Description: #1 Blast Furnace at the US Steel Corporation's Ohio Works. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0009_B01F30_001
Subjects: Blast furnaces--Equipment and supplies; Blast furnaces--Design and construction; Steel industry and trade--Youngstown (Ohio); Blast furnaces--United States; Blast Furnace--Ohio; United States Steel Corporation
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photo of two men in Urbana, Ohio, putting together what looks to be a brick wall inside a building. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B14F04_038_001
Subjects: Urbana (Ohio); Labor--Ohio; Masonry; Construction
Places: Urbana (Ohio); Champaign County (Ohio)
 

Description: Regimental colors of the 197th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Text on flag reads: 197th Reg't Ohio Vol. Infantry. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02179
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Ford Motor" The building in this photograph is most likely the Ford Motor Company Cleveland Plant, located at 11610 Euclid Avenue, though it looks slightly different. It was the only plant in Ohio, however, which produced the Ford Model T, as seen in the photograph. This building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. In 1981, The Cleveland Institute of Art (founded in 1882) purchased the building and renovated it, renaming it the Joseph McCullough Center for the Visual Arts. The Ford Motor Company, usually associated with Detroit, Michigan, opened an automobile plant in Cleveland to manufacture Model T's during the 1910s. During the 1930s, the company opened several other plants in northeastern Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F02_004_001
Subjects: Industries--Ohio--Cleveland; Cleveland (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Ford Motor Company; Ford Motor Company--Products--1890-1960; Ford Model T automobile; National Register of Historic Places
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Campus, Denison University; Swasey Chapel and Swasey Observatory in background." This is a photograph depicting a scene of the Denison University campus in Granville, Ohio. The Swasey Chapel and Observatory are seen in the background. The Swasey Chapel and Observatory were named after Cleveland trustee and amateur astronomer Ambrose Swasey, the founder of the Warner and Swasey Company which built the observatory. Swasey Chapel was built in 1924 and was the first building designed for the 1917 plan for Greater Denison. Swasey funded the project and the chimes in the chapel tower are a memorial for his wife. Today the chapel is used for religious service. The Swasey observatory was built in 1909. Within the observatory are 3 telescopes used for astrophotography. It also houses an astronomy library and dark rooms. It was built using Vermont marble. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F08_013_001
Subjects: Education; Universities and colleges; Buildings; Chapels; Science and technology; Astronomical observatories; Telescopes; Denison University; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project.
Places: Granville (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio)
 

Description: Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified woman, ca. 1845-1850. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03694
Subjects: Women--Ohio; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Portraits
 

Description: This photograph, taken at Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company's Indiana Harbor works coke plant, artfully depicts the railroad tracks located at the plant and a close-up of one rail car. Coke plants produce coke from coal so that it can be used as a fuel in a blast furnace. Blast furnaces are used to smelt iron ore with coke to produce pig iron. This is the first step of steel production that occurs at mills. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B02F24_015
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. Indiana Harbor works; Steel industry; Blast furnaces; Railroad
Places: East Chicago (Indiana)
 

Description: This is a photograph of an advertisement for the new Ohio Bank Building at the corner of Madison Avenue and St. Clair Street in Toledo, Ohio. The reverse of the flier boasts that the 368 foot tall building features marble drinking fountains, ample restrooms, the American District Telegraph Service, and the constant security of a watchman. The Ohio Bank Building was completed in 1932. This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F12_012_001
Subjects: Advertising; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Skyscrapers; Office buildings; Works Progress Administration; Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Places: Toledo (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This red felted wool service flag is embroidered with white stars in the lettering: "Over There" on a blue banner at the top. The center is a white embroidered rectangular panel measuring 17.5 by 28.5 cm, with a large blue star. The back is stamped:"Patented Momento 1917" The In Service Flag (Blue Star Banner) was patented by an Ohioan, Colonel Robert L. Queisser of East Cleveland, Ohio, on 6 November 1917. Intended for display by families who have members serving in the Armed Forces, blue star banners are also displayed in shop windows to honor the members of that organization serving. Most flags were homemade by mothers, though they later became mass-produced. Upon death in service the blue star was replaced by a gold one, wounded soldiers were represented by silver. One of the most famous flags was that of the five Sullivan brothers who all perished on the U.S.S. Juneau. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H60920_001
Subjects: Textile--wool--flannel; Ceremonial artifact; Communication artifact; Military flags; Flags--Ohio; World War, 1914-1918; Blue Star Banner;
 

Description: Rev. John Rankin was an Underground Railroad operator in Ripley, Brown County, Ohio. His home, shown in this photograph, sat on top of a hill across the Ohio River from slave territory. It was used to harbor fugitive slaves fleeing to freedom in Canada. The image was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03190
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Ohio; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights
Places: Ripley (Ohio); Brown County (Ohio)
 

Description: The cupola was a part of the second county court house, built in 1840. This building remained intact until 1936 when the building was enlarged under the Federal Works Administration. The addition contained a central and left portion and the exterior was a duplication of the original structure. At that time the cupola was moved to the central portion of the new structure. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F07_023_1
Subjects: Fremont (Ohio); Sandusky County (Ohio);
Places: Fremont (Ohio); Sandusky County (Ohio)
 

Description: View of blue enamel canning kettle without lid, metal rack for jars visible, four canning jars also pictured. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05418
Subjects: Canning and preserving; Kitchen utensils