Description: A hand-written Letter to Ada Young from “Kikik, in regards the death of her father Col. Charles Young, who was the first African American to reach the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army. In 1918, after being forced into retirement, due to health concerns, he rode on horseback from Wilberforce, Ohio to Washington D.C. to prove his physical fitness for duty. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Page1
Subjects: African American soldiers; African American men; ; Military officers; World War I, 1914-1918; Young, Charles, 1864-1922.
 

Description: Skyline view of Cincinnati and the Ohio River taken from Covington, Kentucky. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F01_030_01
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio); Ohio River
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of South Chillicothe Street in Portsmouth under water. Caption reads: "Main street of town under water." The photo is from the "Portsmouth, Ohio, flood of 1937", SC 381. This collection contains 37 photographic black and white prints, 21 x 26cm or smaller; and 4 postcards in black in white, 9 x 14 cm. Photographs document the flood damage in Portsmouth, including sandbagging, floodwall construction, and Works Progress Administration (WPA) rescue efforts. In 1937, southern Ohio faced one of the worst floods in its history, known today as the "Great Flood of 1937." The Ohio River flood of 1937 took place in late January and February. In Cincinnati, the flood was particularly difficult for the city, where flood levels reached its crest of 79.99 feet on Tuesday, January 26, 1937. Communities along the Ohio River in Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois also faced serious problems. Many people lost their homes as a result of the flood. The Ohio River Flood of 1937 caused more than twenty million dollars in damages. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: sc381_08_01
Subjects: Floods--Ohio River; Portsmouth (Ohio)--Flood, 1937
Places: Portsmouth (Ohio); Scioto County (Ohio)
 

Description: Flank Marker of the 5th United States Colored Troops. (Flank Marker of the 127th Ohio Volunteer Infantry.) The 127th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was formed in Camp Delaware, Ohio and later renamed the 5th Regiment United States Colored Troops. A flank marker is a small flag carried at either end of a regiment line. To qualify as a flank marker, it must be on a long pole. This flag has not been cataloged in this collection. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02180
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865African Americans--Ohio
Places: Delaware County (Ohio)
 

Description: This appears to be a display for the Cleveland Unit of the Ohio Writers' Project. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F04_19_001
Subjects: Federal Writers' Project. Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Maria Black pieced this quilt of log cabin courthouse step blocks in rows of 7 x 9. The blocks are made of strips of lightweight wool, cotton, and silk fabric laid on a foundation. The fabrics are solids, plaids and prints in reds, greens, browns, blacks, pinks, and purples. The light strips are at the top and bottom of each block with the darks on both sides. Most of the blocks' centers are solid pieces of fabric in different colors but a few are made with quarter-square triangle blocks. Little red wool felt four-petal flowers are tacked with pink wool at the blocks' intersections. The back is pieced with various brown calicos. The applied binding is gold plaid cotton. The quilt has cotton batting. The quilt is constructed in the quilt-as-you-go method. It is 209cm x 211cm (82 x 83 inches). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3462_6643201_001
Subjects: Ohio Women; Daily life; Quilts; Textiles
Places: Woodstock (Ohio); Champaign County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1930-1939, this photograph shows Alumni Hall at the University of Dayton. Construction on Alumni Hall began in 1922 and today, the building is home to the second-largest Marianist community in the world, housing more than 30 priests and brothers. 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_B09F06_021_001
Subjects: University of Dayton; Dayton (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Universities and colleges; Education; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: This home, also known as the Baum-Longworth-Taft House, was built in 1820 for Martin Baum, was later occupied by Nicholas Longworth and finally was the home of Charles P. Taft, the half-brother of William Howard Taft. In 1908, William Howard Taft accepted the presidential nomination while standing underneath the home's portico. The house and the Tafts' art collection was bequeathed to the city of Cincinnati in 1927. After the deaths of Charles and his wife in 1929 and 1931, the house was remodeled and reopened as the Taft Museum in 1932. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F10_001_001
Subjects: Arts and Entertainment; Buildings; Galleries & museums
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: National colors of the 179th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Rectangular flag measures 180 cm high by 198 cm wide. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02137
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
 

Description: This photograph shows the West Side Dock on Kelley’s Island. The West Dock was built in 1906 by the Kelleys Island Lime & Transport company and was located roughly in the middle of the west shore of the island. Sometimes called the Stone Dock, it is elevated pier made of steel and wooden trestles, with railway tracks running along the top, and designed to load crushed limestone into barges from either side. Within six years of being built, more than 500,000 tons were being shipped each year with as many as 8 steam locomotives needed to pull up to 150 full train cars. The company's island quarrying operation comprised more than 1,000 acres; especially impressive considering the whole island is only 2,888 acres. The lakeside ore dock was modified to a "pocket" structure in 1910. This greatly improved efficiency, as it allowed limestone to be stored in large bins until it could be loaded onto ships. While quarrying continues to be a major industry on the island, The Kelley Island Lime & Transport Company, founded in 1896, and which was once the largest producer of limestone and lime products in the world, closed the early 1960s. Numerous ruins of these operations and quarries now dot the island. The East Quarry closed in 1940 and is now a state park. The whole of Kelley’s Island was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F09_012_1
Subjects: Limestone--Ohio; Quarries and quarrying--Ohio; Historic sites--Ohio--Kelleys Island--Pictorial works; National Register of Historic Places
Places: Kelleys Island (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Republic Steel Corporation employees of the Cleveland district cold strip mill moving rolls of steel. This series of negatives was logged into the Central Alloy District files on June 9, 1942. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: YHC_MSS192_B01F095_11
Subjects: Steel Industry and trade; Republic Steel Corporation--Ohio; Cold strip steel
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Unidentified women work on a sewing project through the Works Progress Administration in 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. Most women at that time were still sewing by hand, so they received training in using sewing machines. Once they became skilled enough with the machines, they made clothing, bedding and supplies for hospitals and orphanages. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F03_022_01
Subjects: Sewing; Sewing machines; Sewing--1930-1940; Dresses; Sewing--United States--History--20th century; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Ohio