Description: Sheep crowd around a rancher as he tries to fill the water trough via a pipe connected to a water truck, photographed by Joe Munroe, 1966. Sheep were very useful because they can graze on sparse land or fields that other animals could not, effectively turning wasted space into meat or wool. 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_B09_F04_001
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Farms; Agriculture; Livestock; Sheep
Places: Idaho
 

Description: This flag is made of textile (cotton) with one white and two blue horizontal stripes of equal width. It is overlaid by a C surrounding a yellow circle whose diameter equals the width of the center (white) stripe. The dimensions of the flag are 95 by 155 cm. Maker's mark indicates it was manufactured by Dettra's Flags in Pennsylvania. Bulldog bunting was first used by the Dettra Flag Company after 1925, and the use of cotton in flag production tapered off after WWII. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H65489_001
Subjects: Ceremonial artifact; Communication artifact; Military flags; state flags--Colorado;
Places: Colorado (United States)
 

Description: A photo of the log check dams. The photo was taken as part of Project No. 46b, Erosion Control. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: 3076_89_11_feb35_b35_62
Subjects: Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); New Deal, 1933-1939; Fort Hill State Memorial (Ohio); Dams
Places: Hillsboro (Ohio); Highland County (Ohio)
 

Description: Painting of national colors of the 6th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Text on flag reads: The Citizens of Cincinnati to the 6th Reg't O.V.I.U.S.A. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02345
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
 

Description: Letter from Charles Young's daughter, Marie "Kikik" Young, written to her grandfather in French. Charles Young was the first African American to reach the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army and, at the time of his death in 1922, was the highest-ranking African American officer in the Army. He is known for having been forced into retirement due to health concerns before the start of World War I and later riding from Wilberforce, Ohio, to Washington, D.C. to prove his physical fitness for duty. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS2_B01F07
Subjects: Correspondence; African American children; African American men; African American women; Young, Charles, 1864-1922.; Military officers; World War I, 1914-1918
 

Description: Photograph of Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker amongst other Bishops, General Officers, Delegates and Lay persons at the 33rd General Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Bishop Walker was the 66th Bishop appointed to the African Methodist Episcopal Church, was the 10th president of Wilberforce University in the 1940’s and father of Yvonne Walker-Taylor, who became the one of 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_B06F02_B
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Wilberforce University; African American men; African American women; African American Educators
 

Description: Photograph of two-year-old Yvonne Walker-Taylor in the backyard of her home in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Walker-Taylor became one of the first female African American college president in the United States when she was named president of Wilberforce in 1984. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B05F09_C_1
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Wilberforce University; African American men; African American women; African American Educators
Places: Massachusetts
 

Description: Photograph of view at junction of Octagon and circular earthworks. Octagon Earthworks are part of the Newark Earthworks complex of prehistoric Indian earthworks, originally one of the most extensive earthworks of its kind in the country. Enclosing 50 acres, the Octagon Earthworks are joined by parallel walls to a circular embankment enclosing 20 acres. Within the octagon, opposite the openings are small mounds. The Octagon Earthworks were built by the Hopewell Indians (100 BC-AD 500) and were probably used for ceremonial, social, and religious purposes. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: 3076_90_13_02
Subjects: Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); Octagon State Memorial (Newark, Ohio); Mounds--Ohio
Places: Newark (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of an illustration of the Campus Martius in Marietta, Ohio, located on the east side of the Muskingum River, upriver from its confluence with the Ohio River. Situated directly across the river from Fort Harmar, construction on the Campus Martius began in 1788 and was completed in 1791. It was home to Rufus Putnam, Benjamin Tupper, Arthur St. Clair, and other settlers during the Northwest Indian War. The Campus Martius site is now occupied by the Campus Martius Museum and is an Ohio History Connection site. The Rufus Putnam House, part of the original Campus, is enclosed in the museum. 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_B02F01_007_1
Subjects: Marietta (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works; Campus Martius (Marietta, Ohio); Forts & fortifications--1770-1800
Places: Marietta (Ohio); Washington County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated November 12, 1936, this photograph shows the entrance to the Underground Railroad passages in the southwest corner inside the Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church, located on Seventh and Smith Streets in Cincinnati, Ohio. The church was constructed in 1869 and the parsonage in 1871. Although the church was built after the Civil War (1861-1865), the congregation believed slavery might return, and thus built underground tunnels that left from the church to the network of secret passageways in downtown Cincinnati, fully prepared to revive the Underground Railroad. 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_B02F16_002_1
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Ohio; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Churches; Cincinnati (Ohio)--History
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: The public Square of Cleveland as seen from West 6th Street as of 1852. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F11_22_01
Subjects: Cleveland (Ohio)
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photo of the Ohio Guide books on sale at the James Book Store in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Ohio Guide was published as part of the American Guide Series, compiled by workers of the Writers' Program of the W.P.A., one of the federal programs from the 1930s. The James Book Store was located at 516 Main Street in Cincinnati, Ohio. Once the oldest bookstore west of the Alleghenies, it was owned by brothers Joseph A. James and Uriah P. James, who opened a book department in 1831 (and closed in 1854), in addition to their printing and publishing business. It is uncertain when the bookstore closed, but it seems to have been in business long after the book department closed. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F03_05_001
Subjects: Ohio--Guidebooks; American guide series
Places: Ohio