Description: People whitewater rafting in the Colorado River against the backdrop of a steep scenic cliff, ca. 1970s - 1980s. Photographer Joe Munroe lived in Ohio from 1945 to 1954. Also a filmmaker, Munroe led sixteen rafting trips down the Colorado River while making two of his films about the Grand Canyon. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05881
Subjects: Rafting (Sports)--Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico); Joe Munroe; Photographers--Ohio
Places: Colorado River
 

Description: A man photographs people whitewater rafting in the Colorado River, ca. 1970s-1980s. Photographer Joe Munroe, who took the picture, lived in Ohio from 1945 to 1954. Also a filmmaker, Munroe led sixteen rafting trips down the Colorado River while making two of his films about the Grand Canyon. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05882
Subjects: Rafting (Sports)--Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico); Joe Munroe; Photographers--Ohio
Places: Colorado River
 

Description: People in three boats raft in heavy rapids against a rocky cliff in the Colorado River, ca. 1970-1980. Photographer Joe Munroe, who took the picture, lived in Ohio from 1945 to 1954. Also a filmmaker, Munroe led sixteen rafting trips down the Colorado River while making two of his films about the Grand Canyon. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05883
Subjects: Rafting (Sports)--Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico); Joe Munroe; Photographers--Ohio
Places: Colorado River
 

Description: Two people in a whitewater raft travel on the Colorado River, ca. 1970-1980. Photographer Joe Munroe, who took the picture, lived in Ohio from 1945 to 1954. Also a filmmaker, Munroe led sixteen rafting trips down the Colorado River while making two of his films about the Grand Canyon. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05884
Subjects: Rafting (Sports)--Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico); Joe Munroe; Photographers--Ohio
Places: Colorado River
 

Description: Scientist and explorer of the American West, John Wesley Powell moved from New York to Jackson with his family in 1838 and lived here until 1846. He developed an early interest in geology from his tutor "Big" George Crookham, a Jackson salt boiler, educator, and abolitionist. Powell served in the Union Army during the Civil War and lost his right arm at Shiloh in 1862. Later he became professor of geology at Illinois Wesleyan University. In 1869, he led a nine-man expedition in the first exploration of the entire length of the Colorado River, providing the first scientific description of the Grand Canyon. Subsequently Powell helped found the U.S. Geological Survey and served as its director from 1881 to 1894. Photo taken by WPA between 1939-1943. Historical marker erected in 2001 View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F04_002_001_001
Subjects: Civil War; Geology; Colorado River; Exploration; Military; American Legion
Places: Jackson (Ohio); Jackson County (Ohio)
 

Description: A photographer shoots film footage of the Grand Canyon in June 1984. Photographer Joe Munroe, who took the picture, lived in Ohio from 1945 to 1954. He was also a filmmaker, and made two films about the Grand Canyon: "Showcase of the Ages" and "Dare the Wildest River." His film career coincided with his interest in rafting the rivers of the western United States, and he led sixteen rafting trips down the Colorado River while directing these films. His cinema work, which incorporates the agricultural and environmental themes important to his entire career, has won numerous awards. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05885
Subjects: Photographers; Grand Canyon (Ariz.)--History--Pictorial works; Motion picture film--History
Places: Grand Canyon (Arizona)
 

Description: This memorial to explorer John Wesley Powell is located near the county courthouse in Jackson, Ohio. Completed in 1938, the monument is built of stones donated by the Improved Order of Red Men. The image measures 2.75" x 2.75" (6.99 x 6.99 cm). Powell (1834-1902) was born in New York, but moved to Jackson with his family when he was four years old. He became interested in natural history as a boy and pursued a career in the field, becoming a curator at the Illinois State Natural History Society in 1858. He served in the Civil War, sustaining a serious wound in the Battle of Shiloh that required the amputation of his right forearm. In 1869, he took a team to explore the southwestern United States and became one of the first white men to navigate the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. From 1880 to 1894 Powell served as director of the United States Geological Survey and as director of the Smithsonian's Bureau of Ethnology from 1880 to 1902. The Improved Order of Red Men is one of the oldest fraternal organizations in the United States. It is supposedly descended from the Sons of Liberty, which during the colonial period worked secretly to achieve independence from England. The Ohio Council was organized in 1853, six years after the national organization, the Great Council of the United States, was founded in Maryland. Freedom, friendship, and charity were its main concerns. Its rituals and terminology were borrowed from American Indians, who were excluded from membership. Prominent members claimed by the order include Theodore Roosevelt, Warren G. Harding, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was adopted in 1930 at the DeWitt Clinton Hotel in Columbus. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3022_3636510_001
Subjects: Arts and Entertainment; Geography and Natural Resources; Monuments & memorials; Explorers; Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902; Rocks; Fraternal orders
Places: Jackson (Ohio); Jackson County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. April 1862, this lithograph titled "Shiloh Spring" shows the 31st Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment around the time of the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee. Soldiers on horseback can be seen against a backdrop of cut trees on a hillside. A soldier appears to fill his canteen at a spring near the center of the image. Mathews (1831-1874) was born in Bristol, England, but moved with his family to settle in Rochester, Ohio, when he was two years old. He was working as a schoolteacher in Alabama when the Civil War broke out, and returned north to enlist in the 1st Ohio Artillery in August 1861. He later joined the 31st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and fought in battles including Corinth, Stone River, Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. During his three-year enlistment he drew numerous sketches of scenes he witnessed, which were made into lithographs and sold, including publication in Harper's Weekly. He moved west following the war and continued his work as an artist, until his sudden death at the age of 43. He is buried on his ranch near Longmount, Colorado. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08607
Subjects: Civil War 1861-1865; Shiloh, Battle of, Tenn., 1862; Battlefields; Soldiers; Military life
Places: Tennessee
 

Description: Lithograph print depicting the Battle of Logan's Cross Roads, sometimes referred to as the Battle of Fishing Creek or Mill Springs, fought on January 19, 1862. Union forces defeated Confederate forces to gain control of the region. Depicted in the scene are the 2nd Minnesota, 4th Kentucky and 10th Indiana at left, the death of Zollicoffer near the center, Union and Secession forces in the distance, and General Crittenden and staff at right. The lithograph was created from a sketch by Alfred E. Mathews who served with the 31st Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Mathews (1831-1874) was born in Bristol, England, but moved with his family to settle in Rochester, Ohio, when he was two years old. He was working as a schoolteacher in Alabama when the Civil War broke out, and returned north to enlist in the 1st Ohio Artillery in August 1861. He later joined the 31st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and fought in battles including Corinth, Stone River, Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. During his three-year enlistment he drew numerous sketches of scenes he witnessed, which were made into lithographs and sold, including publication in Harper's Weekly. He moved west following the war and continued his work as an artist, until his sudden death at the age of 43. He is buried on his ranch near Longmount, Colorado. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08608
Subjects: Civil War 1861-1865; Battlefields; Military Ohio; Artists--Ohio
Places: Mill Springs (Kentucky)
 

Description: Lithograph illustration by Alfred E. Mathews titled "Battle of Shiloh." The image's caption or subtitle is "The Gunboats Tylor and Lexington Supporting the National troops, by firing up the ravine back of Pittsburg Landing." Mathews (1831-1874) was born in Bristol, England, but moved with his family to settle in Rochester, Ohio, when he was two years old. He was working as a schoolteacher in Alabama when the Civil War broke out, and returned north to enlist in the 1st Ohio Artillery in August 1861. He later joined the 31st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and fought in battles including Corinth, Stone River, Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. During his three-year enlistment he drew numerous sketches of scenes he witnessed, which were made into lithographs and sold, including publication in Harper's Weekly. He moved west following the war and continued his work as an artist, until his sudden death at the age of 43. He is buried on his ranch near Longmount, Colorado. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08610
Subjects: Civil War 1861-1865; Shiloh, Battle of, Tenn., 1862; Battlefields; Steamboats;
Places: Tennessee
 

Description: Lithograph illustration by Alfred E. Mathews showing the Female Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee, which served as the barracks of the 51st Regiment Ohio Volunteers and as Headquarters of the Provost Marshall, Colonel Stanley Matthews, March 1862. Below the illustration and its caption is an excerpt from the Circular of the Female Academy, in which the institution's president, C. D. Elliott, emphasizes support for the Confederate cause during the Civil War. Mathews (1831-1874) was born in Bristol, England, but moved with his family to settle in Rochester, Ohio, when he was two years old. He was working as a schoolteacher in Alabama when the Civil War broke out, and returned north to enlist in the 1st Ohio Artillery in August 1861. He later joined the 31st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and fought in battles including Corinth, Stone River, Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. During his three-year enlistment he drew numerous sketches of scenes he witnessed, which were made into lithographs and sold, including publication in Harper's Weekly. He moved west following the war and continued his work as an artist, until his sudden death at the age of 43. He is buried on his ranch near Longmount, Colorado. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08612
Subjects: Civil War 1861-1865; Union Army; Artists--Ohio; School buildings; Confederate States of America;
Places: Nashville (Tennessee)
 

Description: Lithograph illustration of the 31st Regiment of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry at the Battle of Wild Cat, created from a sketch made on site by Alfred E. Mathews, a soldier in the regiment. The Battle of Wild Cat, also called Camp Wildcat or Wildcat Mountain, was one of the early battles and an early Union victory in the Civil War, taking place in Laurel County, Kentucky, on October 21, 1861. Numbers along the bottom of the illustration are labeled underneath the title, identifying specific units on both sides of the battle. Mathews (1831-1874) was born in Bristol, England, but moved with his family to settle in Rochester, Ohio, when he was two years old. He was working as a schoolteacher in Alabama when the Civil War broke out, and returned north to enlist in the 1st Ohio Artillery in August 1861. He later joined the 31st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and fought in battles including Corinth, Stone River, Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. During his three-year enlistment he drew numerous sketches of scenes he witnessed, which were made into lithographs and sold, including publication in Harper's Weekly. He moved west following the war and continued his work as an artist, until his sudden death at the age of 43. He is buried on his ranch near Longmount, Colorado. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08602
Subjects: Civil War 1861-1865; Battlefields; Soldiers; Union Army; Firearms; Military Ohio
Places: Kentucky