Description: This photograph is an image of the public library in Clyde, Ohio, ca. 1970s The building has a stone exterior, a tile roof, and a distinctive round corner. The names of famous authors are carved into a granite strip that borders the exterior walls. The Clyde Public Library was established in 1903 and housed on the third floor of Union School. With the aid of a $10,000 grant from Andrew Carnegie and matching community support, a public library was constructed and opened in October 1906. The library underwent an extensive renovation and expansion during the 1990s. Clyde achieved literary fame because American author Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) spent most of his boyhood here. He based his most famous book, the short-story collection "Winesburg, Ohio" on the town of Clyde. Anderson was born on September 13, 1876, in Camden, Ohio. His family later moved to Clyde, where he spent most of his youth in that small town. When he was twenty years old, Anderson moved to Chicago, Illinois, and spent two years working at odd jobs. In 1898 he fought in the Spanish-American War. After completing his military service, Anderson returned to Ohio and enrolled at Wittenberg University but left school after only a year. He returned to Chicago and began a career as an advertising writer. In 1904, Anderson married the first of his four wives. His first three marriages ended in divorce. He published his first novel, "Windy McPherson's Son," in 1916. It was followed three years later by "Winesburg, Ohio," whose negative portrayal of Clyde and its people offended many residents. Among his more popular works were "Poor White" (1920), "The Triumph of the Egg" (1921), "Horses and Men" (1923), "Many Marriages" (1923) and "Dark Laughter" (1925). In 1927, Anderson purchased the Marion (Virginia) Publishing Company and became editor of two weekly newspapers. During this period he lived in Chicago, New Orleans, and near Troutdale, Virginia. He lived in Virginia for the remainder of his life, although he and his fourth wife traveled extensively. Anderson died of peritonitis while on a trip with his wife to South America in 1941. Anderson's writing influenced a number of authors, including Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, and William Faulkner. It was at Anderson's urging that Hemingway's and Faulkner's first novels were published. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07007
Subjects: Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941; Clyde (Ohio); Carnegie libraries; Libraries--Ohio; Ohio authors; Sandusky County (Ohio)
Places: Clyde (Ohio); Sandusky County (Ohio)
 

Description: The George B. Meek monument is in Macpherson's Cemetery, Clyde, Sandusky County, Ohio, ca. 1940-1949. Meek was the first man killed in the Spanish-American War, May 11, 1898. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00406
Subjects: Soldiers--Ohio; Ohio History--Military Ohio
Places: Clyde (Ohio); Sandusky County (Ohio)
 

Description: McPherson Cemetary, in Clyde, is named for a general that is buried there. The subject of the photo is a memorial for George Burton Meek. The engraving reads: "BORN MAR 6 1871/ KILLED IN ACTION ON/ TORPEDO BOAT WINSLOW/ MAY 11 1898/ THE FIRST TO BE KILLED IN THE SERVICE OF U.S. IN THE WAR WITH SPAIN." Burton was killed at the battle of Cardenas Bay. The Winslow and the Hudson were participating in the blockade of Cuba in the Cardenas Bay area. According to various sources, the Winslow, the Hudson and a gunboat, having spotted Cuban gunboats in the harbor, moved in to attack. The Winslow, commanded by Lt. John B. Bernadon, sped ahead, possibly hoping to capture a gunboat for which naval officers could receive prize money at the time. Unfortunately for the crew of the Winslow, came under heavy fire from Spanish shore batteries. Two Spanish gunboats were sunk, but the Winslow eventually was hit hard. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06535
Subjects: Spanish-American War, 1898; Ships; Memorials--Ohio
Places: Clyde (Ohio)
 

Description: James Birdseye McPherson was born near Clyde, Ohio, on November 14, 1828, and he died on July 22, 1864, serving his country in t e Union Army in the Civil War. He was the highest ranking officer to die in the Civil War. He was killed in the Battle of Atlanta. McPherson graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1853, the first in his class. He was buried in Clyde, Ohio in McPherson Cemetery, which was named after him. A monument to McPherson was established in East Atlanta at the location of his death. McPherson Avenue in Atlanta was named for him. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F01_062
Subjects: Books; Chapter headings; Works Progress Administration; Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Places: Ohio
 

Description: 129th Infantry Regiment, 37th Infantry Division during the Battle of Bougainville, Solomon Islands, 1944. The 37th Infantry Division was nicknamed the Buckeye Division since it was made up of Ohio men. Two of the heroes of the battle were Private Rodger Young of Clyde, Ohio, and Pfc. Frank J Etrarca of Cleveland, Ohio. On August 22, 1974, a concrete monument honoring the veterans of the 37th Division was unveiled in Centerburg, Ohio, which is the geographical center of the state. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03423
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Ohio. National Guard
Places: Bougainville Island, Papua (New Guinea)
 

Description: Carte de visite of General James Birdseye McPherson, who served with the Union Army during the Civil War. He fought at Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Atlanta. During the Battle of Atlanta, he was killed while trying to escape skirmishers attempting to capture him. He was the highest-ranked Union officer killed during the war. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV200_b03_f33_25
Subjects: Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Photographs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military officers--Union
Places: Clyde (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph from the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus is of 30-year-old Howard Elwood Payton. His formal attire suggests that the photograph was taken during his trial or sentencing. Payton was the 265th individual to be executed via the electric chair in Ohio. The caption at the bottom reads: “No. 265, Howard Elwood Payton of Stark County, Legally Electrocuted February 28, 1949 for the Murder of Clyde L. Engle.” In 1885 the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio, became the location for all executions, which previously took place in the various county seats. In 1896 the Ohio General Assembly mandated that electrocution replace hanging as the form of capital punishment. The Ohio Penitentiary regularly offered tours as well as souvenir photographs and postcards of the building and prisoners on death row. A total of 315 prisoners, both men and women, were executed in the electric chair known as “Old Sparky” between 1897 and 1963. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08317
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Capital punishment--Ohio--History; Death row; Electrocution; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections; Ohio Penitentiary (Columbus, Ohio); Prisons--Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Stark County (Ohio)
 

Description: A poster advertises the Clyde Beatty Cole Brothers Combined Circus, mounted in a window along North High Street in the University District of Columbus, Ohio. The circus was taking place at Northland Shopping Center on Tuesday, July 31, 1973. Other advertisements for the circus are seen reflected in the window. The University District includes the small neighborhoods to the east and south of The Ohio State University campus on either side of the High Street corridor. The High Street Photograph Collection is comprised of over 400 photographs of High Street in Columbus, Ohio, taken in the early 1970s. These photographs were taken primarily at street level and document people and the built environment from the Pontifical College Josephinum on North High Street in Worthington through Clintonville, the University District and Short North, Downtown and South Columbus. The photographs were used in a television photo documentary that aired on WOSU called "High Street." Photographers that were involved in this project were Alfred Clarke, Carol Hibbs Kight, Darrell Muething, Clayton K. Lowe, and Julius Foris, Jr. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV254_B12F315_01
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Street photography; University District (Columbus, Ohio); Circuses; Posters
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph is a black-and-white image of a colorful mural titled "Drift toward Industrialism,” painted in 1937 by artist Karl Anderson (1874-1956). The mural, also known as “Exodus to the Cities,” is located in the former post office building in Bedford, Ohio. The building now houses the offices of Doty & Miller Architects, 600 Broadway Avenue. As seen in the photograph, the mural surrounds an office door. The mural portrays the widespread migration of workers, families, and young people from small towns and rural areas to large industrial cities during the late 19th century. In the lower left corner, a bearded farmer stands behind a horse-drawn plow and raises his right arm in farewell to the stream of people headed toward a cityscape visible in the background. A young girl clutches her mother’s arm and looks back at the place she is leaving and to which she’ll probably never return. An older mother embraces her daughter while an elderly man dressed in a Civil War uniform sits morosely on the sidelines. Karl Anderson was born Carl James Anderson in Morning Sun, Ohio. His parents, Irwin M. and Emma Anderson, and their family of seven children lived in various communities in the state but eventually settled in Clyde (Sandusky County). Karl’s younger brother Sherwood, the noted American author, based his famous short-story collection "Winesburg, Ohio" on his memories of life in Clyde. Karl Anderson became a noted painter, illustrator, and engraver. The mural was funded by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Section of Painting and Sculpture, one of the department’s three visual arts programs instituted during the Great Depression. Established in 1934, the Section of Painting and Sculpture commissioned artists to create paintings and sculpture that would decorate new federal buildings. The commissions were awarded competitively. Unlike other cultural programs of the New Deal, the Section’s primary goal was to procure art for public buildings, not to provide work relief. The post office in West Haven, Connecticut, features the second of two murals that Karl Anderson created for the program. Anderson died in 1956 in Westport, Connecticut, where he had lived since 1912. Nicknamed “the Dean of Westport Painters,” he was part of the thriving arts community there. In 1988 photographer Connie Girard took color and black-and-white images of this mural for an article in "Timeline" magazine (June/July 1989). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04496
Subjects: Anderson, Karl, 1874-1956; Mural paintings (visual works); Post office buildings--Ohio; United States. Department of the Treasury. Section of Painting and Sculpture; Great Depression and the New Deal; Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
Places: Bedford (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Aerial photograph showing a section of Franklin County, including the west side of Columbus. Noted on the photograph are the Pennsylvania Railroad, Camp Chase, U.S. Route 40, and Sullivant Avenue near its intersection with the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P339_B05F02_12_01
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Aerial photographs; Railroads--Ohio; Land records;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of "Skaters" painted by Clyde Singer in 1941. The painting is located at a post office in New Concord, Ohio in Muskingum County. Photographed by Connie Girard in 1988. The photo is from the Ohio Post Office Artwork Collection, AV 48. The collection represents thirty murals or plaster reliefs installed in twenty-five Ohio post offices between 1937 and 1943. In 1988, Connie Girard photographed the artwork. Photos were published in the article “Not By Bread Alone, Post Office Art of the New Deal.” Timeline. June-July 1989, p. 2-19 by Gerald Markowitz and Marlene Park. In 1932, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected President he promised Americans a "New Deal" and created public works programs to provide jobs for the millions of unemployed people, including artists. Ten thousand unknown and established artists were commissioned by the government to create murals, paintings, photographs, posters, prints and sculpture. The goal was not only to employ artists, but also to bring fine art into the daily lives of all people. The Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) was funded for six months in 1933 – 1934. The PWAP was succeeded by the Treasury Department’s Section of Painting and Sculpture. Organized in 1934 the Section of Painting and Sculpture operated until 1943. Under the auspices of this organization sixty-six new Ohio post offices received artwork. The majority of the post offices were located in small towns. Post offices were chosen as a location for artwork because, particularly in small towns, they were centers of community activity. Most of the painted murals or murals in plaster relief created are realistic images reflecting the history, common activities or major industries of the communities in which the post offices are located. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: av48_b2_f20_01
Subjects: Post office stations and branches--Ohio--Photographs; Public art--Ohio--Photographs; Public Works of Art Project (United States); New Deal art
Places: New Concord (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: Clyde M. Rutter identification photograph from the files of the Republic Steel Corporation, Central Alloy District. The Central Alloy District consisted of two plants: one in Canton, Ohio, and one in Massillon, Ohio. Identification photographs were taken over a period of time and logged into the files as one batch on June 3, 1942. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: YHC_MSS192_B01F071_21
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Republic Steel Corporation -- Employees
Places: Ohio