Description: A photograph of a home in Muskingum County, Ohio. The photograph shows a boy walking in front of the home and a tree lined street to the right. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F02_010
Subjects: Muskingum County (Ohio); Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works
Places: Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: Taken on April 23, 1935, this photograph shows abandoned buildings on the Barriaklow Heris Farm in Blue Rock Township, in Muskingum County, Ohio. 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_B06F02_029_1
Subjects: Muskingum County (Ohio); Abandoned buildings--Pictorial works; Agriculture; Rural life; Farming; Works Progress Administration; Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Places: Blue Rock Township (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: The S-Bridge and Ohio Historical Marker for the S-Bridge in Muskingum County. It is like many others on the National Road. The historical marker reads "Coaches, Conestoga wagons, herds of livestock, pioneers on foot or horseback, peddlers, soldiers, beggars - these and many have crossed this bridge on the National Road since 1830. Like many others on the road, the bridge was built with well-cut stone and good mortar in the shape of an "S" because it was easier to erect than one thrown straight across an oblique stream." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06877
Subjects: Bridges--Ohio; Muskingum County (Ohio); New Concord (Ohio)
Places: New Concord (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: The caption on the back of the photograph reads: "Presbyterian Manse." A manse is a house provided by a church, usually Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist or United Church, for the minister and his family. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F02_009_001
Subjects: Muskingum County (Ohio); Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Presbyterian;
Places: Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: The caption on the back of the photograph reads: "Hazlitt Home". View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F02_008
Subjects: Muskingum County (Ohio); Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.
Places: Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: View of the Farm Implements barn at the Ohio State Fair in Zanesville, Ohio, September 21, 1859. Photographer J. Tresize was commissioned by the Fairs Fine Arts Committee to document the fair. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00711
Subjects: Muskingum County (Ohio); Ohio History--State and Local Government
Places: Zanesville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: View of the grandstand at the Ohio State Fair in Zanesville, Ohio, September 21, 1859. Photographer J. Tresize was commissioned by the Fairs Fine Arts Committee to document the fair. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00712
Subjects: Muskingum County (Ohio); Ohio History--State and Local Government
Places: Zanesville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photo of Howard Chandler Christy’s childhood home in Duncan Falls, Ohio. Howard Chandler Christy was a prominent American artist in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Christy was famous for his war-time poster artwork, and he also acted as a historic muralist, portrait painter, and New York City social figure. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F02_004_001
Subjects: Christy, Howard Chandler, 1873-1952; Artists--Ohio; Muskingum County (Ohio); Historic homes
Places: Duncan Falls (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photo of “The Barracks,” a home built by Howard Chandler Christy on his family farm. In 1908, Christy returned to his home and built a studio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F02_005_001
Subjects: Christy, Howard Chandler, 1873-1952; Artists--Ohio; Muskingum County (Ohio)--History
Places: Duncan Falls (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: This illustration of the Brush Creek tablet comes from "History of Muskingum County, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Pioneers" by J. F. Everhart, 1882. The Brush Creek Tablet is a flat, sandstone slab measuring 14 inches long by 12 inches wide and four inches thick. It was discovered during the excavation of the Brush Creek Mound (south of Zanesville) between 1879 and 1880 by John F. Everhart and the Brush Creek Historical Association. When first discovered, it appeared to be a stone with several circular depressions. Such artifacts are called cupstones, or pitted stones, and the depressions appear to have been used for cracking nuts or grinding paint pigments. Two months after the artifact was discovered, Everhart announced that the stone was inscribed with “hieroglyphics” - “chiefly Greek, commingled with Phoenician and Etruscan.” He reported that the tablet was buried alongside an eight-foot-tall female skeleton and claimed that this proved “there were giants in those days.” The Brush Creek Tablet was shown to be a fraud when J. P. Egan brought a lawsuit against Everhart for failing to pay him the money he was promised for helping to excavate the mound and for making a map for the "History of Muskingum County." During the court proceedings, Marshall Cooper, another member of the excavation team, testified that he had been promised $15.00 to carve the inscription on the tablet and to give it “the appearance of ancient work.” The Brush Creek Tablet is an example of the many such frauds created during the 1800s, such as the Newark Holy Stones, when the question of who built the ancient mounds of the Ohio Valley had not yet been answered. Many people at that time believed that the American Indians were not capable of building the mounds and therefore they must have been built by a lost race. By the end of the 1800s, however, archaeologists had proven that the ancestors of American Indians had, indeed, built the mounds. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: 977_191Ev27_BrushCreek
Subjects: Excavations (Archaeology)--Ohio; Archaeological fraud; Forgeries; Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio;
Places: Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: A photograph of Muskingum County, Ohio in 1937. It shows U. S. highways, state roads, county roads, railroads, towns and villages, points of interest and the Ohio Canal. The map was drawn for the Ohio Writers' Project of the Work Progress Administration for possible use in the Ohio Guide book. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F02_061
Subjects: Books; Chapter headings; Works Progress Administration; Ohio Federal Writers' Project; Maps; Muskingum County (Ohio)
Places: Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: Picture of part of a system of transformers and disconnects at the plant of the Ohio Power Company, off state 77, south of Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio. Electric power transmission or "high voltage electric transmission" is the bulk transfer of electrical energy, from generating power plants to substations located near to population centers. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B14F05_005_001
Subjects: Utilities; Muskingum County (Ohio); Transformers, Electric; Electric substations
Places: Muskingum County (Ohio); Zanesville (Ohio)