Description: This tobacco conveyor was made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio, as one of the industrial machines the company made to diversify its production away from exclusively mine products. This photograph was taken in 1938; the location is unknown. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01577
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Economy--Business; Mining machinery; Agricultural machinery
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph depicts seven men, a horse-powered hay baler and a two-horse hay wagon. 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: AL06699
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States—History; Agricultural machinery; Horses; Cultural Ohio--Art and Artists; Agricultural laborers; Photography--History
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: Sprinkler irrigation at author-conservationist Louis Bromfield's Malabar Farm, Richland County, Ohio, June 1949. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00641
Subjects: Agricultural machinery; Ohio Economy -- Agriculture
Places: Lucas (Ohio); Richland County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows a rebuilt version of an original mill built on this site in the 1840s by Noah Hoover, President Herbert Hoover's great-uncle. The mill features a 27-foot waterwheel. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00382
Subjects: Mills and mill-work--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business; Miami County (Ohio); Agricultural machinery;
Places: West Milton (Ohio); Miami County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph by Joe Munroe showing an unknown farm in winter. A farm worker is seen driving a tractor. Joe Munroe's career began in 1939 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He served in the Air Force during World War II and then joined Cincinnati-based Farm Quarterly magazine. Though raised in Detroit, agriculture became an important subject of Joe's photographs. He moved to California in 1955 and free-lanced, taking magazine assignments and selling his own work. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P400_B25_FO4_001
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Farm life; Farming and rural systems economics; Snow; Agricultural machinery;
 

Description: Photograph showing several men working with a steam-powered sorghum reaper attached to a water tower, used in producing molasses at an unidentified farm in Ohio, ca. 1910. The Circle Family Glass Plate Negative Collection came in with the records of John Circle, who served as Franklin County Surveyor between 1981 and 2000. The plates are thought to be part of the family history but have no identification. The images are agricultural but have no other known history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV82_002
Subjects: Agriculture--Ohio; Agricultural machinery; Farm life; Food production
Places: Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing several men working with a steam-powered sorghum reaper used in producing molasses, at an unidentified farm in Ohio, ca. 1910. The Circle Family Glass Plate Negative Collection came in with the records of John Circle, who served as Franklin County Surveyor between 1981 and 2000. The plates are thought to be part of the family history but have no identification. The images are agricultural but have no other known history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV82_003
Subjects: Agriculture--Ohio; Agricultural machinery; Farm life; Food production
Places: Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing several men working with a steam-powered sorghum reaper attached to a water tower, used in producing molasses at an unidentified farm in Ohio, ca. 1910. The Circle Family Glass Plate Negative Collection came in with the records of John Circle, who served as Franklin County Surveyor between 1981 and 2000. The plates are thought to be part of the family history but have no identification. The images are agricultural but have no other known history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV82_004
Subjects: Agriculture--Ohio; Agricultural machinery; Farm life; Food production
Places: Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing a young boy next to a steam-powered sorghum reaper used in producing molasses, at an unidentified farm in Ohio, ca. 1910. The reaper is stuck in the mud, and written on the negative are the words "Here Today Away [crossed out] Maybe Tomorow" as well as the date "Oct-20 1912." The Circle Family Glass Plate Negative Collection came in with the records of John Circle, who served as Franklin County Surveyor between 1981 and 2000. The plates are thought to be part of the family history but have no identification. The images are agricultural but have no other known history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV82_005
Subjects: Agriculture--Ohio; Agricultural machinery; Farm life; Food production; Children
Places: Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing several men working with a steam-powered sorghum reaper used in producing molasses, at an unidentified farm in Ohio, ca. 1910. The Circle Family Glass Plate Negative Collection came in with the records of John Circle, who served as Franklin County Surveyor between 1981 and 2000. The plates are thought to be part of the family history but have no identification. The images are agricultural but have no other known history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV82_006
Subjects: Agriculture--Ohio; Agricultural machinery; Farm life; Food production
Places: Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of four men and a young girl seated on a steam engine pulling a thresher, on an unidentified farm in Ohio, ca. 1910. The Circle Family Glass Plate Negative Collection came in with the records of John Circle, who served as Franklin County Surveyor between 1981 and 2000. The plates are thought to be part of the family history but have no identification. The images are agricultural and have no known history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV82_008
Subjects: Agriculture--Ohio; Agricultural machinery; Farm life; Food production; Children
Places: Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a color print illustrating a pamphlet of the Warder, Bushnell & Glessner Company, ca. 1889-1893. The company, based in Springfield, Ohio, and Chicago, Illinois, manufactured Champion harvesting machinery. The print depicts the exterior of their Springfield factory. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02732
Subjects: Agricultural machinery; Ohio Economy--Agriculture; Manufacturing industries--Ohio; Factories
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)