Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the Miami and Erie Canal through Paulding County between stations 3455 and 3574. 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: BV23164_012
Subjects: Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio
Places: Paulding County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Charles T. Isom in a suit standing in front of a house. Isom (1880-1943) was a graduate of Denison University and Ohio University, and served as a chaplain in World War I. He was Executive Secretary of Ohio Baptist General Association for 24 years, and worked as editor of the Ohio Baptist News. In the 1930s, he moved to Dayton where he was Pastor of Bethel Baptist Church until his death in 1943. The Ohio Baptist General Association, an organization of African American Baptist churches with its headquarters in Columbus, was founded in 1895 as the Ohio Baptist State Convention and reorganized as the Ohio Baptist General Association in 1919. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P190_B01_05
Subjects: African American Ohioans; American Baptist Church--Clergy; Religion in Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Architectural historian Ihna Thayer Frary with camera, ca. 1920-1945. Frary, a teacher at the Cleveland Institute of Art and Western Reserve University's School of Architecture, studied the architectural history of Ohio and other states using photography to document historic buildings. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02718
Subjects: Photographers; Art and Artists; Frary, Ihna Thayer, 1873-1965; Architecture; Historic buildings--Ohio
 

Description: Polaroid print of Mary Borkowski, a nationally recognized folk artist from Dayton, Ohio, ca. 1970-1979. She is known for her thread paintings. Her works are included in the collections of the Museum of American Folk Art in New York City, the Smithsonian Institution, the Presidential Libraries of Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon, the Dayton Art Institute, and Sinclair Community College. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03656
Subjects: Folk art; Artists; Ohio Women
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: The title page of this edition of Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" (East Aurora, New York: The Roycroft Shop, 1905) was designed by William Joseph (Dard) Hunter (1883-1966). Hunter was born in Steubenville, Ohio, where his father, William Henry Hunter, ran a newspaper business. The elder Hunter was an advocate of hand crafts and also an amateur woodcarver. Dard (a family nickname) learned typesetting at his father's business and the mechanics of papermaking at a paper mill near his home. In 1900 the Hunter family moved to Chillicothe, Ohio, to run another newspaper, and Dard was its staff artist. In 1904 Dard moved to East Aurora, New York, to join the Roycrofters, a community of craft workers and artists that was a branch of the Arts and Crafts Movement in the United States. Hunter created designs for books, leather, glass, and metal, and also tried his hand at pottery, jewelry, and furniture. He founded a correspondence school, the Dard Hunter School of Handicrafts.In 1910 he moved to Vienna, where he took courses in lithography, book decoration, and letter design. Afterward he settled in London, where he developed a fascination for papermaking. In 1912 Hunter and his wife, Edith, moved to Marlborough, New York, where he designed and built a water-powered paper mill and designed a distinctive font that bears his name. In 1919 Hunter and his family returned to Chillicothe, where he worked and lived for the rest of this life. He founded Mountain House Press, a letterpress printing studio where he wrote and published 20 books on papermaking. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05955
Subjects: Hunter, William Joseph, 1883-1966; Roycroft Shop; Mountain House Press; Art and Artists
Places: East Aurora (New York); Erie County (New York)
 

Description: This photograph is a formal portrait of Washington Irving Tenney (1833-1922), member of the 75th and 76th Ohio General Assembly House of Representatives (1903-1904, 1904-1905). Tenney was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, and moved with his family to West Milton, Ohio, in 1848. During the Civil War he served with the 147th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Tenney served two terms as Miami County auditor and was secretary of the county agricultural board. He farmed near Troy, Ohio, and later moved to town, where he was a member of the board of education. He taught school for more than twenty years. Tenney died in 1922 and was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Troy, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07017
Subjects: Legislators--Ohio; Ohio History--State and Local Government; Politicians; Ohio General Assembly House of Representatives; Troy (Ohio); Educators; Veterans
Places: Troy (Ohio); Miami County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Winthrop Sargent VII (August 18. 1853-March 29, 1932) of Haverford, Pennsylvania. He was a descendant of Winthrop Sargent II (1753-1820), who served in the Revolutionary War and as the first secretary of the Northwest Territory under Governor Arthur St. Clair. Winthrop Sargent VII wrote a family history of the Sargents titled "Early Sargents of New England" in 1922. The family was also related to John Singer Sargent, a notable American painter. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07515
Subjects: Sargent, Winthrop, 1753-1820; Northwest Territory--Politics and government
Places: Haverford (Pennsylvania)
 

Description: Photograph taken during the surrender of Major General Iguchi, Commanding General, 80th Brigade, Imperial Japanese Army, to Major General Robert Beightler, Commanding General, 37th Infantry Division. This event took place on Tuguegarao, Luzon, Philippines, September 5, 1945. The 37th Infantry was nicknamed the Buckeye Division because it was originally comprised of Ohio National Guard units. The division went into combat in April 1943 on Guadacanal, Solomon Islands and spent over 600 days in action before the end of the war, more combat time than any other division. The 37th Infantry played a significant role in the invasion of the Phillippines. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P295_B06_F126_05
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Soldiers--Ohio;
Places: Tuguegarao, Luzon (Philippines)
 

Description: Photograph showing the "New Clinton High School," used to house high school students for Clinton Township from 1905 until 1910. This building, located at 10 Clinton Heights, continued in use as an annex to the original Clinton Township school (built in the 1890s) as well as the newer Clinton Elementary (built in 1922) before being demolished in 2014. This image was included in a "Memory Book" compiled by Mrs. H. V. Cottrell, historian for the Clinton League (sometimes called the Clinton Welfare League) from 1938-1943. The book shows the development of the Clintonville neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio, and records the history of the League. The Clinton League was a women's group founded in 1912 to promote child welfare and later general welfare in Columbus, but which was based in and primarily focused on the area of Clintonville. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P285_MB1_034
Subjects: Clinton League; Women--Charities; School buildings; Education
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: 1956 Malabar Farm calendar which includes small calendar pages and substantial essays on various themes in conservation agriculture, soil science and mid-century agriculture, written by Malabar Farm denizen and prominent farm writer Louis Bromfield. The Friends of the Land Collection (1930-1960) contains the papers of the Friends of the Land (1940-1959), a prominent national soil conservation education organization headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. FOTL produced an international literary arts quarterly, THE LAND (edited by New Deal agriculture writer Russell Lord) in addition to several members' only publications (LAND LETTER) and informational pamphlets. They also hosted annual conferences; ran conservation tours, teacher training labs, and workshops; and operated as a national clearinghouse for conservation information. Ohio farmer and novelist Louis Bromfield was active in the organization. Much of the collection reflects the career and interests of FOTL Executive Secretary Ollie Fink, who was a prominent conservation education pioneer in Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Page1
Subjects: Conservation; Environmental education; Bromfield, Louis (1896-1956); Agriculture; Soil science; Malabar Farm
Places: Mansfield (Ohio); Richland County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1935-1965, this photograph shows Mrs. Mary Bishop on the left, Mrs. Conklin Jackson on the right, and four inmates canning produce in the Ohio Reformatory for Women 's cannery. Food preparation was one of the vocational trades available to the inmates at the Reformatory. In 1911, the Ohio General Assembly authorized the establishment of a separate women’s penal institution. On September 1, 1916, the Ohio Reformatory for Women opened in Marysville, Ohio, with a population of 34 inmates. When Marguerite Reilley was appointed superintendent of the Reformatory in 1935, she found dirty and unkempt inmates with excessively restricted living habits. She instituted the “human being” program which provided recreation, entertainment, jobs, and vocational training for the inmates. State Archived Series 1679 AV consists of 234 photographs which illustrate daily life in the Ohio Reformatory for Women, as well as photographs of the buildings and grounds, superintendents Marguerite Reilley and Martha Wheeler, and notorious inmate Velma West. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1679AV_B01_F15_003
Subjects: Photography--Ohio; Ohio Reformatory for Women; Prisons; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections; Cooking; Canning and preserving
Places: Marysville (Ohio); Union County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows (from left to right) James Rhodes, Nancy Campbell, an unidentified man, and a certain Kaltenbach, with Nancy's Junior Division Champion barrow at the 1968 Ohio State Fair. Another photograph of Nancy and her junior champion in this collection accompanies a news release issued by the Ohio Expositions Center which reads "Nancy Campbell of Washington C.H. [Court House] is the proud owner of the 1968 Ohio State Fair Grand Champion barrow in the Junior Division. 'Ralph'--the 220-pound champion--is Nancy's first 4-H project. She is a member of the Livestock Lads and Lassies 4-H Club. Nancy's parents are Mr. and Mrs. Harry Campbell." The Ohio State Fair is an annual exhibition held at the Ohio Expo Center in Columbus that showcases Ohio farming and commercial products and achievements. In the 1840s, farmers began to join agricultural organizations, and the state of Ohio began to take an interest in the challenges that farmers faced. As a result, the state government created the Board of Agriculture in 1846. The Board of Agriculture planned to hold the first statewide fair in 1849, but a cholera epidemic forced the fair's cancellation. The first Ohio State Fair was held the next year instead. The city of Cincinnati hosted the fair in 1850, which went on for three days. Ultimately, the Board decided that the state capital should be the permanent site for the state fair, and it moved to Columbus in 1874. By the 1870s, the state's railroad system had improved significantly, and it was much easier to travel from all parts of the state. The current fairgrounds, known today as the Ohio Expo Center, were completed in 1886. The Ohio State Fair has been held at these fairgrounds ever since. This photograph is part of the Ohio Expositions Commission Photograph Collection, a series of black and white photographs, the majority of which were taken between 1955-1968, which consist of livestock at fairs, primarily horses, and documents many types of State Fair activities, especially horsemanship and livestock activities. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA768AV_B01F03_002
Subjects: Ohio State Fair; Expositions and fairs; Livestock; Prizes; Swine; Agriculture
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)