Description: A portrait of three girls and two boys as they stand outside, 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_f41
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States--History; Children
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: This navy blue flag with the gold lettering is the flag of the state of Oregon. It has State of Oregon written above the escutchen which is a part of the state seal. One the tip of the escutchen is an eagle with 33 stars surrounding it, representing that Oregon was the 33rd state to join the union. In the seal are pictures of ships, a wagon, a plow, a sheaf of grain and a pick ax. There is also a banner with the words "The Union". Below the escutchen is the number 1859 representing the year that Oregon entered the Union. The flag is made of cotton and measures 90 by 155 cm. Materials :Cotton Color :Blue, Gold Marks :Maker's Stamp Decoration :State Seal, "1859", Ships, Wagon, Plow, Motto "The Union" Shape :Rectangle Dimensions :90 x 155 cm View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H65290_001
Subjects: State Flags; Textile--cotton
Places: Oregon
 

Description: This photograph shows a dirt road or possibly a lane in rural Champaign County, Ohio. It is lined on both sides with trees. On one side, there is a wooden fence and on the other it looks like a wooden side walk. Just beyond the trees on the right side is a farm house. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B14F04_015_001
Subjects: Urbana (Ohio); Roads--Ohio--Champaign County--Maps.; Champaign County (Ohio)
Places: Urbana (Ohio); Champaign County (Ohio)
 

Description: Draft of the constitution for Stonewall Union, drawn up as the organization was being created. Stonewall Union was founded in 1981 as a community center for Columbus' gay community. It has since changed names to Stonewall Columbus, and still has a large presence in the local LGBT community as the host of Pride, a community center, an HIV/STI testing center, and activist organization. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1150AV_B02_F79_02_01
Subjects: Gay Ohio History Initiative (GOHI); Columbus (Ohio); Stonewall Union; Gay activists;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio);
 

Description: This is a photograph of dozens of furniture items set up on an unknown theater stage in Ohio. Streamers are strung across the ceiling. Propped against a drum in the center of the stage is a sign for Bashore Music Store of Mount Pleasant, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F04_09_001
Subjects: Theaters--Stage setting and scenery; Theater; Furniture; Musical instruments
Places: Mount Pleasant (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: Unidentified women work on knitting and sewing during a Works Progress Administration sewing class in Toledo, Ohio. Most women involved in WPA projects were part of sewing projects, like the one seen here. Women made up around fifteen to twenty percent of WPA-participants and almost every single one of them was involved in a sewing project of some sort. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F11_004_001
Subjects: Knitting; Sewing--1930-1940; Dresses; Knitting--United States--History; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project.
Places: Toledo (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Regimental colors of the 188th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02160
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
 

Description: Reverse reads "Laying blocks for traffic lane of Riverview Ave." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F06_011_001
Subjects: Dayton (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Dayton (Ohio)--History.
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a picture of the Corwin Estate, located in Lebanon, Ohio. The house belonged to former Ohio Governor Thomas Corwin, who lived here from 1839 until his death in 1865. Corwin held many political positions including member of the Ohio House of Representatives and the United States House of Representatives, U.S. Senator, 15th Governor of Ohio, 20th Secretary of the Treasury, and U.S. Ambassador to Mexico. Corwin earned the nickname "The Wagon Boy" after he served as a wagon boy in General William Henry Harrison's army during the War of 1812, and he is also considered to be one of the most effective political orators of his time. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B14F07_021_001
Subjects: Lebanon (Warren County, Ohio : Civil jurisdiction)--Pictorial works; Warren County (Ohio)--Pictorial works; Corwin, Thomas, 1794-1865; Ohio. Governor (1840-1842 : Corwin); Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.
Places: Lebanon (Ohio); Warren County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Old West Branch Quaker Church 3 miles N. of Union, Ohio, on the Garland Road." The Society of Friends, more commonly known as the Quakers, came to Ohio in the late 1700s and the early 1800s. The first Quaker to arrive in Ohio was George Harlan in 1795. By 1800, approximately eight hundred Quaker families were living in Ohio. The number of families had more than doubled by 1814. The Friends originally settled in eastern and southern Ohio and established Mt. Pleasant, Alliance, Salem, Lisbon, and several other communities in the state. The Ohio Quakers' yearly meeting took place in Mt. Pleasant. There, the Friends built a meeting house that could hold approximately two thousand people. The Quakers played a major role in nineteenth-century reform efforts including the temperance, women's rights, and abolition movements. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F12_014_1
Subjects: Quaker church buildings; Quakers--Political activity; Churches--Ohio; Quaker meetings
Places: Union (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph by Joe Munroe showing a pig looking up from a feed trough, 1955. Pork and other pig products constituted a large portion of the American diet in the 1970s; it was no wonder that hogs were known as "mortgage lifters" because of their high demand and economic value. 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_B09_F01_001
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Farms; Agriculture; Livestock; Swine; Pigs
Places: Indiana
 

Description: Regimental Colors of 110th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Rectangular flag measures 178 cm high by 182 cm wide. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02098
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865