The 2022 theme for the Ohio Archives Month poster is “Ohio’s Healthcare Workers: The True Heart of It All.”

For the past two years, health-care professionals throughout the country have helped us through a pandemic, so health care issues are on the minds of many people. This is our way of recognizing their work. The SOA Advocacy and Outreach Committee invited repositories and institutions across the state to submit their photographs, documents, or other graphical materials that highlight Ohio’s healthcare related materials.

We received submissions on the theme from 23 institutions, for a total of 52 photographs and documents! The submissions were compiled, and 10 images were selected as winners through online voting by you. Thank you to everyone who submitted images. We could never make this poster without your great images!

Below are the images that were chosen by you as the top ten. Each one of these has a chance to appear on the final edit of the poster. Stay tuned for this year’s poster as we get closer to October and Archives Month!

Thank you to the following institutions for your submissions: Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Archives of the Chancery; Bexley Public Library; Bowling Green State University Center for Archival Collections; Case Western Reserve University; Cincinnati Children’s; Clark County Historical Society; Columbus Metropolitan Library; Defiance College; Franciscan Sisters of the Poor Congregational Archives; Greene County Archives; Hudson Library & Historical Society; Huron County Community Library; Logan County Historical Society; Mahoning Valley Historical Society; Ohio History Connection; The Ohio State University, Health Sciences Library Medical Heritage Center; Ohio University Libraries, Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections; Sandusky Library Archives Research Center; University of Akron; University of Cincinnati, Henry R. Winkler Center for the History of Health Professions; University of Dayton, U.S. Catholic Special Collection; Western Reserve Historical Society, African American Archives; Youngstown State University, Melnick Medical Museum and University Archives.

“Top 10” Images

As voted on by you, selected from the 52 submitted. In no particular order….

Marilyn Hughes Gaston, MD, founder of the Cincinnati Children’s Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center, 1986. Cincinnati Children’s Department of Marketing and Communications.

Opened in 1915, the University of Cincinnati Surgical Amphitheatre is still in use as a lecture hall and is one of only a handful of surviving surgical amphitheaters in the U.S. Henry R. Winkler Center for the History of the Health Professions, University of Cincinnati.

Artist Sheryl Lazenby creates a tribute to doctors and nurses in chalk outside of The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in response to the Covid-19 pandemic on April 16, 2020. Bexley Public Library.

Franciscan Sister of the Poor Patricia Holly reads to children at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Dayton, Ohio, 1960s. Franciscan Sisters of the Poor Congregational Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio.

A Columbus student is shown receiving a vaccination shot for rubella using a jet injection gun in May 1970. King Arts Complex Collection, My History, Columbus Metropolitan Library.

A reunion of children who had open heart surgery at Cincinnati Children’s, 1959. Cincinnati Children’s Department of Marketing and Communications.

A new incubator helps one of Mary Rutan Hospital’s smallest patients (Bellefontaine, 1952). Logan County Historical Society.

Dr. Thomas W. Burton in 1892 became the 1st African American doctor in Springfield, Ohio. Clark County Historical Society.

Albert B. Sabin administers his new oral polio vaccine to Cincinnati area children in 1961. Henry R. Winkler Center for the History of the Health Professions, University of Cincinnati.

The first Sabin Sunday, April 24, 1960. Thousands of families came to Cincinnati Children’s for the free Sabin vaccine. Cincinnati Children’s Department of Marketing & Communications.

Thank you,
Society of Ohio Archivists Advocacy and Outreach Committee

Questions? Contact the committee at [email protected].

Last Updated on June 27, 2022 by janet_carleton