Description: Reverse reads: "Montgomery County,Dayton,Ohio,Sept.10,1936 Lip Reading Group at County Fair Attention Mrs.Wright" This is a photo of a group of women at a lip reading demonstration. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F08_005_001
Subjects: Lip reading
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: This bookplate of Ophelia Fowler Duhme (dated 1854) shows a corner of a reading room or study with a frame. The owner's name and the date are inscribed on a drapery that hangs from the upper right corner. A desk and lamp are visible in the middle ground, in front of a bookcase. In the foreground are two cherubic infants busy reading and writing. Between them is a crest bearing Duhme's monogramed initials. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05715
Subjects: Cultural Ohio--Literary Ohio; Bookplates; Books and reading
 

Description: Reverse reads: "School Library Project Hoytville, Ohio (Wood Co.) Left to Right Margaret Marrick Evelyn Donaldson Carolyn Evinger Marcille Milligan Lois Singleton Miss Sarah Jaynes - W.P.A. Librarian - at desk" This is a photo of a group of girls reading at a table. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F07_013_001
Subjects: Reading; Libraries; Hoytville (Ohio)--History; Librarians--Ohio; Books; Children; Children's libraries; Education; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Hoytville (Ohio); Wood County (Ohio)
 

Description: This bookplate of Edward C. Ranck has an image of a man reading a book in a study or a library. Bookshelves form a backdrop for the man, who wears the large, flat cap and flowing robes of a Renaissance scholar. The bookplate's title is "Reading Maketh a Full Man." Text at the bottom reads: "Edward C. Rank His Book." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05721
Subjects: Cultural Ohio--Literary Ohio; Bookplates; Books and reading
 

Description: This 1950 photograph by Joe Munroe shows a group of women listening to a poetry reading during their Wimodausis poetry club meeting in Ohio. Clubs and activities like this helped to entertain farming communities. Joe Munroe's career began in 1939 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He served in the Air Force during World War II and then joined Cincinnati-based Farm Quarterly magazine. Though raised in Detroit, agriculture became an important subject of Joe's photographs. He moved to California in 1955 and free-lanced, taking magazine assignments and selling his own work. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P400_B12_F07_001
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Farm life; Family life; Poetry reading; Poetry--Societies, etc.
Places: Carlisle (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio); Warren County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photo of a man who seems to be reading a preserved document. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F04_12_001
Subjects: Documents; Research; Reading
Places: Ohio
 

Description: A man reading a book in a parlor. This image comes from a collection of glass plate negatives of various Trumbull County and northeastern Ohio scenes, places, people and events taken by John E. Pickering and Edward D. Pickering from the 1880s to the 1910s. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08462
Subjects: Cultural Ohio; Books and reading; Daily life
 

Description: This is a photo of a group of men reading. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F06_036_001
Subjects: Reading rooms
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Attached caption reads: "Project #16-31-83. The library in Laurel Hall or the Shelter Care Division of W.P.A. provides some 1,500 titles to select from. Magazines and newspapers are also provided for the men whose needs are not considered supplied with the mere provision of adequate food, shelter, and clothing. Cincinnati, Ohio. Photo by W.P.A. Photographer, Federal Project No. 1. (Writers') District #16 6-16-36." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F06_046_001
Subjects: Reading rooms
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing a woman as she reads a mystery novel in bed. The subject of the photo is a government milk tester who was also depicted at work in other photographs by Joe Munroe, 1948. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05908
Subjects: Women -- United States; Joe Munroe; Books and reading.; Dairy products industry
Places: New York
 

Description: Two boys pose for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop. One boy sits before a music stand with a trumpet in hand as he looks into the camera. The younger boy lays on a rug with his chin in his hands, reading a book. This photograph was taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912. Like most of Ewing's work, it was taken in the region of southeastern Ohio and central West Virginia. Born in 1870 in Washington County, Ohio, near Marietta, Ewing most likely began his photography career in the 1890s. The 1910 US Census and a 1912-1913 directory list him as a photographer. A negative signed "Ewing Brothers" and a picture with his younger brother, Frank, indicate that Frank may have joined the business. After 1916, directories list Albert as a salesman. He died in 1934. The Ewing Collection consists of 5,055 glass plate negatives, each individually housed and numbered. Additionally, the collection includes approximately 450 modern contact prints made from the glass plate negatives. Subjects include infants and young children, elderly people, families, school and religious groups, animals and rural scenes. In 1982, the Ohio Historical Society (now the Ohio History Connection) received the collection, still housed in the original dry plate negative boxes purchased by Ewing. A selection of the original glass plate negatives were exhibited for the first time in 2013 at the Ohio History Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV71_B27_F2519
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Photographers--Ohio; Portrait photography--United States--History; Children; Families; Musical instruments; Books and reading
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: The Ohio Memorial Gift Plate of the Columbus Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution to the American Library in Manila was presented in 1902 by Mary E. Rath-Merrill to the Columbus Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The purpose of the gift was to mark the books in the Ohio Memorial Alcove of the American Library in Manila and to purchase additional volumes for this collection through the sale of proofs signed in autography and the ordinary impressions of the plate to individuals and to institutions collecting bookplates. These copies were intended for books in the Ohio alcove in the American Library at Manila. Reading "In God W Trust To Our Fallen Heroes," the design is framed in a border of buckeyes, the emblem of the state of Ohio. In the center of the design is a tablet upon which rests the Bible. Around the tablet is the Palm Wreath of Victory, while above it is a winged hourglass, held by a chain. Behind and supporting Daughters of the American Revolution and the seal of the state of Ohio. In the center and directly over the arched window in the library alcove is the shield containing the arms of the United States. Through the open window are ships and emblems of war, in reference to the navy and the army. On either side of the library alcove is a Corinthian column, encircled by a Chain of Love and surmounted by the Lamp of Truth. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05719
Subjects: Cultural Ohio--Literary Ohio; Bookplates; Books and reading