Description: 1956 Malabar Farm calendar which includes small calendar pages and substantial essays on various themes in conservation agriculture, soil science and mid-century agriculture, written by Malabar Farm denizen and prominent farm writer Louis Bromfield. The Friends of the Land Collection (1930-1960) contains the papers of the Friends of the Land (1940-1959), a prominent national soil conservation education organization headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. FOTL produced an international literary arts quarterly, THE LAND (edited by New Deal agriculture writer Russell Lord) in addition to several members' only publications (LAND LETTER) and informational pamphlets. They also hosted annual conferences; ran conservation tours, teacher training labs, and workshops; and operated as a national clearinghouse for conservation information. Ohio farmer and novelist Louis Bromfield was active in the organization. Much of the collection reflects the career and interests of FOTL Executive Secretary Ollie Fink, who was a prominent conservation education pioneer in Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Page1
Subjects: Conservation education; Bromfield, Louis (1896-1956); Agriculture; Soil science; Malabar Farm
Places: Mansfield (Ohio); Richland County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1935-1965, this photograph shows Mrs. Mary Bishop on the left, Mrs. Conklin Jackson on the right, and four inmates canning produce in the Ohio Reformatory for Women 's cannery. Food preparation was one of the vocational trades available to the inmates at the Reformatory. In 1911, the Ohio General Assembly authorized the establishment of a separate women’s penal institution. On September 1, 1916, the Ohio Reformatory for Women opened in Marysville, Ohio, with a population of 34 inmates. When Marguerite Reilley was appointed superintendent of the Reformatory in 1935, she found dirty and unkempt inmates with excessively restricted living habits. She instituted the “human being” program which provided recreation, entertainment, jobs, and vocational training for the inmates. State Archived Series 1679 AV consists of 234 photographs which illustrate daily life in the Ohio Reformatory for Women, as well as photographs of the buildings and grounds, superintendents Marguerite Reilley and Martha Wheeler, and notorious inmate Velma West. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1679AV_B01_F15_003
Subjects: Photography--Ohio; Ohio Reformatory for Women; Prisons; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections; Cooking; Canning and preserving
Places: Marysville (Ohio); Union County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows (from left to right) James Rhodes, Nancy Campbell, an unidentified man, and a certain Kaltenbach, with Nancy's Junior Division Champion barrow at the 1968 Ohio State Fair. Another photograph of Nancy and her junior champion in this collection accompanies a news release issued by the Ohio Expositions Center which reads "Nancy Campbell of Washington C.H. [Court House] is the proud owner of the 1968 Ohio State Fair Grand Champion barrow in the Junior Division. 'Ralph'--the 220-pound champion--is Nancy's first 4-H project. She is a member of the Livestock Lads and Lassies 4-H Club. Nancy's parents are Mr. and Mrs. Harry Campbell." The Ohio State Fair is an annual exhibition held at the Ohio Expo Center in Columbus that showcases Ohio farming and commercial products and achievements. In the 1840s, farmers began to join agricultural organizations, and the state of Ohio began to take an interest in the challenges that farmers faced. As a result, the state government created the Board of Agriculture in 1846. The Board of Agriculture planned to hold the first statewide fair in 1849, but a cholera epidemic forced the fair's cancellation. The first Ohio State Fair was held the next year instead. The city of Cincinnati hosted the fair in 1850, which went on for three days. Ultimately, the Board decided that the state capital should be the permanent site for the state fair, and it moved to Columbus in 1874. By the 1870s, the state's railroad system had improved significantly, and it was much easier to travel from all parts of the state. The current fairgrounds, known today as the Ohio Expo Center, were completed in 1886. The Ohio State Fair has been held at these fairgrounds ever since. This photograph is part of the Ohio Expositions Commission Photograph Collection, a series of black and white photographs, the majority of which were taken between 1955-1968, which consist of livestock at fairs, primarily horses, and documents many types of State Fair activities, especially horsemanship and livestock activities. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA768AV_B01F03_002
Subjects: Ohio State Fair; Expositions and fairs; Livestock; Prizes; Swine; Agriculture
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: A woman wearing eyeglasses, a scarf, and a flowered coat crosses the street in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Other pedestrians walk past local businesses advertising fine foods, liquor, and jewelry. 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_B04F112_01
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Street photography; Downtowns; Pedestrians; Signs and signboards
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Taken in 1971 by U.S. Army medic Charles Tweel, this photograph shows a fellow medic walking off in search of a good bathroom spot. This photograph is part of the Charles Tweel Collection (AV 324) at the Ohio History Connection. Charles Tweel grew up in Columbus, Ohio, and attended The Ohio State University. After graduation in 1968, he enlisted in the U.S. Army as a non-combatant, first training as a medic at Fort Sam Huston, followed by nine months of additional training at Valley Forge General Hospital in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. He finished his training as a Specialist 3 and 91C, MOS, and went on to serve in Bamberg, Germany, with combat engineers for one year. In January 1971, Tweel served in Vietnam with the Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion (Air Mobile), 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, based out of Camp Evans near Phu Bai, north of Hue, until December of that year. Tweel spent most of his service on various firebases as the medic in charge, and occasionally shared firebases with South Vietnamese soldiers. He also visited MedCAP stations (Medical Civic Action Programs) where he treated civilians. Tweel received the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious achievement, and was promoted to Specialist 5 in 1971. After discharge from the Army, he went to medical school and was in private practice as a family practitioner from 1979-2016, and now works part-time in inner city medical clinics in Columbus, Ohio, and Charleston, South Carolina. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV324_B02F12_008
Subjects: Vietnam War (1961-1975); United States. Army. Airborne Division, 101st; Health and hygiene; Military life
Places: Vietnam
 

Description: Three slides showing visitors to the Toledo Zoo were taken in July 1968. The first photograph shows a group of visitors feeding goats. A man and child playing with a wagon are in the second photograph, while the third photograph shows zoo staff presenting reptiles to visitors. The slides measure 2" x 2" (5.08 x 5.08 cm). The Toledo Zoological Gardens was created in 1900, when a woodchuck was donated to the Toledo Parks Board. By 1999, the zoo had grown to include the first-ever Hippoquarium and exhibits focusing on the African Savanna and the Kingdom of the Apes. In 1999, the zoo attracted more than a million visitors. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3056_3656332_001
Subjects: Arts and Entertainment; Plants and Animals; Zoos; Goats; Carts & wagons; Reptiles; Snakes
Places: Toledo (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows the front facade of the Erie County Courthouse. The original courthouse was completed in 1874 in the Second Empire style with a mansard roof and imposing corner towers. During the 1930s funds from the Works Progress Administration funds were used to remodel the courthouse into the popular Art Deco style of the time. The mansard roof and ornamentation were removed in favor of the smooth limestone facade it presently has. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F02_128
Subjects: Courthouses--Ohio; arches; clock towers; Second Empire; Art Deco
Places: Sandusky (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio); 323 Columbus Ave.
 

Description: Parade down Auglaize Street celebrating Neil Armstrong coming back to his hometown Wapakoneta, Ohio after NASA mission Gemini 8. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV_203B2F1_048
Subjects: Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012; Wapakoneta (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: A black and white drawing called “Lincoln and the Contraband” by artist, J. L. G. Ferris. The drawing depicts Abraham Lincoln greeted several liberated slaves in front of the White House. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV83_B01F12_005
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Pictorial works
 

Description: Grave stone of sharpshooter Annie Oakley in Brock Cemetery, Darke County, Ohio, August 15, 1938. Phoebe Anne Mozee (also Mosey, Moses), better known as Annie Oakley, was a famous sharpshooter and women's rights advocate in the late 19th and early 20th century. Born August 13, 1860, in Darke County, Ohio, Annie Oakley showed skill with firearms from an early age, using profits earned from the sale of wild game she killed to pay off her parents' mortage. In 1875, she won a shooting contest against marksman Frank E. Butler in Cincinnati, Ohio, who convinced her to travel and perform with him. Oakley and Butler later married. The two performed in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show where Oakley remained until 1901, traveling across the country and to Europe with the show, where Annie Oakley famously shot a cigarette from between German Crown Prince Wilhelm's fingers. She emerged as the first female American superstar and advocated women's rights to join the army and serve in active combat situations. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00551
Subjects: Cemeteries--Ohio; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Arts and Entertainment; Circus; Oakley, Annie, 1860-1926; Ohio History; Ohio Women; Sharpshooting; Shooters of firearms; Women's rights
Places: Darke County (Ohio)
 

Description: These "miners" are sitting in front of a coal loader made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio. This photograph of a mine scene was staged inside the Jeffrey plant and used for advertising, 1918. The two men on the right are Jeffrey advertising spokesmen, "Skinny" and Bill. The background is painted to look like the interior of a coal mine. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01384
Subjects: Machinery industry--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Motor boat race." This is a photo of a motor boat race most likely on the Ohio River near Cincinnati, Ohio. There are four boats neck and neck and a very large crowd watching from the shore. There is also a Queen City Yacht Club boat docked on the side of the river with people gathered on and around the boat. Motorboat racing was first acknowledged as a sport in 1904 when a race took place from England to France. In the United States, the American Power Boat Association was formed during the same time. The sport gained popularity over the next few years in the United States, with 10 races being scheduled during the 1917 season. Growth of the sport slowed down during World War I and World War II but began to grow again rapidly in the 1950s and 1960s. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F01_037_001
Subjects: Motorboat racing--Pictorial works; Ohio River--History; Motorboats; Cincinnati--Clubs; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project.
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)