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: This flag is made of textile (cotton) with one white and two blue horizontal stripes of equal width. It is overlaid by a C surrounding a yellow circle whose diameter equals the width of the center (white) stripe. The dimensions of the flag are 95 by 155 cm. Maker's mark indicates it was manufactured by Dettra's Flags in Pennsylvania. Bulldog bunting was first used by the Dettra Flag Company after 1925, and the use of cotton in flag production tapered off after WWII. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H65489_001
Subjects: Ceremonial artifact; Communication artifact; Military flags; state flags--Colorado;
Places: Colorado (United States)
 

Description: This photograph depicts the Byers Junior High School Building in Denver, Colorado. Youngstown-Buckeye conduit was used in the construction of this building. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B03F51_008
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Construction; Steel industry
Places: Denver (Colorado)
 

Description: This photograph depicts the Moffat Tunnel in Denver, Colorado. Youngstown pipe and sheets were used in the construction of this tunnel. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B03F51_013
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Construction; Steel industry; Moffat Tunnel (Colo.)
Places: Denver (Colorado)
 

Description: This photograph depicts Morey Junior High School in Denver, Colorado. Youngstown-Buckeye conduit was used in the construction of the school. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B03F51_015
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Construction; Steel industry
Places: Denver (Colorado)
 

Description: 1956 Malabar Farm calendar which includes small calendar pages and substantial essays on various themes in conservation agriculture, soil science and mid-century agriculture, written by Malabar Farm denizen and prominent farm writer Louis Bromfield. The Friends of the Land Collection (1930-1960) contains the papers of the Friends of the Land (1940-1959), a prominent national soil conservation education organization headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. FOTL produced an international literary arts quarterly, THE LAND (edited by New Deal agriculture writer Russell Lord) in addition to several members' only publications (LAND LETTER) and informational pamphlets. They also hosted annual conferences; ran conservation tours, teacher training labs, and workshops; and operated as a national clearinghouse for conservation information. Ohio farmer and novelist Louis Bromfield was active in the organization. Much of the collection reflects the career and interests of FOTL Executive Secretary Ollie Fink, who was a prominent conservation education pioneer in Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Page1
Subjects: Conservation education; Bromfield, Louis (1896-1956); Agriculture; Soil science; Malabar Farm
Places: Mansfield (Ohio); Richland County (Ohio)
 

Description: 1955 calendar advertising and themed around Ohio author and conservation advocate Louis Bromfield's famed Malabar Farm in Lucas, Ohio. The full-color twelve-month calendar includes color photographs by Joe Munroe and short caption essays by Louis Bromfield. Calendar verso pages feature longer essays on the history and rehabilitation of Malabar and vignettes of farm life also written by Bromfield. The Friends of the Land Collection (1930-1960) contains the papers of the Friends of the Land (1940-1959), a prominent national soil conservation education organization headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. FOTL produced an international literary arts quarterly, THE LAND (edited by New Deal agriculture writer Russell Lord) in addition to several members' only publications (LAND LETTER) and informational pamphlets. They also hosted annual conferences; ran conservation tours, teacher training labs, and workshops; and operated as a national clearinghouse for conservation information. Ohio farmer and novelist Louis Bromfield was active in the organization. Much of the collection reflects the career and interests of FOTL Executive Secretary Ollie Fink, who was a prominent conservation education pioneer in Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Page1
Subjects: Conservation education; Bromfield, Louis (1896-1956); Agriculture; Soil science; Malabar Farm
Places: Mansfield (Ohio); Richland County (Ohio)
 

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)