Description: Seen in this photo is an old water well. It may be near Franklinton. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F04_027_001
Subjects: Water wells
Places: Ohio
 

Description: The Detroit-Superior High Level Bridge is also known as the Veterans Memorial Bridge is a compression arch suspended deck bridge and spans the Cuyahoga River. It was completed in 1918 and was then the largest steel and concrete reinforced bridge in the world. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. This photograph is ca. 1935-1943. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F17_045
Subjects: Bridges--Ohio--Cleveland
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a three-quarter back view of the wedding dress and poke hat worn by Anne Catherine Spurck on July 4, 1817, in Chillicothe, Ohio. Made of oyster white-colored silk and taffeta, the dress features an empire waist with a drawstring at the back and a paneled bodice on the front. A cream silk figured poke hat with ribbons accompanies the dress. Anne Catherine Spurck (1798-1879) married Peter Dittoe (1793-1868), and the couple is buried at Holy Trinity Cemetery in Somerset, Ohio. This dress was featured in an exhibition titled Fashion on the Ohio Frontier 1790-1840 at the Kent State University Museum in Kent, Ohio View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05004
Subjects: Wedding costume; Women; Clothing and dress; Hats; Dresses
Places: Chillicothe (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of the library of the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1946. This photo is of the inside of the library. Furniture and the collection are shown. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02849
Subjects: Manufacturing industries--Ohio; Libraries--Ohio--History
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "Fence at Schoenbrunn." In 1772, David Zeisberger, a missionary of the Moravian Church, established the village of Schoenbrunn on the Tuscarawas River, near present-day New Philadelphia. The word Schoenbrunn means "beautiful spring" in German. The purpose of this community was to provide Moravian missionaries a place to teach Christianity to Native Americans residing in Ohio. At its greatest size, Schoenbrunn had a population of four hundred Christian natives, mostly Delaware Indians, and more than sixty buildings, including the first school and Christian church built in Ohio. During the American Revolution, facing harassment from both the English and the Americans, Zeisberger and his followers abandoned Schoenbrunn in early 1778. They held a final service in the church, after which they tore down their house of worship to prevent its desecration. Schoenbrunn has since been rebuilt and is administered as an historic site by the Ohio Historical Society. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F02_006_001
Subjects: Religion in Ohio; Churches; Schoenbrunn (Ohio); Zeisberger, David, 1721-1808; New Philadelphia (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: New Philadelphia (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Dist. 6 files. Jefferson County State Park. Shelter house on wooded section of lake bank. This print made by Nosset Studio, Steubenville, Ohio." Jefferson Lake State Park is located about 15 miles northwest of Steubenville at 501 Township Road 261A in Richmond, Ohio. Many different variety of fish can be caught in the lake. The park also offers many picnic spots, and several hiking and bridle trails. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F06_029_001
Subjects: State Parks--Ohio--Pictorial works. & reserves--Ohio--1930-1940; Lakes--Ohio
Places: Steubenville (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: William Woodward (1768-1833) and his wife Abigail first started as the Woodward Free Grammar School as an effort of educated the city's poor. The growth of the public school system around 1829 caused him to reevaluate his goals for the school. Additional land was purchased, and a new school built. The Woodward High School of Cincinnati opened October 1831 in a two story brick building on Franklin Street in the Bond Hill community of Cincinnati, and was the first high school west of the Allegheny Mountains. The school's thorough education caused trustee's to apply to collegiate powers, which were granted. Woodward's College Department opened January 1936, in the same building as the high school, and alumni of the school earned degrees at graduation. The school continue to grow, and by 1841, a third story was added, and plans were undertaken to construct bigger facilities, which were completed in 1855. "Old Woodward", designed by John R. Hamilton in the English - Gothic style, was located on the corner of Woodward Street and Sycamore Street, and was one of the first buildings in America to use terracotta as exterior decoration. Around 1850, public schools were continuing to grow, and it was becoming apparent that the need for the Woodward as a private institution was waning. The high school was suspended, so that the college portion of the school could survive on the remaining funds. Money ran out, however, and the College Department closed in 1851. Not wanting to close the school entirely, especially with a new building underway, the board decided reinstate the high school and joined the Cincinnati public school system later that same year, changing their name to the Cincinnati Woodward High School. In 1860, the remains of William Woodward and his wife were placed in a stone vault on school grounds near the Broadway Street entrance, to honor his dedication to the school and in 1878, a monument and statue were placed over the tomb. A new building was constructed on Sycamore Street in between 1908 to 1910. The Second Renaissance Revival-style structure was designed by local architect Gustav Drach. In 1950, this building became the Abigail Cutter Junior High School, and Woodward High School moved to a new building on Reading Road. From 1976 to 2010, the School for Creative and Performing Arts (SCPA) used the building on Sycamore Street, which plans to move to new facilities adjacent to Cincinnati Music Hall in the fall of 2010. The future of the Sycamore Street building currently remains undecided. Notable people associated with the school include: Joseph Ray, the school's first principal, teacher of mathmatics and author a series of algebra textbooks; William McGuffy, teacher and author of many well known spellers and readers; and former U.S. President William Taft, who is an alumni (1874). It is also interesting to note that William Woodward's home was built on the site of the Sycamore Street school, in 1832 (before the school was built). The house was lived in by Henry Rucher, and early principal and teacher, and was commonly known as the Rucher House. From 1856 - 1863, Levi Coffin, "President" of the Underground Railway, and his wife Catherine, lived in this home. The home later served as the Good Samaritan Hospital for a short time, and St. Luke's Hospital, before eventually being demolished in order to build the new school, in 1907. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F13_004
Subjects: Schools--Ohio; Woodward College (Cincinnati, Ohio); Woodward High School (Cincinnati, Ohio); Bond Hill (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows the library at Trinity Lutheran Seminary and Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. Trinity Lutheran Seminary was founded on September 1, 1978, with the consolidation of the Evangelical Lutheran Theological Seminary (1830) and Hamma School of Theology (1845). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06422
Subjects: Lutheran Church--Education--History--United States; Columbus (Ohio)
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Close-up photograph of the Shenandoah airship wreckage, September 1925. The Shenandoah was the first of four United States Navy rigid airships, built in 1922-1923. The first flight took place in September 1925. On its 57th flight, it was torn apart by a squall line over Noble County, Ohio, on September 3, 1925. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03742
Subjects: Noble County (Ohio); Ohio History; Disasters; Shenandoah (Airship)
Places: Noble County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows a flock of ducks on a farm in Medina County, OHio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F06_026_1
Subjects: Agriculture--Ohio--History--20th century.; Ducks; Livestock
Places: Medina County (Ohio)
 

Description: Preparing the soil for planting on a farm in Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F02_031_1
Subjects: Ohio; Agriculture--Ohio--History.;
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Original description reads: "River Traffic. View from Superior Ave. Bridge looking north." Tugboat pulling another ship along the Cuyahoga River. The bridge pictured in the photograph is the Main Avenue Bridge. The Main Ave. (Harold H. Burton Memorial) Bridge, in its current state, opened October 6, 1939. The 6 lane bridge is Ohio's longest elevated structure at 8,000ft. Earlier bridges of varying sophistication have connected the East and West shores of the Cuyahoga in this location since the mid-1800s. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F11_38_01
Subjects: Ships--Cuyahoga River (Ohio); Cuyahoga River (Ohio); Cargo Ships; Cleveland (Ohio)--Pictorial works; Bridges--Ohio--Cleveland; Bridges--Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)