Description: This photograph is of models of maps of a portion of the United States. They were made for the Ohio State School for the Blind as teaching tools. The map on the left is Washington, Oregon and California. The map on the right is Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F02_072_001
Subjects: Models; Maps; Schools--Ohio; Ohio State School for the Blind; Blind--Education--Ohio--Columbus; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: In January and February of 1937, weeks of heavy rainfall caused the Ohio River to flood parts of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Kentucky, causing $500 million in property damages, and displacing and killing hundreds. By the end of January, the Ohio River measured 80 feet deep in Cincinnati, one of the areas most affected. This photograph shows a flooded commercial street in Ironton, Ohio, a city of 20,000 inhabitants. Pictured here is the intersection of 3rd and Center Streets, with S.S. Kresge Co. five and dime, Peoples' Credit Clothing, and Gallager Drugs on the left. Ironton was the home of lucrative iron and cement plants, as well as lumber and mining interests. President Roosevelt dispatched thousands of relief workers from the Works Progress Administration to rescue flood victims and restore affected cities. 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 component of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project for which each state had a number of writers hired by the federal government. One of the primary goals of the Federal Writers’ Project was to complete the American 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_B08F11_001_1
Subjects: Storefronts--United States--Pictorial works; Floods; Natural disasters; Ohio River; Works Progress Administration; Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Places: Ironton (Ohio); Lawrence County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photomechanical reproduction of a print depicting Fort Stephenson during the War of 1812. The fort was located near what is today Fremont, Ohio. Americans successfully battled to defend the fort against the British in August 1813. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03965
Subjects: United States--History--War of 1812; Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood
Places: Fremont (Ohio); Sandusky County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker standing with an unidentified individual holding the fish he caught during his fishing expedition while visiting St. Vincent in the West Indies. Bishop Walker was the 66th Bishop appointed to the African Methodist Episcopal Church, was the 10th president of Wilberforce University in the 1940’s and father of Yvonne Walker-Taylor, who became one of the first female African American college president in the United States when she was named the 16th president of Wilberforce University in 1984. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B05F10_P_6
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Wilberforce University; African American men; African American women; African American Educators
 

Description: The Scioto County Courthouse, built in 1925 by architect John Scudder Adkins, is the county’s third. It is Neoclassical. The fourth floor houses the county jail. This image shows the building's main lobby. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F06_431
Subjects: Courthouses; National Register of Historic Places;
Places: Portsmouth (Ohio); Scioto County (Ohio); 602 7th St.
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Roadside pottery. National Pike." This is a photograph of a roadside pottery shop somewhere along the National Pike, or Cumberland Road, in Ohio. Ohio was the leader in the pottery making business and at one time over half the white tableware made in the United States was made in Ohio. Rich clay deposits are found all along the Ohio River, as well as in Zanesville and other locations around the state. The National Road, or Cumberland Road, was one of the first major improved highways in the United States to be built by the federal government. The road runs from Cumberland, Maryland, to Vandalia, Illinois. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F11_010_1
Subjects: Pottery--Ohio; Art pottery; Cumberland Road--Pictorial work; Works Progress Administration of Ohio (U.S.);
Places: (Ohio)
 

Description: This picture shows Belle Rankin, the granddaughter of Lowry Rankin. The Rankin House, in Ripley, Ohio, was an Underground Railroad stop run by Presbyterian minister John Rankin. The house stood on a 300-foot-high hill, known as "Liberty Hill," which overlooked the Ohio River. Rankin would signal fugitive slaves in Kentucky with a lantern or candle, letting them know when it was safe to cross the Ohio River. To access Rankin's home on top of Liberty Hill, those seeking their freedom had to climb 100 wooden steps. Rankin would provide the former slaves with sanctuary, keeping them hidden until it was safe for them to travel further north. John Rankin is believed to have provided shelter and food to as many as 2,000 fugitive slaves during his career with the Underground Railroad; according to several accounts, none of those whom Rankin helped were ever returned to slavery. Harriet Beecher Stowe immortalized Rankin's efforts to help African Americans in her book, "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Rankin's home was the first stop in Ohio for Eliza, one of the book's main characters, as she sought freedom in the North. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC3799_006
Subjects: Underground Railroad; Abolitionists; Anti-slavery; Activists; Abolition
Places: Ripley (Ohio); Brown County (Ohio)
 

Description: This wood screw clamp was handmade. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H73256
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Tools and equipment
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This round document tube was made from tin. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H9400
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Picture of horse stable in Urbana, Ohio. The photo features two men. The man in the foreground in wearing a winter coat and hat and appears to be holding a camera in his hand. The man in the background is holding a bucket and is getting ready to dump it out. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B14F04_003_001
Subjects: Urbana (Ohio)--History; Horse boarding stables
Places: Urbana (Ohio); Champaign County (Ohio)
 

Description: This candlestand is distaff-style with a turned sup. It is made of oak painted blue. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8909
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Furniture
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Sid Poole identification photograph from the files of the Republic Steel Corporation, Central Alloy District. The Central Alloy District consisted of two plants: one in Canton, Ohio, and one in Massillon, Ohio. Identification photographs were taken over a period of time and logged into the files as one batch on June 3, 1942. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: YHC_MSS192_B01F071A_04
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Republic Steel Corporation -- Employees
Places: Ohio