Description: This bookplate of Maribel Schumaker, dated 1908, portrays what appears to be the library in a private residence. Furnishings include a bookshelf lined with many volumes, a desktop decorated with several volumes, a flower-filled vase, and two masks that symbolize Comedy and Tragedy. Above the bookshelf is a large portrait of a woman and a young child. A window looks out on a street scene that shows a large house and a child pulling a sled. Two owls perched on a tree branch outside the window are peering into the room. A banner with text reads: "Ex Libris Maribel Shumaker 1908." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05723
Subjects: Bookplates; Books and reading
 

Description: An exterior view of the Sunbury Town Hall. The building has stood since 1868. In it's long years of standing the building's functions have been greatly varied, from housing criminals to becoming a financial institution. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06781
Subjects: Historic buildings--Ohio; Historic sites Ohio;
Places: Sunbury (Ohio); Delaware County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Bicentennial barn-painting program was an inexpensive, grassroots marketing campaign that painted the official logo of the Ohio Bicentennial on a highly visible historic barn in each of Ohio's 88 counties. Over 2,000 farmers and landowners submitted their barn descriptions to the committee for consideration. Beginning in 1998, artist Scott Hagan spent five years painting the logos, tailored to every barn's unique character. Typically, the barn owners hosted a celebration at the completion of their barn painting. This photograph is an exterior view of Barn #33, the 33rd barn that Hagan painted, located on Route 3 north of Seville and I-76 in Medina County. The logo has since been painted over. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08543
Subjects: Centennial celebrations; Ohio History--State and Local Government; Barns; Ohio Bicentennial, 2003
Places: Medina County (Ohio)
 

Description: These Ford Tri-motors flew for Island Airlines, the passenger service from Port Clinton to the Lake Erie Islands. Island Airlines got its first Ford Tri-motor in 1946, which flew twice-daily flights between Port Clinton Municipal Airport (now Erie-Ottawa International Airport) and Put-In Bay, Kelleys Island, and Middle Bass and North Bass Islands. The airline eventually operated four Tri-motors, each of which could transport 10 passengers. Island Airlines ceased operations in 1985. The Ohio History of Flight Museum, located at Port Columbus, was the creation of Foster Lane, founder of Lane Aviation in Columbus, Ohio. It opened to the public in 1984 and gained a reputation as one of the top aviation resource centers in the United States. In 1999, its collection (which includes this image) was donated to the Ohio History Center View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1704AV_B02F09_02
Subjects: Aviation; Lake Erie Islands (Ohio); Airplanes; Island Airlines; Transportation--Ohio--History;
Places: Port Clinton (Ohio); Ottawa County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing Michael Dorrian, right, during a campaign event at Mount Vernon Plaza in Columbus, Ohio, taken by photographer Allen Zak for publication in the Columbus Free Press newspaper. Dorrian was campaigning as the Democratic candidate for Columbus mayor. 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_B03F07_05
Subjects: Politicians; Democratic Party; Political campaigns; Ohio History--State and Local Government;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image is of the front facade of the Monroe County Courthouse. When the structure was built, this courthouse housed one of the ten largest clocks in the world at a price of $2,775. This is the county’s fourth courthouse and it has Ionic columns, cut stone, red and yellow brick. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F05_339
Subjects: Courthouses; National Register of Historic Places; pediments; quoins; Neoclassical
Places: Woodsfield (Ohio); Monroe County (Ohio); 101 N. Main St.
 

Description: This photo depicts Neil Armstrong walking past five sheriff's deputies at an event during the homecoming celebration held for him in Wapakoneta, Ohio on September 6, 1969. More than 80, 000 supporters greeted Armstrong upon his return and Bob Hope served as marshal for the event. Guests included sidekick Ed McMahon, and Dr. Albert Sabin, inventor of the polio vaccine. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV_203B2F5_066
Subjects: Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012; Wapakoneta (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: Sap Gatherers, Geauga County, Ohio, ca. 1940-1949. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00346
Subjects: Sap; Ohio Economy--Economy--Labor
Places: Geauga County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio, built this cable car haul for the Beckley Coal and Coke Company, Beckley, West Virginia, ca. 1905. The coal cars were pulled up the incline by a Jeffrey steel rope conveyor beneath the railroad tracks. At the top, the coal in the cars was dumped into railroad coal cars below. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01224
Subjects: Coal mines and mining; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Beckley (West Virginia)
 

Description: The photograph shows workers on a factory assembly line assembling refrigerators. The General Motors Corporation Frigidaire Division Plant No. 1 was located at 300 Taylor St., in Dayton, Ohio, and the assembling plant was located in Moraine, south of Dayton. It was the world's largest producer of electric refrigeration equipment and was Dayton's biggest single industry. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F07_007_1
Subjects: General Motors Corporation. Frigidaire Division, Dayton, Ohio; Refrigerators; Assembly lines; Factories; Industries--Ohio--Dayton
Places: Moraine (Ohio); Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: The United States Industrial Reformatory in Chillicothe, Ohio opened to inmates in January, 1926 after being authorized in 1923. Until 1929 when Congress approved $3,000,000 in funding for permanent buildings, inmates were housed in the repurposed buildings of Camp Sherman, a World War I military training camp. The Camp Sherman quarters included the brick superintendent’s house and a wooden chapel, as well as temporary buildings made up of six dormitories, dining room, kitchen, and auditorium. Prisoner activities consisted of four hours of school daily, viewing movies three times a week, and access to a library and 50 bed hospital. Construction of the new reformatory facilities began in 1928 and was completed in 1936. The new reformatory facilities were to include a receiving building, one inside cell house, two outside cell houses and eight dormitories, as well as a hospital building, mess hall, warehouse, six shops, and a school building and auditorium. In the mid-1930’s a foundry and brick plant opened at the reformatory as part of the Federal Prison Industries (FPI). Items manufactured at the reformatory were sold to the Federal Government. The reformatory is now known as the Chillicothe Correctional Institution. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F11_007_1
Subjects: Chillicothe (Ross County, Ohio)--History; Chillicothe Correctional Institution (Chillicothe, Ohio); Reformatories--Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Chillicothe (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: Located at 5870 Belmont Avenue in the College Hill area of Cincinnati, Ohio, the Peter G. Thomson Home is better known as Laurel Court and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. The Beau Arts Neoclassical style home, completed in 1907, was built for Peter G. Thomson, founder of Champion Paper, and designed by James Gamble Rogers, the nephew of Peter’s wife Laura Gamble Thomson. It was modeled after the Petit Trianon, a “small” chateau on the grounds of the Palace of Versailles in France, and is considered one of the finest homes in America. The exterior is made from chiseled granite and was originally built on twenty three acres, on the highest point in Hamilton County. The Thomson family lived in the home until 1947. Today, the private residence stands on seven and a half acres of land, and the numerous original buildings, gardens, statues and fountains are open for tours and special events by reservation only. Some of the notable features of this home include the retractable roof of the two story Atrium in the center of the house, the Rookwood tiled swimming pool, the African Rosewood tiled Library, and the gilded Music Room. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_b03f03_038_001
Subjects: Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Architecture, Domestic--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc; Thomson, Peter G. (Peter Gibson), 1851-1931; Rogers, James Gamble, 1901-1990; National Register of Historic Places; Music
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)