Description: View of the Ohio State Office Building taken from City Hall on West Broad Street, Columbus, ca. 1933. The Scioto River and Town Street bridge are seen on the right side of the photograph. Groundbreaking for the Ohio State Office Building took place on November 19, 1929. The building, located at 65 South Front Street in downtown Columbus, took the site of 34 businesses. Designed by architects Harry Hake, Frank Bail and Alfred Hahn, it is noted as an excellent example of architecture from the Art Deco period. Construction began on October 31, 1930, and the cornerstone was laid on May 16, 1931. After damage from an explosion on April 14, 1932, the building eventually opened on March 27, 1933. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03265
Subjects: Public buildings--Ohio--Columbus; Office buildings Ohio; Architecture--Ohio--Columbus--History--20th century
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of a U.S. Post Office in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, located at the northeast corner of Superior Street near Public Square. This photograph comes from the collection of Louis Baus, a native of Cleveland, who was born in 1875. He began his career as a professional photographer doing studio work before becoming a staff photographer for the Cleveland Advocate in 1911. Baus worked for the paper, which was later purchased by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, for thirty-eight years until his death in 1949. He was also an avid collector of historic photographs. The Louis Baus Collection consists of over one thousand photographs mounted in eleven albums, showing historic Cleveland, the village of Zoar and Ohio covered bridges and mills. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P223_B01_A03_233
Subjects: Cleveland (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Post office buildings--Ohio; Architecture;
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of a U.S. Post Office in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, located at the northeast corner of Superior Street near Public Square. This photograph comes from the collection of Louis Baus, a native of Cleveland, who was born in 1875. He began his career as a professional photographer doing studio work before becoming a staff photographer for the Cleveland Advocate in 1911. Baus worked for the paper, which was later purchased by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, for thirty-eight years until his death in 1949. He was also an avid collector of historic photographs. The Louis Baus Collection consists of over one thousand photographs mounted in eleven albums, showing historic Cleveland, the village of Zoar and Ohio covered bridges and mills. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P223_B01_A03_234
Subjects: Cleveland (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Post office buildings--Ohio; Architecture;
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "U.S. Post Office, Springfield, Ohio, Jan. 28, 1937." This photograph ca. 1935-1943 is of the U.S. Post Office located at 150 North Limestone Street, Springfield, Ohio 45501. Construction began on this Art Deco style building in 1934 and has several murals by artist Herman Henry Wessel. In the 1970's these mural were covered up during energy conservation remodeling on the building, but in 2009, restoration began to restore these murals and the two story skylight. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F06_11_01
Subjects: Springfield (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Post office buildings Ohio; Wessel, Herman Henry, 1878-1969
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of a U.S. Post Office in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, located at the northeast corner of Superior Street near Public Square. This photograph comes from the collection of Louis Baus, a native of Cleveland, who was born in 1875. He began his career as a professional photographer doing studio work before becoming a staff photographer for the Cleveland Advocate in 1911. Baus worked for the paper, which was later purchased by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, for thirty-eight years until his death in 1949. He was also an avid collector of historic photographs. The Louis Baus Collection consists of over one thousand photographs mounted in eleven albums, showing historic Cleveland, the village of Zoar and Ohio covered bridges and mills. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P223_B03_A08_819
Subjects: Cleveland (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Post office buildings--Ohio; Architecture
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph shows the Westerville Post Office on South State Street on a winter day. The building is one story, made of brick, and has large, sliding paned glass windows. Cement steps lead to the front door. Two women appear to be leaving the post office, and a man is walking up the front steps towards the building. Snow covers the sidewalk, ground, and bushes. The Anti-Saloon League was headquartered in Westerville, Ohio, and sent out so much mail in the early twentieth century that Westerville became the smallest town in the United States to have a first class post office. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B14F10_020_001
Subjects: Westerville (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works; Westerville (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works; Post office buildings Ohio
Places: Westerville (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph ca. 1935-1943 is of the U.S. Post Office located at 150 North Limestone Street, Springfield, Ohio 45501. Construction began on this Art Deco style building in 1934 and has several murals by artist Herman Henry Wessel. In the 1970’s these mural were covered up during energy conservation remodeling on the building, but in 2009, restoration began to restore these murals and the two story skylight. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F08_008
Subjects: Springfield (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Post office buildings Ohio; Wessel, Herman Henry, 1878-1969
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows the United States Post Office in Fremont, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F07_044_1
Subjects: Fremont (Ohio); Sandusky County (Ohio); Post office buildings--Ohio; Public buildings
Places: Fremont (Ohio); Sandusky County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reflections of LeVeque Tower and the Ohio State Office Building in the Olentangy River, Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1930-1960. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01724
Subjects: Office buildings; Ohio History
Places: Columbus (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption on reverse reads: "Post office, Mt. Gilead (Morrow - Co.) Dist. 6 files." A man walk down the front steps of this 1-story brick building topped with a cupola, which is located at 37 West High Street. The words "United States Post Office Mount Gilead Ohio" are above the main entrance. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F11_001_1
Subjects: Post office buildings Ohio
Places: Mt. Gilead (Ohio); Morrow County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing an office interior at the Educational Printing House, located at Front and Fulton Streets in Columbus, Ohio, 1936. The office was built by Elford, Inc. a construction company founded in 1910 in Columbus by Edward "Pop" Elford. Edward's son Harold joined the firm in 1923 and the company began to expand. Under Harold's leadership, the company built twelve facilities at Ohio State University, and completed over thirty construction projects for Battelle Memorial Institute. The company went onto build a wide variety of buildings including banks, churches, hospitals, hotels/motels, offices and rental buildings. Significant examples of their work include the Harding Memorial, St. Stephen's Church, and the Dublin (Ohio) Bridge. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P390B03F12_001
Subjects: Construction industry--Ohio; Architecture--Ohio; Office buildings; Printing industry and trade--Ohio;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph is a black-and-white image of a colorful mural titled "Drift toward Industrialism,” painted in 1937 by artist Karl Anderson (1874-1956). The mural, also known as “Exodus to the Cities,” is located in the former post office building in Bedford, Ohio. The building now houses the offices of Doty & Miller Architects, 600 Broadway Avenue. As seen in the photograph, the mural surrounds an office door. The mural portrays the widespread migration of workers, families, and young people from small towns and rural areas to large industrial cities during the late 19th century. In the lower left corner, a bearded farmer stands behind a horse-drawn plow and raises his right arm in farewell to the stream of people headed toward a cityscape visible in the background. A young girl clutches her mother’s arm and looks back at the place she is leaving and to which she’ll probably never return. An older mother embraces her daughter while an elderly man dressed in a Civil War uniform sits morosely on the sidelines. Karl Anderson was born Carl James Anderson in Morning Sun, Ohio. His parents, Irwin M. and Emma Anderson, and their family of seven children lived in various communities in the state but eventually settled in Clyde (Sandusky County). Karl’s younger brother Sherwood, the noted American author, based his famous short-story collection "Winesburg, Ohio" on his memories of life in Clyde. Karl Anderson became a noted painter, illustrator, and engraver. The mural was funded by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Section of Painting and Sculpture, one of the department’s three visual arts programs instituted during the Great Depression. Established in 1934, the Section of Painting and Sculpture commissioned artists to create paintings and sculpture that would decorate new federal buildings. The commissions were awarded competitively. Unlike other cultural programs of the New Deal, the Section’s primary goal was to procure art for public buildings, not to provide work relief. The post office in West Haven, Connecticut, features the second of two murals that Karl Anderson created for the program. Anderson died in 1956 in Westport, Connecticut, where he had lived since 1912. Nicknamed “the Dean of Westport Painters,” he was part of the thriving arts community there. In 1988 photographer Connie Girard took color and black-and-white images of this mural for an article in "Timeline" magazine (June/July 1989). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04496
Subjects: Anderson, Karl, 1874-1956; Mural paintings (visual works); Post office buildings--Ohio; United States. Department of the Treasury. Section of Painting and Sculpture; Great Depression and the New Deal; Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
Places: Bedford (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)