Description: Color print with the caption "Birdseye view of Circleville in 1836, looking south." Circleville, located along the Scioto River, was founded in 1810 and became the county seat for Pickaway County. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03946
Subjects: Circleville (Ohio); Aerial views; Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood
Places: Circleville (Ohio); Pickaway County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Pickaway Co. Memorial Hall" Circleville's Memorial Hall was built in 1890. Early in the building's history, it served as the Public Library and Armory. Today, it is a county office complex and auditorium. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F05_26_001
Subjects: Circleville (Ohio)--History
Places: Circleville (Ohio); Pickaway 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)
 

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_006_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)
 

Description: Title page of "A Biography of Nelson Howard Jones." The book was typewritten, illumined, illustrated with platinotype prints and bound by his father, Howard Jones, of Circleville, Ohio, in 1901. Nelson Howard Jones was born in Circleville on October 11, 1886, and died March 11, 1901, of basilar meningitis. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04700
Subjects: Circleville (Ohio); Other--Family History; Children; Art, American--Ohio; Books
Places: Circleville (Ohio); Pickaway County (Ohio)
 

Description: Nelson Howard Jones taking a photograph of a bird, ca. 1895-1900. From "A Biography of Nelson Howard Jones," typewritten, illumined, illustrated with platinotype prints and bound by his father, Howard Jones, of Circleville, Ohio, 1901. Nelson Howard Jones was born in Circleville on October 11, 1886, and died March 11, 1901 of basilar meningitis. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04701
Subjects: Circleville (Ohio); Other--Family History; Children
Places: Circleville (Ohio); Pickaway County (Ohio)
 

Description: Profile photograph of Nelson Howard Jones sketching, ca. 1895-1900. From "A Biography of Nelson Howard Jones," typewritten, illumined, illustrated with platinotype prints and bound by his father, Howard Jones, of Circleville, Ohio, 1901. Nelson Howard Jones was born in Circleville on October 11, 1886, and died March 11, 1901, of basilar meningitis. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04702
Subjects: Circleville (Ohio); Other--Family History; Children; Art, American--Ohio
Places: Circleville (Ohio); Pickaway County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photographic portrait of Nelson Howard Jones, ca. 1895-1900. From "A Biography of Nelson Howard Jones," typewritten, illumined, illustrated with platinotype prints and bound by his father, Howard Jones, of Circleville, Ohio, 1901. Nelson Howard Jones was born in Circleville on October 11, 1886, and died March 11, 1901, of basilar meningitis. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04703
Subjects: Circleville (Ohio); Other--Family History; Children
Places: Circleville (Ohio); Pickaway County (Ohio)
 

Description: Nelson Howard Jones and two other children playing with toy soldiers, ca. 1890-1895. From "A Biography of Nelson Howard Jones," typewritten, illumined, illustrated with platinotype prints and bound by his father, Howard Jones, of Circleville, Ohio, 1901. Nelson Howard Jones was born in Circleville on October 11, 1886, and died March 11, 1901, of basilar meningitis. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04704
Subjects: Circleville (Ohio); Other--Family History; Children
Places: Circleville (Ohio); Pickaway County (Ohio)
 

Description: Inside of Valentine believed to be to Eleanor Jones from her father, Howard Jones, of Circleville, Ohio, February 14, 1901. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04706
Subjects: Circleville (Ohio); Other--Family History; Children
Places: Circleville (Ohio); Pickaway County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Caleb Atwater (1778-1867) of Circleville, who was one of the first Ohio historians and forest conservationists. Atwater was also a large proponent of state-funded education and pushed the state government of Ohio to pursue it through the sale of public land versus a property tax. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03930
Subjects: Circleville (Ohio); Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; Cultural Ohio--Education; Ohio--Politics and government
Places: Circleville (Ohio); Pickaway County (Ohio)