File:"Johnny Comes Marching Home, 1898" Lazarus Window Display Series postcard - DPLA - b7b12450481d8bdd72ec16d7f34fb5b1 (page 2).jpg

A Lazarus Department Store window display depicting the Lazarus parade for the returning 4th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Simon Lazarus founded the first Lazarus Company store in the Parsons Building in 1851. The store eventually occupied most of the building. Simons’ sons, Fred and Ralph succeeded him in the business and when Ralph died in 1903, Fred incorporated the business and renamed it the F. & R. Lazarus Company. The Company has been located in downtown Columbus on South High Street near West Town Street throughout its’ existence. The first new Lazarus store building designed by local architects, Richards, McCarty & Bulford, opened at 141 South High Street on August 9, 1909. Many additions and expansions, as well as branch locations have been added over the years. Reverse reads: "To welcome 'The Gallant Fourth" Spanish-American War Regiment, which included three Lazarus associates, Lazarus staged a parade down High Street headed by the late Ralph Lazarus and the Springfield Cadet Band. 150 Lazarus associates marched, and 10,000 Central Ohioans cheered."