Description: A young girl feeds a small flock of ducks in Erie County, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F01A_022_1
Subjects: Ponds; Erie County (Ohio); Ducks--Food--United States.
Places: Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows a raft of ducks. Ducks were raised by farmers for meat, eggs and down. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F02_036_1
Subjects: Agriculture--Ohio--History--20th century.; Ducks
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Reverse reads: “Farm Life. Athens Co., Ohio. Ducks at Athens State Hospital. Photo copied by Federal Writers’ Project, Dayton, Ohio. July 6, 1938. Please give following credit line – Courtesy of the Ohio Farmer, Cleveland, Ohio. Prints sent to Cincinnati 7-12-38.” Originally, the hospital's grounds consisted of a park-like setting, with ponds, gardens, and fountains. Doctors hoped that the beautiful surroundings would assist patients in recovering their mental health. Patients worked in the gardens, the greenhouse, the orchards, or the dairy, helped to tend livestock, or found employment in the asylum's carriage shop. The asylum also boasted a physical plant that heated the various buildings with steam heat. Many of the patients were never released from the hospital. Most of these people were buried in the asylum's cemetery. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F02_041_1
Subjects: State Hospitals--History--Ohio; Ducks; Athens Hospital for the Insane (Athens, Ohio)
Places: Athens (Ohio); Athens County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows ducks raised at the Athens State Hospital. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F06_025_1
Subjects: Agriculture--Ohio--History--20th century.; Ducks; Livestock
Places: Athens County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows a flock of ducks on a farm in Medina County, OHio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F06_026_1
Subjects: Agriculture--Ohio--History--20th century.; Ducks; Livestock
Places: Medina County (Ohio)
 

Description: This pipe in effigy (a likeness or representation) of a wood duck was excavated from Tremper Mound, a Hopewell culture site located five miles north of Portsmouth in Scioto County. Made of dark gray stone, it shows the head of the duck only. Eyes are drilled and inset with copper. Some parts of the pipe have been restored. This pipe is part of a large collection of pipes found at Tremper Mound. The pipes were carved of Ohio pipestone, a silica-based material that can be easily carved when freshly quarried from the hills east of the Scioto River. The pipes represent a variety of animals significant to the Hopewell, including owls, wolves, deer and beaver. Skilled Hopewell craftsmen carved the pipes with flint knives and some are embellished with pearls or copper. In Ohio, the Hopewell Indians (100 B.C.-A.D. 500) built burial mounds and large earthen enclosures in geometric shapes (circles, squares, and octagons) to mark the places where the people gathered periodically to participate in many social and ceremonial events. Some of these sites were quite large--the Newark Earthworks complex extends over a 4-square-mile area. The Hopewell people also maintained a large trade network extending as far as the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming, the Florida coast and Appalachians, and northern Lake Superior. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1357_1764606_015
Subjects: American Indians in Ohio; Plants and Animals; Arts and Entertainment; Geography and Natural Resources; Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1-400); Mounds (Burials); Pipes (Smoking); Ducks; Birds
Places: Rush Township (Ohio); Scioto County (Ohio)
 

Description: This pipe in effigy (a likeness or representation) of a duck was excavated from Tremper Mound, a Hopewell culture site located five miles north of Portsmouth in Scioto County. Archaeologist William C. Mills identified this as a Buffelhead duck. Made of mottled dark olive gray stone, the pipe measures approximately 1.75" x 1.5" x 3.25" (4.2 x 3.6 x 8.25 cm). Some parts of the pipe have been restored. This pipe is part of a large collection of pipes found at Tremper Mound. The pipes were carved of Ohio pipestone, a silica-based material that can be easily carved when freshly quarried from the hills east of the Scioto River. The pipes represent a variety of animals significant to the Hopewell, including owls, wolves, deer and beaver. Skilled Hopewell craftsmen carved the pipes with flint knives and some are embellished with pearls or copper. In Ohio, the Hopewell Indians (100 B.C.-A.D. 500) built burial mounds and large earthen enclosures in geometric shapes (circles, squares, and octagons) to mark the places where the people gathered periodically to participate in many social and ceremonial events. Some of these sites were quite large--the Newark Earthworks complex extends over a 4-square-mile area. The Hopewell people also maintained a large trade network extending as far as the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming, the Florida coast and Appalachians, and northern Lake Superior. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1357_1763268_016
Subjects: American Indians in Ohio; Plants and Animals; Arts and Entertainment; Geography and Natural Resources; Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1-400); Mounds (Burials); Pipes (Smoking); Ducks; Birds
Places: Rush Township (Ohio); Scioto County (Ohio)