Description: Page one of the book "Twenty East Broad as History Reflects It," published by City National Bank of Columbus, Ohio. This short text tells the history of the building located at 20 E. Broad Street in downtown Columbus, near the intersection of Broad and High Streets. This page includes an illustration looking east on Broad Street from the intersection. Known as the Hayden-Clinton Bank Building, the structure was built in 1869 by industrialist Peter Hayden. Nathan B. Kelley designed the bank building, an example of High Victorian Italianate style. It is on the National Register of Historic Places. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06942
Subjects: Books and reading; Banks and banking; Historic buildings--Ohio--Columbus
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Map showing the route of Ohio's statewide canal system from 1825 to 1913. The two main canals in Ohio were the Miami and Erie Canal, connecting Cincinnati and Toledo, and the Ohio and Erie Canal, connecting Portsmouth and Cleveland. It was published by the Ohio Historical Society in 1969. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07264
Subjects: Canals; Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing flooded streets in Zanesville, Ohio, following the flood of 1913. Also visible in the photograph are the McCaddon Company Printers and Clark Sturtz Bicycles and Repairing. In late March 1913, an unusually heavy rainstorm moved into Ohio. It rained steadily for five days and the water levels rose rapidly. By the third day of the downpour, levees were overtopped and many towns suffered disastrous flooding. When the flood waters receded, tons of mud and debris covered the streets, homes, businesses and factories of towns like Zanesville, where the Muskingum River had crested 27 feet above flood stage and water was 20 feet deep at several downtown intersections. The death toll for the disaster stood at 361, and property damages were well over $100,000,000 and 65,000 were forced to temporarily leave their homes. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P28_B05_F06_6
Subjects: Climate and weather; Floods; Natural disasters; Zanesville (Ohio)
Places: Zanesville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: Pencil sketch of a gown designed by Columbus, Ohio, fashion designer H. Harold Curmode. Curmode was born on July 11, 1928, and moved with his family to Columbus in 1936. He served in the U.S. Army and was discharged in 1952. In 1955, Curmode married Doris Ann Vaughn and began his career as a fashion designer, establishing "The House of Harold." By 1960, he was well-established as a local designer in Columbus, and during the 1970s and early 1980s, he collaborated with several local theatre groups as a costume designer. Curmode died in 1989. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV157_B02F01_001
Subjects: Curmode, Harry Harold, 1928-1989 (Designer); Fashion designers; Clothing and dress
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio);
 

Description: This image depicts students at Brookside Elementary school planting trees on Arbor Day. Brookside Elementary is located in Worthington, Ohio. Arbor Day is a United States holiday dedicated to the planting of trees on a national scale, education on the importance of trees, and education on how to plant trees. The holiday is celebrated the last Friday in April in the United States. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA2002AV_B01_00009_28
Subjects: Tree planting; Arbor Day; Students--Ohio; Children
Places: Worthington (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio);
 

Description: A pedestrian carrying a coat crosses the street while a man rides past him on his bicycle, along North High Street in the Clintonville neigborhood of Columbus, Ohio. The High Street Photograph Collection is comprised of over 400 photographs of High Street in Columbus, Ohio, taken in the early 1970s. These photographs were taken primarily at street level and document people and the built environment from the Pontifical College Josephinum on North High Street in Worthington through Clintonville, the University District and Short North, Downtown and South Columbus. The photographs were used in a television photo documentary that aired on WOSU called "High Street." Photographers that were involved in this project were Alfred Clarke, Carol Hibbs Kight, Darrell Muething, Clayton K. Lowe, and Julius Foris, Jr. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV254_B13F360_01
Subjects: Street photography; Pedestrians; Bicycles
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: View looking south down High Street near the intersection of Maple Street in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Various businesses can be seen along the corridor, including the Southern Hotel, Bull N' Bear, Madison's, The Union, and more. The High Street Photograph Collection is comprised of over 400 photographs of High Street in Columbus, Ohio, taken in the early 1970s. These photographs were taken primarily at street level and document people and the built environment from the Pontifical College Josephinum on North High Street in Worthington through Clintonville, the University District and Short North, Downtown and South Columbus. The photographs were used in a television photo documentary that aired on WOSU called "High Street." Photographers that were involved in this project were Alfred Clarke, Carol Hibbs Kight, Darrell Muething, Clayton K. Lowe, and Julius Foris, Jr. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV254_B06F165_01
Subjects: Street photography; Downtowns; Stores and shops
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Taken in 1971 by U.S. Army medic Charles Tweel, this photograph shows a gold statue of the Buddha in a glass case, possibly inside a temple. This photograph is part of the Charles Tweel Collection (AV 324) at the Ohio History Connection. Charles Tweel grew up in Columbus, Ohio, and attended The Ohio State University. After graduation in 1968, he enlisted in the U.S. Army as a non-combatant, first training as a medic at Fort Sam Huston, followed by nine months of additional training at Valley Forge General Hospital in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. He finished his training as a Specialist 3 and 91C, MOS, and went on to serve in Bamberg, Germany, with combat engineers for one year. In January 1971, Tweel served in Vietnam with the Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion (Air Mobile), 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, based out of Camp Evans near Phu Bai, north of Hue, until December of that year. Tweel spent most of his service on various firebases as the medic in charge, and occasionally shared firebases with South Vietnamese soldiers. He also visited MedCAP stations (Medical Civic Action Programs) where he treated civilians. Tweel received the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious achievement, and was promoted to Specialist 5 in 1971. After discharge from the Army, he went to medical school and was in private practice as a family practitioner from 1979-2016, and now works part-time in inner city medical clinics in Columbus, Ohio, and Charleston, South Carolina. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV324_B02F12_042
Subjects: Vietnam War (1961-1975); United States. Army. Airborne Division, 101st; Sculpture; Religion
Places: Vietnam
 

Description: Photographic postcard showing destruction along the B&O Railroad line on Sullivant Avenue in Columbus, Ohio, during the 1913 Flood. In late March 1913, an unusually heavy rainstorm moved into Ohio. It rained steadily for five days and water levels all over Ohio rose rapidly. By the third day of the downpour, levees were overtopped and many towns, including Columbus, suffered disastrous flooding. The statewide extent of death and destruction in the Flood of 1913 exceeds all other weather events in Ohio history, justifying the title of “Ohio’s greatest weather disaster.” Rainfall over the state totaled 6-11 inches and no section was unaffected. The death toll was 467 and more than 40,000 homes were flooded. Approximately 100 died in Columbus when the Scioto River reached record levels and poured 9 to 17 feet deep through neighborhoods. Many Columbus residents escaped to the safety of rooftops and trees. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P339_B05F02_05_01
Subjects: Floods; Climate and weather; Natural disasters; Scioto River (Ohio); Railroads
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Seven photographs document the Ohio History Center soon after its opening in August 1970. Images show the exterior of the building at night, the exhibit floor, plaza level, and reading room. The photographs measure 9.5" x 6.5" (24.13 x 16.51cm). At a press conference held in November 10, 1964, Governor James Rhodes announced financing for the construction of a new archives, library, and museum building for the Ohio Historical Society (now the Ohio History Connection). Groundbreaking ceremonies for the building that would become the Ohio History Center were held on August 22, 1966. The new building opened on Sunday, August 23, 1970, and was dedicated to "the people of Ohio whose illustrious deeds are herein enshrined and proclaimed for the inspiration of all." Upon its opening in 1970, the American Institute of Architects applauded the Center as a "bold, imaginative, almost startling structure." Architectural Record, in a July 1971 article, called it "no doubt the most architecturally significant public structure built in Ohio since the State Capitol Building." W. Byron Ireland & Associates, a Columbus architectural firm, designed the Ohio History Center building. The building is an example of "Brutalism," a rational, structuralist, monumental style exported in the early 1950s by French and British architects. Distinguished by its structural honesty and undisguised, blunt use of materials, Brutalism departed from conventional bourgeois styles. Stone and marble were rejected in favor of form-textured concrete, or beton brut, a technique employed by the French architect LeCorbusier. Founded in 1885, the Ohio History Connection conducts a range of activities related to interpreting, collecting and preserving the state's heritage. In the last century, the organization has collected more than 1.5 million items pertaining to Ohio's history, archaeology, and natural history. The organization's services include managing the state archives, administering the state's historic preservation office, and operating a network of historic sites and museums. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3384_4919375_001
Subjects: Architecture; Ohio Historical Society; Museums; Archives; Libraries; Brutalism (Architecture)
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Brigadier General Robert Latimer McCook, who appears in this 4 by 6.25-inch (10.16 by 15.88 cm) carte de visite, was a member of the Fighting McCooks, an Ohio family that sent fifteen men to serve in the Civil War. Robert Latimer (1827-1862) was born in Lisbon, Ohio to Daniel and Martha Latimer McCook. Prior to the Civil War, he was a lawyer. McCook served in the 9th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (O.V.I.). He was wounded at the battle of Mill Spring, Kentucky in 1862, but continued to command his troops for eight months until he was killed by a Southern guerilla group. Daniel McCook, Sr. and his eight sons, together with his brother John McCook and his five sons fought in the Civil War. Daniel (1798-1863) and John (1806-1865) were born in Pennsylvania, and moved to Lisbon in Columbiana County, Ohio in 1826. Daniel subsequently moved to Carrollton, where he served as Carroll County's first clerk of the court of common pleas. John settled in Steubenville, where he practiced medicine. When President Lincoln made the first call for volunteers, 63-year-old Daniel Sr. answered and his sons and relatives followed. Daniel Sr., Daniel Jr., Robert Latimer, and Charles Morris McCook were killed in the war. Cartes-de-visite, photographic portraits on cardboard, were popular in the late nineteenth century. Some were used as calling cards, others were sold and traded as collectibles. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1289_793711_009
Subjects: Military Ohio; American Civil War, 1861-1865; McCook family; Military officers; United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 9th (1861-1864)
Places: Carrollton (Ohio); Carroll County (Ohio); Lisbon (Ohio); Columbiana County (Ohio)
 

Description: This shows the side and rear facades of the Tuscarawas County Courthouse. The structure was built from 1882 to 1884, during a time of prosperity, when many counties were constructing ambitious courthouses, competing with one another for the best building. Roman arches, square and round columns and Doric and Corinthian capitals are incorporated into this structure. Originally there was a zinc-plated statue of three women that sat on top of the building's dome, but it was replaced by a cupola with a brass eagle in 1973 after the original statue began to deteriorate. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F06_464
Subjects: Courthouses; National Register of Historic Places;
Places: New Philadelphia (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio); 101 E. High Ave.