Description: This photograph depicts men and women working behind their homes in Depression Relief Gardens, which were used by workers during the Great Deprssion to create opportunities for food and work. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B05F87_005
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry; Great Depression
 

Description: Photograph of the left side of "The Roundhouse" painted by Mitchell Jamieson in 1941. The painting is located at the post office in Willard, Ohio in Huron County. Photographed by Connie Girard in 1988. The photo is from the Ohio Post Office Artwork Collection, AV 48. The collection represents thirty murals or plaster reliefs installed in twenty-five Ohio post offices between 1937 and 1943. In 1988, Connie Girard photographed the artwork. Photos were published in the article “Not By Bread Alone, Post Office Art of the New Deal.” Timeline. June-July 1989, p. 2-19 by Gerald Markowitz and Marlene Park. In 1932, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected President he promised Americans a "New Deal" and created public works programs to provide jobs for the millions of unemployed people, including artists. Ten thousand unknown and established artists were commissioned by the government to create murals, paintings, photographs, posters, prints and sculpture. The goal was not only to employ artists, but also to bring fine art into the daily lives of all people. The Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) was funded for six months in 1933 – 1934. The PWAP was succeeded by the Treasury Department’s Section of Painting and Sculpture. Organized in 1934 the Section of Painting and Sculpture operated until 1943. Under the auspices of this organization sixty-six new Ohio post offices received artwork. The majority of the post offices were located in small towns. Post offices were chosen as a location for artwork because, particularly in small towns, they were centers of community activity. Most of the painted murals or murals in plaster relief created are realistic images reflecting the history, common activities or major industries of the communities in which the post offices are located. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: av48_b2_f25_02
Subjects: Post office stations and branches--Ohio--Photographs; Public art--Ohio--Photographs; Public Works of Art Project (United States); New Deal art
Places: Willard (Ohio); Huron County (Ohio)
 

Description: This wooden half-wheel pattern was designed to form a wagon wheel around and is marked "Hbwe.S.S.Cu". View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H73527
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Tools; Wagons
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image is of a spindle back settee made of tiger maple. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8651
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Furniture
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the Miami and Erie Canal in Shelby County, between stations 7367 and 7422. Roads, properties and other landmarks along the route are noted, including the Turtle Creek culvert. 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: BV23170_020
Subjects: Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio
Places: Shelby County (Ohio)
 

Description: Inside view of Ohio Stadium (also known as the "Horseshoe" or the "Shoe" because of its unique horseshoe shape), the football stadium at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1935-1943. Architect Howard Dwight Smith designed the plans for Ohio Stadium, earning him an award from the American Institute of Architects. Ohio Stadium was built in 1922 and is home to the Ohio State Buckeyes football team. The original stadium held 66,000 spectators. With renovations throughout the years, the stadium now has a seating capacity of 102,329. While in this image the south end of the stadium is open, in 2001 permanent stands were added to the south end closing the stadium off. This photograph is one of thousands collected for the Ohio Guide, part of the American Guide Series compiled by the Works Progress Administration from 1935-1942. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02888
Subjects: History of the Ohio State University; Stadiums; Ohio State Buckeyes (Football team); Ohio State University--Sports--History; United States. Works Progress Administration of Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows William Hunt, Jr. in Civil War uniform, ca. 1862. He served in the 17th Independent Battery, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery during the Civil War. He mustered into service for three years on August 16, 1862. He was promoted several times and held the rank of 1st Lieutenant when he mustered out with the battery on August 16, 1865. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03793
Subjects: Soldiers--Ohio; Military Ohio; American Civil War, 1861-1865
 

Description: Broadside advertising the Great Western Sanitary Fair, to be held December 21, 1863, through January 4, 1864, by the Cincinnati Branch of the U.S. Sanitary Commission. The event was held to raise money to help sick and wounded soldiers during the Civil War. The USSC was a private relief organization federally legislated on June 18, 1861, and directed by Frederick Law Olmsted. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05257
Subjects: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- War work; Military Ohio;
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Illustration of a conversation between Ulysses S. Grant and John C. Pemberton after the surrender of Vicksburg published in "Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War" by Alfred H. Guernsey. The Battle of Vicksburg, which lasted from May 1864 to July 4, 1863, resulted in the separation of the Confederate states west of the river from the rest of the Confederacy after General Pemberton surrendered to General Grant. Ulysses S. Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Point Pleasant, Ohio. During the U. S. Civil War, Grant was promoted to the rank of General and granted command of the Union army by President Abraham Lincoln. After the victory of the Union over the Confederacy, Grant's popularity led to his election as the 18th President of the United States in 1868. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04593
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S., 1822-1885; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio--History, Military; Presidents--United States; Generals; Confederate States of America
Places: Vicksburg (Mississippi)
 

Description: This drawing provides an aerial view of Cedar Point amusement park, located on a peninsula along Lake Erie, near Sandusky, Ohio. Major structures on the park grounds include the Breakers Hotel and its interconnected wings (far right); the Coliseum, which featured a large ballroom; the Grand Pavilion (center foreground); and several roller-coasters. In the distance, steamboats are visible at the dock and out on the lake. In the foreground, swimmers are enjoying the water. Cedar Point became a popular beach resort in the late 1870s, when visitors traveled to the peninsula by steamboat from Sandusky. The Grand Pavilion (1888), the oldest building in the park, dates from this era. Promoter George Boeckling formed the Cedar Point Pleasure Resort Company in 1897 and vastly expanded the resort's attractions. During the first decade of the 1900s, he built the lagoons, an amusement circle, and several hotels, including the landmark Breakers in 1905. The Coliseum, opened in 1906, became the centerpiece of the park and hosted many of the famous big bands through the Depression and World War II years. In the late 1950s, Cedar Point began its transformation into a modern amusement park. Today it still is one of the area's major attractions. Cedar Point includes several buildings on the National Register of Historic Places. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06173
Subjects: Cedar Point (Amusement park); Amusement parks; Aerial photographs; Drawings and graphics; Sandusky (Ohio)
Places: Sandusky (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: Frank Seinich, of Tuscarawas County, was electrocuted October 17, 1919, for the murder of Nicholas Chambers, Civil War Veteran. Frank Seinich shot and killed Nicholas Chambers, a 72-year-old Civil War veteran from Plain City, Ohio, who he met on a train traveling through Tuscarawas County on May 7, 1919. The two had supposedly been having an argument about World War I when Seinich fired three shots and killed Chambers. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08109
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Capital punishment
Places: Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: University Hall as seen from the west bank of the Olentangy River looking northwest. The Ohio State University was established in 1870 as the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, a land-grant university. University Hall opened in September 1873 and it was the first building on the campus. In addition to being the first classroom building, it also housed the library, administrative offices, apartments for faculty, dormitory rooms for male students as well as a chapel. In 1968, due to lack of structural integrity, the building was deemed unsafe and everything was moved out of it. It was torn down in 1971. The new University Hall that was completed in 1976 stands in almost the same spot and was designed to look exactly like the original building on the outside. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07745
Subjects: Education, Higher; History of the Ohio State University; Ohio State University. Libraries; Architecture; Historic buildings--Ohio--Columbus
Places: Columbus (Ohio)