Description: Engraved print showing the city of Portsmouth from the Kentucky shore, from "Historical Collections of Ohio" by Henry Howe, 1847. Along the river are two steamboats called the Scioto and the Ashland, and the U.S. Hotel can be seen on the Portsmouth shore. Portsmouth is the county seat of Scioto County, and was formally laid out by Henry Massie in 1803. Located at the intersection of the Ohio River and the Scioto River, Portsmouth grew quickly due to the traffic on the rivers. The town continued to prosper with the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal during the 1820s and the 1830s. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04029
Subjects: Portsmouth (Ohio); Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; Ohio River
Places: Portsmouth (Ohio); Scioto County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows Hearing Room 2 in the State Office Building, Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1935. A raised judicial bench with five chairs is situated against a patterned drapery curtain. A row of wall murals illustrate historic events and individuals. Rows of chairs face the judicial bench. Construction of the building began in 1930 and was completed in 1933. The 14-story, white marble structure was designed by Cincinnati architect Harry Hake and serves as a classic example of the Art Moderne style. The interior of the building includes public spaces decorated with murals, mosaics and bas-reliefs that tell the history of Ohio and its industries. The building was later known as the Ohio Judicial Center until 2011, when the state Supreme Court named the center in honor of the late Chief Justice Thomas Moyer, who was the second-longest-serving chief justice in state history at the time of his death in April 2010. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05704
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government; Architecture; Columbus (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Art Deco;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: A view of High and Rich Streets in Columbus. The photograph shows cars parked along the street in both directions and the street car tracks in the center, with street cars going in both direction. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06762
Subjects: Streets--Ohio--Columbus; Streets--Ohio; Transportation
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Ohio
 

Description: This photograph shows a young woman standing behind two young girls seated in chairs, posing in front of a fence covered in leafy vines. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08524
Subjects: Portrait photography; Girls; Summer
 

Description: Photograph showing employees of the Ohio Department of Highways at Blaine Hill in Belmont County, Ohio, November 3, 1932. A handwritten title on the reverse reads "Big Shots," and the men are identified left to right as Charlie Smith, D. Henry Overman and Bill Freemoth. The photograph was collected in the D. Henry Overman Bridge Collection, which documents the career of Overman, a native of Waverly, Ohio, and a resident of Columbus. He graduated from The Ohio State University in 1923 with a degree in civil engineering. Overman joined the Ohio Department of Highways (now the Ohio Department of Transportation) on June 10, 1918, where he was employed until his retirement in 1964, serving as assistant chief for the Bureau of Bridges for nine years, and as the chief of the Bureau for his last eight years on the job. During his approximately 45 year career, Overman designed a number of bridges in Ohio, including the stone-faced bridge over the Scioto River at Routes 161 and 33 in Dublin, and the Lorain Avenue Viaduct, a steel bridge in Cleveland. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV184_B01F11_02
Subjects: Bridges; Engineering; Ohio Department of Highways; Transportation--Ohio--History; Employees;
Places: Blaine (Ohio); Belmont County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows the light court on the second floor of the Madison County Courthouse. It has a stained glass skylight. This building represents several architectural styles, including Beaux-Arts Classicism and Second Empire. This was intended to be a smaller version of the 1887 Franklin County Courthouse which was built by the same architect. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F04_299
Subjects: Courthouses; National Register of Historic Places; mansard roofs; dormers; pediments; pavilions (building divisions); Second Empire;
Places: London (Ohio); Madison County (Ohio); 1 N. Main St.
 

Description: This photo depicts Ohio Governor James A. Rhodes exiting an event during the homecoming celebration held for Neil Armstrong in Wapakoneta, Ohio on September 6, 1969. There are several journalists and supporters waiting to get a glimpse of Neil Armstrong. 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_048
Subjects: Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012; Wapakoneta (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows the monument to White Woman's Village, home of Chief Eagle Feather of the Lenape (Delaware) Nation whose wife, Mary Harris, was the first Anglo-American woman in Ohio. The monument is east of Warsaw, Coshocton County, Ohio. The photograph was taken ca. 1940-1949. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00327
Subjects: Monuments; Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio
Places: Warsaw (Ohio); Coshocton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This friction hoist was made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, Columbus, Ohio, for the Columbus Stone Company. When the operator applied pressure on the lever, the small drive wheel powered the take-up reel which would raise a load. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01208
Subjects: Hoisting machinery; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio)
 

Description: A forest ranger in Wayne National Forest completes a form while wearing a pair of headphones in the Shawnee Lookout Tower. A caption on the reverse of the photograph reads: "Fire Fighting Station (Tower)," while an accompanying caption describes the image as "Shawnee Tower forest ranger. Near Haydenville." The form being completed gives the date as Saturday, April 23, 1938, and is signed D. B. Blankenship. The Shawnee Lookout Tower was one of four lookout towers built in the Wayne National Forest area during the 1930s. This particular tower was built in 1939 by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), and was located off Sand Run--New Straitsville Road near New Straitsville in Hocking County. It is the only one of the four that remains standing. In the earlier part of the 2000s the tower was open to the public, but it was closed in 2004 due to wind damage. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F04_020_1
Subjects: Wayne National Forest; Forests; Geography and Natural Resources; Parks; Fire prevention
Places: Shawnee Tower; Wayne National Forest; Hocking County (Ohio); Nelsonville (Ohio);
 

Description: caption reads: "Street markets in 1917. Old Market Days in Dayton. East side of Main Street, looking north from Third Street." Dayton was a city of continued prosperity in the twentieth century. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F09_060_1
Subjects: Business and Labor; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Stores and shops; Markets; Daily Life
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads "Cinci., O., Sept. 1937. Rollman Home." More information needed. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_b03f03_039_001
Subjects: Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Architecture, Domestic--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)