Description: This Robbins type biface is leaf-shaped and made of Flint Ridge flint. One face of the blade is predominantly light gray in color, with several brown veins showing through; the reverse face has a large white area and brown veining running diagonally across the face. This piece comes from the Early Woodland Period. In the centuries just before the birth of Christ, a new culture evolved in eastern North America. Archaeologists refer to this as the Woodland period. People of the Woodland period grew more plant food, lived in permanent villages, made pottery, and emphasized ceremony and art. Se archaeologists in the past believed that the Woodland peoples must have moved into Ohio from places as far away as Mexico. More recent research, however, shows that in much of the Ohio Valley, there was not an abrupt change, but rather a slow shift from Archaic to Woodland lifestyles. Archaeologists have divided the Woodland cultures into three segments, Early, Middle, and Late. Within these segments, groups have been distinguished from each other due to differences in the tools they made. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: A3490_000072_081
Subjects: Mound-builders; Tools, Prehistoric
 

Description: In this photograph, Italian immigrant Florindo Dipinto operates his tool-grinding cart on the sidewalk in Cleveland, Ohio, ca. 1950-1960. Dipinto immigrated to the United States from Italy in 1913 at age 17. He originally settled in Chicago where he learned the tool-grinding trade from his uncle, Vincenzo Fabrizio. After one year of working with his uncle, he was able to purchase his own tool-grinding cart. Before settling in Cleveland, he worked in a coal mine in Colorado; served briefly in the United States Army during World War I; operated his grinding cart in Youngstown, Ohio, and returned to Italy where he served in the Army and met his wife Maria. Between 1927 and 1961, Dipinto operated his grinding cart in Cleveland, sharpening tools for a variety of customers. He retired in 1961 and passed away in 1981. The grinding cart is part of the Ohio Historical Society museum collections. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07057
Subjects: Multicultural Ohio--Ethnic Communities; Immigrants--Ohio; Tools
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: The photograph shows a pulpit in a workshop. The pulpit, which is nearly complete, features a cross in the front-facing panel. Wood shavings and dust cover the ground, and tools sit around the room. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's store, and later as a traveling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). Kinley was also an avid lifelong photographer, and the bulk of the Harry Kinley Collection is comprised of glass plate negatives documenting the Kinley family, the city of Upper Sandusky and Wyandot County and surrounding areas. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV30_B01F01_37
Subjects: Churches--Ohio; Woodworking tools; Carpentry; Ohio--Religion;
Places: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio);
 

Description: This gray flint hammerstone is roughly oval in shape. Both ends show evidence of battering, the result of making flint tools. The rest of the surface exhibits irregular flake scars. The hammerstone appears to have been affected by heat, evidenced by its darker color and a potlid fracture on one side. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: A3749_000004
Subjects: Indians of North America; Stone implements; Tools, Prehistoric;
 

Description: This thick, gray biface was possibly made at a flint quarry for later working into other tools. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: A4345_001731
Subjects: Prehistoric peoples; Stone implements; Tools, Prehistoric;
 

Description: This deer antler retains part of the skull; it was likely used as a flaker for manufacturing flint tools. The antler is light gray in color and comes from Fort Ancient Culture. The Fort Ancient people were a late prehistoric culture living in southern Ohio between 1,100 and 450 years ago. Fort Ancient people were Ohio's original farmers, growing crops of corn, beans, and squash, and thrived in southern Ohio and northern Kentucky. Villages were made up of a number of circular or rectangular houses surrounding an open plaza. The Fort Ancient people continued to build small burial mounds, but gradually shifted to burials in a cemetery area with no mounds. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: A0161_000070_001
Subjects: Fort Ancient Culture (A.D. 1000–1650); Tools, Prehistoric;
 

Description: A photograph of a man instructions a class in woodworking. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F03_016_01
Subjects: Woodworking tools; Woodworking machinery
Places: Ohio
 

Description: This Robbins type projectile point has well-defined shoulders, a traight stem, and rounded base. It is made of Flint Ridge flint that is predominantly greenish gray, with veins of darker brown. There is an extrusion of lighter colored flint at the tip. This piece is from Early Woodland Culture. In the centuries just before the birth of Christ, a new culture evolved in eastern North America. Archaeologists refer to this as the Woodland period. People of the Woodland period grew more plant food, lived in permanent villages, made pottery, and emphasized ceremony and art. Se archaeologists in the past believed that the Woodland peoples must have moved into Ohio from places as far away as Mexico. More recent research, however, shows that in much of the Ohio Valley, there was not an abrupt change, but rather a slow shift from Archaic to Woodland lifestyles. Archaeologists have divided the Woodland cultures into three segments, Early, Middle, and Late. Within these segments, groups have been distinguished from each other due to differences in the tools they made. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: A3490_000072_083
Subjects: Mound-builders; Tools, Prehistoric
 

Description: Caption on reverse reads: "District #5. 902 Municipal Bldg Akron, Ohio. April 26, 1938. Welders at work on a 100 ton trolley crane. The Morgan Engineering Company, Alliance, Ohio. (Halo is unavoidable on account of brilliant light effects from welding). The Morgan Engineering Company Plant was located at Broadway Street near the C & P.R.R. It was one of the largest manufactories of electric cranes and rolling-mill machinery in the world. One of its best products, first designed in 1894 and perfected in 1917, was the George-Morgan disappearing gun carriage, adaptable to any angle of fire and the largest gun mount ever built in the United States. Some of the company’s other products include: punching and shearing machines, cranes of all types and sizes and other heavy machinery equipment. The company was founded in 1868 by Thomas Rees Morgan, Sr. (1834 – 1897) who originally began in Pittsburgh making steam hammers. He moved to Alliance, under the name Marchand & Morgan, in 1871, due to a need for more space. Mr. Marchand retired in 1877, leaving room for Morgan to form a new partnership with Silas J. Williams and they renamed the company Morgan-Williams & Company. The 1890s saw the start of the company’s long association with the United States Ordnance Department. The company was awarded the prestigious Navy “E” Flag for its extraordinary contribution to the war effort (WW II). During the next few decades the company continue to grow, adding new facilities and machine tools. In 1964, with the retirement of W.H. Morgan, the company was sold to The United Industrial Syndicate, of New York. Much interested in enhancing the company’s reputation, funding was provided to improve facilities. During this time, several new crane designs were introduced which were considered to be a radical departure from previous designs. In 1975, the company was sold to AMCA International, and due to the failing economy during the 1980’s the company was forced to downsize. In 1987, the company was purchased by a shareholder, who repurchased the warehouse sold during the business downturn and increased manufacturing by building spare parts and subcontracting. In 1994, the original 330,000 facility was purchased by Morgan Engineering Inc. who continues to be a leading designer of overhead electric traveling cranes and other heavy machine equipment. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F02_025_001
Subjects: Industries--Ohio; Electric cranes; Machine tools
Places: Alliance (Ohio);
 

Description: Flint scraper is rectangular in shape. It was made from a flake of flint chipped on only one side (unifacial). All edges show signs of use. The underside is flat (the original flake surface) and the upper is slightly rounded. It is mostly gray mottled with grayish brown and pale brown. Item was found at the Stringtown Site in Franklin County, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07431
Subjects: Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; American Indian history and society; American Indians--Archaeology; Tools
Places: Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Irregularly oval-shaped scraper is very dark gray mottled with light gray. There are dark yellowish brown and very pale brown rough (weathered) areas. The flint has only been knapped on one side (uniface). It shows some signs of use wear. There is a small chip broken from one edge. Item was found at the Stringtown Site in Franklin County, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07432
Subjects: Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; American Indians--Archaeology; Tools; American Indian history and society
Places: Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Oval-shaped endscraper is mottled light gray, gray, black, pale red and dusky red. It was made from a small flake of flint that was chipped (knapped) on one side (uniface). Only one end shows signs of use. The flint may have been fire heated. Item was found at the Stringtown Site in Franklin County, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07433
Subjects: Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; American Indian history and society; American Indians; Tools
Places: Franklin County (Ohio)