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The Massillon Museum’s summer exhibition—“Eclectic.Everyday.Elegant.”—celebrates 75 years of excellence. The Massillon Museum opened in 1933. The main gallery on the first floor will spotlight permanent collection objects deemed by the staff and exhibition committee to be the best 75 pieces in the collection, which numbers more than 100,000 items.
This 132-page, soft cover catalog accompanying the exhibition includes essays and color photographs of the Massillon Museum’s 75 most important permanent collection objects.
If you would like more information about the exhibit please click here.
For notecards featuring our 75th Anniversary Exhibit Objects, please click here.
In conjunction with the Darkroooms in a Digital Age exhibit, the Massillon Museum offers this large print book of daguerreotype photographs created by Jerry Spagnoli between 1995-2004. Using 19th century processes, Spagnoli captures beautiful modern day images, such as the collapse of the World Trade Center in 2001. This book also includes many of the images included in the Darkrooms in a Digital Age exhibit from his series of "Touch" photographs.
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Fifteen works of public art created by Ohioans have been installed throughout the city of Massillon for the Massillon Museum's "Outdoor Sculpture" exhibition. "This exhibition is one of the many ways the Museum connects with the community," said the Massillon Museum's Executive Director Christine Shearer, who has co-curated the exhibition with Bob Sanderson, President of the Massillon Area Chamber of Commerce. "We promote collaboration with other organizations, and are bringing the Museum out into the community in yet another diverse way."
Each sculpture is accompanied by a plaque with a brief description and a phone number to call for a free cell p hone audio tour. The booklet includes a full exhibition audio tour on CD so you can listen along while driving to each site, enjoying from the comfort of your own home.
If you would like more information about the exhibit please click here.
This group exhibition of photographic work will explore how contemporary artists incorporate the five senses – sight, touch, taste, hearing, and smell – into their images. The human body, a highly expressive vehicle, is only one approach to expressing these concepts. Various aspects of the human figure as well as specimens of the natural world speak to each of these creative individuals and in turn guide their work toward narratives that communicate effectively as strong visual statements about our sensory capabilities.
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This 80-page, soft cover catalog accompanying the exhibition includes essays focusing on the regions of the Midwest that became known as "hot spots" for Impressionism by Shearer and Dr. Dean A. Porter, Director Emeritus, Snite Museum of Art. Independent curator Brigitte Foley and Massillon Museum Curator Alexandra Nicholis wrote biographies of the artists. The book includes an array of four-color images on high-quality, acid-free paper.
If you would like more information about this exhibit, please click here.
The Massillon Museum published a sixty-page catalog that accompanied its summer exhibition, “Framework of a Community: The Steel Industry in Stark County.”
The book showcases the regional impact of the steel industry. Historic photographs of workers and companies, contemporary photographs, excerpts from oral histories by former steelworkers and executives, a glossary of industry terms and an appendix outlining local companies make the book an enjoyable read, a resource for those who want to learn about Stark County steelmaking, and a memory book for many who worked in the mills.
The soft cover book has been produced in Massillon at Bates Printing, Inc., where duotone images were printed on high-quality, acid-free paper to assure excellent reproduction of the photographs.
1861-1865: Civil War
Civil War catalog description coming soon!
*Winner of the Gold Catalog Award 2006, Ohio Museums Association Visual Communications Competition
History of the 104th OVI 1862-1866
This book, originally printed in 1886, was reprinted from the archives for the Civil War Exhibit, 1861-1865, in 2006. The book tells the story of the 104th OVI that was mustered in at Massillon, Ohio.
Adaptations: Artwork Inspired by the Massillon Museum’s Permanent Collection
This item includes the 28 page catalog and a 29-minute DVD. Includes pictures of original objects from our permanent collection, pictures of the artists' new artwork, and interviews with each of the artists.
*Winner of the Gold Audio-Visual Award 2006, Ohio Museums Association Visual Communications Competition
Breaking with Tradition: Ohio Woman Painters 1870-1950
The Massillon Museum published a sixty-four-page catalog that accompanied its summer exhibition, “Breaking with Tradition: Ohio Women Painters, 1870–1950.” The book showcases the impact of fifteen significant women artists from the era following the American Civil War through the years immediately after World War II.
For the catalog, Shearer (MA University of Notre Dame) has contributed an essay on the paintings and the lives of the artists compared to their male contemporaries. William H. Robinson (PhD. Case Western Reserve University, curator of modern and European art at the Cleveland Museum of Art) has written about the artistic traditions in the Ohio hometowns of the artists—Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati—as well as the styles of painting practiced by the artists in the exhibition. Brigitte Foley (MA University of Notre Dame, independent curator and director of sponsorships and grants at the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis) has written an essay focusing on the themes apparent in the artists’ work.
Judy L. Larson, Ph.D., director of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, has written the introduction, placing the contribution of these Ohio artists in a national context.
The soft cover volume was produced in Massillon at Bates Printing, Inc., where four-color images will be printed on high-quality, acid-free paper to assure excellent reproduction of the photographs.
*Winner of the Gold Catalog Award 2005, Ohio Museums Association Visual Communications Competition
In "Trolley Car Days," Massillon is shown in its struggle to adapt to the swift changes of the early twentieth century. Its development is traced from a "gangling teenager sprawling all over itself" in the first decades of the century to seasoned adulthood on its 100th birthday.
The book is a combination of Massillon history gleaned, for the most part, from early editions of The Evening Independent during those 26 years, and folklore dredged up from the memories of oldsters who lived during some part of that tumultuous period.
It is a chronicle of days now gone when a tug on the bootstraps instead of an application for federal funds was the way for a city to get ahead.
James A. "Jimmy" Rasor was a prolific letter writer to newspapers. Jimmy Doyle, sports writer for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, commenting on one of Jimmy's letters, referred to him as "the gay blade of Massillon." In those days, "gay" meant: joyous and lively; merry; happy; light-hearted- a perfect description of Jimmy.
Between his birth on February 20, 1896, and his death, May 24, 1998, Jimmy published about 900 items in The Independent, 228 in the Plain Dealer, and 38 in the Chicago Tribune. His writing also appeared in the Cleveland News, Christian Science Monitor, Volkswagen Magazine, and Saturday Evening Post. He faithfully saved the letters and the family estate donated his scrapbooks and letters to the Massillon Museum. There were many subjects all aimed at amusing and informing his readers. Some of his work was published as early as 1920, and there are letters dated as early as 1927. The last letter is dated November, 1992.
This book is 68 pages, soft cover.
Wealthy railroad owner J.D. Forbes returns home from World War I to find his daughters, Elinor and Marjory, living the wild life of flappers. His wife is unable to control them so he must try to instill discipline. His attempt to curb their behavior pushes them away. The girls leave home and move to the big city. They try every vice the city has to offer. Marjory gets married and Elinor gambles. They soon learn that being rebellious is not quite as glamorous as it looks.
This film was originally made in 1923 but is lost to time. Using the novel it was based on and remaining production stills, Blue Leo Film has tried to recreate the story of generational conflict of the 1920s. Directed by Mandy Altimus. Produced by Kent State University Stark Campus.
Starring Christopher Craft & Alissa Cockrill
Total runtime: 90 minutes, plus bonus features: Visually Impaired Soundtrack, Director and Screenwriter Commentary, Behind the Scenes Documentary, and Theatrical Trailers.
While driving the rutted road north of Massillon, Ohio, local entrepreneur Jacob Sechler Coxey conceived the idea of hiring the unemployed to build roads. During the 1893 financial panic, he wrote a bill proposing that the federal government issue bonds for a national highway system and a companion "Non-Interest Bearing Bond Bill." To rouse support, Coxey and his visionary compatriot, Carl Browne, initiated a march of the unemployed to Washington D.C.
Eighty-size marchers and forty reporters left Massillon on Easter Sunday, March 25, 1894. They straggled through Ohio and Pennsylvania on foot, except for a stretch on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. By the time they reached Washington's outskirts, the army had grown to 366 recruits; there were 4,000 as they approached the Capitol Building, where another 12,000 waiting. After all the miles and the national attention, "General" Coxey, Carl Browne, and a third leader- Christopher Columbus Jones- were jailed for the petty offense of trampling the Capitol lawn.
Although the arrests diluted the immediate impact of the march, it remains significant as the nation's first protest march. Coxey lived until 1951- long enough to see the WPA jobs program, the decline of the interest rate on public bonds, and the development of the interstate highway system. Coxey was a man before his time.
Produced by Classic Videos. Winner of the 1995 "Best of Show" award of the Ohio Museums Association's Annual Visual Communications Competition.
Total runtime: approx 29 minutes. Copyright Massillon Museum 1995.
Listen to the stories of Stark County's steel workers while viewing photographs and footage of the steel mills. Interviews with Paul R. Barros, Thomas Gregory, William A. Grieg, Dennis Keller, David R. Leasure, Russell T. Lehman, Martin Matejko, Michael Page, John Sparks, and John C. Vaught.
"The steel industry brought economic prosperity to Stark County throughout much of the last century. It encouraged innovation and offered a vital existence to many. However, it was so much more. It was a way of life for thousands of men and women in the area. It was a hard life, a dangerous life, and a proud life. The effects of the steel industry are widespread. It is an industry that built our factories, our automobiles, our families, and our way of life. It is an important part of our history, a history that is undergoing another dramatic change, but a history that never should be forgotten." (quoted from an essay by Christine Fowler Shearer, Framework of a Community: The Steel Industry in Stark County.
Total runtime: approx. 27 minutes. Produced by Blue Leo Film in conjunction with the Framework of a Community: The Steel Industry in Stark County Exhibition in 2004 at the Massillon Museum.
*Winner of the Silver Audio-Visual Award 2004, Ohio Museums Association Visual Communications Competition
These 16 blank notecards, each feature a different object from our "Eclectic.Everyday.Elegant. The Massillon Museum Celebrates 75 Years" Exhibit. Envelopes included.
The Massillon Museum’s summer exhibition—“Eclectic.Everyday.Elegant.”—celebrates 75 years of excellence. The Massillon Museum opened in 1933. The main gallery on the first floor will spotlight permanent collection objects deemed by the staff and exhibition committee to be the best 75 pieces in the collection, which numbers more than 100,000 items.
8 blank cards (2 cards of each image) with envelopes. Cards measure 6.25" X 4.5".
The Massillon Museum preserves more than 50,000 photographic images. The barnraising has been reproduced internationally for textbooks, posters, videos, and murals. The canal woman is also becoming well known. The Museum is pleased to own a small collection of Nell Dorr images. It acquired many unusual photographs with the incredible Immel Circus collection.
8 blank cards (2 cards of each image) with envelopes. Cards measure 6.25" X 4.5".
Thriving cigar manufacturers operated in Massillon during the late 1800s; they sold their wares in a number of local tobacco shops. A close look at each of these otherwise unrelated images reveals a cigar.
8 blank cards (2 cards of each image) with envelopes. Cards measure 6.25" X 4.5".
Three Women with Long Hair is Belle Johnson's best-known image, but the photograph of the other three women has been published often. Jacob Becker undoubtedly photographed the young women in their bonnets- his daughter, famous photographer Nell Dorr, and her friend, actress Lillian Gish.
8 blank cards (2 cards of each image) with envelopes. Cards measure 6.25" X 4.5".
Sports have always been important in Massillon. Football is foremost, but the Massillon Museum has images of local residents enjoying swimming, highwheel bicycling, tennis, baseball, basketball, fishing, golf, ice skating, and other athletic endeavors.
8 blank cards (4 different images) with envelopes. Cards measure 6.25" X 4.5".
This card collection features samples of the Museum's stunning collection of costumes spanning two centuries. These images are from the "Stepping Out" Exhibition of Clothing from the Permanent Collection in 2004.
6 blank cards (6 different images) with envelopes. Cards measure 6.25" X 4.5".
This set of greeting cards features photographs from the permanent collection of the Massillon Museum. The Gish Sisters, Lillian and Dorothy, were stars of the stage, silent films, and later "talkies." The Gish Sisters, as young women, spent their summers in Massillon during the first half of the 1900s. They considered it to be their home away from New York.
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ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPH: The century-old city was the third Ohio municipality to install traffic lights to control the growing stream of personal and commercial vehicles, the new city buses, and the streetcars that continued to run for another decade.
The north side of Lincoln Way included the Conrad Hotel and the Schworm Building, which housed The Brunswick (bowling, pool, and cigars) and the Grand Theatre. Signs along the Lincoln Highway identified Lincoln Drugs and the Lincoln Theatre. On the south side, the Sugar Bowl nestled beside the nine-year-old Ohio Merchants Bank Building. The Falke Building, topped by a round shoe store sign, still anchored the site of today's Massillon museum.
The sale of these cards benefits the Rotary Club of Massillon. Please click here to learn more about Rotary.
Photo from the permanent collection of the Massillon Museum. Cards copyright Rotary Club of Massillon 2004.
25 cards with envelopes. Cards measure 6.25" X 4.5".
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Blank inside.
The sale of these cards benefits the Rotary Club of Massillon. Please click here to learn more about Rotary.
Cards copyright Rotary Club of Massillon 2007.
25 cards with envelopes. Cards measure 6.25" X 4.5".
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The sale of these cards benefits the Rotary Club of Massillon. Please click here to learn more about Rotary.
Cards copyright Rotary Club of Massillon 2007.
This adorable clock features Obie the Tiger, the Massillon Tiger's mascot. The hands move around the clock to show the hour and the minute while a small football moves each second.
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This white, 100% cotton, preshrunk tshirt is light and comfortable. Art + History logo appears on both front and back. Available in Large and X-Large.
Enjoy your coffee, tea, or hot chocolate in this white ceramic mug. Show everyone that you enjoy the Massillon Museum's Art and History. Dishwasher safe.
This stylish black cloth visor will keep the sun out of your eyes while showing everyone that you support the Massillon Museum.
These bright t-shirts were made for our Annual Island Party in 2007. Tell everyone you support the Massillon Museum by wearing one of these limited editions t-shirts!
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The Massillon Museum's Gift Shop, OhRegionalities, is now online! You can browse by type below, or just scroll down through all of our items for sale.
This telephone and address book is illustrated with images from the permanent collection of the Massillon Museum. The theme is communication and transportation. Enjoy tidbits of history while writing in your friends' information. History, design, and typography by Margy Vogt, with research assistance from John Sparks.
