January 1948: The B.F. Goodrich Company of Akron, Ohio unveiled the “new look” in hot water bottles and ice packs for folks suffering from sore throats, sinus pains, and New Year’s hangovers.
The wearable device consisted of a helmet-shaped ice cap, a hot water bottle in mask form for sinus pains and a wrap-around ice bag for the throat.
A beautiful photo collection was found by roz leibowitz that shows the life of a family in Ohio from 1947 through the early 1960s. Most of these photos are about wife of a talented amateur photographer, and the other shows an elderly woman in the kitchen from the early 1950s.
Mirror reflection, Ohio, circa 1940s
In the kitchen, Ohio, 1947
Pots and pans, Ohio, 1947
The housewife, Ohio, 1947
An elderly woman in the kitchen, Ohio, circa early 1950s
Bloomer Girl is a 1944 Broadway musical with music by Harold Arlen, lyrics by E.Y. Harburg, and a book by Sig Herzig and Fred Saidy, based on an unpublished play by Lilith and Dan James.
The plot concerns independent Evelina Applegate, a hoop skirt manufacturer's daughter who defies her father by rejecting hoopskirts and embracing comfortable bloomers advocated by her aunt "Dolly" Bloomer, who was inspired by the women's rights advocate Amelia Bloomer. The American Civil War is looming, and abolitionist Evelina refuses to marry suitor Jeff Calhoun until he frees his slave, Pompey.
These beautiful kodachromes were found by Jordan Smith that show the behind the scenes of Bloomer Girl musical played at the Cleveland Play House in Cleveland, Ohio in December 1953.
Nelson Ronsheim (1905-1981) attended the Cincinnati Art Academy when still in elementary school, perhaps the youngest student ever to do so. After working a short while for an advertising firm, at the age of 23, Ronsheim set out on his own as a commercial artist.
Though skilled with pen and brush, Ronsheim gravitated to photography as a means of artistic expression. From as early as 1923, he mastered the use of a complex camera to record life in Cincinnati. After acquiring additional photographic equipment in 1938, Ronsheim embarked on an intense effort to capture on film the familiar scenes of his native city.
Cincinnati in 1938-39 by Nelson Ronsheim
As a student of history, Ronsheim appreciated the transitional nature of the late 1930s and sought to preserve in photographs the city as he knew it, anticipating that these images would become more fascinating with time.
This period of intense photographic activity lasted just four years, brought to an end by World War II's rationing of fuel and raw material. Yet Ronsheim created roughly 800 images of Cincinnati during this time. He entered photographs in the Master Photo Finishers of America annual contests in 1939 and 1940 and each year received several awards.
These amazing pictures from Michael G Smith that were taken by Nelson Ronsheim documenting everyday life of Cincinnati in 1938 and 1939.
A streetcar riding the Mt. Adams incline provides the backdrop for children on the steps up the hill, November 1938
Construction of Columbia Parkway viaduct over Eggleston Avenue in January 1938
Construction of the Columbia Parkway Viaduct over Eggleston Avenue, looking north, January 1938
Kenton St. overpass looking west down Florence Ave., January 1st, 1938
Kilgour St. in Mt. Adams as seen from Fort Washington Way ramp, below Columbia Parkway, 1938
In the summer of 1946, less than a year after the end of the Second World War, LIFE magazine shared a story from a small town in Ohio that suggested, in LIFE’s laconic phrasing, that “the U.S. [had] turned another corner in its return to peacetime normalcy.” The validity of such an assertion, meanwhile, largely depends on one’s understanding of what constitutes “normal.”
On the afternoon of their wedding they were hoisted up to the 40-inch diameter perch for a rehearsal. While the justice of the peace stood on the ground, talking through a loudspeaker, LIFE’s cameraman [Allan Grant] hovered nearby in a helicopter, the only vantage point from which to photograph the big event properly. That night they were really married before 1,700 paying spectators.
Mad’s perch, which cost him $3,000 of his war-plant earnings, had all the comforts of home, including a telephone, an electric hot plate and a chemical outhouse, but the newlyweds decided to come down that evening and spend their honeymoon on the ground.
(Photos: Allan Grant—The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)
Does long hairstyle make you more gracefully? These glamorous photos of teenage girls in the middle of 1970s from Tony Alter that may give you the answer.
These amazing photographs from Special Collections Research Center that depicted commercial buildings in rural northwestern Ohio with recently installed Central Union Telephone Company phones. The Central Union Telephone Company brought local and long distance calling to commercial buildings and advertised the new service with signage.
Commercial buildings of Ohio in the early 1900s
Signs for Central Union can be seen in these photographs, and they could have been used as a way to document their placement. There are a variety of commercial buildings present in the photographs, as well as, telephone poles, merchant's signs, displays of goods, customers, horse drawn wagons, and bicycles.
Front view of three-story building with Piper's Grocery storefront at street level
Front view of two-story building
House with telephone pole
Lease & Twining storefront
Single-story commercial building housing the office of 'W.E. Chapple, Notary Public and Farm Loans'
The harrowing photographs show the rundown asylum where patients were badly treated and often left for days on end without any attention. These images show how patients were badly treated and left abandoned inside the Cleveland State Hospital, Ohio in 1946.
In 1986, organizers with United Way of Cleveland thought they had the perfect idea to generate a little publicity and create a beautiful spectacle in the process. With a crowd of volunteers working all hours, they filled 1.5 million helium balloons, and released them all at once. Unfortunately, they had no idea the terrible consequences they would unleash by doing so, and their tragic mistake led to the deaths of two people and millions of dollars in damages through lawsuits.
It all began with the awesome, but fundamentally disastrous, goal of setting the world record for the most balloons launched at once. Anaheim, which released 1.2 million balloons the year before, was the previous champion.
On Sept. 27, thousands of volunteers worked for hours filling balloons with helium under a huge tent near Cleveland's Public Square. After 1.5 million balloons were inflated, the net was released and a surreal-looking balloon cloud started to rise over downtown, as seen in this footage.
Photos of Balloonfest '86 were pretty incredible — reds, blues and yellows framed the sky like large-scale confetti. But what was intended to be a harmless fundraising stunt, ultimately led to two deaths, multiple lawsuits and general chaos.
Just after the balloons were released at around 1:50 p.m., a storm began to move in from the Great Lakes. Strong winds pushed the balloons down over the city and to the ground, creating chaos on roadways and shutting down the runway at a local airport.
As the balloons touched down on a pasture in Medina County, several prize-winning horses were spooked and permanently injured. The owner later sued for $100,000.
The Coast Guard said the "asteroid field" of balloons also clogged the skies that day, stalling a helicopter search for two missing boaters. Tragically, the men died when searchers were unable to reach their overturned boat, Cleveland.com reports. When the Coast Guard crew finally could lift off, they said they had trouble differentiating the balloons covering the surface of the water from the missing men.
In the days that followed, even Canadians reported impacts from the event, as deflated (and apparently biodegradable) balloons washed up on the Canadian side of Lake Erie.
While the sight of 1.5 million balloons being released must have been amazing to see, the outcome was far from pleasant. Weather.com meteorologist Nick Wiltgen said a mistake like this probably wouldn't happen today, especially with weather data on smartphones and a much better understanding of the atmosphere's behavior.
