Description: Electric locomotives made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio in use at the Blaine Mine, Lorain Coal and Dock Company, Bridgeport, Ohio, 1922. On the left is a 15-ton electric haulage locomotive. This type of locomotive was used to pull long trains of coal cars from mines. The top speed of these locomotives was about 5 miles per hour. Power was supplied from an overhead electrical cable and trolley pickup arm to the locomotive. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01432
Subjects: Bridgeport (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Bridgeport (Ohio)
 

Description: Carte de visite of Pvt. Robert Coen, who served with Company A of the 43rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Company A was recruited from Bellaire, Bridgeport, & Martins Ferry, Belmont County, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV200_b03_f20_03
Subjects: Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Photographs; United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 43rd (1862-1865) Company A
Places: Bellaire (Ohio); Bridgeport (Ohio); Martins Ferry (Ohio); Belmont County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Toronto High School Stadium. Toronto, O. Miller and Son, 436 Market Street, Steubenville, Ohio." The sign outside the stadium reads: "Home Games 1936. Amsterdam Sept. 18; Freedom Sept. 25; Liverpool Oct. 2; Chester Oct. 9; Sebring Oct. 23; Bridgeport Oct. 31; Libson Nov. 14" Toronto, Ohio is located about 9 miles north of Steubenville, on the Ohio River. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F06_046_001
Subjects: High schools--Ohio; School buildings--Ohio; Jefferson County (Ohio)--History; Stadiums--Ohio; Sports and recreation facilities; Education; Sports; Athletic fields; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Toronto (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph is a black-and-white image of a colorful mural titled "Mail—The Connecting Link’," painted in 1938 by artist Sally F. Haley (1908-2007). The mural depicts the significant role that mail (and the postal service) plays in the life of individuals and of the entire nation. Three human figures (a mail carrier, a woman, and a little girl) occupy the center of the image, forming a triangular space that divides the background between urban and rural settings. The mail carrier is delivering a letter to the woman as the little girl watches. Bags of mail travel to distant locations via trains (rural areas and small towns) and boats (large urban areas). On the left side the mural, a railroad signal bears the number “1938,” the year that Haley painted the mural. The mural, painted in oil on canvas, is located in the McConnelsville, Ohio, post office. It measures 5 feet high by 17 feet wide. The mural was funded by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Section of Painting and Sculpture, one of the department’s three visual arts programs instituted during the Great Depression. Established in 1934, the Section of Painting and Sculpture commissioned artists to create paintings and sculpture that would decorate new federal buildings. The commissions were awarded competitively. Unlike other cultural programs of the New Deal, the Section’s primary goal was to procure art for public buildings, not to provide work relief. Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Sally Haley was the daughter of Elizabeth Akers Haley and John P. Haley, a portrait photographer. John Haley was a friend of photographers Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen. Two of Sally’s brothers also became artists. In 1931, Sally Haley graduated from Yale University with a bachelor of fine arts degree. She taught art in a Bridgeport high school for two years, studied art in Germany for a few months, and then returned to the U.S. to paint full time. In 1935 she married artist Michele Russo, and the couple lived in Connecticut until 1947, when they moved to Portland, Oregon. Haley was very active in the Portland art scene, and her paintings were widely praised. She died in 2007 at age 99. In 1988 photographer Connie Girard took color and black-and-white images of this mural for an article in "Timeline" magazine (June/July 1989). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04495
Subjects: Mural paintings (visual works); Post office buildings--Ohio; United States. Department of the Treasury. Section of Painting and Sculpture; Great Depression and the New Deal; McConnelsville (Ohio)
Places: McConnelsville (Ohio); Morgan County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads, "Seagrave corp." An unidentified man works on a coulter machine at the Seagrave corporation in Columbus, Ohio. The coulter is a type of metalworking machine tool that was created by the Automatic Machine Co. based in Bridgeport, Conn. It is used for planing new brasses and planing slide valves for reseating. Seagrave Corporation eventually became Seagrave Fire Apparatus, and is now the oldest' continuous manufacturer of fire apparatus in North America. The company was founded in 1881 in Detroit, Michigan, by Frederic Seagrave, and moved to Columbus, Ohio, in 1891. In 1963, it moved to Clintonville, Wisconsin where it is still located today. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F10_014_1
Subjects: Seagrave Fire Apparatus (Firm); Electric apparatus and appliances--Fires and fire prevention; Industries--Ohio--History--Pictorial works; United States. Work Projects Administration (Ohio)
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Section of a panorama painted by Albert Ruger in the 1880's depicting an event known as the "Great Locomotive Chase" or "Andrews Raid." In 1862, Secret Service Agent James J. Andrews lead volunteer Union soldiers, mostly Ohioans, on a mission to steal a Confederate locomotive and drive from the south to the north, destroying the rail lines along the way. The mission failed shortly after it was begun, and several of the captured men were hung while others were later exchanged and some escaped. This scene in the panorama depicts William J. Knight, a private in the 21st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company E, who participated in the raid, taken before a Confederate colonel in Bridgeport, Alabama. Knight escaped, and in 1878 he began touring and giving lectures describing the raid. Ruger's panorama accompanied him for more than eighteen years. The panorama is now part of the museum collections of the Ohio Historical Society. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02923
Subjects: Chattanooga Railroad Expedition, 1862; Ohio--History, Military--19th century; Andrews' Raid, 1862; Ruger, A.