Description: Three young people prepare to climb into a car during a steady snowfall in downtown Columbus, Ohio. The young man is carrying a large bag and a camera, while one of the women is carrying a shopping bag. They are identified as Jack Lee, Kay Leigh, and Janet Dilauro in the original collection. The High Street Photograph Collection is comprised of over 400 photographs of High Street in Columbus, Ohio, taken in the early 1970s. These photographs were taken primarily at street level and document people and the built environment from the Pontifical College Josephinum on North High Street in Worthington through Clintonville, the University District and Short North, Downtown and South Columbus. The photographs were used in a television photo documentary that aired on WOSU called "High Street." Photographers that were involved in this project were Alfred Clarke, Carol Hibbs Kight, Darrell Muething, Clayton K. Lowe, and Julius Foris, Jr. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV254_B07F192_01
Subjects: Street photography; Downtowns; Winter
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Five women seated eating and drinking around the base of the statue titled "These Are My Jewels," located on the northwest corner of the Ohio Statehouse grounds in downtown Columbus, Ohio. The figures on the monument represent military and political leaders from Ohio who served the Union during the Civil War. The High Street Photograph Collection is comprised of over 400 photographs of High Street in Columbus, Ohio, taken in the early 1970s. These photographs were taken primarily at street level and document people and the built environment from the Pontifical College Josephinum on North High Street in Worthington through Clintonville, the University District and Short North, Downtown and South Columbus. The photographs were used in a television photo documentary that aired on WOSU called "High Street." Photographers that were involved in this project were Alfred Clarke, Carol Hibbs Kight, Darrell Muething, Clayton K. Lowe, and Julius Foris, Jr. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV254_B06F157_01
Subjects: Street photography; Downtowns; Monuments & memorials;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Taken by U.S. Army medic Charles Tweel in 1971, this photograph shows Rusty Hide (far left) and two other Americans at Camp Evans during the Vietnam War. This photograph is part of the Charles Tweel Collection (AV 324) at the Ohio History Connection. Charles Tweel grew up in Columbus, Ohio, and attended The Ohio State University. After graduation in 1968, he enlisted in the U.S. Army as a non-combatant, first training as a medic at Fort Sam Huston, followed by nine months of additional training at Valley Forge General Hospital in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. He finished his training as a Specialist 3 and 91C, MOS, and went on to serve in Bamberg, Germany, with combat engineers for one year. In January 1971, Tweel served in Vietnam with the Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion (Air Mobile), 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, based out of Camp Evans near Phu Bai, north of Hue, until December of that year. Tweel spent most of his service on various firebases as the medic in charge, and occasionally shared firebases with South Vietnamese soldiers. He also visited MedCAP stations (Medical Civic Action Programs) where he treated civilians. Tweel received the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious achievement, and was promoted to Specialist 5 in 1971. After discharge from the Army, he went to medical school and was in private practice as a family practitioner from 1979-2016, and now works part-time in inner city medical clinics in Columbus, Ohio, and Charleston, South Carolina. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV324_B01F04_003
Subjects: Vietnam War (1961-1975); United States. Army. Airborne Division, 101st; Military encampments; Military life
Places: Camp Evans (Vietnam)
 

Description: This image shows the front facade of the Cuyahoga County Courthouse. It was completed in 1912 by architects Lehman and Schmidt with the distinction of being the second finished building in Cleveland's downtown group plan. The project was developed by Chicago architect Daniel Burnham, which sought to create a downtown space that combined all of Cleveland's public buildings in a central mall. The other buildings included in the plan are the Federal Building, the Cleveland Public Library and the Board of Education building. Cuyahoga's Beaux-Arts courthouse is said to reflect Cleveland's "turn-of-the-century" prosperity and includes materials like Milford pink granite, marble and English oak. Decorative art is also a major component of this building, from its statues depicting the rules of English law to its dramatic murals and stained-glass window. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F02_103
Subjects: Courthouses
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio); 1219 Ontario St.
 

Description: Parade down Auglaize Street celebrating Neil Armstrong coming back to his hometown Wapakoneta, Ohio after NASA mission Gemini 8. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV_203B2F1_047
Subjects: Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012; Wapakoneta (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: The image is a black and white print of an engraved portrait of Abraham Lincoln. The engraving was based from a photograph of Lincoln taken by Alexander Gardner. The print is framed around Lincoln’s head and shoulder turned to the left exposing his left profile. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV83_B01F07_021
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Pictorial works; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Portraits
 

Description: Photographic reproduction of a portrait of abolitionist John Brown, ca. 1855-1859. Brown gained national attention when, on October 16, 1859, he led a group of twenty one men on a raid of Harper's Ferry, Virginia (modern-day West Virginia). A federal arsenal was in the town, and Brown hoped to capture the buildings and the weapons stored inside. He then intended to distribute the guns and ammunition to slaves in the region, creating an army of African Americans that would march through the South and force slaveholders to release their slaves. Brown and his men succeeded in capturing the arsenal, but local residents surrounded the buildings, trapping the abolitionists inside. A detachment of U.S. Marines arrived and stormed the arsenal on October 18, capturing seven men, including Brown. He was charged with treason by the state of Virginia, found guilty and sentenced to death. On December 2, 1859, Brown was hanged. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00524
Subjects: Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) History; John Brown's Raid, 1859; Abolitionists; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Activists
Places: Ohio; Harper's Ferry (Virginia);
 

Description: Mine fan casing inside the factory of the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio, 1914. This casing housed a 14 foot fan. Fans like this were built over mines to force fresh air into the mine for miners to breathe and to dissipate dangerous gasses. The fan was belt-driven and powered by a steam engine or electric motor. Jeffrey made this casing for the Pennsylvania Coal Company. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01320
Subjects: Mining machinery; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photo of a sandlot baseball game somewhere in Ohio. "Sandlot" is a term used to describe a makeshift field in order to play baseball. In the photo, a person can be seen running to first base. A few players can be seen in the field, looking to where the ball is. Spectators can be seen watching the game, and a large, unknown building can be seen in the background. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F01_024_001
Subjects: Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project; Baseball fields--United States--History--Pictorial works; Baseball in America; Baseball uniforms
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Caption reads: " Facsimile of Wayne's Treaty." Photographic copy of the Treaty of Greeneville, signed August 3, 1795, at Fort Greene Ville (the present site of Greenville, Ohio). As a result of the treaty, which was negotiated by General Anthony Wayne, representatives from the Miami Indians, the Wyandot Indians, the Shawnee Indians, the Delaware Indians, and several other tribes agreed to move to the northwestern part of what is present-day Ohio. In doing so, they left behind their lands south and east of the agreed upon boundary. Not all Indians concurred with the treaty, and bloodshed continued in the region for the next twenty years as Americans and Indians struggled for control. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F05_001_001
Subjects: Ohio Government; Military Ohio; American Indians in Ohio; Northwest Territory; Treaties; Treaty of Greenville
Places: Greenville (Ohio); Darke County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1900, this photograph shows a lock on Miami and Erie Canal south of Dayton, Ohio, in Montgomery County. Work began on the Miami and Erie Canal in 1825 and was completed in 1845. During the peak of construction, more than four thousand laborers worked on the canal, generally earning 30 cents per day plus room and board. Many recent immigrants to the United States, especially the Irish, survived thanks to jobs on the canals. Other people, like the residents of the communal society at Zoar, also helped construct canals to assist the survival of their community. Many of Ohio’s communities today, including Akron, began as towns for the canal workers. Most canals remained in operation in Ohio until the late 1800s. There is a short stretch in the Muskingum Valley near Zanesville still in operation today. By the 1850s, however, canals were losing business to the railroads. 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_B02F06_007
Subjects: Locks (Canal); Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio)--History; Dayton (Ohio); Geography and Natural Resources; Transportation--Ohio--History.
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Fleischmann Gardens, Cincinnati, Ohio" Fleischmann Gardens is located at 524 Forest Avenue, in the Avondale community of Cincinnati, Ohio. The features beautifully landscaped gardens feature largest ginkgo tree in the state and an evergreen maze. The Washington Avenue entrance is marked by ornamental iron gates topped with an old-fashioned gaslight fixture. On the site of the home of Charles Louis Fleischmann, co-founder (with his brother Maximilian) of the Fleischmann Yeast Company, the park was given to the city in 1925 by his heirs. An adjacent piece of land, owned by the Salvation Army, was purchased in 1976, making the park 4.4 acres in total. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F08_016_1
Subjects: Parks; Cincinnati (Ohio)--History; Gardens -- Ohio;
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)