Description: Photograph of a Barrett Junior High School class, 1929. This Columbus public school was located on the South side of the city. Originally serving as South High-school it later became Barret Junior High. As of 2009 the building was being renovated. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06308
Subjects: Franklin County (Ohio); Cultural Ohio--Education; School photography; School children United States; Schools--Ohio; Photography--Ohio; Building dedications; Children's clothing
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows an outdoor market in Cincinnati, Ohio, ca. 1935-1943. Vendors are selling produce at stands shielded from the elements by a tent awning (possibly made of canvas). The adjoining walkway is crowded with shoppers and passersby. The produced stands and bushel baskets are overflowing with produce. One vendor is a young boy who is busy waiting on a customer. Behind a wrought-iron fence in the lower-right foreground a woman is sitting on an overturned basket. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06199
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio); Markets--Ohio; Business--Ohio; Photography--Ohio
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of a 95-year-old woman with a fishing pole, taken by Walter Lauffer, 1934. The subject is smoking a pipe and appears to be threading a worm on a hook. Walter Lauffer was a photographer, filmmaker and outdoorsman from Mt. Gilead, Ohio. The logo near the bottom right corner of the image is a highly stylized placement of the words "Walter Lauffer, Cameraman" View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05116
Subjects: Older women; Fishing; Photographers--Ohio; Photography--Ohio
 

Description: Photographic postcard depicting the interior of a photography studio, possibly the studio of Walter Lauffer in Cardington or Mt. Gilead, Ohio, ca. 1907-1915. Walter Lauffer was a photographer, filmmaker and outdoorsman from Mt. Gilead, Ohio. A young boy appears to be napping on the left-hand side of the image. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05119
Subjects: Photography--Ohio; Art, American--Ohio; Photography - Studios and dark rooms; Children
 

Description: This photograph is of a photography dark room, probably that of Walter M. Lauffer, ca. 1920-1929. Lauffer was a photographer, filmmaker and outdoorsman from Mt. Gilead, Ohio. Developing photographs can be seen hanging on the right side of the image, along with various other photography equipment. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05120
Subjects: Photography--Ohio; Art, American--Ohio; Photography - Studios and dark rooms; Children
 

Description: Walter Lauffer developing a photograph in his darkroom, ca. 1920, surrounded by various photography equipment. Lauffer was a photographer, filmmaker and outdoorsman from Mt. Gilead, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05121
Subjects: Photography--Ohio; Art, American--Ohio; Photography - Studios and dark rooms
Places: Mount Gilead (Ohio); Morrow County (Ohio)
 

Description: Walter Lauffer working at film bench in his darkroom, ca. 1920. He appears to be splicing or editing film reels. Lauffer was a photographer, filmmaker and outdoorsman from Mt. Gilead, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05122
Subjects: Photography--Ohio; Art, American--Ohio; Photography - Studios and dark rooms; Motion picture film--History
Places: Mount Gilead (Ohio); Morrow County (Ohio)
 

Description: In the early twentieth century, Cincinnati was linked to a number of other major cities through its rail lines. Union Terminal, a single railroad terminal, was developed to provide service for all passenger and freight lines entering the city. Construction began in the 1920s on the art deco style structure that was designed by architects Alfred Fellheimer and Stewart Wagner. Finished on March 31, 1933, Union Terminal had the largest half-dome in the world at the time. Even today it is the largest half-dome in the Western hemisphere. The artwork associated with Union Terminal was as amazing as the physical structure. Maxfield Keck designed bas-relief figures that represented Commerce and Transportation to flank the main doors. Winold Reiss, a German-born artist, designed murals made from glass mosaic tiles to decorate the interior of the terminal. The art deco style murals illustrate the United States' transportation history, different types of work in the United States, and Cincinnati history. Most of the murals were placed within the main entry of the terminal, but additional murals, portraying major Cincinnati businesses, were located in the concourse. The concourse was torn down in the 1970s, and these murals were relocated to the Northern Kentucky/Greater Cincinnati International Airport. Another artist, Pierre Bourdelle, created a mural at the entrance of the women's lounge. After success as a train terminal throughout the 1930s and 1940s, competition from automobiles and passenger airline service led to a decline in use of the terminal. By 1972, the last train service to Union Terminal ended. After a failed attempt in 1980 to turn Union Terminal into a shopping mall, the building was opened once again in November 1990 and was known as the Museum Center. The renovated Union Terminal now houses the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History and Science, the Cincinnati History Museum, the Cincinnati Historical Society Library, the Cinergy Children's Museum, and an OMNIMAX theater. Amtrak began offering passenger train service to Union Terminal beginning in 1991. Union Terminal was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 31, 1972. Its significance as one of the few remaining large art deco terminals meant that it also became a National Historic Landmark in 1977. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06018
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development; Railroad terminals--Ohio; Architecture--Ohio; Photography--Ohio
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph looking down an unidentified rural road in Ohio, taken by historian Henry Howe (1816-1893). In the foreground is a rutted dirt road leading towards several homes and a small town in the distance. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P15_B1_F12
Subjects: Rural Life; Landscape photography; Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; Photography--Ohio--History--19th century;
Places: Miami County (Ohio); Monroe County (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio);
 

Description: Taken ca. 1930-1939, this photograph shows an aerial view of the International Harvester Company plant in Springfield, Ohio, located at Buck Creek and Lagonda Avenue. Founded in 1902, International Harvester manufactured farm equipment such as plows, harvesters, tractors, and automobiles. In 1985, International Harvester sold its agricultural division to a company called Tenneco, Inc., where its farming products are sold under the Case IH brand, and in 1986 the corporate company changed its name to Navistar International Corporation. 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_B07F07_006_1
Subjects: Factories; International Harvester Company; Industries--Ohio--Springfield; Agriculture; Aerial photography; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Works Progress Administration; Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: A little boy holding on to a tricycle. 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: AL08489
Subjects: Cultural Ohio; Photography--Ohio; Bicycles & tricycles
 

Description: A little girl sitting on the ground in front of a tree. 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: AL08490
Subjects: Cultural Ohio; Photography--Ohio; Children--Ohio