Rufus Weaver and Harry Leasure

Basic details

Rufus Weaver and Harry Leasure is an image, with genre photograph and group portraits.

Its dimensions are 3.06 in. x 3.81 in..

It was created May 22, 1898.

Worthington Historical Society is the contributor.

You can find the original at Worthington Historical Society.

Background

This photograph depicts Rufus Weaver (left) and Harry Leasure (right) with bicycles. Rufus Weaver was an accountant and lived in the house in the background. The house is known as the Buttles-Pinney-Brown House (a k a Sidney Brown House) at 12 East Stafford Avenue. Harry Leasure was a druggist in Worthington whose shop was located at 693 High Street for many years.

Bicycling was an extremely popular recreation in the 1890's. The invention and mass production of the safety bicycle, with two wheels of equal size, made cheap and personal transportation available to rural and urban dwellers. Horses were expensive and difficult to maintain.

The brick house was built by Aurora Buttles in 1818. It is presently the home of the High Road Gallery, which exclusively exhibits the work of Central Ohio artists.

Subjects

It features the people Rufus M. Weaver and Harry Leasure.

It covers the topics buildings and bicycling.

It covers the Worthington neighborhood Old Worthington.

It features the address 12 E. Stafford Street.

Record details

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

The Worthington Memory identification code is whs0253.

The Worthington Historical Society identification code is 96-G-302.

This metadata record was human prepared by Worthington Libraries on February 25, 2002. It was last updated December 1, 2025.

Copyright

In Copyright

Rufus Weaver and Harry Leasure 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 Rufus Weaver and Harry Leasure. Contact WHS at info@worthingtonhistory.org to request permission.