Description: Homer (left) and Margaret (center) Castor, parents of Annie Glenn née Castor, ride in a motorcade during a parade in New Concord, Ohio. On March 3, 1962, the parade celebrated the homecoming of astronaut John Glenn after his successful Friendship 7 flight earlier that year, making him the first American in orbit. The John and Annie Glenn collection is comprised of photographs, slides, books and ephemera documenting the career of John Glenn as an astronaut and U.S. Senator. The collection also documents his life with his wife Annie Glenn née Castor, family and friends, such as Robert and Ethel Kennedy and fellow astronauts. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV329_B01F03_09A
Subjects: Glenn, John, 1921-2016; Parades; Motorcades; Friendship 7 (Spacecraft)
Places: New Concord (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: A photograph of Lincoln's funeral train car stopped at Union Station in Columbus, Ohio on April 29, 1865. Lincoln's casket was moved to the Ohio Statehouse for viewing and later that day brought back to the funeral train in order to continue its journey to Springfield, Illinois. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV83_B01F03_004_001
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Pictorial works
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Banner reads "Welcome Home Neil". Homecoming parade held for astronaut Neil Armstrong in 1969. More than 80,000 supporters greeted Armstrong upon his return to Wapakoneta, Ohio on September 6, 1969. Bob Hope served as marshal for the event, and guests included "Tonight Show" sidekick Ed McMahon, and Dr. Albert Sabin, inventor of the polio vaccine. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV_203B2F5_024
Subjects: Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012; Wapakoneta (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows Form I (first grade) class at the Columbus School for Girls, December 1, 1957. Columbus School for Girls was established in 1898 by Mary Bole Scott and Florence Kelley, a school whose curriculum was specifically designed to prepare young women for college. The original campus was located at 662 East Town Street, but the current campus is located at 65 South Drexel Avenue. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00108
Subjects: Columbus School for Girls (Ohio); Education; Classrooms; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated September 19, 1936, this photograph shows young ladies who are students of the Butler County Emergency School's homemaking class. Butler County Emergency School was a Works Progress Administration program, at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The photograph's caption reads "Butler County Emergency Schools. Elm St., Oxford, Ohio, Mrs. Viola Smith, Teacher. Class in Homemaking- Cooking, Food Values, Meal Planning, Sewing, Quilting, Basketry. This class wrote a play and dramatized it in Stewart High School. From the proceeds they purchased materials to make aprons and dresses so they might learn more about sewing, designing and finishing garments." The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a government office that hired unemployed Americans to work on various government projects from April 8, 1935 to June 30, 1943. In the first six months that the WPA existed, more than 173, 000 Ohioans, including both men and women, found employment through this program. More than 1, 500 unemployed teachers in Ohio found work through the WPA teaching illiterate adults how to read. In twelve separate counties, primarily in southeastern Ohio, more than twenty-five percent of families had at least one member working for the WPA during the late 1930s. By the end of 1938, these various workers had built or improved 12, 300 miles of roads and streets and constructed 636 public buildings, several hundred bridges, hundreds of athletic fields, and five fish hatcheries. WPA employees made improvements to thousands of more buildings, roads, and parks within Ohio. WPA artists also painted a number of murals in Ohio post offices. 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_B02F04_006_1
Subjects: African Americans; Home economics--Ohio; Schools--Ohio; Works Progress Administration; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Oxford (Ohio); Butler County (Ohio)
 

Description: From the sketch by "Farney", this photograph shows Wielert's Saloon at 11408-1410 Vine Street in Cincinnati, Ohio. This saloon was opened in 1873 and became the finest saloon in Cincinnati, as well as the largest. It was opened by Heinrich (Henry) Wielert (1826-1892) who served as a Union Soldier in the Civil War. He was a native of Hanover, Germany. The saloon had a block long beer garden in the rear that had a roof, but was open on the sides. Inside there were busts of German composers and writers along the perimeter. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F01_005_001
Subjects: Saloons; Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated January 8, 1941, this photograph shows the Cary-Bird, a stern-wheel paddle boat, anchored on the Ohio River. A note on the reverse of the photograph reads "A Close-Up of the Cary-Bird; Photography: E.P. Moody- Ohio River- Dist 4.- Cincinnati." 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_B12F02_013_001
Subjects: Steamboats; Ohio River; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "'Leafing Through Pages of the Miami Valley Album' Photo copied by F.W.P., Dayton, Ohio, 4/22/38" This photo was most likely taken from an old issue of the Dayton Daily News. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F06_020_001
Subjects: Horses; Ohio History -- Settlement and Early Statehood; Montgomery County (Ohio); Cities and towns--Ohio;
Places: Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "People at work." These people were taking a break. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F03_021_01
Subjects: Ohio Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration
Places: Ohio
 

Description: This United States flag, 1861-1863, belonged to General Fearing. The red, white and blue flag had 34 stars with a stars and stripes pattern. The dimensions are 135 by 252 cm. It was flown at half mast for General Grant and General Sherman. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H18379_001
Subjects: Textile--cotton; textile--cotton ---wool; Civil War 1861-1865; Flags--Ohio, Civil War, 1861-1865
 

Description: Regimental colors of the 2nd Ohio Infantry Regiment, U.S. Volunteers. Rectangular flag measures 131 cm high by 170 cm wide. Text on flag reads: 2nd OHIO INF. U.S. VOLS. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02212
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; Spanish-American War, 1898
 

Description: The Republic Steel Corporation Collection (MSS 192) consists of 13,000 black and white photographic negatives, 2,000 color photographic negatives, and many 35 mm slides which document Republic Steel Corporation’s main production facilities and its subsidiaries, 1941-1975. This collection also includes images of social events such as company picnics, award banquets, and dances. Founded in 1899, Republic Iron and Steel Company was a steel production company based in Youngstown, Ohio, and the result of a consolidation of 34 steel mills across the United States including the Mahoning Valley’s Brown Bonnell Iron Company, Andrews Brothers and Company, and Mahoning Iron Company. From 1927-1937, Republic Iron and Steel Company expanded its reach by acquiring a number of other companies such as Trumbull Steel Company in Warren, Ohio, and Central Alloy Steel Corporation in Canton, Ohio. With its expansion, Republic Iron and Steel Company became the third largest steel producer in the United States behind United States Steel Corporation and Bethlehem Steel Company, and changed its name to Republic Steel Corporation to reflect its new status. After the outbreak of World War II in 1941, the Corporation’s production increased by 33%. This increased production continued into the 1950s and 1960s as the company continued to be one of the leading developers of steel production technology. Due to a myriad of factors including decreased demand for steel from automobile manufacturers and imported foreign steel, steel sales declined and in 1984 the Republic Steel Corporation was purchased by LTV Corporation, which led to the closure of the Youngstown plant. LTV filed for bankruptcy in December 2000. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: YHC_MSS192_B03F412_001
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)