Description: Photograph titled "Farm Auction," showing three men amid a small crowd during an auction taking place outside a large barn. The man in the center holds up what appears to be a sausage press. The man at left looks behind him while resting his hand on a basket of other small implements. The man on the right, possibly the auctioneer, looks at the camera while gesturing with his index finger. The image was submitted by photographer Matt McGookey of Castalia, Ohio, in the Amateur category of the Spirit of Ohio Bicentennial Photo Contest. In August 1976, the Ohio American Revolution Bicentennial Advisory Committee (OARBAC) began the Spirit of Ohio Bicentennial Photo Contest as part of a larger effort in Ohio to celebrate the 1976 American Bicentennial. The contest was meant to document "the spirit and character of the people and places which represent Ohio during [the] bicentennial year," and to create a permanent photographic archive of the year's festivity for use by future researchers. Both professional and amateur photographers submitted over 500 photographs for consideration, all taken within the state between January 1 and December 31, 1976. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA2734AV_B02F112_02_01
Subjects: American Revolution Bicentennial (1976); Food production; Tools; Farms; Rural life; Auctions;
Places: Castalia (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing a wooden smokehouse that appears to be made from a single tree trunk. A smokehouse is a structure where meat or fish is cured with smoke and later stored, sometimes for a year or more. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's department store, and later as a travelling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). He was also an avid lifelong photographer, and the bulk of the Harry Kinley Collection is comprised of glass plate negatives documenting the Kinley family, the city of Upper Sandusky and Wyandot County and surrounding areas. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07792
Subjects: Food production; Meat industry and trade--Ohio; Rural life; Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Photography--Ohio
Places: Wyandot County (Ohio);
 

Description: The caption on this photograph reads: "Baerd's Mill on Greenville Creek. Nearly 100 years old, on site of mill built by pioneer Major Adams." This identification is likely a mispelling of Bear's Mill, which still operates as a historic mill in Greenville run by the Friends of Bear's Mill. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F07_033_1
Subjects: Mills and mill-work -- Ohio; Greenville (Ohio); Food production; Grains;
Places: Greenville (Ohio); Darke County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of W. T. "Pop" Swenson, owner of Swenson's Drive-In Restaurants, and his wife, Edna, ca. 1934-1949. The first Swenson's restaurant was opened in 1934. The business expanded to include two locations in Akron as well as restaurants in other Ohio cities including Canton, Montrose, Seven Hills and the Stow - Kent area. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02971
Subjects: Businesses; Restaurants--Ohio--History; Food production
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1940-1949, this photograph shows the interior of the Columbia Sugar Company in Paulding, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00393
Subjects: Paulding (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Economy--Business; Food production
Places: Paulding (Ohio); Paulding County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of trucks hauling sugar beets from the fields to the factory in Fremont, Ohio. This plant was most likely a part of the Northern Ohio Sugar Company which was later acquired by the Michigan Sugar Company. Sugar beet manufacturing seems to have come to the Midwest as a way to reuse land with remnants of the logging trade. Today, Michigan Sugar Company does most of its farming and manufacturing in Michigan but still uses the Fremont facility as a warehouse terminal. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F10_001_1
Subjects: Food production; Industries--Ohio; Factories; Sugar trade
Places: Fremont (Ohio); Sandusky County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of a threshing scene showing workmen, a steam traction engine, a thresher, and a wagon drawn by oxen. The photograph is believed to have been taken in the vicinity of South Zanesville, Ohio, ca. 1890. Threshing (or thrashing, as it was once called) refers to the separating of grain from the chaff of harvested wheat. With the development of mechanical threshing machines, the process became steadily less labor-intensive, but still required laborers as seen here. A traction engine is a self-propelled and steam-powered piece of equipment used to transport loads and provide power for agricultural use. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC801_03
Subjects: Agriculture; Agricultural laborers; Farm equipment; Food production; Wheat;
Places: South Zanesville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing several men working with a steam-powered sorghum reaper attached to a water tower, used in producing molasses at an unidentified farm in Ohio, ca. 1910. The Circle Family Glass Plate Negative Collection came in with the records of John Circle, who served as Franklin County Surveyor between 1981 and 2000. The plates are thought to be part of the family history but have no identification. The images are agricultural but have no other known history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV82_002
Subjects: Agriculture--Ohio; Agricultural machinery; Farm life; Food production
Places: Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing several men working with a steam-powered sorghum reaper used in producing molasses, at an unidentified farm in Ohio, ca. 1910. The Circle Family Glass Plate Negative Collection came in with the records of John Circle, who served as Franklin County Surveyor between 1981 and 2000. The plates are thought to be part of the family history but have no identification. The images are agricultural but have no other known history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV82_003
Subjects: Agriculture--Ohio; Agricultural machinery; Farm life; Food production
Places: Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing several men working with a steam-powered sorghum reaper attached to a water tower, used in producing molasses at an unidentified farm in Ohio, ca. 1910. The Circle Family Glass Plate Negative Collection came in with the records of John Circle, who served as Franklin County Surveyor between 1981 and 2000. The plates are thought to be part of the family history but have no identification. The images are agricultural but have no other known history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV82_004
Subjects: Agriculture--Ohio; Agricultural machinery; Farm life; Food production
Places: Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing a young boy next to a steam-powered sorghum reaper used in producing molasses, at an unidentified farm in Ohio, ca. 1910. The reaper is stuck in the mud, and written on the negative are the words "Here Today Away [crossed out] Maybe Tomorow" as well as the date "Oct-20 1912." The Circle Family Glass Plate Negative Collection came in with the records of John Circle, who served as Franklin County Surveyor between 1981 and 2000. The plates are thought to be part of the family history but have no identification. The images are agricultural but have no other known history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV82_005
Subjects: Agriculture--Ohio; Agricultural machinery; Farm life; Food production; Children
Places: Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing several men working with a steam-powered sorghum reaper used in producing molasses, at an unidentified farm in Ohio, ca. 1910. The Circle Family Glass Plate Negative Collection came in with the records of John Circle, who served as Franklin County Surveyor between 1981 and 2000. The plates are thought to be part of the family history but have no identification. The images are agricultural but have no other known history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV82_006
Subjects: Agriculture--Ohio; Agricultural machinery; Farm life; Food production
Places: Franklin County (Ohio)