  We announce the initial release of data from the Ohio State University Bright
Spiral Galaxy Survey, a BVRJHK imaging survey of a well-defined sample of 205
bright, nearby spiral galaxies. We present H-band morphological classification
on the Hubble sequence for the OSU Survey sample. We compare the H-band
classification to B-band classification from our own images and from standard
galaxy catalogs. Our B-band classifications match well with those of the
standard catalogs. On average, galaxies with optical classifications from Sa
through Scd appear about one T-type earlier in the H-band than in the B-band,
but with large scatter. This result does not support recent claims made in the
literature that the optical and near-IR morphologies of spiral galaxies are
uncorrelated. We present detailed descriptions of the H-band morphologies of
our entire sample, as well as B- and H-band images for a set of 17 galaxies
chosen as type examples, and BRH color-composite images of six galaxies chosen
to demonstrate the range in morphological variation as a function of
wavelength. Data from the survey are accessible at
http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~survey/
