Description: This photo depicts two unidentified people exiting an event during the homecoming celebration held for Neil Armstrong in Wapakoneta, Ohio on September 6, 1969. Ohio Governor James A. Rhodes exits behind them to the left. There are several journalists and supporters waiting to get a glimpse of Neil Armstrong. More than 80,000 supporters greeted Armstrong upon his return and Bob Hope served as marshal for the event. Guests included "Tonight Show" sidekick Ed McMahon, and Dr. Albert Sabin, inventor of the polio vaccine. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV_203B2F5_047
Subjects: Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012; Wapakoneta (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1940-1949, this photograph shows the natural waterfall around which the town of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, has grown. The Ohio Department of Industrial and Economic Development Collection contains photographs of prominent features across the state of Ohio, such as public buildings, college campuses, and natural features. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00331
Subjects: Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; Waterfalls
Places: Chagrin Falls (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows a man operating a Barney Brick Conveyor made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio. It is using a coil chain with special attachments to carry the bricks. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01209
Subjects: Conveying machinery; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of the old Tuberculosis Hospital in Hamilton County, Ohio. The hospital was built in 1879 on Guerley Farm under the name "Branch Hospital for Contagious Diseases," and was meant specifically for tuberculosis patients. As the disease spread, more buildings were necessary and the complex became the Cincinnati Tubercular Hospital. In 1945, the name was changed again to the Dunham Hospital in honor of Dr. Henry Kennon Dunham, one of the country's leading researchers into the causes and cures of tuberculosis. He served as the hospital's director from 1909 to 1940. Once a cure was discovered in the 1940s, the number of tuberculosis patients decreased dramatically, and the hospital was no longer needed. This building, along with most others on the property, was demolished in 1973 to make way for the Dunham Recreation Complex. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F05_002_1
Subjects: Communicable diseases; Tuberculosis; Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Hospitals--History--Ohio; Medicine -- History
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: The United States Industrial Reformatory in Chillicothe, Ohio opened to inmates in January, 1926 after being authorized in 1923. Until 1929 when Congress approved $3,000,000 in funding for permanent buildings, inmates were housed in the repurposed buildings of Camp Sherman, a World War I military training camp. The Camp Sherman quarters included the brick superintendent’s house and a wooden chapel, as well as temporary buildings made up of six dormitories, dining room, kitchen, and auditorium. Prisoner activities consisted of four hours of school daily, viewing movies three times a week, and access to a library and 50 bed hospital. Construction of the new reformatory facilities began in 1928 and was completed in 1936. The new reformatory facilities were to include a receiving building, one inside cell house, two outside cell houses and eight dormitories, as well as a hospital building, mess hall, warehouse, six shops, and a school building and auditorium. In the mid-1930’s a foundry and brick plant opened at the reformatory as part of the Federal Prison Industries (FPI). Items manufactured at the reformatory were sold to the Federal Government. The reformatory is now known as the Chillicothe Correctional Institution. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F11_005_1
Subjects: Chillicothe (Ross County, Ohio)--History; Chillicothe Correctional Institution (Chillicothe, Ohio); Prisons--Design and construction; Reformatories--Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Chillicothe (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated 1890, this photograph shows a Cincinnati schoolhouse with a caption which reads "After glancing at this [...;fth ald Vine Street it is not hard to under[... p]opularly known as "nasty corner" and "Many a happy hour and perhaps many a weary one was spent in the old Avondale School by hundreds of Cincinnatians who learned readn', writin' and 'rithmetic within its halls. This photograph was taken in 1890." This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F07_009_001
Subjects: Architecture; Buildings--Cincinnati (Ohio); Schools; Education; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Avondale (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph is of the Good Friday Pilgrimage held at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Cincinnati, Ohio each Good Friday. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F08_006_001
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio); Pilgrimage; Good Friday
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated December 1, 1937, this photograph shows the Baldwin Museum and Library in Akron, Ohio. The Baldwin Museum and Library is located at 208 Lincoln Way East (now routes 172 and 241), at the corner of 2nd Street Northeast. The brick, 'L'-shaped building was designed by local architects Albrecht & Wilhelm, incorporating the original Baldwin home. The Greek Revival style entrance, with its four Corinthian columns, is topped with a copper rotunda and was funded, in part, by a Works Progress Administration (WPA) grant. Construction began in 1936 and the Baldwin opened in 1937, while still partly unfinished, and opened officially on April 3, 1938. The Baldwin home, once the home of the city's founder James Duncan, had been left to the Massillon Library Board in 1931 for use as a library and museum, following the death of Mrs. Annie Steese Baldwin, wife of prominent local attorney Frank Baldwin. It opened as the Baldwin Museum in 1933, and having fulfilled the terms of Mrs. Baldwin's will, immediately began plans for expansion. Now called the Massillon Museum, it now occupies a new building at 121 Lincoln Way East, on the corner of City Hall Street SE (southeast). The old building is now the Massillon Public Library. This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F13_014_1
Subjects: Museum buildings--Ohio; Public libraries--Ohio; Library architecture--United States; Buildings--Ohio; Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Places: Massillon (Ohio); Stark County (Ohio)
 

Description: Masons, put to work by the Works Progress Administration, building benches/risers. Photo taken between 1935-1943. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F05_032_001
Subjects: Industries--Ohio---Labor; New Deal; Masonry; Works Progress Administration; Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Places: Ohio
 

Description: This is a photograph of the California Republic Flag with a grizzly bear on a white field, an orange stripe and orange star. It is made of nylon and measures 100 cm by 160 cm. In 1953, its standardized design and specifications were signed in by Governor Earl Warren. The bear motif was based on the last wild Californian grizzly bear in captivity. The bear, named "Monarch", was captured in 1889 on the order of newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst. After the bear's death in 1911, it was mounted and preserved at the Academy of Sciences at Golden Gate Park. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H65510_001
Subjects: Ceremonial artifact; Bear Flag; Communication artifact; State flags--California;
Places: California (United States)
 

Description: Painting of national colors of the 47th Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02429
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
 

Description: The Republic Steel Corporation Collection (MSS 192) consists of 13,000 black and white photographic negatives, 2,000 color photographic negatives, and many 35 mm slides which document Republic Steel Corporation’s main production facilities and its subsidiaries, 1941-1975. This collection also includes images of social events such as company picnics, award banquets, and dances. Founded in 1899, Republic Iron and Steel Company was a steel production company based in Youngstown, Ohio, and the result of a consolidation of 34 steel mills across the United States including the Mahoning Valley’s Brown Bonnell Iron Company, Andrews Brothers and Company, and Mahoning Iron Company. From 1927-1937, Republic Iron and Steel Company expanded its reach by acquiring a number of other companies such as Trumbull Steel Company in Warren, Ohio, and Central Alloy Steel Corporation in Canton, Ohio. With its expansion, Republic Iron and Steel Company became the third largest steel producer in the United States behind United States Steel Corporation and Bethlehem Steel Company, and changed its name to Republic Steel Corporation to reflect its new status. After the outbreak of World War II in 1941, the Corporation’s production increased by 33%. This increased production continued into the 1950s and 1960s as the company continued to be one of the leading developers of steel production technology. Due to a myriad of factors including decreased demand for steel from automobile manufacturers and imported foreign steel, steel sales declined and in 1984 the Republic Steel Corporation was purchased by LTV Corporation, which led to the closure of the Youngstown plant. LTV filed for bankruptcy in December 2000. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: YHC_MSS192_B04F794_007
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)