Description: This image shows the rear facade of the Lawrence County Courthouse. This Neoclassical building sits at the top of the hill near downtown Ironton and has a Ionic pilasters, pedimented doors and a dome. During the 19th century, Lawrence County was the center of the Hanging Rock Iron Region, which produced some of the world's best iron. In honor of this, a stone replica of an iron furnace sits on the courthouse grounds. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F04_261
Subjects: Courthouses; pilasters; pediments; Neoclassical
Places: Ironton (Ohio); Lawrence County (Ohio); 1 Veterans Square
 

Description: This photograph shows the welcome home celebration for Neil Armstrong after NASA mission Gemini 8; Gymnasium of Wapakoneta High School (formerly Blume High). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV_203B2F2_064
Subjects: Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012; Wapakoneta (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works; Celebrations
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Paul Laurence Dunbar by photographer Estella Kile, Dayton, Ohio, February 1904. He was born in Dayton 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: AL00721
Subjects: Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906; American poetry--Ohio; Literary Ohio; African American Ohioans; Poets; Authors
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a political cartoon illustrating the adoption of an amendment to the Ohio Constitution for women's suffrage by the Ohio Constitutional Convention in 1912. Ohio voters defeated the amendment. On June 16, 1919 Ohio became the fifth state to ratify the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution granting women the right to vote. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01151
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Political cartoons
 

Description: Reverse reads: Island Queen on the Ohio River 1938; Steamboats-Island Queen. Front reads: Photo by Myron Benson. The original Island Queen, built in 1896, caught fire in 1922 and was rebuilt by 1925. The five-decked steamer (4,000 capacity) ferried along the Ohio River, its most notable destination was Coney Island Park. Measuring 285ft long and 45ft 6in wide with stern-wheels 30ft in diameter, the impressive vessel was powered by 1,000 horse power oil-burning steam engines. On September 9, 1947 the Island Queen exploded killing 19 crew members and wounding 18 more. It was later determined that the boat's Chief Engineer had sparked a welding torch too close to the oil tanks. Photo taken in 1938 as part of the Works Progress Administration. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F09_002_001
Subjects: Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project--Works Progress Administration--Steamboat
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Saint Raphael Church is located at 225 East High Street, at the corner of Spring Street, in Springfield. Designed by architect Charles A. Cregar, construction on this Gothic style brick building began in 1848. Construction on a very large addition began in 1892, and was officially completed with the dedication in 1898. This historic Roman Catholic church has a 184 foot tower, and a somewhat smaller one holding a 16,000 pound bell. The stained glass windows, created by Mayer of Munich, were designed in the twelfth-century manner. In 1976, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F11_022
Subjects: Springfield (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc; Churches--Ohio; Roman Catholic Church; Mayer & Co
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: Located 801 Plum St., City Hall occupies the entire block from 8th to 9th Sts, and from Plum St to Central Ave. A smaller building housed city council on the same site from 1852. Hannaford's Romanesque revival was dedicated May 13, 1893. Large stained glass windows by the New York firm Pottier Stymus & Co. depict the benevolent dictator Cincinnatus, the trials of early settlers, and Cincinnati as the Queen City of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Catawba Wine". Samuel Hannaford and Sons remains the most prolific and widely-studied Cincinnati architectural firm; a company register from the 1930s lists 1000 buildings completed, and Hannaford family members were active from 1857 to the post-WWII period. Reverse reads, in part: "One of four historical stained glass windows located on the second floor of Cincinnati City Hall (Plum Street entrance), measuring approximately 5 x 12 ft., with the following inscription: Settlers arriving by river." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F12_013_1
Subjects: Cincinnati--Buildings, structures, etc.; Hannaford, Samuel, 1835-1911; Stained glass
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: The freighter, W. W. Holloway, docked at the Coal Dock in Cleveland, Ohio View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F11_26_01
Subjects: Lake Erie; Shipping industry; Lake steamers--Great Lakes (North America)--History; Shipping--Erie, Lake; Cargo ships; Geography and Natural Resources; Docks and ports; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "Beechwood trail. Mt. Airy forest rustic bridge on branch of West Fork Creek." Mt. Airy Forest had its origins in 1911 when the Cincinnati Park Board purchased 168 acres of land lying west of Colerain Avenue near the top of the Colerain hill, thus starting the first municipal reforestation project in the United States. It is Cincinnati's largest park, containing about 40 percent of the Park Board's total acreage. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F04_021_001
Subjects: Parks--Ohio--Cincinnati; Nature trails--Ohio
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Selling flowers at a roadside stand in Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F03_011_1
Subjects: Agriculture--Ohio--History--20th century.; Harvesttime
Places: Ohio
 

Description: A photograph of two black horses in front of a barn. One horse is pulling a harness carrying a man holding a whip. The other horse is being lead by the man in the harness. Three on-lookers watch from in front of the barn. Harness racing is a form of horse racing in which the horses race at a specific gait (a trot or a pace). They usually pull two-wheeled carts called sulkies, although racing under saddle (trot monté in French) is also conducted in Europe. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B14F04_002_001
Subjects: Urbana (Ohio)--History; Harness racing--Ohio--History; Harness racing--Pictorial works
Places: Urbana (Ohio); Champaign County (Ohio)
 

Description: The banner is comprised of rectangular panels of red, white and blue cotton stitched together. The banner is stamped "2 1/2 x 4" and has brass grommets and white cotton twill on one side. The banner was displayed on showboats and dates from around 1930. The dimensions are 120 cm by 70 cm. It was possible flown on the Eisenbarth showboats. Mrs. E. E. Eisenbarth of Marietta, Ohio, donated this banner to the Ohio Historical Society in 1986. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H59975_001
Subjects: Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture; Ohio River; Traveling shows; Theater--Ohio
Places: Ohio