Artwork by Robert L. Creager from the cover of the Summer 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 Summer 1961 Ohioana: of Ohio and Ohioans
Until 1966, the Quarterly was called Ohioana: of Ohio and Ohioans
Table of Contents: Summer 1961
Cleveland Drummer Became a Conductor: Frederick Fennell
By Mrs. Trent Smith, former newspaper reporter
What Was the Role of Abolitionism in Fomenting War?
Review of Henry H. Simms' Emotion at High Tide: Abolition as a Controversial Factor by Robert M. Draper, Common Pleas Court judge
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