Description: Located 3 miles southeast of downtown Cincinnati, Lunken Field (or Cincinnati Municipal Lunken Airport) is owned by the City of Cincinnati. It is situated near the site of Columbia, the first Cincinnati area settlement of 1788. At the time of the dedication in 1925, Lunken Field was the largest municipal airport in the world. During the 1937 Ohio River Flood, the control tower was nearly submerged. A single black brick indicates the high water mark of that flood. In 1947 another Ohio River Flood caused the commercial air traffic to be moved to the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky airport. The Lunken Field control tower is the longest standing control tower in the United States. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F05_19_01
Subjects: Cincinnati Lunken Municipal Airport
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph is an advertisement depicting the Fox Theatre Company Building at Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan. Elmer George Kiehler designed this building. Below the photo is written: "FOX THEATRE BLDG WOODWARD AVE DETROIT" View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B03F47_006
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Construction; Steel industry; Fox Theatre Building (Detroit, Mich.); Crane, C. Howard (Charles Howard), 1885-1952
Places: Detroit (Michigan); Wayne County (Michigan)
 

Description: The Henry County Courthouse was built in 1880-1882 by architect David Gibbs in the Second Empire style. In the 1990s it underwent an extensive $4 million restoration project. The courthouse sits on land that was once part of the "Black Swamp," a region in northwest Ohio that was once so wet that it was virtually inhabitable. Once pioneers settled the area and tilled the land in order to aerate the soil, the land became fertile and the population began to increase. This image shows the front and side facades of the building. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F03_210
Subjects: Courthouses; National Register of Historic Places; mansard roofs; towers (building divisions); Second Empire
Places: Napoleon (Ohio); Henry County (Ohio); 660 N. Perry
 

Description: Archaeological Survey of the Hopewell Group of Prehistoric Earthworks. The map reads: "Archaeological survey of the Hopewell Group of Prehistoric earthworks. Ross County, Ohio. Field explorations by H. C. Shetrong 1922-1925. F. R. Jones - surveyor." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07922
Subjects: Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1-400) (A.D. 1-400);
Places: Ross County (Ohio); Chillicothe (Ohio);
 

Description: Dated to the 1930s, this photograph shows a shoe repair shop in the Armleder Building in Hamilton County, Ohio. 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_B11F03_14_001
Subjects: Shoe Stores; Cincinnati (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works; Business and Labor; Works Progress Administration; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows popular western author Zane Grey, born in Zanesville, Ohio, correcting a manuscript at his desk, ca. 1935. By his death in 1939, Grey had written almost 90 books. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04956
Subjects: Authors; Literary Ohio; Grey, Zane, 1872-1939
Places: Zanesville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Kilgoure Statue and Fountain Cincinnati Ohio 1937 Parks + Monuments." This statue stands in Hyde Park Square, in Cincinnati, Ohio. The is the work of work of Cincinnati-born sculptor Joseph Cronin. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F05_025_001
Subjects: Hyde Park (Cincinnati, Ohio); Fountains; Statues
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of a portrait of Thomas Kirker (1760-1837) who became acting governor in 1807 when Governor Edward Tiffin resigned to become a United State Senator. As governor, Kirker dealt with Ohio citizens' concerns about Native-American threats in western Ohio. He sent Thomas Worthington and Duncan McArthur to Fort Greene Ville in late 1807 to investigate, but the two men found no evidence to support the settlers' concerns. Because of Worthington's and McArthur's report, military conflict with the Native Americans did not materialize during Kirker's administration. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OHS_10581_Kirker
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government; Ohio--Governors--Portraits
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Painting of national colors of the 58th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Text on flag reads: 58th Re[gim]e[nt] View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02447
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
 

Description: The handwritten note on the back reads: "Trumbull Co. Brookfield Leap[?] School." This is a photo of a home economics class most likely in Brookfield Township School in Trumbull County, Ohio. There are several girls standing around tables in aprons preparing recipes for class. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F07_031_001
Subjects: Hershey Chocolate Company; Home economics--Ohio--1930-1940; Education; Trumbull County (Ohio)--History; Girls--Study and teaching; Classrooms; Students; Cooking; High Schools--Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Ohio
 

Description: This photograph depicts a coke sample with a caption that reads, "-10 MESH+20 MESH 100% NEMACOLIN". View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B05F73_005
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry; Coke
 

Description: 1967 Air show; Neil Armstrong coming back to his hometown in Wapakoneta, Ohio; Governor Rhodes speaking View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV_203B2F3_051
Subjects: Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012; Wapakoneta (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)