Description: Photograph showing construction of Sullivant Hall, a building on the campus of the Ohio State University that at the time of this photograph was to be occupied by the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society (now the Ohio Historical Society). The building is located at the intersection of 15th Avenue and High Street in Columbus, Ohio. Originally the Ohio Historical Society housed its collections in the Ohio Statehouse. In 1894, the organization moved to Orton Hall at The Ohio State University, then to Sullivant Hall upon its completion in 1913. The Ohio Historical Society remained on The Ohio State University campus until 1970, when it moved to its present location near the Ohio State Fairgrounds. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P365_16_05
Subjects: Ohio Historical Society; Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society; Museums; Columbus (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Design and construction;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio);
 

Description: Photograph showing the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society museum showcases at Page Hall, 1910. This room was on the west end of the second floor and featured a glass roof. Formed in 1885 as the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, the organization eventually became known as the Ohio Historical Society and is now called the Ohio History Connection. Originally the society’s collections were held at the Ohio Statehouse in downtown Columbus, but in 1894, they were moved to Orton Hall on the Ohio State campus. The organization and its museum remained on campus, housed first in Page Hall and then in Sullivant Hall, until 1970, when they moved to their present location adjacent to the Ohio State Fairgrounds. As of 2014, Page Hall is home to the John Glenn School of Public Affairs. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC4489_004
Subjects: Ohio State University--History; Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society; Museum exhibits;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of the American Indian Room at the Ohio State Museum in Sullivant Hall, the former home of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society in Columbus, Ohio. Formed in 1885 as the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, the organization was later renamed the Ohio Historical Society and is now called the Ohio History Connection. Originally the society’s collections were held at the Ohio Statehouse in downtown Columbus, but in 1894, they were moved to Orton Hall on the Ohio State campus. The organization and its museum remained on campus, housed first in Page Hall and then in Sullivant Hall, until 1970, when they moved to their present location adjacent to the Ohio State Fairgrounds. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV17_B10F01_1495
Subjects: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society; Ohio State University--History; Museum exhibits; Archaeology
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of the Hopewell exhibit at the Ohio State Museum in Sullivant Hall, the former home of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society in Columbus, Ohio. Formed in 1885 as the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, the organization was later renamed the Ohio Historical Society and is now called the Ohio History Connection. Originally the society’s collections were held at the Ohio Statehouse in downtown Columbus, but in 1894, they were moved to Orton Hall on the Ohio State campus. The organization and its museum remained on campus, housed first in Page Hall and then in Sullivant Hall, until 1970, when they moved to their present location adjacent to the Ohio State Fairgrounds. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV17_B10F01_1496
Subjects: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society; Ohio State University--History; Museum exhibits; Archaeology
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Howard Goodwin posed with copper axes recovered during the excavation of Seip Mound (left) and the Hopewell Group Mound #25 (right) in Ross County, Ohio. Goodwin worked as the Registrar and Honorary Curator of Mineralogy for the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society (now the Ohio History Connection), and may have assisted with the identification of minerals used by the Hopewell culture. The Hopewell Mound Group, the type site for the Hopewell Culture, is located along the North Fork of Paint Creek in Union Township, Ross County, Ohio. When first surveyed in the mid-1800s the mound and earthwork complex, once referred to as the Clark Works, contained at least 38 mounds of various sizes within a 111-acre, somewhat “D”-shaped walled enclosure. An attached segmented square enclosed an additional 18 acres. The most notable mound in the group is referred to as Mound 25, a three-part conjoined mound that once measured 35 feet high by 500 feet long and 180 feet wide at the base. It was this mound more than any other that was the source of many of the iconic artifacts that defined the Hopewell Culture (100 BC-AD 400). The Hopewell Mound Group was extensively investigated in the early 1890s by Warren Moorehead to collect material for the 1892 World’s Columbian Exposition. This material is now housed in the Chicago Field Museum. In the 1920s Henry Shetrone of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society (now the Ohio History Connection) also did extensive field work there, assembling an impressive collection of materials for the museum. Today the Hopewell Mound Group and several other related Ross County earthwork complexes are overseen by the National Park Service as the Hopewell Culture National Historic Park. The Hopewell Mound Group is one of seven Ohio Hopewell Ceremonial Earthwork sites presently under consideration by the United States Department of the Interior for nomination as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV17_B03F02_E09_06
Subjects: Earthworks (Archaeology); American Indians in Ohio; Excavations (Archaeology)--Ohio; Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1-400) (A.D. 1–400); Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society;
Places: Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing a printing press and high wheel bicycle from the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society on display at Page Hall, 1908. Formed in 1885 as the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, the organization eventually became known as the Ohio Historical Society and is now called the Ohio History Connection. Originally the society’s collections were held at the Ohio Statehouse in downtown Columbus, but in 1894, they were moved to Orton Hall on the Ohio State campus. The organization and its museum remained on campus, housed first in Page Hall and then in Sullivant Hall, until 1970, when they moved to their present location adjacent to the Ohio State Fairgrounds. As of 2014, Page Hall is home to the John Glenn School of Public Affairs. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC4489_002
Subjects: Ohio State University--History; Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society; Museum exhibits;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing the Archaeology museum of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society at Page Hall, 1908. Formed in 1885 as the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, the organization eventually became known as the Ohio Historical Society and is now called the Ohio History Connection. Originally the society’s collections were held at the Ohio Statehouse in downtown Columbus, but in 1894, they were moved to Orton Hall on the Ohio State campus. The organization and its museum remained on campus, housed first in Page Hall and then in Sullivant Hall, until 1970, when they moved to their present location adjacent to the Ohio State Fairgrounds. As of 2014, Page Hall is home to the John Glenn School of Public Affairs. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC4489_005
Subjects: Ohio State University--History; Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society; Museum exhibits; Archaeology;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing the Archaeology museum of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society at Page Hall, 1908. Formed in 1885 as the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, the organization eventually became known as the Ohio Historical Society and is now called the Ohio History Connection. Originally the society’s collections were held at the Ohio Statehouse in downtown Columbus, but in 1894, they were moved to Orton Hall on the Ohio State campus. The organization and its museum remained on campus, housed first in Page Hall and then in Sullivant Hall, until 1970, when they moved to their present location adjacent to the Ohio State Fairgrounds. As of 2014, Page Hall is home to the John Glenn School of Public Affairs. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC4489_006
Subjects: Ohio State University--History; Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society; Museum exhibits; Archaeology;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of the library and office of the Archaeology Department of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society when it was housed in Page Hall on the Ohio State University campus, 1905. This was the south central room on the second floor of Page Hall. Formed in 1885 as the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, the organization eventually became known as the Ohio Historical Society and is now called the Ohio History Connection. Originally the society’s collections were held at the Ohio Statehouse in downtown Columbus, but in 1894, they were moved to Orton Hall on the Ohio State campus. The organization and its museum remained on campus, housed first in Page Hall and then in Sullivant Hall, until 1970, when they moved to their present location adjacent to the Ohio State Fairgrounds. As of 2014, Page Hall is home to the John Glenn School of Public Affairs. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC4489_001
Subjects: Ohio State University--History; Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society; Museum exhibits; Archaeology;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of the library of the Archaeology Department of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society when it was housed in Page Hall on the Ohio State University campus, 1910. Visible on the far wall is a poster for the annual Ohio State-Michigan football game. Formed in 1885 as the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, the organization eventually became known as the Ohio Historical Society and is now called the Ohio History Connection. Originally the society’s collections were held at the Ohio Statehouse in downtown Columbus, but in 1894, they were moved to Orton Hall on the Ohio State campus. The organization and its museum remained on campus, housed first in Page Hall and then in Sullivant Hall, until 1970, when they moved to their present location adjacent to the Ohio State Fairgrounds. As of 2014, Page Hall is home to the John Glenn School of Public Affairs. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC4489_003
Subjects: Ohio State University--History; Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society; Museum exhibits; Archaeology;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Bookplate of Henry C. Shetrone (1876-1954; B.A. Denison University). The bookplate is shaped roughly like a butterfly with an inverted comma or apostrophe in each corner. Archaeological objects are featured including an arrowhead and a pipe. The inscription reads: "From the bookshelf of H.C. Shetrone." Shetrone was a journalist at various Ohio newspapers from 1903 until 1913, when he became assistant to William C. Mills at the Museum of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society. He eventually succeeded Mills as director of the Society, serving from 1928 to 1947. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05657
Subjects: Bookplates; Shetrone, H. C.; Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society; Cultural Ohio--Literary Ohio; Archaeology
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Henry C. Shetrone (left) and William C. Mills (right), archaeologists for the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society (now the Ohio History Connection) at the excavation of the Mound City site in Ross County, Ohio, 1920 -1921. Mound City is a burial mound and earthwork complex located in Union Township, Ross County, Ohio. It is situated on the west bank of the Scioto River opposite the Hopeton Earthworks, a few miles north of Chillicothe. The site was constructed between approximately 100 BC and AD 400 by people of the Hopewell Culture and consists of 22 variously sized mounds surrounded a low, four-sided, earthen embankment that encloses about 13 acres. During World War I Mound City became part of an expansive army training facility called Camp Sherman. In an attempt to preserve as much of the site’s integrity as the army would allow, the mounds were flattened or truncated and camp buildings built over them and not intruded into them. Beginning in the 1920s, the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society (now the Ohio History Connection) funded restoration of the site and in 1923 the Mound City Group was elevated to the status of National Monument. Since 1992 Mound City has served as the focal point of the Hopewell Culture National Historic Park. Restoration lasted several years and was the beginning of the movement toward archaeology as a disciplined profession. One interesting aspect learned during the restoration process was that, for whatever reason, burials at Mound City were of a more egalitarian nature and not just of apparent high status as seen at other locations. The Mound City Group is one of seven Ohio Hopewell Ceremonial Earthwork sites presently under consideration by the United States Department of the Interior for nomination as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02717
Subjects: Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1-400) (A.D. 1–400); Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society; Shetrone, H. C.; Mills, William C. (William Corless), 1860-1928; Archaeology;
Places: Ross County (Ohio)