Description: Poet Paul Laurence Dunbar at age 19, 1892. He was born in Dayton, Ohio, in 1872 to Joshua and Matilda Dunbar, both former slaves, and was encouraged by his mother in poetry and his schooling from an early age. He attended Dayton Central High School and was the sole African American student at that time. Following his high school graduation, Dunbar worked as an elevator operator while writing poetry in his free time. He built a reputation as a successful literary voice and writer of dialect poetry, and was the first African American poet to receive critical acclaim for his work. Dunbar authored twelve collections of poetry, five novels, one play, and a large number of newspaper articles before his death from tuberculosis on February 9, 1906. He is buried in the Woodland Cemetery in Dayton. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00514
Subjects: Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906; American poetry--Ohio; Literary Ohio; African American Ohioans; Poets; Authors
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: An older child is seated in a chair near a porch and steps with an infant in her lap as they pose for a portrait. Writing on the negative appears to state that the girls are daughters of a man named Ed. 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_b01_f35
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States--History; Children
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: Photograph of what appear to be stadium lights in an unknown part of Ohio. A man is visible in the lower right-hand corner of the frame. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B14F05_003_001
Subjects: Lighting; Ohio; Utilities; Stadiums
Places: Ohio
 

Description: "If You Tell Where He's Going...He May Never Get There!" 1943 Office of War Information poster designed to promote a sense of common purpose during World War II and to discourage unguarded sharing of strategic information. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04745
Subjects: World War II; World War, 1939-1945--War work; Ohio History--Military Ohio; War posters--Ohio
 

Description: Employees of the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company in Columbus, Ohio working in the casting shop, 1910. Jeffrey cast many of its smaller machine parts in this shop. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01288
Subjects: Machinery industry--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1935-1940, this photograph shows Central Catholic High School in Toledo, Ohio. The building is made of multicolor brick and is three stories tall. An inscription above the front doors reads "CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL," and there are four ionic columns above. The building has a hipped roof and a cross extends from the center of the building. Central Catholic High School (CCHS) is a Catholic, co-educational, college prep school in Toledo, Ohio. It is operated by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Toledo and is the largest Catholic high school in the area. CCHS was founded as Cathedral High School in 1919, with its name change in 1920. The school, which is located one mile northwest of Downtown Toledo, has received two School of Excellence Awards and the Drug Prevention Award. 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_B13F12_018_001
Subjects: High schools--Ohio; Catholic schools; Education; Religion in Ohio
Places: Toledo (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of a painting of Guidon of the 7th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. It is a swallowtail flag with a square blue field with 34 stars. The stars represent the states of the Union at the beginning of the Civil War. There are 12 stars in the inner circle, 18 in the outer circle and one in each corner. The painting was done by Rob Needham. At the bottom is printed "7th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02329
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Military flags; Communication artifact; Ceremonial artifact
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Line drawing of the first courthouse in Franklinton, Ohio, located at the present-day intersection of Broad Street and State Route 315. Franklinton was founded by Lucas Sullivant in 1797. The Franklinton courthouse was built in 1807, but the town's aspirations were cut short when nearby Columbus became the state capital, and therefore would be the home of the new courthouse. Franklinton was eventually annexed by Columbus as the city grew larger, and is now a part of the city's West Side. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03964
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Courthouses
Places: Franklinton (Ohio); Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Children playing on the playground of Lakeview Terrace, a federal housing project in Cleveland, Ohio, ca. 1940. This photograph was to be included in the Cleveland Guide, one of several guides on selected American cities to be published by the Federal Writers Project. The Federal Writers Program was a depression-era program created to employ writers. Most of the work for the Cleveland Guide was complete when the program was abolished in 1943. The Cleveland Guide was not published. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03610
Subjects: Public housing; Federal Writers' Project; Great Depression and the New Deal; Children; Playgrounds
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a bookplate for the Westminster College of Music, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, designed by Ohio illustrator Lois Lenski and engraved and printed by The Champlin Press of Columbus. From p. 236 of "Some American College Book-Plates" by Harry Parker Ward (Columbus: The Champlin Printing Company, 1915). The drawing features a youthful figure sitting under a tree playing an instrument, possibly a horn or pipes. In the lower right-hand corner of the pastoral scene, a trio comprised of the letter "L" forms a square. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05653
Subjects: Bookplates; Lenski, Lois, 1893-1974; Books and reading; Westminster College (New Wilmington, Pa.)
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Undersides of green silk brocade slippers with ruched ribbon trim and 2 " thin heels, ca. 1765-1795. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05037
Subjects: Women--Ohio; Popular culture; Women's shoes; Clothing and dress;
 

Description: A view of Buckeye Lake in Licking County. Buckeye Lake began as a small pond that Ohio's American Indians called "Big Swamp" or "Big Pond." In the 1820s, the state began construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal, and workers built a dike that diverted water from the south fork of the Licking River into the pond, which then became known as the Licking Reservoir or Licking Summit Reservoir. As canals declined in use in the second half of the 19th century, the Ohio and Erie Canal was abandoned and began to deteriorate, but the canal's decline did not mean an end to the Licking Reservoir. Instead, the state legislature renamed it Buckeye Lake and made it a public park in 1894. By the early 20th century, the reservoir had become an attractive location for recreational activities, including through the construction of Buckeye Lake Amusement Park, and the Columbus, Buckeye Lake and Newark Interurban Electric Railway, an electric trolley system, connected the park to nearby urban areas. In 1949, the state of Ohio designated Buckeye Lake as a state park. The amusement park began to decline in popularity by the late 1950s and continued to deteriorate in the 1960s. Although the amusement park no longer exists, Buckeye Lake State Park still attracts a number of visitors to the area each year, in addition to the many people who own vacation homes near the lake or live in the area year-round. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06706
Subjects: Recreation; Licking River (Ohio)
Places: Buckeye Lake (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio)