Description: Nine photographs of Seneca Lake in northeastern Noble County, Ohio were taken in the 1960s. Two photographs show water-skiers on the lake. Two others document the marina. The final five photographs show the beach area and people swimming in the lake. The photographs measure 2.75" x 2.75" (6.99 x 6.99 cm). Seneca Lake is the largest lake in the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District, with more than 3500 acres of water. The conservancy district was created in 1933 to control flooding and conserve natural resources in southeastern Ohio. Recreational activities at Seneca Lake include boating, fishing, swimming, and camping. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3040_3655092_001
Subjects: Sports; Plants and Animals; Geography and Natural Resources; Lakes & ponds; Swimming; Water skiing
Places: Senecaville (Ohio); Noble County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows Lake Alma near Wellston, Ohio. A second photograph shows campers at Lake Alma State Park in the 1960s. The photographs measure 2.75" x 2.75" (6.99 x 6.99 cm). C. K. Davis built Lake Alma in 1903 as an amusement park. The park included a merry-go-round, dance pavilion, and outdoor theater. It closed in 1910 and the city of Wellston purchased the lake for a municipal water supply. Wellston later agreed to lease the land to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources for Lake Alma State Park. Camping, hiking, swimming, and boating became popular attractions. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3008_3627105_001
Subjects: Sports; Arts and Entertainment; Daily Life; Geography and Natural Resources; Parks; Camping; Camps
Places: Vinton County (Ohio); Wellston (Ohio); Jackson County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing Floyd B. Chapman of Columbus, Ohio, at right, with a fellow serviceman identified as "PFC Gilkyson." Both are seen in military uniform, and handwriting on the back indicates that the photograph was taken in San Bernardino, California, on November 15, 1943. After receiving a Ph. D. at the Ohio State University and working for the Fish and Wildlife Service of the U.S. Department of the Interior, Chapman (1911-1984) was inducted into the Army Air Corps in November of 1942. He was stationed at various posts around the United States during World War II, as well as overseas in India and China. Following his military service, Chapman continued his career as a naturalist and field ecologist for the Ohio State Division of Conservation and Natural Resources and the Ohio Division of Wildlife. He also worked as resident ecologist at Malabar Farm and as horticulturist for Inniswood Garden Metro Park until his death in 1984. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1017AV_01_01
Subjects: World War II; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Natural resources--Ohio; Malabar Farm; Horticulture
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); San Bernardino (California)
 

Description: Photograph showing Floyd B. Chapman of Columbus, Ohio, at right, with an unidentified fellow serviceman, 1943. Both are seen in military uniform, and are posing in a studio prop of a jail cell labeled "Guard House." After receiving a Ph. D. at the Ohio State University and working for the Fish and Wildlife Service of the U.S. Department of the Interior, Chapman (1911-1984) was inducted into the Army Air Corps in November of 1942. He was stationed at various posts around the United States during World War II, as well as overseas in India and China. Following his military service, Chapman continued his career as a naturalist and field ecologist for the Ohio State Division of Conservation and Natural Resources and the Ohio Division of Wildlife. He also worked as resident ecologist at Malabar Farm and as horticulturist for Inniswood Garden Metro Park until his death in 1984. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1017AV_03_01
Subjects: World War II; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Natural resources--Ohio; Malabar Farm; Horticulture
Places: Arizona; Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing Floyd B. Chapman of Columbus, Ohio, posed in his military uniform, 1943. After receiving a Ph. D. at the Ohio State University and working for the Fish and Wildlife Service of the U.S. Department of the Interior, Chapman (1911-1984) was inducted into the Army Air Corps in November of 1942. He was stationed at various posts around the United States during World War II, as well as overseas in India and China. Following his military service, Chapman continued his career as a naturalist and field ecologist for the Ohio State Division of Conservation and Natural Resources and the Ohio Division of Wildlife. He also worked as resident ecologist at Malabar Farm and as horticulturist for Inniswood Garden Metro Park until his death in 1984. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1017AV_02_01
Subjects: World War II; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Natural resources--Ohio; Malabar Farm; Horticulture
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Built by the Civilian Conservation Corps (the CCC) in the 1930s, historic Virginia Kendall Park was originally a part of the Akron Metropolitan Park District. These seven photographs show the park in its early stages. The first is of the construction of the combination shelter house and caretaker's dwelling. The second is the lake, pier, and bathhouse at the waterfront. The next four show the completed combination shelter house in June of 1936. The final image is of the stone steps along a foot trail in the winter of 1937-1938. The 1,574 acres of Virginia Kendall came under the management of the National Park Service, as a part of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, on New Year's Day in 1978. The first two photographs measure approximately 5.75 by 3.75 inches (14.61 by 9.53 cm). The next four measure approximately 4.5 by 3.5 inches (11.43 by 8.89 cm), and the seventh measures approximately 3.25 by 5 inches (8.26 by 12.70 cm). The United States Congress established the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1933 as a part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal program. For unemployed young men, the CCC supplied work and administered vocational training through the development and preservation of America's natural resources. By 1935, at the height of the program, there were over 500,000 members and more than 2,600 camps across every state in the nation, including 110 in Ohio. As a result of World War II and the need for more resources to go toward national defense projects, Congress terminated the CCC in 1942 against President Roosevelt's wishes. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3391_6642921_001
Subjects: Geography and Natural Resources; Daily Life; Agriculture; State parks & reserves; Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); New Deal, 1933-1939
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: A young man and woman at Niagra Falls. Glass plate negatives of various Trumbull County and northeastern Ohio scenes, places, people and events taken by John E. Pickering and Edward D. Pickering from the 1880s to the 1910s. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08477
Subjects: Geography and Natural Resources; Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; waterfalls
Places: Niagra Falls (New York)
 

Description: Photograph of Elizabeth Argast walking in Cedar Bog. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph states that she was north of Woodburn Road at bridge in April 1952. Cedar Bog is a nature preserve located near Urbana in Champaign County, Ohio, named for the Northern White Cedar that grows in the area. It is the largest example of a boreal and prairie fen complex in Ohio, and has many rare plants and animals, as well as excellent orchid, prairie, and woodland wildflower displays. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS7324
Subjects: Cedar Bog (Ohio); Natural resources--Ohio; Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; Women--Ohio;
Places: Urbana (Ohio); Champaign County (Ohio);
 

Description: Dated ca. 1935-1940, this photograph shows a view of the Miami and Erie Canal in Dayton, Ohio. On the left is a truck labeled John R. Kershner Public Works Contractor and the building above reads The Howe [or Lowe] Brothers Co. Work began on the Miami and Erie Canal in 1825 and was completed in 1845. During the peak of construction, more than four thousand laborers worked on the canal, generally earning 30 cents per day plus room and board. Many recent immigrants to the United States, especially the Irish, survived thanks to jobs on the canals. Other people, like the residents of the communal society at Zoar, also helped construct canals to assist the survival of their community. Many of Ohio’s communities today, including Akron, began as towns for the canal workers. Most canals remained in operation in Ohio until late 1800s. There is a short stretch in the Muskingum Valley near Zanesville still in operation today. By the 1850s, however, canals were losing business to the railroads. 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_033_1
Subjects: Canals--Ohio; Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Geography and Natural Resources; Transportation--Ohio
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: This pipe in effigy (a likeness or representation) of a hawk was excavated from Tremper Mound, a Hopewell culture site located five miles north of Portsmouth in Scioto County. It was identified by archeologist William C. Mills as an eagle. Made of light gray or pale brown coral limestone, the curvature of the pipe platform is greater than other effigy pipes found within Tremper Mound. The pipe measures approximately 2.2" x 2.15" x 4.88" (5.5 x 5.2 x 12.3 cm). This pipe is part of a large collection of pipes found at Tremper Mound. The pipes were carved of Ohio pipestone, a silica-based material that can be easily carved when freshly quarried from the hills east of the Scioto River. The pipes represent a variety of animals significant to the Hopewell, including owls, wolves, deer and beaver. Skilled Hopewell craftsmen carved the pipes with flint knives and some are embellished with pearls or copper. In Ohio, the Hopewell Indians (100 B.C.-A.D. 500) built burial mounds and large earthen enclosures in geometric shapes (circles, squares, and octagons) to mark the places where the people gathered periodically to participate in many social and ceremonial events. Some of these sites were quite large--the Newark Earthworks complex extends over a 4-square-mile area. The Hopewell people also maintained a large trade network extending as far as the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming, the Florida coast and Appalachians, and northern Lake Superior. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1357_1763334_017
Subjects: American Indians in Ohio; Plants and Animals; Arts and Entertainment; Geography and Natural Resources; Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1-400); Mounds (Burials); Pipes (Smoking); Hawks; Birds
Places: Rush Township (Ohio); Scioto County (Ohio)
 

Description: During the 1930's the Miami Conservancy District set aside areas above and below the Germantown Dam, for public use. The C.C.C. and the W.P.A. built shelters, biking trails, and graded roads. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F09_029_1
Subjects: Geography and Natural Resources; Parks--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Outhouses; United States. Works Progress Administration; Miami Conservancy District
Places: Germantown (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: This pipe in effigy (a likeness or representation) of a quail was excavated from Tremper Mound, a Hopewell culture site located five miles north of Portsmouth in Scioto County. The bird stands on the platform. The bowl of the pipe was wrapped with copper in prehistoric times, and the eyes were likely inset with copper. The pipe, which measures approximately 1.75" x 1.45" x 2.9" (4.5 x 3.6 x 7.4 cm), is made of a very dark gray stone. This pipe is part of a large collection of pipes found at Tremper Mound. The pipes were carved of Ohio pipestone, a silica-based material that can be easily carved when freshly quarried from the hills east of the Scioto River. The pipes represent a variety of animals significant to the Hopewell, including owls, wolves, deer and beaver. Skilled Hopewell craftsmen carved the pipes with flint knives and some are embellished with pearls or copper. In Ohio, the Hopewell Indians (100 B.C.-A.D. 500) built burial mounds and large earthen enclosures in geometric shapes (circles, squares, and octagons) to mark the places where the people gathered periodically to participate in many social and ceremonial events. Some of these sites were quite large--the Newark Earthworks complex extends over a 4-square-mile area. The Hopewell people also maintained a large trade network extending as far as the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming, the Florida coast and Appalachians, and northern Lake Superior. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1357_1764244_056
Subjects: American Indians in Ohio; Plants and Animals; Arts and Entertainment; Geography and Natural Resources; Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1-400); Mounds (Burials); Pipes (Smoking); Quails; Birds
Places: Rush Township (Ohio); Scioto County (Ohio)