Description: Advertisement for a performance of "Professor Morris's Equine and Canine Paradox" to take place at Schultz's Opera House in Zanesville, Ohio, January 12-15. This type of animal act which came to be known as a "dog and pony show" is believed to have been originated by Morris around 1883, although the format began to spread over the following years. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS559_B13F22_003
Subjects: Arts and entertainment; Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture; Circus acts; Traveling shows; Dogs; Horses
Places: Zanesville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: The outside of the Sherman Home in Lancaster, Ohio. This is where John Sherman (1823-1900) was raised. Sherman is best known as a man who would serve in the senate for over ten years. Sherman at first held a few other jobs before getting into the world of politics, working both as an engineer and an attorney. Before he went on to serve in the senate, he served for a number of years as a representative in Congress. During his time in politics he would support at first the Whig Party, which favored more power for the central government as opposed to the states. After the demise of the Whig party, he became an avid supporter of Republican party policies and was so passionate about the cause of preserving the Union he considered abandoning politics at least for a time and fight the Confederacy. In the end, he abandoned this idea and devoted his time to pushing for his favored policies in Congress. He continued to serve in the senate and hold his own during the turbulent time of Reconstruction. Sherman usually came off as a moderate voice in the time of increasing conflict between the Senate and the President over how to bring the United States back together. He was not afraid to criticize both and advocated for a moderate approach. Sherman left the Senate for a period to become a cabinet official, returning to the Senate upon his leaving the cabinet. While he was once again serving in the senate, he formulated and would give his name to the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, which made it possible for business monopolies to be dismantled. He would continue to serve in the Senate until a few years before his death, leaving in 1897, and dying three years later in 1900. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06775
Subjects: Sherman, John, 1823-1900; United States. Congress. Senate; United States. Congress. House; American Civil War, 1861-1865
Places: Lancaster (Ohio); Fairfield County (Ohio); Ohio
 

Description: Reverse reads "Judson Harmon home, 29 Main Street, Newtown" The address number 29 can be seen in the photograph, to the left of the door. The home of Dr. John L. Richmond, located at 29 Main Street in Newtown, Ohio. The home is described as being a plain two story gray frame house. Dr. Richmond performed the first professional cesarean section in the United States, in the house in 1827. The home at 31 Main Street was that of Judson Harmon, 45th Governor of Ohio and United States Attorney General under President Cleveland. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F05_035_001
Subjects: Architecture; Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc
Places: Newtown (Ohio); Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Martha Steelman in swimming suit with diving medal, 1922. Steelman was a champion diver, swimmer, and Ohio Vaudeville performer. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00010
Subjects: Swimming; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women
 

Description: Boys posed with ponies at Olentangy Park in Columbus, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07890
Subjects: Popular culture; Amusement parks; Olentangy River (Ohio)
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Ralph J. Lung identification photograph from the files of the Republic Steel Corporation, Central Alloy District. The Central Alloy District consisted of two plants: one in Canton, Ohio, and one in Massillon, Ohio. Identification photographs were taken over a period of time and logged into the files as one batch on June 3, 1942. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: YHC_MSS192_B01F072_04
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Republic Steel Corporation -- Employees
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Photograph of Roswell Garst and his wife, Elizabeth, outside their home near Coon Rapids, Iowa, 1959. Nikita Khrushchev, who led the USSR from 1953 until 1964, visited the Garst Farm during his 1959 tour of the United States to look at Garst's new hybrid corn. The trip was viewed as a great help to US-Soviet relations in the midst of Cold War tensions. 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_B05_F02_1090_8_5
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Portrait photography; Cold War; Agricultural technologies; Garst & Thomas Hybrid Corn Company;
Places: Coon Rapids (Iowa);
 

Description: Illustration of soldiers in combat from "The Black Phalanx: A History of the Negro Soldiers of the United States in the Wars of 1775-1812, 1861-'65" by Joseph T. Wilson. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: blackphalanx_25
Subjects: African American soldiers; Civil War 1861-1865
 

Description: The Bicentennial barn-painting program was an inexpensive, grassroots marketing campaign that painted the official logo of the Ohio Bicentennial on a highly visible historic barn in each of Ohio's 88 counties. Over 2,000 farmers and landowners submitted their barn descriptions to the committee for consideration. Beginning in 1998, artist Scott Hagan spent five years painting the logos, tailored to every barn's unique character. Typically, the barn owners hosted a celebration at the completion of their barn painting. This photograph is an exterior view of Barn #40, the 40th barn that Hagan painted, located on Old Route 24 in Paulding County. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08537
Subjects: Centennial celebrations; Ohio History--State and Local Government; Barns; Ohio Bicentennial, 2003
Places: Antwerp (Ohio); Paulding County (Ohio)
 

Description: Airplane soaring and gliding overhead near what is most likely Cincinnati Municipal Airport. 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_B04F05_20_01
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio); Cincinnati Lunken Municipal Airport; Transportation--Ohio--History.; Airports; Airplanes; Flight; Works Progress Administration; Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: National colors of the 331st Infantry Regiment, 83rd Infantry Division. Rectangular flag measures 136 cm high by 176 cm wide. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02271
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; World War, 1914-1918
 

Description: Double roll crushers made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio on display in the factory, 1934. Crushers were used to break materials such as coal into uniform sizes suitable for different uses. These crushers were sold to the Mason Walsh Company, location unknown. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01545
Subjects: Crushing machinery; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio)