AV 19 Louis Van Oeyen Collection

              AV 19
Louis Van Oeyen Collection
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OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Manuscripts/ Audiovisual Collections
AV 19
Louis Van Oeyen Collection
1902- 1921
OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION
Number:
AV 19
Title:
Louis Van Oeyen Collection
Creator:
Louis Van Oeyen
Dates:
1902 - 1921
Media:
Glass negatives
Quantity:
One cubic foot
Location:
Ohio Historical Center
HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE COLLECTION
Louis Van Oeyen ( 1865- 1946) was a photo journalist for the Cleveland Press newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. As a news photographer he covered a variety of subjects, but was particularly interested in professional baseball. He claimed that he was named the official photographer of the American League in 1908 and the official photographer of the 1922 World Series.
Source:
Louis Van Oeyen Photograph Collection, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio
SCOPE AND CONTENTS OF THE COLLECTION
The collection is comprised of 124 glass plate negatives created by photo journalist Louis Van Oeyen. Subjects found in the collection include Cleveland, Ohio buildings; automobiles and automobile racing; and professional baseball. Prominent people pictured in the collection are Ohio politician Theodore E. Burton; brewer Adolph Busch; Ohio Governor Myron T. Herrick; Cleveland Mayor Tom Loftin Johnson; race car driver Barney Oldfield; industrialist John D. Rockefeller; Theodore Roosevelt; and automobile manufacturer Alexander Winton. Glass plate negatives of a letter from General William Tecumseh Sherman to General Ulysses S. Grant and a letter from President Abraham Lincoln to Mrs. Wall were presumably created in the time frame of the rest of the collection, though the original letters were written 1864- 1865.