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Sara Gallo and David Staniunas transplanted themselves to Columbus, Ohio for SG's pursuit of the MFA in Ceramics at Ohio State. David got jealous, insisting that he have the most degrees in the household, and entered the MLIS program at Kent State. Here is where we distribute quick doses of information about things that pique our interest, projects in the works, sources for current work, pressing issues in foreign policy, and so forth. Let us know what's up, Yrs -- S G & D SPosts
What’s up, Lazarus?
SO: looking at the Lazarus building, working on Ohio Memory at OHS, thinking of that show coming up in the summer, I’ve been preparing materials for a big fat pseudo-educational PowerPoint presentation, all about the City of Columbus, as near as I understand it.
Turns out Google has a host of stuff about the early city. The city’s political left and right united in Christendom and Temperance, for instance:
From an 1892 history of the city, a map of mound sites in Franklin County:
Plus, a great racial breakdown of the city in 1918 drawn for a 1921 report:
…And yet to come: more snippets from Franklin County planning documents from the State Library of Ohio. Prepare yrselves, City Center!
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