Description: This photograph shows an outdoor market in Cincinnati, Ohio, ca. 1935-1943. Vendors are selling produce at stands shielded from the elements by a tent awning (possibly made of canvas). The adjoining walkway is crowded with shoppers and passersby. The produced stands and bushel baskets are overflowing with produce. One vendor is a young boy who is busy waiting on a customer. Behind a wrought-iron fence in the lower-right foreground a woman is sitting on an overturned basket. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06199
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio); Markets--Ohio; Business--Ohio; Photography--Ohio
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Man laboring in salt refinery, Cleveland, Ohio, ca. 1940. This photograph was to be included in the Cleveland Guide, one of several guides on selected American cities to be published by the Federal Writers Project. The Federal Writers Program was a depression-era program created to employ writers. Most of the work for the Cleveland Guide was complete when the program was abolished in 1943. The Cleveland Guide was not published. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03616
Subjects: Salt industry and trade--Ohio; Business--Ohio; Federal Writers' Project--1930-1950; Great Depression and the New Deal; Employees
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: The photograph shows the main street in Fremont, Ohio, in 1939. Fremont, located on the Sandusky River, is the county seat of Sandusky County. Spiegel Grove, the home of President Rutherford B. Hayes, is located in Fremont. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F07_007_1
Subjects: Fremont (Ohio); Cities and towns--Ohio; Business enterprises--Ohio
Places: Fremont (Ohio); Sandusky County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photomechanical reproduction of a stereograph depicting two workers building a rubber tire for an automobile at a factory in Akron, Ohio. The original stereograph was published by the Keystone View Company, and the reproduction was made by Stereo Classic Studios. Numerous rubber companies operated in or near Akron during the late 19th Century, leading the city to be known as the "Rubber Capital of the World." Among the large-scale rubber producers to have factories in the area were the B.F. Goodrich Company, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, and the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company. The advent of the bicycle and the automobile led to great success for companies in the rubber industry. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02736
Subjects: Rubber industry workers--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business; Ohio Economy--Economy--Labor; Manufacturing industries--Ohio
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows the smoke stacks of a factory. The location is unknown. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F07_030_1
Subjects: Factories; Manufacturing industries--Ohio; Business and labor
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Reverse reads: “Arnold Ralph puts finishing touches on a ‘Tom Cat’ table & chair set at one of the WPA workshop projects at 1501 Putnam Ave – Zanesville. WPA ‘Open House,’ May 20-28.” View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F02_013_001
Subjects: Industries--Ohio; Business and Labor
Places: Zanesville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated to the 1930s or early 1940s, this is a photograph collage that shows different stages of piano manufacture at the Baldwin Piano Company in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Baldwin Piano Company was the largest United States-based manufacturer of keyboard instruments, most notably pianos. It remains a subsidiary of the Gibson Guitar Corporation, although it ceased domestic production of pianos in December 2008. Baldwin, like many other manufacturers, began building player pianos in the 1920s, and a piano factory was constructed in Cincinnati, Ohio. The models became unpopular by the end of the 1920s, which, coupled with the beginning of the Great Depression, could have spelled disaster for Baldwin. However, the company's president, Lucien Wulsin II, had created a large reserve fund for such situations, and Baldwin was able to ride out the market downturn. 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_B10F08_021_001
Subjects: Baldwin Piano Company; Musical instruments; Manufacturing industries--Ohio; Business and Labor; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1930-1943, this is a photograph of a collage depicting different processes of baseball production. A caption on the photograph's reverse reads "Life looks inside a baseball." 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_B03F11_004_1
Subjects: Baseball; Industries--Ohio; Business and labor; Employees
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: A view of Sandusky Avenue, Bucyrus, Ohio, ca. 1905. This photograph of a busy thoroughfare shows passersby strolling along the sidewalk. Streetcar tracks on the paved street (bricks or stones) cut a diagonal line through the image. Sandusky Avenue is shared by a streetcar, automobiles, and horse-drawn buggies and wagons. Riderless bicycles are propped against a curb and a railing. Rows of telephone and telegraph wires cross overhead. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06035
Subjects: Bucyrus (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works; Street-railroads --Ohio; Small business--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Bucyrus (Ohio); Crawford County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows Howard Street in Akron, Ohio, in 1890. Streetcar rails run down the middle of the busy street. Horse-drawn wagons are parked on both sides of the street, and pedestrians are visible on the sidewalk. An advertising banner hangs above the street. Patches of snow are scattered on the street and walkways. Telegraph/telephone poles line the street. Miller & Roche, wholesale and retail grocers, were located on Howard Street. One of their establishments is visible in the left foreground. Another establishment in this photograph is S.E. Allen, a drugstore located at 193 Howard Street (far right, middle). By the mid-20th century, Howard Street become the center of African-American culture. It was home to many of the city's black-owned business and entertainment establishments, and provided an atmosphere in which minority-owned businesses could thrive. Attracted to the vitality of the neighborhood, entrepreneur George Mathews (1887-1982) established a barbershop here in 1920 and in 1925 opened the adjoining Mathews Hotel. The hotel quickly became the anchor of the Howard Street district. Mathews' success allowed him to endow a scholarship fund at the University of Akron in 1964. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06153
Subjects: Akron (Ohio); Streets--Ohio; Small business--Ohio; Businesses; African Americans--Ohio
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: A printed illustration compliments of Hunter & Welty showing a scarlet tanager perched on a very large egg. Hunter & Welty was likely a local Zanesville, Ohio, business. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS559_B13F02_007
Subjects: Advertising; Birds--Ohio; Illustrations; Business--Ohio;
Places: Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: Middle Avenue runs along the east side of Elyria's town square. The Lorain County Courthouse sits on 2nd Street, which is on the south side of the town square. The intersection shown here is to the left of the front of Lorain County Courthouse. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F04_284
Subjects: Streets--Ohio; Stores and shops; Automobiles; Small business--Ohio; City and town life
Places: Elyria (Ohio); Lorain County (Ohio);