Description: View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID:
Subjects:
 

Description: 1962 photograph of a piglet suckling a sow in a pen, taken by photographer Joe Munroe. Munroe's career began in 1939 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He served in the Air Force during. World War II and then joined Cincinnati-based Farm Quarterly magazine. Though raised in Detroit, agriculture became an important subject of Joe's photographs. He moved to California in 1955 and free-lanced, taking magazine assignments and selling his own work. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P400_B09_F01_JPG028
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Pig farming; Farm life; Swine--Breeding;
Places: Missouri
 

Description: Photograph of Yvonne Walker-Taylor’s cousin Grace Lyttle at graduation. Lyttle received a Master's degree in psychology from Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts. Walker-Taylor became one of the first female African American college president in the United States when she was named the 16th president of Wilberforce University in 1984. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B05F01_T_1
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; African American women; Wilberforce University; African American Educators
 

Description: Built in 1923, the Northwood Lighthouse, also called Eddystone, is located on the north side of Grand Lake St. Marys, between the towns of Celina and St. Marys, Ohio. No longer active, the fifty-foot conical tower originally served as a seasonal navigational aid from April through November, and was a monument to the Eddystone Lighthouse in the English Channel, near Rame Head, Cornwall. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F06_024_001
Subjects: Geography and Natural Resources; Lighthouses; Harbors
Places: St. Marys (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: A man stands with a team of harnessed horses. This photograph was taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912. Like most of Ewing's work, it was likely taken in southeastern Ohio or central West Virginia. Born in 1870 in Washington County, Ohio, near Marietta, Ewing most likely began his photography career in the 1890s. The 1910 US Census and a 1912-1913 directory list him as a photographer. A negative signed "Ewing Brothers" and a picture with his younger brother, Frank, indicate that Frank may have joined the business. After 1916, directories list Albert as a salesman. He died in 1934. The Ewing Collection consists of 5,055 glass plate negatives, each individually housed and numbered. Additionally, the collection includes approximately 450 modern contact prints made from the glass plate negatives. Subjects include infants and young children, elderly people, families, school and religious groups, animals and rural scenes. In 1982, the Ohio Historical Society received the collection, still housed in the original dry plate negative boxes purchased by Albert J. Ewing. A selection of the original glass plate negatives were exhibited for the first time in 2013 at the Ohio Historical Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV71_b04_f242
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Animals; Laborers
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: A photograph of the interior of the home of Rutherford B. Hayes. Portrait of Hayes and his wife hang in the room, as well as American flag. The room appears to be a living room or sitting room, as there are many chairs and portraits adorning the room. Hayes House, built in 1859, is a large red brick Victorian style structure in located at 1337 Hayes Avenue in Fremont Ohio. It stands in Spiegel Grove State Park, the former Hayes Estate. It was the residence of the former President from 1873 to 1893. The 2-story mansion, constructed between 1859 and 1863 has 8 bedrooms and a large veranda. The home was remodeled twice, in 1880 (adding a large library and an impressive staircase leading to a rooftop observation area, as well as many other improvements) and 1889 (replacing and enlarging one wing). Hayes was the nineteenth (19th) President of the United States, serving from 1877-1881. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F07_004_1
Subjects: Sandusky County (Ohio); Fremont (Ohio)
Places: Fremont (Ohio); Sandusky County (Ohio)
 

Description: Campaign literature from the Republican State Committee and Western Newspaper Union for the 1920 election. Includes information on Governor James Cox and gubernatorial candidate Harry L. Davis and senate candidate Frank B. Willis. Davis was elected governor of Ohio in 1920, and Willis was elected U.S. Senator, although Cox lost his bid for president to Warren G. Harding. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS_5142
Subjects: Ohio Government; Presidents and Politics; Governors; Political elections; Political parties
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio);
 

Description: An uphill view of a scenic country roadway in Champaign County, Ohio. Flanking the road is a wooden white fence and several telephone polls. On the right side of the photograph many in bloom trees and a small farm can be seen. Champaign County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. As of the 2000 census, the population was 38,890. Its county seat is Urbana. It takes its name from the French word for "open level country" View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F03_005_001
Subjects: Roads--Ohio; Champaign County (Ohio)--History; Farms--Ohio--Pictorial works
Places: Champaign County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Mine fire, New Straitsville, Ohio. Hazelton Hill between Shawnee and New Straitsville. Perry County." This photograph shows smoke wafting from the New Straitsville Mine Fire in Perry County. The mine fires are said to have started November 13, 1884, when striking miners pushed burning cars into a mine, during a strike over wages between the New Straitsville Mining Company's management and mine workers. A small group of union members decided to sabotage the mines. Cars filled with oil-soaked timber were set on fire and were pushed into a mine owned by the New Straitsville Mining Company. The fire quickly spread to the coal seam underground. Reportedly, the coal seam was fourteen feet across and extended an undetermined distance into the Earth. It took several days for the fire to be discovered. By that point, it was too late to stop the fire's spread. As a result of the fire, the mine closed. The New Straitsville mine fire has raged ever since 1884. In 1936, the WPA began work to stop the spread of the fire by building barriers across burning veins of coal. In 1938, nearly 350 men were employed on the project. Under the direction of James R. Cavanaugh, a veteran mine fire fighter, tunnels were driven through veins in the path of the fire, and were filled with a clay-water mixture or similar non-burning material. The mine fires effected coal deposits in Hocking and Perry Counties in southeastern Ohio. It was estimated that by 1938 the coal destroyed, more than two hundred square miles, was worth fifty million dollars. In 2003, smoke began to emerge from the soil of the Wayne National Forest, 119 years after the fire began. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F12_028_1
Subjects: New Straitsville (Ohio)--Photographs; Coal mines and mining; United States. Works Progress Administration (U.S.)
Places: New Straitsville (Ohio); Perry County (Ohio)
 

Description: Shows a street view of the corner of Paint and Main Street in Chillicothe, Ohio. The building on the left dominating the photograph is the Ross County Courthouse, built 1858. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F10_002_1
Subjects: Chillicothe (Ross County, Ohio)--History.
Places: Chillicothe (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Pub Bldgs - 6 - Franklin Clinic - OSU Hosp Wing - Comparative" View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F08_004_001
Subjects: Ohio State University Hospitals--History--Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This boulder and cement armory at 419 East Main Street in Eaton, Ohio was built in 1911 for $24,000 dollars. It serves as the home for the 1487th Transportation Company for the Ohio National Guard. Most recently men from that company were deployed for Operation Iraqi Freedom where they served with other members of the 106th Battalion. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F06_012
Subjects: Ohio. National Guard; Armories
Places: Eaton (Ohio); Preble County (Ohio)