Description: The flag of West Virginia has a white background with a blue border. The state seal of West Virginia is in the center. The seal shows two men, a farmer and a miner leaning on a rock. On the rock is written: "June 20, 1863", the day the state entered the United States. Above them is a red banner that reads: "State of West Virginia". Surrounding the rest of the seal are rhododendrons, the flower of the state. The dimensions of the flag are 110 by 160 cm and the fabric is wool and nylon. 1860s View on Ohio Memory.
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Subjects: State Flags; Ceremonial artifact; Communication artifacts
Places: West Virginia
 

Description: Carte de visite of Pvt. George B. palmer, who served with Companies E & D of the 2nd West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry. While the regiment was mustered in the then-unofficial region of West Virginia, most of the troopers were recruited from Southern Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV200_b03_f23_04
Subjects: Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Photographs; United States. Army. West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry, 2nd (1861-1865) Company D; United States. Army. West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry, 2nd (1861-1865) Company D
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: This image shows the front facade of the West Virginia State Capitol. This building is the state’s third state capitol and was dedicated in 1932. It has statues of Abraham Lincoln and Stonewall Jackson, and, along with the Holly Grove Mansion and the Governor’s Mansion, comprise the Capitol complex. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F07_548
Subjects: Capitols--West Virginia; National Register of Historic Places; Colonial Revival; Architecture
Places: Charleston (West Virginia); 1900 Kanawha Blvd. E.
 

Description: Official program for the Annual Mid-West Classic, Wilberforce University Bulldogs versus West Virginia State College Yellow Jackets held at Lakin Field Institute in West Virginia on November 24, 1938. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS6_B08F01_03
Subjects: Wilberforce University; Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Sports
Places: West Virginia; Wilberforce (University); Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a picture of a woman lying in bed with a fish bowl on the bedside stand near her head. A marking on the negative reads: "Mrs. Marshall, Freeport, West Virginia." 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: AL03626
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States—History; Women--West Virginia; Photographers--Ohio
Places: Freeport (West Virginia)
 

Description: Photograph of a young boy in a baseball uniform leaning against his baseball bat. The photograph was possibly taken in Cairo, West Virginia. 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: AL04621
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Children--West Virginia; Cultural Ohio--Ohio Sports; Baseball
Places: Cairo (West Virginia)
 

Description: This photograph shows a large group of men gathered for the second annual reunion of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Calhoun County, West Virginia. The reunion occurred on October 9, 1909, in Minorca, West Virginia, a community in Calhoun County. The photograph was taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912. Like most of Ewing's work, it was 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: AV71_b05_f282
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States--History; Fraternal organizations
Places: Minorca (West Virginia)
 

Description: Tintype photograph of Private George Troudner. Troudner served with Battery C of the 1st West Virginia Volunteer Infantry. While the 1st was raised in Huntington, West Virginia, Battery C was recruited from Washington County, Ohio. Battery C was also known as the "Pierpoint Battery." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV200_b02_10
Subjects: Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Photographs; United States. Army. West Virginia Artillery Regiment, 1st (1861-1865) Battery C
Places: Washington County (Ohio); West Virginia
 

Description: Temple of Amusement and Mountain State side by side at portside landing near the base of a stone pier for the railroad bridge over Kanawha River, just above Enterprise Drydock, Pt. Pleasant, West Virginia. Viewed about 100 feet upstream. The Mountain State was a towboat that often traveled with the E.E. Eisenbarth Floating Theatre and Temple of Amusement. Ellsworth Eugene Eisenbarth was born October 22, 1864, in Ironton, Ohio. The family later moved to Wetzel County, West Virginia. By 1889, Eisenbarth was traveling the mid-Atlantic states in "The Oregon Indian Medicine Show" which featured such entertainment as real cowboys and “Indians.” He next bought a floating store, which he refitted as a showboat and christened "The Eisenbarth Wild West & Floating Opera." The endeavor lasted from 1891 to 1895. By the late 1890s, Eisenbarth and his wife Julia had founded "The Eisenbarth & Henderson Mammoth and Combined Uncle Tom’s Cabin Company" complete with calliope, band and orchestra, which also traveled throughout the middle states by rail. In February of 1900, E.E. and Julia converted a glass barge named the E.V. Poke No. 2 into "The Eisenbarth-Henderson Floating Theatre, Temple of Amusement." This showboat and its successor ("The Eisenbarth-Henderson Floating Theatre-The New Great Modern Temple of Amusement")were devoted to bringing Shakespearean plays and other dramas, such as “Human Hearts” to the waterways. Eisenbarth also worked with a traveling company of players, perhaps to remain off the rivers during the winter months. The Temple cleared more money than almost any other boat on the Ohio River, even though it only played four nights a week and never on Sunday. Julia Eisenbarth died on November 30, 1906, and E.E. remarried in 1908 to Jennie Salina Brown. In 1909, he presented his last show on a riverboat, “The Castle.” He sold The Temple showboat to the Needham-Steiner Amusement Company that year, and although he made bids on other boats, these proved unsuccessful and The Temple ended up being his last showboat. E. E. Eisenbarth died on July 17, 1925 and was buried next to his first wife in Williams Cemetery in New Martinsville, West Virginia. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07588
Subjects: Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture; Showboats; Ohio River; Traveling shows; Theater--Ohio; Boats
Places: Kanawha River (West Virginia)
 

Description: Proclamation warning that from November 28 until December 2, 1859, and particularly on December 2, the hanging date of John Brown, strangers who lack proper business in Jefferson County or surrounding counties in Virginia, will be arrested. It also warns citizens of the county to stay in their homes to protect their property, and forbids women and children from attending the execution. John Brown gained national attention when, on October 16, 1859, he led a group of twenty one men on a raid of Harper's Ferry, Virginia (modern-day West Virginia). A federal arsenal was in the town, and Brown hoped to capture the buildings and the weapons stored inside. He then intended to distribute the guns and ammunition to slaves in the region, creating an army of African Americans that would march through the South and force slaveholders to release their slaves. Brown and his men succeeded in capturing the arsenal, but local residents surrounded the buildings, trapping the abolitionists inside. A d View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: ovs2277_1
Subjects: Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) History; John Brown's Raid, 1859; Abolitionists -- Ohio
Places: Harper's Ferry (Virginia); Jefferson County (Virginia)
 

Description: Photographic postcard showing the gravesite of abolitionist John Brown in North Elba, New York, ca. 1905. The postcard is written from "GWB" to "Misses E + K Grand Girard" of Wilmington, Ohio, and is postmarked June 27, 1905. The gravesite and its surrounding property were declared a National Historic Landmark in 1998. Brown gained national attention when, on October 16, 1859, he led a group of twenty one men on a raid of Harper's Ferry, Virginia (modern-day West Virginia). A federal arsenal was in the town, and Brown hoped to capture the buildings and the weapons stored inside. He then intended to distribute the guns and ammunition to slaves in the region, creating an army of African Americans that would march through the South and force slaveholders to release their slaves. Brown and his men succeeded in capturing the arsenal, but local residents surrounded the buildings, trapping the abolitionists inside. A detachment of U.S. Marines arrived and stormed the arsenal on October View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: sc223_09
Subjects: John Brown's Raid, 1859; Abolitionists -- Ohio; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights
Places: North Elba (New York)
 

Description: Two miners using a coal loading machine at the Arkwright Coal Company mine, Morgantown, West Virginia, 1938. This machine was built by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, Columbus, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00920
Subjects: Mining machinery; Ohio Economy--Economy--Labor
Places: Morgantown (West Virginia); Monongalia County (West Virginia)