Description: Photograph of Columbus, Ohio, author Ysabel Rennie posed with a copy of her book "Kingside," from the Columbus Citizen-Journal Collection. Ysabel Fisk Rennie (1918-2006) was born in California, and attended Stanford College and Harvard University. During World War II, she worked as a political analyst and later as an intelligence analyst in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), forerunner of the CIA, from 1943 to 1945. Following the war, she was an officer of the U.S. State Department until 1947. She moved to Columbus with her husband and children in 1951, and was the author of two novels, "The Blue Chip" (1954) and "Kingside" (1963). She became interested in prison conditions and prison reform following the 1968 Ohio State Penitentiary riot, and remained active in this effort, helping to achieve many changes in the Ohio prison system. She published newspaper columns and non-fiction works in addition to her earlier novels, including "The Search for Criminal Man" in 1978. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P339_B11F16_05_01
Subjects: Authors; Ohio Women; Literary Ohio; Prisoners and prisons; Social reformers;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: The present Union County Courthouse was designed in 1883 and is identical to the Henry County Courthouse. The building is positioned in the middle of a large square, and is made of brick and cut stone with galvanized iron trimmings. The tower bells play tunes like "America the Beautiful" every hour. It is Second Empire style. This image shows the front and side facades. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F06_469
Subjects: Courthouses; mansard roofs; towers (building divisions); porticoes; pediments; pilasters; Second Empire
Places: Marysville (Ohio); Union County (Ohio); 5th and Court Streets
 

Description: Lima, Ohio airport; Crowd at return of Neil Armstrong to his hometown of Wapakoneta, Ohio after NASA mission Gemini 8 View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV_203B2F1_008
Subjects: Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012; Wapakoneta (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: Two boys selling newspapers in front of the Ohio Statehouse, ca. 1930. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00497
Subjects: Popular culture
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Rotating screens made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio. Rotating screens were used to sift coal or rock into a variety of sizes. This photograph was taken in the Jeffrey yard in 1908. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01254
Subjects: Machinery industry--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio)
 

Description: Two unidentified men transport what could be steel manufacturing materials at an unknown factory in Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F12_021_1
Subjects: Industries--Ohio; Factories; Business and Labor; Works Progress Administration of Ohio (U.S.)
Places: (Ohio)
 

Description: A WPA art project in Urbana, Ohio depicting World War I era soldiers marching away from a large skull on the horizon. The Federal Art Project (FAP) was the visual arts arm of the Great Depression-era Works Progress Administration. On April 8, 1935, the United States Congress passed the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act, part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, which was hoped would allow Americans to cope with the Great Depression. Creation of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was the most important accomplishment of this Act. This government office hired unemployed Americans to work on various government projects. During its existence, the WPA constructed more than 600,000 miles of roads and built or repaired more than 124,000 bridges, 125,000 public buildings, 8,000 parks, and 850 airport runways. The WPA also included programs to support education and the arts, providing employment opportunities for out of work educators and artists of all varieties. Although the United States Congress reduced funding for the program in 1939, the WPA remained in operation until June 30, 1943. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F09_019_001
Subjects: Murals--1930-1950; Mural painting and decoration--Ohio--Urbana; War propaganda--United States; Federal Art Project; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Urbana (Ohio); Champaign County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "View of Ohio River from Eden Park." Eden Park is located in the Mt. Adams community of Cincinnati. The park began as the designation for the city's water supply, purchased in 1859. However, early on the city saw that the area could also serve the dual purpose of city park. The park area was originally designed by noted landscape architect Adolph Strauch. Eden Park is home to a number of city landmarks and landforms, such as Krohn Conservatory, the Cincinnati Art Museum, Elsinore Arch, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Seasongood Pavilion, the Eden Park Water Tower, Melan Arch Bridge and Mirror Lake. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F12_014_001
Subjects: Ohio River; Parks--Ohio
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows the Doric columns that surround the Ohio Statehouse. The Ohio State Capitol, located at 1 Capitol Square, is a 2 acre building which stands in a 10-acre park bounded by High, Broad, State, and Third Streets, in downtown Columbus. Also known as the Ohio Statehouse, Columbus residents would often take advantage of the wide green lawns by allowing their cows and horses to graze there during the night. Legislative action ended the use of the building for a stable in 1878, but newspaper reports show that they remained through the 1880's. The beauty of the massive limestone structure depends principally upon simplicity and strength, emphasized by a row of Doric columns at each of its four entrances. The dome is the result of a compromise. The original design called for a dome surrounded by a colonnade that would harmonize with the general architecture, but the plan never was carried out because of bickering by legislators over cost and details of construction. The cornerstone was laid in 1839, and although the building was occupied by some State departments in 1857, it was not completed until 1861, 22 years after it was begun. When Henry Walter of Cincinnati was appointed supervising architect in 1839, numerous plans for the building were considered and the one finally adopted was a composite. Both convict and private labor were used, and limestone was hauled from a quarry northwest of Columbus, purchased by the State to ensure enough material, on a railroad especially constructed for that purpose. Delays in securing State appropriations, a severe cholera epidemic, and labor difficulties retarded construction work, which at one time ceased for six years. Before the building was completed, five architects had served during the administrations of 12 governors. It is considered one of the country’s outstanding examples of the Greek Revival style and at the time, it was the second largest building, behind only the United States Capitol building. The total cost of the capitol approximated $1,650,000. An annex, directly east of the capitol and connected with it by a stone terrace, was completed in 1901 at a cost of $450,000. The capitol proper is 504 feet long and 184 feet wide, with 12 – 15 inches thick foundation walls. The annex, 220 feet long and 100 feet wide, conforms architecturally with the main building. A flight of 12 steps from each of the four entrances to the capitol leads to a central rotunda. Offices of the governor and other State officials flank the four marble-floored foyers. Elaborately carved woods, marbles from many lands, and paintings and sculpture by noted American artists adorn the interior. In the center of the inlaid marble floor of the rotunda are 13 blocks, each representing one of the thirteen original States, surrounded by three circles and a sunburst of 32 points, one for each State at the time the marble was laid. One circle represents the unorganized territory at the time the Union was formed; another, the Louisiana Purchase; and the third, the territory acquired in the war with Mexico. A fourth circle, enclosing the sunburst, symbolizes the Constitution. Battle flags of Ohio – many of them shell-torn and bearing other service scars – are displayed in cabinets. Large historical murals by William Mark Young adorn the rotunda and the walls flanking the four main stairways. The rich decorations ascending the dome culminate in an illuminated reproduction, in art glass, of the Great Seal of Ohio. Tablets at the entrances to the rotunda pay tribute to Andrews’ Raiders of the Civil War; to Major General Benson Hough, Ohio soldier and jurist; to soldiers and sailors of the Civil War; and to 51 women leaders in the feminist movement, including several Ohioans. Other tablets commemorate the sesquicentennial (1937) of the Northwest Territory and the founding of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States (1899) in Columbus. Stairways lead from the floor of the rotunda to the Hall of Representatives and the Senate Chamber. At the head of the stairway on the north side stands the Lincoln Memorial, a bust of Lincoln executed by T.D. Jones. Directly to the east is a wall panel showing in relief a group of Union and Confederate officers who participated in the battle of Vicksburg. Outstanding among the capitol’s works of art is a large painting in the east foyer, Battle of Lake Erie, by William H. Powell. A copy of this paining is displayed in the nation’s Capitol. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F13_010
Subjects: Capitol buildings; Memorials--Ohio; Capitol Square District (Columbus, Ohio); Governors--Ohio; Ohio. House of Representatives; Ohio. Senate; Walter, Henry; Sculpture, McKinley, William, 1843-1901
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows the entrance to the Sandusky County Courthouse in Fremont, Ohio. The original portion of the building was constructed in 1844, designed by Cyrus Williams. It is located at 100 North Park Avenue. The building is built of brick and stone and features Grecian style architecture with Doric sandstone columns. In the 1930s, the original 1844 courthouse became the north wing, as an expansion was needed. The expanded central and south section are compatible with the older structure. The white octagonal cupola was moved from the original building to the center of the new structure. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F07_005_1
Subjects: Sandusky County (Ohio); Fremont (Ohio); Courthouses; Government buildings
Places: Fremont (Ohio); Sandusky County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of a portrait of Charles Anderson (1814-1895) who served as Ohio's twenty-seventh governor. Anderson's time as governor was short. He only served from August 29, 1865, until January 8, 1866. Because the Civil War was over by this time, Anderson's time as governor was relatively uneventful. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: R_382-1_Anderson_edit
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government; Ohio -- Governors -- Portraits
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: National colors of the 26th Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry. The flag is largely disintegrated and the only visible marking is the number 26. The flag is not cataloged in this collection. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01912
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry
Places: Ohio