Description: Photograph of Lucy Ann Warfield, an ex-slave who lived at 1874 South Limestone Street, in Springfield, Clark County, Ohio. The photograph was taken by staff of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The Federal Writers' Project (FWP) was a United States federal government project to fund written work and support writers during the Great Depression. On April 1, 1937, the FWP received formal approval and instructions to conduct interviews of surviving ex-slaves in Ohio. Most of the narratives were compiled in 1937 and 1938 and gathered from around the state. After the termination of the Federal Writers' Project, most narratives were transferred to the Writers' Unit of the Library of Congress. However, an additional 28 narratives were discovered in the State Archives holdings of the Ohio History Connection. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: sc1495_08_01
Subjects: African American women; African American Ohioans; Slavery; Former slaves
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker on-air at WLW radio station, which was located in downtown Cincinnati. Bishop Walker was the 10th president of Wilberforce University in the 1940s and the 66th Bishop appointed to the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He was the 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_B06F02_I
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Wilberforce University; African American men; African American women; African American Educators
 

Description: Portrait of a young woman seated outdoors in a wooden chair. She wears a dark blouse and skirt and a white bow in her hair. Handwriting on the negative identifies her as "Eva Burrows," and a matching negative includes the location of "Gville," likely Grantsville, West Virginia. This photograph was taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912. Like most of Ewing's work, it was taken in the region of southeastern Ohio and 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 (now the Ohio History Connection) received the collection, still housed in the original dry plate negative boxes purchased by Ewing. A selection of the original glass plate negatives were exhibited for the first time in 2013 at the Ohio History Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV71_B27_F2528
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Photographers--Ohio; Portrait photography--United States--History; Young women; Clothing and dress
Places: Grantsville (West Virginia)
 

Description: Photograph of Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker standing with an unidentified group of men. Bishop Walker was the 10th president of Wilberforce University in the 1940s and the 66th Bishop appointed to the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He was the 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_B06F02_K
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Wilberforce University; African American men; African American women; African American Educators
 

Description: Portrait of a young woman seated in front of a hanging backdrop. Handwriting on the negative appears to identify the location of Monday (likely a misspelling of Munday), West Virginia. This photograph was taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912. Like most of Ewing's work, it was taken in the region of southeastern Ohio and 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 (now the Ohio History Connection) received the collection, still housed in the original dry plate negative boxes purchased by Ewing. A selection of the original glass plate negatives were exhibited for the first time in 2013 at the Ohio History Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV71_B27_F2512
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Photographers--Ohio; Portrait photography--United States--History; Young women; Clothing and dress
Places: Munday (West Virginia)
 

Description: This 2.5 by 3.5-inch (6.35 by 8.89 cm) tintype shows Josephine Klippart and her mother, Mrs. Emeline Rahn Klippart, of Columbus. It dates from the 1870s. A tintype is a positive photograph made directly on an iron plate varnished with a thin sensitized film. Klippart (1848-1936) was a painter and illustrator who specialized in the scientific illustration of Ohio's fishes and birds. Her drawings appeared in publications of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, an organization for which her father John Hancock Klippart served as secretary. Klippart, who founded the Columbus Watercolor Society, left her teaching position at the Columbus Art School to take charge of the coloring of folio-sized lithographs for the book The Illustration of the Nests and Eggs of the Birds of Ohio. The book was begun by Genevieve Jones, who dreamed of creating a multi-part book that illustrated the nests and eggs of Ohio birds as a complementary volume to J. J. Audubon's Birds of America. She began working on the book in 1879, but died later the same year. As a memorial to her daughter, Genevieve's mother Virginia Jones taught herself the lithographic technique and completed the illustrations for the volume. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1355_1160596_001
Subjects: Ohio Women; Arts and Entertainment; Klippart, Josephine, 1848-1936
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker standing with an unidentified minister. Bishop Walker was the 10th president of Wilberforce University in the 1940s and the 66th Bishop appointed to the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He was the 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_B06F02_M
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Wilberforce University; African American men; African American women; African American Educators
 

Description: Johanna Maria Heckewelder, the first white female child born in what would later become the state of Ohio, was born in Gnaddenhutten, Ohio, in Tuscarawas County in 1781. Her parents were Moravian missionaries sent to Ohio to convert the Delaware Indians to Christianity. The photograph measures 2.5 by 4 inches (6.35 by 10.16 cm). Cartes-de-visite, photographic portraits on cardboard, were popular in the late nineteenth century. Some were used as calling cards, others were sold and traded as collectibles. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1363_1160511_001
Subjects: Ohio Women; Religion in Ohio
Places: Gnadenhutten (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Yvonne Walker-Taylor meeting with a group of unidentified Wilberforce University students at the Carnegie Library, which was located on the (old) campus of Wilberforce University. Yvonne Walker-Taylor would later become 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_B06F02_N
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Wilberforce University; African American men; African American women; African American Educators
 

Description: Photograph of Yvonne Walker-Taylor teaching four unidentified Wilberforce University students on the campus of Wilberforce University. All five are seated at desks in front of a chalkboard. Yvonne Walker-Taylor later 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_B06F02_O
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Wilberforce University; African American men; African American women; African American Educators
Places: Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
 

Description: Rubber belt conveyor made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio, in use at the W. H. Osborn Company in Honey Falls, New York, 1919. The corn husking machines were powered by an overhead transmission shaft, pulleys and belts. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01400
Subjects: Women -- Employment; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business; Jeffrey Manufacturing Company (Columbus, Ohio)
Places: Honey Falls (New York)
 

Description: Photograph of Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker, with an unidentified group of Ministers. Bishop Walker was president of Wilberforce University in the 1940s. His daughter Yvonne Walker-Taylor later 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_B06F02_P
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Wilberforce University; African American men; African American women; African American Educators