Description: The monarch is one of the most common butterflies in Ohio. It is a part of the family Danaidae or milkweed butterflies, and can be found in all of Ohio's eighty-eight counties. The monarch butterfly can generally be found in large fields, roadsides, prairie remnants, and urban yards between May and November. It feeds on several types of milkweed plants. These plants contain poisons known as cardiac glycosides, which cause vomiting in birds. As a result, once a bird eats a monarch, it will remember the experience and rarely try another. Therefore, monarch butterflies enjoy a certain amount of protection from their predators. Another butterfly, the viceroy, mimics the coloring of the monarch for the same reason. Though the viceroy does not eat the same plants, it has the same coloring, and birds tend not to eat the viceroy because they mistake it for the monarch. These butterflies have a wing span of 3.4 to 4.9 inches (8.6 to 12.4 cm). The first image is of a female of the species; the second is a male. In Ohio there are more than 150 species of butterflies. Twenty-seven different species of butterflies representing five families can be found in the Ohio Memory Online Scrapbook, including all seven species of butterflies that are listed as endangered in Ohio. Butterflies are a part of the order Lepidoptera (from the Greek words lepis, which means scale and pteron, which means wing). There are nearly 17,500 species of butterflies world-wide. Approximately 750 of these can be found in North America. View on Ohio Memory.
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Subjects: Plants and Animals; Butterflies; Monarch butterfly; Insects; Milkweed butterflies
Places: Ohio
 

Description: This is a photograph depicting a young boy posed by potted plants and cactus. 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: AL06335
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Children; Portrait photography--United States--History; Plants and Animals
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: The viceroy butterfly is commonly found in all of Ohio's eighty-eight counties. It lives in moist, open habitats, often near small willow trees. It is a member of the Nymphalidae (brushfooted) family, and can usually be seen between April and October, peaking between July and August. It is also an excellent example of a species that mimics another for defensive reasons. The viceroy butterfly looks very similar to the monarch butterfly, which eats plants that contain poisons known as cardiac glycosides and cause vomiting in birds. As a result, birds will not eat monarch butterflies. Though the viceroy does not eat the same plants, birds tend not to eat the viceroy because they mistake it for the monarch. This viceroy has a wingspan of 2.3 to 3.3 inches (5.9 to 8.4 cm). In Ohio there are more than 150 species of butterflies. Twenty-seven different species of butterflies representing five families can be found in the Ohio Memory Online Scrapbook, including all seven species of butterflies that are listed as endangered in Ohio. Butterflies are a part of the order Lepidoptera (from the Greek words lepis, which means scale and pteron, which means wing). There are nearly 17,500 species of butterflies world-wide. Approximately 750 of these can be found in North America. View on Ohio Memory.
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Subjects: Plants and Animals; Butterflies; Viceroy butterfly; Insects; Nymphalidae
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Sixteen photographs document the home of Cleveland iron-ore magnate William Gwinn Mather. In 1905, Mather consulted two nationally renowned landscape architects, Warren H. Manning (1860-1938) and Charles A. Platt (1861-1933), about plans for a new estate. Manning was a legendary plantsman and a park- and city-planning specialist who had worked for Mather on several northern Michigan mine projects while employed by Frederick Law Olmsted. Platt was a young artist-turned-architect widely praised for adapting Italian principles to American soil. Each encouraged Mather to purchase a five-acre parcel east of the city directly on Lake Erie, anticipating that the ever-changing lake panorama would give the garden landscape great distinction. Platt accepted Mather's commission with the provision that he design both the new house and landscape; Manning, disappointedly, agreed to serve as "planting adviser" on the project. The diverse partners began their work in 1906. Platt, a champion of formality, recommended symmetry and classical ornament, while Manning, a proponent of an emerging "American style," favored irregular groupings of mostly indigenous plants. Their unintended collaboration at Gwinn led to an exceptionally strong and varied design. The photographs were taken by Ihna Thayer Frary. The Ihna Thayer Frary Audiovisual Collection was given to the Ohio Historical Society by Mr. Frary in two sections. One was in March of 1963 and the remainder in May of 1965 by his sons, Dr. Spencer G. and Allen T. Frary following their father's death. I.T. Frary (1873-1965) was the publicity and membership secretary for the Museum of Art in Cleveland, Ohio. He taught for many years at the Cleveland Institute of Art and Western Reserve University's School of Architecture. He did much research of Ohio and American architecture and was the author of seven major works and numerous scholarly articles on architectural and art history. One of his major works was Early Homes of Ohio published in 1936. View on Ohio Memory.
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Subjects: Architecture; Arts and Entertainment; Plants and Animals; Mather, William Gwinn (1857-1951); Gwinn Estate Gardens
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: The snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina, is found in lakes and ponds with muddy bottoms throughout most of Ohio. Snapping turtles spend most of their time buried in the mud underwater and are seldom seen. They eat water plants, worms, and small mammals, and live twenty to forty years. It is the largest turtle in Ohio, measuring up to 18.5 inches and weighing up to 35 pounds. The snapping turtle is aggressive and is named for its powerful jaws. These two photographs measure 3" x 3" (7.62 x 7.62 cm). View on Ohio Memory.
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Subjects: Plants and Animals; Turtles; Reptiles; Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio
Places: Ohio
 

Description: The buckeye butterfly is commonly found throughout Ohio. It migrates generally from the far South of the U.S. and as far north as Minnesota, Michigan, and Maine. It prefers open areas without many plants and where the soil is exposed such, as vacant fields and lots and areas around rivers or streams. It is a member of the Nymphalidae (brushfooted) family and can be found in Ohio between July and October. This species has a wingspan of 1.6 to 2.25 inches (4.1 to 5.7 cm). In Ohio there are more than 150 species of butterflies. Twenty-seven different species of butterflies representing five families can be found in the Ohio Memory Online Scrapbook, including all seven species of butterflies that are listed as endangered in Ohio. Butterflies are a part of the order Lepidoptera (from the Greek words lepis, which means scale and pteron, which means wing). There are nearly 17,500 species of butterflies world-wide. Approximately 750 of these can be found in North America. View on Ohio Memory.
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Subjects: Plants and Animals; Butterflies; Insects; Nymphalidae
Places: Ohio
 

Description: William Starling Sullivant (1803-1873) was a famous botanist who studied and cataloged the plant life of central Ohio. In 1840, he published his findings in "A Catalogue of Plants, Native and Naturalized, in the Vicinity of Columbus, Ohio." At the time of his death, he was recognized as the foremost bryologist, an expert on mosses, in the United States. He was posthumously elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1872, and has a moss, “Sullivantia Ohioensis,” named in his honor. He was also the son of Lucas Sullivant, a surveyor, soldier and settler in central Ohio in the years after the American Revolution. Lucas Sullivant originally laid out the town of Franklinton, which is now part of Columbus. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04186
Subjects: Scientists; Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; Plants and Animals; Columbus (Ohio); Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood;
Places: Franklinton (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This reproduction shows a portrait of William Starling Sullivant (1803-1873), a famous botanist who studied and cataloged the plant life of central Ohio. In 1840, he published his findings in "A Catalogue of Plants, Native and Naturalized, in the Vicinity of Columbus, Ohio." At the time of his death, he was recognized as the foremost bryologist, an expert on mosses, in the United States. He was posthumously elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1872, and has a moss, “Sullivantia Ohioensis,” named in his honor. He was also the son of Lucas Sullivant, a surveyor, soldier and settler in central Ohio in the years after the American Revolution. Lucas Sullivant originally laid out the town of Franklinton, which is now part of Columbus. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04187
Subjects: Scientists; Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; Plants and Animals; Columbus (Ohio); Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood;
Places: Franklinton (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

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.
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Subjects: Sports; Plants and Animals; Geography and Natural Resources; Lakes & ponds; Swimming; Water skiing
Places: Senecaville (Ohio); Noble 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.
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Subjects: American Indians in Ohio; Plants and Animals; Arts and Entertainment; Geography and Natural Resources; Hopewell culture; Mounds (Burials); Pipes (Smoking); Hawks; Birds
Places: Rush Township (Ohio); Scioto County (Ohio)
 

Description: The cattle egret, Bubulcus ibis, is often found in marshy areas in Ohio during its breeding season of April to July. A native of Africa, the cattle egret extended its range into South America and eventually the southern United States in the nineteenth century. It feeds off of small insects picked off the backs of cattle or off the ground. The photographs measure 3" x 3" (7.62 x 7.62 cm). View on Ohio Memory.
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Subjects: Plants and Animals; Birds; Birds--Ohio; Natural resources--Ohio
Places: Ohio
 

Description: This photograph, taken near Medina County, Ohio, shows a field of bee hives owned by the A.I. Root Company. Amos Ives Root was born in 1839 in Medina, Ohio. As a young man he entered into the jewelry making business and opened a shop in Medina. He became interested in beekeeping on day when he saw a swarm of bees so large that they covered the window of his shop, dimming the light. In 1869 he began manufacturing a beehive in which beekeepers could extract the honey without killing the bees. In 1878 he purchased the Medina County Fairgrounds and built the A.I. Root Company. The A.I. Root Company began manufacturing beeswax candles in the 1920s and continued after Root's death in 1923. The photograph measures 8" x 10" (20.32 x 25.4 cm). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3100_5938383_001
Subjects: Plants and Animals; Agriculture; Bee culture
Places: Medina (Ohio); Medina County (Ohio)