Description: Photograph of a man seated with his dogs and a shotgun across his lap, taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912. Like most of Ewing's work, it was likely taken in southeastern Ohio or central West Virginia. Born in 1870 in Washington County, Ohio, near Marietta, Ewing most likely began his photography career in the 1890s. The 1910 US Census and a 1912-1913 directory list him as a photographer. A negative signed "Ewing Brothers" and a picture with his younger brother, Frank, indicate that Frank may have joined the business. After 1916, directories list Albert as a salesman. He died in 1934. The Ewing Collection consists of 5,055 glass plate negatives, each individually housed and numbered. Additionally, the collection includes approximately 450 modern contact prints made from the glass plate negatives. Subjects include infants and young children, elderly people, families, school and religious groups, animals and rural scenes. In 1982, the Ohio Historical Society received the collection, still housed in the original dry plate negative boxes purchased by Albert J. Ewing. A selection of the original glass plate negatives were exhibited for the first time in 2013 at the Ohio Historical Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV71_B34_F4103
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Animals; Portrait photography--United States--History; Landscape photography
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: Regimental colors of the 126th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02120
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
 

Description: National colors of the 4th Ohio Infantry Regiment, U.S. Volunteers. Rectangular flag measures 135 cm high by 167 cm wide. Text on flag reads: Fourth Reg't Inf. Ohio Volunt[text missing]. Mustered May 19th [text missing]. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02202
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; Spanish-American War, 1898
 

Description: Swasey Chapel was built in 1924, it was the first building in the 1917 plan for Greater Denison. It was named after Dr. Ambrose Swasey who funded it and the chimes in the chapel tower are a memorial for his wife. Today the chapel is used for religious service. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F02_040_1
Subjects: Education; Universities and colleges; Buildings; Chapels; Denison University; College campuses; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Granville (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated September 19, 1936, this photograph shows women of the Butler County Emergency School's sewing project sewing at someone's home. Butler County Emergency School was a Works Progress Administration program at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The photograph's caption reads "Butler County, Middletown, Ohio, Seventeenth Street. Sewing and different types of Needlecraft. Mrs. Thenie Latham, Teacher." The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a government office that hired unemployed Americans to work on various government projects from April 8, 1935 to June 30, 1943. In the first six months that the WPA existed, more than 173, 000 Ohioans, including both men and women, found employment through this program. More than 1, 500 unemployed teachers in Ohio found work through the WPA teaching illiterate adults how to read. In twelve separate counties, primarily in southeastern Ohio, more than twenty-five percent of families had at least one member working for the WPA during the late 1930s. By the end of 1938, these various workers had built or improved 12, 300 miles of roads and streets and constructed 636 public buildings, several hundred bridges, hundreds of athletic fields, and five fish hatcheries. WPA employees made improvements to thousands of more buildings, roads, and parks within Ohio. WPA artists also painted a number of murals in Ohio post offices. 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_B02F04_013_1
Subjects: Sewing; Teachers; Education; African Americans; Schools--Ohio; Works Progress Administration
Places: Middletown (Ohio); Butler County (Ohio)
 

Description: Painting of national colors of the 188th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Rectangular flag measures 194 cm high by 186 cm wide. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02605
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
 

Description: Original description reads: "A view of the Cuyahoga River, looking N.W. from bluff near Columbus Rd., Cleveland." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F11_45_01
Subjects: Cuyahoga River (Ohio); Bridges--Ohio--Cleveland
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph (ca.1935-1943) is of an engraving of a scene on the west side of Main Street, between Fourth and Fifth Streets, in Cincinnati. It shows the Gibson House, as well as a General Rail Road Ticket Office, an Omnibus Office, and U.P. James, Publisher & Bookseller. Gibson House opened in 1849 by J.K. and D.V. Bennett. Artist William A. Thien painted many wall decorations and frescoes in the interior of the hotel. Considered the "best house in the city" for a time, it was often used for celebrations and to greet VIPs visiting Cincinnati, including Rutherford B. Hayes, in 1877. In 1899, a newspaper article announced that a firm in Chicago was finalizing plans for construction of a more modern facility, to be located in the same place as the earlier structure. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F01_020
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Building--Ohio--Cincinnati; Hotels;
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of a model built for the Ohio State School for the Blind to be used as a teaching tool. The Ohio State Institution for the Education of the Blind was established in April of 1837 and by July of 1837 began instruction in rented rooms. The first school building was built in 1839, and could accommodate sixty students. This photograph, ca. 1935-1943 shows the four story sandstone structure in the Second Roman style of architeture with a Mansard roof. It is located on the corner of Parsons Avenue, and East Main Street in Columbus, Ohio and first opened it's doors on May 21, 1874. Early in the 20th century, the Ohio Department of Education assumed control and the name of the school was changed to the Ohio School for the Blind. In 1953, the school moved to it's current location on North High Street near Morse Road. The building has undergone several renovations, and once had a central tower reached an additional three stories, and pointed spires on the north and south ends. It has since been occupied by the Ohio Highway Patrol and then by Columbus Environmental Health. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F02_073_001
Subjects: Models; Landscapes; Schools--Ohio; Ohio State School for the Blind; Blind--Education--Ohio--Columbus; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Charles Noel "Tonton" Young, the son of Colonel Charles Young, as an infant. 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_MSS3_B02F06_04
Subjects: African American men; African American children; Young, Charles, 1864-1922.
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Aft of the Tom Greene Photographer: E.P. Moody Ohio R Dist 4. Cincinnati Ident. - 26-to Michigan - National 1/8/41 Picture Book Location - Ohio River at Cincinnati Credit - E.P. Moody Caption - Aft of the Tom Greene with suspension Bridge in back- ground This photo must be returned to OHIO WRITERS' PROJECT 8 E. Chestnut St., Columbus, O." Greene Line Steamers was established in 1890 by Captain Gordon C. Greene and his wife, Captain Mary Greene. Based in Cincinnati, their steamships traveled primarily on the Ohio River, tranporting freight between the east and west. In the 1920's, as railroads took over most freight transport, Greene Line Steamers survived by building larger and more modern steamships, limiting their transport to shorter trade routes, and by pioneering the business of passenger pleasure cruises. The company is perhaps most notable for purchasing the 'Delta Queen' in 1946, the last original and operational sternwheel steamboat that is a U.S. National Historic Landmark. After Tom Greene, son of Gordon C. Greene, died unexpectedly in 1950, Greene Line Steamers came under hard financial times and eventually folded in 1958. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F02_026_001
Subjects: Steamboats; Ohio River; Roebling Suspension Bridge (Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington, Ky.)
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Plaque reads: "Near this spot June 21, 1813 was held a council between General William Henry Harrison and the Indians comprising Wyandots, Delawares, Shawnees and Senecas with Tarhe The Crane as spokesman resulting in permanent peace with the Indians of Ohio Erected by the Columbus Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution June 21, 1904" In 1814, William Henry Harrison and Lewis Cass negotiated a treaty with the Wyandot Indians, the Delaware Indians, the Shawnee Indians, the Seneca Indians, and the Miami Indians on the behalf of the United States government. Known as the Treaty with the Wyandots, Delawares, Shawnee, Senecas, and Miami, this agreement established peaceful relations between the Wyandot Indians, the Delaware Indians, the Shawnee Indians, and the Seneca Indians with the Miami Indians. These five tribes also agreed to assist the United States against the British in the War of 1812. On July 22, 1814, the various parties signed the Treaty with the Wyandots, Delawares, Shawnee, Senecas, and Miami. This agreement illustrated the continued struggle between the British and the white Americans to establish allies with Ohio's Indian people. This struggle had existed since the American Revolution, but with the United States' victory in the War of 1812, Ohio natives no longer had the British as an ally to assist them in inhibiting the westward migration of white Americans. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F04_041_001
Subjects: Harrison, William Henry (1773-1841); Monuments
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)