Description: Dated ca. 1935-1940, the top photograph shows a herd of dairy cattle drinking in a stream or pond in Ohio. The second photograph shows a conservation project to prevent soil erosion in 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_B06F03_022_1
Subjects: Agriculture; Cattle; Rural life; Erosion
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Caption reads: "Trumbull Co Truck Farm. Pub in Warren O, Guide" View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F05_015_1
Subjects: Agriculture--Ohio--History--20th century.; Truck farming
Places: Trumbull County (Ohio)
 

Description: A photograph of a sculpture of Simon Kenton. Ohio sculptor John Quincy Adams Ward designed this statue of Simon Kenton, an early Ohio settler who was known for his conflicts with American Indians, in the early 1860s. He had hoped an enlargement of this statue, to be placed in Columbus, Ohio, would be his first public monument. Due to the outbreak of the Civil War, however, the project was not approved. The statue measures 26" high (66.04 cm). Ward (1830-1910) was born in Urbana, Ohio. He moved to New York in 1849 to study under sculptor Henry Kirke Brown. In 1861 he established a studio and began working on pieces with distinctly American themes. The Indian Hunter was his first public work and one of several pieces placed in Central Park in New York. He also created statues of George Washington and James A. Garfield in Washington, D.C. Ward also created the pediment statues at the New York Stock Exchange, focusing on figures signifying American wealth and commerce. Simon Kenton (1755-1836) was born in Virginia and fled to avoid prosecution for a fight in which he believed that he killed his opponent. Using the name Simon Butler, he settled in Boonesboro, Kentucky. He served as a spy during Lord Dunmore's War and spent time in a British prison in Detroit. He joined General Anthony Wayne's offensive against the American Indians in Ohio in 1793 at fought in the Battle of Fallen Timbers. During the War of 1812 he commanded troops at the Battle of the Thames, in which the Americans were victorious over the British. Kenton died in Logan County, Ohio on April 29, 1836. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B14F04_013_001
Subjects: Sculpture; Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910; Kenton, Simon, 1755-1836
Places: Urbana (Ohio); Champaign County (Ohio)
 

Description: Engraved plaque reading, "This tablet marks the birthplace of the first white child born in the Moravian Mission House at Gnadenhutten; John Lewis Roth born July 4 1773 died Sept 25 1841 Buried at Bath PA.; Erected by The Ohio Society Daughters of the American Colonists 1934." John Lewis Roth is believed to be the first white child born in Ohio. Near New Philadelphia in Tuscarawas County is a partial reconstruction of an 18th century Delaware Indian mission. The Ohio Historical Society acquired the property in 1923 and reconstructed the site from 1927 to 1930. Today Gnadenhutten is marked by a 37-foot-high monument and a small museum, along with a reconstructed cabin and a cooper's shop. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F01_028
Subjects: German Americans; Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood; Delaware Tribe
Places: Gnadenhutten (Ohio); New Philadelphia (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: The photograph shows damage to deeds of Summit County. Open page is dated Jan. 1st, 1915. These archives are now held at the Summit County Recorder's Office on Main St. in Akron View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F10_002_001
Subjects: Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project; Public records; Pests
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photo of 2 men working somewhere in the Deisel-Wemmer-Gilbert cigar factory. The cigars can be seen completed in stacks, so it can be assumed that this is either the quality checking process or boxing process. The company was started by Harry Diesel in 1884. Diesel started out by calling his cigars "Harry's Best" and were hand-rolled out of his house. As popularity grew, Diesel could afford a shop on North Main Street and hired some workers to help him with his business in 1886. Two years later in 1888, his workers formed a union and went on strike for more money. Diesel gave in to the demands, but needed a partner to deal with the effects of the strike. He teamed up with brothers Henry and William Wemmer and changed the name of his cigar company to the Diesel-Wemmer Company. The company moved to several different locations as demand for the company's cigars grew and the need for a bigger space and more workers were needed. The Diesel-Wemmer company would eventually end up running 17 plants and employing 4,000 people, mostly women. The invention of the cigar-rolling machine put a dent in the amount of people needed to make cigars. One of these machines could produce 3,500 cigars a day and only needed 4 men to operate. The company continued to roll their cigars by hand for a while but, once the technology improved, moved to machine-rolled cigars. In 1925, cigar production declined and Diesel-Wemmer eventually merged with the Gilbert Cigar Company creating the Diesel-Wemmer-Gilbert Cigar Company (DWS) with Gilbert now controlling the company. Gilbert would control the company through the depression until 1939 when Norman Schwartz would take over as manager for Gilbert. After the war, DWS would buy out several other cigar manufacturers and become the 5th largest cigar producer in the United States making 56 million cigars a year. In 1990, after 106 years of operation, DWS would be out of business due to declining sales and the shrinking cigar market in the United States. A calendar can be seen on the wall, assuming it is correct, the photo was taken sometime in April of 1937. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F08_012_1
Subjects: Lima (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works; Tobacco industry; Cigar industry;
Places: Lima (Ohio); Allen County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph was 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_B16_F982
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States--History;
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: National colors of the 10th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Text on flag reads: 10th Reg't. The flag is badly damaged. This flag has not been cataloged in this collection. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01879
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Painting of regimental colors of the 114th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Text on flag reads: Presented by the [?] 114. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02557
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
 

Description: Ichabod Corwin and his family were the first settlers of Lebanon, Ohio, in 1796. He purchased land northwest of what would become downtown Lebanon. Ichabod was born in New Jersey in 1767 and raised in Bourbon County, Kentucky. In Kentucky he met and married his wife, Sarah Griffin, with whom he had thirteen children before his death in 1834. Pictured in the photograph, Ichabod Corwin's grave marker is seen to the right, aged 67 at the time of his death. The grave marker in the center is that of his wife Sarah, born in 1772 and died in 1853 at the age of 81 years. The grave marker to the left belongs to one of Ichabod's sons, also named Ichabod, who was born in 1808 and died in 1843, aged 35 years. This plot is located in the Baptist Graveyard of the Pioneer Cemetery. The Pioneer Cemetery occupies one city block in Lebanon, Ohio, and is bounded by West Main Street, South West Street, West Mulberry Street, and South Harrison Street. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F06_047
Subjects: Lebanon (Ohio); Warren County (Ohio); Cemeteries; Burial
Places: Lebanon (Ohio); Warren County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Drilling for handle -- Defense Training. Courtesy, Cincinnati Public Schools." This photograph shows a young operating a drill press, while another watches. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F10_025_1
Subjects: Schools--Ohio; Drill presses
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of a ladder from a collection of models, that were constructed at the school by a WPA project, for the Ohio State School for the Blind and are located in the basement of the school. The models are of various monuments around the United States that blind students can examine with their hands. In 1837, the Ohio government established the Ohio Institution for the Education of the Blind. This institution was the predecessor of the Ohio State School for the Blind. It was the first public school for the blind in the United States. The school opened its doors in 1839, and it was located in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Any blind children residing in Ohio could attend the institution. Eleven students enrolled at the Ohio Institution for the Education of the Blind this first year. The school initially had a maximum capacity of sixty students, but upon moving to a new building in 1874, more than three hundred students could attend at one time. Between 1839 and 1901, 2,058 students enrolled at the Ohio Institution for the Education of the Blind, with 339 attending in 1901 alone. In the early 1900s, the Ohio Institution for the Education of the Blind became known as the Ohio State School for the Blind, and the Ohio Department of Education assumed control of the school. In 1953, the school moved ten miles north of its original location to its present home. In 2005, 126 students enrolled in the Ohio State School for the Blind. Students as young as three and as old as twenty-one years of age attended the school. Students could receive their entire education (kindergarten through high school) at the institution. In addition, the Ohio State School for the Blind offered vocational training for its students. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F02_017_001
Subjects: Models; Ladders; 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)