Description: A photograph taken by Joe Munroe of ""Hearst Castle"" in California. The home was built by newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst in 1919, on the Hearst's expansive ranch. It was designed by Julia Morgan and is a favorite of many celebrity guests. Joe Munroe's career began in 1939 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He served in the Air Force during World War II and then joined Cincinnati-based Farm Quarterly magazine. Though raised in Detroit, agriculture became an important subject of Joe's photographs. He moved to California in 1955 and free-lanced, taking magazine assignments and selling his own work. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P400_B33_F2400_JPG243
Subjects: Joe Munroe; National Register of Historic Places; Hearst, William Randolph, 1863-1951--Homes & haunts--California--San Simeon; Mansions
Places: San Simeon (California)
 

Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the Hocking Canal through Hocking County and past the community of Haydenville, between stations 1778 and 1887. Public roads, railroads, stations, locks, and other landmarks along the route are also 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 began on the Hocking Canal in 1831 and was completed in 1843, connecting Athens and Carroll and running roughly parallel in sections to the Hocking River. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: BV4922_006
Subjects: Hocking Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio;
Places: Haydenville (Ohio); Hocking County (Ohio);
 

Description: This reproduction of a photograph depicts members of the family of John Klassen boarding the train to immigrate from the Ukraine to Ohio in 1923. The Klassen family settled in Bluffton, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02637
Subjects: Immigrants--Ohio; Multicultural Ohio--Ethnic Communities
Places: Chortiza (Ukraine)
 

Description: This is a right profile view of the wedding dress and poke hat worn by Anne Catherine Spurck on July 4, 1817, in Chillicothe, Ohio. Made of oyster white-colored silk and taffeta, the dress features an empire waist with a drawstring at the back and a paneled bodice on the front. A cream silk figured poke hat with ribbons accompanies the dress. Anne Catherine Spurck (1798-1879) married Peter Dittoe (1793-1868), and the couple is buried at Holy Trinity Cemetery in Somerset, Ohio. This dress was featured in an exhibition titled Fashion on the Ohio Frontier 1790-1840 at the Kent State University Museum in Kent, Ohio View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05012
Subjects: Wedding costume; Women; Clothing and dress; Hats; Dresses
Places: Chillicothe (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: Established in 1861, Camp Dennison was a military recruiting and training camp for the Union Army during the Civil War. Named for Ohio Governor William Dennison, it was located near Cincinnati, Ohio. Camp Dennison encompassed more than five hundred acres of land, and housed more than fifty thousand men who passed through the camp during the Civil War. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04217
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Military training
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows the groundbreaking ceremony at the site of the future American Union Insurance (AIU) Citadel building, Columbus, Ohio. The ceremony took place on September 23, 1924. Among the dignitaries present were John J. Lentz (1856-1931), AIU founder and former Congressman, and James J. Thomas, mayor of Columbus. A few years after building's formal dedication in 1927, AIU was in serious financial straits. The stock market crash and cost overruns incurred during the Citadel's construction led AIU to declare bankruptcy in 1935. Businessmen Leslie LeVeque of Columbus and John Lincoln of Cleveland bought the building, which became known as the Lincoln-Leveque Tower. In 1977 its name was changed officially to the LeVeque Tower. One of the city's most famous architectural landmarks, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. Lentz was born in Belmont County, Ohio, and graduated from Columbia Law School in 1883. That same year he was admitted to the bar in Columbus, Ohio. He founded AIU in 1894 and served two terms as U.S. Representative from Ohio's 12th Congressional District (1897 to 1901). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06938
Subjects: American Insurance Union Citadel; Leveque Tower (Columbus, Ohio); Construction industry; Lentz, John Jacob, 1856-1931; Columbus (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Architecture
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Ohio
 

Description: The Mather Mansion in Cleveland, Ohio. Now named University Hall, it is on the campus of Cleveland State University. The mansion, with 45 rooms, was completed in 1910 and belonged to the Samuel Mather family. He was an iron ore shipping magnate. It is on the Euclid Avenue in the Millionaire's Row. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07259
Subjects: Mansions; Iron industry
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph showing floodwaters covering homes in Zanesville, Ohio, following the flood of 1913. In late March 1913, an unusually heavy rainstorm moved into Ohio. It rained steadily for five days and the water levels rose rapidly. By the third day of the downpour, levees were over-topped and many towns suffered disastrous flooding. When the flood waters receded, tons of mud and debris covered the streets, homes, businesses and factories of towns like Zanesville, where the Muskingum River had crested 27 feet above flood stage and water was 20 feet deep at several downtown intersections. The death toll for the disaster stood at 361, and property damages were well over $100,000,000 and 65,000 were forced to temporarily leave their homes. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P28_B05_F06_2
Subjects: Climate and weather; Floods; Natural disasters;
Places: Zanesville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: A black-and-white 8 x 10 photographic print of Columbus, Ohio, fashion designer H. Harold Curmode working on one of his designs at 1678 Woodland Avenue. Curmode liked to do most of his sewing on the floor as seen in this photograph. He is putting the finishing touches on the hem of a formal coat which was designed to convert from a double-breasted coat to a tuxedo-style. Curmode believed in the versatility of clothing and became known for his multi-piece, interchangeable outfits. Curmode was born on July 11, 1928, and moved with his family to Columbus in 1936. He served in the U.S. Army and was discharged in 1952. In 1955, Curmode married Doris Ann Vaughn and began his career as a fashion designer, establishing "The House of Harold." By 1960, he was well-established as a local designer in Columbus, and during the 1970s and early 1980s, he collaborated with several local theatre groups as a costume designer. Curmode died in 1989. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV157_B01F04_002
Subjects: Curmode, Harry Harold, 1928-1989 (Designer); Fashion designers; Clothing and dress;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio);
 

Description: Major Anson George McCook is pictured in this 4.5 by 6.25-inch (11.36 by 15.88 cm) photograph. Anson was the son of John and Catherine Julia Sheldon McCook and a member of the Fighting McCooks, an Ohio family that sent fifteen men to serve in the Civil War. Before the Civil War, he studied law in the firm of his cousin George Wythe McCook and Edwin Stanton. Anson McCook served in the 2nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry (O.V.I.) and the 194th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (O.V.I.). Following the war, he enjoyed a successful career in government, serving as assessor of internal revenue and U.S. senator from New York. Daniel McCook, Sr. and his eight sons, together with his brother John McCook and his five sons, fought in the Civil War. Daniel (1798-1863) and John (1806-1865) were born in Pennsylvania, and moved to Lisbon in Columbiana County, Ohio in 1826. Daniel subsequently moved to Carrollton, where he served as Carroll County's first clerk of the court of common pleas. John settled in Steubenville, where he practiced medicine. When President Lincoln made the first call for volunteers, 63-year-old Daniel Sr. answered and his sons and relatives followed. Daniel Sr., Daniel Jr., Robert Latimer, and Charles Morris McCook were killed in the war. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1289_793661_004
Subjects: Military Ohio; American Civil War, 1861-1865; McCook family; Military officers; United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 194th (1865); United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 2nd (1861-1864)
Places: Steubenville (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image depicts the planting of trees by elementary students. The planting process was likely a late celebration of Arbor Day. Arbor Day is a United States holiday dedicated to the planting of trees on a national scale, education on the importance of trees, and education on how to plant trees. The holiday is celebrated the last Friday in April in the United States. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA2002AV_B01_00010_22
Subjects: Tree planting; Arbor Day; Students--Ohio; Children
Places: Ohio;
 

Description: A young African American man wearing a bucket hat sits on a concrete wall smoking a cigarette along High Street in downtown Columbus, Ohio, while an empty baby stroller sits close to him. A wide green lawn, shrubbery, and trees are visible behind the wall, possibly part of the grounds of the Ohio Statehouse. The High Street Photograph Collection is comprised of over 400 photographs of High Street in Columbus, Ohio, taken in the early 1970s. These photographs were taken primarily at street level and document people and the built environment from the Pontifical College Josephinum on North High Street in Worthington through Clintonville, the University District and Short North, Downtown and South Columbus. The photographs were used in a television photo documentary that aired on WOSU called "High Street." Photographers that were involved in this project were Alfred Clarke, Carol Hibbs Kight, Darrell Muething, Clayton K. Lowe, and Julius Foris, Jr. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV254_B05F118_01
Subjects: Street photography; Downtowns; Young men
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)