Description: Photograph of "Romance of Steel, Old" painted by Glenn M. Shaw in 1938. The painting is located at a post office in Warren, Ohio in Trumbull County. Photographed by Connie Girard in 1988. The photo is from the Ohio Post Office Artwork Collection, AV 48. The collection represents thirty murals or plaster reliefs installed in twenty-five Ohio post offices between 1937 and 1943. In 1988, Connie Girard photographed the artwork. Photos were published in the article “Not By Bread Alone, Post Office Art of the New Deal.” Timeline. June-July 1989, p. 2-19 by Gerald Markowitz and Marlene Park. In 1932, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected President he promised Americans a "New Deal" and created public works programs to provide jobs for the millions of unemployed people, including artists. Ten thousand unknown and established artists were commissioned by the government to create murals, paintings, photographs, posters, prints and sculpture. The goal was not only to employ artists, but also to bring fine art into the daily lives of all people. The Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) was funded for six months in 1933 – 1934. The PWAP was succeeded by the Treasury Department’s Section of Painting and Sculpture. Organized in 1934 the Section of Painting and Sculpture operated until 1943. Under the auspices of this organization sixty-six new Ohio post offices received artwork. The majority of the post offices were located in small towns. Post offices were chosen as a location for artwork because, particularly in small towns, they were centers of community activity. Most of the painted murals or murals in plaster relief created are realistic images reflecting the history, common activities or major industries of the communities in which the post offices are located. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: av48_b2_f24_02
Subjects: Post office stations and branches--Ohio--Photographs; Public art--Ohio--Photographs; Public Works of Art Project (United States); New Deal art
Places: Warren (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio)
 

Description: This object is a mechanical traveler, a mechanical piece that moves through a cycle as part of a larger machine. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H73524
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Tools
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image is of a rectangular, cabbage cutter made of walnut and iron. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8647
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Cooking tools and equipment
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Canal plat map showing the Sidney Feeder of the Miami and Erie Canal through Sidney in Shelby County, between stations 389 and 446. Roads, properties, bridges, rail lines and other landmarks along the route are noted, including the Miami River. The map was created under the direction of the members of the Canal Commission of the state of Ohio and approved by the Chief Engineer of the Department of Public Works (variously referred to as the Board of Public Works and the Division of Public Works). Construction on the Miami and Erie Canal took place between 1825 and 1845, and the finished route connected Cincinnati and Toledo, as well as the Ohio River with Lake Erie. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: BV23170_002
Subjects: Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio; Rivers--Ohio; Railroads
Places: Sidney (Ohio); Shelby County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photomechanical reproduction of a portrait of Dr. John W. Posey, who was a member of the Executive Committee of the Anti-Slavery League. He harbored fugitive slaves at his coal-bank in Petersburg, Pike County, Indiana. The image was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03023
Subjects: Posey, J. W. (John Wesley); Siebert, Wilbur Henry, 1866-1961; Abolitionists--Indiana--History; Anti-Slavery League
Places: Petersburg (Indiana); Pike County (Indiana)
 

Description: Mary Tiers at Hunt Farm, Springfield (Clark County), Ohio, ca. 1890. She is pictured indoors with a musical instrument. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03790
Subjects: Musical instruments; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: Cabinet card portrait of author Paul Laurence Dunbar as a young man, ca. 1890. He 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: AL05253
Subjects: Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906; African American poets; American poetry--Ohio; Literary Ohio
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Illustration of the Battle of Cold Harbor, fought from May to June of 1864, published in "The American Soldier in the Civil War" by Frank Leslie. This battle was one of the last of General Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04590
Subjects: Battlefields; Artists; Civil War 1861-1865; Grant, Ulysses S., 1822-1885; Generals--United States
Places: Cold Harbor (Virginia)
 

Description: This photograph shows a group of school-age boys and girls looking at an Indian elephant at the Toledo Zoo. Three boys are looking back at the camera; the rest of the children are turned toward the caged elephant. The children are wearing jackets and sweaters, indicating that the weather likely was cool on the day of their visit. A printed sign posted on a column next to the cage gives background information about the elephant, who was donated to "the people of Toledo in 1923 by Sam Davis." The Toledo Zoo began in 1900, and some of the original buildings, built by the Works Project Administration, are still in use today. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06169
Subjects: Zoos; Toledo (Ohio); Animals; Toledo Zoo (Toledo, Ohio)
Places: Toledo (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Rosario Borgia, of Summit County, was electrocuted February 21, 1919, for the Murder of Partolman Gethin Richards. Borgia was allegedly the leader of one of the earliest mobs in Akron, Ohio, at the start of the 20th century. He was convicted, alongside Frank Mazzano and Paul Chiavaro, of the murder of Patrolman Gethin Richards, who was shot three times near an Akron railroad track. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08106
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Capital punishment--Ohio--History
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: A band marches at an unidentified racetrack in Columbus, Ohio. It is most likely Driving Park Race Track. Located on the city's South Side, Driving Park Race Track was a large horse racing complex that eventually allowed auto races. It operated during 19th and early 20th century. In 1905 it hosted world's first 24-hour car race. The park gave its name to Driving Park -- an urban residential area on the Near East Side of Columbus. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07728
Subjects: Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture; Horse racing; Automobile racing; Columbus (Ohio)--History--19th century; Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Neighborhoods--Ohio--Columbus
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Glass plate negative of Ruth Weinman Herndon and her mother, Henrietta Heinmiller Weinman. Ruth Weinman Herndon (Mrs. L. Kermit Herndon) was a life-long resident of Columbus, Ohio. Born September 6, 1907, she was the daughter of Henrietta Heinmiller Weinman (1869-1957) and William Nelson Weinman (1868-1950), owner of the Weinman Pump Manufacturing Company. The Weinman family was a prominent German-American family in Columbus throughout the 20th century. Ruth Weinman (1907-2002) lived with her parents at 380 King Avenue in Columbus until 1914, when her parents hired Columbus architect Frank Packard to build a home at 1445 Roxbury Road in Marble Cliff. After graduating from Columbus School for Girls in 1925, Ruth studied sociology at Ohio State University, graduating in 1929. She married L. Kermit Herndon. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1344AV_B02F05
Subjects: Children--Ohio; Families--Ohio; Children's clothing; Women--Ohio; Portraits; Herndon, L. K. (Lyle Kermit)
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)