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Hayes Presidential Center
The Golden Age of American Political Cartooning
Through May 2008
An exclusive Hayes Presidential Center exhibit delving into the development and history of political cartooning in the United States from 1868–1900. Of special interest are popular cartoonists of the era, including James. A Wales of Clyde, Ohio — the first American-born U.S. political cartoonist. 419.332.2081 or 800.998.7737
Patterns from the Past: Quilts of Northern Ohio
From June 17, 2008 to January 4, 2009
In the 19th century, the State of Ohio was the nation’s frontier. As the first state formed from the Northwest Territory it truly became the “Gateway to the West.” Ohio’s population quickly became a patchwork of people. Its new residents poured in from states located along the eastern seaboard, Deep South and mid-Atlantic. They brought with them a myriad of regional customs and ethnic traditions. That rich legacy lives on through a unique physical record–quilts. “Patterns from the Past: Quilts of Northern Ohio” exhibits 30 quilts created by 19th-century residents of Ohio’s northern counties. The mingling of quilting styles and influences seen in the quilts is a direct reflection of Ohio’s diverse early population. Enriching the exhibit are the stories of the quilt makers and the families who preserved these handicraft legacies.
National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center in Wilberforce
Quilting African American Women’s History: Our Challenges, Creativity, and Champions
Now on Display
Visualize the history of African-American women as expressed by more than 100 contemporary quilts from some of country’s most talented African-American fiber artists. These stunning quilts speak of the challenges, creativity and champions of African-American women through both imagery and written narrative.
From Victory To Freedom: Afro-American Life in the Fifties
This exhibit spans African-American experiences following World War II up to 1965, depicting the era’s lifestyles and chronicling the social changes that occurred in America through photographs, artifacts and life-sized scenes. Watch the award-winning Music As a Metaphor video, which explores the development African-American music, including gospel, jazz, bebop and classical genres.
Ohio Historical Center in Columbus
Capture the Moment: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs
From April 25 to July 25, 2008
The exhibition is largest and most comprehensive collection of Pulitzer Prize-winning photos from 1942 to 2007. These powerful images have not only captured the defining moments of history, but have changed lives and the way we think. There are the iconic pictures of the World Trade Center attack, the flag raising at Iwo Jima and Kent State as well as tender moments like Babe Ruth's last day as a Yankee. Capture the Moment: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs was developed by the Newseum, the interactive museum of news, in association with Business of Entertainment, Inc., NYC, Cyma Rubin, curator.
It Happened in Ohio: The Kent State Shootings
From April 25 to July 25, 2008
To tie into the 1971 Pulitzer winner “Kent State Massacre” by photographer John Paul Filo, the Ohio Historical Center will feature an exhibit about this pivotal event in Ohio’s and the nation’s history. Visitors will learn about the build up and reaction to the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970, through artifacts, photos and personal accounts.
Quilting Stories
From June 1 to October 12, 2008
Visitors will learn how 19th- and 20th-century Ohio quilters used quilting to tell stories about family, heroes, celebrations-and even political causes. All quilts on display are from the Ohio Historical Society's extensive collection of some 200 years of quilting in Ohio showcasing the best in terms of technique and style. They include modern appliqué quilts such as the Pride in Ohio and Planets by Mary Borkowski, World Peace and Lincoln by Lois K. Ide, and Up Front the Ashes (Ohio Bicentennial Quilt Winner) by Betty Patty. Nationally known, the Phebe Cook Quilt, completed in 1872, features twenty-four framed blocks showing scenes of people, animals and domestic activities. The Zoar Wedding Quilt is unique because it is made from wool that was raised, woven and dyed at Zoar, a former religious community located only in Ohio. Quilting Stories stitches together subject themes and major quilting styles over time.
Rockwell’s America: Celebrating the Art of Norman Rockwell
From November 1, 2008 to March 1, 2009
The largest Norman Rockwell exhibit in the world, guests literally step inside the art of Norman Rockwell and experience it in three dimensions. Enjoy traveling through time and looking back at true Americana. The exhibit, presented by The Becker Group, will feature Rockwell's 322 Saturday Evening Post covers and life-size interactive sculptures of his most famous paintings, including a recreation of the artist’s studio.
Windows to Our Collections: Ohio’s Ancient Past
Now on Display
Explore more than 15,000 years of Ohio’s ancient Native American heritage. At the entry, a widescreen monitor introduces the exhibit with two informational programs. Some of the Society’s most significant archaeological artifacts, such as the Adena Pipe, the mica hand, and the Wray figurine, as well as many animal effigy pipes from Tremper Mound are centrally featured in tower cases. Fiber optic lighting enhances visitors’ almost 360- degree view of these, and other, unique and beautiful artifacts. Visitors can open multiple artifact drawers to see what the ancient people used on a daily basis, as well as for special purposes. Those interested in a more thorough examination of the objects can move to nearby computer stations, where they can locate information on specific items in the online catalog. Here they can also find additional information on Ohio’s ancient cultures by visiting the OHS Archaeology blog and touring the First Ohioans on-line exhibit.
Ohio's Garden Path: the Flowering of Our Landscape
Now on Display
Explore the nation's most popular leisure-time activity from a perspective of 200 years of change. Find out how Ohioans came to see the owning of a plot of land as part of the American dream and why the personal versions of Eden they created were a reflection of their origins and the values and fashions of the day. The exhibition includes artifacts, paintings, photographs, seed catalogues and oral histories with veterans of the landscaping and nursery business in Ohio. Enjoy family fun in the gazebo, greenhouse and tool shed in My Back Yard, near the main exhibition space
White Castle: The History You Crave
Now on Display
The history of White Castle, America’s first hamburger chain, is celebrated in this panel exhibit. Visitors get a taste of more than 100 artifacts and images from White Castle’s 85-year history, nearly all of it as a Columbus-based company. Items on display include plates and mugs, fountain glassware, posters, burger boxes, match books, employee recognition pins, paper caps for men and women, sacks and a White Castle “clock” that has no hands because “we’re open all day and all night.”
Ohio: Two Centuries of Change
Now on Display
Ohio’s story is the nation’s story. This 15,000-square-foot exhibit gallery chronicles Ohio history from frontier days to the 1970s, focusing on agricultural and industrial progress, leadership and the effect of major changes on the lives of ordinary people. Within the gallery is the popular section, Ohio And The Civil War, which describes Ohio’s key role in the conflict. Artifacts include weapons, uniforms, medical and camp equipment and battle flags from the Society’s collections. More than 310,000 Ohioans served in the American Civil War. Other highlights of this history gallery are 1920s newsreels, an operating carriage shop, vintage automobiles and children’s activities, including a log cabin and pioneer kitchen, where young people can try on pioneer clothes, operate a spinning wheel and “cook” pioneer food.
The Nature of Ohio
Now on Display
In this exhibit gallery, visitors can explore five themes of Ohio’s natural history: plants, animals, geology, geography and climate. The space opens with the giant Conway mastodon greeting guests as they begin a tour of Ohio’s unique natural history from the ice age to the present. This exhibit is highly interactive and designed for young people to touch specimens, test themselves with computer displays and play safely in the Battelle Discovery Park and Theatre. Don’t miss a display of extinct animals, including two century-old specimens of the ivory-billed woodpecker. Also, look here for “Buttons,” the last documented wild passenger pigeon anywhere in the world.
Youngstown Historical Center of Industry & Labor
Schindler
From September 10, 2008 and closes October 22, 2008
This exhibition from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum tells the story of Oskar Schindler, the German-Catholic industrialist and rescuer of Jews during the Holocaust who was the subject of the film Schindler's List. Following the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939, Schindler moved to Krakow and established an enamel works on the city's outskirts, which became a haven for about 900 Jewish workers, providing them relief from the brutality of the nearby labor camp. In October 1944, Schindler relocated to Bruennlitz, Czechoslovakia, to establish an armaments factory. Through negotiations and bribes that depleted his war profits, Schindler was able to take more than 1,000 Jewish workers with him, ensuring their humane treatment and ultimately saving their lives.
Kilroy Was Here: The 1940s Revisited
Now on Display
Focusing on the 1940s, this exhibit examines the nature of daily life during a time of war, looks at the contributions Ohioans made to the war effort and chronicles changes the postwar era brought to Ohio and the nation. A timeline, life-sized scenes from a typical 1940s home and interactive displays present an overview of the decade’s popular culture.
Virtual First Ohioans
Journey through Ohio's ancient past with The First Ohioans, the Ohio Historical Society's award-winning exhibit.
Severe Weather in Ohio
The 25 extreme weather events in this online exhibit were chosen from more than two hundred extreme weather events described in the book Thunder in the Heartland: A Chronicle of Outstanding Weather Events in Ohio, by Dr. Thomas Schmidlin and Jeanne Appelhans Schmidlin. In this exhibit you will read about Ohio's worst snowstorms, blizzards, floods, windstorms, tornadoes, and extremes of heat and cold. Even the unusual and deadly mystery waves on Lake Erie are described.
Every Garden A Munitions Plant: War Gardens in Ohio 1917-1945
In conjunction with the physical exhibition, "Ohio's Garden Path: the Flowering of Our Landscape," this online exhibit explores the emphasis on gardening for subsistence and support of the First and Second World Wars. Join us as we discover the history and the attraction of victory gardening in Ohio.
Yesterday's Toys
The Ohio Historical Society presents Yesterday's Toys for your pleasure. As you browse this on-line exhibit, enjoy the toys for what they are - a fun peek into Ohio's past.
Banners, Buttons & Broadsides: An Online Political Campaign Exhibit
Since the beginning of the modern campaign, presidential candidates have been in search of ways to get their names and messages in front of voters. Beginning with simple signs and ribbons, the methods used have become more complex through the years. more>>
Adena: The Home of Thomas Worthington
Adena was the 2000 acre estate of Thomas Worthington (1773-1827), sixth governor of Ohio and one of the state's first United States Senators. The mansion house, completed in 1806-1807, has been restored to look much as it did when the Worthington family lived there, including many original Worthington family furnishings.
Medal of Honor
Commemorating Ohio's heroes, who for their undaunted courage in the service of the United States of America received the nation's highest military award, the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Fight for the Colors
The Fight for the Colors exhibit provides online access to one of the Ohio Historical Society's most significant and popular collections, the Ohio Battle Flag Collection. Ohio soldiers carried the flags, known as colors, in the. . . . more>>
OhioPix
Search images from the Ohio Historical Society's collections online in our image database, OhioPix! The database is searchable by subject, title, photographer and dates. Curators have selected highlights from our photograph collections and created "galleries" to illustrate specific topics or themes.
Kilroy Was Here!: The 1940s Revisited
Physical exhibit is on display at The Youngstown Historical Center through September 3, 2007.
 As we begin a new century, the 1940s remain one of the most pivotal decades of the 20th century. The Ohio Historical Society
has brought that era to life in the exhibit, Kilroy Was Here: The 1940s Revisited,
to run April 1 through...more>>
Selections from the Joe Munroe Archives
The Ohio Historical Society acquired the Joe Munroe Archives in May 1997 and is pleased to provide this selection for viewing. Please be aware that any use and/or reproduction from this site requires permission.
On the Road: Travel Photographs
The photographs selected for the Web version of this exhibit, represent only a small portion of the images depicting locations outside Ohio that can be found among the collections. Made or acquired primarily by people from Ohio as they traveled throughout the world, the images in the exhibit portray six states and five foreign countries.
Paintings by Ohio Artists
Painting as an art form came to the Northwest Territory along with the first settlers. The earliest activity was that of the roaming and itinerant artists who were called upon to paint signs, furniture, portraits, as well as provide a lesson or two. Traveling through Ohio's countryside and her burgeoning cities and towns, these artists sought commissions from patrons and taught aspiring young artists.
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