Ohioana Library: Highlights From the Spring 1961 Issue of Ohioana: of Ohio and Ohioans

Artwork by Robert L. Creager from the cover of the Spring 1961 issue. Creager created several of the Quarterly’s most interesting and colorful covers. Bernice Williams Foley, Ohioana’s Director in 1959 stated, “As a commercial artist and graphics designer he expressed true originality and diversity of symbolic composition in our covers.” Robert Creager was a Columbus resident and taught at the Columbus College of Art and Design.

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Highlights From Spring 1961 Ohioana: of Ohio and Ohioans
Until 1966, the Quarterly was called Ohioana: of Ohio and Ohioans

Table of Contents: Spring 1961

Life In the City Shown in Stories of Herbert Gold
Review of Herbert Gold's Love & Like by Charles Duffy, professor and publisher

Murray Lincoln's Own Story of His Unorthodox Career
Review of Murray D. Lincoln's Vice President in Charge of Revolution by William Papier, Ohio State bureau director

Ohio is Home of Children's Book Club
How Ohio has become a world center for distribution of children's literature