Description: A man leaves U.S. Post Office Station H at 615 North High Street in the Short North neighborhood 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_B09F253_01
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Street photography; Short North (Columbus, Ohio); Post office buildings--Ohio;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: An elderly African American woman carrying a hat, purse and cane enters U.S. Post Office Station H at 615 North High Street in the Short North neighborhood 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_B09F252_01
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Street photography; Short North (Columbus, Ohio); Post office buildings--Ohio;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of a man identified as Sam sitting in a chair in an office. The office is identified in another photo as the private office of a Mr. Dickey. The subject holds a slender cane and appears to possibly be blind. Image is from a collection of glass plate negatives of various Trumbull County and northeastern Ohio scenes, places, people and events taken by John E. Pickering and Edward D. Pickering from the 1880s to the 1910s. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08457
Subjects: Multicultural Ohio--African American Ohioans; Office buildings
Places: Warren (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows the American Insurance Union Citadel, located at 50 West Broad Street at the corner of Front Street, was designed by architect C. Howard Crane in the Art Deco style with touches of a more modern version of the Byzantine. The 47-story tall skyscraper, designed mainly as office space, rises to an elevation of 555.5 feet, and was built to be 6 inches taller than the Washington Monument. Two 18-story wings flank the building; on the east, the 4,000 seat Keith-Albee Theater (now the Palace Theater), and on the west the 600 room Deshler-Wallick Hotel. The steel-frame building, completed in 1927 at a cost of $7,800,000, was the first building in Ohio to be erected on a caisson foundation. It was the fifth tallest building in the world for a time, and the tallest building in the city until 1974. Due to the Great Depression the American Insurance Union went bankrupt, and sold the building. The tower was purchased by John Lincoln and Leslie L. LeVeque in 1945. LeVeque was the designer of an automatic pinsetter for bowling which became known as the Columbus pinsetter. The Lincoln-LeVeque Tower was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 and in 1977, the name was officially changed to the LeVeque Tower. The building changed hands to Lennar Properties in 2004, and then again to the new owners Finsilver/Friedman Management, a Michigan based regional developer and property manager. 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_B05F04A_003_1
Subjects: Skyscrapers--United States--Pictorial works; Office buildings--Ohio; Theaters--Ohio--Columbus--History; Leveque Tower (Columbus, Ohio); Crane, C. Howard (Charles Howard), 1885-1952; National Register of Historic Places
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "E. 5th St. West. New Post Office Build 1937 Cincinnati, Ohio." Once called the U.S. Post Office and Court house, the building located at 100 East Fifth Street extends from Main to Walnut Streets on the North side of Fifth Street. Completed in 1939, having been rebuilt upon the foundations of the 1885 French Renaissance style Federal Building, the nine story structure shows both Art Deco and Art Modern style architecture, and is built of Indiana limestone, resting on a granite base. The facade has fenestration bays on all sides, defined by vertical recessed window and spandrel openings, with a Greek key belt at the fourth floor and a carved frieze and cornice at the top. The long interior concourse is in tile with chrome and marble trim, and the glass writing tables have fancy golden legs. In addition to the post office, the building housed 51 federal agencies, including: the Federal court for the Cincinnati district, recruiting offices of the Army and Navy, a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) office, and field offices for the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Interior, Justice, Labor, Treasury, and other agencies. The post office left in 1992, leaving the courthouse occupied almost entirely by federal court offices, most importantly, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio and the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District Court of Ohio. The building has renamed to the Potter Stewart U.S. Courthouse. Over time, more office space was needed and in 1964 an additional office building, the ten story John Weld Peck Federal Building, and most of the government agencies moved to this new building. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F02_02_01
Subjects: Potter Stewart United States Courthouse (Cincinnati, Ohio); United States. Post Office Dept.--Buildings--Ohio--Cincinnati--1850-1860; United States. Court of Appeals (6th Circuit);
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)