Description: Photograph showing the Archaeology museum of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society at Page Hall, 1908. Formed in 1885 as the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, the organization eventually became known as the Ohio Historical Society and is now called the Ohio History Connection. Originally the society’s collections were held at the Ohio Statehouse in downtown Columbus, but in 1894, they were moved to Orton Hall on the Ohio State campus. The organization and its museum remained on campus, housed first in Page Hall and then in Sullivant Hall, until 1970, when they moved to their present location adjacent to the Ohio State Fairgrounds. As of 2014, Page Hall is home to the John Glenn School of Public Affairs. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC4489_005
Subjects: Ohio State University--History; Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society; Museum exhibits; Archaeology;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Newspaper clipping showing an image of the Como Avenue Methodist Church in Clintonville. This church was built around 1910 and was used by the neighborhood's Methodist congregation until North Broadway Methodist Church was dedicated in 1924. At that point, according to a caption accompanying the photo, the Como site was sold to the Evangelical Church and became the Como Evangelical Church. This image was included in a "Memory Book" compiled by Mrs. H. V. Cottrell, historian for the Clinton League (sometimes called the Clinton Welfare League) from 1938-1943. The book shows the development of the Clintonville neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio, and records the history of the League. The Clinton League was a women's group founded in 1912 to promote child welfare and later general welfare in Columbus, but which was based in and primarily focused on the area of Clintonville. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P285_MB1_028
Subjects: Clintonville (Ohio); Clinton League; Women--Charities; Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Churches--Ohio;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1935-1965, this photograph shows inmates at the Ohio Reformatory for Women working in the corn field on the institution's property. Farming was one of the vocational trades available for 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_F14_001
Subjects: Photography--Ohio; Ohio Reformatory for Women; Prisons; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections; Agriculture
Places: Marysville (Ohio); Union County (Ohio)
 

Description: A large white brick farmhouse sits among a copse of trees along Route 23 south of Columbus, Ohio. Several outbuildings sit behind the farmhouse. 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_B02F033_01
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Street photography; Farms; Farmhouses; Outbuildings; Rural life
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Taken in 1971 by U.S. Army medic Charles Tweel, this photograph shows a sunset over mountains in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. 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_019
Subjects: Vietnam War (1961-1975); United States. Army. Airborne Division, 101st; Landscapes
Places: Vietnam
 

Description: This image shows the side facade of the Fairfield County Courthouse. Although this building, completed in 1872 by architect Jacob Orman, has been replaced by the Fairfield County Hall of Justice as the official building for Probate, Juvenile, and Common Pleas Court, it remained the courthouse until 1975. Currently, this building houses administrative offices, but it has retained its title as Fairfield County Courthouse. The Italianate and Colonial Revival building is made entirely of locally quarried stone View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F02_133
Subjects: Courthouses--Ohio; flat roofs; bays (building divisions); arches; hood moldings; cornices; dentils; cornerstones; Italianate (North American architecture styles)
Places: Lancaster (Ohio); Fairfield County (Ohio); 210 E. Main St.
 

Description: Neil Armstrong coming back to his hometown in Wapakoneta, Ohio after NASA mission Gemini 8. Pictured with wife Janet at press conference at Wapakoneta Fairgrounds just after landing at Allen County Airport. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV_203B2F1_039
Subjects: Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012; Wapakoneta (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of General William Tecumseh Sherman, 1869. Sherman, who rose in rank during the Civil War, was promoted to full general and commander of the United States Army by President Ulysses S. Grant in 1869. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00546
Subjects: Soldiers--Ohio; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Military officers
Places: New York (New York)
 

Description: Lime pulver made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio on display in the factory yard, 1917. The pulver was used to crush limestone into a fine powder which farmers spread on fields to enrich soil and increase crop yield. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01378
Subjects: Crushing machinery; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio)
 

Description: This is an action photograph, cut out, of Cincinnati Reds shortstop Billy Myers. Myers played for the Reds from 1935-1940, and finished his career with the Chicago Cubs in 1941. He was known to be excellent at defense and was recognized as a master at picking up hit-and-runs and stolen base signs from opposing teams. In 1966 he was inducted into the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame. 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_B13F01_032_001
Subjects: Cincinnati Reds (Baseball team)--History--Pictorial works; Baseball; Cincinnati (Ohio); Athletes; Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of an unknown canal in Ohio, believed to be located in Dayton. A sign for Durst Milling Co. appears in the distance. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F06_036
Subjects: Canals--Ohio--Pictorial works; Bridges--Ohio; Bridges--Pictorial works; Canals--Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: This art deco style illustration for “Tours” was not used in The Ohio Guide. It shows a road going through the country, past a rural farm, towards a large city in the horizon. A signature of the artist “Homer Seay” can also be seen. This illustration is a photographic reproduction of a drawing. It is one of a series produced as possible chapter headings for The Ohio Guide. From 1935 to 1942, the Works Progress Administration (WPA), through its Federal Writers' Project created The American Guide Series, which included forty-eight state guides, as well as supplemental guides for large cities, etc. The state guides are divided into three sections. In the first section are general essays about the state on things such as agriculture, culture, history, industry, religion, etc. The second section contains an overview of the various cities and towns around the state, as well as enumerating various points of interest. The last section is dedicated to various tours around the state. The tourist is taken from city to city, with turn by turn directions, and descriptions of what can be seen along the way. While much of the country has grown and changed since the guides were written, it is surprising how much remains, and sometimes more surprising what has been lost. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F16_015
Subjects: Books Chapter-headings; United States. Works Progress Administration of Ohio; Federal Writers' Project. Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Places: Ohio