Description: A forest ranger in Wayne National Forest completes a form while wearing a pair of headphones in the Shawnee Lookout Tower. A caption on the reverse of the photograph reads: "Fire Fighting Station (Tower)," while an accompanying caption describes the image as "Shawnee Tower forest ranger. Near Haydenville." The form being completed gives the date as Saturday, April 23, 1938, and is signed D. B. Blankenship. The Shawnee Lookout Tower was one of four lookout towers built in the Wayne National Forest area during the 1930s. This particular tower was built in 1939 by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), and was located off Sand Run--New Straitsville Road near New Straitsville in Hocking County. It is the only one of the four that remains standing. In the earlier part of the 2000s the tower was open to the public, but it was closed in 2004 due to wind damage. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F04_020_1
Subjects: Wayne National Forest; Forests; Geography and Natural Resources; Parks; Fire prevention
Places: Shawnee Tower; Wayne National Forest; Hocking County (Ohio); Nelsonville (Ohio);
 

Description: A forest ranger in Wayne National Forest completes a form while wearing a pair of headphones in the Shawnee Lookout Tower. A caption on the reverse of the photograph reads: "Shawnee Tower forest ranger. Near Haydenville." The form being completed gives the date as Saturday, April 23, 1938, and is signed D. B. Blankenship. The Shawnee Lookout Tower was one of four lookout towers built in the Wayne National Forest area during the 1930s. This particular tower was built in 1939 by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), and was located off Sand Run--New Straitsville Road near New Straitsville in Hocking County. It is the only one of the four that remains standing. In the earlier part of the 2000s the tower was open to the public, but it was closed in 2004 due to wind damage. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F04_021_1
Subjects: Wayne National Forest; Forests; Geography and Natural Resources; Parks; Fire prevention
Places: Shawnee Tower; Wayne National Forest; Hocking County (Ohio); Nelsonville (Ohio);
 

Description: A forest ranger in Wayne National Forest completes a form while wearing a pair of headphones in the Shawnee Lookout Tower. A caption on the reverse of the photograph reads: "Fire Fighting Station (Tower)." The form being completed gives the date as Saturday, April 23, 1938, and is signed D. B. Blankenship. The Shawnee Lookout Tower was one of four lookout towers built in the Wayne National Forest area during the 1930s. This particular tower was built in 1939 by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), and was located off Sand Run--New Straitsville Road near New Straitsville in Hocking County. It is the only one of the four that remains standing. In the earlier part of the 2000s the tower was open to the public, but it was closed in 2004 due to wind damage. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F04_024_1
Subjects: Wayne National Forest; Forests; Geography and Natural Resources; Parks; Fire prevention
Places: Shawnee Tower; Wayne National Forest; Hocking County (Ohio); Nelsonville (Ohio);
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Code:K12; Class.: Human Interest; Ident.: Hunter Asleep; Caption: Sportsman's Paradise or Asleep at the Post. This photo must be returned to Ohio Writers' Project, 78 E. Chestnut St. Columbus, Ohio." This is a photograph of a hunter sleeping against the trunk of a tree somewhere in the woods of Ohio. There is squirrel to the right of his head and a piece of straw in his mouth. He has ammunition around his waist and a gun leaning on his leg. There is also a river or pond behind him in the background. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F02_029_001
Subjects: Hunting--Ohio; Forest animals; Forests and Forestry; Naps (Sleep); Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project.
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Works Progress Administration Federal Writers Projects' 1 902 Municipal Building Akron Ohio Sept 8 1937 Camp Jefferson C.C.C. (Colored) Activities: Showing wooded section from road near camp. Looking north with game preserve to the northwest. C.C.C. men grading, planting trees, making recreational centers, bath houses, etc." This photograph is believed to show Jefferson Lake State Park in Richmond, Ohio. The lake and other park facilities were constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. The dam was constructed in 1934, while the lake was filled by 1946. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F11_010_001
Subjects: Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); Hills; Forests
Places: Richmond (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of a woman wearing glasses and speaking on a CB radio as she monitors a fire tower in Maumee State Forest in Swanton, Ohio. 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_04_01
Subjects: American Revolution Bicentennial (1976); Forests; Geography and Natural Resources; Parks; Fire prevention
Places: Swanton (Ohio); Fulton County (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: A photograph shows an effort to control erosion in a wooded area. Several small terraces are being constructed, and there are also some tools and tarps around the picture, including a bucket. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B14F12_008_001
Subjects: Soil conservation; Forests & fields
Places: Ohio