Description: The present Union County Courthouse was designed in 1883 and is identical to the Henry County Courthouse. The building is positioned in the middle of a large square, and is made of brick and cut stone with galvanized iron trimmings. The tower bells play tunes like "America the Beautiful" every hour. It is Second Empire style. This image shows the front facade. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F06_470
Subjects: Courthouses; mansard roofs; towers (building divisions); porticoes; pediments; pilasters; Second Empire
Places: Marysville (Ohio); Union County (Ohio); 5th and Court Streets
 

Description: Neil Armstrong returning to his hometown of Wapakoneta, Ohio after NASA mission Gemini 8. Banner on St. Paul's Church reads "St. Paul's Church is Proud of her son NEIL' View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV_203B2F1_005
Subjects: Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012; Wapakoneta (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Paul Laurence Dunbar, February 1904. He was born in Dayton, Ohio, in 1872 to Joshua and Matilda Dunbar, both former slaves, and was encouraged by his mother in poetry and his schooling from an early age. He attended Dayton Central High School and was the sole African American student at that time. Following his high school graduation, Dunbar worked as an elevator operator while writing poetry in his free time. He built a reputation as a successful literary voice and writer of dialect poetry, and was the first African American poet to receive critical acclaim for his work. Dunbar authored twelve collections of poetry, five novels, one play, and a large number of newspaper articles before his death from tuberculosis on February 9, 1906. He is buried in the Woodland Cemetery in Dayton. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00502
Subjects: Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906; American poetry--Ohio; Literary Ohio; African American Ohioans; Poets; Authors
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Belt-driven mine ventilation fan blade made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio, 1909. Ventilation fans were used to force fresh air into underground mines for miners to breathe and to dissipate poisonous gasses inside the mine. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01265
Subjects: Machinery industry--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows the presentation of flowers by Findlay Market merchants to Cincinnati Reds manager Bill McKechnie during the opening game on April 15, 1941, at Crosley Field. It appears the players from both teams surround the presentation, as well as a marching band. McKechnie (1886 -1965) started his career as a player and was the first manager to win the World Series with two different teams, the Cincinnati Reds and the Pittsburgh Pirates. He also remains one of two managers to win pennants with three different teams. Because of his personal choices and religious nature, he became known as the "Deacon." A note on the photograph's reverse reads "Opening Game- Cin. Ball Park. Apr. 15-1941. Presentation of bouquet of flowers to Mgr. Bill McKechenie by Findlay Market merchants. This is a yearly custom." 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_B13F01_006_001
Subjects: Baseball managers; Crosley Field (Cincinnati, Ohio)--History--Pictorial works; Cincinnati Reds (Baseball team); St. Louis Cardinals (Baseball team); Baseball
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: View of the Miami and Erie canal with a horse-drawn cart using the remnants of the towpath running along the canal. This photograph was most likely taken near Dayton. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F05_005
Subjects: Canals--Ohio--Pictorial works; Canals--Ohio--Dayton; Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads "Cinci., O., Feb. 1938. Copy from Thompson Album." The photograph depicts a Grecian style statue with two women. Located at 5870 Belmont Avenue in the College Hill area of Cincinnati, Ohio, the Peter G. Thomson Home is better known as Laurel Court and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. The Beau Arts Neoclassical style home, completed in 1907, was built for Peter G. Thomson, founder of Champion Paper, and designed by James Gamble Rogers, the nephew of Peter's wife Laura Gamble Thomson. It was modeled after the Petit Trianon, a "small" chateau on the grounds of the Palace of Versailles in France, and is considered one of the finest homes in America. The exterior is made from chiseled granite and was originally built on twenty three acres, on the highest point in Hamilton County. The Thomson family lived in the home until 1947. Today, the private residence stands on seven and a half acres of land, and the numerous original buildings, gardens, statues and fountains are open for tours and special events by reservation only. Some of the notable features of this home include the retractable roof of the two story Atrium in the center of the house, the Rookwood tiled swimming pool, the African Rosewood tiled Library, and the gilded Music Room. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F08_006_1
Subjects: Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Architecture, Domestic--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc; Thomson, Peter G. (Peter Gibson), 1851-1931; Rogers, James Gamble, 1901-1990; National Register of Historic Places; Atriums; Sculpture
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Terminal Tower, Bridge and shipping, from Flats. Cleveland." This photograph shows Terminal Tower, the Detroit-Superior high level viaduct bridge and the flats, which until the 1980s was mainly an industrial area. The twelve huge concrete arches and 591 feet of steel span the Cuyahoga, to form Detroit-Superior Bridge which was completed in 1918 and is 3,112 feet long. It spans from West 9th Street to West 25th Street, and cost about $5.5 million dollars. Also visible are Fairchilds Flour mill and Hotel Cleveland. The hotel was built around 1915 atop the original 'Cleveland Hotel', and adjacent to the Terminal Tower, this 1,000 room hotel cost $4.5 million to build. In 1978 it was refurbished and remained Stouffer's Inn on the Square and in 1989 renamed Stouffer - Tower City Plaza. It became the Stouffer Renaissance Cleveland Hotel around 1993, but there have been discussions to drop the Stouffer name since 1996. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F08_16_01
Subjects: Terminal Tower Complex (Cleveland, Ohio)--History; Historic buildings--Ohio--Cleveland; Public Square (Cleveland, Ohio); Cleveland (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Cuyahoga River (Ohio); Bridges--Ohio--Cleveland--1910-1920; Cleveland (Ohio). Flats
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows the "Crayon Method Aquatint" in the Graphic Process Exhibition. It is a part of the Federal Art Project - WPA - Cleveland, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F09_021_001
Subjects: Cleveland (Ohio); Federal Art Project
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Title on front reads: "Plat of Site at Fort Jefferson. 5 1/2 miels south & west of Greenville, Ohio. August 20, 1930. Maj. J.F. Mullenkopf, Civil Engineer." This drawing is similar to a blueprint and shows the location of the the monument at Fort Jefferson, as well as three blockhouses, an underground passage, several ash pits, a well and several other sites. The monument at Fort Jefferson is made of faced granite field boulders, six feet square and twenty-feet tall. The area is maintained as a roadside park with a picnic shelter and grills. No part of the fort remains. Fort Jefferson Park and Monument marks the site of an advance outpost of General Arthur St. Clair. It was named in honor of Thomas Jefferson, then Secretary of State. One of a chain of defensive forts built to protect army supplies from Indians, it served as a supply base throughout the campaigns of General St. Clair and General Anthony Wayne. It was abandoned in 1796. In October 1791, General Arthur St. Clair ordered the construction of a fort roughly six miles south of modern-day Greenville, Ohio. He intended to use the site as a supply depot for his campaign against the Miami Indians. The fort was a rough square with the walls approximately one hundred feet in length. St. Clair's men also built blockhouses on each corner of the fort. Originally called Fort Deposit, General St. Clair preferred to call the stockade Fort Jefferson. After the fort's completion, St. Clair's army moved against the Miami Indians. On the morning of November 4, 1791, natives under Little Turtle and Blue Jacket attacked. They easily drove the Americans from the field. The American survivors fled to Fort Jefferson for safety, but they found no food or medical supplies and quickly departed for Fort Washington. This battle became known as St. Clair's Defeat. His force suffered 647 killed soldiers and 271 wounded men out of 1400 participants in the battle. It was one of the worst defeats of the American military at the hands of Native Americans. For the next three years, American soldiers manned Fort Jefferson. Conditions were difficult as Native Americans sought to drive the men from the area. The natives did all they could to prevent supplies from reaching the embattled soldiers. The United States government hoped to use Fort Jefferson for attacks on the hostile natives as well as protection for white settlements in the area. It was an important supply depot for Anthony Wayne and his army in 1794 as they sought to punish the natives for St. Clair's Defeat. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F13_014
Subjects: Fort Jefferson (Ohio); Greenville (Ohio)--History; Darke County (Ohio)--History; Fort Jefferson, Ohio. [from old catalog]
Places: Fort Jefferson (Ohio); Darke County (Ohio)
 

Description: The grounds of a church in Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F07_009_1
Subjects: Fremont (Ohio); Churches--Ohio;
Places: Fremont (Ohio); Sandusky County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Governor John Brough (1811-1865). He was elected in 1864 during the Civil War and pledged to continue military support for the Union cause. Brough was Ohio's twenty-sixth governor. During his administration, he supported a tax that provided financial support for soldiers' families and improved conditions in military hospitals. In addition to recruiting Ohio troops for the war effort, he also offered the Ohio militia for federal service. In spite of the fact that he was not a Republican, Brough supported Abraham Lincoln's reelection campaign in 1864. Brough's health deteriorated during his term as governor and he had decided not to seek reelection. Brough did not live long enough to complete his term. He sprained his ankle in a fall and the ankle injury became gangrenous. Brough died in Cleveland on August 29, 1865, approximately four months before he was supposed to leave office. The lieutenant governor, Charles Anderson, completed his term. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV105_1_19
Subjects: Ohio--Governors--Portraits; Ohio History--State and Local Government
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)