Description: This photograph depicts steelworkers observing a sign that reads, "VOTE FOR CHAS. VAUGHN". View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B05F89_010
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry; Steel workers
 

Description: Photograph of the Portsmouth Water Works water pump. The caption reads: "Low-duty pumping station built by WPA workmen at Portsmouth to pump water from the Ohio River into the filtration plant. The Ohio River will have to flow over the top of this tall structure --- up to a stage of 90 feet -- before the pumps will cease to function." Photographed and descriped by the Information Unit WPA in OHIO, Clinton Building, Columbus, Ohio. 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_32_01
Subjects: Floods--Ohio River; Portsmouth (Ohio)--Flood, 1937
Places: Portsmouth (Ohio); Scioto County (Ohio)
 

Description: This illustration from Harper's Weekly depicts President Abraham Lincoln, escorted by Union soldiers, arriving in Richmond, Virginia. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_OVS25A-D_007
Subjects: African American men; African American women; Civil War 1861-1865; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Places: Richmond (Virginia)
 

Description: This handmade poplar crate was used at the Zoar Hotel and features hand holds. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H73798
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This semiliquid lamp features a wide wick, a lip on the saucer, a triangular liquid holder, and a handle. It was made from tin. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8687
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Lighting--Architectural and decorative
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the Miami and Erie Canal in Shelby County, between stations 7035 and 7071. Roads, properties and other landmarks along the route are noted, including Loramie Creek. 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_009
Subjects: Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio
Places: Shelby County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of a bail-handled iron kettle with three legs, likely made ca. 1800-1825. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02904
Subjects: Kettles; Kitchen utensils--United States--History
Places: Ohio
 

Description: View of the damaged bath house at Buckeye Lake, Ohio, after a cyclone hit in June 1922. Buckeye Lake began as a small pond that Ohio's American Indians called "Big Swamp" or "Big Pond." In the 1820s, the state began construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal, and workers built a dike that diverted water from the south fork of the Licking River into the pond, which then became known as the Licking Reservoir or Licking Summit Reservoir. As canals declined in use in the second half of the 19th century, the Ohio and Erie Canal was abandoned and began to deteriorate, but the canal's decline did not mean an end to the Licking Reservoir. Instead, the state legislature renamed it Buckeye Lake and made it a public park in 1894. By the early 20th century, the reservoir had become an attractive location for recreational activities, including through the construction of Buckeye Lake Amusement Park, and the Columbus, Buckeye Lake and Newark Interurban Electric Railway, an electric trolley system, connected the park to nearby urban areas. In 1949, the state of Ohio designated Buckeye Lake as a state park. The amusement park began to decline in popularity by the late 1950s and continued to deteriorate in the 1960s. Although the amusement park no longer exists, Buckeye Lake State Park still attracts a number of visitors to the area each year, in addition to the many people who own vacation homes near the lake or live in the area year-round. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05316
Subjects: Tornadoes--Ohio; Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio;
Places: Buckeye Lake (Ohio); Fairfield County (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio)
 

Description: Ambrotype portrait of a young girl with a large dog, ca. 1860, from the Stone-Brown Family Collection. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07470
Subjects: Dogs; Pets; Children's clothing; Portrait photography
Places: Ohio
 

Description: This photograph is exterior view of the Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati, Ohio. The museum was built around 1820 as a Greek Revival villa for Martin Baum. Successive owners included Nicholas Longworth, David Sinton, his daughter Anna Sinton and her husband, Charles Phelps Taft. Charles Taft was the half brother of William Howard Taft, who accepted the nomination for the U.S. presidency under the portico of this house. In 1927 Anna and Charles Taft donated the house and its collection of art to the people of Cincinnati with the statement "We desire to devote our collection of pictures, porcelains and other works of art to the people of Cincinnati in such a manor that they may be readily available for all." The house opened as the Taft Museum of Art in 1932. It is a National Historic Landmark. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06186
Subjects: Art museums; Taft Museum of Art; Greek revival (Architecture); Taft, Anna Sinton, -1931; Taft, Charles Phelps, 1843-1929
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: John Cooper, of Franklin County, was electrocuted September 30, 1921, for the murder of Policeman Tiller. He was a black man, age forty-two and his occupation was unknown. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08122
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Prisons--Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: A young man and three young women sitting on the grassy ground, with the date "July 1908" written on the bottom of their shoes. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's department store, and later as a travelling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). He was also an avid lifelong photographer, and the bulk of the Harry Kinley Collection is comprised of glass plate negatives documenting the Kinley family, the city of Upper Sandusky and Wyandot County and surrounding areas. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07764
Subjects: Photographers--Ohio; Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Lawns;
Places: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio)