Description: This handmade ceramic jug is round and has been glazed brown. There is a cloth on the handle. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H73852
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Kitchen utensils--United States--History
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: On the regimental colors of 10th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry (O.V.C.), a blue flag with gold fringe, is embroidered the United States arms. The arms consists of a bald eagle with a olive branch in its left talon and three arrows in its right. The eagle's eye is made of one black bead surrounded by rows of red and silver beads. On the back of the flag are embroidered the names of battles in which the regiment saw action: Tunnell Hill, Resaca, Atlanta, Macon, Waynesboro, and Savannah. There are two images of the flag, the front and back of the flag. The 10th O.V.C. was organized at Camp Taylor in Cleveland, Ohio, under Colonel Charles C. Smith in October 1862. It participated in the battles of Chickamauga, Atlanta, Resaca, and Sherman's March to the Sea. Ohio battle flags were on display at the Ohio Statehouse until the 1960s, when the state formed a committee to oversee efforts to restore the fragile flags. Some of the battle flags were on display on the plaza level of the Ohio History Center from 1970 until 1989. For conservation reasons, the flags have been in storage since 1989. In the 1960s, the collection was photographed and commercial artist Robert Needham painted illustrations of many Civil War flags. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1330_1607313_006
Subjects: Military Ohio; American Civil War, 1861-1865; United States. Army. Ohio Cavalry Regiment, 10th (1862-1865); Flags;
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Photograph of a portrait of Joseph Vance (1786-1852) who served as Ohio's governor from 1836-1838. Vance was elected as Ohio's governor in 1836, becoming the first Whig Party candidate elected in the state. During his term as governor, Vance supported state funding for public schools and canal construction. He also worked to abolish capital punishment in Ohio. He had an excellent reputation as governor until he supported the extradition of someone accused of helping escaped slaves to stand trial in Kentucky. Although Vance had previously been known for his anti-slavery views, the extradition seriously affected his campaign for reelection in 1838. Ultimately, Wilson Shannon was elected as governor instead. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: R_445_Vance
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government; Ohio--Governors--Portraits
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows the side and front facades of the Butler County Courthouse. This structure was built from 1885-1889 by architect David Gibbs, and like most county courthouses, it has undergone many renovations. A fire in 1912 caused the collapse of the commanding four-tiered clock tower into the center of the building's interior. A new three-tiered structure was constructed to replace the original, and it is the tower which stands to this day. Its architectural style is a mix of Second Empire and Palladian. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F01_054
Subjects: Courthouses; National Register of Historic Places;
Places: Hamilton (Ohio); Butler County (Ohio); 101 High St.
 

Description: Carte de visite of Pvt. William A. Mossburg, who served with Company F of the 179th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was originally from Liberty Township, Ohio. On the label, his name is spelled "Mossburgh" View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV200_b03_f20_11
Subjects: Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Photographs; United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 179th (1864-1865) Company F; Military Ohio
Places: Washington County (Ohio)
 

Description: Plowing lines for planting at author-conservationist Louis Bromfield's Malabar Farm, Richland County, Ohio, ca. 1940-1949. Bromfield (1896-1956) received the Pulitzer Prize for his book "Early Autumn" in 1927 and wrote 30 best-selling books during his 32-year literary career. In 1939, he created his dream, Malabar Farm, where he could demonstrate sound soil and water conservation practices and teach others about sustainable agriculture. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00645
Subjects: Agricultural machinery; Ohio Economy--Agriculture; Malabar Farm
Places: Lucas (Ohio); Richland County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph depicts pit car loaders under construction at the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company in Columbus, Ohio. Loaders eliminated the time-consuming job of loading coal into pit cars by hand, which increased production and lowered cost. These 38D loaders were later shipped to the Peabody Coal Company. The Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, also known as the Jeffrey Mining Corporate Center, was established in 1876 as the Lechner Mining Machine Company in Columbus, Ohio, by Joseph Jeffrey and Francis Lechner. The company was the number one manufacturer of coal mining machinery worldwide until the mid-twentieth century. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01521
Subjects: Coal mines and mining; Inventions; Manufacturing industries--Ohio; Inventors; Ohio Economy--Economy--Labor
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photographic reproduction of a portrait of President Abraham Lincoln and his family mounted on a carte de visite, ca. 1860-1865. Lincoln served his first term as president from 1861 to 1865. His second term as President ended when he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02837
Subjects: Presidents--United States; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Pictorial works
 

Description: This photograph shows Ohio National Guard troops and police officers in a crowd outside of Westside Barber Shop in Akron, Ohio, 1968. The National Guard troops were likely in Akron in response to a civil disturbance, and the soldiers nearest the camera can be seen holding rifles. The crowd in the center seems to be engaged in a non-violent protest. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05179
Subjects: African Americans; Soldiers--Ohio; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century; Protests and protestors
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph is a black-and-white image of a colorful mural titled "Pioneers Crossing the Ohio River," painted in 1941 by artist Michael Loew (1907-1985). The mural depicts a group of pioneers, a covered wagon, and an ox crowded together on a raft. Behind them is a body of water with hills in the background. From the rear, several men are using long poles to propel the raft forward, while in the front a young man is pulling on a rope with all of his strength to move the raft forward. Several women, one of whom is holding an infant, are grouped in the center next to the wagon, ox, a plow, and yoke. The mural, painted in oil on canvas, is located in the former post office building in Amherst, Ohio. It measures 4-1/8 feet high by 14 feet long. The mural was funded by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Section of Painting and Sculpture, one of the department’s three visual arts programs instituted during the Great Depression. Established in 1934, the Section of Painting and Sculpture commissioned artists to create paintings and sculpture that would decorate new federal buildings. The commissions were awarded competitively. Unlike other cultural programs of the New Deal, the Section’s primary goal was to procure art for public buildings, not to provide work relief. Born in New York City, artist Michael Loew was an abstract expressionist whose early works were representational, including the murals he painted for the Treasury Department’s Section of Painting and Sculpture. He studied at the Art Students League from 1926-1929 and worked as a stained-glass artist. He studied art in Paris from 1929-1930. In 1939 he had painted murals for the New York World’s Fair with his close friend and fellow artist, Willem de Kooning. By this time his style was shifting toward abstract expressionism. After serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II, Loew studied at the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Art from 1947-1949 and at the Atelier Fernand Leger from 1949-1950. Between 1956 and 1966, he taught painting at the Portland (Oregon) Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, and at the School of Visual Arts in New York. In 1988 photographer Connie Girard took color and black-and-white images of this mural for an article in "Timeline" magazine (June/July 1989). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04494
Subjects: Mural paintings (visual works); Post office buildings--Ohio; United States. Works Progress Administration; United States. Department of the Treasury. Section of Painting and Sculpture; Loew, Michael, 1907-1985; Great Depression and the New Deal
Places: Amherst (Ohio); Lorain County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image is a reproduction of a photograph depicting a view of the Ohio and Erie Canal at Millersport, Ohio, ca. 1900. At the right edge of the image people can be seen walking on the canal towpath. The Ohio and Erie Canal was one of Ohio's most important canals during the mid nineteenth century. During the late 1810s, Governor Thomas Worthington and Governor Ethan Allen Brown both supported the development of canals. Both men believed that Ohioans needed quick and easy access to the Ohio River and to Lake Erie if they were to profit financially. Farmers and business owners would be able to transport their products much more easily and cheaply with canals rather than turnpikes. Canals would also possibly open up new markets for Ohio goods. In 1822 the Ohio legislature created a new Ohio Canal Commission, which eventually recommended two routes: a route that started at Lake Erie, passing through the Cuyahoga Valley, the Muskingum Valley, the Licking Valley, and then to the Ohio River along the Scioto Valley (Ohio and Erie Canal) and a western route along the Miami and Maumee Valleys (Miami and Erie Canal). In 1825 the Ohio legislature approved both routes, and work began immediately. On July 4, 1825, work began on the Ohio and Erie Canal at Licking Summit just south of Newark. The surrounding swamps were drained to create the Licking Reservoir, today known as Buckeye Lake, in order to supply adequate water for the canal going north to Coshocton and south to Circleville. After the canal route was established, the state engineers discovered that there was a ridge of hills located south of the proposed reservoir through which they would have to cut the canal. Because it was impossible to raise the reservoir’s level, the ridge had to be cut down to the level of the reservoir. This "Deep Cut" marks the deepest part of the canal at 32 feet and runs south from Millersport for nearly two miles. To finance the canals, the Ohio government relied on loans. Ohio received an initial loan of $400,000 from bankers and businessmen living along the East Coast. The canal commissioners estimated that the Ohio and Erie Canal would cost $ 2.3 million, but it actually cost roughly $10,000 per mile to finish. Although the construction of both canals nearly bankrupted the state government, the canals allowed Ohioans to prosper, beginning in the 1830s all the way to the Civil War. In 1830 the Ohio legislature earmarked funds for the Miami and Erie Canal's extension to Defiance and Lake Erie; by 1833 the Ohio and Erie Canal was complete. Once completed, however, the state’s canals still faced numerous difficulties. The effects of flooding and freezing could and often did seriously damage the canals. Usually canals in the northern half of the state were drained dry from November to April. These difficulties paled in comparison to the advantages of having the canals. The cost to ship goods from the East Coast to Ohio and vice versa declined tremendously, from $125 per ton of goods to $25 per ton of goods. Travelers who were willing to trade time for economy could save considerable money by taking a canal boat. Most canals remained in operation in Ohio until the late 1800s. By the 1850s canals were losing business to the railroads, which offered several advantages. Railroads delivered passengers and goods more quickly, and they were not limited by a water source as canals were. Because of these advantages, railroads quickly supplanted the canals. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06108
Subjects: Ohio and Erie Canal (Ohio); Canals; Transportation--Ohio--History;
Places: Millersport (Ohio); Fairfield County (Ohio)
 

Description: Isaac L. Edwards of Hocking County, Legally Executed at 12:23 A.M.,September 17, 1895, for the Murder of Mrs. Sarah sellers at Murray City, Ohio, Hocking County, Logan, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08048
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Prisons--Ohio; Death row; Capital punishment; Portrait photography;
Places: Logan (Ohio); Hocking County (Ohio)