Description: Caption reads: "Ohio Picture Book. Page: 33. Picture: 40. Credit: None. Caption: State Fair, Cleveland, in 1860's." This is a photograph of a drawing of a State Fair in Cleveland. There are signs for both Carriage Entrance and Carriage Exit as well as Foot Entrance, Foot Exit and Ticket Office. There are stables along the right side which are labeled "All Work & Draft Horses." Stables at the top right are for "Roadsters." At the top center a sign reads " [?], Devons & Ayershires [Ayrshires]" and below that "Short Horne." 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. In the early years of the fair, most visitors and exhibitors came from the general vicinity of where the fair was being held. Transportation connecting the state together was still limited. As a result, the Board of Agriculture decided to move the fair to a different location each year so that more people would have access to it over time. A number of cities hosted the fair, including Columbus (1851, 1855, 1864, 1865), Cleveland (1852, 1856, 1862, 1863), Cincinnati (1850, 1857), Dayton (1853, 1860, 1861, 1866, 1867), Sandusky (1858), Zanesville (1859), Toledo (1868, 1869), Springfield (1870, 1871), and Mansfield (1872, 1873). 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. There are two large tents and one smaller tent as well as several more permanent buildings. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F10_12_01
Subjects: Ohio State Fair
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a painting of the regimental colors of the 10th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. The blue silk flag served as the regimental colors of the 10th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. The flag was manufactured in the United States between 1861 and 1865. The United States arms is positioned in the center of the flag's front or obverse side. The arms consists of an embroidered, gold-colored bald eagle holding an olive branch in its right talon and a bundle of arrows in its left talon. The eagle holds in its beak a painted, gold-outlined scroll with the motto "E PLURIBUS UNUM" (Latin for "one out of many"). A shield with red and white stripes and a blue upper portion is positioned on the eagle's breast. Thirteen gold-painted stars outlined in red are arranged in two arcs above the arms. A gold-outlined banner below the arms features gold text that reads: "10th OHIO CAVALRY." The reverse side of the flag features gold text at its center that reads: "TUNNEL HILL / RESACCA / ATLANTA, MACON / WAYNESBORO / SAVANNAH." The text is framed by brown and green laurel. A gold star appears in each of the flag's four corners. Ohio battle flags were on display at the Ohio Statehouse until the 1960s, when the state formed a committee to oversee the efforts to restore the fragile flags. Some of the battle flags were on display on the Plaza Level of the Ohio Historical Society from 1970 until 1989. For conservation reasons, the flags have been in storage since 1989. In the 1960s, the collection was photographed and commercial artist Robert Needham painted illustrations of many Civil War flags. Photographs of the flags and the paintings are now part of the society's archival collections. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01848
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Flags--Ohio, Civil War, 1861-1865
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Signs for an exhibit at the Ohio State Fair in Columbus. The origins of the Ohio State Fair go back to the 1840s. In 1846, the Board of Agriculture was formed. The first state fair was scheduled for 1849, though it was delayed for a year by an outbreak of cholera. After another year of waiting, the fair was held in Cincinnati. Originally the fair was held in a different place every year, due to the difficulty in traveling long distances. When the year 1874 rolled around, it was decided there should be a permanent location for the fair. Columbus was chosen as it was the state capital, and this was made possible by much improved transportation. The fair has very rarely been cancelled, the only examples being a few years during the Second World War. During that time the fairgrounds was being used by the U.S. military. After 1945, things were business as usual. In 2003, the number of state fairs over the years reached 150. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06670
Subjects: Ohio State Fair (Columbus, Ohio); Animals; Snakes
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Eugene Eisenbarth, son of E. E. Eisenbarth, held by musician, squatting and wearing band uniform, alto horn on ground. Ellsworth Eugene Eisenbarth was born October 22, 1864, in Ironton, Ohio. The family later moved to Wetzel County, West Virginia. By 1889, Eisenbarth was traveling the mid-Atlantic states in "The Oregon Indian Medicine Show," which featured such entertainment as real cowboys and “Indians.” He next bought a floating store, which he refitted as a showboat and christened "The Eisenbarth Wild West & Floating Opera." The endeavor lasted from 1891 to 1895. By the late 1890s, Eisenbarth and his wife Julia had founded "The Eisenbarth & Henderson Mammoth and Combined Uncle Tom’s Cabin Company," complete with calliope, band and orchestra, which also traveled throughout the middle states by rail. In February of 1900, E. E. and Julia converted a glass barge named the E. V. Poke No. 2 into "The Eisenbarth-Henderson Floating Theatre, Temple of Amusement." This showboat and its successor ("The Eisenbarth-Henderson Floating Theatre-The New Great Modern Temple of Amusement")were devoted to bringing Shakespearean plays and other dramas, such as “Human Hearts” to the waterways. Eisenbarth also worked with a traveling company of players, perhaps to remain off the rivers during the winter months. The Temple cleared more money than almost any other boat on the Ohio River, even though it only played four nights a week and never on Sunday. Julia Eisenbarth died sometime after, and E. E. remarried in 1908 to Jennie Salina Brown. In 1909, he presented his last show on a riverboat, “The Castle.” He sold The Temple showboat to the Needham-Steiner Amusement Company that year, and although he made bids on other boats, these proved unsuccessful and The Temple ended up being his last showboat. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07570
Subjects: Popular culture; Showboats; Ohio River; Traveling shows; Theater--Ohio; Children
Places: Ohio River; Marietta (Ohio); Washington County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated September 15, 1937, this photograph shows eight Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) members reading at the camp library. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a work relief program established as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal that employed young men, ages 18-25, and later expanded to ages 17-28, with jobs in the natural resources field. 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_B12F11_013_001
Subjects: Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); Libraries; New Deal
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Painting of national colors of the 97th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Text on flag reads: [9]7th Ohio Vol. Infty. Perryville. Stone River. Chattanooga. Mission Ridge. Rocky Face. [R]esaca. Adairsville. New Hope Church. Kennesaw. [?] Pe[ach] Tree Creek. Atlanta. Jonesboro. [Love] Joy S[t]ation. Spring Hill. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02528
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
 

Description: John's, Bumbarger and Ormsley group sitting in the parlor. Glass plate negatives of various Trumbull County and northeastern Ohio scenes, places, people and events taken by John E. Pickering and Edward D. Pickering from the 1880s to the 1910s. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08453
Subjects: Families; Social life and customs; Games
 

Description: 1962 architect's view of Columbus in 1992. This image accompanied an article entitled "Columbus Looks Ahead," published in the Columbus Dispatch Magazine, October 14, 1962. Columbus celebrated its sesquicentennial in 1962. Three architectural firms created futuristic drawings envisioning the Columbus of 1992. Image caption reads: "Holroyd and Myers give view of governmental complex in 1992. Slightly left of center is a monorail sub-station." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05645
Subjects: Cityscapes; Columbus (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Science and Technology;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Picture of Old Ohio Canal at Thornport on state #13. Barn beside Canal Relic." During the late 1810s, Governor Thomas Worthington and Governor Ethan Allen Brown both supported internal improvements, especially canals. Both men believed that Ohioans needed quick and easy access to the Ohio River and to Lake Erie if they were to profit financially. In 1822, the Ohio legislature realized the importance of internal improvements and created a new Ohio Canal Commission. The Canal Commission eventually recommended a route starting at Lake Erie, passing through the Cuyahoga Valley, the Muskingum Valley, the Licking Valley, and then to the Ohio River along the Scioto Valley. The Commission also recommended a western route along the Miami and Maumee Valleys. By 1833, the Ohio and Erie Canal was complete, followed twelve years later by the Miami and Erie Canal. Once completed, thirty-three of Ohio's eighty-eight counties either had portions of canals running through them or quarries to mine rock for construction. The canals had many advantages to Ohioans. Most importantly, the cost to ship goods from the East Coast to Ohio and vice versa declined tremendously from 125 dollars per ton of goods to twenty-five dollars per ton of goods. Most canals remained in operation in Ohio until the late 1800s, their demise due in part to competition from the much speedier railroads. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F06_040_1
Subjects: Canals--Ohio--Pictorial works; Boathouses--Pictorial works; Ohio canal; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Thornport (Ohio); Perry County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photo appears to be a map of Fort Jefferson, Ohio. The well, blockhouse, smith shop, block house, flag pole and underground passage are all included in the map. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F01_033_001
Subjects: Fort Jefferson (Ohio)
Places: Fort Jefferson (Ohio); Preble County (Ohio)
 

Description: This 146-page directory documents the African American community in Columbus, Ohio, during the late 1910s and early 1920s. The book was compiled by William A. McWilliams, pastor of the Metropolitan Baptist Church on Galloway Avenue. It includes lists of churches, prominent physicians, enlisted men and women, students attending The Ohio State University, and civic organizations. The book is 146 pages and measures 6.5" x 9.5" (16.51 x 24.13 cm). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3276_4835389_001
Subjects: Business and labor; Daily life; African American Ohioans;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dianne Ard, Miss Wheelchair South Carolina, poses with her escort View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS934_B03_F09_001
Subjects: Pageants--Ohio; Pageants--United States; Women with disabilities--Attitudes
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)