Description: 1956 Malabar Farm calendar which includes small calendar pages and substantial essays on various themes in conservation agriculture, soil science and mid-century agriculture, written by Malabar Farm denizen and prominent farm writer Louis Bromfield. The Friends of the Land Collection (1930-1960) contains the papers of the Friends of the Land (1940-1959), a prominent national soil conservation education organization headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. FOTL produced an international literary arts quarterly, THE LAND (edited by New Deal agriculture writer Russell Lord) in addition to several members' only publications (LAND LETTER) and informational pamphlets. They also hosted annual conferences; ran conservation tours, teacher training labs, and workshops; and operated as a national clearinghouse for conservation information. Ohio farmer and novelist Louis Bromfield was active in the organization. Much of the collection reflects the career and interests of FOTL Executive Secretary Ollie Fink, who was a prominent conservation education pioneer in Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Page1
Subjects: Conservation education; Bromfield, Louis (1896-1956); Agriculture; Soil science; Malabar Farm
Places: Mansfield (Ohio); Richland County (Ohio)
 

Description: 1955 calendar advertising and themed around Ohio author and conservation advocate Louis Bromfield's famed Malabar Farm in Lucas, Ohio. The full-color twelve-month calendar includes color photographs by Joe Munroe and short caption essays by Louis Bromfield. Calendar verso pages feature longer essays on the history and rehabilitation of Malabar and vignettes of farm life also written by Bromfield. The Friends of the Land Collection (1930-1960) contains the papers of the Friends of the Land (1940-1959), a prominent national soil conservation education organization headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. FOTL produced an international literary arts quarterly, THE LAND (edited by New Deal agriculture writer Russell Lord) in addition to several members' only publications (LAND LETTER) and informational pamphlets. They also hosted annual conferences; ran conservation tours, teacher training labs, and workshops; and operated as a national clearinghouse for conservation information. Ohio farmer and novelist Louis Bromfield was active in the organization. Much of the collection reflects the career and interests of FOTL Executive Secretary Ollie Fink, who was a prominent conservation education pioneer in Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Page1
Subjects: Conservation education; Bromfield, Louis (1896-1956); Agriculture; Soil science; Malabar Farm
Places: Mansfield (Ohio); Richland County (Ohio)
 

Description: New Year's greetings, called a "Carrier's Address, " directed to the patrons of the Piqua Register in Piqua, Ohio, 1853. This lengthy poem bidding farewell to 1852 and welcoming the New Year reflects on the year past and the current state of the world. Beginning as early as the 1700s, "carriers' addresses" like this one were a common practice for newspaper publishers on the first day of each new year, when the greetings were delivered to subscribers by delivery boys who often received a holiday tip in return. The practice began to decline after 1900. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS1253
Subjects: New Year's; Holidays; Celebrations; Newspaper carriers;
Places: Piqua (Ohio); Miami County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Water Pagent? [sic] Scott Pool." This photograph depicts participants in a water pageant at Scott Pool in what is most likely Toledo, Ohio. There are six actors shown, four on the edge of the pool, one sitting on stage portraying Poseidon, and one standing next to the set. There is a map of North America on one side of the set and South America on the other, and a large painting of the Statue of Liberty in the center. There are people standing behind a fence in the background who appear to be watching the pageant. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F03_0017_001
Subjects: Theater, Open-air; Swimming pools; Acting; Swimming; Theaters--Stage setting and scenery; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project.
Places: Toledo (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: The caption reads: "Roller Mill Grinding Enamel for Paint, Cleveland. Sherwin-Williams Co." Sherwin Williams was founded in 1866 by Henry Sherwin and Edward Williams in Cleveland, Ohio. They created ready-mixed paints in 1880 so consumers no longer had to buy the ingredients separately and do the mixing themselves. By 1905, they were selling paint across the United States, Canada, South America and Europe. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F08_002_001
Subjects: Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project.
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

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: Hand-colored photograph of the USS Marietta with caption reading "U.S.S. Marietta, July 14, 1910, 12-19-17." There is a hand-written inscription on the lower left corner that reads "Dear Mrs. Schoonover, Your "Marietta" and my "Marietta" are quite different 'animiles'." On the lower right corner is written "USS Marietta, Built at the Union Ironworks, San Francisco, CA under the supervision of [not legible]." The USS Marietta was U.S. Navy gunboat commissioned in 1897. It was named for the city of Marietta in Washington County, Ohio. The Marietta served with the Pacific Squadron, then took a voyage around South America to join the Spanish-American War fleet near Cuba. After the Spanish-American War, the Marietta served in Asian, Caribbean, European and western Atlantic waters. During World War I, she performed convoy duties in the Atlantic Ocean. In July 1919 the Marietta was decommissioned by the U.S. Navy and sold in March 1920. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS_7413
Subjects: U.S. Navy; Gunboats; Military Ohio; Ships; Spanish-American War, 1898; World War I, 1914-1918;
Places: Marietta (Ohio); Washington County (Ohio)
 

Description: Made of the textile (cotton), the Argentine flag has a golden sun on a white field with two blue stripes. It represents the Argentine Republic and dates from 1900-1920. "United Provinces of the Río de la Plata", "Argentina" and "Argentine Confederation" are also proper names for this South American country. It is bordered by the Andes Mountains in the East and the Atlantic Ocean on the West, Argentina is the second largest Latin American country behind Chile. Professor Charles S. Plumb of the Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio) donated this flag in 1923 to the Ohio Historical Society, now known as the Ohio History Connection. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H65519_001
Subjects: Ceremonial artifact; Communication artifact; Military flags; colonization--Spain; Ohio State University; Argentina; Textile--cotton;
Places: Argentina; South America
 

Description: Hand-colored map of the United States dated 1851, published in Hartford by Case, Tiffany & Co. The map includes the United States and territories, as well as Mexico and portions of Canada, South America and the Caribbean Islands. Insets also include an illustrated view of the "Capitol at Washington" and a portrait of George Washington. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MAPVFM_0303_F
Subjects: Maps--United States; American frontier; Geography and Natural Resources; American Indians;
Places: United States
 

Description: Miss America robe made of American Beauty panne velvet, trimmed with ermine and lined with white satin, modeled by Miss Tab Kirk, an employee in the F. & R. Lazarus Company Infants Department. For its diamond jubilee in 1926, Lazarus held a New Years Eve street party at West Town and South High Streets. Miss America did not come as had been advertised, so the robe was worn by a Lazarus employee. Between 1851 and 1965, the F & R Lazarus Company retail store dominated the trade and physical landscape of Columbus. The company rose from its early years as a men's clothier in a 20 x 40 foot room downtown, to its position by 1965 as a member of the largest department store chain, Federated Department Stores. Lazarus' growth reflects that of the capital city; from small beginnings through a "golden age" of downtown development, and eventually branching out into the surrounding countryside. In 2003, the Lazarus Company was incorporated with Macy's, a member of the Federated Department store View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04415
Subjects: Pageants--Ohio; Lazarus Department Store; Employees; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
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)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1935-1940, this photograph shows a waterfall and small building along the Ohio and Erie Canal near Circleville, Ohio. Today a three mile stretch of the canal remains near Circleville. Work began on the Ohio and Erie Canal on July 4, 1825, at Licking Summit, just south of Newark, Ohio, and was completed in 1833. The Ohio and Erie Canal cost approximately ten thousand dollars per mile to complete, and the Miami and Erie Canal cost roughly twelve thousand dollars per mile to finish. The canals nearly bankrupted the state government, but they allowed Ohioans to prosper beginning in the 1830s all the way to the Civil War. Many recent immigrants to the United States, especially the Irish, survived thanks to jobs on the canals. Other people, like the residents of the communal society at Zoar, also helped construct canals to assist the survival of their community. Many of Ohio’s communities today, including Akron, began as towns for the canal workers. Most canals remained in operation in Ohio until the late 1800s. There is a short stretch in the Muskingum Valley near Zanesville still in operation today. By the 1850s, however, canals were losing business to the railroads. 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_B10F13_001_001
Subjects: Canals--Ohio; Circleville (Ohio)--History; Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio)--History; Geography and Natural Resources; Transportation--Ohio--History.; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Circleville (Ohio); Pickaway County (Ohio)