Description: Dated ca. 1935-1943, this photograph shows Bristolville Methodist Church, also called Methodist Episcopal Church, in Bristolville, Ohio, in Trumbull County. Bristolville Methodist Church was built in 1845, expanded in 1881, and remodeled again in 1940. A fire destroyed the church in 1951. In 1934, members of the congregation celebrated 100 years of Methodism in Trumbull County. A note on the back of the photograph reads "Pub. in Warren, Ohio Guide." 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_B01F06_040_001
Subjects: Churches; Religion in Ohio; Architecture; Works Progress Administration; Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Places: Bristolville (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio)
 

Description: Delegates to the 1st Ohio Industrial Union Council (also known as the Ohio CIO) convention, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, 1938. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00647
Subjects: Labor unions--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Labor
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows the Union Building and Savings Co., located at 22 West Gay St., Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1940. Two ionic columns frame the bank's arched entrance. The building is constructed of light-colored stone. A sign at the top of the middle window, third floor, reads: "Law." The other windows have signs with the names of individuals and businesses; presumably these are law firms and lawyers. Some of the names include: Horace S. Kerr; Raymond Roberts; Paul C. Hicks; [illegible initials] Friedman; Pugh & Pugh; Chapin B. Beem; and W.S. Marshall. The scene includes two streetlights and parked automobiles. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05842
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Economy--Finance; Banks and banking; Columbus (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Ten shredders made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio ready for shipment to the Fire Tex Insulating Board Company, 1930. Shredders were designed to reduce fibrous materials, such as wood bark, to smaller pieces. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01523
Subjects: Machinery industry--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio)
 

Description: This color image shows the launch of Apollo 11 on July 16, 1969, at 9:32 a.m. (EDT), John F. Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida. Flames and smoke billow from the Saturn V rocket as it lifts off the launchpad. Apollo 11 made history on July 20, 1969, when its lunar module landed on the moon. Mission commander and Ohio native Neil Armstrong (1930-2012) and fellow astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first people to walk on the moon, spending 2.5 hours taking photographs and collecting samples. During their exploration the mission's third astronaut, Michael Collins, remained in the command module "Columbia" as it continued its orbit. The historic mission ended July 24, when the command module and crew splashed down in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06903
Subjects: Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012; Ohio Economy--Science and Technology; Apollo 11 (Spacecraft); Space flight; Project Apollo (U.S.); Space vehicles; Aldrin, Edwin Eugene, Jr., 1930-
Places: Cape Canaveral (Florida); United States
 

Description: This photograph (ca. 1935-1943) is of an unknown home in Ohio. More information needed. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F09_010
Subjects: Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Architecture, Domestic--Ohio--Pictorial works.
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Engraved portrait of Thomas Corwin (1794-1865), who served as governor of Ohio from 1840 to 1842. As an orator, he eloquently expressed his opposition to the Mexican War. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02840
Subjects: Mexican War, 1846-1848; Governors--Ohio; Politicians; Lebanon (Ohio)
Places: Ohio
 

Description: This quarter design featuring Johnny Appleseed was drawn by Steve Bieda. The front of the coin was to look like the other quarters. The reverse top reads Ohio 1803 and the bottom reads "Out of many, one". The design for the center of the coin was opened up to Ohioans to submit their design. Of the 7,000 designs received four were chosen by a vote of 40,000 people. The chosen designs were sent for the final decision. It had to be approved by Gov. Bob Taft, then sent to the United States Treasury Department for final approval. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08694
Subjects: Money; Commemorations; United States Mint; State symbols
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Threshing grain on a farm in Ohio View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F02_014_1
Subjects: Agriculture--Ohio--History--20th century.; Threshing
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Photograph of two African American children, from the Allfree Family Collection, ca. 1944. The Allfree Family moved from Alabama to Cincinnati, Ohio, around 1900. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03738
Subjects: Multicultural Ohio--African American Ohioans; Children
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows the interior of the Public Library in New Philadelphia Ohio. It is on 121 Fair Avenue NW. The photographer was S H Green on West High Avenue in new Philadelphia, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B14F03_009_001
Subjects: New Philadelphia (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio); Public libraries
Places: New Philadelphia (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph is a black-and-white image of a colorful mural titled "Drift toward Industrialism,” painted in 1937 by artist Karl Anderson (1874-1956). The mural, also known as “Exodus to the Cities,” is located in the former post office building in Bedford, Ohio. The building now houses the offices of Doty & Miller Architects, 600 Broadway Avenue. As seen in the photograph, the mural surrounds an office door. The mural portrays the widespread migration of workers, families, and young people from small towns and rural areas to large industrial cities during the late 19th century. In the lower left corner, a bearded farmer stands behind a horse-drawn plow and raises his right arm in farewell to the stream of people headed toward a cityscape visible in the background. A young girl clutches her mother’s arm and looks back at the place she is leaving and to which she’ll probably never return. An older mother embraces her daughter while an elderly man dressed in a Civil War uniform sits morosely on the sidelines. Karl Anderson was born Carl James Anderson in Morning Sun, Ohio. His parents, Irwin M. and Emma Anderson, and their family of seven children lived in various communities in the state but eventually settled in Clyde (Sandusky County). Karl’s younger brother Sherwood, the noted American author, based his famous short-story collection "Winesburg, Ohio" on his memories of life in Clyde. Karl Anderson became a noted painter, illustrator, and engraver. The mural was funded by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Section of Painting and Sculpture, one of the department’s three visual arts programs instituted during the Great Depression. Established in 1934, the Section of Painting and Sculpture commissioned artists to create paintings and sculpture that would decorate new federal buildings. The commissions were awarded competitively. Unlike other cultural programs of the New Deal, the Section’s primary goal was to procure art for public buildings, not to provide work relief. The post office in West Haven, Connecticut, features the second of two murals that Karl Anderson created for the program. Anderson died in 1956 in Westport, Connecticut, where he had lived since 1912. Nicknamed “the Dean of Westport Painters,” he was part of the thriving arts community there. In 1988 photographer Connie Girard took color and black-and-white images of this mural for an article in "Timeline" magazine (June/July 1989). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04496
Subjects: Anderson, Karl, 1874-1956; Mural paintings (visual works); Post office buildings--Ohio; United States. Department of the Treasury. Section of Painting and Sculpture; Great Depression and the New Deal;
Places: Bedford (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)