Description: Tranquility Base, Neil Armstrong Homecoming Headquarters. More than 80,000 supporters greeted Armstrong upon his return to Wapakoneta, Ohio on September 6, 1969. Bob Hope served as marshal for the event, and guests included "Tonight Show" sidekick Ed McMahon, and Dr. Albert Sabin, inventor of the polio vaccine. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV_203B2F4_066
Subjects: Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012; Wapakoneta (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: This blue silk flag served as the regimental colors of the 6th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The flag was manufactured in the United States between 1861 and 1864. The United States arms is positioned in the flag's center. The arms consists of an embroidered, gold-colored bald eagle holding an olive branch in its right talon and a bundle of thirteen arrows in its left talon. The eagle holds in its beak a painted, gold-outlined scroll with the motto "E PLURIBUS UNUM" (Latin for "one out of many"). A shield with red and white stripes and a blue upper portion is positioned on the eagle's breast. A cloud with rays extending above it is painted above the arms. Four gold stars remain between the cloud and the arms. Due to deterioration some stars have been lost. Gold text to the left of the arms reads: "PRESENTED BY THE." Text to the right of the arms is no longer legible or intact due to deterioration. Portions of a gold banner remain below the arms. The flag has gold fringe on its top, right, and bottom sides. Ohio battle flags were on display at the Ohio Statehouse until the 1960s, when the state formed a committee to oversee the efforts to restore the fragile flags. Some of the battle flags were on display on the Plaza Level of the Ohio Historical Society from 1970 until 1989. For conservation reasons, the flags have been in storage since 1989. In the 1960s, the collection was photographed and commercial artist Robert Needham painted illustrations of many Civil War flags. Photographs of the flags and the paintings are now part of the society's archival collections. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01876
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Places: Ohio
 

Description: This photograph, taken in a boiler house, depicts large machinery and windows. Boiler houses provide steam to the rest of the plant to run any steam-powered machinery. This photograph belongs to the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Audiovisual Archives, so it was likely taken at a Youngstown company plant. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B03F37_014
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry; Boiler house
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Jan. 4, 1938 District #5 902 City Bldg. Akron, Ohio MILL CREEK PARK, located in the city of Youngstown, Ohio. Credit Line: W. A. Bartz" View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F04_032_001
Subjects: Mill Creek Park (Youngstown, Ohio)
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Dr. Albert Cooper. Cooper was a physician in Columbus, Ohio, who practiced through 1925. This photograph, ca. 1910-1919, depicts the doctor wearing a chapeau or bicorne hat, along with medals of the Knights Templar, a fraternal organization. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04092
Subjects: Medicine--History; Physicians--Ohio; Columbus (Ohio); Fraternal organizations
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated February 1938, this photograph shows the Bell Telephone Building in Dayton, Ohio, in Montgomery County. The Bell Telephone Building is called the AT&T Building today. It can be found at 201-217 West 2nd Street in downtown Dayton. The building has 11 floors and was completed in 1930. This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F07_021_001
Subjects: Dayton (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Bell Telephone Company; Industries--Ohio; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Daniel Hunt, of Putnam County, electrocuted March 11, 1932, for the murder of Constable Conoway and Leon Moebuck of Putnam County, Ohio. He was a white male, 58 years old and his occupation is not known. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08216
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Prisons--Ohio; Death row; Capital punishment; Portrait photography
Places: Putnam County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "Girls' Table Tennis Tournament, WPA Recreation Project, Dayton, Ohio. 1937." On April 8, 1935, the United States Congress passed the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act, part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, which was hoped would allow Americans to cope with the Great Depression. Creation of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was the most important accomplishment of this Act. This government office hired unemployed Americans to work on various government projects. During its existence, the WPA constructed more than 600,000 miles of roads and built or repaired more than 124,000 bridges, 125,000 public buildings, 8,000 parks, and 850 airport runways. Although the United States Congress reduced funding for the program in 1939, the WPA remained in operation until June 30, 1943. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F08_031_001
Subjects: United States. Works Progress Administration; Table tennis--Ohio
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Lois Ruth Campbell in United States Army Nurse's Corps uniform, ca. 1918. Campbell was a nurse from Bellefontaine, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00076
Subjects: Ohio History--Military Ohio
Places: New York (New York); New York County (New York); Bellefontaine (Ohio);
 

Description: Painting of national colors of the 118th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02554
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
 

Description: This photograph depicts a locomotive crane that was involved in an accident. It is not clear from the photograph what the accident or its effects were. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B05F86_004
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry and trade--Accidents
 

Description: Back reads: Nov. 24, 1937 District #5 902 Municipal Building Akron, Ohio Wingfoot Lake, 12 miles east of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company's fleet of blimps, and war-time air station for training pilots and testing balloons. Control now in hands of Goodyear. Located 1 mi. south of Suffield (Portage County). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F10_004_001
Subjects: Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project.
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)