Description: This photograph shows writer Zane Grey seated in one of his Morris chairs at his home in Altadena, California in this 5 by 6.25-inch (12.70 by 15.88 cm) photograph taken in the 1930s. The furniture company of Englishman William Morris first produced the chairs that became associated with his name in the late 19th century. They were predecessors to 20th century recliners. Grey owned several Morris chairs. Pearl Zane Grey (1872-1939) was born in Zanesville, Ohio, a town founded by his mother's ancestors. In his youth Gray was a semiprofessional baseball player and a dentist, having half-heartedly studied dentistry while on a baseball scholarship at the University of Pennsylvania. He married Lina Roth, whom he called Dolly, in 1905. She fostered his writing career, serving as editor, manager, and muse. More than 130 million Zane Grey novels are in print worldwide. During his lifetime, Grey wrote 89 books, including 56 Western novels. The avid sportsman's larger-than-life personality and adventure-filled books influenced early 20th-century popular culture. There were 115 movies made from Zane Grey novels, the first in 1915 and the most recent, a remake of Riders of the Purple Sage, in 1996. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1908_1980932_001
Subjects: Literary Ohio; Authors; Grey, Zane, 1872-1939; Chairs
Places: Zanesville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio); Altadena (California)
 

Description: This illustration of women making chairs is from the Columbus Dispatch Collection of Columbus events, landmarks, buildings, street scenes, and people (ca. 1890-ca. 1970). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04200
Subjects: Women--Employment; Ohio Economy--Economy--Labor; Chairs; Furniture
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows the interior of the Ohio House of Representatives, Ohio Statehouse, during the mid-20th century. The Statehouse Complex includes the Statehouse, Senate Building, and the Capitol Atrium, which connects the two buildings. Construction began in 1839 to replace an earlier two-story brick structure after several complaints about the lack of space to accommodate the rapidly growing town and state. Initial plans estimated that construction of the structure would take two years and cost $200,000 proved to be wrong. The building was completed 22 years later (in 1861) at a price of $2.2 million. The Statehouse is a National Historic Landmark and is widely considered to be one of the finest examples of Greek Revival Architecture in the United States. The Senate building was completed in 1901 and was built in the Neoclassical Revival style. Salmon P. Chase was the first governor to occupy the new Statehouse. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05693
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government; Ohio Statehouse (Columbus, Ohio); Architecture--Ohio; Chairs; Capitols--Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is an image of a wooden Empire-Beidermeier style settee that is attributed to Zoar, Ohio, in Tuscarawas County. This maple and pine settee has a straight, low back with thirteen thin scrolled splats that are tenoned between two horizontal rails. The simple, scroll-end armrests have plain, enclosing end panels. There are four legs with bracket feet. There are nine pine seat splats that fit into grooved slots. The settee dates from the late 19th century. The Ohio Historical Society purchased this settee from T. F. Thornton of Milan, Ohio, in 1965.; Historical Note: The Society of Separatists of Zoar was a group of German religious dissenters who immigrated to Ohio in 1817. Finding it difficult to make ends meet on their own, they formed a communal society in 1819 in which all members shared equally. After a few hard years, the group became solvent by helping build seven miles of the Ohio and Erie Canal, which passed through their lands. The canal enabled them to get their produce to market and allowed them to be financially successful. The Zoarites manufactured much of what they needed themselves. The village of Zoar, named for the Biblical city that Lot fled to from Sodom and Gomorrah, included grist mills, a wool factory, iron furnaces, a tannery, a foundry, garden, and store. The community disbanded in 1898. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8010
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Chairs; Furniture
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Emmit Gasser and Betty Rayhall." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F02_018_001
Subjects: Wheel chairs; Handicapped children
 

Description: This is an image of a wooden, spindle Captain's Chair that has been painted black. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8455
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Chairs; Furniture
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is an image of a black, gold stenciled, wooden, Hitchcock rocking chair. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8465
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Chairs; Furniture
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is an image of a mahogany and black horsehair empire chair. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8472
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Chairs; Furniture
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is an image of a mahogany and black horsehair chair. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8473
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Chairs; Furniture
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is an image of an oak and chestnut bench. It is brown and has four splayed legs. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H47968
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Chairs; Furniture
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)