Description: Road construction in Allen County near Cairo, Ohio. The photograph depicts a new road being constructed with a base of gravel and mud. Flanking the unfinished road are road posts. On the horizon are buildings and trees in the distance. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F03_006_001
Subjects: Roads--Ohio--Allen County--Design and construction; Road construction industry--Ohio; Allen County (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works.
Places: Cairo (Ohio); Allen County (Ohio)
 

Description: A winter scene depicting derricks over oil wells in Lima, Ohio, ca. 1886-1888. This photograph is part of a collection compiled by Henry Howe while researching the 1889 edition of "Historical Collections of Ohio." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00251
Subjects: Allen County (Ohio); Ohio Economy
Places: Lima (Ohio); Allen County (Ohio)
 

Description: Oil tank on fire in Lima, Ohio, ca. 1886-1888. The fire produced a large cloud of smoke and a crowd of onlookers has gathered. This photograph is part of a collection compiled by Henry Howe while researching the 1889 edition of "Historical Collections of Ohio." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00252
Subjects: Allen County (Ohio); Ohio Economy
Places: Lima (Ohio); Allen County (Ohio)
 

Description: Lima Locomotive Works, Lima, Allen County, Ohio, ca. 1940-1949. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00307
Subjects: Allen County (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development
Places: Lima (Ohio); Allen County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Julia Gurdner, an ex-slave who lived in Allen County, Ohio, District 1. Mrs. Gurdner resided at the home of her daughter at 1222 South Main Street, Lima, Ohio in Allen County. The photo is from the African American Small Picture Collection, SC 1495. The photographs were taken by staff of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The Federal Writers' Project (FWP) was a United States federal government project to fund written work and support writers during the Great Depression. On April 1, 1937, the FWP received formal approval and instructions to conduct interviews of surviving ex-slaves in Ohio. Most of the narratives were compiled in 1937 and 1938 and gathered from around the state. After the termination of the Federal Writer's Project, most narratives were transferred to the Writers' Unit of the Library of Congress. However, an additional twenty-eight narratives were discovered in the State Archives holdings. The collection contains a photo of three "very efficient members of the WPA group on project of The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 1936-1937: B[sic.] Williams, Carl G. Beason, and Margaret Clark Oakfield". There are also portraits of male and female ex-slaves of Springfield, Ohio and Youngstown, Ohio; the backs of the photographs contain street addresses, county names and district numbers of each of the former slaves' residences. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: sc1495_01_01
Subjects: African Americans--Photographs; African American women--Ohio--Photographs; African American Ohioans; Slavery; Freedmen--Ohio
Places: Lima (Ohio); Allen County (Ohio)
 

Description: Harvesting corn crop at Frank Joseph farm, near Lima, Allen County, Ohio, ca. 1940-1949. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00306
Subjects: Allen County (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Agriculture
Places: Lima (Ohio); Allen County (Ohio)
 

Description: Black Panther Party headquarters in Lima, Ohio, Allen County, August, 1970. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00598
Subjects: Revolution, Reaction, and Reform; Ohio History--Military Ohio
Places: Lima (Ohio); Allen County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Julia Gurdner's house at 1222 South Main Street, Lima, Ohio in Allen County. The photo is from the African American Small Picture Collection, SC 1495. The photographs were taken by staff of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The Federal Writers' Project (FWP) was a United States federal government project to fund written work and support writers during the Great Depression. On April 1, 1937, the FWP received formal approval and instructions to conduct interviews of surviving ex-slaves in Ohio. Most of the narratives were compiled in 1937 and 1938 and gathered from around the state. After the termination of the Federal Writer's Project, most narratives were transferred to the Writers' Unit of the Library of Congress. However, an additional twenty-eight narratives were discovered in the State Archives holdings. The collection contains a photoprint of three "very efficient members of the WPA group on project of The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 1936-1937: B[sic.] Williams, Carl G. Beason, and Margaret Clark Oakfield". There are also portraits of male and female ex-slaves of Springfield, Ohio and Youngstown, Ohio; the backs of the photographs contain street addresses, county names and district numbers of each of the former slaves' residences. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: sc1495_02_01
Subjects: Ohio Federal Writers' Project; Buildings
Places: Lima (Ohio); Allen County (Ohio)
 

Description: This poster advertises "American Guide Week," taking place November 10th to 16th of an unspecified year. American Guide Week celebrated the efforts of the Federal Writers' Project, a Works Progress Administration agency designed to give work to white-collar workers during the Great Depression under the umbrella of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. The Federal Writers' Project worked on a variety of publications, but is best known today for the project celebrated by this poster, the American Guide Series. As the poster notes, the American Guide Series aimed to describe America to Americans, state by state. Employees with the Federal Writers' Project worked to create a guidebook for each state, as well as guidebooks for many more defined areas such as cities, highway routes (such as Route One), and specific rural areas (such as Lima and Allen County, Ohio). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS5343
Subjects: Works Progress Administration; Federal Writers' Project; American Guide series; Tourism;
 

Description: Caption reads: "Homes in Lima." The city of Lima was established in 1831, and in 1887, became the first city in Ohio to have an electrified street car system in place. Lima is located in Allen County. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F03_005_001
Subjects: Architecture; Cityscapes
Places: Lima (Ohio); Allen County (Ohio)
 

Description: A view of Public Square in downtown Lima, Ohio at night. The city of Lima was established in 1831, and in 1887, became the first city in Ohio to have an electrified street car system in place. Lima is the county seat of Allen County, Ohio. Established in 1831, the community’s first white resident was Absalom Brown. Lima was named after Lima, Peru. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F03_006_001
Subjects: Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Cityscapes; Roads; Streets; Street lights
Places: Lima (Ohio); Allen County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph from the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus is of 43-year-old Lester Nichols. His formal attire suggests that the photograph was taken during his trial or sentencing. Nichols was convicted of murdering his father-in-law, Rev. Lewis Whitaker, and wounding others in a home invasion. The caption at the bottom reads: “No. 266 Lester Nichols of Allen County, Legally Electrocuted March 4, 1949 for the Murder of Lewis Whitaker.” In 1885 the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio, became the location for all executions, which previously took place in the various county seats. In 1896 the Ohio General Assembly mandated that electrocution replace hanging as the form of capital punishment. The Ohio Penitentiary regularly offered tours as well as souvenir photographs and postcards of the building and prisoners on death row. A total of 315 prisoners, both men and women, were executed in the electric chair known as “Old Sparky” between 1897 and 1963. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08318
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Capital punishment--Ohio--History; Death row; Electrocution; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections; Ohio Penitentiary (Columbus, Ohio); Prisons--Ohio; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections; Death row
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Allen County (Ohio)