Description: "They've Got More Important Places To Go Than You!" A 1942 Office of Emergency Management poster encouraging the saving of rubber during World War II. This style of poster was aimed at promoting conservation of resources during World War II by showing civilians how they could contribute to the war effort through their everyday activities. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04790
Subjects: World War II; World War, 1939-1945--War work; Ohio History--Military Ohio; War posters--Ohio
 

Description: A man and woman sit on a rock for their photograph. Another person is visible behind the woman. The emulsion on the glass has been damaged, making part of the photograph difficult to see. 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: AV71_B01_F01
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States--History; Couples
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: This black and white glass plate negative depicts Jim Thorpe running in a pack of runners at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Stands of the college appear in the background. Jim (James Francis) Thorpe was born in 1888 in Oklahoma to Hiram P. and Charlotte Thorpe. Both Hiram and Charlotte were of European and American Indian heritage and Jim was raised in the Sac and Fox tribes. In 1904 he was sent to a boarding school in Carlisle, Pennsylvania for American Indian children. While at Carlisle he played multiple sports, including football, lacrosse, baseball, basketball, and track. He left Carlisle in 1909 and 1910 to play professional baseball with teams in Eastern Carolina League in North Carolina. He returned to Carlisle in 1911 for two successful football seasons. In both 1911 and 1912 he was an All-American halfback for football. In 1912 he became the only person to win gold medals in both the pentathlon and decathlon at the Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden. His Olympic celebrity propelled him a three year contract playing professional baseball for the New York Giants. He also played baseball with the Boston Braves and Cincinnati Reds. However, it was as a professional football player that Thorpe was more successful and strongly tied to Ohio. He was associated with four professional or semi-professional football teams in Ohio as a player and coach: the Canton Bulldogs, the Cleveland Tigers, the Oorang Indians based in LaRue, and the Portsmouth Shoe-Steels. His greatest success was with the Canton Bulldogs, which he led to win national championships in 1915, 1916, 1917 and 1919. From 1922-1923 he was a player and coach for the Oorang Indians, a National Football League team comprised of all native players. The majority of the Oorang Indians team members, like Thorpe, had played at Carlisle. The team owner, Robert Lingo, used the team and Thorpes celebrity to advertise his Oorang Kennels Company, particularly his Airedale terriers. Thorpe played another season with the Bulldogs in 1926 and then went to Portsmouth as a player-coach for the semi-professional Portsmouth Shoe-Steels in 1927. This was Thorpes last athletic job. During the 1930s and 1940s he worked a variety of jobs until he died of a heart attack in 1953. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV235_1_1
Subjects: Thorpe, Jim, 1887-1953; Carlisle Indian Industrial School; School sports
Places: Carlisle (Pennsylvania); Cumberland County (Pennsylvania)
 

Description: A portrait of George A. Custer. George Armstrong Custer was born in New Rumley, Ohio on December 5, 1839. He spent much of his youth with his half-sister in Monroe, Michigan. In 1858, he was admitted to West Point, where he graduated last in his class. During the Civil War, he served as an aid to General George McClellan. He was moved up the ranks, finally becoming a temporary Brevet Brigadiar General, but returning to Captain after the war. On February 9, 1864, he married Elizabeth Clift Bacon. They had no children. Custer died at the Battle of Little Bighorn in Little Bighorn, Montana on June 25, 1876. He was initially buried on the battlefield, but his body was later removed to the cemetery at West Point. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06559
Subjects: Custer, George Armstrong, 1839-1876; Portraits
Places: New Rumley (Ohio); Harrison County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dewey Emory identification photograph from the files of the Republic Steel Corporation, Central Alloy District. The Central Alloy District consisted of two plants: one in Canton, Ohio, and one in Massillon, Ohio. Identification photographs were taken over a period of time and logged into the files as one batch on June 3, 1942. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: YHC_MSS192_B01F071A_03
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Republic Steel Corporation -- Employees
Places: Ohio
 

Description: This is an image of a round, white plate. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8047
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Dishes (vessels)
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: 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: AV71_b01_f65
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States--History
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: The Hancock County Courthouse was designed by architects Frank Weary and George Washington Kramer from 1885-1888 who included in their design stained-glass windows, black walnut trim, Maine marble, granite columns and an open rotunda. A commemorative statue of John Hancock is on top of the clock tower. This image shows the building's rear facade. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F03_191
Subjects: Courthouses; National Register of Historic Places;
Places: Findlay (Ohio); Hancock County (Ohio); 300 S. Main St.
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Old fashioned sorghum mill Southern Ohio People at work" View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F08_019_001
Subjects: Sorghum; Horses
Places: Ohio
 

Description: This 5" x 7" (12.7 by 17.8 cm) photograph depicts two blacksmiths at work at the Knowles, Taylor, and Knowles pottery in East Liverpool, Ohio. W. Knowles opened a small pottery in East Liverpool in 1854. In 1870, John Taylor and Homer S. Knowles joined the company. The operation expanded during the next two decades. By the 1880s, Knowles, Taylor and Knowles was producing translucent china. By 1890, the company was the largest manufacturer of white granite plain and decorative ware in the nation. The factory closed in 1931. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1539_1507411_001
Subjects: Business and labor; Pottery industry; Ceramics industry; Potteries; Blacksmithing;
Places: East Liverpool (Ohio); Columbiana County (Ohio); Crooksville (Ohio); Perry County (Ohio)
 

Description: Construction of blast furnace at Republic Steel in Warren, Ohio 1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0012_B04F08_005
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel Industry; Blast furnaces--Equipment and supplies; Blast furnaces--Design and construction; Steel industry and trade--Youngstown (Ohio); Blast furnaces--United States
Places: Warren (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio)
 

Description: Steelworkers tapping a furnace at the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company's Campbell Works' cast house, ca. 1910-1919. Workers may tap a furnace four to five times a day. The number of people needed to tap a blast furnace varied by what type of equipment the workers used. Usually they used a small air-operated drill, but if the drill did not work, the workers tapped the furnace by hand. Other times the workers had to poke open the tap hole to unclog it if it stopped. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05607
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Economy--Business; Steel industry and trade--Ohio--Youngstown--History; Blast furnaces; Factories
Places: East Youngstown (Ohio); Campbell (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)