New! Video Conference Call Backgrounds from ODN

Make history on every video call, with our new Ohio Digital Network custom backgrounds!

Many video conferencing services, such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams (available to all users soon), have added the option to upload custom backgrounds for your calls. Now you can bring a little bit of Ohio’s history with you wherever you are.

Taking a call in beautiful downtown Cleveland

Quality and specs can vary by webcam, but these have been set to the standard 16:9 ratio used by Zoom. They are also mirrored to match default Zoom settings.

Download and share these copyright-free images today, and send us suggestions for any more that you’d like to see from our collections in DPLA!

S-Cleveland-Bridges-Detroit-Superior
The 3,112-foot Detroit-Superior Bridge (officially known as the Veterans Memorial Bridge) is a through arch bridge over the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio, according to Wikipedia. It links Detroit Avenue on the west side and Superior Avenue on the east side. The King Bridge Company began construction in 1914, and completed the bridge in 1918. It was Cleveland’s first fixed high level bridge.
Courtesy Cleveland Public Library Download full size
1856 Franklin County Map
Includes Columbus business directory, Johnson Building business directory, statistical tables of Franklin County, views of public, residential, and commercial properties.
Insets: Grove City — Columbus — Jackson Tp — Hilliard — North Columbus — Harrisburgh — Grahamville — Wester Ville — Amalthea — Shadeville — Dublin — Winchester — Smithville — Lockbourne — Worthington — Reynolds Burg — New Albany — Rome — Groveport — Alton — Bridgeport — Gahana — Clintonville.
Courtesy Columbus Metropolitan Library Download full size
Dining Room, The Bismarck Cincinnati, O.
Courtesy Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County Download full size
Division Street in Sylvania, Ohio, around 1900
Division Street as it looked around the turn of the century. Today the road is Main Street. Courtesy Toledo Lucas County Public Library Download full size