Description: Log Cabin on the Horace Deal Property View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07265
Subjects: Log cabins; African American men; Log structures
 

Description: Photograph showing a white horse in a small paddock near two small log structures. Because of the hills seen in the background, this image was likely taken in the Appalachian area of southern Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F04_003_011_001
Subjects: Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project; Log structures; Horses; Farms; Rural Ohio
Places: Ohio
 

Description: A log cabin nestled in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in either Ross or Hocking County, Ohio. Pictured in the photograph is a child standing in the doorway of the cabin. Also pictured in the photograph are some buckets, a shovel, and a wire fence behind the cabin. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F04_015_1
Subjects: Appalachian Region--History; Log structures; Rural life
Places: Ross County (Ohio); Hocking County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of a dilapidated farmhouse located in southeastern Ohio with a family sitting outside. The house is probably either a saddlebag or dogtrot-style log cabin, common in the Appalachian region during the 19th and early 20th centuries. There are two front porches pictured, with three people sitting on the left and five grouped around the right. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F06_003_1
Subjects: Dwellings; Farmhouses; Porches; Appalachian Region--History; Log structures; Families
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Caption on front reads "Photo by Cornish. Madisonville School in 1820." Caption on reverse reads "Cinci., O., Mar.1938, copy." Madisonville is community in Cincinnati located eight miles northeast of downtown. It was founded in 1809 under the name of Madison, but in 1926, the name was changed to Madisonville to avoid confusion with another Madison, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F05_026_001
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Education; School buildings--Ohio; Schools--Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Log structures; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Code K2 Class. Human Interest Ident. Woman, child and cat Location. S. E. Ohio Credit W.P.A. OHIO COLLECTION Caption Home Interlude People at work + play" The photograph shows an elderly woman and a young boy, possibly her grandson, posed on the front porch of a log home. A cat is lying in the foreground. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F10_020_001
Subjects: Elderly people; Boys; Cats; Log structures; Families
Places: Ohio
 

Description: This is a photograph of two women, each leading a horse by the reins. A log structure is seen in the background. This photograph was taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912. Like most of Ewing's work, it was likely taken in southeastern Ohio or central West Virginia. Born in 1870 in Washington County, Ohio, near Marietta, Ewing most likely began his photography career in the 1890s. The 1910 US Census and a 1912-1913 directory list him as a photographer. A negative signed “Ewing Brothers” and a picture with his younger brother, Frank, indicate that Frank may have joined the business. After 1916, directories list Albert as a salesman. He died in 1934. The Ewing Collection consists of 5,055 glass plate negatives, each individually housed and numbered. Additionally, the collection includes approximately 450 modern contact prints made from the glass plate negatives. Subjects include infants and young children, elderly people, families, school and religious groups, animals and rural scenes. In 1982, the Ohio Historical Society received the collection, still housed in the original dry plate negative boxes purchased by Albert J. Ewing. A selection of the original glass plate negatives were exhibited for the first time in 2013 at the Ohio Historical Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06374
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States—History; Horses; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Portrait photography--United States--History; Log structures; Farms
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: This is a photograph of a little girl sitting on the ground in front of a log home and leaning on her dog. This photograph was taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912. Like most of Ewing's work, it was likely taken in southeastern Ohio or central West Virginia. Born in 1870 in Washington County, Ohio, near Marietta, Ewing most likely began his photography career in the 1890s. The 1910 US Census and a 1912-1913 directory list him as a photographer. A negative signed “Ewing Brothers” and a picture with his younger brother, Frank, indicate that Frank may have joined the business. After 1916, directories list Albert as a salesman. He died in 1934. The Ewing Collection consists of 5,055 glass plate negatives, each individually housed and numbered. Additionally, the collection includes approximately 450 modern contact prints made from the glass plate negatives. Subjects include infants and young children, elderly people, families, school and religious groups, animals and rural scenes. In 1982, the Ohio Historical Society received the collection, still housed in the original dry plate negative boxes purchased by Albert J. Ewing. A selection of the original glass plate negatives were exhibited for the first time in 2013 at the Ohio Historical Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06643
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States—History; Dogs; Cultural Ohio--Art and Artists; Children; Log structures; Photography--History
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: Reverse Reads: "A residence of historic Zoar. The first home built in 1818." The picture depicts a log house on the corner of a dirt road. The house is covered in ivy with a porch facing the road. Zoar, a small community in Tuscarawas County, was founded by a group of German separatists in 1817. These separatists, who soon became known as Zoarites, were originally from an area of Germany known as Wurttemburg. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, they separated from the official German religion, the Lutheran Church. Separatists faced severe persecution in Wurttemburg, including confiscation of their properties and imprisonment. The group's leader, Joseph Bimeler (or sometimes spelled Joseph B�umeler), decided to bring the separatists to the United States. Several members of the group traveled west to Ohio in the fall of 1817 and began to construct the community's first buildings. The rest of the separatists, approximately two hundred in all, arrived at Zoar in the spring of 1818. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B14F01_028_001
Subjects: Zoar (Tuscarawas County, Ohio)--History--Pictorial works.; Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Log structures
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption on front reads "Photo by Cornish. Madisonville School in 1820". Caption on reverse reads "Cinci., O., Mar.1938, copy." Madisonville is community in Cincinnati located eight miles northeast of downtown. It was founded in 1809 under the name of Madison, but in 1926, the name was changed to Madisonville to avoid confusion with another Madison, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F01_017_001
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Education; School buildings--Ohio; Schools--Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Log structures; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Taken by photographer Louis Baus, this photographic reproduction shows the Zoar Meeting House after remodeling in 1896. A note on its reverse reads "Old Meeting House after remodeling in 1896. F.C. Gotwalk used the attic for this art studio. Torn down in 1908." Led by Joseph Bimeler (sometimes spelled Bäumeler) in 1817, a group of Lutheran separatists left the area of Germany known as Wurttemberg and eventually established the small community of Zoar in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. The community of Zoar was not originally organized as a commune, but its residents had a difficult time surviving in 1818 and early 1819. As a result, on April 19, 1819, the group formed the Society of Separatists of Zoar. Each person donated his or her property to the community as a whole, and in exchange for their work, the society would provide for them. In the decades following the establishment of the Zoar commune, the Separatists experienced economic prosperity. The community was almost entirely self-sufficient and sold any surpluses to the outside world. In addition to agriculture, Zoar residents also worked in a number of industries, including flour mills, textiles, a tin shop, copper, wagon maker, two iron foundries, and several stores. The society also made money by contracting to build a seven-mile stretch of the Ohio and Erie Canal. By the second half of the 19th century, the community was quite prosperous. After Bimeler's death in 1853, the unity of the village declined, and by 1898 the Zoarites disbanded the society. The remaining residents divided the property, and the community continued to prosper in Zoar. Louis Baus was a prominent photographer in Cleveland, Ohio, who began his career with studio work, but in 1911 became a staff writer for the Cleveland Advocate, a local newspaper that was later purchased by the Cleveland Plain Dealer. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P223_B04_Vol1_8
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar; Zoar (Tuscarawas County, Ohio); Log structures; Public buildings
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1935-1940, this photograph shows log cabins at Schoenbrunn State Park in New Philadelphia, Ohio. In 1772, David Zeisberger, a missionary of the Moravian Church, established the village of Schoenbrunn on the Tuscarawas River, near present-day New Philadelphia. The word Schoenbrunn means "beautiful spring" in German. The purpose of this community was to provide Moravian missionaries a place to teach Christianity to American Indians residing in Ohio. At its greatest size, Schoenbrunn had a population of four hundred Christian natives, mostly Delaware, and more than sixty buildings, including the first school and Christian church built in Ohio. During the American Revolution, facing harassment from both the English and the Americans, Zeisberger and his followers abandoned Schoenbrunn in early 1778. They held a final service in the church, after which they tore down their house of worship to prevent its desecration. Schoenbrunn has since been rebuilt and is administered as an historic site by the Ohio History Connection. 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_B10F02_005_001
Subjects: Log cabins--Ohio; Schoenbrunn (Ohio); Zeisberger, David, 1721-1808; Religion in Ohio; New Philadelphia (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works
Places: New Philadelphia (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)