Description: A photograph of a model used at the Ohio State School for the Blind to teach erosion control. The model shows five different ways to treat deep gullies to close them up to try to control further erosion. There are a series of dams or terraces of earth, logs fastened together to form a dam, boulders piled up into a dam, a ground cover of vegetation and posts bound with wire or wire fencing are all in the model. Any of these methods may be used as the first aid for erosion control. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F02_023_001
Subjects: Ohio State School for the Blind; Erosion control, Soil
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Typed on reverse of photograph: "Number: 14-559. State: Ohio. Name of Owner: J. Crepes Farm. Location: Wayne Twp. Sec. 12. Date: Feb. 13, 1935. County: Muskingum. Legend: Severe sheet erosion on wheat field. Wheat planted with corn rows, running up and down slope. Notice small gully between wheat rows. Dist. 6 files." Sheet erosion is the detachment of soil particles by raindrop impact and their removal downslope by water flowing overland as a sheet instead of in definite channels or rills. The impact of the raindrop breaks apart the soil aggregate. Particles of clay, silt and sand fill the soil pores and reduce infiltration. After the surface pores are filled with sand, silt or clay, overland surface flow of water begins due to the lowering of infiltration rates. Once the rate of falling rain is faster than infiltration, runoff takes place View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F12_002_1
Subjects: Soil erosion--United States; Farms Ohio
Places: Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a view of serious erosion to a farm land near Oxford, Ohio, in Butler County. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F02_032_1
Subjects: Farms; Erosion; Agriculture--Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Oxford (Ohio); Butler County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1935-1940, the top photograph shows a herd of dairy cattle drinking in a stream or pond in Ohio. The second photograph shows a conservation project to prevent soil erosion in Ohio. 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_B06F03_022_1
Subjects: Agriculture; Cattle; Rural life; Erosion
Places: Ohio
 

Description: View of the Glacial Grooves on the north side of Kelleys Island, Ohio, ca. 1930-1960. These are the largest such grooves in the world that can be easily seen. They were created in limestone bedrock about 18,000 years ago during the Ice Age. A trough 400 feet long, 35 feet wide, and up to 10 feet deep remains today. The ice, probably hundreds of feet thick, moved from the north into what is now the Lake Erie basin. The grooves contain marine fossils that are 350 to 400 million years old. Other grooves on the island were destroyed by quarrying. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02982
Subjects: Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; Geology--Ohio; Historic sites--Ohio--Kelleys Island--Pictorial works; Glacial erosion--Ohio; Kelleys Island (Ohio)--Description and travel
Places: Kelleys Island (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows the Clear Fork Gorge near Loudonville, Ohio. The Mohican River is seen in the photograph. The gorge was formed around 12,000 years ago by the forces of the melting glacier. It is 1,000 feet at the top and 300 feet deep. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06475
Subjects: Ashland County (Ohio); Waterfalls; Glacial erosion--Ohio; Glaciers
Places: Loudonville (Ohio); Ashland County (Ohio); Holmes County (Ohio)