent cost anywhere from $12.50 to $26.50 with heat and electricity included. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F02_08_01
Subjects: Central business district; Storefronts--United States--Pictorial works; Streets--Cincinnati (Ohio); Streets--Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1900, this photograph shows Fountain Square in Cincinnati in Hamilton County, Ohio. At the center, a man sells newspapers, and to either side of the square are shops and offices, including Nelson's on the right., as well as streetcars. Fountain Square was the location of an American Indian mound before Europeans settled the area. Since its construction in 1871, Fountain Square has been considered to be the symbolic center of Cincinnati. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00216
Subjects: Squares (open spaces); Fountains; Streetcars; Downtowns; Central business district
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)