Last year, an expansive collection of local realty photo cards from the ’50s to ’70s was rediscovered. Now, with grant funding from The Columbus Foundation, the Columbus Metropolitan Library is scanning the 100,000 photos to make them available to the public online.
For decades, the nation’s oldest manufacturer of fire trucks and other equipment was housed in a huge building on South High Street. But after the company moved to Clintonville, Wisconsin(!), Fortner, a fourth-generation Columbus upholstery firm, has worked to make this historic space its own. Photos: Courtesy of Fortner and Matt Lee
An album with historic photos of a Columbus house found its way back home from across the country, decades after the photos were taken. Local historian Jeff Darbee tours the house on the Near East Side to see what we can learn from the architecture and snapshots from the home’s former life. Photos: Courtesy of […]
Historians Ed Lentz and Aaron O’Donovan share the clues they look for when investigating old photos, plus tips on dating photographs. Photos: Courtesy of Al Cincione, Bruce Warner and the Hollenback family
See how Clintonville’s history is preserved in a remarkable scrapbook, created by The Clinton League in the 1930s and recently re-discovered in the Ohio History Connection archives.