Description: This photograph of Liederkranz cheese at a factory in Van Wert, Ohio was taken in the 1960s. Liederkranz cheese was invented by Emil Frey of Monroe, New York in the 1882, while he was trying to make Limburger cheese. Frey was a member of a Liederkranz Club, a German singing society, and named the cheese after it. He started the Monroe Cheese Company, which moved to Van Wert, Ohio in 1926 and was sold to Borden Company in 1929. Borden sold the factory to Fisher Cheese Company in 1981, but it too stopped producing Liederkranz cheese after a contamination problem in 1985. Liederkranz cheese is made from cow's milk. It has a yellow crust that is edible and a soft white inside. The photograph is 8" x 10" (20.32 x 25.4 cm). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3172_3805965_001
Subjects: Business and labor; Dairy industry; Cheese; Factories
Places: Van Wert (Ohio); Van Wert County (Ohio)
 

Description: During the early 1800s, canals were used as a means of transportation. By the mid-1800s, however, competition for the canals increased with the development of other faster and cheaper modes of transportation, specifically railroads. After the opening of the Miami and Erie Canal in 1845, the first railroad from Lake Erie to the Ohio River began operating. The state leased the now defunct canals to private companies, but were given back to the state a few years later, in crumbling ruins. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F07_021_1
Subjects: Canals--Ohio--Pictorial works; Canals--Ohio--Dayton; Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery (Ohio)
 

Description: This Mississippi flag in red, white and blue and is made of cotton. It is decorated with the Confederate Battle Flag canton in one corner, a long red band and shorter blue and white bands. It's rectangular shape is 90 by 155 cm. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H65289_001
Subjects: State Flags; Ceremonial artifact; Textile--cotton
 

Description: Dated ca. 1855, this wool comforter was made by Mahaliah Jay who pieced this quilt of log cabin blocks in a labyrinth or Greek Key variation by machine. The key blocks are separated by strips of blue homespun wool. The back is brown plaid cotton. Jay quilted it with widely spaced diamonds and tied it between the quilting lines with cotton thread through bits of cotton fabric. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H6539_001
Subjects: Quilts; Textiles; Women artists; Art and artists; Blankets
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Dated October 6, 1936, this photograph shows the photosynthesis laboratory at Antioch College in Greene County, Ohio, in Yellow Springs. The photograph's caption reads "The photosynthesis laboratory C.F. Kettering Foundation. Here students have opportunity to take part in important scientific research into the nature of chlorophyll." Antioch College was founded in 1852 as the first nonsectarian, co-educational institution in the nation to offer the same educational opportunities to both men and women. It was also among the first to offer equal educational opportunities to African Americans. 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_B05F02_009_1
Subjects: Education; Science and Technology; Universities and colleges; Antioch College; Laboratories
Places: Yellow Springs (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
 

Description: Aerial photograph taken by Joe Munroe during a crop dusting in Lodi, California, 1962. With the development and spread of the airplane, farmers could cover more ground when spraying insecticides and herbicides on their vast crops. Wide scale use, however, led to chemicals showing up outside of the field, and environmentalists cautioned the overuse of these types of crop treatments. Joe 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_B11_F08_001
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Farming; Agricultural technologies; Farm equipment; Crop-dusting
Places: Lodi (California)
 

Description: Dated August 10, 1939, this photograph shows the rotunda of the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums. Two large columns sit to either side of the entrance, and a portrait and roundel of President Hayes hang above the door. A cannon sits in the middle of the room. A note on the photograph's reverse reads "Fremont O. Pillard [?] to Museum Rooms inside Bldg Aug 10 - 30." Located on President Hayes' wooded estate called Spiegel Grove, the Hayes Presidential Center is the first presidential library and set the stage for the federal presidential library system. The first iteration of the Hayes Presidential Center opened on May 30, 1916. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F05_001_001
Subjects: Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893; Ohio History -- Presidents and Politics; Libraries; Architecture
Places: Spiegel Grove (Ohio); Fremont (Ohio); Sandusky County (Ohio)
 

Description: This shows the front and side facades of the Tuscarawas County Courthouse. The structure was built from 1882 to 1884, during a time of prosperity, when many counties were constructing ambitious courthouses, competing with one another for the best building. Roman arches, square and round columns and Doric and Corinthian capitals are incorporated into this structure. Originally there was a zinc-plated statue of three women that sat on top of the building's dome, but it was replaced by a cupola with a brass eagle in 1973 after the original statue began to deteriorate. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F06_467
Subjects: Courthouses; National Register of Historic Places;
Places: New Philadelphia (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio); 101 E. High Ave.
 

Description: This is the side facade of the Wyandot County Jail. The building is Queen Anne Style and sits near the Wyandot County Courthouse. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F07_525
Subjects: Jails--Ohio; National Register of Historic Places; justice centers; towers (building divisions); Queen Anne Style
Places: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio);
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Montgomery Co.,Dayton,O.,Jan.1938 Durban Home. OFFICE COPY. FOR OFFICE FILE ONLY. DO NOT REMOVE." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F08_007_1
Subjects: Dayton (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Architecture, Domestic--Ohio--Pictorial works.
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Lima, Ohio airport; Neil Armstrong returning to his hometown of Wapakoneta, Ohio after NASA mission Gemini 8 View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV_203B2F1_011
Subjects: Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012; Wapakoneta (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows a bridge over the Grand River in northeastern Ohio. The Grand River is a tributary of Lake Erie and initially flows from Trumbull County. It continues through Ashtabula County and then through Lake County, where it ends in Fairport Harbor, Ohio. 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_B01F17_033
Subjects: Bridges--Ohio; Grand River (Ohio); Transportation--Ohio--History.; Rural Roads; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Ohio