Description: Members of the Women's Music Club of Columbus, Ohio, with string instruments, ca. 1930. Founded in 1881, the Women's Music Club is now known as "Women in Music – Columbus," and is the second oldest arts organization in Central Ohio. The group worked to bring leading musical performances to Columbus, and to allow a performance outlet for its own members. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05331
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio); Women--Societies and clubs--Ohio; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Music; Musical instruments; Musicians
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Members of the Women's Music Club of Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1930. Founded in 1881, the Women's Music Club is now known as "Women in Music – Columbus," and is the second oldest arts organization in Central Ohio. The group worked to bring leading musical performances to Columbus, and to allow a performance outlet for its own members. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05332
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio); Women--Societies and clubs--Ohio; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Music
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Jacquelyn Mayer with her husband, John Townsend, and her daughter, Kelly, after being inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame, October 22, 1997. Mayer was from Sandusky, Ohio, and won the Miss America pageant in 1962. She later went on to help found the National Stroke Association and served as a spokesperson for the American Heart Association. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03488
Subjects: Women--Ohio; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Miss America Pageant
 

Description: Photograph of a central Ohio restaurant interior by Baker Art Gallery of Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1910-1919. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06313
Subjects: Women--Employment; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Restaurants; Business and Labor; Baker Art Gallery
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Ohio Reformatory for Women inmate scrubbing floor, ca. 1950-1959. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00187
Subjects: Correctional institutions--Ohio; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women
Places: Marysville (Ohio); Union County (Ohio)
 

Description: Ohio Reformatory for Women inmate holding a suitcase, ca. 1950-1959. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00189
Subjects: Correctional institutions--Ohio; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women
Places: Marysville (Ohio); Union County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph depicts the first picnic held by the Ohio Girls' Club of Washington, D.C., held at Pierce's Mill in Rock Creek Park, Spring 1918. Founded in 1918, the club provided women who were natives of Ohio, but lived and worked in Washington, D.C., with the opportunity "of forming friendships, of making their social lives more pleasant, and of entertaining soldiers, especially from Ohio, stationed in the vicinity." Social events, activities for returning servicemen, and supporting charitable causes were among the club's activities. The club disbanded in 1982. Pictured in the first row are Gladys Prince and Esther Shoemaker Wiley. In the second row is Miriam Rhinestone Rominski, and in the third row, Leona Shields. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06347
Subjects: Women--Societies and clubs--Ohio; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Picnics
Places: Rock Creek Park
 

Description: Members and guests are pictured attending an Ohio Girls' Club of Washington, D.C. picnic hosted by Grace Young on June 23, 1934. Founded in 1918, the club provided women who were natives of Ohio, but lived and worked in Washington, D.C., with the opportunity "of forming friendships, of making their social lives more pleasant, and of entertaining soldiers, especially from Ohio, stationed in the vicinity." Social events, activities for returning servicemen, and supporting charitable causes were among the club's activities. The club disbanded in 1982. Pictured in the first row are: Fausta Puffenberger, Mary Kinney, Ruby Corbin, Anna Parks, Leona Shields and Fanny Davis; in the second row, Grace Young and Martha Montgomery; and in the third row, Arista Huber, Helen Wangness, Margaret and Emma Charters, Adah Fink, and Mrs. Ealy. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06348
Subjects: Women--Societies and clubs--Ohio; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Picnics
Places: Washington, D.C.
 

Description: In this photograph, members of the Ohio Girls' Club of Washington, D.C. celebrate Thanksgiving at St. John's Hospitality Center, 1948. Founded in 1918, the club provided women who were natives of Ohio, but lived and worked in Washington, D.C., with the opportunity "of forming friendships, of making their social lives more pleasant, and of entertaining soldiers, especially from Ohio, stationed in the vicinity." Social events, activities for returning servicemen, and supporting charitable causes were among the club's activities. The club disbanded in 1982. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06349
Subjects: Women--Societies and clubs--Ohio; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Holidays; Celebrations
Places: Washington, D.C.
 

Description: This is a photographic portrait of a woman wearing a locked belt. This photograph was taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912. Like most of Ewing's work, it was likely taken in southeastern Ohio or 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 received the collection, still housed in the original dry plate negative boxes purchased by Albert J. Ewing. A selection of the original glass plate negatives were exhibited for the first time in 2013 at the Ohio Historical Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02983
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States—History; Women; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Appalachian Region--History
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: This is a portrait of a woman wearing a locked belt. This photograph was taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912. Like most of Ewing's work, it was likely taken in southeastern Ohio or 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 received the collection, still housed in the original dry plate negative boxes purchased by Albert J. Ewing. A selection of the original glass plate negatives were exhibited for the first time in 2013 at the Ohio Historical Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02984
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States—History; Women; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Appalachian Region--History
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: This is a modern contact print made from a glass plate negative depicting Sallie Stem and Esther Clarkson Russell Cooke playing croquet on Gibraltar Island, Ottawa County, Ohio, in the summer of 1886. Sallie was the niece of Gibraltar caretaker Anna McMeens. Esther was the wife of Reverend Henry Cooke and daughter-in-law of prominent businessman Jay Cooke. For many years Gibraltar was the summer home of the Jay Cooke family. Today, the island is owned by The Ohio State University, who maintains the Stone Laboratory, a freshwater research and teaching facility. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05439
Subjects: Women--Ohio; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Gibraltar Island (Ohio); Games; Lawns; Sports for women
Places: Gibraltar Island (Ohio); Ottawa County (Ohio)