Description: This broadside, published by the Soldiers' Aid Society of Akron, is a call to action to the "Loyal Women of Summit County." The text explains the purpose of and duties performed by societies and the Army Sanitary Commission, asks women to form local societies and instruct people on how to contribute goods for the Western Armies. The broadside has the names Mrs. E. Oviatt, Secretary, and Mrs. C.P. Wolcott, President of the Soldiers' Aid Society of Akron, at the bottom. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04292
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Soldiers--Ohio; Women--Societies and clubs--Ohio; Women--Ohio;
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: A former slave, Ms. Bowers, participated in the ex-slave interviews conducted by the Works Progress Administration ca 1930. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F05_010_001
Subjects: Slavery; Works Progress Administration; Ohio Federal Writers' Project; Elderly women; African American women--Ohio; Women--Ohio.
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Ms (?) Bowers was a former slave who participated in the ex-slave interviews, conducted by the Works Projects Administration, ca 1930. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F05_014_001
Subjects: Works Progress Administration; Ohio Federal Writers' ProjectSlavery; Elderly women; African American women--Ohio; Women--Ohio.
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Women seated at printing presses at Pfeiffer printing shop, 1923. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00123
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio); Printing industry and trade--Ohio; Women--Employment; Ohio Economy--Science and Technology
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: "Acme Laundry in Cincinnati," an oil-on-canvas work painted by Caroline Augusta Lord (1860-1927) in 1911. It is one of Lord's series of three paintings depicting Acme Laundry. This image depicts a large group of women working in a large laundry. They are wearing aprons over long dresses or skirts and blouses. The figures in the foreground have their backs to the viewer. Acme Laundry, established in 1907, was located at 911 Vine St. in Cincinnati. Caroline Augusta Lord (1860-1927) was a native of Cincinnati who studied at the Cincinnati Art Academy, the Art Students League in New York City, and in Paris. She exhibited paintings at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago (1893). She returned to Cincinnati, where she continued in her profession and also taught at the Cincinnati Art Academy. Her frequent subjects were the struggles of the common laborer, women, and children. This painting is part of the Ohio Historical Society's fine art collection. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05926
Subjects: Paintings; Artists; Laundry workers--Ohio; Women--Employment--Ohio--Cincinnati; Women artists
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Women workers making wieners, Kahn's Meat Company, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1938. The meat company started as a butcher shop by Elias Kahn in 1882 in Cincinnati. By the late 1920's, Kahn's was a large slaughtering and meat processing operation. In 1966, Consolidated Foods Corporation purchased the company. The plant shut down in 2006 after the land was sold to Hamilton County. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00032
Subjects: Manufacturing industries--Ohio; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Women--Employment; Meat industry and trade--Ohio
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Mary A. Ball Bickerdyke, known as "Mother" Bickerdyke, was a nurse and healthcare provider for the Union Army during the Civil War. She was born on July 19, 1817, near Mount Vernon, Ohio. After attending Oberlin College, she studied nursing in Cincinnati. During the Civil War, Bickerdyke traveled with the armies of Generals Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman, treating wounded soldiers, setting up field hospitals, and working as an agent for the United States Sanitary Commission. After the war was over, she assisted Union veterans with legal issues and helped them secure their pensions. Bickerdyke died on November 8, 1901, in Bunker Hill, Kansas. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07064
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Nurses--Ohio; Nurses and nursing--Ohio; Women--Ohio--History
Places: Mount Vernon (Ohio); Knox County (Ohio);
 

Description: This photograph, collected for use in the Ohio Guide, shows women workers making spark plugs at the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company in Akron, Ohio, ca. 1930. These workers were likely working as part of the Works Progress Administration project. In 1935, President 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: AL00029
Subjects: Rubber industry and trade--Ohio; Women--Employment; Firestone Tire and Rubber Company; Works Progress Administration
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: This group photograph shows the female employees of the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company in Columbus, Ohio, 1915. Established in 1877 by Joseph Andrew Jeffrey to produce the first power-driven coal cutter used in America, the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company was for many years one of the largest and oldest industrial companies in Columbus. Over the years, the company diversified: while coal industry machinery remained its focus, it also supplied equipment for a wide range of industries. The Jeffrey Manufacturing Company established their main office and plant north of downtown Columbus on South 3rd Street. With success came expansion, and eventually, the factory and warehouses would encompass over 50 acres. At its height, the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company employed 4,500 workers and contributed millions of dollars to the Columbus economy. After almost 100 years of ownership by the Jeffrey family, Dresser Industries acquired the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company on May 31st, 1974. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1527AV_B11F03_01
Subjects: Jeffrey Manufacturing Company (Columbus, Ohio); Machinery industry--Ohio; Manufacturing industries--Ohio; Women -- Employment;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: A woman is taking dictation from a man in the office of the Wirthlin & Mann Company in Cincinnati in this photo, which dates to December 16, 1915. Two other employees work in the background. Wirthlin & Mann was a machinery and factory supply company. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00118
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Economy--Business; Offices; Machinery industry--Ohio; Women--Employment; Employees
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Two women sitting on a tree limb overhanging a body of water. The women are seen from behind. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's department store, and later as a travelling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). He was also an avid lifelong photographer, and the bulk of the Harry Kinley Collection is comprised of glass plate negatives documenting the Kinley family, the city of Upper Sandusky and Wyandot County and surrounding areas. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07836
Subjects: Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Streams; Trees--Ohio
Places: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio)
 

Description: Orange chiffon dress worn by Jacquelyn Mayer of Sandusky, Ohio, for the talent competition in the 1962 Miss America pageant. The dress features three thin straps on each shoulder with gathered fabric at the bodice, and is part of the Ohio Historical Society museum collections. Mayer went on to be crowned Miss America in that year's competition. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07141
Subjects: Dresses; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Miss America Pageant; Women--Ohio--History; Women--Ohio; Clothing and dress
Places: Sandusky (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)