Description: Coal loading docks and railroad tracks at Ashtabula Harbor, Ashtabula, Ashtabula County, Ohio ca. 1940-1949. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00310
Subjects: Coal mines and mining--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Labor
Places: Ashtabula (Ohio); Ashtabula County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of poet Paul Laurence Dunbar with his mother, Matilda Dunbar, Dayton, Ohio, ca. 1890-1900. Josephine Watkins Lehman, known to Dunbar as "Aunt Bam," was the daughter of Dunbar's high school principal and mentor, William Watkins. She is credited with taking this photograph. Paul Laurence Dunbar was born in Dayton, Ohio, in 1872 to Joshua and Matilda Dunbar, both former slaves, and was encouraged by his mother in poetry and his schooling from an early age. He attended Dayton Central High School and was the sole African American student at that time. Following his high school graduation, Dunbar worked as an elevator operator while writing poetry in his free time. He built a reputation as a successful literary voice and writer of dialect poetry, and was the first African American poet to receive critical acclaim for his work. Dunbar authored twelve collections of poetry, five novels, one play, and a large number of newspaper articles before his death from tuberculosis on February 9, 1906. He is buried in the Woodland Cemetery in Dayton. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01055
Subjects: African American women--Ohio; Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906; African American poets; American poetry--Ohio; Literary Ohio
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Regimental colors of the 6th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Text on flag reads: Presented by the [?] to [?] View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01876
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio History--Military Ohio
 

Description: The City Hall, located 90 West Broad Street, bounded by Gay, Front, and Broad Sts., and Riverside Drive, occupies, with its park, and entire block in the heart of the civic center. The 5-story structure of Indiana limestone, in Greco-Roman style, was designed by the Allied Architects Association of Columbus and cost $1,700,000. Three of the four sections of the building, which surround a court, were completed in 1928, and the fourth was dedicated in 1936. The hall houses various municipal departments and contains a city council chamber that originally sat more than 400 people. At night multi-colored lights played upon a fountain before the Broad Street entrance. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F11_017_001
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works; Municipal buildings--United States; City halls--United States; Allied Architects Association (Columbus, Ohio)
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph is of a map of downtown Cincinnati, centered on Broadway Street. The farthest street visible to the north is East 7th Street, to the east is Eggleston Avenue, to the south is the Ohio River and to the west is Race Street. Many of the street names in this area have changed over the years, or were demolished to make way for the expansion of Interstate 71. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F03_31_01
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio)--Maps--Facsimiles
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Taken on April 26, 1936, this photograph shows an aerial view of Dayton, 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_B09F08_035_1
Subjects: Aerial photography--Ohio--Dayton; Dayton (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Works Progress Administration; Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Photography courtesy of National Cash Register Co. Dayton, Ohio Nat Cash Register Toomaking Dept. Courtesy NCR Dayton in WPA Guide Ohio" James Ritty invented the ‘mechanical money drawer' in 1879, but it didn't catch on until after John Patterson purchased the company from Ritty in 1884, for $6, 500. Following the practice of the car works, he insisted on fine, accurate workmanship. He searched for artisans and drew them to Dayton with high wages. In 1886 Patterson built a new factory, located at 1400 Main Street in Dayton, Ohio. Originally designed by Frank Andrews the new National Cash Register Company Plant had walls of 80% glass supported by columns of brick-veneered steel. It was the first daylight factory building in America and set a new standard of working conditions and a created a new style of architecture. The company grew so large that its several buildings eventually totaled 51 acres of floor space. In 1906, Charles F. Kettering began working at the cash register plant, where he developed a quick-starting electric motor for cash register. Three years later, he quit the job to give him more time creating his next invention – the automobile self-starter During the World War NCR devoted a large part of its facilities to making precision tools used in war manufactures, and over the years, continued to grow and evolve. In 1968, employee John L. Janning invented liquid crystal displays (LCD), and in 1974, NCR commercialized bar-code scanners. AT&T aquired NCR in 1991, changed the name to AT&T Global Information Solutions (GIS) in 1994, and changed it back to NCR in 1996. In 2003, they were granted a patent for signature capture and they continue to succeed, concentrating their efforts on the software and services business. NCR's corporate headquarters moved to Duluth, GA in 2009. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F09_030_001
Subjects: Tools; National Cash Register Company
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of an elderly African American woman, likely an ex-slave documented as part of the efforts of the Works Progress Administration. The photograph is a part of the Federal Ohio Writers' Program of the WPA. The photograph was taken by Sam R Kremer of Dayton, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F05_013_001
Subjects: Works Progress Administration; Ohio Federal Writers' Project; Slavery; Elderly women; African American Ohioans; Women--Ohio; Former slaves
Places: Ohio
 

Description: This is a photo of an unknown brick house somewhere in Lebanon, Ohio. Decorative ironwork is shown above the doorway. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F03_016_1
Subjects: Lebanon (Warren County, Ohio : Civil jurisdiction)--Pictorial works; Warren County (Ohio)--Pictorial works; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Wrought-iron
Places: Lebanon (Ohio); Warren County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of a silk sash or "Bandolier of 1000 Stitches" which was made in Japan and dates from 1940-1943. This rectangular sash resembles a scarf and is made of white silk stitched with orange thread and decorated with Japanese brush writing. The fabric is silk. The Ohio Historical Society received this bandolier from Wu Kung of Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, in 1945. This bandolier was captured from a Japanese soldier in Burma on November 23, 1944. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H49124_001
Subjects: World War II--Pacific; Flags--Japan; Flags--World War 1939-1945; Imperial Japanese
 

Description: Painting of regimental colors of the 34th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Text on flag reads: [3]4th Reg't 1st Zouves O.V.I. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02406
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
 

Description: W. R. Smith identification photograph from the files of the Republic Steel Corporation, Central Alloy District. The Central Alloy District consisted of two plants: one in Canton, Ohio, and one in Massillon, Ohio. Identification photographs were taken over a period of time and logged into the files as one batch on June 3, 1942. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: YHC_MSS192_B01F070A_03
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Republic Steel Corporation -- Employees
Places: Ohio