Description: Dated ca. 1930-1939, this photograph shows the "Dawn" sternwheeler towing barges on the Muskingum River. 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_B12F02_015_001
Subjects: Ohio River; Barges; Transportation--Ohio--History.; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project.
Places: Ohio
 

Description: This is a photograph of a steel barge in the locks at Steubenville, Ohio at Dam # 10.L Lock and Dam 10, completed in 1915, was part of a slack-water navigation system built for the Ohio River. The site included a brick powerhouse and two lockkeeper houses. The lock and dam was replaced when Pike Island Dam was completed in 1965. The buildings were demolished in 1975. Remnants include two sets of steps, a 600-foot ramp, the lock esplanade and wall, and a recess at the east end where the lock gate once retracted. The first part of this system was the Davis Island Dam near Pittsburgh, completed in 1885. By 1929, a nine-foot pool had been completed along the entire length of the Ohio, culminating with Lock and Dam 53 at Grand Chain, Illinois. Built by the Pittsburgh District of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, this system resulted in a more navigable Ohio River with increased depth and diminished current. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F08_006_001
Subjects: Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project; Barges; Ohio River; Steubenville (Ohio)
Places: Steubenville (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "Unloading barges at Cin. Ohio--Riverboats" View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F02_040_001
Subjects: Barges--Ohio River; Shipping--Ohio River
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated to the 1930s or 1940s, this photograph shows a Greene Line Steamboat and a towboat on the Ohio River. A note on the reverse of the photograph reads "[?] a towboat on Ohio River Greene Line Steamers." Greene Line Steamers was established in 1890 by Captain Gordon C. Greene and his wife, Captain Mary Greene. Based in Cincinnati, their steamships traveled primarily on the Ohio River, transporting freight between the east and west. In the 1920's, as railroads took over most freight transport, Greene Line Steamers survived by building larger and more modern steamships, limiting their transport to shorter trade routes, and by pioneering the business of passenger pleasure cruises. The company is perhaps most notable for purchasing the 'Delta Queen' in 1946, the last original and operational sternwheeler steamboat, a U.S. National Historic Landmark. After Tom Greene, son of Gordon C. Greene, died unexpectedly in 1950, Greene Line Steamers came under hard financial times and eventually folded in 1958. 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_B12F02_024_001
Subjects: Ohio River; Barges; Steamboats; Natural resources; Transportation--Ohio
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Class - Industry; Location - Cincinnati; Credit - Courtesy of Homer Jensen" Caption on a similar photograph reads: "Unloading coal barges, Cincinnati river front. From "They Built a City." Copyright released for this foto by the Cincinnati Post." The book referred to here is entitled "They Built a City: 150 Years of Industrial Cincinnati", written by the Cincinnati Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration in Ohio and published by the Cincinnati Post in 1938. From this work, "The use of towboats for handling river coal began in the Cincinnati area in January, 1907 when the Sprague took 60 coal boats and barges, carrying a load of 70 thousand tons, from Louisville to New Orleans. From this experiment came a vast river trade in coal. At Cincinnati this coal commerce has gone steadily upward; on several occasions the annual receipts have exceeded three million tons. In 1937 the city received 2, 606, 044 tons." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F10_015_1
Subjects: Coal--Transportation--Ohio; Barges; Ohio River
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Handwritten on reverse: "Barges on the Muskingum River." This photograph shows three barges being towed by a tug boat, near Marietta, Ohio. The Muskingum River is a tributary of the Ohio River, approximately 111 miles long, in southeastern Ohio. The Muskingum is formed at Coshocton in east-central Ohio by the confluence of the Walhonding and Tuscarawas rivers. It flows in a meandering course southward past Conesville, Trinway and Dresden to Zanesville, and then southeastward past South Zanesville, Philo, Malta, McConnelsville, Beverly, Lowell, Stockport and Devola. It joins the Ohio at Marietta. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F18_008_1
Subjects: Muskingum River Valley (Ohio); Muskingum River (Ohio); Barges--United States
Places: Marietta (Ohio); Washington County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1930-1939, this photograph shows a barge traveling down the Muskingum River. 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_B09F13_004_1
Subjects: Barges; Muskingum River (Ohio); Transportation--Ohio--History.; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project.
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Original description reads: "Unloading coal barges, Cincinnati river front. From "They Built a City." Copyright released for this foto by the Cincinnati Post." The book referred to here is entitled "They Built a City: 150 Years of Industrial Cincinnati", written by the Cincinnati Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration in Ohio and published by the Cincinnati Post in 1938. From this work, "The use of towboats for handling river coal began in the Cincinnati area in January, 1907 when the Sprague took 60 coal boats and barges, carrying a load of 70 thousand tons, from Louisville to New Orleans. From this experiment came a vast river trade in coal. At Cincinnati this coal commerce has gone steadily upward; on several occasions the annual receipts have exceeded three million tons. In 1937 the city received 2,606,044 tons." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F11_008_1
Subjects: Coal--Transportation--Ohio; Barges; Ohio River; Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "The Maumee at Toledo Photograph by Edwin Locke Photograph by courtesy of United States Film Service This photo must be returned to OHIO WRITERS' PROJECT 8 E. Chestnut St. Columbus, O. Carrius (Page 5)" Another piece of paper is attached to the back of the photo, although it is damaged. The remaining portions read: "(Used in The Ohio Guide) 15-to Michigan-National Picture Book 1/8/41 Toledo Edwin Locke; courtesy U. S. Film Service Caption - The Maumee River at Toledo This photo must be returned to OHIO WRITERS' PROJECT 8 E. Chestnut St., Columbus, O." The barge in the foreground, the Henry C. Dalton seems to be named after a doctor from St. Louis who is noted for performing the first suturing of the pericardium on record. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F01_002_001
Subjects: Maumee River (Ind. and Ohio); Barges; Toledo (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works
Places: Toledo (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Attached caption reads: "Lake boats on the Maumee River, Toledo, Ohio, with the city in the background PHOTO BY EDWIN LOCKE FOR U.S. FILM SERVICE FARM SECURITY ADMINISTRATION photograph by Locke" The barge in the foreground, the Henry C. Dalton seems to be named after a doctor from St. Louis who is noted for performing the first suturing of the pericardium on record. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F02_003_001
Subjects: Maumee River (Ind. and Ohio); Barges; Toledo (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works
Places: Toledo (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)