Description: Reverse reads: "Choral group, photographed at Lytle Park, Cincinnati, Ohio - 1936" The photograph shows a six women and eight men singing on the steps of the bandstand in Lytle Park, with a women directing the group. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F11_026_1
Subjects: Parks--Ohio--Cincinnati; Choirs (Music)
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1930-1943, this photograph shows a Catholic boys choir singing in an unidentified church in Ohio. There are several members of the group surrounding an adult choir leader playing the piano or organ. This 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 View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F08_002_001
Subjects: Choirs (Music); Choirboys; Catholic Church; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Religion in Ohio
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Photograph showing a historic building located at 812 East Broad Street in Columbus, Ohio, from the Columbus Citizen-Journal Collection. Captions on the reverse of the image identify it as both the "Home of the Columbus Boychoir School" and Red Cross Headquarters, while the sign seen in the photograph reads "The Women's Exchange Center." The Columbus Boychoir was founded in 1937 and affiliated with the nearby Broad Street Presbyterian Church. The school opened in 1940, and in 1946, moved to the property pictured here, which had previously been operated as R. E. Jones Undertakers and the Women's Exchange Center, an antique and consignment shop, and later served as the Columbus Regional Blood Center. The residential children's choir program was relocated to New Jersey in 1950 and later renamed the American Boychoir School. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P339_B11F15_01_01
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Historic buildings; Children--Ohio; Choirs (Music); Schools;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1935-1965, this photograph shows inmates singing in the choir at the Ohio Reformatory for Women. In 1911, the Ohio General Assembly authorized the establishment of a separate women’s penal institution. On September 1, 1916, the Ohio Reformatory for Women opened in Marysville, Ohio, with a population of 34 inmates. When Marguerite Reilley was appointed superintendent of the Reformatory in 1935, she found dirty and unkempt inmates with excessively restricted living habits. She instituted the “human being” program which provided recreation, entertainment, jobs, and vocational training for the inmates. State Archived Series 1679 AV consists of 234 photographs which illustrate daily life in the Ohio Reformatory for Women, as well as photographs of the buildings and grounds, superintendents Marguerite Reilley and Martha Wheeler, and notorious inmate Velma West. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1679AV_B01_F12_003
Subjects: Photography--Ohio; Ohio Reformatory for Women; Prisons; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections; Religious services; Choirs (Music)
Places: Marysville (Ohio); Union County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows director of the Republican Glee Club Karl H. Hoenig. He also served as director of The Ohio State Univeristy Men's Glee Club from 1919-1928. The Republican Glee Club formed in Columbus, Ohio, when a group of men who enjoyed singing formed a group to campaign for presidential candidate Ulysses S. Grant in the 1872 presidential election against Horace Greeley. The group of singers originally called themselves the Grant and Wilson Glee Club, always changing their name to support the candidate the group was endorsing. By 1885, the Glee Club supported state and local races too, and in 1895 permanently changed the club's name to the Republican Glee Club. The Republican Glee Club Collection includes sheet music and songbooks, organizational records, historical information, event programs, and photographs. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1441AV_B13_F07
Subjects: Republican Glee Club; Republican Party; Political campaigns; Political clubs; Portrait photography; Choirs (Music)
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated June 30, 1912, this Billy Ireland cartoon page from the Columbus Dispatch advertises and praises the Republican Glee Club of Columbus, Ohio. The large caricature featured is that of Glee Club Director Karl Hoenig. The scene in the lower right corner highlights prominent individuals of the time who would be amazed by the Club's performance, such as Simon Guggenheim, Princess Alice, and Richard Harding Davis. The Republican Glee Club formed in Columbus, Ohio, when a group of men who enjoyed singing formed a group to campaign for presidential candidate Ulysses S. Grant in the 1872 presidential election against Horace Greeley. The group of singers originally called themselves the Grant and Wilson Glee Club, always changing their name to support the candidate the group was endorsing. By 1885, the Glee Club supported state and local races too, and in 1895 permanently changed the club's name to the Republican Glee Club. The Republican Glee Club Collection includes sheet music and songbooks, organizational records, historical information, event programs, and photographs. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1441AV_B13_F12_1
Subjects: Republican Glee Club; Republican Party; Political clubs; Choirs (Music); Ireland, Billy, 1880-1935; Newspapers; Cartoons
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio);
 

Description: Dated March 1929, this photograph shows members of the Republican Glee Club of Columbus, Ohio, outside the Rialto Theatre in Tucson, Arizona. The Glee Club performed there as part of the inaugural celebrations for President Herbert Hoover. The Republican Glee Club formed in Columbus when a group of men who enjoyed singing formed a group to campaign for presidential candidate Ulysses S. Grant in the 1872 presidential election against Horace Greeley. The group of singers originally called themselves the Grant and Wilson Glee Club, always changing their name to support the candidate the group was endorsing. By 1885, the Glee Club supported state and local races too, and in 1895 permanently changed the club's name to the Republican Glee Club. The Republican Glee Club Collection includes sheet music and songbooks, organizational records, historical information, event programs, and photographs. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1441AV_B13_F13_1
Subjects: Republican Glee Club; Republican Party; Political campaigns; Political clubs; Portrait photography; Choirs (Music)
Places: Tucson (Arizona)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Choral group, photographed at Lytle Park, Cincinnati, Ohio - 1936" The photograph shows a six women and eight men singing on the steps of the bandstand in Lytle Park, with a women directing the group. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F06_021_001
Subjects: Parks--Ohio--Cincinnati; Choirs (Music)
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)