Description: Photograph of "Characteristic Local Scenes in Portsmouth," a four panel painted by Clarence H. Carter in 1938. Carter was an American painter, designer and etcher born in Portsmouth, Ohio in 1904. The painting is located at the post office in Portsmouth, Ohio in Scioto 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_f22_02
Subjects: Post office stations and branches--Ohio--Photographs; Public art--Ohio--Photographs; Public Works of Art Project (United States); New Deal art
Places: Portsmouth (Ohio); Scioto County (Ohio)
 

Description: This carpenter's tool chest with trays was built from wood and is brown in color. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H73516
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Tools; Furniture
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image is of a cradle scythe made of iron and oak and painted red. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8629
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 Delphos, Ohio, in Van Wert and Allen Counties, between stations 4688 and 4719. 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_005
Subjects: Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio
Places: Delphos (Ohio); Van Wert County (Ohio); Allen County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photographic reproduction of a daguerreotype portrait of Newton (b. 1832) and Mary Thompson Hadley (b. 1833). They were married on December 5, 1855 and kept an Underground Railroad station in Penn Township, Parke County, Indiana. The image was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03006
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Indiana; Siebert, Wilbur Henry, 1866-1961; Abolitionists; Activists
Places: Penn Township (Indiana); Parke County (Indiana)
 

Description: Woodcut print of the Hunt farm (formerly Simon Kenton Farm) in Springfield (Clark County), Ohio. Created by Virginia Fox Hunt and Edward Eyre Hunt for a holiday card, ca. 1930. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03783
Subjects: Springfield (Ohio); Art and Artists; Holidays
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: Exterior view of the Hartman Building, located at the intersection of Main and 4th Streets in Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1910-1920. Completed in 1902, the Hartman Building was developed by Columbus physician Samuel B. Hartman (1830-1918), who used it as a combination hotel/medical complex for his patients. Since it was leased to the state in 1921, the building has held the Bureau of Motor Vehicles as well as a succession of banks, and is now home to residential lofts. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05241
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development; Historic buildings--Ohio--Columbus; Hotels--Ohio--Columbus--History
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Illustration of soldiers surrounding the Spotsylvania Court House, published in "The American Soldier in the Civil War" by Frank Leslie. The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House occurred in May 1864 between the Union army led by Ulysses S. Grant and the Confederate army led by Robert E. Lee. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04582
Subjects: Battlefields; Grant, Ulysses S., 1822-1885; American Civil War, 1861-1865; Confederate States of America
Places: Spotsylvania (Virginia)
 

Description: Blain Snouffer, of Franklin County, was electrocuted December 12, 1917, for the Murder of Augusta Sickles. On April 10, 1917, Blair Snouffer broke into the house in Worthington, Ohio, where Sickles, his girlfriend, was staying and slit her throat. Afterward he went home, was confronted by the police, and surrendered. Snouffer allegedly killed Sickles after she broke off their relationship. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08099
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Capital punishment; Portrait photography
Places: Worthington (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is an aerial photograph of two homes destroyed 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 hour 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: AL07697
Subjects: Tornadoes--Ohio--Xenia; Tornado damage; Natural disasters; Xenia (Ohio)--History
Places: Xenia (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing a man standing next to a saddled horse at the River Ridge Riding and Polo Club. The photograph was originally preserved in the scrapbook of Ruth Herndon. The caption beneath the photograph reads: "Old Buck with Sunny Jim." 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_037
Subjects: Athletics and athletes; Horseback riding; Horses--Training; Societies and clubs; Sports; Animals;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing the front of Mr. Brown's Descent, a bar and performance venue located at 1434 North High Street in the University District of Columbus, Ohio. A mural showing a rainbow and landscape is painted on the side of the building, and a woman walks past along a snowy sidewalk. The University District includes the small neighborhoods to the east and south of The Ohio State University campus on either side of the High Street corridor. 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_B12F323_01
Subjects: Street photography; University District (Columbus, Ohio); Bars (Drinking establishments); Pedestrians
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)