Description: This photograph depicts blast furnace equipment in Chicago. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B02F27_017
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry; Blast furnaces--Equipment and supplies
Places: Chicago (Illinois)
 

Description: A photograph of workmen constructing the footbridge superstructure. Design and estimate of costs for two timber footbridges near the shelter building were approved for construction on September 14, 1934. Work on the project started a few days later. Stone and timber were obtained within a mile from the site. Abutment stones were laid in cement mortar. Timber was treated with weather beaten brown creosote stain. Both bridges were completed October 31, 1934. This photo was included in F.E. Whitehouse's, camp superintendent, completion report for Fort Hill State Park, as Project No. 47a, Bridges - Foot. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: 3076_89_15_f47a_03
Subjects: Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); New Deal, 1933-1939; Fort Hill State Memorial (Ohio); Footbridges; Building
Places: Hillsboro (Ohio); Highland County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Yvonne Walker-Taylor with unidentified individuals leaving a church function. Walker-Taylor was the daughter of Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker, the 66th Bishop of the the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the 10th president of Wilberforce University in the 1940s. Walker-Taylor later went on to follow in his footsteps, and became one of the first female African American college president in the United States when she was named president of Wilberforce in 1984. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B05F07_D_5
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Howard University; Wilberforce University; African American Educators; African American women
 

Description: This black iron bevel is a tool used to duplicate and hold angles. The two pieces can be set at a specific angle to each other, and that angle can be used elsewhere. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H73311
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Tools
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is an image of a varnished, walnut cradle decorated with hoops and a knob. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8305
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Furniture
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows an aerial view of the Zoar Garden, located between Third and Fourth Streets. The garden, existing as early as 1829, covered over an acre of ground and features a large Norway spruce at its center, symbolizing eternal life. The geometric layout of the garden symbolized the New Jerusalem described in the Book of Revelation in the Bible. The garden was maintained by the gardener and a number of local boys. Led by Joseph Bimeler (sometimes spelled Bäumeler) in 1817, a group of Lutheran separatists left the area of Germany known as Wurttemberg and eventually established the small community of Zoar in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. The community of Zoar was not originally organized as a commune, but its residents had a difficult time surviving in 1818 and early 1819. As a result, on April 19, 1819, the group formed the Society of Separatists of Zoar. Each person donated his or her property to the community as a whole, and in exchange for their work, the society would provide for them. Additional modifications to the society's organization were made in 1824 and a constitution established in 1833. In the decades following the establishment of the Zoar commune, the Separatists experienced economic prosperity. The community was almost entirely self-sufficient and sold any surpluses to the outside world. In addition to agriculture, Zoar residents also worked in a number of industries, including flour mills, textiles, a tin shop, copper, wagon maker, two iron foundries, and several stores. The society also made money by contracting to build a seven-mile stretch of the Ohio and Erie Canal. The canal crossed over Zoar's property, and the society owned several canal boats. The canal traffic also brought other people into the community, who bought Zoar residents' goods. By the second half of the nineteenth century, the community was quite prosperous. After Bimeler's death in 1853, the unity of the village declined, and by 1898 the Zoarites disbanded the society. The remaining residents divided the property, and the community continued to prosper in Zoar. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P365_B15F2_001
Subjects: Zoar (Tuscarawas County, Ohio); Society of Separatists of Zoar; Communal Societies; Gardens; Aerial photography
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the Miami and Erie Canal through Auglaize County, between stations 6461 and 6516. Roads, properties, and other landmarks along the route are noted. 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: BV23162_020
Subjects: Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio
Places: Auglaize County (Ohio);
 

Description: Photograph of Reverend M. J. Holmes of Cleveland, Ohio. The Ohio Baptist General Association, an organization of African American Baptist churches with its headquarters in Columbus, was founded in 1895 as the Ohio Baptist State Convention and reorganized as the Ohio Baptist General Association in 1919. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P190_B02_01
Subjects: African American Ohioans; American Baptist Church--Clergy; Religion in Ohio
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: The "Spirit of Columbus," an airplane flown by pioneering female pilot Geraldine "Jerrie" Mock of Newark, Ohio, photographed in a hangar at Port Columbus airport in Columbus, Ohio. In 1964 Mock was the first woman to complete a solo flight around the world. Her trip took less than one month to complete and set speed records for planes of this size. The "Spirit of Columbus" is a Cessna 180 model aircraft manufactured by the Cessna Aircraft Company. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02698
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development; Women air pilots--United States; Aircraft; Aviation
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Newark (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio)
 

Description: Children playing on slides and swings at an elementary school playground, Canal Winchester, Ohio, March 14, 1946. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03642
Subjects: Children; Playgrounds; Education
Places: Canal Winchester (Ohio); Fairfield County (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This illustration depicts the moments immediately following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. The scene has a caption underneath, which reads: "THE ASSASSINATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN AT FORD'S THEATRE -- AFTER THE ACT." The image shows John Wilkes Booth running across the stage as the panicked theatre crowd gestures towards him. Lincoln is shown hunched over in a theatre box directly above the stage. The original image appeared in "Illustrated life, services, martyrdom, and funeral of Abraham Lincoln," published circa 1865 by T.B. Peterson & Brothers. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04262
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Presidents--United States; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics;
Places: Washington D.C.
 

Description: This photograph shows a view of residences in Logan, Ohio, during a severe flood in March 1907. More than 4 inches of rain had fallen across the southern third of Ohio during March 12-14, 1907, with the heaviest rain, 5 to 6 inches, in a band from Cincinnati eastward to Athens and Noble County. All rivers flowing southward into the Ohio River reached flood stage during March 14-17, 1907. The Hocking River swept over its banks, causing death and destruction on its way to the Ohio. Logan, Ohio, was one of the communities in its path. The houses in this photograph resemble little islands surrounded by water. The March 14 issue of the Logan Hocking County "Democrat-Sentinel" reported: "The water on the paved street of Gallagher avenue would swim a horse.... Men worked in the water to their arm-pits, rescuing the people from their homes." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05942
Subjects: Floods; Natural disasters;
Places: Logan (Ohio); Hocking County (Ohio)