Description: Portrait of Yvonne Walker-Taylor (previously Walker-Roberts) with husband Frank Roberts. Walker-Taylor was the daughter of Reverend Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker, president of Wilberforce University in the 1940s. Walker-Taylor later went on to follow in his footsteps, and became one of the first female African American college president in the United States when she was named president of Wilberforce in 1984. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B05F06_F
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Howard University; Wilberforce University; African American Educators; African American women
 

Description: This New Testament Bible has a leather cover. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H79251_closed
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Religion in Ohio
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is an image of a cookie sheet. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8249
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Cooking tools and equipment
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows the sawmill operated by the Society of Separatists of Zoar and dam on the Tuscarawas River, ca. 1890-1899. The sawmill was known as the power house after an electrical generator was installed. The dam provided power for all the mills in Zoar. Led by Joseph Bimeler (sometimes spelled Bäumeler) in 1817, a group of Lutheran separatists left the area of Germany known as Wurttemberg and eventually established the small community of Zoar in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. The community of Zoar was not originally organized as a commune, but its residents had a difficult time surviving in 1818 and early 1819. As a result, on April 19, 1819, the group formed the Society of Separatists of Zoar. Each person donated his or her property to the community as a whole, and in exchange for their work, the society would provide for them. Additional modifications to the society's organization were made in 1824 and a constitution established in 1833. In the decades following the establishment of the Zoar commune, the Separatists experienced economic prosperity. The community was almost entirely self-sufficient and sold any surpluses to the outside world. In addition to agriculture, Zoar residents also worked in a number of industries, including flour mills, textiles, a tin shop, copper, wagon maker, two iron foundries, and several stores. The society also made money by contracting to build a seven-mile stretch of the Ohio and Erie Canal. The canal crossed over Zoar's property, and the society owned several canal boats. The canal traffic also brought other people into the community, who bought Zoar residents' goods. By the second half of the nineteenth century, the community was quite prosperous. After Bimeler's death in 1853, the unity of the village declined, and by 1898 the Zoarites disbanded the society. The remaining residents divided the property, and the community continued to prosper in Zoar. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00833
Subjects: Zoar (Tuscarawas County, Ohio); Society of Separatists of Zoar; Mills; Communal societies
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This screw clamp was made by hand of wood. It is possibly a bookbinders screw clamp. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H73259
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Tools and equipment
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph taken by an unknown photographer of President Nixon, his cabinet, and advisors holding up Joe Munroe's famous ""Loving Pigs"" print with the caption ""Hogs are Beautiful!"" 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_B34_F2464_JPG267
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Presidents; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994; Portrait photography
Places: Washington DC
 

Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the Hocking Canal through Hocking County, between stations 990 and 1108. The Hocking River is pictured, and 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: BV4921_009
Subjects: Hocking Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio; Rivers--Ohio
Places: Hocking County (Ohio)
 

Description: Audrey Wilcke Evans (front row, left) is with her fellow Girl Scout counselors at Camp Ken Jackity, Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1935-1937. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02640
Subjects: Girl Scouts of the United States of America; Popular culture
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a front 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: AL05015
Subjects: Wedding costume; Women; Clothing and dress; Hats; Dresses
Places: Chillicothe (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Cincinnati Zoological Gardens, which opened in 1875, is one of the oldest zoos in the United States. The zoo was originally established on just over sixty-six acres in Blakely Woods. This engraved illustration, which shows a bird's-eye view of the site, appears in Vol. I of "Historical Collections of Ohio," published by Henry Howe in 1907. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04220
Subjects: Zoos; Gardens; Plants and Animals; Popular culture
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Group portrait of "Vic Travers Figures and Facts" company, ca. 1920-1929. This portrait includes 20 individuals and one dog. The back row consists of female performers dressed alike in theatrical costume and feathered headdress. A line of handwriting across the top middle reads: "Vic Travers presents Figures and Facts - Gene Post, mgr." In the upper left corner is the notation "C. Zimmerman, Lima, O." A row of men attired in suits with tie or bow tie sits on the ground in the image foreground. Two women and a man (all seated) form a middle row. Frederick Joseph Zint was general businessman for the company; his wife, Pearl Olsen Zint, was the company's lead. Victor Travers (1884-1948) was a stage and film actor who was frequently cast in "The Three Stooges" films. Frederick Zint was the eldest son of Jacob Zint, a businessman in Wapakoneta, Ohio. Frederick and Pearl Zint performed with an opera company, vaudeville groups, and tent and tableau shows until their first child was born in 1927. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05892
Subjects: Vaudeville--United States; Popular culture; Wapakoneta (Ohio)--Biography--Pictorial works
 

Description: Charles Waddell Chesnutt was an African American writer born on June 20, 1858, in Cleveland, Ohio to free African Americans. Both of his grandmothers may have been multiracial; and it is possible both of his grandfathers may have been white. Thus, he could have passed for white, but chose to be known as African-American. He taught school and wrote books on race relations. He died on November 17, 1932 in Cleveland, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07262
Subjects: Educators; Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century; Portrait photography; African American Ohioans; Authors