Historical Columbus

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West Broad Street School in 1910. The school still stands today on the northeast corner of the intersection of W. Broad Street and Hague Avenue.
Main Library (Carnegie Library) construction in 1904.
North East corner of West Broad & Front Streets 1915. The original AIU building & auditorium that would be replaced by the AIU tower which would go bankrupt during the depression and be purchased by John Lincoln and Leslie LeVeque for a fraction of the original 8 million dollar cost. Today the LeVeque Tower.
1940's East Broad Street looking East from 3rd Street. Buildings in this photo that are still with us - (behind the fire truck) Columbus Athletic Club, Empire Building & St. Joseph's Cathedral.
Humble beginnings....who knew? In 1881, Samuel T. Maer bought The Columbus Dispatch from Newton Berryhill, and published in a small frame building on Fifth Street. At Maer's death, his wife Susan built herself an apartment near the paper (presently the law offices of Bill Threadgill), and shocked the town when she assumed the duties of publisher. Until her ascension, no proper lady ever had her name in print.
1913 Flood, Columbus, Oh. Six to 11 inches of rain fell across Ohio on Easter weekend, melting snow and gorging the Scioto and Olentangy rivers, washing out the Scioto levee at Franklinton and ripping apart iron-truss bridges on Broad, State and Town streets. The water left homes and businesses under more than 20 feet of water as rescuers in boats plucked people from rooftops and, from one tree alone, removed 13 people. The storm aftermath left 93 people dead and nearly 5,000 homeless.
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Christmas theme window display in the Lazarus department store in downtown Columbus, Ohio, 1966.
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Representatives of county suffrage organizations demonstrate on the steps of the Ohio Statehouse, Columbus, Ohio, July 30,1914. Ohio ratified the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution extending the right of suffrage to women on June 16, 1919.
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Aerial view of the Ohio Stadium (also known as the "Horseshoe" or the "Shoe" because of its unique horseshoe shape) on the campus of The Ohio State University, taken on October 21, 1922.