Columbus Archives - Ohio History Connection

March 24, 2025

Collections Spotlight: M.C. Lilley & Henry Taylor

Learn more about M.C. Lilley and Henry Clay Taylor through a frock coat in the history collections of the Ohio History Connection.

March 24, 2025

Mrs. Husband’s Name: Identifying Women in the Columbus Citizen-Journal Photograph Collection

Archives Services Intern Taylor Grzesiek researches women formerly identified only by their spouse's surnames.

March 6, 2025

Collections Spotlight: Photographs from the Columbus Citizen-Journal

The newspaper's photograph collection gets a 2025 update, preserving more than 24,000 images and making them easier to access.

February 18, 2025

Collections Spotlight: Planned Parenthood of Central Ohio Records, 1932-2017

By Katie Ruffing, Archives Services Intern My name is Katie Ruffing (she/her), and I'm currently an Archives Services intern at the Ohio History Connection. One of the significant projects I've enjoyed working on is the addendum to MSS 505 AV, the archival records of Planned Parenthood of Central Ohio. An archival addendum refers to additional […]

October 10, 2023

Remembering Dolly Divine’s Annual Halloween Drag Ball

In 1964, David Zimmer and Orn Huntington started a Halloween tradition. The Berwick Ball celebrated and supported Central Ohio's LGBTQ+ community for three decades.

August 5, 2022

New Acquisition of Kenyon Hayden Architecture Portfolio

By Lisa Wood, Audiovisual Curator The Ohio History Connection Archives & Library recently received the generous donation of a student portfolio by Kenyon Hayden. She studied architecture at The Ohio State University and became, if not the first, one of the earliest licensed female architects in Ohio. This portfolio complements the personal papers of Kenyon […]

April 19, 2021

The Dantes and the Garage Rock Sound of 1960s Ohio

In the mid-1960s, teenagers everywhere started bands. In Columbus, the Dantes rose to the top in 1966 with the success of their song “Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love.”

January 15, 2021

The Ohio Statehouse, a Symbol of Democracy

November 24, 2020

Mrs. Penfield, Mrs. Roosevelt, and Little Steel

In 1937, Mrs. C.J. Penfield of Columbus wrote to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt with some complaints. Roosevelt wrote back, and now her letter is in our collections.

December 10, 2018