Description: Photograph of the downtown Columbus Civic Center featuring the State Office Building complex, October 15, 1936. The American Insurance Union Citadel (left), now known as the LeVeque Tower, was dedicated on September 21, 1927. The 47-story tall skyscraper located at 50 West Broad Street was designed by architect C. Howard Crane in the Art Deco style. Due to the Great Depression, the American Insurance Union went bankrupt and sold the building. The tower was purchased by John Lincoln and Leslie L. LeVeque in 1945. Construction of the Ohio State Office Building (right) began in 1930 and was completed in 1933. The 14-story building was designed by Cincinnati architect Harry Hake and serves as a classic example of the Modernistic style. The building was later known as the Ohio Judicial Center until 2011, when the state Supreme Court named the center in honor of the late Chief Justice Thomas Moyer, who was the second-longest chief justice in state history at the time of his death in April 2010. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05687
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government; Architecture--Ohio; Rivers--Ohio; Columbus (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows Big Four Depot. The name Big Four originates with the four cities that it was most associated with. For a time the volume of departures and those riding the trains was quite significant, but this would eventually drop off after a time and the building became defunct. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06745
Subjects: Railroad stations Ohio; Railroad terminals--Ohio; Transportation--Ohio--History
Places: Galion (Ohio); Crawford County (Ohio)
 

Description: Two young fishermen displaying their catch and equipment. The boy on the right has a large fish and the one on the left has several smaller fish and what appears to be a bird. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08506
Subjects: Cultural Ohio--Ohio Sports; Fishing; Outdoor recreation
 

Description: Photograph of C. Walder Parke playing golf with other Army Air Forces members. Charles Walder Parke was born on July 28, 1924, and grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio. He enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces in 1942 intending to be a pilot during WWII, but spent most of his military career as a navigator on B-17 Flying Fortresses in the 94th Bombardment Group. Parke earned two Bronze Stars, an Air Medal with several Oak Leaf Clusters, and the Distinguished Flying Cross for his successful bombing missions, including some over Berlin. He is best known for being on board a B-17 which was shot down over France by German planes on June 25, 1944, during a non-combat mission. The crew managed to make an emergency landing, and everyone inside survived. After the war, Parke founded the Cleveland-based Laurel Industries Inc., which became a prominent supplier of antimony oxide to the plastics industry. He died of Lou-Gehrig’s Disease on September 15, 1996, at the age of 72. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1510_B03F02_001
Subjects: Golf; Airmen; Parke, Charles Walder, 1924-1996; United States Air Force; Military uniforms; Air pilots, Military
 

Description: This image shows the front facade of the Old Medina County Courthouse, located at 99 Public Square. The old courthouse was originally built in 1841 and over the years, it has transformed to incorporate multiple architectural styles, including Greek Revival and Second Empire. It is connected by a passageway to a newer building, also called the Medina County Courthouse, which was built in 1969. It serves as a second Common Pleas Court. D.H. Weed was contractor for original building (1840); T. Dudley Allen was architect for renovation (1873). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F04_316
Subjects: Courthouses--Ohio; National Register of Historic Places; porticoes; mansard roofs; clock towers; columns (architectural elements); cornices; Greek Revival; Second Empire
Places: Medina (Ohio); Medina County (Ohio)
 

Description: Carte de visite of General George Armstrong Custer, who served in the Union Army during the Civil War. A native of New Rumley, Ohio, Custer served as a cavalry commander in the Army of the Potomac. Custer fought at New Bridge, where he captured the first Confederate flag of the war, Chancellorsville, Brandy Station, Aldie, Gettysburg, the Shenandoah Valley, and Appomattox Courthouse. Custer went on to command the 7th Cavalry at the infamous Battle of the Little Bighorn in the Indian Wars. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV200_b03_f33_52
Subjects: Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Photographs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military officers--Union
Places: New Rumley (Ohio)
 

Description: Main building at the Athens State Hospital in Athens, Athens County, Ohio, ca. 1940-1949. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00312
Subjects: Athens (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Architecture and Engineering
Places: Athens (Ohio); Athens County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reproduction of a photograph depicting Charles F. Kettering with a Buick automobile, Dayton, Ohio, 1913. Kettering is credited with inventing the electric ignition and self-starter for the automobile. He was one of the founders of the Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company, which became the Delco Products Division of General Motors. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01161
Subjects: Inventors--Ohio; Automotive technology; Automobile industry; Ohio Economy--Science and Technology; Photography--Ohio
Places: Dayton (Ohio)
 

Description: Guidon of the 12th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01878
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio History--Military Ohio
 

Description: Caption reads: "'A' dormitory swimming pool. Chillicothe, US Reformatory." The United States Industrial Reformatory in Chillicothe, Ohio opened to inmates in January, 1926 after being authorized in 1923. Until 1929 when Congress approved $3,000,000 in funding for permanent buildings, inmates were housed in the repurposed buildings of Camp Sherman, a World War I military training camp. The Camp Sherman quarters included the brick superintendent’s house and a wooden chapel, as well as temporary buildings made up of six dormitories, dining room, kitchen, and auditorium. Prisoner activities consisted of four hours of school daily, viewing movies three times a week, and access to a library and 50 bed hospital. The new reformatory facilities were to include a receiving building, one inside cell house, two outside cell houses and eight dormitories, as well as a hospital building, mess hall, warehouse, six shops, and a school building and auditorium. Construction of the new reformatory began in 1928 and was completed in 1936. In the mid-1930’s a foundry and brick plant opened at the reformatory as part of the Federal Prison Industries (FPI). Items manufactured at the reformatory were sold to the Federal Government. The reformatory is now known as the Chillicothe Correctional Institution. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F11_002_1
Subjects: Chillicothe (Ross County, Ohio)--History; Chillicothe Correctional Institution (Chillicothe, Ohio); Swimming Pools; Reformatories--Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Chillicothe (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph is of a map of downtown Cincinnati, centered on Cutter Street. The farthest street visible to the north is Liberty Street, to the east is Main Street, to the south is the Third Street and to the west is Dalton Avenue. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F03_32_01
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio)--Maps--Facsimiles
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated 1935-1940, this photograph shows Kauke Hall at College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio. The campus building contains offices and classrooms primarily used by humanities departments. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F06_029_001
Subjects: Universities and colleges; College buildings; Architecture
Places: Wooster (Ohio); Wayne County (Ohio)