Description: Advertisement for "The Great Eisenbarth-Henderson Floating Theatre," touting its seating capacity and performances of vaudeville and a drama based on the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. Ellsworth Eugene Eisenbarth was born October 22, 1864, in Ironton, Ohio. The family later moved to Wetzel County, West Virginia. By 1889, Eisenbarth was traveling the mid-Atlantic states in "The Oregon Indian Medicine Show," which featured such entertainment as real cowboys and “Indians.” He next bought a floating store, which he refitted as a showboat and christened "The Eisenbarth Wild West & Floating Opera." The endeavor lasted from 1891 to 1895. By the late 1890s, Eisenbarth and his wife Julia had founded "The Eisenbarth & Henderson Mammoth and Combined Uncle Tom’s Cabin Company," complete with calliope, band and orchestra, which also traveled throughout the middle states by rail. In February of 1900, E.E. and Julia converted a glass barge named the E.V. Poke No. 2 into "The Eisenbarth-Henderson Floating Theatre, Temple of Amusement." This showboat and its successor ("The Eisenbarth-Henderson Floating Theatre-The New Great Modern Temple of Amusement")were devoted to bringing Shakespearean plays and other dramas, such as “Human Hearts” to the waterways. Eisenbarth also worked with a traveling company of players, perhaps to remain off the rivers during the winter months. The Temple cleared more money than almost any other boat on the Ohio River, even though it only played four nights a week and never on Sunday. Julia Eisenbarth died sometime after, and E.E. remarried in 1908 to Jennie Salina Brown. In 1909, he presented his last show on a riverboat, “The Castle.” He sold The Temple showboat to the Needham-Steiner Amusement Company that year, and although he made bids on other boats, these proved unsuccessful and The Temple ended up being his last showboat. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS930AV_B03F1_01_01
Subjects: Popular culture; Showboats; Ohio River; Traveling shows; Theater--Ohio; Posters; Advertisements;
Places: Ohio River; Marietta (Ohio); Washington County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing the kitchen at the Ohio Home for Aged and Infirm Deaf, in Westerville, Ohio, ca. 1953. The Ohio School for the Deaf held its first annual reunion in 1870, and at this time, the OSD Alumni Association decided to build a home for the state's aged deaf, many of whom were living in social isolation in various county infirmaries. Fundraising finally began in 1892, and in 1896, the first residents moved into the new home in Westerville, Ohio. Over the following decades, the Ohio Home for the Aged and Infirm Deaf expanded, eventually including a farm, a men's dormitory and a rest home. After being renamed The Columbus Colony in 1980, the residential community grew to include ten cottages, a modern nursing home, and an apartment complex on adjacent property. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P_262_B01_F03_04
Subjects: Social services--Ohio; Ohio School for the Deaf; Deaf and hard of hearing community; Nursing homes--Ohio
Places: Westerville (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1950-1965, this photograph shows inmates at the Ohio Reformatory for Women in a typing class. 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_F01_002
Subjects: Photography--Ohio; Ohio Reformatory for Women; Prisons; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections; Adult education
Places: Marysville (Ohio); Union County (Ohio)
 

Description: A garbage collector stands in front of his truck, posed for the portrait along North High Street in the Clintonville neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. Garbage collectors remove trash from residential, commercial, and industrial sites, then deliver it to a solid waste treatment facility. This particular type of garbage truck is a rear loader. 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_B13F336_01
Subjects: Street photography; Refuse collection vehicles; Sanitation workers
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Three men and a woman wait on the sidewalk outside of Capitol Travel Service at 150 South High Street in downtown Columbus, Ohio. The man kneeling at left holds a small child in his arms. 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_B06F152_01
Subjects: Street photography; Downtowns; Travel agencies
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Taken in 1971 by U.S. Army medic Charles Tweel, this photograph shows a large, stone arched gateway decorated with sculpture, possibly located at the Hue monument complex, the ruins of the imperial capital established in 1802. 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_B01F09_016
Subjects: Vietnam War (1961-1975); United States. Army. Airborne Division, 101st; Architecture;
Places: Vietnam
 

Description: Photograph showing fields and grounds at Columbus Academy, located on the northeast side of Columbus, Ohio, following flooding in March 1964, from the Columbus Citizen-Journal Collection. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P339_B17F01_09_01
Subjects: Climate and weather; Natural disasters; Schools
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is the front facade of the Crawford County Courthouse. The structure was built in 1854, by architect O.S. Kinney and contractor A.E. Hanckock, but extensive renovations between 1906 and 1908 by architect Harlan Jones significantly updated the building. Prior to this, in 1893, a rear addition designed by J.L. Assenheimer was added. The original brick facade was covered with stone, and an impressive stained glass dome was installed above the courtroom. To the left of the courthouse entrance, there is a statue honoring Colonel William Crawford, a Revolutionary War hero and namesake of the county. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F02_098
Subjects: Courthouses; hip roofs; pillars
Places: Bucyrus (Ohio); Crawford County (Ohio); 112 E. Mansfield St.
 

Description: View of Caldwell, Noble County, Ohio, ca. 1886-1888. This photograph is part of a collection compiled by Henry Howe while researching the 1889 edition of "Historical Collections of Ohio." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00512
Subjects: Noble County (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development
Places: Caldwell (Ohio); Noble County (Ohio)
 

Description: Haul-up chain made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio was used to power the Figure 8 roller coaster located at Olentangy Amusement Park, 1910. Tickets were 5 cents each or 6 for a quarter. The park was located on North High Street along the Olentangy River in Columbus, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01284
Subjects: Amusement parks; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Opening game- Apr. 15--41. Cin. Ball Park- Bleacher window- Western ave." This photograph depicts fans waiting in line to buy their tickets at the bleacher counter outside Crosley Field on Western Avenue in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Reds lost 3-7 in the opening game against the St. Louis Cardinals on April 15, 1941. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F01_016_001
Subjects: Crosley Field (Cincinnati, Ohio)--History--Pictorial works; Cincinnati Reds (Baseball team); St. Louis Cardinals (Baseball team); Baseball--Ohio--Cincinnati; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project.
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated 1937, this photograph shows a La Belle Boulevard covered with water and a portion of the Pennsylvania Railroad in Steubenville, Ohio. The greatest volume of water ever known to pass along Ohio’s southern shores flooded all Ohio River communities during the last two weeks of January 1937. With damage stretching from Pittsburgh to Cairo, Illinois, 1 million were left homeless, with 385 dead and property losses reaching $500 million, further worsened by the fact that it occurred during the Great Depression and just a few years after the Dust Bowl. Crests were 20 to 28 feet above flood stage and 4 to 9 feet above previous records. Six to 12 inches of rain fell in Ohio during January 13-25, 1937, totals never before or since experienced over such a large area of Ohio. January 1937 remains as the wettest month ever recorded in Ohio. 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_B01F17_036_001
Subjects: Ohio River; Floods; Natural disasters; Steubenville (Ohio); Railroads
Places: Steubenville (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)