Description: Caption on reverse reads: "Cinci., O., Mar 1938. Copy. O.M.I. Parade Grd. College Hill." This photograph shows the Ohio Military Institute Parade grounds in on Belmont Avenue in College Hill near Cincinnati, Ohio. From the OMI alumni website: Ohio Military Institute was established in 1890, on the site the former Belmont College. Freeman Carey, a graduate of Miami University at Oxford (Ohio) had established Carey Academy in his home on the family farm in 1832. It was a success, and within a few years, Carey built a small brick school building, apparently on the site of what later became Carey Hall. Carey Academy was "the leading private school west of the Alleghenies." Dr. Robert H. Bishop, first president of Miami University, joined the faculty of Carey Academy during its final year in 1846. In 1847, the academy became Farmers' College, and it was at this time that Carey Hall was erected. This combination class-room building and dormitory would serve for the next 111 years. Dr. Bishop laid the cornerstone and stayed on to fill the chair of Philosophy and History in the faculty of the college. Shortly before his death in 1855, he ask that his body and that of his wife "might find a final resting place on the College grounds." [Old Boys will remember the Bishop burial mound, which was located at the edge of the woods directly behind Henshaw Hall. This gymnasium/drill hall was built in 1949. When the school closed in 1958, the remains of Dr. and Mrs. Bishop were dis-interned and reburied on the grounds of Miami University. There was, it turned out, no truth to the rumor that Dr. Bishop's horse had also been buried with him!] Farmers' College claimed that "its distinctive feature [was] the practical character of its course of instruction.... to qualify our youth for a higher position in any of the industrial pursuits." With the coming of the Civil War, fully two thirds of the student body rushed to enlist in the Union or Confederate forces. Farmers' College was forced to close, but not before it became a stop on the "underground railroad", assisting escaped slaves to migrate to the north. After the war the school re-opened as Belmont College, offering a curriculum more typical of the classical model of education. But Belmont debuted just as the land grant colleges were beginning to demonstrate that modern "vocational" education at the collegiate level was of more immediate utility in the dawning Industrial Age than was a classical education of philosophy, Greek, Latin, etc. With a shrinking student body, the school began to shift toward the education of younger men. In 1890, Belmont College closed, and the Ohio Military Institute opened on the same site in 1890. But the past was not completely abandoned: Portraits of Mr. Carey and Dr. Bishop hung on opposing walls of the main Study Room in Carey Hall until the buildings were torn down in 1958. Originally, the grounds comprised about ten acres of woodland, fronting on Belmont Avenue and extending westward to a deep ravine. To this was later added a large tract of virgin forest land, nearly sixty acres in extent, surrounding the original property on three sides. This land had originally been part of the Carey farm and was acquired by that family from John Symmes, who secured the grant from the U.S. Government at the close of the Revolutionary War. Harrison Hall (the old Daller House), which was used as a dormitory and recreation building for Lower School cadets, was acquired sometime in the late 1940's, and yet another four acres to the campus. The school buildings included Carey, Belmont, Bishop, Perry, Henshaw and Harrison Halls. Of these, only Henshaw Hall remains and it is apparently still used as a community center for basketball. The other school buildings were razed to make way for Aiken High School, which opened in 1961 View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F14_008_1
Subjects: Military academies; School Buildings--Ohio; Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works; Education; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: College Hill (Ohio); Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Bicentennial barn-painting program was an inexpensive, grassroots marketing campaign that painted the official logo of the Ohio Bicentennial on a highly visible historic barn in each of Ohio's 88 counties. Over 2,000 farmers and landowners submitted their barn descriptions to the committee for consideration. Beginning in 1998, artist Scott Hagan spent five years painting the logos, tailored to every barn's unique character. Typically, the barn owners hosted a celebration at the completion of their barn painting. This photograph is an exterior view of Barn #5, located on US 23 just south of Carey in Wyandot County. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08630
Subjects: Centennial celebrations; Ohio History--State and Local Government; Barns; Ohio Bicentennial, 2003
Places: Wyandot County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing the Carey Aqueduct. An aqueduct refers to one of two kinds of structures: a water passage through land artificially constructed for the purpose of boats, ships, etc. to travel, or a channel (any type) used to transport water from one location to another. The caption on the bottom reads: "Carey Aqueduct Lockland, O.| July, 1916." This photograph is part of a series taken by the Board of the Ohio Department of Public Works to document the disrepair of the infrastructure of the Ohio and Erie Canal and Miami-Erie Canal systems in 1916, showing the physical condition of each structure. The Ohio Department of Public Works is one of the oldest departments of state government in continuous existence. Among its other duties, this department was charged with maintenance and administration of the Ohio & Erie and Miami-Erie Canals. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA936AV_B01_002
Subjects: Waterworks; Bridges; Canals; Rivers; Lakes & ponds; Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development
Places: Lockland (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph is a part of a series of photographs taken by the Ohio Department of Agriculture documenting farms in Ohio. Pictured is the farmhouse on the farm of Carey Montgomery, located 1/4 mile from Chandlersville, Ohio, in Muskingum County. Montgomery is identified as having 101 acres, primarily devoted to fruit and potatoes. He also raised White Wyandot chickens. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA726AV_B01F31_001_1
Subjects: Agriculture--Ohio; Farming; Farmhouses; Rural life
Places: Chandlersville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph is a part of a series of photographs taken by the Ohio Department of Agriculture documenting farms in Ohio. Pictured is a tenant house on the farm of Carey Montgomery, located 1/4 mile from Chandlersville, Ohio, in Muskingum County. Montgomery is identified as having 101 acres, primarily devoted to fruit and potatoes. He also raised White Wyandot chickens. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA726AV_B01F31_002_1
Subjects: Agriculture--Ohio; Farming; Rural life; Agricultural laborers; Crops; Food production
Places: Chandlersville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph is a part of a series of photographs taken by the Ohio Department of Agriculture documenting farms in Ohio. Pictured are barns and horses on the farm of Carey Montgomery, located 1/4 mile from Chandlersville, Ohio, in Muskingum County. Montgomery is identified as having 101 acres, primarily devoted to fruit and potatoes. He also raised White Wyandot chickens. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA726AV_B01F31_003_1
Subjects: Agriculture--Ohio; Farming; Barns; Rural life; Livestock
Places: Chandlersville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph is a part of a series of photographs taken by the Ohio Department of Agriculture documenting farms in Ohio. Pictured is an outbuilding on the farm of Carey Montgomery, located 1/4 mile from Chandlersville, Ohio, in Muskingum County. Montgomery is identified as having 101 acres, primarily devoted to fruit and potatoes. He also raised White Wyandot chickens. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA726AV_B01F31_004_1
Subjects: Agriculture--Ohio; Farming; Rural life
Places: Chandlersville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph is a part of a series of photographs taken by the Ohio Department of Agriculture documenting farms in Ohio. Pictured is an outbuilding on the farm of Carey Montgomery, located 1/4 mile from Chandlersville, Ohio, in Muskingum County. Montgomery is identified as having 101 acres, primarily devoted to fruit and potatoes. He also raised White Wyandot chickens. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA726AV_B01F31_005_1
Subjects: Agriculture--Ohio; Farming; Rural life
Places: Chandlersville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph is a part of a series of photographs taken by the Ohio Department of Agriculture documenting farms in Ohio. Pictured is a barn on the farm of Carey Montgomery, located 1/4 mile from Chandlersville, Ohio, in Muskingum County. Montgomery is identified as having 101 acres, primarily devoted to fruit and potatoes. He also raised White Wyandot chickens. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA726AV_B01F31_006_1
Subjects: Agriculture--Ohio; Farming; Barns; Rural life;
Places: Chandlersville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Uptown Shopping. Street scene in front of Halle Brothers Company on Euclid Avenue near 12 Street. District #4, Cleveland. File Negative #51. Project Photographer: Frank Jaffa, 1940. Shopping along Euclid Ave. at East 12th St. - Cleveland, Ohio." Halle Brothers Co. of Cleveland, Ohio, commonly referred to as Halle's, is a defunct department store chain. During most of time of operations, Halle's focused on higher-end merchandise, which it combined with personal service. The company was the first major department store in Cleveland to open a suburban branch store. Founded on 7 February 1891 by brothers Samuel Horatio Halle and Salmon Potland Chase Halle, the very first store was at 221 Superior Avenue near the city's Public Square, where the brothers bought out a hat and furrier shop owned by T.S. Paddock. Two years later, they moved to Euclid Avenue and East 4th Street in 1893, adding ready-to-wear clothing to the mix. The firm was officially incorporated in 1902 as the Halle Bros. Co. After growing and moving several times, the company eventually built its main store at 1228 Euclid Avenue by 1910. By 1927, their new $5 million Huron-Prospect Building was opened, creating an emporium at the city's Playhouse Square Center theatre district. The former flagship store at Playhouse Square Center was redeveloped as offices by Forest City Enterprises with space for retail shops on the main floor and a food court in the former Downstairs Store. During the late 1990s, the building was also used as the main location of the fictional Winfred-Louder store in "The Drew Carey Show" on ABC. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F10_07_01
Subjects: Cleveland (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Halle Brothers Co.
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads "Cary (or Corey or Carey) Home, College Hill, Cedar Avenue, near Cincinnati, Ohio." This is possibly the home of Samuel Fenton Cary, former Congressman for the United States House of Representative from Ohio's 2nd District, and Vice Presidential candidate in 1876. The home, built in 1840 and located at 1669 Cedar Ave in the College Hill community of Cincinnati, Ohio, is described as being a two and a half story square frame home with a wide front porch. The College Hill School is now located at this address, so more information is needed to verify that this is in fact Samuel Cary's residence. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F05_015_001
Subjects: Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Architecture, Domestic--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image is a reproduction of a map of the United States created in 1820 by cartographer John Melish (1771-1822.) the map is included in C.V. Lasvoisne's "A Complete Genealogical, Historical, Chronological and Geographical Atlas" (Philadelphia: M. Carey & Son, 1820). The original print was a color lithograph. Melish titled his map " United States of America compiled from the latest & best Authorities." The map scale is 120 miles to the inch. The map depicts the area bounded by New Brunswick, Canada, on the east; Missouri Territory on the west; the Great Lakes region (Canada and the U.S.) on the north; and Florida and present-day northern Mexico on the south. John Melish (1771-1822) was born in Scotland and apprenticed to a cotton maker. His job brought him to America at various times, and he settled permanently in Philadelphia in 1811. He wrote extensively of his travels in America during the early 19th century and became one of his adopted country's best cartographers during this period. His most famous map, published in 1816, depicted the United States from coast to coast. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06994
Subjects: Maps--United States; Historical map; Map drawing; Melish, John, 1771-1822