Description: A photograph of a model used at the Ohio State School for the Blind to teach erosion control. The model shows five different ways to treat deep gullies to close them up to try to control further erosion. There are a series of dams or terraces of earth, logs fastened together to form a dam, boulders piled up into a dam, a ground cover of vegetation and posts bound with wire or wire fencing are all in the model. Any of these methods may be used as the first aid for erosion control. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F02_023_001
Subjects: Ohio State School for the Blind; Erosion control, Soil
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Quilt which won Best of Show at the Ohio State Fair, Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1992-1993. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01046
Subjects: Art and Artists; Ohio State Fair (Columbus, Ohio); Ohio Economy--Agriculture; Expositions and fairs;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio);
 

Description: This image shows a sundial at Ohio Uniuversity in Athens, Ohio. Ohio University was founded as a public research university in 1804. It is located on 1,850 acres in Athens, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06482
Subjects: Ohio University
Places: Athens (Ohio); Athens County (Ohio)
 

Description: This formal portrait depicts the Brimbee children: Florence, age 7, and Imogene, age 3, ca. 1909. Florence was the daughter of Bessie and William Brimbee, and Imogene may be her cousin or half-sister. Bessie was the sister of Evva Kenney Heath, a native of Cardington, Ohio, who attended Howard University Law School and went on to be an attorney in Washington, D.C. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03823
Subjects: African American Ohioans; Families; Portrait photography--United States--History; Children
Places: Galion (Ohio); Crawford County (Ohio); Morrow County (Ohio); Richland County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: “Making sorghum.” This photo shows horses acting as the power source on a sorghum mill. The horses walked in a circle to grind the cane. Juice was then collected in metal "milk" cans, and taken home to be cooked into sweet sorghum, also known as sorghum molasses. Historically, only a limited number of farmers grew sorghum in Ohio, but most produced sorghum for personal use or for profit. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F02_002_1
Subjects: Sorghum; Horses
Places: Ohio
 

Description: National colors of the 19th Independent Battery, Ohio Veteran Volunteer Light Artillery. Rectangular flag measures 135 cm high by 200 cm wide. Text on flag reads: 19th Battery O.V.A. Cumberland Gap, Rocky Face Ridge, Altoona, Kenesaw, Burnt Hickory, Jonesboro, Lovejoy Station, North Carolina, Bean Station, Knoxville, Resaca, Chatthoochie, Decatur, Nashville View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01833
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio History--Military Ohio
 

Description: This photograph from the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus is of Nick Babich, a 54-year-old laborer of Trumbull County, Ohio. Babich was convicted of killing his wife, Barbara, and a neighbor, Dan Gross, in 1938. The caption at the bottom reads: "No. 222, Nick Babich, of Trumbull County, Legally Electrocuted May 9th, 1939, for the Murder of his Wife, Barbara Babich and Dan Gross, at Warren, Ohio.” In 1885 the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio, became the location for all executions, which previously took place in the various county seats. In 1896 the Ohio General Assembly mandated that electrocution replace hanging as the form of capital punishment. The Ohio Penitentiary regularly offered tours as well as souvenir photographs and postcards of the building and prisoners on death row. A total of 315 prisoners, both men and women, were executed in the electric chair known as “Old Sparky” between 1897 and 1963. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08276
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Capital punishment; Death row; Electrocution; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections; Ohio Penitentiary (Columbus, Ohio); Prisons--Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio); Warren (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads "Cinci., O., Nov. 16, 1937. Mellish Home ? Ave". View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F05_014_001
Subjects: Architecture; Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Broadside advertising a reading given by poet and author Paul Laurence Dunbar at the Lyceum Theater in New York City, ca. 1890-1906. He was born in Dayton, Ohio, in 1872 to Joshua and Matilda Dunbar, both former slaves, and was encouraged by his mother in poetry and his schooling from an early age. He attended Dayton Central High School and was the sole African American student at that time. Following his high school graduation, Dunbar worked as an elevator operator while writing poetry in his free time. He built a reputation as a successful literary voice and writer of dialect poetry, and was the first African American poet to receive critical acclaim for his work. Dunbar authored twelve collections of poetry, five novels, one play, and a large number of newspaper articles before his death from tuberculosis on February 9, 1906. He is buried in the Woodland Cemetery in Dayton. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05264
Subjects: Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906; American poetry--Ohio; Literary Ohio; African American Ohioans; Poets; Authors
Places: New York City (New York)
 

Description: The caption reads: "A youth operates a bench lathe at the N.Y.A. workshop in Uhrichsville, Ohio." A lathe is a machine tool which rotates the workpiece on its axis to perform various operations such as cutting, sanding, knurling, drilling, or deformation with tools that are applied to the workpiece to create an object which has symmetry about an axis of rotation. Woodworking lathes are the oldest variety. All other varieties are descended from these simple lathes. An adjustable horizontal metal rail - the tool rest - between the material and the operator accommodates the positioning of shaping tools, which are usually hand-held. With wood, it is common practice to press and slide sandpaper against the still-spinning object after shaping to smooth the surface made with the metal shaping tools. The National Youth Administration was a part of the Works Progress Administration, developed to train youth for a vocation. Both the youth and their families received payment for the work and job training. NRA was in operation from 1935 to 1943. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B14F02_031_001
Subjects: Tuscarawas County (Ohio); NYA;
Places: Uhrichsville (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: "Careless Talk Got There First," a 1944 poster showing a wounded soldier during a marine landing. It was produced by the U.S. Government Printing Office, designed to promote a sense of common purpose during World War II and to discourage unguarded sharing of strategic information. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04742
Subjects: World War II; World War, 1939-1945--War work; Ohio History--Military Ohio; War posters--Ohio
 

Description: John James McCook, 1845-1911, carte-de-visite. Son of Daniel and Martha McCook. John J. McCook was born in Carrollton, Ohio on May 25, 1845. He was a student at Kenyon College when the Civil War broke out. He left college after one year and join the Union Army. He was wounded in the spring of 1864 and was not able to return to fighting. He graduated from Kenyon College in 1866 became a lawyer. He was married to Janetta Waddell Alexander. He died on September 17, 1911 and was buried in Princeton Cemetery in New Jersey. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08423
Subjects: Ohio History--Military Ohio; McCook family; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)