Description: Outdoor theater setting including bleachers for audience, Native American performers, teepees and a kettle over a fire. Caption reads "Part of Camp--Taken at Buena Vista, O. August 1889. E. E. E. Lecturer." Ellsworth Eugene Eisenbarth was born October 22, 1864, in Ironton, Ohio. The family later moved to Wetzel County, West Virginia. By 1889, Eisenbarth was traveling the mid-Atlantic states in "The Oregon Indian Medicine Show," which featured such entertainment as real cowboys and “Indians.” He next bought a floating store, which he refitted as a showboat and christened "The Eisenbarth Wild West & Floating Opera." The endeavor lasted from 1891 to 1895. By the late 1890s, Eisenbarth and his wife Julia had founded "The Eisenbarth & Henderson Mammoth and Combined Uncle Tom’s Cabin Company," complete with calliope, band and orchestra, which also traveled throughout the middle states by rail. In February of 1900, E. E. and Julia converted a glass barge named the E. V. Poke No. 2 into "The Eisenbarth-Henderson Floating Theatre, Temple of Amusement." This showboat and its successor ("The Eisenbarth-Henderson Floating Theatre-The New Great Modern Temple of Amusement") were devoted to bringing Shakespearean plays and other dramas, such as “Human Hearts,” to the waterways. Eisenbarth also worked with a traveling company of players, perhaps to remain off the rivers during the winter months. The Temple cleared more money than almost any other boat on the Ohio River, even though it only played four nights a week and never on Sunday. Julia Eisenbarth died sometime after, and E. E. remarried in 1908 to Jennie Salina Brown. In 1909, he presented his last show on a riverboat, “The Castle.” He sold The Temple showboat to the Needham-Steiner Amusement Company that year, and although he made bids on other boats, these proved unsuccessful and The Temple ended up being his last showboat. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07562
Subjects: Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture; Showboats; Ohio River; Traveling shows; Theater--Ohio; Actors;
Places: Buena Vista (Ohio); Fayette County (Ohio); Hocking County (Ohio); Scioto County (Ohio); Van Wert County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Darke Co., Greenville, O., Mar. 25, 1938. Court House, Broadway & W. Fourth St. Dedicated in 1874." The Darke County Courthouse, located at 504 South Broadway, just south of West 4th Street in Greenville, Ohio. Designed by Edwin May, and built by Rouser & Rouser, the building was completed in 1874. The courthouse is designed in the Second Empire style with traces of Italianate style. The rectangular building is lined with Buena Vista sandstone with a rusticated foundation and smooth stones lining the floors above. The windows were designed as arches until long rectangular panels were placed during the renovation. Above each window is a decorative head casing in the shape of an arch or pediment. A central projection on the front facade is topped by a tower. The tower contains the main entrance with pilasters on either side holding a balcony. A pediment rests at the top floor and is surmounted by a statue of Justice. The tower rises to a dome which is capped by a spire. Four stone chimneys line the sides of the courthouse. The flat roof was once a mansard and is supported by a decorative entablature. The large complex which combines the Courthouse, Sheriff's House and the Jail was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F07_001_1
Subjects: Ohio Government; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Courthouses--Ohio--History.; National Register of Historic Places
Places: Greenville (Ohio); Darke County (Ohio)