Description: Farmer taking a refreshing drink while harvesting in central Iowa, photographed by Joe Munroe, 1950. A second source identifies the image as a cowboy taking a drink in Arizona in 1965. Farmers were slow to see the prosperity of postwar American as the price for agricultural products remained low on the cost-of-living index. Such farmers only saw about 3 cents from a two dollar box of cereal. 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_B04_F16_002
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Farm life; Family farms; Harvesting
Places: Arizona; Iowa
 

Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the route of the Columbus feeder canal and the Ohio and Erie Canal in Columbus, Ohio. Also noted is the Scioto River, the state arsenal and Fish Stone Works, among other properties along the canal route. Property owners listed include William Moneypeny, Samuel Parson, Conrad Born, William B. Hayden, and George Kanmacher. The map was created under the direction of the members of the Canal Commission of the state of Ohio and approved by the Cheif Engineer of the Department of Public Works (variously referred to as the Board of Public Works and the Division of Public Works). The Ohio and Erie Canal was constructed between 1825 and 1832, eventually connecting Cleveland and Lake Erie with Portsmouth and the Ohio River. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: BV4916_001
Subjects: Maps; Ohio and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio; Rivers--Ohio; Columbus (Ohio)--History--19th century
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: National colors of the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Text on flag reads: 23rd Regt. Ohio Vol[unteers]. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01908
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio History--Military Ohio
 

Description: Photograph of Battery H, 1st Ohio Light Artillery, U.S. Volunteers on ship, ca. 1898. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03357
Subjects: Soldiers--Ohio; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Mexican-American War, 1898
 

Description: "7th War Loan, Now...All Together," a 1945 War Finance Division poster promoting financial support of the war effort through the purchase of government war bonds and stamps. The image shows the scene captured in the iconic photograph "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima," which is also the basis for the Marine Corps War Memorial outside of Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04811
Subjects: World War II; World War, 1939-1945--War work; Ohio History--Military Ohio; War posters--Ohio
 

Description: This portrait depicts Ezekial Walker (1802-1883) of Cincinnati, Ohio, ca. 1870-1879. He is described as "a lawyer and money broker, a civic worker, a promoter of art, a maker of violins, a philosopher in a school of his own and in his later years a recluse." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06976
Subjects: Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood; Lawyers--Ohio
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Illustration of Market Street in Steubenville, Ohio, from "Historical Collections of Ohio," by Henry Howe, 1847. Bezaleel Wells founded Steubenville on the ruins of Fort Steuben in 1797, within the area known as the Seven Ranges in southeastern Ohio. Steubenville is the county seat of Jefferson County. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04042
Subjects: Steubenville (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development; Cities and towns
Places: Steubenville (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: This bookplate of Ophelia Fowler Duhme (dated 1854) shows a corner of a reading room or study with a frame. The owner's name and the date are inscribed on a drapery that hangs from the upper right corner. A desk and lamp are visible in the middle ground, in front of a bookcase. In the foreground are two cherubic infants busy reading and writing. Between them is a crest bearing Duhme's monogramed initials. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05715
Subjects: Bookplates; Books and reading
 

Description: This image shows an Interurban Electric Railway station in downtown Columbus. Stations like this were the places where people would go to travel to other neighborhoods with a degree of convenience and a much lower price than other forms of transportation. They remained popular until the invention of another practical form of transportation that rapidly took hold, the first modern cars. Eventually this particular form of transportation was overtaken and put out of business. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06773
Subjects: Railroad stations Ohio; Railroad terminals--Ohio; Transportation--Ohio--History
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Ohio
 

Description: This image shows inmates at the Ohio Reformatory for Women producing Ohio and American flags as part of their vocational training. In 1911, the Ohio General Assembly authorized the establishment of a separate women’s penal institution which opened on September 1, 1916, as the Ohio Reformatory for Women 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. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA2002AV_B03_00189_008
Subjects: Ohio Reformatory for Women; Correctional institutions; Prisoners; Flags
Places: Marysville (Ohio); Union County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing the Chippewa Falls Bridge on Route 84 in Brecksville, Ohio, under construction ca. 1932. The bridge crossing Chippewa Creek was designed by D. Henry Overman for the Ohio Department of Highways. This photograph was collected in the D. Henry Overman Bridge Collection, which documents the career of Overman, a native of Waverly, Ohio, and a resident of Columbus. He graduated from The Ohio State University in 1923 with a degree in civil engineering. Overman joined the Ohio Department of Highways (now the Ohio Department of Transportation) on June 10, 1918, where he was employed until his retirement in 1964, serving as assistant chief for the Bureau of Bridges for nine years, and as the chief of the Bureau for his last eight years on the job. During his approximately 45 year career, Overman designed a number of bridges in Ohio, including the stone-faced bridge over the Scioto River at Routes 161 and 33 in Dublin, and the Lorain Avenue Viaduct, a steel bridge in Cleveland. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV184_B01F03_01
Subjects: Bridges; Engineering; Ohio Department of Highways; Transportation--Ohio--History
Places: Brecksville (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Morgan County courthouse was completed in 1858 by architect William Johnson. Though originally a Greek Revival style facade, repairs over the years have incorporated elements of the Second Empire style such as a bracketed cornice and clock tower. This image shows the building's front facade. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F05_354
Subjects: Courthouses
Places: McConnelsville (Ohio); Morgan County (Ohio); 19 E. Main St.