Guide to the William Moos photographs

Biography of William Moos

William Moos (1919-1984) was a painter, architect and beloved arts and crafts teacher. He also directed the art department at Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio. Mr. Moos was reared in St. Cloud, Minnesota, and studied architecture at St. John's College and Yale University. He later practiced architecture in New York City and worked as a field engineer and interior designer before coming to the academy in 1945. He was responsible for the design work for the restoration of Western Reserve Academy's Chapel and Christ Church Episcopal in Hudson, Ohio. He had a keen sense of historic preservation of buildings and served as a founding member of the Hudson Heritage Association. Later in life he also served as a lobbyist for the American Civil Liberties Union.

Scope and Content

William Moos' 104-page scrapbook consists of 585 images of historic houses and structures in Hudson, Ohio, that Moos photographed in 1950. In the scrapbook, Moos has annotated many of the photographs with the house or structure street name. For some homes, a home owner (in 1950) has been identified.

The Moos collection also contains loose photographs. The loose photographs are either duplicates of scrapbook photographs or photographs not included in the scrapbook. The collection contains Moos' notes which list all of the properties, listed by occupant, with corresponding page number. He likely used the notes to track photos that he took and to inventory the prints and negatives.

Statement of Arrangement

Restrictions on Use

The collection is available for research use.

Restrictions on Access

The collection is available for research use.

In 2009, the Hudson Library & Historical Society, in partnership with the
Summit Memory Project (an online scrapbook capturing the history of Summit County administered by the
Akron-Summit County Public Library), digitized the entire album and made it available online.

Each of the 585 house and structure records in the database has been enhanced with descriptions chronicling the homes' occupants, architectural details and modifications. The project as a whole communicates the rich history of this early northeast Ohio town. Multiple sources from the library's archives were used to gather this information, including fire department and railroad shipping records, business diaries, obituaries and property tax records. Researchers can search the database by
keyword.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

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Preferred Citation

Loose photographs: [envelope name], William Moose houses of Hudson (Ohio) photographs, Hudson Library & Historical Society, Hudson, Ohio

Scrapbook: [image description], [page number], William Moos houses of Hudson (Ohio) photographs, Hudson Library & Historical Society, Hudson, Ohio

Processing Information

The collection was processed by Polly Reynolds in October 2011.

Detailed Description of The Collection