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A broadside announcing a talk by T.B. McCormick, an abolitionist from Indiana. Broadsides were created as temporary documents or posters, announcing events, proclamations and lectures. The lecture advertised here took place in Eaton, Ohio in 1857.

On June 11, 1943 the Franklinton Branch opened at 841 Sullivant Ave. Franklinton was the first “merchandised” branch to be set up like a bookstore and was later nicknamed “the paperback branch” because much of the collection focused on popular…

The first flight out of Port Columbus was July 8, 1929, with thousands of spectators in attendance, including Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone. Amelia Earhart was among the 19 passengers who set off for Oklahoma on their transcontinental journey.

Sheet music cover from 1844 for the song by Jesse Hutchinson, Jr. and dedicated to Nathaniel Peabody Rogers, editor and writer for the anti-slavery newspaper Herald of Freedom.

Marion Harland was the pen name used by Mary Virginia Hawes (later Terhune) from Virginia. She was the author of several books including Common Sense for the Household in 1871 and Secret of a Happy Home in 1896. Harland was the first name associated…

The Wolfe family hosted politicians and businesspeople at its private Reynoldsburg retreat, the Wigwam, built in 1928. Warren Harding, J. Edgar Hoover, Bob Hope, and many others spent time at the Wigwam to consort with and entertain the Wolfes and…

Columbus Monthly debuted in June 1975 despite naysayers who said “a magazine won’t work in this town.”

Der Westbote, or the Western Messenger, was a German immigrant newspaper founded in Columbus and distributed across Ohio and beyond. It was published beginning in 1843 and continued until 1918 when anti-German sentiments gained prevalence during…

Pictured left to right: Mary Pegg, Dispatch Food Editor, unknown kitchen staff member and Lillian Hergesell, Assistant Food Editor in the Dispatch Kitchen located in the basement at 34 S. Third St. Here Food Editors and staff tested new recipes to…

Library staff celebrate the Library Journal Library of the Year award, 2010.