Description: Picture of part of a system of transformers and disconnects at the plant of the Ohio Power Company, off state 77, south of Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio. Electric power transmission or "high voltage electric transmission" is the bulk transfer of electrical energy, from generating power plants to substations located near to population centers. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B14F05_005_001
Subjects: Utilities; Muskingum County (Ohio); Transformers, Electric; Electric substations
Places: Muskingum County (Ohio); Zanesville (Ohio)
 

Description: This picture shows part of a system of transformers and disconnects at the plant of the Ohio Power Company, off state 77, south of Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio. Electric power transmission or "high voltage electric transmission" is the bulk transfer of electrical energy, from generating power plants to substations located near to population centers. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B14F05_009_001
Subjects: Utilities; Muskingum County (Ohio); Transformers, Electric; Electric substations
Places: Muskingum County (Ohio); Zanesville (Ohio)
 

Description: This picture shows part of a system of transformers and disconnects at the plant of the Ohio Power Company, off state 77, south of Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio. Electric power transmission or "high voltage electric transmission" is the bulk transfer of electrical energy, from generating power plants to substations located near to population centers. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B14F05_006_001
Subjects: Utilities; Muskingum County (Ohio); Transformers, Electric; Electric substations
Places: Muskingum County (Ohio); Zanesville (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of a threshing scene showing workmen, a steam traction engine, a thresher, and a wagon drawn by oxen. The photograph is believed to have been taken in the vicinity of South Zanesville, Ohio, ca. 1890. Threshing (or thrashing, as it was once called) refers to the separating of grain from the chaff of harvested wheat. With the development of mechanical threshing machines, the process became steadily less labor-intensive, but still required laborers as seen here. A traction engine is a self-propelled and steam-powered piece of equipment used to transport loads and provide power for agricultural use. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC801_03
Subjects: Agriculture; Agricultural laborers; Farm equipment; Food production; Wheat;
Places: South Zanesville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: Three 5" by 7" (12.7 by 17.8 cm) photographs depict some of the celebrations in honor of the 150th anniversary of the Treaty of Greenville, which took place in August 1945. Events included a parade, an appreciation dinner for artist Howard Chandler Christy, and exhibition of the original Treaty of Greenville, on loan from the National Archives. The state of Ohio commissioned Christy (1873-1952), a nationally-known illustrator, to create the work for the 150th anniversary of the treaty that ended the Indian Wars in Ohio. The painting "The Signing of the Treaty of Greene Ville" was unveiled in a ceremony on August 3. Christy (in the white suit) can be seen sitting on the left in the first and second images. Governor Frank Lausche is seated next to him and can be seen addressing the crowd in the third image. Christy, born just south of Zanesville in Duncan Falls, Ohio, went to New York to study art at the age of sixteen. He began working at Scribner's Magazine in 1898 as an illustrator. During the Spanish American War, his illustrations of Cuba and Puerto Rico were seen around the United States. He returned to Duncan Falls after the war and began painting. By the early twentieth century Christy's elegant illustrations of women, collectively called "Christy Girls," appeared in Scribner's, Century, Ladies Home Journal, McClure's, and several books. Christy Girls were also used in recruitment posters during World War I. Christy began painting portraits after World War I; his best-known subjects were Calvin Coolidge, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Amelia Earhart, and Douglas MacArthur. The Depression of the 1930s changed Christy's artistic emphasis to historical subjects. In addition to the Greenville painting, Christy painted the "Scene of the Signing of the Constitution of the United States," which hangs in the Capitol in Washington, DC. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3220_3832019_001a
Subjects: Ohio Government; Military Ohio; American Indians in Ohio; Arts and Entertainment; Christy, Howard Chandler, 1873-1952; Treaty of Greenville; Treaties; Celebrations; Lausche, Frank John, b. 1895; Governors; Artists
Places: Greenville (Ohio); Darke County (Ohio)
 

Description: Pencil sketch of a promotional poster by J. Hinig advertising his crayon portraits, signs, ornaments and designs, dated 1876-1877. The address listed is on South Third Street in Zanesville, Ohio, though the street number is too faded to make out. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS559_B13F02_001
Subjects: Artists--Ohio; Zanesville (Ohio); Portrait painters; Business enterprises--Ohio;
Places: Zanesville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: Howard Chandler Christy's home, located on the Muskingum River about 35 miles south of Zanesville, Ohio. Christy was a prominent American artist in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was born January 10, 1873, in Ohio and spent his youth on his parents' farm near Duncan Falls and the Muskingum River. In 1890 he moved to New York City, where he enrolled at the Art Students League. He soon ran out of money and moved back to Ohio, but he returned to New York in 1892. Christy studied under William Merritt Chase, who encouraged his students to paint their subjects in a realistic manner. The young artist adopted this realistic style and became a successful illustrator for books and magazine articles. He also painted portraits and landscape scenes. During the Spanish-American War, Christy accompanied American soldiers into battle, and his drawings of the battlefields were featured in such leading magazines as "Scribner's," "Harper's," "The Century," and "Leslie's Weekly." After the war he became famous for his artwork depicting a young woman who became known as the "Christy Girl." Christy used her image in books, magazines, calendars, and even patriotic posters. During the next decade he emerged as one of America's most popular artists and illustrators. He returned to his childhood home in Ohio and opened his own studio. His fame continued to grow during the 1910s. He returned to New York and opened a studio in 1915. During World War I he drew posters encouraging his fellow Americans to support the war effort. Once again the "Christy Girl" figured prominently in his artwork. After the war Christy turned to portraiture. During the 1920s he painted the portraits of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, and Eddie Rickenbacker, among other famous subjects. His popularity briefly declined during the Great Depression, but when he resumed painting women and landscape scenes, his celebrity status returned. He created commemorative paintings of historical events. His most famous painting from this era, which portrays the signing of the United States Constitution, hangs in the Rotunda of the United States Capitol. Two of Christy's works from this period also hang in the Ohio Statehouse. Christy died in 1952 in New York City. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05940
Subjects: Christy, Howard Chandler, 1873-1952; Cultural Ohio--Art and Artists
Places: Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows the 3rd Street bridge in Zanesville, Ohio. The 3rd Street Bridge spanned the Muskingum River at 3rd and South Streets to Muskingum Avenue on the other side. The bridge was destroyed in the 1913 flood and was not rebuilt. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08407
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development; Bridges; Civil engineering
Places: Zanesville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1935-1940, this photograph shows a waterfall and small building along the Ohio and Erie Canal near Circleville, Ohio. Today a three mile stretch of the canal remains near Circleville. Work began on the Ohio and Erie Canal on July 4, 1825, at Licking Summit, just south of Newark, Ohio, and was completed in 1833. The Ohio and Erie Canal cost approximately ten thousand dollars per mile to complete, and the Miami and Erie Canal cost roughly twelve thousand dollars per mile to finish. The canals nearly bankrupted the state government, but they allowed Ohioans to prosper beginning in the 1830s all the way to the Civil War. 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 the 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_B10F13_001_001
Subjects: Canals--Ohio; Circleville (Ohio)--History; Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio)--History; Geography and Natural Resources; Transportation--Ohio--History.; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Circleville (Ohio); Pickaway County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1935-1940, this photograph shows a waterfall and small building along the Ohio and Erie Canal near Circleville, Ohio. Today, a three mile stretch of the canal remains near Circleville. Work began on the Ohio and Erie Canal on July 4, 1825, at Licking Summit, just south of Newark, Ohio, and was completed in 1833. The Ohio and Erie Canal cost approximately ten thousand dollars per mile to complete, and the Miami and Erie Canal cost roughly twelve thousand dollars per mile to finish. The canals nearly bankrupted the state government, but they allowed Ohioans to prosper beginning in the 1830s all the way to the Civil War. 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 the 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_B10F13_006_001
Subjects: Canals--Ohio; Circleville (Ohio)--History; Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio)--History; Geography and Natural Resources; Transportation--Ohio--History.; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Circleville (Ohio); Pickaway County (Ohio)
 

Description: Handwritten on reverse: "Barges on the Muskingum River." This photograph shows three barges being towed by a tug boat, near Marietta, Ohio. The Muskingum River is a tributary of the Ohio River, approximately 111 miles long, in southeastern Ohio. The Muskingum is formed at Coshocton in east-central Ohio by the confluence of the Walhonding and Tuscarawas rivers. It flows in a meandering course southward past Conesville, Trinway and Dresden to Zanesville, and then southeastward past South Zanesville, Philo, Malta, McConnelsville, Beverly, Lowell, Stockport and Devola. It joins the Ohio at Marietta. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F18_008_1
Subjects: Muskingum River Valley (Ohio); Muskingum River (Ohio); Barges--United States
Places: Marietta (Ohio); Washington County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption on reverse reads: "Downtown, Elyria (typical of Western Reserve). Photograph courtesy of Elyria Chamber of Commerce. This photo must be returned to Ohio Writers' Project. 8 E. Chestnut St., Columbus, O. - In the Cities (page 4, upper)." This photograph shows the Civil War Monument in the town square in Elyria, called Ely Park, facing south towards the old Lorain County Courthouse. Ely Park is bounded by Broad Street, Court Street, 2nd Street and Middle Avenue. The Civil War Monument stands 41 feet 8 inches tall and was designed by Joseph Carabelli. The granite memorial cost $8,500 and was dedicated June 26, 1888. A Union soldier holding a flag stands at the top. Two soldiers flank the bottom of the statue, each standing 'at ease', with rifles held horizontally in front of them. The inscription on the front reads: "1861 - 1865. Elyria. To her heroes who fought and her martyrs who fell, that the Republic might live." The Lorain County Courthouse, located at 308 2nd Street, was designed by architect Elijah E. Myers and completed in 1881. Built of Amherst sandstone in the Renaissance Revival style, the building cost $200,000 and is identical to the courthouse in Marion, Indiana. Declared unsafe, the dome was removed in the 1940s, amidst a campaign to have the entire building demolished in order to be replaced by a WPA financed structure. The main floor was originally a large, ornate court room. Brick floors, covered with Zanesville tile, vaulted between iron beams, created scalloped ceilings in the floor below. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. Renovations took place in 1981 - 1982, and much of the ornate woodwork, fireplaces and vaults were insensitively removed. The current use of this building is unknown. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F10_037_1
Subjects: Monuments--Ohio;
Places: Elyria (Ohio); Lorain County (Ohio)