Erwin C. Zepp photograph   Save
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Description: This photograph shows Erwin .C. Zepp, Director of the Ohio State Museum, examining a pottery horn, one of the many objects included in the museum exhibition of Zoar arts and crafts. A pottery churn and woven basket rest on the table. Zepp was a professor in the Department of Fine Arts at The Ohio State University in the 1930s and worked closely with the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society (now called the Ohio History Connection). He began at the Ohio Historical Society (now the Ohio History Connection) as Assistant Curator of State Memorials in 1933 and served as director 1947-1964. Zoar Village is one of the historic sites acquired by the Ohio Historical Society under his tenure. Led by Joseph Bimeler (sometimes spelled Bäumeler) in 1817, a group of Lutheran separatists left the area of Germany known as Wurttemberg and eventually established the small community of Zoar in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. The community of Zoar was not originally organized as a commune, but its residents had a difficult time surviving in 1818 and early 1819. As a result, on April 19, 1819, the group formed the Society of Separatists of Zoar. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P365_B14F03_01
Subjects: Zoar (Tuscarawas County, Ohio); Society of Separatists of Zoar; Museum exhibits; Museums
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)