Description: This image shows the front entrance of the Warren County Courthouse. The building is located near the Lebanon business district and was the county's second courthouse. In 1980, the county courthouse relocated to a new building, part of a complex farther away from the center of town. Today, the 1835 courthouse is a county administrative building. It has been remodeled so often over time that it barely resembles the original building. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F07_489
Subjects: Courthouses
Places: Lebanon (Ohio); Warren County (Ohio); 320 E. Silver St.
 

Description: This color illustration is a full-length profile of a woman with light-brown hair opening a door into a room. She is wearing a white blouse, black scarf tied in a bow at the neck, and a floor-length brown skirt. The artist, Howard Chandler Christy (1873-1952), was famous for his portraits of the so-called "Christy Girl," his romanticized vision of the modern young society woman. Born in Morgan County, Ohio, Christy spent his youth on his parents' farm near Duncan Falls. Christy’s mother encouraged his work as a painter and sketch artist. During the 1890s Christy moved to New York City and studied under William Merritt Chase, who encouraged his students to paint their subjects in a realistic manner. After achieving success as an illustrator, Christy open his own studio and began painting portraits and landscape scenes. Christy became a well-known artist because of his involvement in the Spanish-American War. During this conflict, he accompanied American soldiers into battle. He provided magazines, such as "Scribner's," "Harper's," "The Century", and "Leslie's Weekly," with drawings of the battlefields. After the war, Christy became famous for his artwork depicting the "Christy Girl," whose image he used in books, magazines, calendars, and even patriotic posters. Over the next decade, Christy emerged as one of America's most popular artists and illustrators. He returned to his childhood home in Ohio and opened his own studio. His fame continued to grow during the 1910s. He returned to New York and opened a studio in 1915. During World War I he drew posters encouraging his fellow Americans to support the war effort. Once again, the "Christy Girl" figured prominently in his artwork. Following the war, Christy slowly turned away from painting the "Christy Girl." During the 1920s the artist painted the portraits of a number of well-known Americans, including Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, and Eddie Rickenbacker. At the beginning of the Great Depression, Christy's popularity briefly declined, but the artist returned to painting women and landscape scenes. His celebrity status revived, he created commemorative paintings of historical events. His most famous painting from this era shows the signing of the United States Constitution. It hangs in the Rotunda of the United States Capitol Building. Two of Christy's works from this period also hang in the Ohio Statehouse. Christy died in 1952 in New York City. Christy died in New York on March 3, 1952 and was buried in the Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06981
Subjects: Christy, Howard Chandler, 1873-1952; Illustration; Morgan County (Ohio); Artists
 

Description: Photograph of the United States Military Cemetery in Sambeto Valley, Fiji Islands, ca. 1942-1943. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03397
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Soldiers
Places: Sambeto Valley (Fiji Islands)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Modern House Germantown O. 1842" 1842 may refer to the address of this house. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F07_024_001
Subjects: Houses--1900-1940
Places: Germantown (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows an aerial photograph of Warren, Ohio located in Trumbull County in northeastern Ohio. 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_B13F13_001_001
Subjects: Warren (Ohio)--Aerial views; Trumbull County (Ohio)--History; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Works Progress Administration; Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Places: Warren (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is an image of a black and brown, iron gouge. This gouge is convex shaped and has a wood handle. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H73392
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Tools and equipment; Cutting tools
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Republic Steel Corporation Collection (MSS 192) consists of 13,000 black and white photographic negatives, 2,000 color photographic negatives, and many 35 mm slides which document Republic Steel Corporation’s main production facilities and its subsidiaries, 1941-1975. This collection also includes images of social events such as company picnics, award banquets, and dances. Founded in 1899, Republic Iron and Steel Company was a steel production company based in Youngstown, Ohio, and the result of a consolidation of 34 steel mills across the United States including the Mahoning Valley’s Brown Bonnell Iron Company, Andrews Brothers and Company, and Mahoning Iron Company. From 1927-1937, Republic Iron and Steel Company expanded its reach by acquiring a number of other companies such as Trumbull Steel Company in Warren, Ohio, and Central Alloy Steel Corporation in Canton, Ohio. With its expansion, Republic Iron and Steel Company became the third largest steel producer in the United States behind United States Steel Corporation and Bethlehem Steel Company, and changed its name to Republic Steel Corporation to reflect its new status. After the outbreak of World War II in 1941, the Corporation’s production increased by 33%. This increased production continued into the 1950s and 1960s as the company continued to be one of the leading developers of steel production technology. Due to a myriad of factors including decreased demand for steel from automobile manufacturers and imported foreign steel, steel sales declined and in 1984 the Republic Steel Corporation was purchased by LTV Corporation, which led to the closure of the Youngstown plant. LTV filed for bankruptcy in December 2000. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: YHC_MSS192_B02F322_02
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: This postcard, showing an elevated view of Cleveland Municipal Stadium, was postmarked 1940. Built in 1931, the stadium was used by both the Cleveland Indians baseball team and the Cleveland Browns football team. Cleveland Municipal Stadium was demolished in 1996. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07907
Subjects: Baseball fields; Sports; Aerial photographs
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Formerly called the Gallipolis Locks and Dam, the Robert C. Byrd Locks & Dam, which traverses the Ohio River from West Virginia to Ohio, was dedicated in 1937. The locks and dam were renamed in 1992 after West Virginia Senator Robert C. Bird, the longest serving member of the U.S. Senate. The non-navigable, high-lift, gated dam, contains eight roller gates. Two new parallel locks were constructed between November 1987 and January 1993. Renovation of the dam took place between Aug 1992 and 2002, replacing 8 roller gates, control units, motor control center and electric feeders. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F11_010_001
Subjects: Dams--Ohio
Places: Eureka (West Virginia); Gallipolis (Ohio); Gallia County (Ohio)
 

Description: At an airport in Lima, Ohio a crowd welcomes Neil Armstrong back to his hometown of Wapakoneta, Ohio after NASA mission Gemini 8. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV_203B2F1_015
Subjects: Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012; Wapakoneta (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: U.S. Catholic Cardinal Francis Joseph Spellman, of New York, NY, visiting the troops at the First Marine Aircraft Wing Base (K-3) in Pohang Dong, Korea at Christmas of 1953. Cardinal Spellman visited Korea three Christmases in a row. This base was where PFC Michael John Petrucci was stationed from 1953-1954. Petrucci was born August 9, 1930, in Youngstown, Ohio, where he grew up and attended school. Petrucci enlisted in the Marine Corps in July of 1952, and began basic training at Cherry Point Marine Base in North Carolina in August 1953. He received orders for overseas duty in May 1953, but when the United States and North Korea ended hostilities in July 1953, his transfer to Korea was halted. Petrucci was eventually sent to Korea in September 1953 and stationed at the First Marine Aircraft Wing base in the town of Pohang Dong, where he served until July 1954. By September 1954, Petrucci had returned to civilian life in Youngstown, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07490
Subjects: Ohio History--Military Ohio; Military life; United States Marine Corps; Korean War (1950-1953)
Places: Pohang Dong (Korea)
 

Description: Governor George Hoadly delivered an annual message to the 67th General Assembly of Ohio on Jan. 4, 1886. These 44 pages are included in part 1 of the 1885 Executive Documents. Hoadly (1827-1902) was a Democrat who served as Ohio’s 36th governor from 1884 to 1886. During his administration, Hoadly drew criticism for delaying to order the state militia to restore order in Cincinnati, where rioters marched in early 1884. In addition, Hoadly’s decision to send troops to deal with an uprising due to a coal strike alienated him from conservatives and labor adherents alike. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Page01,Om36771886StateofState(Hoadly)
Subjects: Ohio Government; Presidents and Politics
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Fostoria (Ohio); Seneca County (Ohio)