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 #18, located at 3536 State Route 598 in Crawford County. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08613
Subjects: Centennial celebrations; Ohio History--State and Local Government; Barns; Ohio Bicentennial, 2003
Places: Crawford County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads "Code- F34; Class.- Industry; Ident.- Scene in Strobridge Lithographing Plant; Location- Cincinnati; Credit- Courtesy of Howard Jensen; Caption-; This photo must be returned to Ohio Writers' Project 78 E. Chestnut St. Columbus, O." This photograph depicts workers in the interior of the Strobridge lithographing plant in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Strobridge plant was founded by Elijah Middleton and at one time was one of America's most important lithography firms. They mostly produced circus, theater, and movie posters, but by the time of the Great Depression the company turned to movie posters, becoming one of the pioneers in that area of advertising. Strobridge was sold to the H.S. Crocker printing company in 1961 and 10 years later closed its doors. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F09_012_1
Subjects: Strobridge and Co. Lith.; Lithography--20th Century--History; Advertising layout and typography; Advertising--History; United States.Work Projects Administration (Ohio)
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph was taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912. The negative is very overexposed, obscuring the text on the chalkboard held by two boys at the front. Like most of Ewing's work, it was likely taken in southeastern Ohio or central West Virginia. Born in 1870 in Washington County, Ohio, near Marietta, Ewing most likely began his photography career in the 1890s. The 1910 US Census and a 1912-1913 directory list him as a photographer. A negative signed "Ewing Brothers" and a picture with his younger brother, Frank, indicate that Frank may have joined the business. After 1916, directories list Albert as a salesman. He died in 1934. The Ewing Collection consists of 5,055 glass plate negatives, each individually housed and numbered. Additionally, the collection includes approximately 450 modern contact prints made from the glass plate negatives. Subjects include infants and young children, elderly people, families, school and religious groups, animals and rural scenes. In 1982, the Ohio Historical Society received the collection, still housed in the original dry plate negative boxes purchased by Albert J. Ewing. A selection of the original glass plate negatives were exhibited for the first time in 2013 at the Ohio Historical Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV71_b03_f208
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States--History;
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: This photograph depicts immigrants at an Americanization class conducted by Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company at one of its plant's Community Halls. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B05F74_001
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry; Americanization; Immigration
 

Description: In 1899, plans were announced to replace the Gibson House in Cincinnati with a modern hotel. Finished in 1913, the new Hotel Gibson, later known as the Sheraton-Gibson Hotel, was a Neo-Classical style high rise building designed by architect Gustave W. Drach. Located in the Fountain Square area of downtown Cincinnati, the fifteen story, 1,000 room hotel offered guests an air-conditioned restaurant, a bowling alley, a barber shop, guest rooms and meeting rooms. The building was later torn down to make way for the US Bank Tower/Westin Hotel, built in 1981. Drach was among Cincinnati's most important architects, pioneering the use of steel-reinforced concrete. By 1905, 75,000 square feet of building space drawn by Drach was under construction in Cincinnati. Reverse reads: "The Gibson Hotel of today Cincinnati Ohio" View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F14_011_1
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Drach, Gustave W., 1861-1940.
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Lincoln's hearse standing outside the Ohio Statehouse on April 29, 1865. Reverse reads: "Photo copy of print in collection of Lloyd Ostendorf, 225 Lookout-dr, Dayton, O. The hearse, drawn by six white horses, carried Lincoln's body throught the streets of Columbus. Picture was taken after casket had been taken into State House rotunda. The hearse is standing on High-st [High Street], facing north, near State-st [State Street]." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV83_B01F03_005_001
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Pictorial works; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Funeral
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Montgomery Co.,Dayton,O.1938 ART INSTITUTE FOR OFFICE FILE ONLY DO NOT REMOVE" Founded in a downtown mansion in 1919 as the Dayton Museum of Fine Arts, the museum moved to a newly designed Edward B. Green building in 1930. The DAI was modeled after the Casino in the gardens of the Villa Farnese at Caprarola, and the front hillside stairway after the Italian Renaissance garden stairs at the Villa d'Este, near Rome, and Italy. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F08_006_001
Subjects: Dayton Art Institute; Art museums
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "Cinci., O., Sept. 1937 Fort Washington Monument." In 1789, Fort Washington was built to protect early settlements located in the Symmes Purchase in the Miami Valley of what is now southwestern Ohio. The fort was located in modern-day Cincinnati and protected settlers of that city in its early years. The stockade's walls were two stories high with blockhouses located at each corner. The fort was named in honor of President George Washington. In 1790, Harmar used Fort Washington to launch an expedition against the Miami Indians, whose principal city was Kekionga (modern-day Fort Wayne, Indiana). The fort would serve similar purposes for the remainder of the 1790s until the United States Army abandoned it in 1803. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F02_14_01
Subjects: Fort Washington (Ohio)--Monuments; Cincinnati (Ohio)
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing a collapsed bank diverting water from a canal. The caption beneath the photograph reads: "Bad Bank at Lock 45 South of Toledo, Ohio, Aug. 1916." The attached description located on the back reads: "PHOTOGRAPH No. 49.| WEAK BANK AT LOCK 45, TOLEDO, O.| The bank has been broken and the canal is flooding private thereby causing damage which could be avoided if said bank was replaced." This photograph is part of a series taken by the Board of the Ohio Department of Public Works to document the disrepair of the infrastructure of the Ohio and Erie Canal and Miami-Erie Canal systems in 1916, showing the physical condition of each structure. The Ohio Department of Public Works is one of the oldest departments of state government in continuous existence. Among its other duties, this department was charged with maintenance and administration of the Ohio & Erie and Miami-Erie Canals. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA936AV_B01_049
Subjects: Waterworks; Rivers; Canals; Lakes & ponds; Dams; Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development
Places: Toledo (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of the cornerstone being laid for Cleveland City Hall. Designed in 1907, the building was constructed between 1911 and 1916. Louis Baus, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, was born in 1875. He began his career as a professional photographer doing studio work before becoming a staff photographer for the Cleveland Advocate in 1911. Baus worked for the paper, which was later purchased by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, for thirty-eight years until his death in 1949. He was also an avid collector of historic photographs. The Louis Baus Collection consists of over one thousand photographs mounted in eleven albums, showing historic Cleveland, the village of Zoar and Ohio covered bridges and mills. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P223_B01_A03_215
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government; Cornerstone laying;
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is an image of a manufactured slicer. It is rectangular, gray, made of tin, and has a price of 50 printed on it. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H47977
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Homecoming parade held for astronaut Neil Armstrong in 1969. More than 80,000 supporters greeted Armstrong upon his return to Wapakoneta, Ohio on September 6, 1969. Bob Hope served as marshal for the event, and guests included "Tonight Show" sidekick Ed McMahon, and Dr. Albert Sabin, inventor of the polio vaccine. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV_203B2F5_026
Subjects: Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012; Wapakoneta (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)