Photograph of Worthington Historical Society Christmas Contest Winners on High Street

Basic details

Photograph of Worthington Historical Society Christmas Contest Winners on High Street is an image, with genre photograph and portraits.

Its dimensions are 5 in. x 7 in..

It was created December 18, 1980.

Worthington Historical Society is the contributor.

You can find the original at Worthington Historical Society.

Background

This photograph was taken at the presentation of an award for Christmas decorations at the Worthington Barber Shop at 669 High Street for a 1980 contest sponsored by the Worthington Historical Society. Pictured are Janet Oberliesen, the organizer of the contest for the Worthingoton Historical Society; Carol Kopf, a local artist who made a watercolor rendering of the Barber Shop for the prize, Sandy and Dick Hootman, owners of the Worthington Barber Shop, and Gordon Clark, president of the Worthington Historical Society. The Worthington News article printed in the December 18th, 1980 paper states, "The Hootmans used evergreens, pinecones, nuts and fresh crarnberries to accent their doorway with natural goods typical of Ohio's early celebrations."

Subjects

It features the people Gordon D. Clark, Richard C. Hootman, Sandy Hootman, Janet Oberliesen and Carol Kopf.

It covers the topics holidays, barbers and hair salons and Christmas.

It covers the Worthington neighborhood Old Worthington.

Record details

This file was reformatted digital in the format video/jpeg.

The Worthington Memory identification code is whs1252.

The Worthington Historical Society identification code is 90-P-362q.

This metadata record was human prepared by Worthington Libraries on September 9, 2021. It was last updated November 24, 2025.

Copyright

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Photograph of Worthington Historical Society Christmas Contest Winners on High Street from the collections of the Worthington Historical Society (WHS) may be used for educational purposes as long as it is not altered in any way and proper credit is given: "Courtesy of the Worthington Historical Society, Worthington, OH." Prior written permission of the WHS is required for any other use of Photograph of Worthington Historical Society Christmas Contest Winners on High Street. Contact WHS at info@worthingtonhistory.org to request permission.