Description: This photograph depicts a coal hammer used in a coke plant. The caption below reads, " NO 5 - V NOTCH HAMMER MADE FROM OPEN HEARTH STEEL AND HEAT TREATED GROUND FOR STELLITE COATING". View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B04F66_003
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry and trade; Coke plants
 

Description: Photograph of "Skaters" painted by Clyde Singer in 1941. The painting is located at a post office in New Concord, Ohio in Muskingum County. Photographed by Connie Girard in 1988. The photo is from the Ohio Post Office Artwork Collection, AV 48. The collection represents thirty murals or plaster reliefs installed in twenty-five Ohio post offices between 1937 and 1943. In 1988, Connie Girard photographed the artwork. Photos were published in the article “Not By Bread Alone, Post Office Art of the New Deal.” Timeline. June-July 1989, p. 2-19 by Gerald Markowitz and Marlene Park. In 1932, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected President he promised Americans a "New Deal" and created public works programs to provide jobs for the millions of unemployed people, including artists. Ten thousand unknown and established artists were commissioned by the government to create murals, paintings, photographs, posters, prints and sculpture. The goal was not only to employ artists, but also to bring fine art into the daily lives of all people. The Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) was funded for six months in 1933 – 1934. The PWAP was succeeded by the Treasury Department’s Section of Painting and Sculpture. Organized in 1934 the Section of Painting and Sculpture operated until 1943. Under the auspices of this organization sixty-six new Ohio post offices received artwork. The majority of the post offices were located in small towns. Post offices were chosen as a location for artwork because, particularly in small towns, they were centers of community activity. Most of the painted murals or murals in plaster relief created are realistic images reflecting the history, common activities or major industries of the communities in which the post offices are located. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: av48_b2_f20_01
Subjects: Post office stations and branches--Ohio--Photographs; Public art--Ohio--Photographs; Public Works of Art Project (United States); New Deal art
Places: New Concord (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: This item is a wagon doubletree, and is wooden with leather straps. The doubletree is used to attach the leads from two animals to and absorbs the left to right variation from the draft animals' walks. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H73514
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Wagons
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is an image of a curved iron sickle with a maple handle. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8626
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Tools and equipment
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the Miami and Erie Canal through Spencerville in Allen County, between stations 5272 and 5293. 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: BV23169_015
Subjects: Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio
Places: Spencerville (Ohio); Allen County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photographic reproduction depicting a house, situated at the southwest corner of Main and Seventh streets in Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, that was once the residence of H.P. Lynn. It was said to be a station on the Underground Railroad during the Civil War. The name Herbert H. Heimlich is stamped on the back of the photograph, which is from the Wilbur H. Siebert Collection. Siebert (1866-1961) began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history. Text on the front left bottom corner: "This is the former residence of H.P. Lynn, at the south-west corner of Main and Seventh, Father of Mrs. Flora Lynn Sherman, D. A. R. The house was re- puted to have been on of the stations of the "Under- ground Railway" during the Civil War. (L.G. Buckle)" View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03008
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Indiana; Siebert, Wilbur Henry, 1866-1961
Places: Lafayette (Indiana); Tippecanoe County (Indiana)
 

Description: Photograph of members of the Ohio State Bar Association attending a formal banquet held in during their annual meeting in Columbus, Ohio, on January 25, 1924. The Ohio State Bar Association was founded in 1880 as a professional organization for those in the legal profession who have passed the bar examination. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05246
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio); Law & legal affairs; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Illustration of Ulysses S. Grant's temporary tomb in Riverside Park, New York published in "A Personal History of Ulysses S. Grant" by Albert Deane Richardson in 1885. Ulysses S. Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Point Pleasant, Ohio. During the U. S. Civil War, Grant was promoted to the rank of General and granted command of the Union army by President Abraham Lincoln. After the victory of the Union over the Confederacy, Grant's popularity led to his election as the 18th President of the United States in 1868. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04580
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S., 1822-1885; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio--History, Military; Presidents--United States
Places: New York (New York)
 

Description: Reuben Ellis of Hamilton County, was electrocuted February 6, 1917 for the Murder of Anna hart. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08097
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Capital punishment; Hamilton County (Ohio)
Places: Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows a tractor trailer overturned after the 1974 tornado. On April 3, 1974, an F5 category tornado struck Xenia, Ohio. The tornado that struck Xenia was just one of at least 148 tornados that occurred in the South and Midwest in a twenty-four period. This was the worst outbreak of tornados recorded in the twentieth century. The tornado that struck Xenia had maximum winds of three hundred miles per hour. It destroyed more than one thousand homes and businesses. Hardly any buildings remained standing in Xenia's downtown. Thirty-three people died in the storm, with approximately another 1,150 people injured. President Richard Nixon visited Xenia a week following the tornado. He stated, "It's the worst disaster I've ever seen." Xenia rebuilt quickly. By April 3, 1975, eighty percent of the destroyed homes and forty percent of the businesses had been rebuilt. It would take until 1984 for all structures to be repaired or rebuilt, but as bumper stickers that appeared within days of the tornado stated, "Xenia Lives!" View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07695
Subjects: Tornadoes--Ohio--Xenia; Tornado damage; Natural disasters; Xenia (Ohio)--History
Places: Xenia (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing Ruth Weinman Herndon riding a horse at the River Ridge Riding and Polo Club. The caption reads beneath the photograph: "Ruth on Sonny Boy." Ruth Weinman Herndon (1907-2002) was a life-long resident of Columbus, Ohio. Born September 6, 1907, she was the daughter of Henrietta Heinmiller Weinman (1869-1957) and William Nelson Weinman (1868-1950), owner of the Weinman Pump Manufacturing Company. The Weinmans were a prominent German-American family in central Ohio throughout the twentieth century. Ruth lived with her parents at 380 King Avenue in Columbus until 1914, when her parents hired Columbus architect Frank Packard to build a home at 1445 Roxbury Road in Marble Cliff. After graduating from Columbus School for Girls in 1925, Ruth studied sociology at Ohio State University, graduating in 1929. She married L. Kermit Herndon. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1344AV_B03_BOOK01_007
Subjects: Women; Horseback riding; Horses--Training; Societies and clubs; Sports; Animals;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Leland Pierson of Clintonville, who was a soldier in the U.S. Army during World War I. 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_154
Subjects: Clinton League; Women--Charities; World War, 1914-1918--Ohio; Soldiers
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)