Description: Pictured is Camp Lucky Strike in 1945. Camp Lucky Strike was one of several transfer camps that were established by allied forces during WWII. Located northeast of Le Havre, France, the port served as a staging area for incoming troops preparing for combat in Europe. In order to keep the geographical locations of the camps secret, they were assigned names that gave no indication of their locations. All of the staging camps were named after American cigarette brands, such as Luck Strike and Philip Morris, as a security precaution. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05992
Subjects: Ohio History--Military Ohio; World War II; Camps
Places: France
 

Description: Pictures is a chow line at Camp Lucky Strike in France in 1945. Camp Lucky Strike was one of several transfer camps that were established by allied forces during WWII. Located northeast of Le Havre, France, the port served as a staging area for incoming troops preparing for combat in Europe. In order to keep the geographical locations of the camps secret, they were assigned names that gave no indication of their locations. All of the staging camps were named after American cigarette brands, such as Luck Strike and Philip Morris, as a security precaution. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05994
Subjects: Ohio History--Military Ohio; World War II; Camps
Places: France
 

Description: Pictured is the coast Line in Le Havre, France in 1945. The coast line was home to several ports that served as a staging camps for incoming U.S. troops preparing for combat in Europe during WWII. Camp Lucky Strike was one of several transfer camps that were established by allied forces. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05993
Subjects: Ohio History--Military Ohio; World War II; Camps
Places: France
 

Description: Illustration of General Ulysses S. Grant and soldiers crossing a river and establishing a camp while doing reconnaissance near Columbus, Kentucky, as published in "Civil War in Pictures" by Fletcher Pratt. Caption reads: "Grant's reconnaissance toward Columbus." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04600
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S., 1822-1885; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio--History, Military; Presidents--United States; Generals--United States; Camps
Places: Columbus (Kentucky)
 

Description: Illustration of General Ulysses S. Grant and soldiers crossing a river and establishing a camp while doing reconnaissance near Columbus, Kentucky, published in "Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War" by Alfred H. Guernsey. Ulysses S. Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Point Pleasant, Ohio. During the U. S. Civil War, Grant was promoted to the rank of General and granted command of the Union army by President Abraham Lincoln. After the victory of the Union over the Confederacy, Grant's popularity led to his election as the 18th President of the United States in 1868. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04605
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S., 1822-1885; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio--History, Military; Presidents--United States; Generals--United States; Camps
Places: Columbus (Kentucky)
 

Description: This photograph shows Lake Alma near Wellston, Ohio. A second photograph shows campers at Lake Alma State Park in the 1960s. The photographs measure 2.75" x 2.75" (6.99 x 6.99 cm). C. K. Davis built Lake Alma in 1903 as an amusement park. The park included a merry-go-round, dance pavilion, and outdoor theater. It closed in 1910 and the city of Wellston purchased the lake for a municipal water supply. Wellston later agreed to lease the land to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources for Lake Alma State Park. Camping, hiking, swimming, and boating became popular attractions. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3008_3627105_001
Subjects: Sports; Arts and Entertainment; Daily Life; Geography and Natural Resources; Parks; Camping; Camps
Places: Vinton County (Ohio); Wellston (Ohio); Jackson County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing a busload of children gathered for the Columbus Division of Recreation and Parks' Camp Day, June 25, 1951. The children are attending Indian Village Day Camp in Columbus, Ohio. The Columbus Recreation and Parks Commission was created in 1972 with the merger of the Franklin Park Commission and Recreation Commission, two separate commissions which were founded in the early twentieth century. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA6508AV_B01_F69_01
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Children--Ohio; Camps;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing small ships and residences at Russell's Point Harbor. The caption beneath the photograph reads: "Russell's Point Harbor, 1916. Indian Lake." The attached description located on the back of the page reads: "PHOTOGRAPHS No's 89,90,94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100 & 101.| INDIAN LAKE REVETMENT WALL.| A wall should be constructed from Russell Point to Lakeview along the bank of Indian Lake. The present bank has become disintegrated and is more than one-half washed away from its original cross section. Said bank is very weak and is subject to rupture at any time. This bank impedes the entire waters of Indian Lake and should it give away, Indian Lake would be drained. In addition to being very expensive to repair, the damage incurred by said break, would entail thousands of dollars, besides loss of life. The gap that should spanned with a concrete wall is 4968 Linear feet. The present driveway is dangerous, which located on top of said bank, owing to it being washed so badly as to make the road bed not over 10 ft. in width. The construction of a wall and a back fill of the same would create a boulevard along the lake at this point." This photograph is part of a series taken by the Board of the Ohio Department of Public Works to document the disrepair of the infrastructure of the Ohio and Erie Canal and Miami-Erie Canal systems in 1916, showing the physical condition of each structure. The Ohio Department of Public Works is one of the oldest departments of state government in continuous existence. Among its other duties, this department was charged with maintenance and administration of the Ohio & Erie and Miami-Erie Canals. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA936AV_B01_092
Subjects: Waterworks; Lakes & ponds; Ships; Tents; Camps
Places: Russells Point (Ohio); Logan County (Ohio)
 

Description: Lake Noah is located in Summit County near the city of Green, Ohio at latitude - longitude coordinates N 40.91339 and W -81.51484. Located on Lake Noah is Camp Y. Noah, an affiliate of the YMCA of Akron, Ohio. Camp Y. Noah was established in 1930 and consists of hiking trails, ropes courses, equestrian trails, and summer programing. It is also an accredited outdoor environmental educational center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F02_023_001
Subjects: Geography and Natural Resources; Lakes and ponds; Camps; YMCA
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows Japanese American Mae Takasugi with a parasol, taken in 1943 by Charles Buxton in Alliance, Ohio. The photograph was taken before Mae Takasugi and her husband Kingo left for an incarceration camp in California. Originally residents of California, the couple moved to Alliance in 1940 for Kingo's engineering job. Because the couple still listed California as their place of residency, they were ordered to an incarceration camp in California in 1943, along with Mae's extended family. Mae and Kingo were good friends with Buxton, an amateur photographer. Before the couple left Alliance, Buxton took this portrait of Mae, and when they were forced to leave, Mae gave the parasol and portrait to Buxton as a token of friendship. When they were released, Mae and Kingo moved to Southern California where Kingo continued to work as an engineer. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS7471
Subjects: World War II; World War, 1939-1945 -- Women; Incarceration camps; Japanese Americans
Places: Alliance (Ohio); Stark County (Ohio)
 

Description: A snow-covered day in an early trailer park. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F08_012
Subjects: Trailer camps; Camping--Ohio; Camping trailer industry
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Dated to the winter of 1937, this photograph shows part of Camp Rosen, a Civilian Conservation Corps Camp (C.C.C.) in Warren County, Ohio. There is a log cabin visible through the trees and a stream in the foreground. The Civilian Conservation Corps was a work relief program established as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal that employed young men, ages 18-25 and later expanded to ages 17-28, with jobs in the natural resources field. This 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_B14F07_045_001
Subjects: Camps; Log cabins; Rivers; Winter; Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); Federal Writers' Project
Places: Warren County (Ohio)