Description: Taken by photographer Homer Jensen in the 1930s or early 1940s, this photograph shows Ohio farmers baling hay using a tractor with a pulley attachment. Homer Jensen was a pioneer in aerial searches for oil and minerals hidden underground and beneath the seas. He first worked as a professional photographer in Cincinnati, Ohio, and founded the photographic department of the Procter & Gamble Company. He was the Co-Inventor of Magnetometer. He died in 1991. 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_B06F06_021_1
Subjects: Agriculture; Hay; Farms; Tractors; Barns; Rural life
Places: Ohio
 

Description: A farmer sitting on a large tractor takes a break from plowing his fields, along Route 23 south of Columbus, Ohio. The High Street Photograph Collection is comprised of over 400 photographs of High Street in Columbus, Ohio, taken in the early 1970s. These photographs were taken primarily at street level and document people and the built environment from the Pontifical College Josephinum on North High Street in Worthington through Clintonville, the University District and Short North, Downtown and South Columbus. The photographs were used in a television photo documentary that aired on WOSU called "High Street." Photographers that were involved in this project were Alfred Clarke, Carol Hibbs Kight, Darrell Muething, Clayton K. Lowe, and Julius Foris, Jr. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV254_B02F036_01
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Street photography; Farmers; Tractors; Farm life -- Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Two men ride behind a farmer driving a tractor through his vineyards off of Route 23 south of Columbus, Ohio. Vintners have produced wine in Ohio since 1823, and there are currently over 100 commercial wineries in Ohio. The High Street Photograph Collection is comprised of over 400 photographs of High Street in Columbus, Ohio, taken in the early 1970s. These photographs were taken primarily at street level and document people and the built environment from the Pontifical College Josephinum on North High Street in Worthington through Clintonville, the University District and Short North, Downtown and South Columbus. The photographs were used in a television photo documentary that aired on WOSU called "High Street." Photographers that were involved in this project were Alfred Clarke, Carol Hibbs Kight, Darrell Muething, Clayton K. Lowe, and Julius Foris, Jr. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV254_B02F023_01
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Street photography; Vineyards; Vintners; Grape growers; Tractors
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: A farmer sitting on a large tractor takes a break from plowing his fields, along Route 23 south of Columbus, Ohio. The High Street Photograph Collection is comprised of over 400 photographs of High Street in Columbus, Ohio, taken in the early 1970s. These photographs were taken primarily at street level and document people and the built environment from the Pontifical College Josephinum on North High Street in Worthington through Clintonville, the University District and Short North, Downtown and South Columbus. The photographs were used in a television photo documentary that aired on WOSU called "High Street." Photographers that were involved in this project were Alfred Clarke, Carol Hibbs Kight, Darrell Muething, Clayton K. Lowe, and Julius Foris, Jr. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV254_B02F035_01
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Street photography; Farmers; Tractors; Farm life -- Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: Vehicles for Pleasure and Work at the Sugar Bush (Geauga County near Chardon, OH) Photographer: E.P. Moody. March 1941. Maple syrup season begins in January, ending around April in Ohio and while trees are tapped all over the state, Geauga County has some of the state's best, and hosts the state's Maple Syrup Festival every spring. Traditionally, maple syrup was harvested by tapping a maple tree through the bark and into the wood, then letting the sap run into a bucket, which required daily collecting; less labor-intensive methods such as the use of continuous plastic pipelines have since superseded this, in all but cottage-scale production. It takes approximately 10 gal of sap to be boiled down to 1 quart of syrup. A mature sugar maple produces about 10 gal. of sap during the 4- to 6-week sugaring season under gravity, but can produce 20 or more gallons under vacuum. Trees are not tapped until they have a diameter of 10 in at chest-height and the tree is at least 40 years old. If the tree is more than 18 in., it can be tapped twice on opposite sides. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F17_005_1
Subjects: Maple Syrup Industry; Maple syrup--Pictorial works; Farm tractors--North America--Pictorial works.
Places: Chardon (Ohio); Geauga County (Ohio)