Description: Two people look up at a man seated on the roof of a large garage, where "Happy Birthday America" has been written. The photograph was taken on July 4, 1976, during the "Birthday Party for America" in Vienna, Ohio. The image was submitted by photographer Patti Zydyk of Vienna in the Amateur category of the Spirit of Ohio Bicentennial Photo Contest. In August 1976, the Ohio American Revolution Bicentennial Advisory Committee (OARBAC) began the Spirit of Ohio Bicentennial Photo Contest as part of a larger effort in Ohio to celebrate the 1976 American Bicentennial. The contest was meant to document "the spirit and character of the people and places which represent Ohio during [the] bicentennial year," and to create a permanent photographic archive of the year's festivity for use by future researchers. Both professional and amateur photographers submitted over 500 photographs for consideration, all taken within the state between January 1 and December 31, 1976. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA2734AV_B02F178_03_01
Subjects: American Revolution Bicentennial (1976); Fourth of July celebrations; Flags
Places: Vienna (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio)
 

Description: Three men pose with a bell in front of a large garage with "Happy Birthday America" written on the roof. The photograph was taken as bells were rung across the United States at 2 PM on July 4, 1976, during the "Birthday Party for America" in Vienna, Ohio. The image was submitted by photographer Patti Zydyk of Vienna in the Amateur category of the Spirit of Ohio Bicentennial Photo Contest. In August 1976, the Ohio American Revolution Bicentennial Advisory Committee (OARBAC) began the Spirit of Ohio Bicentennial Photo Contest as part of a larger effort in Ohio to celebrate the 1976 American Bicentennial. The contest was meant to document "the spirit and character of the people and places which represent Ohio during [the] bicentennial year," and to create a permanent photographic archive of the year's festivity for use by future researchers. Both professional and amateur photographers submitted over 500 photographs for consideration, all taken within the state between January 1 and December 31, 1976. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA2734AV_B02F178_01_01
Subjects: American Revolution Bicentennial (1976); Fourth of July celebrations; Ceremonies
Places: Vienna (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio)
 

Description: A large group--possibly a family reunion--poses in front of a large garage with "Happy Birthday America" written on the roof. The photograph was taken on July 4, 1976, during the "Birthday Party for America" in Vienna, Ohio. The image was submitted by photographer Patti Zydyk of Vienna in the Amateur category of the Spirit of Ohio Bicentennial Photo Contest. In August 1976, the Ohio American Revolution Bicentennial Advisory Committee (OARBAC) began the Spirit of Ohio Bicentennial Photo Contest as part of a larger effort in Ohio to celebrate the 1976 American Bicentennial. The contest was meant to document "the spirit and character of the people and places which represent Ohio during [the] bicentennial year," and to create a permanent photographic archive of the year's festivity for use by future researchers. Both professional and amateur photographers submitted over 500 photographs for consideration, all taken within the state between January 1 and December 31, 1976. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA2734AV_B02F178_02_01
Subjects: American Revolution Bicentennial (1976); Fourth of July celebrations; Flags
Places: Vienna (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio)
 

Description: This 4 by 7-inch (10.16 by 17.8 cm) ambrotype shows Alfretta Ronemus of South Vienna, Ohio at the age of three. As an infant, she was selected as the winner of the first baby contest in the United States, held at the second annual Clark County Fair on October 5, 1854. The 10-month-old Alfretta was picked out of a crowd to enter the contest. Her mother protested that Alfretta was not dressed in suitable clothes for the occasion, but the organizer insisted that she enter the child. Alfretta may have won the first prize because she was dressed in a simple white dress with a black silk jacket, while the other children were decked out in fancy "furbelows." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1361_1160368_001
Subjects: Arts and Entertainment; Daily Life; Infants; Contests
Places: South Vienna (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: Illustration of "The crusading women of New Vienna," from Henry Howe's "Historical Collection of Ohio," 1909. This illustration shows an organized protest held by women in support of Temperance outside of an unidentified New Vienna saloon, likely during the ca. 1870 Whiskey Crusade. The Temperance movement was an organized effort during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to limit or outlaw the consumption and production of alcoholic beverages in the United States. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04044
Subjects: Temperance--United States--1870-1880; Alcohol; Women--Societies and clubs--Ohio
Places: New Vienna (Ohio); Clinton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Alfretta Ronemus South Vienna, Ohio, ca. 1857, three years after she won the first baby contest held in the United States. The contest took place at the Clark County Fair in Springfield, Ohio on October 5, 1854. Alfretta was ten months old at the time and received a silver tea set for first prize. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00768
Subjects: Clark County (Ohio); Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture
Places: Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: Alfretta Ronemus and her mother took home this engraved tea set as a prize in a baby contest in 1854. It was valued at $300 in 1854, which would be equivalent to approximately $6,000 today. The set consists of eight items, four of which are included here. Many of the items bear the inscription "Presented to ___ by the Clark County Agricultural Society as Premium for being the Finest Baby shown at the Annual Fair - 1854 - ." The first image shows a teapot that measures 18 by 12 inches (46 by 30 cm). The second image shows a cream pitcher that measures 18 by 12 inches (46 by 30 cm). The third image shows a coffee urn that measures 18 by 12 inches (46 by 30 cm). The final image shows a serving tray that measures 11 by 1 inches (27 by 2.5 cm). The first baby contest in the United States took place in Springfield, Ohio at the second annual Clark County Fair on October 5, 1854. The 10-month-old winner, Alfretta Ronemus of South Vienna, Ohio, was picked out of a crowd to enter the contest. Her mother protested that Alfretta was not dressed in suitable clothes for the occasion, but the organizer insisted that she enter the child. Alfretta may have won the first prize because she was dressed in a simple white dress with a black silk jacket, while the other children were decked out in fancy "furbelows." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1490_1534010_001
Subjects: Daily Life; Arts and Entertainment; Teapots; Contests; Prizes
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: Plum Street Temple, now called the Isaac M. Wise temple, is located at 720 Plum Street at the corner of Eighth Street in Cincinnati, Ohio. Designed by architect James Keys Wilson, the first president of the Cincinnati Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, it is one of only two American temples built in the Byzantine-Moorish (or Byzantine-Saracenic) style, a Germanic style that combined Neo-Byzantine with Moorish Revival. The facade was copied from the Leopoldstadter Tempel in Vienna, Austria.. The building, completed in 1866, is one of the oldest synagogues still standing in the United States and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F12_013
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc; Synagogues--Ohio--Cincinnati; Wilson, James Keys, 1828-1894; Wise, Isaac Mayer, 1819-1900
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Pictured is the title page of “Old Papermaking,” a book written by Dard Hunter and published in Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1923. Hunter was a notable printer and papermaker. The title page shows Hunter's bull-and-branch printer's mark. A printer’s mark is a publisher's emblem or trademark, which usually was placed on a book's title page. Hunter added a new branch to his printer's mark whenever he wrote, designed, and printed a new book. Therefore, this mark shows that "Old Papermaking" was Hunter's third book. William Joseph “Dard” Hunter (1883-1966) was born in Steubenville, Ohio, where his father, William Henry Hunter, ran a newspaper business. The elder Hunter was an advocate of hand crafts and also an amateur woodcarver. Dard (a family nickname) learned typesetting at his father's business and the mechanics of papermaking at a paper mill near his home. In 1900 the Hunter family moved to Chillicothe, Ohio, to run another newspaper, and Dard was its artist. In 1904 he moved to East Aurora, New York, to join the Roycrofters, a community of craft workers and artists that was a branch of the Arts and Crafts Movement in the United States. Hunter created designs for books, leather, glass, and metal, and also tried his hand at pottery, jewelry, and furniture. He founded a correspondence school, the Dard Hunter School of Handicrafts. In 1910 he moved to Vienna, where he took courses in lithography, book decoration, and letter design. Afterward he settled in London, where he developed a fascination for papermaking. In 1912 Hunter and his wife, Edith, moved to Marlborough, New York, where he designed and built a water-powered paper mill and designed a distinctive font that bears his same. In 1919 Hunter and his family returned to Chillicothe, where he worked and lived for the rest of this life. He founded Mountain House Press, a letterpress printing studio where he wrote and published 20 books on papermaking. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05959
Subjects: Cultural Ohio--Art and Artists; Hunter, William Joseph, 1883-1966; Papermaking; Printing industry and trade--Ohio; Roycroft Shop
Places: Chillicothe (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: Plum Street Temple, now called the Isaac M. Wise temple, is located at 720 Plum Street at the corner of Eighth Street in Cincinnati, Ohio. Designed by architect James Keys Wilson, the first president of the Cincinnati Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, it is one of only two American temples built in the Byzantine-Moorish (or Byzantine-Saracenic) style, a Germanic style that combined Neo-Byzantine with Moorish Revival. The facade was copied from the Leopoldstadter Tempel in Vienna, Austria.. The building, completed in 1866, is one of the oldest synagogues still standing in the United States and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F09_040
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc; Synagogues--Ohio--Cincinnati; Wilson, James Keys, 1828-1894; Wise, Isaac Mayer, 1819-1900
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Pictured is artist Dard Hunter's watermark, used as a paper specimen of a modern watermark in his book "Old Papermaking" (Chillicothe, Ohio: 1923). A watermark is a design embossed into a piece of paper during its production that is used to identify the paper and its maker. A watermark can be seen when the paper is held up to light. Born William Joseph Hunter (1883-1966) in Steubenville, Ohio, Dard Hunter was a notable printer and papermaker. His father, William Henry Hunter, ran a newspaper business. The elder Hunter was an advocate of hand crafts and also an amateur woodcarver. Dard (a family nickname) learned typesetting at his father's business and the mechanics of papermaking at a paper mill near his home. In 1900 the Hunter family moved to Chillicothe, Ohio, to run another newspaper, and Dard was its staff artist. In 1904 he moved to East Aurora, New York, to join the Roycrofters, a community of craft workers and artists that was a branch of the Arts and Crafts Movement in the United States. Hunter created designs for books, leather, glass, and metal, and also tried his hand at pottery, jewelry, and furniture. He founded a correspondence school, the Dard Hunter School of Handicrafts. In 1910 he moved to Vienna, where he took courses in lithography, book decoration, and letter design. Afterward he settled in London, where he developed a fascination for papermaking. In 1912 Hunter and his wife, Edith, moved to Marlborough, New York, where he designed and built a water-powered paper mill and designed a distinctive font that bears his name. In 1919 Hunter and his family returned to Chillicothe, where he worked and lived for the rest of this life. He founded Mountain House Press, a letterpress printing studio where he wrote and published 20 books on papermaking. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05960
Subjects: Hunter, William Joseph, 1883-1966; Roycroft Shop; Mountain House Press; Arts and crafts movement; Cultural Ohio--Art and Artists; Chillicothe (Ohio);
Places: Chillicothe (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: An illustration from Daniel J Kenny's book, "Illustrated Cincinnati, page 135. This book was published in 1875. The Vienna sausage-man is another well-known charater "Over the Rhine." he is constantly to be met with, and is known by every body. He carries with him a large tin full of sausages, while a small boy by his side bears the bread, the salt, and the pepper... View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F01_008_001
Subjects: Illustrations; Kenny, DJ
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)