Description: Group photograph of six members of the Clinton League, identified as Mrs. Tully, Mrs. Riegel, Mrs. Hampton, Mrs. Campbell, Mrs. Fetsch, and Mrs. Perry. This image was included in a "Memory Book" compiled by Mrs. H. V. Cottrell, historian for the Clinton League (sometimes called the Clinton Welfare League) from 1938-1943. The book shows the development of the Clintonville neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio, and records the history of the League. The Clinton League was a women's group founded in 1912 to promote child welfare and later general welfare in Columbus, but which was based in and primarily focused on the area of Clintonville. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P285_MB1_193
Subjects: Clinton League; Women--Charities
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: A fireman climbs the ladder of a fire truck responding to a fire above Molly McGuire's, a bar and restaurant located at 1596 North High Street in the University District of Columbus, Ohio. The University District includes the small neighborhoods to the east and south of The Ohio State University campus on either side of the High Street corridor. 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_B12F318_01
Subjects: Street photography; University District (Columbus, Ohio); Fire engines & equipment; Fires; Bars (Drinking establishments);
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: The history of this quilt is unknown but its style and construction give clues to its age and purpose. Its importance comes not only from its exquisite workmanship of quilting but it is also an example of adaptive re-use of garments. This quilt was originally a quilted petticoat that would have been worn under a skirt. At the time the petticoat was made, the overskirt was often fashioned to reveal the petticoat. Later the petticoat side seams were undone and the pieces resewn to each other at the hem line. In looking at the piece the waistline seems to be at the top and bottom of the quilt. The quilting pattern has concentric circles throughout the upper portion and fantastic animals of artistic creation, deer, lions, birds/chicken and flowers and vines in the bottom portion. The top is a solid tan (grayish-green) wool fabric and the back has wool fabrics in three different blue and natural stripes, later patched with solid tan wool. The light brown binding is only on the two sides; the top and bottom have no binding (formerly the waist), but one piece has a soft wool strip attached. The batting is wool. Quilting is done in parallel lines throughout. The size is 120cm x 172cm (47 x 67 ½ inches). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3517_6643269_001
Subjects: Ohio Women; Daily life; Quilts
 

Description: This is the fourth Licking County Courthouse and is an example of Second Empire architecture. An iron balustrade surrounds the flagpole on top of the clock tower. The interior includes religious murals, portraits, busts, and stained glass windows of local and national jurists, heroes and presidents. This image shows the building's front and side facades. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F04_263
Subjects: Courthouses; National Register of Historic Places; pediments; mansard roofs; Second Empire
Places: Newark (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio); Courthouse Square
 

Description: This photograph shows the welcome home celebration for Neil Armstrong after NASA mission Gemini 8; Gymnasium of Wapakoneta High School (formerly Blume High). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV_203B2F2_063
Subjects: Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012; Wapakoneta (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works; Celebrations
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Governor David Tod who served as governor from 1862 - 1864. The portrait was likely created after Tod left office. As a Civil War Governor, Tod oversaw the recruitment of troops, established the Ohio Military Agency to aid Ohio soldiers and called up troops to defend the state's borders from attack by the Confederate army. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00723
Subjects: Governors--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio History--State and Local Government
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Color guard of the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry with their regimental colors, ca. 1863-1865. The regiment, composed of soldiers from Ohio, mustered in for Civil War service with the Union Army on June 11, 1861 at Camp Chase, Franklin County, Ohio. They mustered out on July 26, 1865 at Cumberland, Maryland. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01168
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio History--Military Ohio
 

Description: Photograph of the Wooster-Boalt House in Norwalk, Ohio. This building used to be a Presbyterian Female Seminary and is an example of Greek architecture in Ohio. It was built in 1847 and currently serves as a private residence. It was converted into a home by Henry Wooster in 1855, and may also be referred to as the Boalt House. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F11_018
Subjects: Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Architecture, Domestic--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Religion in Ohio; Theological seminaries
Places: Norwalk (Ohio); Huron County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated June 11, 1937, this photograph shows the Carew Tower, looking east on Fifth Street, in Cincinnati, Ohio, one of the tallest buildings in the city, standing at 49 stories at the corner of Vine and West Fifth Streets. The Art Deco style Netherland complex, which included the Netherland Plaza Hotel, the Carew Office Tower, and the Emery Arcade, was designed by architect Walter W. Ahlschlager with contributions from William Delano. The ground level shopping arcade, which served as the main lobby of the complex, spanned the distance of a city block, connecting to the offices on one end and the hotel on the other. Conceived by civic leader John J. Emery, Jr. to revive the downtown area as a city center, the complex took the place of an Emery hotel, an Emery shopping arcade, and a popular department store. The structure was constructed and decorated in a little over a year, and completed in 1931 during the Great Depression. The complex was listed as a National Historic Landmark in 1994. 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_B02F13_007_1
Subjects: Architecture; Downtowns; Skyscrapers; Cincinnati (Ohio); Art Deco
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Located 1241 Elm Street, Over-the-Rhine, Samuel Hannaford's Venetian Gothic music hall in cherry brick was the fourth-largest such building in the United States. Built on the site of a pauper's cemetery, it is reputedly one of the most haunted places in Cincinnati. Music Hall opened for its first performance -- Beethoven's "Eroica" and Gluck's "Alceste" -- May 14, 1878. North and South wings -- Machinery Hall and Art Hall -- were added in 1879. Current home of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Opera, May Festival Chorus, and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. Entered National Register January 26, 1970 (#70000496). Reverse reads: "Music Hall (dedicated in 1878). 'Die Musik Halle' located on Elm and Fourteenth Sts. Taken from 'Cincinnati in Wort und Bild' by Max Burgheim. Cincinnati, Ohio, p. 107." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F12_014_1
Subjects: Music halls--Ohio--Cincinnati; Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Hannaford, Samuel, 1835-1911
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows William Frederick Cody, famously nicknamed "Buffalo Bill" and his troupe from Buffalo Bill's Wild West visiting Dayton, Ohio, in Montgomery County in 1916. A note on the photograph reads "Buffalo Bill and his troupe when they visited N.C.R. in 1916. Wm. Cody (Buffalo Bill) is near the center of front row, and to his left are Col. E.A. Deede, Earl Reeder, Robert Carney and Charles Stout at the extreme right." Buffalo Bill was an American hunter and showman who, after his military service, started a show that traveled across the country called Buffalo Bill's Wild West, featuring other well-known performers, like sharp-shooter Annie Oakley. 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_B09F03_002_001
Subjects: Dayton (Ohio); Buffalo Bill, 1846-1917; Entertainment; Performers; American Indians in Ohio
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Regimental colors of the 78th Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry. Rectangular flag measures 179 cm high by 195 cm wide. Text on flag reads: 78th Ohio. Vet. Vol. Regiment, Infantry. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02039
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865