Description: Photograph of C. Walder Parke standing in front of a curved staircase by a stream or lake. The location of this photograph is unknown, but a Huth Seed store is visible in the background. Huth Seed Company was a major distributor of floral seeds and hardware in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Charles Walder Parke was born on July 28, 1924, and grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio. He enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces in 1942 intending to be a pilot during WWII, but spent most of his military career as a navigator on B-17 Flying Fortresses in the 94th Bombardment Group. Parke earned two Bronze Stars, an Air Medal with several Oak Leaf Clusters, and the Distinguished Flying Cross for his successful bombing missions, including some over Berlin. He is best known for being on board a B-17 which was shot down over France by German planes on June 25, 1944, during a non-combat mission. The crew managed to make an emergency landing, and everyone inside survived. After the war, Parke founded the Cleveland-based Laurel Industries Inc., which became a prominent supplier of antimony oxide to the plastics industry. He died of Lou-Gehrig’s Disease on September 15, 1996, at the age of 72. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1510_B03F01_004
Subjects: Parke, Charles Walder, 1924-1996; Staircases; United States Air Force; Military uniforms; Air pilots, Military
 

Description: Photograph of C. Walder Parke standing in front of a curved staircase by a stream or lake. The location of this photograph is unknown, but a Huth Seed store is visible in the background. Huth Seed Company was a major distributor of floral seeds and hardware in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Charles Walder Parke was born on July 28, 1924, and grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio. He enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces in 1942 intending to be a pilot during WWII, but spent most of his military career as a navigator on B-17 Flying Fortresses in the 94th Bombardment Group. Parke earned two Bronze Stars, an Air Medal with several Oak Leaf Clusters, and the Distinguished Flying Cross for his successful bombing missions, including some over Berlin. He is best known for being on board a B-17 which was shot down over France by German planes on June 25, 1944, during a non-combat mission. The crew managed to make an emergency landing, and everyone inside survived. After the war, Parke founded the Cleveland-based Laurel Industries Inc., which became a prominent supplier of antimony oxide to the plastics industry. He died of Lou-Gehrig’s Disease on September 15, 1996, at the age of 72. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1510_B03F01_005
Subjects: Parke, Charles Walder, 1924-1996; Staircases; United States Air Force; Military uniforms; Air pilots, Military
 

Description: Photograph of C. Walder Parke standing in front of a curved staircase by a stream or lake. The location of this photograph is unknown. Charles Walder Parke was born on July 28, 1924, and grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio. He enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces in 1942 intending to be a pilot during WWII, but spent most of his military career as a navigator on B-17 Flying Fortresses in the 94th Bombardment Group. Parke earned two Bronze Stars, an Air Medal with several Oak Leaf Clusters, and the Distinguished Flying Cross for his successful bombing missions, including some over Berlin. He is best known for being on board a B-17 which was shot down over France by German planes on June 25, 1944, during a non-combat mission. The crew managed to make an emergency landing, and everyone inside survived. After the war, Parke founded the Cleveland-based Laurel Industries Inc., which became a prominent supplier of antimony oxide to the plastics industry. He died of Lou-Gehrig’s Disease on September 15, 1996, at the age of 72. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1510_B03F01_003
Subjects: Parke, Charles Walder, 1924-1996; Staircases; United States Air Force; Military uniforms; Air pilots, Military
 

Description: Taken by photographer Ihna Thayer Frary in 1921, this photograph shows the front stairway at the Headley Inn, located on the National Road four miles west of Zanesville, Ohio. The Headley Inn was originally built in 1802, and enlarged in 1833, composed mainly of dressed stone. The stairway pictured here features a floral decoration on the risers, stringers, and baseboards which continues in two of the upstairs rooms. Inns were important stops on the Old National Road as travelers and their horses needed a place to eat and rest overnight before continuing their journeys. Although many inns have since been re-purposed as hotels or demolished, the Headley Inn was restored and much of its original interior preserved. This image was published in Frary's book "Early Homes of Ohio." Born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1873, Ihna Thayer Frary was a prominent American art and architecture scholar, whose primary interest was the architectural heritage of the region of northeastern Ohio known as the Western Reserve. In addition to serving as publicity and membership secretary of the Cleveland Museum of Art, he was a professor of Ohio and American architecture at the Cleveland Institute of Art and Western Reserve University’s School of Architecture. Over the course of his career, Frary was a design consultant for private clients and designed furniture, and was an active member of several prominent arts councils in the Cleveland area. In 1963, Frary and his two sons donated his entire photographic collection to the Ohio Historical Society (now the Ohio History Connection). The Ihna Thayer Frary Collection consists of 4,000 5 x 7 photographs of private residences, churches, taverns, and public buildings, as well as select rural buildings, bridges, archaeological sites, and public monuments. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P_112_B54A_1258_01
Subjects: Frary, I. T. (Ihna Thayer); Taverns (Inns); Domestic architecture; Interior decoration; Photography--Ohio; Staircases
Places: Zanesville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of C. Walder Parke standing in front of a curved staircase by a stream or lake. The location of this photograph is unknown. Charles Walder Parke was born on July 28, 1924, and grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio. He enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces in 1942 intending to be a pilot during WWII, but spent most of his military career as a navigator on B-17 Flying Fortresses in the 94th Bombardment Group. Parke earned two Bronze Stars, an Air Medal with several Oak Leaf Clusters, and the Distinguished Flying Cross for his successful bombing missions, including some over Berlin. He is best known for being on board a B-17 which was shot down over France by German planes on June 25, 1944, during a non-combat mission. The crew managed to make an emergency landing, and everyone inside survived. After the war, Parke founded the Cleveland-based Laurel Industries Inc., which became a prominent supplier of antimony oxide to the plastics industry. He died of Lou-Gehrig’s Disease on September 15, 1996, at the age of 72. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1510_B03F01_002
Subjects: Parke, Charles Walder, 1924-1996; Staircases; United States Air Force; Military uniforms; Air pilots, Military