Description: This photograph shows a group of Zoar villagers posed by the coal shed at the Bauer House, ca. 1890-1899. Led by Joseph Bimeler (sometimes spelled Bäumeler) in 1817, a group of Lutheran separatists left the area of Germany known as Wurttemberg and eventually established the small community of Zoar in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. The community of Zoar was not originally organized as a commune, but its residents had a difficult time surviving in 1818 and early 1819. As a result, on April 19, 1819, the group formed the Society of Separatists of Zoar. Each person donated his or her property to the community as a whole, and in exchange for their work, the society would provide for them. Additional modifications to the society's organization were made in 1824 and a constitution established in 1833. In the decades following the establishment of the Zoar commune, the Separatists experienced economic prosperity. The community was almost entirely self-sufficient and sold any surpluses to the outside world. In addition to agriculture, Zoar residents also worked in a number of industries, including flour mills, textiles, a tin shop, copper, wagon maker, two iron foundries, and several stores. The society also made money by contracting to build a seven-mile stretch of the Ohio and Erie Canal. The canal crossed over Zoar's property, and the society owned several canal boats. The canal traffic also brought other people into the community, who bought Zoar residents' goods. By the second half of the nineteenth century, the community was quite prosperous. After Bimeler's death in 1853, the unity of the village declined, and by 1898 the Zoarites disbanded the society. The remaining residents divided the property, and the community continued to prosper in Zoar. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00834
Subjects: Zoar (Tuscarawas County, Ohio); Society of Separatists of Zoar; Daily life; Small towns; Coal
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This leg-shaped wood pattern was made by hand of poplar View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H73260
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Tools and equipment; Woodworking tools
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Roswell Garst and his wife, Elizabeth, outside their home near Coon Rapids, Iowa, 1959. Nikita Khrushchev, who led the USSR from 1953 until 1964, visited the Garst Farm during his 1959 tour of the United States to look at Garst's new hybrid corn. The trip was viewed as a great help to US-Soviet relations in the midst of Cold War tensions. Joe Munroe's career began in 1939 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He served in the Air Force during World War II and then joined Cincinnati-based Farm Quarterly magazine. Though raised in Detroit, agriculture became an important subject of Joe's photographs. He moved to California in 1955 and free-lanced, taking magazine assignments and selling his own work. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P400_B05_F02_1090_8_5
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Portrait photography; Cold War; Agricultural technologies; Garst & Thomas Hybrid Corn Company;
Places: Coon Rapids (Iowa);
 

Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the Miami and Erie Canal through Lucas County, between stations 421 and 645. Also pictured is the Maumee City Side-cut Canal between stations 0 and 30. Properties, railroads, stations, locks, and other landmarks along the route are noted. The map was created under the direction of the members of the Canal Commission of the state of Ohio and approved by the Chief Engineer of the Department of Public Works (variously referred to as the Board of Public Works and the Division of Public Works). Construction on the Miami and Erie Canal took place between 1825 and 1845, and the finished route connected Cincinnati and Toledo, as well as the Ohio River with Lake Erie. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: BV4923_004
Subjects: Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio;
Places: Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Audrey Wilcke Evans interviews Eleanor Roosevelt for WHIO Radio in Dayton, Ohio, ca. 1941. She was the station's first female radio personality. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02641
Subjects: Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women
Places: Dayton (Ohio)
 

Description: Cyanotype photograph of men posing amid converging railroad tracks, probably in south central Ohio, ca. 1880-1890. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03634
Subjects: Railroads; Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development
 

Description: Cincinnati Industrial Expositions were held between 1870 and 1888 to showcase the products of local business owners and to illustrate Cincinnati's important contributions to culture and technology during the late 1800s. This illustration, ca. 1875, shows a building known as the Music Hall. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04221
Subjects: Business; Ohio Economy--Architecture and Engineering;
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Zint Family Orchestra, ca. 1919. Pictured left to right are Lucille, Beulah, Frederick, Raymond, Kermit, and Arthur Zint. Members of the orchestra are the children of Jacob Christian Zint of Wapakoneta, Ohio, a local businessman who owned a saloon, shoe store, and candy store. Frederick, the eldest sibling, and his wife, Pearl Olsen Zent, performed with an opera company, vaudeville groups and tent and tableau shows until their first child was born in 1927. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05893
Subjects: Popular culture; Entertainers; Musicians; Wapakoneta (Ohio)--Biography--Pictorial works
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: Page one of the book "Twenty East Broad as History Reflects It," published by City National Bank of Columbus, Ohio. This short text tells the history of the building located at 20 E. Broad Street in downtown Columbus, near the intersection of Broad and High Streets. This page includes an illustration looking east on Broad Street from the intersection. Known as the Hayden-Clinton Bank Building, the structure was built in 1869 by industrialist Peter Hayden. Nathan B. Kelley designed the bank building, an example of High Victorian Italianate style. It is on the National Register of Historic Places. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06942
Subjects: Books and reading; Banks and banking; Historic buildings--Ohio--Columbus
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Map showing the route of Ohio's statewide canal system from 1825 to 1913. The two main canals in Ohio were the Miami and Erie Canal, connecting Cincinnati and Toledo, and the Ohio and Erie Canal, connecting Portsmouth and Cleveland. It was published by the Ohio Historical Society in 1969. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07264
Subjects: Canals; Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing flooded streets in Zanesville, Ohio, following the flood of 1913. Also visible in the photograph are the McCaddon Company Printers and Clark Sturtz Bicycles and Repairing. In late March 1913, an unusually heavy rainstorm moved into Ohio. It rained steadily for five days and the water levels rose rapidly. By the third day of the downpour, levees were overtopped and many towns suffered disastrous flooding. When the flood waters receded, tons of mud and debris covered the streets, homes, businesses and factories of towns like Zanesville, where the Muskingum River had crested 27 feet above flood stage and water was 20 feet deep at several downtown intersections. The death toll for the disaster stood at 361, and property damages were well over $100,000,000 and 65,000 were forced to temporarily leave their homes. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P28_B05_F06_6
Subjects: Climate and weather; Floods; Natural disasters; Zanesville (Ohio)
Places: Zanesville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: Pencil sketch of a gown designed by Columbus, Ohio, fashion designer H. Harold Curmode. Curmode was born on July 11, 1928, and moved with his family to Columbus in 1936. He served in the U.S. Army and was discharged in 1952. In 1955, Curmode married Doris Ann Vaughn and began his career as a fashion designer, establishing "The House of Harold." By 1960, he was well-established as a local designer in Columbus, and during the 1970s and early 1980s, he collaborated with several local theatre groups as a costume designer. Curmode died in 1989. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV157_B02F01_001
Subjects: Curmode, Harry Harold, 1928-1989 (Designer); Fashion designers; Clothing and dress
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio);