Description: This photograph depicts the guard on a rip saw in a carpenter shop. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B04F56_012
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry and trade--Safety measures
 

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_01
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: The pictured object is a dolly, used to gain a mechanical advantage and more easily move heavy loads. It was manufactured from wood and iron and is brown in color. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H73518
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Tools
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image is of a round gathering basket made of woven willow. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8635
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Baskets (containers)
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 4719 and 4749. Roads, properties, bridges 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_006
Subjects: Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio
Places: Delphos (Ohio); Van Wert County (Ohio); Allen County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photomechanical reproduction of a portrait of John and Smithey Thomas, who were Underground Railroad agents in Azalia, Bartholomew 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: AL03018
Subjects: Siebert, Wilbur Henry, 1866-1961; Underground Railroad--Indiana; Abolitionists; Activists
Places: Azalia (Indiana); Bartholomew County (Indiana)
 

Description: Photograph of Juliet Davis Hunt (1861-1943) and Edward Eyre Hunt, Jr., ca. 1924. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03785
Subjects: Women--Ohio; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Children; Families
 

Description: Memoir dedication written by Ulysses S. Grant to American soldiers and sailors 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: AL04584
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S., 1822-1885; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio--History, Military; Presidents--United States
Places: New York (New York)
 

Description: Aaron Washington, of Montgomery County, was electrocuted July26, 1918, for the Murder of Clarence Conover. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08101
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Capital punishment
Places: Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing Ruth Weinman Herndon at the River Ridge Riding and Polo Club, Columbus, Ohio. The caption reads: "Taken At The Club, Autumn 1930." Ruth Weinman Herndon (Mrs. L. Kermit Herndon) 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 20th century. Ruth Weinman (1907-2002) lived with her parents at grew up 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_001
Subjects: Women--Ohio; Sports; Societies and clubs; Animals; Horseback riding; Horses
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph identified as Clinton Elementary School, about 1915. This school, built in 1895, replaced an original red brick building on the site at Clinton Heights Avenue and North High Street. It served as the primary school for Clintonville children from its construction until it was replaced with a larger building in 1922. This yellow brick building also served as the Clinton Township High School from 1897 through 1905, when a secondary building was built to house high school pupils for the township. 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_167
Subjects: Clinton League; Women--Charities; School buildings; Education
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: An older man wearing eyeglasses, a suit and hat stands with a grocery bag along North High Street in the University District of Columbus, Ohio. 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_B11F291_01
Subjects: Street photography; University District (Columbus, Ohio); Groceries;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)