Description: Jacob Lindley was born in 1774 in Pennsylvania. At the age of eighteen he attended Jefferson College, Pennsylvania and later Princeton University, New Jersey, studying theology. In 1803 Lindley moved to Ohio, becoming the pastor of a Presbyterian Church in Waterford. He moved to Athens, Ohio in 1808 after being selected by the first board of trustees of Ohio University to head the university. As the first president of Ohio University he served from 1809-1822. The fireplace mantel pictured in the photograph is from the Lindley House in Athens, Ohio. It is consistent with the Greek revival style that was popular in American architecture during the early 19th century. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F07_002
Subjects: Architecture; Athens (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works; Interiors; Fireplaces; Lindley, Jacob, 1744-1814
Places: Athens (Ohio); Athens County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of an unidentified woman, 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_b17_f1110
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States--History
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: This 26 page booklet contains the text of Governor Thomas L. Young’s message to the 63rd General Assembly on Jan. 7, 1878. Young (1832-1888), a Republican, became Ohio’s 33rd governor when Rutherford B. Hayes left office to become President. Young completed Hayes’ term, serving from 1877 to 1878. While he was in office, Ohio was plagued by labor unrest; a railroad strike led to tension and mob rioting, prompting Young to call in the state militia in restore order, which it did quickly and effectively. In addition to his stint as governor, Young served in the Ohio House of Representatives, the Ohio State Senate, and in the U. S. House of Representatives. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Page1
Subjects: Presidents and Politics; Ohio Government; Governors
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Two students headed to school in southern Michigan, photographed by Joe Munroe, 1947. One-room schools were common even into the 1950s, providing the backbone for the education of local farm children. Eventually their districts would be combined with larger districts and the buildings fell by the wayside. Joe Munroe's career began in 1939 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He served in the Air Force during World War II and then joined Cincinnati-based Farm Quarterly magazine. Though raised in Detroit, agriculture became an important subject of Joe's photographs. He moved to California in 1955 and free-lanced, taking magazine assignments and selling his own work. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P400_B12_F01_001
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Farm life; One-room schools; Education; Children
Places: Williamston (Michigan)
 

Description: Program for a musical performance at the White House, given for President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife, February 12, 1934. Performers were Irene Singer, Jennie Robinor and the Curtis String Quartet. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS559_B13F20_001_1
Subjects: Arts and entertainment; Performers; Musical performance; Presidents -- United States;
Places: Washington (D.C.)
 

Description: Probably dated to the 1930s, this photograph shows the Centennial Auditorium at the Ohio State Fairgrounds. The Ohio State Fair is an annual exhibition held at the Ohio Expo Center in Columbus that showcases Ohio farming and commercial products and achievements. In the 1840s, farmers began to join agricultural organizations, and the state of Ohio began to take an interest in the challenges that farmers faced. As a result, the state government created the Board of Agriculture in 1846. The Board of Agriculture planned to hold the first statewide fair in 1849, but a cholera epidemic forced the fair's cancellation. The first Ohio State Fair was held the next year instead. The city of Cincinnati hosted the fair in 1850, which went on for three days. Ultimately, the Board decided that the state capital should be the permanent site for the state fair, and it moved to Columbus in 1874. By the 1870s, the state's railroad system had improved significantly, and it was much easier to travel from all parts of the state. The current fairgrounds, known today as the Ohio Expo Center, were completed in 1886. The Ohio State Fair has been held at these fairgrounds ever since. 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_B05F04C_009_1
Subjects: Ohio State Fair; Auditoriums; Architecture; Columbus (Ohio)
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is the rear facade of the Clark County Courthouse. It was completed in 1924 by architect William Schilling, after the second courthouse was damaged by fire in 1918. The Neoclassical building was constructed from the foundational remains and because of this there are elements from the Second Empire style building evident on the first floor. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F01_069
Subjects: Courthouses; municipal buildings; Neoclassical
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio); 50 E. Columbia St.
 

Description: Photograph shows a large banner reading "United We Stand" in an alcove at a radio station. There is an unlit "On The Air" light next to the banner, on the left. On a shelf underneath the banner are two signs with several war related photographs on each. The sign on the left is in Polish and reads: "Czy chcesz walczyc na ladzie. na morzu czy w powietrzu? decyduj sam. w kanadzie tworza sie Polskie sily zbrojne" which rougly translates as "Do you want to fight on land, sea or air? Decide alone. Canada formed the Polish armed forces" The sign on the right is in Polish and reads: "Polacy i amerykanie w walce o demokracje pokonaja wspolnego wroga. W kanadzie tworza sie polskie sily zbrojne." This roughly translates as: "Poles and Americans in the struggle for democracy defeat a common enemy. In Canada, the Polish armed forces were formed." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F10_026_1
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio). Radio Station WLW; Cincinnati. Radio Station WLW; WLW (Radio Station : Cincinnati, Ohio)
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Crosley Field, Courtesy Cincinnati Baseball Club." Crosley Field is located at the corner of Western Avenue and Findley Street in Cincinnati, Ohio. Originally named Redland Field, this steel and concrete Major League Baseball park was designed by architect Henry Hake and cost $225,000 to build. It was renamed Crosley Field in 1934, when the team was bought by local businessman Powel Crosley Jr., who's ownership saw some important structural renovations to the building. It 1935, lights were added to allow for games to be played at night, in order to increase attendance during the Depression. Crosley Field was also used for other events throughout the years. Crosley Field was one of the smallest parks in the MLB, in both capacity and field size, and was notorious for "the terrace", a fifteen degree incline in left field. The last game at Crosley Field was played June 24, 1970, and the team moved to Riverfront Stadium. It was destroyed on April 19, 1972 and today seven buildings and a street occupy the place where it stood. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F10_004_1
Subjects: Crosley Field (Cincinnati, Ohio); Baseball--Ohio--Cincinnati
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Carte de visite of Sgt. Austin T. Miller, who served with Company K of the 148th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Company K was recruited from Trumbull County, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV200_b03_f18_04
Subjects: Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Photographs; United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 148th (1864) Company K
Places: Trumbull County
 

Description: Caption reads: "21319 Timber Management, Forest Products, Ohio. Part of R. O. Hinsdale's sugar camp." Maple syrup season begin in January, ending around April in Ohio and while trees are tapped all over the state, Geauga County has some of the state's best, and hosts the state's Maple Syrup Festival every spring. There was a time in Geauga County's history when nearly 80% of the landowners had their own sugarbush. A sugar bush is a group of maples trees, together with a sugar house. Traditionally, maple syrup was harvested by tapping a maple tree through the bark and into the wood, then letting the sap run into a bucket, which required daily collecting; less labour-intensive methods such as the use of continuous plastic pipelines have since superseded this, in all but cottage-scale production. It takes approximately 10 gallons of sap to be boiled down to 1 quart of syrup. A mature sugar maple produces about 40 litres of sap during the 4 to 6 week sugaring season under gravity, but can produce 20 or more gallons under vacuum. Trees are not tapped until they have a diameter of 10 inches at chest-height and the tree is at least 40 years old. If the tree is more than 18 inches it can be tapped twice on opposite sides. Once the sap is collected, it is taken to the sugar house and put into an evaporator to boil the sap to syrup. It takes about 40 gallons of sap to get about 1 gallon of syrup. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F03_030_001
Subjects: Maple syrup industry
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Caption reads: "Residence Street in Cleveland Heights." which is covering another caption, which reads: "St. James Parkway, Shaker Heights." This photograph shows the intersection of Cedar Road and N. St. James Pkwy, a typical residential scene in a Cleveland suburb. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F08_11_01
Subjects: Cleveland (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Places: Cleveland Heights (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)