Description: Reverse reads: "Ohio State Fair - 1940 - WPA Exhibit" This is a photo of a WPA exhibit at the Ohio State Fair. The exhibits read, "WPA CARES FOR AMERICAN CHILDREN" and "WPA ASSISTS THE FARMER." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F03_10_001
Subjects: Ohio State Fair; Exhibits; Works Progress Administration of Ohio (U.S.)
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Award from the World's Columbian Commission to the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society (now the Ohio History Connection) for its display illustrating the American Indian Moundbuilders of the Ohio Territory, exhibited at the International Exhibition held in Chicago, 1893. Also called the Chicago World's Fair, the World's Columbian Exhibition in 1893 celebrated the 400th anniversary of the discovery of the New World. It emphasized modern technological, commercial, and agricultural advances and highlighted art, education, and culture. Between May and October of 1893, more than 28 million visitors flocked to see the 65,000 exhibits located on 686 acres of Chicago's South Side. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS1177
Subjects: Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society; Expositions and fairs; Museum exhibits; World's Columbian Exposition; Mound-builders--Ohio; American Indians in Ohio
Places: Chicago (Illinois)
 

Description: Photograph of the American Indian Room at the Ohio State Museum in Sullivant Hall, the former home of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society in Columbus, Ohio. Formed in 1885 as the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, the organization was later renamed the Ohio Historical Society and is now called the Ohio History Connection. Originally the society’s collections were held at the Ohio Statehouse in downtown Columbus, but in 1894, they were moved to Orton Hall on the Ohio State campus. The organization and its museum remained on campus, housed first in Page Hall and then in Sullivant Hall, until 1970, when they moved to their present location adjacent to the Ohio State Fairgrounds. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV17_B10F01_1495
Subjects: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society; Ohio State University--History; Museum exhibits; Archaeology
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of the Hopewell exhibit at the Ohio State Museum in Sullivant Hall, the former home of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society in Columbus, Ohio. Formed in 1885 as the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, the organization was later renamed the Ohio Historical Society and is now called the Ohio History Connection. Originally the society’s collections were held at the Ohio Statehouse in downtown Columbus, but in 1894, they were moved to Orton Hall on the Ohio State campus. The organization and its museum remained on campus, housed first in Page Hall and then in Sullivant Hall, until 1970, when they moved to their present location adjacent to the Ohio State Fairgrounds. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV17_B10F01_1496
Subjects: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society; Ohio State University--History; Museum exhibits; Archaeology
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1930-1943, this photograph shows a furniture and woodwork display, also including posters, toys, and figurines, at the Berea County Fair in Cuyahoga County, 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_B11F03_09_001
Subjects: County fairs; Exhibits; Furniture; Woodworking; Works Progress Administration
Places: Berea (Ohio); Cuyahoga (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Ohio's Battle Flag collection hanging in the plaza of the Ohio History Center in Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1970. The flags were displayed on the Center’s plaza level from the time the building opened in 1970 through the late 1980s, when they were removed due to conservation concerns. Many of the flags can still be seen on display in the Follow the Flag permanent exhibit. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03433
Subjects: Ohio Historical Society; Flags -- Ohio; Historical museums--Ohio; Museum exhibits
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Cincinnati Zoo is the second oldest zoo in the United States, having opened in 1875, and is located in the Avondale community. Initially occupying 65 acres, surrounding blocks and areas in nearby suburbs have been added to zoo property. Founded by Cincinnati native Jonathan Schoonover and designed by Theodor Fundeisen, it was originally named the Cincinnati Zoological Gardens. The largest exhibit of the zoo was it's collection of birds, with over four hundred. The rest of the collection was small, having only eight monkeys, two bear, three deer, six racoons, two elk, and one each of buffalo, hyena, tiger, alligator and elephant. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F05_016_001
Subjects: Zoos--Ohio; Zoo exhibits--Ohio; Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: The stern-wheeler, W.P. Snyder, Jr., is shown pulling a coal barge along the Ohio River. The W.P. Snyder, Jr is the only steam driven, stern wheeler on the river system today. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 10, 1970 and to the National Historic Landmark on June 29, 1989. It now resided at the Ohio River Museum in Marietta, Ohio View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07983
Subjects: Steamboats; Muskingum River (Ohio); Marietta (Ohio); Museum exhibits
Places: Marietta (Ohio); Washington County (Ohio)
 

Description: The W.H. Clingerman was the original name of the stern-wheeler, W.P. Snyder, Jr. The W. P. Snyder, Jr. is the only stern-wheel, steam driven towboat on the river system today. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 10,1970 and to the National Historic Landmark on June 29, 1989 View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07984
Subjects: Steamboats; Muskingum River (Ohio); Marietta (Ohio); Museum exhibits
Places: Marietta (Ohio); Washington County (Ohio)
 

Description: Display of bird specimens from the Ohio Historical Society natural history collections in an area called the Bird Room in the Society's former museum location. The organization was formed in 1885 as The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and eventually became known as the Ohio Historical Society. Originally the group’s collection was held at the Statehouse, but in 1894 they moved to Orton Hall on Ohio State University’s campus. They remained on OSU’s campus until 1970 when they moved to their present location at the Ohio State Fairgrounds. The building in this picture is located at Fifteenth Avenue and N. High Street. The title of the building was transferred to OSU in 1970 when the Ohio Historical Society moved to the Fairgrounds. The building was named after Joseph Sullivant, a member of the Board of Trustees. It has housed the Music and Dance Library, the Fine Arts Library, the Zoology Museum, and the Hoyt Sherman Art Gallery. In 2013, the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum officially opened in the space. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07654
Subjects: Birds; Ohio Historical Society; Museum exhibits
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows Erwin .C. Zepp, Director of the Ohio State Museum, examining a pottery horn, one of the many objects included in the museum exhibition of Zoar arts and crafts. A pottery churn and woven basket rest on the table. Zepp was a professor in the Department of Fine Arts at The Ohio State University in the 1930s and worked closely with the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society (now called the Ohio History Connection). He began at the Ohio Historical Society (now the Ohio History Connection) as Assistant Curator of State Memorials in 1933 and served as director 1947-1964. Zoar Village is one of the historic sites acquired by the Ohio Historical Society under his tenure. Led by Joseph Bimeler (sometimes spelled Bäumeler) in 1817, a group of Lutheran separatists left the area of Germany known as Wurttemberg and eventually established the small community of Zoar in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. The community of Zoar was not originally organized as a commune, but its residents had a difficult time surviving in 1818 and early 1819. As a result, on April 19, 1819, the group formed the Society of Separatists of Zoar. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P365_B14F03_01
Subjects: Zoar (Tuscarawas County, Ohio); Society of Separatists of Zoar; Museum exhibits; Museums
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of the library and office of the Archaeology Department of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society when it was housed in Page Hall on the Ohio State University campus, 1905. This was the south central room on the second floor of Page Hall. Formed in 1885 as the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, the organization eventually became known as the Ohio Historical Society and is now called the Ohio History Connection. Originally the society’s collections were held at the Ohio Statehouse in downtown Columbus, but in 1894, they were moved to Orton Hall on the Ohio State campus. The organization and its museum remained on campus, housed first in Page Hall and then in Sullivant Hall, until 1970, when they moved to their present location adjacent to the Ohio State Fairgrounds. As of 2014, Page Hall is home to the John Glenn School of Public Affairs. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC4489_001
Subjects: Ohio State University--History; Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society; Museum exhibits; Archaeology;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)