Spring 1958 Excerpts
The wealth of fascinating material, by Ohioans or about Ohio, to be found on Ohioana’s shelves is only hinted at in the cover picture. Every book shown is an open door to a world of fact or fancy that is well worth entering. Our readers are invited to come in, browse, take a chair and let imagination project them beyond the pull of gravity and worldly cares.

Summer 1958 Excerpts
The Ohioana Library’s interest in Ohio culture does not stop with books. The accomplishments of Ohio’s artists are a part of the good news it delights to tell forth. Shown on this month’s cover is a piece of bronze statuary, American Bald Eagle by Eli Harvey, which is one of the library’s proudest possessions. Harvey, who was born in Ogden (Ohio) in1860, specialized in animal sculpture. His subjects included lions, greyhounds, a bear for Brown University, an elk for the B.P.O.E., eagles for the Victory Arch in New York, and many more. (Cover Photo by Richard M. Ross, Columbus)

Fall 1958 Excerpts
In addition to Ohio books and authors, art and artists, as suggested in the pictures on the covers of preceding issues, the Ohioana Library collects and publicizes the work of Ohio composers. Shown on the current cover is a bronze head of Charles Haubiel, executed by Nancy Cox McCormack, which is owned by the Library. Haubiel is a native of Delta, Fulton County, now living in Los Angeles, whose work as a teacher, composer and publisher of American music is a credit to Ohio. In 1953 he was awarded an Ohioana Citation for his services in the field of music. Nancy Cox McCormack was born in Tennessee. (Cover Photo by Richard M. Ross, Columbus)

Winter 1958 Excerpts
The open gates of the Ohioana Library invite the world to come in, especially in winter, the season of hospitality. This picture on our cover to show a little of what the Library has and looks like symbolizes the protection Ohioana gives its treasures and its open-door welcome to visitors in search of information about Ohio. The gates, a decorative solution to a practical problem of ventilation, point up the loyal support Ohioana receives from its members. They were presented to the Library by Miss Elizabeth Dyer of Cincinnati, an Ohioana trustee. She gave them in memory of her father Frank B. Dyer, an outstanding educator of Ohio who was Superintendent of Schools in Cincinnati, 1903-1912 and held the same position in Boston, 1912-1918. The gates stand ajar to welcome you to our shelves. (Cover Photo by Richard M. Ross, Columbus)

Spring 1959 Excerpts
Here is a view of a little corner in the Martha Kinney Cooper Ohioana Library showing how the past and present meet. The photograph of Martha Kinney Cooper (upper left) was taken in 1929, the year she founded the Library. Today she is even more interested in it, if possible, than she was then. The oil portrait is of Henry Howe, Ohio’s greatest historian, whose work is as much consulted today as when he wrote it. The bookcase under the portrait contains the Lulu S. Teeter memorial collection of rare Ohio books purchased by donations from her friends in the book world in every part of the country. Her daughter, Mary Teeter Zimmerman, is a Trustee of the Library.

Summer 1959 Excerpts
The rather amateurish, home-made appearance of the loose-leaf books shown in the picture is, under the circumstances, quite fitting. The books are a part of the Ohioana Library’s file of biographical information about Ohio authors, professional and amateur, which has been thirty years in the making. Started by enthusiastic—and hence sometimes uncritical—amateur researchers, the file grew with the library, and, like it, has developed over the years into a more professional and discerning operation. Miss Florence Kelley, our Librarian, gives these books her careful attention. The Library boasts, with so far no voice raised in objection, that in these books it possesses more biographical data about the authors of Ohio than any other library has about the authors of its state. Much of this material will find its way into the Bio-Bibliography now in preparation, as reported upon in this issue.

Fall 1959 Excerpts
Artwork by Stevan Dohanos. Called the “American Realist,” Lorain native Stevan Dohanos was known best for his Saturday Evening Post covers and he was the 1952 recipient of the Ohioana Career Medal.

Winter 1959 Excerpts
Artwork by Robert L. Creager Creager created several of the Quarterly’s most interesting and colorful covers.” Robert Creager was a Columbus resident and taught at the Columbus College of Art and Design

Spring 1960 Excerpts
Artwork by Robert L. Creager

Summer 1960 Excerpts
Artwork by Robert L. Creager

Fall 1960 Excerpts
Artwork by Robert L. Creager

Winter 1960 Excerpts
Artwork by Robert L. Creager

Spring 1961 Excerpts
Artwork by Robert L. Creager

Summer 1961 Excerpts
Artwork by Robert L. Creager

Fall 1961 Excerpts
Artwork by Robert L. Creager

Winter 1961 Excerpts
Artwork by Robert L. Creager

Spring 1962 Excerpts
Artwork by Robert L. Creager

Summer 1962 Excerpts
Artwork by Robert L. Creager

Fall 1962 Excerpts
Artwork by Robert L. Creager

Winter 1962 Excerpts
Artwork by Robert L. Creager

Spring 1963 Excerpts
Artwork by Robert L. Creager.

Spring 1965 Excerpts
Artwork by Robert L. Creager.

Winter 1966 Excerpts
Artwork by Caroline Williams. For some thirty years the Cincinnati Enquirer carried a sketch by Caroline Williams (1908 – 1988) every Sunday. Her sketches depict the uniqueness of Cincinnati and the surrounding area. She published several books of sketches of Cincinnati landmarks. Two of her books, As Always – Cincinnati and Cincinnati – Steeples, Street and Steps, she hand set the type and printed the pages on her own printing press. In 1962, Caroline was awarded the Sachs Prize by the Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts. The next year, she won an Ohioana Citation for distinguished service to Ohio in the cause of the arts .

Spring 1967 Excerpts
Artwork by Caroline Williams..