Description: Official program for the Annual Mid-West Classic, Wilberforce University Bulldogs versus West Virginia State College Yellow Jackets held at Lakin Field Institute in West Virginia on November 24, 1938. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS6_B08F01_03
Subjects: Wilberforce University; West Virginia State College; Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Sports
Places: West Virginia; Wilberforce (University); Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio); Institute (West Virginia)
 

Description: The flag of West Virginia has a white background with a blue border. The state seal of West Virginia is in the center. The seal shows two men, a farmer and a miner leaning on a rock. On the rock is written: "June 20, 1863", the day the state entered the United States. Above them is a red banner that reads: "State of West Virginia". Surrounding the rest of the seal are rhododendrons, the flower of the state. The dimensions of the flag are 110 by 160 cm and the fabric is wool and nylon. 1860s View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H65291_001
Subjects: State Flags; Ceremonial artifact; Communication artifacts
Places: West Virginia
 

Description: Carte de visite of Pvt. George B. palmer, who served with Companies E & D of the 2nd West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry. While the regiment was mustered in the then-unofficial region of West Virginia, most of the troopers were recruited from Southern Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV200_b03_f23_04
Subjects: Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Photographs; United States. Army. West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry, 2nd (1861-1865) Company D; United States. Army. West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry, 2nd (1861-1865) Company D
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: Group portrait of seven young men. The photograph is presented in an oblong-shaped mat edged with two gold lines. Four men are seated in the first row and three are standing in the second row, and all appear to be dressed in military uniform jackets. Their names are recorded on the mat below the photograph but the ink has spread making the writing difficult to read. The handwritten text seems to read "Top row Lafayette Franks No. 8. Sumner Ellis No 1. William Brennan No 1./ Lower row Patrick W. Slattery, James M. Wright gunner, William H. Goldsmith Searg. John Dow No. 28." These men served in Battery C of the 1st West Virginia Light Artillery. Battery C was organized in Wheeling, West Virginia between January 25, 1862 and March 30, 1862. Battery C was mustered out on June 28, 1865. It had a total of 173 men, with 106 enlisting from Washington County, Ohio, and 67 from West Virginia. The 1st West Virginia Light Artillery Regiment lost 33 men, killed and died of wounds; 131 men, died of disease, accident or in prison; total deaths, 164 men. (all 8 batteries) [Source: Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861–1865, by William F. Fox] Battery C was engaged in several key battles, including Gettysburg. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC5739_02
Subjects: Teenagers; American Civil War, 1861-1865; Photography--Ohio--History--19th century; Soldiers--Ohio--Photographs; Military uniforms
Places: Marietta (Ohio); Washington County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a picture of a woman lying in bed with a fish bowl on the bedside stand near her head. A marking on the negative reads: "Mrs. Marshall, Freeport, West Virginia." This photograph was taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912. Like most of Ewing's work, it was likely taken in southeastern Ohio or central West Virginia. Born in 1870 in Washington County, Ohio, near Marietta, Ewing most likely began his photography career in the 1890s. The 1910 US Census and a 1912-1913 directory list him as a photographer. A negative signed “Ewing Brothers” and a picture with his younger brother, Frank, indicate that Frank may have joined the business. After 1916, directories list Albert as a salesman. He died in 1934. The Ewing Collection consists of 5,055 glass plate negatives, each individually housed and numbered. Additionally, the collection includes approximately 450 modern contact prints made from the glass plate negatives. Subjects include infants and young children, elderly people, families, school and religious groups, animals and rural scenes. In 1982, the Ohio Historical Society received the collection, still housed in the original dry plate negative boxes purchased by Albert J. Ewing. A selection of the original glass plate negatives were exhibited for the first time in 2013 at the Ohio Historical Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03626
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States—History; Women--West Virginia; Photographers--Ohio
Places: Freeport (West Virginia)
 

Description: Photograph of a young boy in a baseball uniform leaning against his baseball bat. The photograph was possibly taken in Cairo, West Virginia. This photograph was taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912. Like most of Ewing's work, it was likely taken in southeastern Ohio or central West Virginia. Born in 1870 in Washington County, Ohio, near Marietta, Ewing most likely began his photography career in the 1890s. The 1910 US Census and a 1912-1913 directory list him as a photographer. A negative signed "Ewing Brothers" and a picture with his younger brother, Frank, indicate that Frank may have joined the business. After 1916, directories list Albert as a salesman. He died in 1934. The Ewing Collection consists of 5,055 glass plate negatives, each individually housed and numbered. Additionally, the collection includes approximately 450 modern contact prints made from the glass plate negatives. Subjects include infants and young children, elderly people, families, school and religious groups, animals and rural scenes. In 1982, the Ohio Historical Society received the collection, still housed in the original dry plate negative boxes purchased by Albert J. Ewing. A selection of the original glass plate negatives were exhibited for the first time in 2013 at the Ohio Historical Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04621
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Children--West Virginia; Cultural Ohio--Ohio Sports; Baseball
Places: Cairo (West Virginia)
 

Description: This photograph shows a large group of men gathered for the second annual reunion of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Calhoun County, West Virginia. The reunion occurred on October 9, 1909, in Minorca, West Virginia, a community in Calhoun County. The photograph was taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912. Like most of Ewing's work, it was taken in southeastern Ohio or central West Virginia. Born in 1870 in Washington County, Ohio, near Marietta, Ewing most likely began his photography career in the 1890s. The 1910 US Census and a 1912-1913 directory list him as a photographer. A negative signed “Ewing Brothers” and a picture with his younger brother, Frank, indicate that Frank may have joined the business. After 1916, directories list Albert as a salesman. He died in 1934. The Ewing Collection consists of 5,055 glass plate negatives, each individually housed and numbered. Additionally, the collection includes approximately 450 modern contact prints made from the glass plate negatives. Subjects include infants and young children, elderly people, families, school and religious groups, animals and rural scenes. In 1982, the Ohio Historical Society received the collection, still housed in the original dry plate negative boxes purchased by Albert J. Ewing. A selection of the original glass plate negatives were exhibited for the first time in 2013 at the Ohio Historical Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV71_b05_f282
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States--History; Fraternal organizations
Places: Minorca (West Virginia)
 

Description: Tintype photograph of Private George Troudner. Troudner served with Battery C of the 1st West Virginia Volunteer Infantry. While the 1st was raised in Huntington, West Virginia, Battery C was recruited from Washington County, Ohio. Battery C was also known as the "Pierpoint Battery." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV200_b02_10
Subjects: Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Photographs; United States. Army. West Virginia Artillery Regiment, 1st (1861-1865) Battery C
Places: Washington County (Ohio); West Virginia
 

Description: Temple of Amusement and Mountain State side by side at portside landing near the base of a stone pier for the railroad bridge over Kanawha River, just above Enterprise Drydock, Pt. Pleasant, West Virginia. Viewed about 100 feet upstream. The Mountain State was a towboat that often traveled with the E.E. Eisenbarth Floating Theatre and Temple of Amusement. 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 on November 30, 1906, 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. E. E. Eisenbarth died on July 17, 1925 and was buried next to his first wife in Williams Cemetery in New Martinsville, West Virginia. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07588
Subjects: Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture; Showboats; Ohio River; Traveling shows; Theater--Ohio; Boats and boating
Places: Kanawha River (West Virginia)
 

Description: Photograph taken of a matted oval family portrait showing a woman and three children. The original portrait is by Welch & Rees of Parkersburg, West Virginia. Handwriting on the negative appears to give the last name of McBall, and the location of Stumptown, West Virginia. This photograph was taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912. Like most of Ewing's work, it was taken in the region of southeastern Ohio and central West Virginia. Born in 1870 in Washington County, Ohio, near Marietta, Ewing most likely began his photography career in the 1890s. The 1910 US Census and a 1912-1913 directory list him as a photographer. A negative signed "Ewing Brothers" and a picture with his younger brother, Frank, indicate that Frank may have joined the business. After 1916, directories list Albert as a salesman. He died in 1934. The Ewing Collection consists of 5,055 glass plate negatives, each individually housed and numbered. Additionally, the collection includes approximately 450 modern contact prints made from the glass plate negatives. Subjects include infants and young children, elderly people, families, school and religious groups, animals and rural scenes. In 1982, the Ohio Historical Society (now the Ohio History Connection) received the collection, still housed in the original dry plate negative boxes purchased by Ewing. A selection of the original glass plate negatives were exhibited for the first time in 2013 at the Ohio History Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV71_B27_F2562
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Photographers--Ohio; Portrait photography--United States--History; Families; Children
Places: Stumptown (West Virginia)
 

Description: Two miners using a coal loading machine at the Arkwright Coal Company mine, Morgantown, West Virginia, 1938. This machine was built by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, Columbus, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00920
Subjects: Mining machinery; Ohio Economy--Economy--Labor
Places: Morgantown (West Virginia); Monongalia County (West Virginia)
 

Description: This photograph shows a miner operating a coal shuttle car that was made by Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, Columbus, Ohio. The car was owned by the Lillybrook Coal Company, Lillybrook, West Virginia, 1960. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00922
Subjects: Mining machinery; Ohio Economy--Economy--Labor
Places: Lillybrook (West Virginia); Raleigh County (West Virginia)