Artwork by Robert L. Creager from the cover of the Spring 1962 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 1962 Ohioana: of Ohio and Ohioans
Until 1966, the Quarterly was called Ohioana: of Ohio and Ohioans
Table of Contents: Spring 1962
The Xenia Hotel
Notice from the August 16, 1867 register of the Xenia Hotel
It Could Be Verse: An Elegy for Joe Newman
By Sordello, Non de plume of a Cleveland satirist
De Capite Tells an Unusual Story in A Lost King
A Lost King by Raymond De Capite, reviewed by Robert Price, Chairman of the English Department at Oberlin
College
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