Description: Anthony Wayne owned this pair of wrought iron spurs. They are each 6 inches (15.24 cm) long and 4 inches (10.16 cm) wide. Spurs are objects with blunt or pointed edges that fit on the heel of a person's boot or shoe. When that person is mounted on a horse, he or she can urge the horse forward by poking the horse with the spur. Anthony Wayne (1745-1796) was born in Pennsylvania and gained distinction during the American Revolution. He was nicknamed "Mad" Anthony Wayne due to his sense of daring and impatience with restraint. After the war, Americans Indians dealt the military in the Northwest Territory humiliating defeats. Undisciplined militia troops were blamed, and George Washington appointed Wayne commander-in-chief of the newly created Legion of the United States. Under Wayne's command, troops were ruthlessly drilled and disciplined. After building several forts, Wayne's army defeated the Americans Indians at the pivotal Battle of Fallen Timbers. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1424_1533328_001
Subjects: Daily life; Wayne, Anthony, 1745-1796; Spurs (Accessories worn)
Places: Northwest Territory
 

Description: This image depicts students at Brookside Elementary school planting trees on Arbor Day. Brookside Elementary is located in Worthington, Ohio. Arbor Day is a United States holiday dedicated to the planting of trees on a national scale, education on the importance of trees, and education on how to plant trees. The holiday is celebrated the last Friday in April in the United States. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA2002AV_B01_00009_32
Subjects: Tree planting; Arbor Day; Students--Ohio; Children
Places: Worthington (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio);
 

Description: A group of construction workers wearing hard hats stand on the corner of Broad and High Streets in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Next to the men is a Citizen-Journal newspaper stand. Published from 1959 to 1985, The Citizen-Journal was the daily morning newspaper in Columbus, Ohio. A large traffic sign instructs drivers not to turn right at the intersection. 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_B05F132_01
Subjects: Street photography; Downtowns; Construction industry
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Miss Juliette Sessions of Columbus, Ohio. Sessions (1887-1929) was included on the "Ohio State Honor Roll" from the League of Women Voters of Ohio, ca. 1930, which listed prominent Ohio women involved in the suffrage movement. Her brief biography from the Honor Roll reads: "Juliette Sessions was active in the suffrage Association and one of the organizers of the State League of Women Voters and a president of that organization. She was a member of the Board of the Franklin County League of Women Voters from its inception. She was for some time a member of the Columbus Board of Education and president for several years." This photograph comes from the League of Women Voters of Ohio Collection. The League of Women Voters was first formed at the national level in early 1920 by Carrie Chapman Catt, President of the National Woman Suffrage Association. Soon, additional leagues began to form at the state and local level, with the League of Women Voters of Ohio being organized in May 1920 in Columbus. The League was first formed to empower women to use their newfound right to vote, and today its primary purpose remains citizen education. To this goal, it supports voter registration efforts, provides information on candidates and issues, sponsors debates and offers publications on public policy and voter engagement topics. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS354_B10_LWVO_JulietteSessions
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Social movements; League of Women Voters of Ohio; Suffragists; Activism; Educators
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio);
 

Description: Taken in 1971 by U.S. Army medic Charles Tweel, this photograph shows crop fields in the lowlands of Vietnam. Workers work in the fields to the right, and on the left a child rides a water buffalo. This photograph is part of the Charles Tweel Collection (AV 324) at the Ohio History Connection. Charles Tweel grew up in Columbus, Ohio, and attended The Ohio State University. After graduation in 1968, he enlisted in the U.S. Army as a non-combatant, first training as a medic at Fort Sam Huston, followed by nine months of additional training at Valley Forge General Hospital in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. He finished his training as a Specialist 3 and 91C, MOS, and went on to serve in Bamberg, Germany, with combat engineers for one year. In January 1971, Tweel served in Vietnam with the Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion (Air Mobile), 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, based out of Camp Evans near Phu Bai, north of Hue, until December of that year. Tweel spent most of his service on various firebases as the medic in charge, and occasionally shared firebases with South Vietnamese soldiers. He also visited MedCAP stations (Medical Civic Action Programs) where he treated civilians. Tweel received the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious achievement, and was promoted to Specialist 5 in 1971. After discharge from the Army, he went to medical school and was in private practice as a family practitioner from 1979-2016, and now works part-time in inner city medical clinics in Columbus, Ohio, and Charleston, South Carolina. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV324_B01F03_019
Subjects: Vietnam War (1961-1975); United States. Army. Airborne Division, 101st; Agriculture;
Places: Vietnam
 

Description: Photograph showing the inside of the Ralston Steel Car Company's 2901 East Fourth Street plant in Columbus, Ohio, from the Columbus Citizen-Journal Collection. The Ralston Steel Company was founded by Joseph S. Ralston and Anton Becker in 1905, when the men bought the former plant of the Rarig Engineering Company on the east side of Columbus. The increasing power of steam locomotives drove demand for the all-steel cars they manufactured, and the company was extremely successful with their drop-bottom general purpose gondola car. These cars had bottom pans that would drop down, allowing coal to pour out instead of the traditional method using shovels and wheelbarrows. This allowed for automatic unloading of coal and hopper cars which led to more efficient production. With the exception of the Great Depression, Ralston experienced a successful run until the 1950s, when demand for freight trains dropped after World War II. The company shut its doors in 1953. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P339_B11F14_02_01
Subjects: Manufacturing industries--Ohio; Steel industry; Transportation--Ohio--History; Factories;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This park sits on the corner of West Market Street and Mahoning Avenue and can be seen from the Trumbull County courthouse. It includes a reconstructed log cabin built on the site of the town’s first schoolhouse and memorials that honor the military service of local citizens. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F06_462
Subjects: War memorials--Ohio; Parks; Monuments--Ohio; Ohio History--Military Ohio
Places: Warren (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio);
 

Description: This photograph of a new company wagon was taken in the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company yard in Columbus, Ohio, 1907. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01261
Subjects: Horse-drawn vehicles--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Opening game. Cin.Ball.Park. Apr. 15-1941- Raising of World Pennant-showing Reds and St. Louis players, temporary seats in left field and left field grand stand." This photograph depicts the Cincinnati Reds and St. Louis Cardinals standing at attention during the raising of the World Pennant during the opening game at Crosley Field in Cincinnati on April 15, 1941. Crosley Field was located at the corner of Western Avenue and Findley Street in Cincinnati, Ohio. Originally named Redland Field, this steel and concrete Major League Baseball park was designed by architect Henry Hake and cost $225, 000 to build. It was renamed Crosley Field in 1934, when the team was bought by local businessman Powel Crosley Jr., who's ownership saw some important structural renovations to the building. It 1935, lights were added to allow for games to be played at night, in order to increase attendance during the Depression. Crosley Field was also used for other events throughout the years. Crosley Field was one of the smallest parks in the MLB, in both capacity and field size, and was notorious for "the terrace", a fifteen degree incline in left field. The last game at Crosley Field was played June 24, 1970, and the team moved to Riverfront Stadium. It was destroyed on April 19, 1972, and today seven buildings and a street occupy the place where it stood. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F01_003_001
Subjects: Crosley Field (Cincinnati, Ohio)--History--Pictorial works; Cincinnati Reds (Baseball team); St. Louis Cardinals (Baseball team); Baseball--Ohio--Cincinnati; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project.
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows the Dayton boat on the Miami and Erie canal in Dayton, Ohio, March 22, 1911. The photograph's caption reads "This is how the old Canal Boat 'Dayton' looked as it rested in the Old Canal at Apple Street, March 22, 1911." Also written on the reverse of the photo is "End of an era". Work began on the Miami and Erie Canal in 1825 and was completed in 1845. During the peak of construction, more than four thousand laborers worked on the canal, generally earning 30 cents per day plus room and board. Many recent immigrants to the United States, especially the Irish, survived thanks to jobs on the canals. Other people, like the residents of the communal society at Zoar, also helped construct canals to assist the survival of their communities. Many of Ohio's communities today, including Akron, began as towns for the canal workers. Most canals remained in operation in Ohio until the late 1800s. There is a short stretch in the Muskingum Valley near Zanesville still in operation today. By the 1850s, however, canals were losing business to the railroads. 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_B02F05_008
Subjects: Canals--Ohio; Canal-boats; Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation--Ohio; Dayton (Ohio)
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph (ca. 1935-1943) shows an aerial view, presumably taken from the Terminal Tower, looking northeast down Superior Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, with Lake Erie in the distance. Visible are the Cleveland Public Library (square building, bottom left corner), Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (two buildings farther along on corner of Superior and E 6th) View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F08_14_01
Subjects: Cleveland (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Cleveland (Ohio). Cleveland Public Library; Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "A native of Hungary tries a reading lesson before a circle of critical friends in a WPA literacy class, 8637 Buckeye Road, Cleveland, Ohio." On April 8, 1935, the United States Congress passed the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act, part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, which was hoped would allow Americans to cope with the Great Depression. Creation of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was the most important accomplishment of this Act. This government office hired unemployed Americans to work on various government projects. During its existence, the WPA constructed more than 600,000 miles of roads and built or repaired more than 124,000 bridges, 125,000 public buildings, 8,000 parks, and 850 airport runways. The WPA also included programs to support education and the arts, providing employment opportunities for out of work educators and artists of all varieties. Although the United States Congress reduced funding for the program in 1939, the WPA remained in operation until June 30, 1943. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F08_046_001
Subjects: Literacy programs--Ohio--Cleveland; Naturalization--United States; United States. Works Progress Administration
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)