n Ohio's Bicentennial     The OMI was established just 25 years after Ohio became a state.   n Music Hall's 125th Anniversary     In 1878, Cincinnati's Music Hall opened to permanently house the city's May Festival concerts and the OMI's national Expositions of Art and Industry.   n Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County's 150th Anniversary     Cincinnati's Public Library was authorized in 1853  and celebrates its 150th anniversary in 2003.  From 1856-1870, a number of its collections were housed within the Apprentices' Library of the Ohio Mechanics Institute.   n The B & O (Baltimore and Ohio) Railroad Museum’s 175th Anniversary     The 19th century railroad powered American industrialism, while its engines and machine tools drew national crowds to the OMI's Grand Expositions, 1870-1888.   n Centennial of first flight of Wright Brothers     Walter H. Maxwell, a Director of the OMI, witnessed and photographed Orville Wright's first hydroplane flight (and sinking), a few years after Kitty Hawk.

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