The Lillian Virginia Mountweazel
Research Collection
4th Edition of the New Columbia Encyclopedia (1975).
The Lillian Virginia Mountweazel Research Collection:
Our collection contains a variety of material related to Mountweazel's life*, work, and legacy.
While the collection does not have a permanent location, materials in the collection will be displayed to the public at traveling exhibits hosted by various venues around the world.
As new materials are recovered and catalogued, they will be shared.
Lillian Virginia Mountweazel, 1971.
*Mountweazel was originally brought into this world as a copyright trap by the editors of the New Columbia Encyclopedia.
All the materials presented here as her works are authentic pieces created by other photographers, repurposed or collaged from media that are in the public domain. Key sources include the Flickr Commons, particularly the EPA’s DOCUMERICA program, and the Wikimedia Commons.
Flags Up! (1964- 1970)
Combustibles Magazine
(1971-1973)
Early Years as a Fountain Designer
(1958-1960)
At 16 years old, while still a student at George K. Broomhall High School, Mountweazel won a public design competition for the Korean War Veterans of Ohio Memorial in downtown Beatosu, Ohio.
Beating 1,421 other competition submissions, her design was chosen with the fountain completed and presented to the public in June 1960.
In 2007, the Western Ohio Institute of Architects ranked the memorial No. 10 on their list of Western Ohio’s Favorite Architecture.
Of all her fountain sketches and designs, it is Mountweazel’s only known completed work.
These pictures of the memorial were taken in 2018.
NYC Buses
(1965-1966)
The Cemeteries of Paris
(1967-1971)
Ephemera.
Photographs of Mountweazel and her family.
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