Description: This photograph is part of a series of photographs taken by the Ohio Department of Agriculture documenting farms in Ohio. It shows the Buchanan family farmhouse owned by J.L. Buchanan near Sherrodsville, Ohio. Buchanan's farm spanned 200 acres where he raised a herd of Jersey dairy cattle and horses. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA726AV_B01F11_002_1
Subjects: Agriculture; Farmhouses; Rural Life
Places: Sherrodsville (Ohio); Carroll County (Ohio);
 

Description: Protestors gather on the steps of the Ohio Statehouse calling for the return of American troops during the Vietnam War. This photograph was taken for publication in the Columbus Free Press newspaper. The Columbus Free Press began as a bi-weekly publication in Columbus, Ohio, in 1970. An underground newspaper, it replaced the Ohio State University publication The People, Yes. The earliest known issue of the newspaper appeared on January 4, 1971. The newspaper underwent a series of name changes over the decades, with titles including the Columbus Free Press & Cowtown Times (1972-1976), the Columbus Freepress (1976-1992) and The Free Press (1992-1995). The paper, which covered many liberal and progressive causes, was an alternative to mainstream news sources in central Ohio with the slogan “The Other Side of the News.” In 1995, the paper ceased publication briefly before reemerging as a website in early 1996, and returning as a print publication under the Free Press title in the form of a quarterly journal in 1998. Published under various frequencies during the first part of the 21st century, the Free Press again became a nonprofit monthly publication in 2017 with both a print and web presence, published by the Columbus Institute for Contemporary Journalism and operated by a volunteer staff and board. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1301AV_B04F05_02
Subjects: Protests and protestors; Vietnam War (1961-1975); Demonstrations; International relations; Peace;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows John and Annie Glenn likely on their wedding day on April 6, 1943, in New Concord, Ohio. Annie is dressed in white with floral hair accessories and John is dressed in a black and white suit. They sit next to each other and look back to the camera. The John and Annie Glenn collection is comprised of photographs, slides, books and ephemera documenting the career of John Glenn as an astronaut and U.S. Senator. The collection also documents his life with his wife Annie Glenn née Castor, family and friends, such as Robert and Ethel Kennedy and fellow astronauts. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV329_B22F10_01
Subjects: Glenn, John, 1921-2016; Glenn, Annie, 1920-2020; Couples;
Places: New Concord (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio);
 

Description: Tintype photograph of Lenoidas Allen, in uniform, holding a musket. Served with Company F in the 18th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (OVI). The reverse reads "Photographee [sic] by Wm. F. Atherton, Beverly, OH [Ohio]" View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV200_b01_01
Subjects: Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Photographs; United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 18th (1861-1865) Company F
Places: Beverly (Ohio); Washington County (Ohio)
 

Description: Two women caught in the rain while participating in a welfare rights march, ca. 1965-1975. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00143
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio); Ohio History--State and Local Government--Social Welfare
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: 5 ton combination storage battery and trolley locomotive manufactured by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company in Columbus, Ohio, 1914. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00931
Subjects: Mining machinery; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio)
 

Description: Reproduction of a photograph depicting James B. Davis, blacksmith at Buckeye Furnace in Jackson County, Ohio which was built in 1851. Wilbur Stout, former chemist at the Columbus Iron and Steel Company and Ohio's state geologist, researched and collected photographs of blast furnaces in Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01707
Subjects: Jackson County (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Economy--Labor
Places: Jackson County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Columns and doorway, south of Bristolville, Trumbull Co. O., Pub in Warren O. Guide." Caption reads "Ohio Tour #19-A, State 46, District #1. "White House" - North Bristol. Unusual example of the Greek Revival influence in Pioneer architecture. Laminated pilasters on front of this house are distinctly unique." This home, built around 1830, is located on State Route 45 in North Bristol, Ohio. In 1936, the building was photographed and documented by Carl Waite of the Historic American Buildings Survey, and photographs and floor plans can be found with the Library of Congress. This house is one of many Greek Revival style homes built in the area. In 1936, the house was occupied by a Mr. Williams and his family. On July 10, 1800, the government of the Northwest Territory authorized the creation of Trumbull County. It originally was a portion of the Connecticut Western Reserve. The county was named in honor of Connecticut Governor Jonathan Trumbull. Trumbull County is located in northeastern Ohio and covers 616 square miles. The county's eastern border helps form the boundary between Ohio and Pennsylvania. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F11_009_001
Subjects: Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works., Domestic--United States
Places: Bristol Township (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1935-1940, this photograph shows ladies sewing as part of the Butler County Emergency School sewing project. Butler County Emergency School was a Works Progress Administration program at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The photograph's caption reads "Middletown, O.. Sewing Project (white) R.R.I. [Rural Route #I], Middletown, Rolling Mill Park. Teacher, Miss Helen Matson. The main objective in this group is Parent Education, Child Study, and Good Citizenship. This is brought about in a tactful manner after interesting the group in crafts and sewing. All Southern people." The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a government office that hired unemployed Americans to work on various government projects from April 8, 1935 to June 30, 1943. In the first six months that the WPA existed, more than 173, 000 Ohioans, including both men and women, found employment through this program. More than 1, 500 unemployed teachers in Ohio found work through the WPA teaching illiterate adults how to read. In twelve separate counties, primarily in southeastern Ohio, more than twenty-five percent of families had at least one member working for the WPA during the late 1930s. By the end of 1938, these various workers had built or improved 12, 300 miles of roads and streets and constructed 636 public buildings, several hundred bridges, hundreds of athletic fields, and five fish hatcheries. WPA employees made improvements to thousands of more buildings, roads, and parks within Ohio. WPA artists also painted a number of murals in Ohio post offices. 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_B02F04_015_1
Subjects: Quilts; Crocheting; Schools--Ohio; United States. Works Progress Administration of Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Middletown (Ohio); Butler County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads "When Over 100 Lives were Lost" This photograph (ca. 1935-1943) is of an illustration or engraving, most likely from a newspaper, depicting the explosion of the steamboat Moselle, in the Ohio River. On Wednesday April 25, 1838, between 4 and 5 o’clock, the new steamboat Moselle left the wharf in Cincinnati and continued upstream about a mile, for a quick stop in Fulton, to pick up more passengers and freight, even though the boat was already loaded beyond capacity, before continuing to it’s final destination in Louisville and St. Louis. It is estimated that there were approximately 266 passengers on board after the stop in Fulton, a great majority of which were emigrants, of most of them German or Irish. A crowd had gathered to watch the steamboat depart, as it had already gained a celebrity-like reputation of being an extremely fast boat, though she had only made two or three trips thus far. Captain Perrin, anxious to bolster the reputation of the Moselle, collected as much steam as he could, in an attempt to overtake another boat which had just recently departed for the same destination. Onlookers and passengers alike later commented that the steam sounded strange, as the pressure built to unsafe levels. Just as the boat was shoved from the quay, an explosion took place, so great that it was like a “mine of gunpowder” exploding, as all four boilers simultaneously burst. The destruction was horrific, with pieces of boat, freight and bodies thrown into the river and upon the shore. About one hundred and fifty people in were lost that day, whether killed, or ultimately declared missing and one hundred and seventeen people were saved. An investigation later took place, which resulted in stricter regulations regarding freight and passenger capacity, and which declared owners and officers ultimately liable for any and all injuries suffered as a result of safety regulation negligence. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F01_024
Subjects: Steamboats--Ohio River--History; Cincinnati (Ohio)--History
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Bald Knob is a mountain summit in Hamilton County, near Cincinnati. It is 764 feet (232.87 meters) above sea level. The latitude is 39.121726 and the longitude is -84.547444. The nearest city is Fairmount is 0.2 miles away. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F01_048_1
Subjects: Buildings--Ohio--Cincinnati; Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Miami River Parkway --Filling and grading Old Mc.Cook Field,Dayton.Ohio." McCook Field was an airfield and aviation experimentation station operated by the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps and its successor, the United States Army Air Service from 1917-1927. The field was located approximately one mile (1.6 km) north from downtown Dayton, Ohio. Constructed during World War I, it became the location of the Aviation Service's Engineering Division in 1919. Urban growth encroached on the space and larger aircraft being developed overtaxed the field's surface. Ultimately, the field became too small for its purpose. The Army intended to relocate McCook's operations to Langley Field, Virginia, but Dayton's civic leaders did not want to lose this center of innovation and industry. John H. Patterson, President of the National Cash Register Corporation (NCR), began a local campaign to raise money to purchase a tract of land large enough for a new airfield. The land would then be donated to the U.S. Army with the understanding that it would become the permanent home of the Engineering Division. Patterson died in 1922 but his son, Frederick B. Patterson, organized the Dayton Air Service Committee, a coalition of prominent Daytonians and businessmen dedicated to raising the money necessary to purchase land for the Air Service. Their intensive campaign netted $425,000. The Dayton Air Service Committee's offer far exceeded all others, and in August 1924 President Calvin Coolidge accepted Dayton's gift. This facility would later become Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F06_038_001
Subjects: Dayton (Ohio); Airfields
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)