Description: Caption reads: "Erie Lagoon, The Lagoons, Vermilion, Ohio. News Photo." A summer housing community in the Vermilion Lagoons was established in 1928 by Louis A. Wells. The residents were active in boating, sailing, racing, fishing, and other water activities. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F01A_010_1
Subjects: Vermilion (Ohio)--Pictorial works; Vermilion (Ashland County, Ohio; Vermilion (Ohio)--History.)
Places: Vermilion (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: Taken by photographer Ihna Thayer Frary in 1923, this photograph shows an interior doorway at Mill Hollow near Vermillion, Ohio. Graffiti is seen around and on the door. It is likely a doorway in what is known as the Benjamin Bacon House. Mill Hollow was a property donated to the Lorain County Metropolitan Park District in 1958. Settled by Benjamin Bacon in 1817, the land remained in the Bacon family until donated to the park system. 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: P112_B54A_1785_01
Subjects: Frary, I. T. (Ihna Thayer); Photography--Ohio; Western Reserve; Domestic architecture; Doors & doorways
Places: Vermilion (Ohio); Lorain County (Ohio)
 

Description: Taken by photographer Ihna Thayer Frary in 1923, this photograph shows a doorway at Mill Hollow near Vermillion, Ohio. Graffiti is seen around and on the door. It is likely the doorway to what is known as the Benjamin Bacon House. Mill Hollow was a property donated to the Lorain County Metropolitan Park District in 1958. Settled by Benjamin Bacon in 1817, the land remained in the Bacon family until donated to the park system. 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: P112_B54A_1782_01
Subjects: Frary, I. T. (Ihna Thayer); Photography--Ohio; Western Reserve; Domestic architecture; Doors & doorways
Places: Vermilion (Ohio); Lorain County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows people at a pier in the Sandusky Bay area of Lake Erie swimming and sun bathing. The boat / ferry coming towards the dock appears to read: "City of Vermilion". More information needed as to the exact location. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F08_042_001
Subjects: Erie, Lake, Coast (Ohio); Ferries--Erie, Lake--Pictorial works
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Dated 1930-1943, this photograph shows a bridge along a hilly part of scenic Route 60 in Ohio. State Route 60 is a north-south state highway that runs the entire length of the U.S. state of Ohio, from State Route 7 along the Ohio River in Marietta to U.S. Route 6 near Lake Erie in Vermilion. This photograph 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 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F03_011_001
Subjects: Rural roads; Bridges--Ohio; Landscapes; Transportation--Ohio--History.; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Ohio
 

Description: This photograph shows people at a pier in the Sandusky Bay area of Lake Erie swimming and sun bathing. The boat / ferry coming towards the dock appears to read: "City of Vermilion". More information needed as to the exact location. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F08_046_001
Subjects: Erie, Lake, Coast (Ohio); Ferries--Erie, Lake--Pictorial works
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Members of the Gym Daisies at Cedar Point, Columbus, ca. 1915. The Gym Daisies was a club of 30 Columbus working girls who named their club for their interest in gymnasiums and physical exercise. Club members took annual trips to Cedar Point, Vermilion and other destinations along the coast of Lake Erie. Headquartered at the Godman Guild in Columbus, the club's colors were red and black. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06305
Subjects: Beaches; Women--Ohio--History; Women--Societies and clubs--Ohio; Clothing & dress; Photography--Ohio;
Places: Cedar Point (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)