Description: This photograph depicts a blast furnace blowing room turbine. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B02F27_019
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry; Blast furnaces--Equipment and supplies
 

Description: Photograph of a workman placing sandbags for flood control. The photo is from the "Portsmouth, Ohio, flood of 1937", SC 381. This collection contains 37 photographic black and white prints, 21 x 26cm or smaller; and 4 postcards in black in white, 9 x 14 cm. Photographs document the flood damage in Portsmouth, including sandbagging, floodwall construction, and WPA rescue efforts. In 1937, southern Ohio faced one of the worst floods in its history, known today as the "Great Flood of 1937." The Ohio River flood of 1937 took place in late January and February. In Cincinnati, the flood was particularly difficult for the city, where flood levels reached its crest of 79.99 feet on Tuesday, January 26, 1937. Communities along the Ohio River in Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois also faced serious problems. Many people lost their homes as a result of the flood. The Ohio River Flood of 1937 caused more than twenty million dollars in damages. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: sc381_14
Subjects: Floods--Ohio River; Portsmouth (Ohio)--Flood, 1937
Places: Portsmouth (Ohio); Scioto County (Ohio)
 

Description: These illustrations include "Branding Slaves," "African Slave Traffic," "Plantation - Cotton Picking," "Plantation Life - Brazil," "Plantation Scene - Sugar," "Plantation Scene - Coffee," "Decks of a Slave Ship," "Fauquier Springs," "Capitol - Raleigh," "Cane Field," and "Gathering Cane." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Slave_I001
Subjects: Plantations; Ships; Slave trade--Africa; Slavery
 

Description: This iron bench peg is in the hardy style and has a rippled end. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H73663
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This kitchen table features drawers and is made from stained walnut. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8675
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Furniture
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the Miami and Erie Canal in Shelby County, between stations 7197 and 7217. Roads, properties and other landmarks along the route are 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 on the Miami and Erie Canal took place between 1825 and 1845, and the finished route connected Cincinnati and Toledo, as well as the Ohio River with Lake Erie. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: BV23170_014
Subjects: Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio
Places: Shelby County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of construction of a subway in the old Miami canal bed, north of Findlay Street, Cincinnati, Ohio, ca. 1920-1928. Construction of the subway began during the construction of the Cincinnati Central Parkway over the canal bed in the early 1920s. The project was partly financed by the Ohio Dept. of Public Works. The canal bed was deepened to form the subway tube, but the rapid-transit system was never completed. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02899
Subjects: Transportation--Ohio--History; Ohio. Dept. of Public Works; Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio)--History; Subway stations--1920-1930
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Author Paul Laurence Dunbar riding in a horse-drawn buggy driven by an unidentified man, ca. 1890-1906. Dunbar was born in Dayton, Ohio, in 1872 to Joshua and Matilda Dunbar, both former slaves, and was encouraged by his mother in poetry and his schooling from an early age. He attended Dayton Central High School and was the sole African American student at that time. Following his high school graduation, Dunbar worked as an elevator operator while writing poetry in his free time. He built a reputation as a successful literary voice and writer of dialect poetry, and was the first African American poet to receive critical acclaim for his work. Dunbar authored twelve collections of poetry, five novels, one play, and a large number of newspaper articles before his death from tuberculosis on February 9, 1906. He is buried in the Woodland Cemetery in Dayton. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05269
Subjects: Authors; Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906; Multicultural Ohio--African American Ohioans; Literary Ohio; Horse-drawn vehicles;
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Illustration of a Civil War battlefield published in "Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War" by Alfred H. Guernsey. Ulysses S. Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Point Pleasant, Ohio. During the U. S. Civil War, Grant was promoted to the rank of General and granted command of the Union army by President Abraham Lincoln. After the victory of the Union over the Confederacy, Grant's popularity led to his election as the 18th President of the United States in 1868. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04601
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S., 1822-1885; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio--History, Military; Presidents--United States; Generals; Battlefields
 

Description: This photograph, which shows an interior view of Crosley Field, Cincinnati, Ohio, was taken April 15, 1941. Crosely Field was the home of the Cincinnati Reds from 1912 to June 24, 1970. Before 1912, the Cincinnati Reds had played in a number of ballparks. Originally called Redland Field, the ballpark was renamed Crosely Field in 1934 after Powel Crosely, who purchased the team and the ballpark. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06181
Subjects: Crosley Field (Cincinnati, Ohio); Cincinnati Reds (Baseball team); Crosley, Powel, 1886-1961
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of Dick Howell of Stark County, Ohio. He was electrocuted June 2, 1921, for the murder of Detective Skotnicky, at Canton, Ohio. He was a white male, forty two years old and was listed as an ex-convict. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08117
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Prisons--Ohio; Death row; Capital punishment; Portrait photography
Places: Stark County (Ohio)
 

Description: Image of the train involved in the Ashtabula Train Disaster, showing the train at the Ashtabula Railroad Depot and passengers waiting to board. The caption reads: "The Doomed Train, as it left Ashtabula, a few minutes before the Wreck." This illustration comes from a pamphlet titled "The terrible Ashtabula rail road calamity, on the evening of Dec. 29th, 1876, together with a few incidents of P.P. Bliss, the immortal singer," published by A.S. Benner, 1877. While this illustration is identified as the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway cars that plunged into the Ashtabula River, it does not appear to depict the actual train involved in the disaster or the Ashtabula LS&MS station at the time of the incident On December 29, 1876, a Howe truss bridge near Ashtabula, Ohio, collapsed while a train with three passenger cars was crossing it. The train and its passengers plunged sixty feet into a ravine and creek, and the lamps and stoves used to light and heat the train cars quickly ignited the wreckage. Ninety-two people died either in the accident or as a result of their injuries, and more than sixty of the surviving passengers were injured. Railroad accidents were commonplace during the late nineteenth century, due in part to tracks built quickly and cheaply by companies hoping to make tremendous profits. Railroad companies built thousands of miles of track in Ohio during the late nineteenth century, providing more opportunity for accidents to occur. Even after the Ashtabula Bridge collapse, the Howe truss bridge remained popular, primarily due to its relatively cheap cost. Still, railroad companies began to feel pressure from their customers to provide a safer means of travel. By 1888, more than two thousand iron bridges existed in Ohio. The state had fewer than nine hundred wooden bridges still in use at this time. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07759
Subjects: Transportation--Ohio--History; Trains; Railroad accidents; Railroads--Ohio; Bridges;
Places: Ashtabula (Ohio); Ashtabula County (Ohio);