Description: Photograph showing a houseboat, which is designed for human residence on the water. The caption beneath the photograph reads: "House Boat at Defiance, O., July, 1916." This photograph is part of a series taken by the Board of the Ohio Department of Public Works to document the disrepair of the infrastructure of the Ohio and Erie Canal and Miami-Erie Canal systems in 1916, showing the physical condition of each structure. The Ohio Department of Public Works is one of the oldest departments of state government in continuous existence. Among its other duties, this department was charged with maintenance and administration of the Ohio & Erie and Miami-Erie Canals. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA936AV_B01_040
Subjects: Waterworks; Rivers; Canals; Lakes & ponds; Dams; Houses; Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development
Places: Defiance (Ohio); Defiance County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows the “Erie Isle”, a steam ferry that went between Catawba Island and Put-in-Bay from 1930 to 1946. It was the first ferry to carry both cars and people on the same boat. After being used as a ferry, it was converted for use as a coal barge. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F08_001_001
Subjects: Ferries--United States; Put-in-Bay (Ohio)--History--20th century--Pictorial works
Places: Put-in-Bay Township (Ohio); Ottawa County (Ohio)
 

Description: This engraved portrait depicts Joseph Ray, a famous educator best known for writing mathematical textbooks. Born in Virginia on November 25, 1807, Ray graduated from Franklin College in New Athens, Ohio, in 1828, and from the Medical College of Ohio in 1831. In 1832, he helped establish the Western Literacy Institute and College of Professional Teachers, which helped teachers become more professional and better-trained and provided them with the latest teaching techniques. Ray died from tuberculosis on April 11, 1855. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04174
Subjects: Education; Educators; Teachers--Training of
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of a map of Ross County, Ohio drawn in 1937. It shows the railroads, points of interest, state routes and U, S. routes. It was drawn for the Ohio Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for possible use in the Ohio Guide book. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F02_063
Subjects: Books; Chapter headings; Works Progress Administration; Ohio Federal Writers' Project; Maps; Ross County (Ohio)
Places: Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: The introduction of barbed wire helped to tame the wild plains of the American West. As time progressed and the wires crisscrossed the Plains, the days of free-roaming cattle herds and drives became a thing of the past. In this 1975 photograph, a steer looks out through its barbed wire enclosure as Joe Munroe snaps a picture. Munroe's career began in 1939 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He served in the Air Force during World War II and then joined Cincinnati-based Farm Quarterly magazine. Though raised in Detroit, agriculture became an important subject of Joe's photographs. He moved to California in 1955 and free-lanced, taking magazine assignments and selling his own work. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P400_B33_F2418_JPG171
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Cattle; Fences; Barbed wire; Livestock
Places: Nebraska
 

Description: This panoramic photograph of a homecoming celebration in McArthur, Ohio, was taken in 1924. The Hamden band forms the center of the photograph, surrounded by townspeople who attended the event. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1924_3737246_001
Subjects: Arts and entertainment; Celebrations; Music; Bands; Hats
Places: McArthur (Ohio); Vinton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph was taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912. Like most of Ewing's work, it was likely taken in southeastern Ohio or central West Virginia. Born in 1870 in Washington County, Ohio, near Marietta, Ewing most likely began his photography career in the 1890s. The 1910 US Census and a 1912-1913 directory list him as a photographer. A negative signed "Ewing Brothers" and a picture with his younger brother, Frank, indicate that Frank may have joined the business. After 1916, directories list Albert as a salesman. He died in 1934. The Ewing Collection consists of 5,055 glass plate negatives, each individually housed and numbered. Additionally, the collection includes approximately 450 modern contact prints made from the glass plate negatives. Subjects include infants and young children, elderly people, families, school and religious groups, animals and rural scenes. In 1982, the Ohio Historical Society received the collection, still housed in the original dry plate negative boxes purchased by Albert J. Ewing. A selection of the original glass plate negatives were exhibited for the first time in 2013 at the Ohio Historical Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV71_b20_f1614
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States--History; Children; Families
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: This flag of Ohio has seventeen white stars on a blue triangular-shaped field adjacent to red and white stripes. This swallowtail flag is made of cotton and dates from approximately 1967. During the Vietnam War, Governor James A. Rhodes sent this flag to the Chapel of Flags in Da Nang, South Vietnam, where it hung with flags of the other 49 states until 1972. The dimensions of the flag are 58.5 by 96 cm. The flag was donated to the Ohio Historical Society, now Ohio History Connection, in 1985 by Richard Jeffries. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H43641_001
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; State Flags; Ceremonial artifact
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Divisional Colors of the 83rd Infantry Division. Rectangular flag measures 121 cm high by 185 cm wide. Text on flag reads: "83". Ohio battle flags were on display at the Ohio Statehouse until the 1960s, when the state formed a committee to oversee the efforts to restore the fragile flags. Some of the battle flags were on display on the Plaza Level of the Ohio Historical Society 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. Photographs of the flags and the paintings are now part of the society's archival collections. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02253
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; World War, 1914-1918
 

Description: The monument on the left reads "This stone marks the grave of Charles R. Sherman who died at Lebanon in the State of Ohio June 24th 1829 in the 41st year of his age. His wife's monument on the right reads" Mary Hoyt wife of Charles R Sherman born at Norwalk Connecticut Dec 28th AD 1787 died at Mansfield, Ohio Sept 28th A. D. 1852 Charles Robert Sherman was born in Norwalk, Connecticut on Sept 26, 1788 to Taylor and Elizabeth (Stoddard) Sherman. He attended Dartmouth College and then studied law with his father. In 1809, he was admitted to the bar and in 1810 he married Mary Hoyt. The couple then moved to Lancaster, Ohio where he set up private practice. In 1823, he became a judge of the Ohio Supreme Court, where he served until his death in 1829. He died in Lebonon on June 24 and was buried there. but his remains were later removed to Lancaster in Elmwood Cemetery. Charles and Mary were the parents of eleven children. Among them were William Tecumseh Sherman of Civil War fame, John Sherman a renown statesman and Elizabeth, who was the wife of William J Reese, a Grand Master of Ohio View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F10_009
Subjects: Monuments--Ohio; Sherman, Charles Robert, 1788-1829; Sherman, Mary Hoyt, 1787-1852; Lancaster (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Lancaster (Ohio); Fairfield County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is an image of a wooden stool with a hole in the center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8018
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Furniture
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Martha Steelman in dance costume with hands on her hips, ca. 1920-1929. Martha Steelman was a champion diver, swimmer, and Ohio Vaudeville performer. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00008
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio); Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)