Nancy Ford Cones Gallery

In 2004 GLHSM opened the Nancy Ford Cones Gallery. A grant from the Fine Arts Fund enabled the museum to create an appropriate environment for the public display and preservation of Cones' work.

Nancy Ford Cones (1869-1962), Loveland resident and internationally known photographer, born in Milan, Ohio, received more than fifty-four awards in national photographic competition from 1902 through 1916.

A pictorial photographer, Cones documented images of Ohio country life. Using friends and relatives as models, she photographed work in farm fields as well as in farm homes, creating images that projected a romantic aura.

Cones was an active member of the Cincinnati Photographic Club and became well known during these years for her portraits of prominent Cincinnati residents, including President William Howard Taft and artist Henry Farny. She also worked with Bausch and Lomb and Ansco Corporation and received lucrative advertising contracts with Eastman Kodak. All three manufacturers purchased, used and exhibited her work and helped to establish her as one of a very few photographers, especially women, who were able to make an income in this field. Her photographs were deemed valuable not only for the commercial marketability, but also for their artistic merit.

A limited number of her prints from the GLHSM collection will be on display on a rotating basis.