Bloomdale Photographic collection
Collection – Multiple Containers
Identifier: MS-0473
Collection Organization
The Bloomdale Photographic collection consists of over four hundred images documenting life in Bloomdale, Ohio from 1888-1988. Photocopies of each negative are included for reference and several of the images have also been digitized. The prints are stored in a separate folder but follow the same numbering sequence of the negatives. The negatives, as well as their associated print, have been arranged in numerical order, with the date, location and description marked on each envelope. When applicable, a page number relating to the text has been identified.
Undated newspaper clippings (Bloomdale, Ohio Centennial Anniversary), 1988
File – Box 1, Folder: 1
- Dates
- Creation: 1988
Unidentified photographs (originals), undated
File – Box 1, Folder: 2
- Dates
- Creation: undated
Photocopies for reference (in numeric order), undated
File – Box 1, Folder: 3
- Dates
- Creation: undated
Photocopies for reference (in numeric order), undated
File – Box 1, Folder: 4
- Dates
- Creation: undated
Negatives, 1880s-1940s, scattered
File – Box 1, Folder: 5
- Dates
- Creation: 1880s-1940s, scattered
Ohio State Rifle Team, 1903
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 1
- Dates
- Creation: 1903
Ohio State Rifle Team, 1903
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 2
- Dates
- Creation: 1903
Bloomdale School Wagon Run by Seymour Babock, undated
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 3
- Dates
- Creation: undated
Delbert Slotterbeck's intern grocery (next to Knaggs Insurance), undated
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 4
- Dates
- Creation: undated
Mary Ann Girls, 1925
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 5
- Dates
- Creation: 1925
O.E. Wereck in his hotel and restaurant, 1918
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 6
- Dates
- Creation: 1918
Corner of Steams and Nye Road (See Pleasant Grove Church and Schoolhouse), mid-1880s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 7
- Dates
- Creation: mid-1880s
Bloomdale Flour Mill (first lot north of old town hall), mid-1880s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 8
- Dates
- Creation: mid-1880s
Bloomdale Creamery (Jess Andress's Stallion Barn in rear), mid-1880s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 9
- Dates
- Creation: mid-1880s
Tile Factory and Ice House (East of Town Hall), 1890s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 10
- Dates
- Creation: 1890s
Ice making at the Ice House, mid-1880s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 11
- Dates
- Creation: mid-1880s
Ice House crew outside of the Ice House, 1890s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 12
- Dates
- Creation: 1890s
Delbert Seotterbeck's Store, the Clover Farm Stores Company (exterior), 1929-10-08T00:00:00+00:00
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 13
- Dates
- Creation: 1929-10-08T00:00:00+00:00
Bloomdale Main Street, 1930
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 14
- Dates
- Creation: 1930
Oil Well (Jim Smith Farm), 1890s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 15
- Dates
- Creation: 1890s
Thresberg Crew (Jim Smith Farm), 1890s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 16
- Dates
- Creation: 1890s
Floyd Fry and Fred Smith (Jim Smith Farm), 1890
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 17
- Dates
- Creation: 1890
Three young men on horses, 1890s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 18
- Dates
- Creation: 1890s
Sunday School, Pleasant Grove Church, 1907
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 19
- Dates
- Creation: 1907
Bloomdale School, 1900-1910
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 20
- Dates
- Creation: 1900-1910
Bloomdale School, 1898-1899
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 21
- Dates
- Creation: 1898-1899
Bloomdale School, Fifth and Sixth Grades, 1906
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 22
- Dates
- Creation: 1906
Bloomdale School, 1910
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 23
- Dates
- Creation: 1910
Bloomdale High School band, 1935
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 24
- Dates
- Creation: 1935
Walter Smith's Sunday School class, 1914
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 25
- Dates
- Creation: 1914
T.V. Pelton, Early 1900s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 26
- Dates
- Creation: Early 1900s
Music students, Early 1900s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 27
- Dates
- Creation: Early 1900s
United Bretheren Church, 1910s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 28
- Dates
- Creation: 1910s
Mr. Brewer's Saloon, Early 1900s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 29
- Dates
- Creation: Early 1900s
W.E. Purkey's House, Early 1900s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 30
- Dates
- Creation: Early 1900s
Class of 1907, 1907
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 31
- Dates
- Creation: 1907
Unidentified class photo, Early 1930s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 32
- Dates
- Creation: Early 1930s
General Store (Bartle Bronson, Bert McPherson), Mid 1900s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 33
- Dates
- Creation: Mid 1900s
Charles Baker's Store, Early 1900s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 34
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- Creation: Early 1900s
Bronson and Wirick Store, Early 1900s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 35
- Dates
- Creation: Early 1900s
Short Order restaurant, Early 1900s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 36
- Dates
- Creation: Early 1900s
Eagleville School, 1908
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 37
- Dates
- Creation: 1908
Fast, Baird, or Webb School, Early 1900s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 38
- Dates
- Creation: Early 1900s
Golden Rule Girls (Eagleville Church of Christ), Early 1900s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 39
- Dates
- Creation: Early 1900s
Golden Rule Girls Pose 2 (Eagleville Church of Christ), Early 1900s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 40
- Dates
- Creation: Early 1900s
Ira and Fannie Swain, Early 1900s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 41
- Dates
- Creation: Early 1900s
Boy's basketball team, 1921
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 42
- Dates
- Creation: 1921
SB Church, Early 1900s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 43
- Dates
- Creation: Early 1900s
1909 Sleet Storm, Main Street, 1909
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 44
- Dates
- Creation: 1909
Bloomdale Faculty (EH Brown, Floyd Iry), Early 1900s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 45
- Dates
- Creation: Early 1900s
Three generations (506 S. Main Street), Early 1900s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 46
- Dates
- Creation: Early 1900s
Monarch Manufacturing Company, Early 1900s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 47
- Dates
- Creation: Early 1900s
McPherson's Bus, 1932
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 48
- Dates
- Creation: 1932
Boy's basketball team, 1921
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 49
- Dates
- Creation: 1921
Girl's basketball team, 1922
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 50
- Dates
- Creation: 1922
Going North on Main Street, Early 1900s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 51
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- Creation: Early 1900s
Girl's basketball team, 1921
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 52
- Dates
- Creation: 1921
Louis Ickes, Early 1900s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 53
- Dates
- Creation: Early 1900s
Elsia M. Horan, 1907-07-17T00:00:00+00:00
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 54
- Dates
- Creation: 1907-07-17T00:00:00+00:00
1917 downtown tank demonstration, 1917
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 55
- Dates
- Creation: 1917
Boy's basketball team, 1922
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 56
- Dates
- Creation: 1922
Boy's basketball team, 1914
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 57
- Dates
- Creation: 1914
Armory, Early 1900s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 58
- Dates
- Creation: Early 1900s
Four girls (Ethel Smith, Eld Mincks, Ada Martin, Edna Cotant), Early 1900s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 59
- Dates
- Creation: Early 1900s
Church play, Early 1900s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 60
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- Creation: Early 1900s
McPherson's Store, Early 1900s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 61
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- Creation: Early 1900s
Golden Rule Girls, Early 1900s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 62
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- Creation: Early 1900s
N. Main Street, 1905
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 63
- Dates
- Creation: 1905
Spanish American War Veteran Memorial, 1929
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 64
- Dates
- Creation: 1929
Research Club, 1935-1936
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 65
- Dates
- Creation: 1935-1936
Store front, Early 1900s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 66
- Dates
- Creation: Early 1900s
Five girls (assumed to be Eagleville Church members), Early 1900s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 67
- Dates
- Creation: Early 1900s
Public school, M.E. Church, U.B. Church, Lutheran Church, Early 1900s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 68
- Dates
- Creation: Early 1900s
Old Eagleville Church (1883-1906), 1900-1906
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 69
- Dates
- Creation: 1900-1906
Bloomdale Tile Mill, Early 1900s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 70
- Dates
- Creation: Early 1900s
Bloomdale elevator, 1908
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 71
- Dates
- Creation: 1908
Wilson Miller and Billy Rosendale's horses (Eagleville Church in background)
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 72
Reverend and Mrs. Frank King, Reverend and Mrs. J.W. Wilch, Early 1900s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 73
- Dates
- Creation: Early 1900s
Girls in front of an Overland automobile, 1912
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 74
- Dates
- Creation: 1912
Four young men, Early 1900s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 75
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- Creation: Early 1900s
Bloomdale B&O Train Station, Early 1900s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 76
- Dates
- Creation: Early 1900s
Freshman class, 1912
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 77
- Dates
- Creation: 1912
Scout Troop, 1914-1915
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 78
- Dates
- Creation: 1914-1915
Girl's basketball team, 1925
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 79
- Dates
- Creation: 1925
Bloomdale School Eighth Grade class, 1920
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 80
- Dates
- Creation: 1920
Second OVI convention, 1929-10-08T00:00:00+00:00
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 81
- Dates
- Creation: 1929-10-08T00:00:00+00:00
Bloomdale Centralized School's Second Grade class, 1931
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 82
- Dates
- Creation: 1931
Clee Smith and his team of mules, Early 1900s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 83
- Dates
- Creation: Early 1900s
Hopewell Publishing Co. advertisement, 1900
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 84
- Dates
- Creation: 1900
Trinity Methodist Choir, Early 1940s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 85
- Dates
- Creation: Early 1940s
James Smith's gas well, 1906
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 86
- Dates
- Creation: 1906
Girl's basketball team, 1930
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 87
- Dates
- Creation: 1930
Girl's basketball team, 1932
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 88
- Dates
- Creation: 1932
Rebecca Lodge degree staff, 1930-1940s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 89
- Dates
- Creation: 1930-1940s
Campbell's Symphony, Early 1900s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 90
- Dates
- Creation: Early 1900s
Behind North Main Street Church, Early 1900s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 91
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- Creation: Early 1900s
Tile House, Early 1900s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 92
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- Creation: Early 1900s
Ice House, Early 1900s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 93
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- Creation: Early 1900s
Ice House, Early 1900s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 94
- Dates
- Creation: Early 1900s
Ice House, Early 1900s
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 95
- Dates
- Creation: Early 1900s
Elevator Fire, 1916-06-25T00:00:00+00:00
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 96
- Dates
- Creation: 1916-06-25T00:00:00+00:00
Wood County Champs, 1933
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 97
- Dates
- Creation: 1933
Boy's basketball team, 1927
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 98
- Dates
- Creation: 1927
Boy's basketball team, 1928
File – Box 1, Folder: 5, Item: 99
- Dates
- Creation: 1928
Identified negatives not associated with the book (in numeric order), undated
File – Box 1, Folder: 6, Item: 101-183
- Dates
- Creation: undated
Unidentified, unnumbered negatives, undated
File – Box 1, Folder: 7
- Dates
- Creation: undated