ffSchool yearbooks can be used for family genealogy, but are a great resource for local history research as well. This week we are looking at a 1926 school yearbook from Columbus’ Crestview School, “The Crest-View-Point”. Part of the Columbus Metropolitan Library’s Columbus and Ohio Yearbook Collection, the Crest-View-Point includes photos of students and faculty from […]
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ODN Item of the Week: Guidebook for Ohio Legislators
Have you ever gotten a job and been handed a training manual on your first day? Well guess what, the legislators of Ohio have that, too! Thanks to the Legislative Service Commission, incoming members of the Ohio General Assembly have a guide that not only informs them of the history of government in Ohio and […]
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John Joseph Jessing was born in Prussia (now Germany) in 1836. His father died when he was only 4 years old, so Joseph spent many hours of his childhood working in a printing shop to help support his family. The skills he learned in the printing industry would prove vital, but he had always wanted […]
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Have you visited Northwest Library in Columbus? Opened in 1996, it is the first library in Ohio to be jointly operated by two library systems – Worthington Libraries and Columbus Metropolitan Libraries. The two systems came together on this project because of the overlap in service area between the two communities. Construction for the branch […]
Read The Full ArticleODN Item of the Week: Photograph of Royce Shoes in the Middletown Mall
Have you ever heard the term ‘dead mall’? A dead mall is a shopping mall that’s either been completely abandoned or has a very low occupancy rate and no ‘anchor’ stores. Shopping malls cropped up all over the United States in the 1960s and 70s, and many of us remember spending teenage days at them […]
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