Description: Photograph of African American children lined up to receive food. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_VFM29_B03F08_06
Subjects: African American children; African American men; African American women
 

Description: Young African American children at a feeding program at Butler County Emergency School, a Works Progress Administration program, 1936. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00017
Subjects: Butler County (Ohio); Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; African American children; African American women; African American educators
Places: Hamilton (Ohio); Butler County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of two young African American men and three boys in formal dress with a log cabin in the background. The negative is marked "Armstrong." 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: AL06337
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States--History; African American children; African American men
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: Photograph of two African American children, from the Allfree Family Collection, ca. 1944. The Allfree Family moved from Alabama to Cincinnati, Ohio, around 1900. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03738
Subjects: Multicultural Ohio--African American Ohioans; Children
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: African American students and staff in front of the Ohio Avenue Day Nursery, ca. 1920-1929. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00087
Subjects: Franklin County (Ohio); Multicultural Ohio--African American Ohioans; Children
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Charles Noel Young, son of Colonel Charles Young, standing with two other children near the Young family barn. Charles Young was the first African American to reach the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army and, at the time of his death in 1922, was the highest-ranking African American officer in the Army. He is known for having been forced into retirement due to health concerns before the start of World War I and later riding from Wilberforce, Ohio, to Washington, D.C. to prove his physical fitness for duty. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS3_B02F71_04
Subjects: African American men; African American children; Young, Charles, 1864-1922.
Places: Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of a boys' baseball team composed of children who were residents at the McIntire Children's Home in Zanesville, Ohio, ca. 1890-1899. Ten boys, two of whom are African American, make up the baseball team. The McIntire Children's Home was named in honor of John McIntire, one of the first residents of Zanesville. In his will, McIntire (1759-1815) provided for the establishment of a school for poor children. The McIntire Academy operated between 1836 and 1856, when it was taken over by the Zanesville Board of Education. A Muskingum County Children's Home was established in 1865 to provide homes for poor or orphaned children; in 1874 it was renamed the McIntire Children's Home. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02865
Subjects: Sports; Baseball teams; Children; African American Ohioans; Group homes for children
Places: Zanesville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of two African American children wearing Halloween costumes. A caption on the reverse reads "Witches and Bunnies shared Hallowe'en with pumpkins on Central Plaza in downtown Canton, October, 1976." The image was submitted by photographer R. C. Bixler of Canton in the Professional category of the Spirit of Ohio Bicentennial Photo Contest. In August 1976, the Ohio American Revolution Bicentennial Advisory Committee (OARBAC) began the Spirit of Ohio Bicentennial Photo Contest as part of a larger effort in Ohio to celebrate the 1976 American Bicentennial. The contest was meant to document "the spirit and character of the people and places which represent Ohio during [the] bicentennial year," and to create a permanent photographic archive of the year's festivity for use by future researchers. Both professional and amateur photographers submitted over 500 photographs for consideration, all taken within the state between January 1 and December 31, 1976. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA2734AV_B02F01_05_01
Subjects: American Revolution Bicentennial (1976); Children; Costumes; Holidays; Halloween; African American Ohioans;
Places: Canton (Ohio); Stark County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of three children smiling for the camera at Westside Daycare Center in Columbus, Ohio, October 1976. The child care center was a United Way agency, opened in 1927 and located on North Grubb Street on Columbus's West Side. It was part of the Westside-Eastside Child Care Centers Association, founded in 1887--the oldest such operation in Central Ohio. The photograph was taken by photographer Patricia Scott of Columbus and submitted in the Amateur category of the Spirit of Ohio Bicentennial Photo Contest. In August 1976, the Ohio American Revolution Bicentennial Advisory Committee (OARBAC) began the Spirit of Ohio Bicentennial Photo Contest as part of a larger effort in Ohio to celebrate the 1976 American Bicentennial. The contest was meant to document "the spirit and character of the people and places which represent Ohio during [the] bicentennial year," and to create a permanent photographic archive of the year's festivity for use by future researchers. Both professional and amateur photographers submitted over 500 photographs for consideration, all taken within the state between January 1 and December 31, 1976. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA2734AV_B02F141_01_01
Subjects: American Revolution Bicentennial (1976); Children; African American Ohioans; Playgrounds; Child care
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of two unidentified children standing in a yard. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS3_B02F58_1
Subjects: African American men; African American women; African American children
 

Description: Photograph of an unidentified man and two young boys standing in field with farming tools. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS3_B02F58_2
Subjects: African American men; African American children
 

Description: Photograph of an unidentified African American child seated on steps with his head resting on his left hand, from the collection of the Ohio Baptist General Association. He wears a tattered shirt and overalls, along with torn shoes from which his toes protrude. The Ohio Baptist General Association, an organization of African American Baptist churches with its headquarters in Columbus, was founded in 1895 as the Ohio Baptist State Convention and reorganized as the Ohio Baptist General Association in 1919. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P190_B02_03
Subjects: African American children; Portrait photography; Clothing and dress
Places: Ohio