Description: Photograph showing a church in the Penitentes area of northern New Mexico, taken by Joe Munroe, 1974. The Penitentes is a lay ministry group that works together to promote the idea of the Roman Catholic faith in the area of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado. This group was formed after Spanish missionaries left the area once Mexico gained its independence, when local communities banded together to help one another in the absence of a parish priest. Joe Munroe's career began in 1939 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He served in the Air Force during World War II and then joined Cincinnati-based Farm Quarterly magazine. Though raised in Detroit, agriculture became an important subject of Joe's photographs. He moved to California in 1955 and free-lanced, taking magazine assignments and selling his own work. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P400_B31_F2226_JPG215
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Religious services; Penitentes; Lay ministry
Places: New Mexico
 

Description: Captain Schuyler Hamilton carried this national flag, the colors of the 1st Ohio Volunteer Infantry (O.V.I.), in the Battle of Monterrey in September 1846 during the Mexican War. It measures 65.35 by 188.11 inches (166 by 300 cm). Parts of the flag are missing. Six white, six-pointed stars remain on a blue silk canton above United States arms. Instead of the customary U.S. shield, there is a shield with a side-wheel steamboat bearing the text "Rio Grande," a rising sun, a plow, and a river. The annexation of Texas, American desire to annex New Mexico and California, and Southern politicians' hopes of expanding slavery all contributed to the Mexican War. Among Ohio Whigs in Congress, opposition to the war and the extension of slavery was strong. In the end, however, 7,000 Ohioans enlisted in the war. Many of them served under Zachary Taylor in the northern provinces of Mexico and under Winfield Scott in Mexico City. The Mexican War ended on February 2, 1848, with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which set the southern boundary of Texas and gave the United States control of New Mexico and California. Ohio battle flags were on display at the Ohio Statehouse until the 1960s, when the state formed a committee to oversee efforts to restore the fragile flags. Some of the battle flags were on display on the plaza level of the Ohio History Center from 1970 until 1989. For conservation reasons, the flags have been in storage since 1989. In the 1960s, the collection was photographed and commercial artist Robert Needham painted illustrations of many Civil War flags. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1330_1664678_008
Subjects: Military Ohio; Mexican War; 1st Ohio Volunteer Infantry (O.V.I.); Flags
Places: Ohio; Monterrey (Mexico)
 

Description: Sheep that have been in a pen for an extended period of time quite literally jump for joy when they are released. Joe Munroe captures the special moment here in this photograph from the Judd McKnight sheep ranch outside of Roswell, New Mexico, 1957. Joe Munroe's career began in 1939 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He served in the Air Force during World War II and then joined Cincinnati-based Farm Quarterly magazine. Though raised in Detroit, agriculture became an important subject of Joe's photographs. He moved to California in 1955 and free-lanced, taking magazine assignments and selling his own work. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P400_B00_F00_001
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Farms; Agricultural; Livestock; Sheep
Places: Roswell (New Mexico)
 

Description: 1956 Malabar Farm calendar which includes small calendar pages and substantial essays on various themes in conservation agriculture, soil science and mid-century agriculture, written by Malabar Farm denizen and prominent farm writer Louis Bromfield. The Friends of the Land Collection (1930-1960) contains the papers of the Friends of the Land (1940-1959), a prominent national soil conservation education organization headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. FOTL produced an international literary arts quarterly, THE LAND (edited by New Deal agriculture writer Russell Lord) in addition to several members' only publications (LAND LETTER) and informational pamphlets. They also hosted annual conferences; ran conservation tours, teacher training labs, and workshops; and operated as a national clearinghouse for conservation information. Ohio farmer and novelist Louis Bromfield was active in the organization. Much of the collection reflects the career and interests of FOTL Executive Secretary Ollie Fink, who was a prominent conservation education pioneer in Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Page1
Subjects: Conservation education; Bromfield, Louis (1896-1956); Agriculture; Soil science; Malabar Farm
Places: Mansfield (Ohio); Richland County (Ohio)
 

Description: 1955 calendar advertising and themed around Ohio author and conservation advocate Louis Bromfield's famed Malabar Farm in Lucas, Ohio. The full-color twelve-month calendar includes color photographs by Joe Munroe and short caption essays by Louis Bromfield. Calendar verso pages feature longer essays on the history and rehabilitation of Malabar and vignettes of farm life also written by Bromfield. The Friends of the Land Collection (1930-1960) contains the papers of the Friends of the Land (1940-1959), a prominent national soil conservation education organization headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. FOTL produced an international literary arts quarterly, THE LAND (edited by New Deal agriculture writer Russell Lord) in addition to several members' only publications (LAND LETTER) and informational pamphlets. They also hosted annual conferences; ran conservation tours, teacher training labs, and workshops; and operated as a national clearinghouse for conservation information. Ohio farmer and novelist Louis Bromfield was active in the organization. Much of the collection reflects the career and interests of FOTL Executive Secretary Ollie Fink, who was a prominent conservation education pioneer in Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Page1
Subjects: Conservation education; Bromfield, Louis (1896-1956); Agriculture; Soil science; Malabar Farm
Places: Mansfield (Ohio); Richland County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Tonkey Boy, a great Kiowa warrior, ca. 1880-1889. Members of the Kiowa tribe lived in and around the Texas panhandle including western Oklahoma and northeast New Mexico. He wears a full-length war bonnet or headdress, a beaded breastplate, and a fringed tunic and pants. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03831
Subjects: Young men; Kiowa Indians; American Indians--Portraits; American Indian history and society
 

Description: Farmers must check a sheep's fleece for quality and length before shearing. This 1957 photograph by Joe Munroe gives a great look into that process. Munroe's career began in 1939 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He served in the Air Force during World War II and then joined Cincinnati-based Farm Quarterly magazine. Though raised in Detroit, agriculture became an important subject of Joe's photographs. He moved to California in 1955 and free-lanced, taking magazine assignments and selling his own work. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P400_B01_F17_001
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Farms; Agricultural; Livestock; Sheep
Places: Roswell (New Mexico)
 

Description: This photograph is of models of maps of a portion of the United States. They were made for the Ohio State School for the Blind as teaching tools. The map on the left is Washington, Oregon and California. The map on the right is Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F02_072_001
Subjects: Models; Maps; Schools--Ohio; Ohio State School for the Blind; Blind--Education--Ohio--Columbus; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: James Knox Polk, the eleventh President of the United States, was born in North Carolina on November 2, 1795. After studying to become a lawyer, he entered politics as a Jacksonian Democrat. Polk served in the Tennessee state legislature, the United States House of Representatives, and as Governor of Tennessee. In the 1844 presidential election, he defeated Henry Clay, the Whig candidate for president. During his administration, Polk oversaw the founding of the United States Naval Academy and the Smithsonian Institution, lowered tariffs, and acquired California, New Mexico, and Oregon. His most notable accomplishment was leading the United States to victory in a war with Mexico over the annexation of Texas. James Polk died on June 15, 1849, three months after leaving office. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04169
Subjects: Presidents--United States; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Mexican War, 1846-1848
Places: Tennessee
 

Description: This wool 48 star American flag is a rectangular flag, 100 cm by 130cm with gold fringe on three sides. The American flag received its 47th (New Mexico) on January 6, 1912 and 48th (Arizona) on February 14, 1912 stars. Due to the number of stars, this flag dates from 1912 to 1959. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H65285_001
Subjects: Ceremonial artifact; Communication artifact; Military flags; Stars & Stripes; Textile--wool
 

Description: From left to right, this portrait shows John, Evva and Bessie Kenney, ca. 1884. The photograph comes from the collection of Evva Kenney Heath, the youngest of the siblings who were born to David and Louisa Kenney in Cardington, Ohio. Their father passed away when the children were young, and they were raised in Cardington by their mother. All three attended and graduated from the predominantly white Cardington-Union Schools. John held jobs in West Virginia and New York before moving to Albuquerque, New Mexico, for health reasons in October 1902. Bessie married William "Billy" Brimbee in 1898, and the two had a daughter born in 1902. Evva began her career as a teacher but later attended Howard University Law School and went on to be an attorney in Washington, D.C., with her husband Henry Heath, as well as a prominent advocate for women's rights. All three siblings died at young ages--John and Bessie around 1902, and Evva in 1909. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03661
Subjects: African American Ohioans; Families--Ohio; Children
Places: Cardington (Ohio); Morrow County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Major General Lew Wallace, ca. 1860-1869. Wallace is shown in his dress uniform, in a frock coat or shell jacket with two stars on his shoulder boards, indicating his rank. Wallace was responsible for the defense of Cincinnati, Ohio, when it was in danger of attack from the Confederate Army in the fall of 1862. In addition to his military career and service as Governor of the New Mexico Territory, Wallace is famous for his novel "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ," published in 1880. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04309
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Military officers; Authors; Governors--United States
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio);