Description: This is a map of a section of downtown Akron, Ohio created by the Ohio Writers' Program of the work Progress Administration. 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_B15F02_052
Subjects: Maps; Books; Chapter headings; Works Progress Administration; Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: Japanese writing in black ink and embroidery cover this white silk banner which was captured during World War II. It was the personal flag of a Japanese soldier. It's colors are red, white and black with a rising sun. This silk flag measures 47 by 64.8. Henry P. Kosling of Cleveland, Ohio, donated this flag in 1945. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H49123_001
Subjects: Ceremonial artifact; Communication artifact; Military flags; Flags--World War 1939-1945; Textile--silk; World War II--Pacific;
 

Description: The caption reads: "Roosevelt Game Preserve" A plaque on the side of the Portsmouth Library in Portsmouth, Ohio reads" Theodore Roosevelt Game Preserve dedicated to the illustrious and ardent lover of God's great out doors, by Governor Harry L. Davis December 1922. Ohio's first public shooting grounds for the benefit of Ohio's sportsmen and lovers of nature" View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F05_027_001
Subjects: Scioto County (Ohio); Game-preserves
Places: Scioto County (Ohio)
 

Description: Carte de visite of Sgt. Samuel Tracy, who served with Company B of the 77th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Company B was recruited from Noble and Washington Counties, Ohio. From: 1st Ward, Marietta, Ohio Age: 21 Enlisted: October 14, 1861, 3-year term Appointed Sergeant: July 12, 1865 Mustered Out: March 8, 1866 View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV200_b03_f16_20
Subjects: Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Photographs; United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 77th (1861-1866) Company B
Places: Noble County (Ohio); Marietta (Ohio); Washington County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads, in part: "State Picture Book. Ident. 28. Dummy page 23 full page. Credit -- Ohio Writers' Project. Caption -- Campus Martius erected by Israel Putnam." This is a view of the entrance of the Rufus Putnam Residence in Marietta, Ohio. It was one of the dwellings in Campus Martius, the fortification erected by the Ohio Company, ca. 1790-1799. The plaque next to the door reads: "This house was one of the dwellings in Campus Martius, the fortification erected by the Ohio Company when the first settlement in the Northwest Territory was made at Marietta in 1788. It stood next to the southeast blockhouse and was built by General Rufas Putnam, who made it his home until his death in 1824. It then became the property of Judge Arius NYL from whose daughter Minerva Tupper NYL it was purchased in 1919 by the State of Ohio. Erected by the Ohio Daughters of the American Revolution in 1927." Born April 9, 1738, in Sutton, Massachusetts, Putnam fought for the British in the French and Indian War, later lobbying for land grants to veterans west of the Appalachian Mountains. Putnam served in the Continental Army during the Revolution, fighting in the battle of Saratoga and rising to the rank of brigadier general. Throughout the conflict, Putnam served as an advocate for junior officers and enlisted men. America's first government, created by the Articles of Confederation, had limited powers and faced tremendous difficulty meeting its expenses. This included paying the men in its army. The Confederation Congress promised to give these men land grants in the Ohio Country, but the Congress was slow to act. In 1783, Putnam helped draft the Newburgh Petition. In this document, many of the officers in the Continental Army demanded payment immediately in land grants or they would even contemplate replacing their government. General George Washington was able to prevent an uprising. Putnam established the first Ohio Company settlement on the banks of the Ohio River. Known originally as Adelphia, the community soon became known as Marietta. To protect the settlement from Native American attacks, the settlers built a fortification known as the Campus Martius. After the Treaty of Greeneville was signed in 1795, the threat to Marietta was limited; settlers founded Ohio University there in 1808. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F18_003_1
Subjects: Marietta (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works; Architecture, Domestic--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Putnam, Rufus, 1738-1824; Campus Martius (Marietta, Ohio); Forts & fortifications--1770-1800
Places: Marietta (Ohio); Washington County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Montgomery County,Dayton,O. Mar. 3,1937 PUBLIC FORUM, B of E BLDG. Finishing a Poster 4x5 F.L.Neg. I-8x10 print for Publicity" This is a photo of an artist finishing a poster to promote a public forum for the Dayton Board of Education. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F09_027_001
Subjects: Boards of education; Posters
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Herbert Jeffrey, aka Herb Jefferies, the first African American singing cowboy. His first film was "Harlem on the Prairie" which was considered the first black western following the inauguration of the talkies. Herbert Jefferies sang his own songs in "The Bronze Buckaroo" and "Harlem Rides the Range." Following his movie career, Jefferies returned to singing and recorded "The Flamingo" with Duke Ellington. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B05F04_09_1_8
Subjects: Musicians; Music; Actors; African American men
 

Description: Tintype photograph of Captain Joseph Goddard, who served with Company D of the 4th Independent Battalion of Ohio Cavalry. The 4th was recruited from Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. Goddard is holding what appears to be a Colt Revolver, possibly a Colt Navy. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV200_b02_06
Subjects: Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Photographs; United States. Army. Ohio Independent Cavalry Battalion, 4th (1863-1864) Company D
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Apron conveyor made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio in use at the Hudson Motor Car Company, Detroit, Michigan, 1920. It was used to move automobile bodies along an assembly line. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01409
Subjects: Conveying machinery; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Detroit (Michigan)
 

Description: Side view of red and white cotton pinstripe one-piece suit for a child, ca. 1834. It features a banded waist, puff sleeves and buttoned drop flap in back. There is an opening between the legs, and hook and eye closure in back. Owned by Phillip Dennis (born ca. 1832), father of Mrs. Ella Dennis. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04930
Subjects: Children's clothing; Popular culture
 

Description: This image is a photograph of an illustration showing a work crew spreading a macadam surface on the National Road. A caption under the image reads: "1906-Bituminous macadam experiments." A macadam surface consists of a layer or layers of crushed rock of a fairly uniform size laid over a leveled road bed. The rock layer is bound together by a crust that forms a driving surface and that also sheds water. In this image the driving surface is made of bitumin (also called asphalt). The National Road (also called the Cumberland Road or the U.S. Road) was the first federally sponsored roadway. The U.S. Congress commissioned the National Road in 1806 as a conduit to the West, linking the Potomac River and Cumberland, Maryland, to St. Louis, Missouri, and the Mississippi River. The road opened Ohio and the Northwest Territory to settlement and trade with the eastern U.S. By 1838 the Cumberland Road had reached Springfield, Ohio; three years later it reached Vandalia, Illiinois, where construction stopped due to a funding shortfall. By this time the railroads had attracted travelers and business shipping away from the National Road, and the project was abandoned. The National Road crossed the state of Ohio along what is now U.S. 40. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05822
Subjects: Cumberland Road; National Road; Transportation--Ohio--History; Roads; Macadam; Roads--Design and construction; Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development
 

Description: Picture of a farmhouse scene in Warren County, somewhere on Route #48, possibly in the area of Lebanon, Ohio. In the picture, you can see a house with a white fence all around it. Sheep can be seen just to the right of the house, and a wind mill on the left side of the picture. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B14F07_001_001
Subjects: Warren County (Ohio)--Pictorial works; Farm buildings; Lebanon (Warren County, Ohio : Civil jurisdiction)--Pictorial works
Places: Warren County (Ohio)