Description: Calvin Pease (1776-1839) was the first postmaster of Youngstown, Ohio, from 1802 to 1803. He was also a Court of Common Pleas judge for the Third Circuit, and was elected to two terms on the Ohio Supreme Court from 1816-1830. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04025
Subjects: Judges--Ohio; Ohio History--State and Local Government; Ohio. Supreme Court
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows an aerial view of Columbus State Hospital, which was located on West Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio. Situated in a large wooded area, the hospital campus consisted of a central facility with many interconnected wings and several outbuildings. The Columbus State Hospital, a facility for the care and treatment of mentally ill people, admitted its first patient in 1877. This facility replaced the Ohio Lunatic Asylum, which the Ohio General Assembly established in 1835. The asylum's board of trustees chose a 64-acre site on East Broad Street in Columbus. Erected primarily by the labor of Ohio Penitentiary convicts, the hospital received its first patients in November 1838. (The Ohio Lunatic Asylum had replaced the Commercial Hospital and Lunatic Asylum at Cincinnati, established in 1821, as the state mental institution.) Built with a capacity for 150 patients, the Ohio Lunatic Asylum soon became overcrowded. Part of the hospital was destroyed by fire in November 1868. In April 1869 the legislature laid plans for a new structure to accommodate 500 patients. The new hospital, built on the "Kirkbride Plan," was under construction from 1870 to 1877. The structure represented the largest single public capital investment by the State of Ohio up to that time, with the exception of the Statehouse. The main building contained over 800 rooms and was said to be the largest building under one roof until the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., was constructed. In 1996, after years of neglect, the Administration Building was demolished. Over the decades, these two facilities operated under various names: Ohio Lunatic Asylum, Central Ohio Lunatic Asylum, Central Ohio Hospital for the Insane, Columbus Hospital for the Insane, and Columbus State Hospital. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05700
Subjects: Columbus State Hospital (Ohio); Ohio History--State and Local Government; Mental illness--Treatment--Ohio; Aerial photographs; Architecture
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: An image of Goodale Park in Columbus. Many visitors come to the park to see downtown Columbus which can be easily seen from the park. The variety of foliage within the park is quite extensive, several hundred trees are spread throughout the park of all sorts. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06758
Subjects: Recreation; Parks--Ohio--Franklin County; Fall foliage; Lakes & ponds
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Ohio
 

Description: A group of seven children and two adults (family?) and a horse-drawn cart. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08520
Subjects: Horse-drawn vehicles--Ohio; Transportation--Ohio; Families
 

Description: This image shows the front facade of the Mahoning County Courthouse. This Renaissance Revival courthouse was built during the county's golden industrial period and contains some of the finest materials available-- terracotta, marble and Honduran mahogany. The lobby is one of the buildings grandest features. The ceiling of the lobby is a forty-foot diameter stained-glass dome. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F04_303
Subjects: Courthouses; National Register of Historic Places;
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio); 120 Market St.
 

Description: This photo depicts people waiting in a banquet hall during the homecoming celebration held for Neil Armstrong downtown Wapakoneta, Ohio on September 6, 1969. More than 80,000 supporters greeted Armstrong upon his return and Bob Hope served as marshal for the event. Guests included "Tonight Show" sidekick Ed McMahon, and Dr. Albert Sabin, inventor of the polio vaccine. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV_203B2F5_039
Subjects: Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012; Wapakoneta (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: Grave of Simon Kenton, spy, frontiersman, and militia commander. The grave and monument is in Urbana, Champaign County, Ohio. The photograph was taken ca. 1940-1949. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00323
Subjects: Urbana (Ohio); Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood
Places: Urbana (Ohio); Champaign County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a 1899 photograph of a double octagon revolving screen made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio. Revolving screens tumbled and separated material such as coal or crushed stone into various sizes for different uses. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01203
Subjects: Machinery industry--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1935-1940, this photograph shows Cedar Falls at Hocking Hills State Park in Hocking County, Ohio. Cedar Falls is best known for its fanned waterfall and hemlock-lined trail. In 1924, the state of Ohio purchased 146 acres in the Hocking Hills that became Hocking Hills State Park in 1949. In 1972, the park added a dining lodge and cabins. Hocking Hills State Park is known for its geologic features of Blackhand sandstone, including Old Man's Cave, Cedar Falls, and Rock House. A note on the photograph's reverse reads "Landscape, Rocky Falls, Cedar Falls, Hocking State Park (Ohio), Credit: J.O. Lord." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F04_012_1
Subjects: Hocking Hills State Park (Ohio); State parks and reserves; Waterfalls; Outdoor recreation; Geology; Natural features
Places: Hocking Hills State Park (Ohio); South Logan (Ohio); Hocking County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of the door of the Schilder House in Chillicothe, Ohio. The entrance to the home features a fanlight above French doors with a rounded arch surrounding the doorway. The two-story brick house sits at the northeast corner of West 4th St and South Walnut Street. This house was originally called the Eichelberner-Wood House. Jacob Eichelberner started to build the house in 1826, but soon ran out of money and could not complete it. It remained unfinished for 10 years until the house was purchased by John Wood who completed construction. John and Ellen (Strong) Wood were the fourth grandparents of the late Princess Diana of Wales. Martin Schilder moved into the house around 1882. The Schilder family owned and operated a successful produce business in Chillicothe. The home may also be referred to as the Ware House, according to a notation on the back of the photograph. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F11_026_001
Subjects: Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works., Domestic--United States
Places: Chillicothe (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "St. Louis Church, 8 + Walnut of Cincinnati, Ohio." Dedicated in 1930, this 5-story limestone building, Florentine in style, is a Catholic church located in the heart of the business district in downtown Cincinnati. It also houses business offices of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Cincinnati. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F02_28_01
Subjects: Catholic church buildings--Cincinnati (Ohio); Streets--Cincinnati (Ohio)
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1930-1943, this photograph shows a Catholic boys choir singing in an unidentified church in Ohio. There are several members of the group surrounding an adult choir leader playing the piano or organ. This 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 View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F08_002_001
Subjects: Choirs (Music); Choirboys; Catholic Church; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Religion in Ohio
Places: Ohio