Description: This carte de visite depicts General John Sedgwick, who served in the Union Army during the Civil War. Sedcgwick was regarded as a solid, dependable, if unaggressive, general. A native of Cornwall, Connecticut, he fought at Yorktown, Seven Pines, Antietam, Chancellorsville, and the Wilderness, and was killed by a sniper's bullet at the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV200_b03_f33_48
Subjects: Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Photographs
Places: Ohio; Cornwall (Connecticut)
 

Description: Memorial to "Johnny Appleseed" born John Chapman, Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio, ca. 1940-1949. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00308
Subjects: Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; Chapman, John, 1704-1784; Apples
Places: Ashland (Ohio); Ashland County (Ohio)
 

Description: Two students, one in costume, raise a 13-star American flag to celebrate the United States Bicentennial outside Richardson School in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, 1976. Another student wearing a bucket hat plays the trumpet, while other students, some in costume, look on. The image was submitted by photographer Dorothy Markulis of Cuyahoga Falls in the Professional category of the Spirit of Ohio Bicentennial Photo Contest. In August 1976, the Ohio American Revolution Bicentennial Advisory Committee (OARBAC) began the Spirit of Ohio Bicentennial Photo Contest as part of a larger effort in Ohio to celebrate the 1976 American Bicentennial. The contest was meant to document "the spirit and character of the people and places which represent Ohio during [the] bicentennial year," and to create a permanent photographic archive of the year's festivity for use by future researchers. Both professional and amateur photographers submitted over 500 photographs for consideration, all taken within the state between January 1 and December 31, 1976. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01105
Subjects: American Revolution Bicentennial (1976); Flag raising and lowering; Students; Costumes; Musical instruments
Places: Cuyahoga Falls (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: Regimental colors of the 2nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01874
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio History--Military Ohio
 

Description: Taken from Charlotte Reeve Conover, "Dayton, Ohio : an Intimate History." New York : Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1932. Caption reads: "Montgomery Co., Dayton O. Mar. 1938. Wolf Creek in Winter. 2 8x10 prints to Col. 3/ /38. Copied from #I Conover History." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F09_051_1
Subjects: Ohio--Geography; Conover, Charlotte Reeve
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads "Cinci., O., Nov. 16, 1937. Copy, Mellish Home". The Thomas Melish home is located at 363 Lafayette Avenue in Cincinnati, Ohio. Built in 1914, using hammer dressed Ohio limestone, in the style of a rural British Cotswold home, it boasts wall which are two feet thick and paned, leaded glass casement windows. This may have been the home of Reverend Thomas Jefferson Melish (Mellish), D.D., rector of St. Philip's Protestant Church, North Side, Cincinnati, whose father John Melish was born in Scotland and moved to Wilmington, Ohio in 1817, but more information is needed to be certain. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F05_009_001
Subjects: Architecture; Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph is of a map of downtown Cincinnati, centered on Plum Street. The farthest street visible to the north is Liberty Street, to the east is Eden Park, to the south is the Ohio River and to the west is Mill Creek. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F03_30_01
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio)--Maps--Facsimiles
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Chillicothe High School" This building was built in 1931 and is currently awaiting demolition. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F06_028_001
Subjects: Schools--Ohio; School buildings--Ohio; High schools
Places: Chillicothe (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows a locomotive engine that ran on the Big Four Railroad, with a note on the reverse which reads "BIG FOUR ENGINE #7514 S. Pruegfred[?]." The Big Four Railroad was also referred to as the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis Railway. On June 30, 1889, the consolidation of three major railway companies which serviced the American Midwest, formed the Big Four Railroad. In 1890, the Big Four Railway absorbed the Indiana, Bloomington and Western Railway. In 1906, the New York Central Railroad acquired the Big Four, and in the 1960s the Penn Central railroad absorbed Big Four's rail lines. This 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 the Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F07_004_001
Subjects: Locomotives--Ohio; Trains--History; Transportation--Ohio--History.; Passenger trains; Engines; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Insulating trailer with fiberglass" View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F09_029_001
Subjects: Trailers; Insulation (Heat); Fiberglass
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Caption reads: "Abandoned Coal Tripple at Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio. Evening on Pomeroy Bend. Code: F15, Class: Industry. Ident: Abandonded Coal Tipple. Location: Pomeroy. District 3." View of Pomeroy Bend and an anabanadoned coal tipple, along the Ohio River. Pomeroy is located in southeastern Ohio, along the Ohio River. It was named for Samuel Pomeroy, a Boston merchant who in 1804 purchased 262 acres of land on the site of the city. As early as 1770 coal was discovered near by, but it was 1809 before Nicholas Roosevelt opened a mine along the river to provide fuel for the steamboats about to appear on the Ohio. In 1832 the coal seams on the Samuel Pomeroy tract were opened and 1,000 bushels of coal were shipped down the river. The next year Pomeroy formed a company which, having acquired four miles of the river front, began to mine and distribute coal on a large scale. Prior to 1850 Pomeroy was the only town in Ohio shipping large quantities of coal down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. By 1880, when Ohio was the Nation’s third-ranking bituminous coal Sate, Meigs County, of which Pomeroy is the seat, stood fifth among some 30 coal producing counties. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F20_001_1
Subjects: Ohio River; Coal trade--Ohio River Valley--History
Places: Pomeroy (Ohio); Meigs County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of an elderly African American woman, likely an ex-slave documented as part of the efforts of the Works Progress Administration. The photograph is a part of the Federal Ohio Writers' Program of the WPA. The photographer was Sam. R. Kremer of Dayton, Ohio View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F05_012_001
Subjects: Works Progress Administration; African American women--Ohio; Former slaves
Places: Ohio