Ohioana Library: Highlights From the Winter 1959 Issue of Ohioana Quarterly

Artwork by Robert L. Creager from the cover of the Winter 1959 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 Winter 1959 Ohioana: of Ohio and Ohioans
Until 1966, the Quarterly was called Ohioana: of Ohio and Ohioans

Table of Contents: Winter 1959

A Great Critic At Last Discovers W. D. Howells
Review of Van Wyck Brooks' Howells: His Life and World by Robert Price, Author and college professor

The Story of Our Medal
By Edna Clark, Art authority and Ohioana trustee

More Lambs From Ohio: Biographical Sketches of Ohioans Who Are Members of the Lambs, America's Oldest Theatrical Club
By Russ Johns, radio program director

Ohio Oddities
Queries for Ohioans to ponder