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Water buffalo and rice patties photograph Save
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Description: This photograph shows water buffalo in Vietnam running away from photographer and U.S. Army medic Charles Tweel, towards several rice patties.
This photograph is part of the Charles Tweel Collection (AV 324) at the Ohio History Connection. Charles Tweel grew up in Columbus, Ohio, and attended The Ohio State University. After graduation in 1968, he enlisted in the U.S. Army as a non-combatant, first training as a medic at Fort Sam Huston, followed by nine months of additional training at Valley Forge General Hospital in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. He finished his training as a Specialist 3 and 91C, MOS, and went on to serve in Bamberg, Germany, with combat engineers for one year. In January 1971, Tweel served in Vietnam with the Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion (Air Mobile), 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, based out of Camp Evans near Phu Bai, north of Hue, until December of that year. Tweel spent most of his service on various firebases as the medic in charge, and occasionally shared firebases with South Vietnamese soldiers. He also visited MedCAP stations (Medical Civic Action Programs) where he treated civilians. Tweel received the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious achievement, and was promoted to Specialist 5 in 1971. After discharge from the Army, he went to medical school and was in private practice as a family practitioner from 1979-2016, and now works part-time in inner city medical clinics in Columbus, Ohio, and Charleston, South Carolina. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV324_B01F08_018
Subjects: Vietnam War (1961-1975); United States. Army. Airborne Division, 101st; Agriculture; Cattle
Places: Vietnam
Image ID: AV324_B01F08_018
Subjects: Vietnam War (1961-1975); United States. Army. Airborne Division, 101st; Agriculture; Cattle
Places: Vietnam
Dairy Barn at Ohio State Fair Save
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Description: Photograph from the Columbus Free Press Collection showing visitors outside of the Dairy Products Building at the 1985 Ohio State Fair. A banner advertises the Butter Cow sculpture inside, as well as available dairy products including milk, ice cream, cheese and milkshakes. The "butter cow" has been a tradition sponsored by the Ohio State University and Dairy Processors of Ohio at the State Fair since the early 1900s.
The Columbus Free Press began as a bi-weekly publication in Columbus, Ohio, in 1970. An underground newspaper, it replaced the Ohio State University publication The People, Yes. The earliest known issue of the newspaper appeared on January 4, 1971. The newspaper underwent a series of name changes over the decades, with titles including the Columbus Free Press & Cowtown Times (1972-1976), the Columbus Freepress (1976-1992) and The Free Press (1992-1995). The paper, which covered many liberal and progressive causes, was an alternative to mainstream news sources in central Ohio with the slogan “The Other Side of the News.”
In 1995, the paper ceased publication briefly before reemerging as a website in early 1996, and returning as a print publication under the Free Press title in the form of a quarterly journal in 1998. Published under various frequencies during the first part of the 21st century, the Free Press again became a nonprofit monthly publication in 2017 with both a print and web presence, published by the Columbus Institute for Contemporary Journalism and operated by a volunteer staff and board. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1301AV_B02F09_10
Subjects: Ohio State Fair; Agriculture--Ohio; Dairy industry; Dairy products; Cows;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
Image ID: MSS1301AV_B02F09_10
Subjects: Ohio State Fair; Agriculture--Ohio; Dairy industry; Dairy products; Cows;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
Ohio Farm Bureau employees Save
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Description: Panoramic group portrait of employees of the Ohio Farm Bureau, pictured outside their office at 620-632 East Broad St. in Columbus, Ohio, on September 4, 1936.
The Ohio Farm Bureau Federation (OFBF) formed in 1919. Its original purpose was to lobby local, state, and federal leaders to pass legislation to assist farmers. Other early goals included providing electric service to rural areas and crop insurance. Not only did the OFBF want to provide farmers a political voice, but it also hoped to convince farmers to work together in planting, caring for, and harvesting their crops to reduce production costs.
In 1926, the the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation established the Farm Bureau Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, which in the 1930s began offering policies to farmers in several other states and to urban dwellers, and also expanded to fire and life insurance. In 1955, the company changed its name to Nationwide Insurance. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS7170
Subjects: Ohio Farm Bureau Federation; Ohio History--State and Local Government; Employees; Agriculture--Ohio;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
Image ID: OVS7170
Subjects: Ohio Farm Bureau Federation; Ohio History--State and Local Government; Employees; Agriculture--Ohio;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
Rice fields photograph Save
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Description: Taken in 1971 by U.S. Army medic Charles Tweel, this photograph shows a rice field in Vietnam.
This photograph is part of the Charles Tweel Collection (AV 324) at the Ohio History Connection. Charles Tweel grew up in Columbus, Ohio, and attended The Ohio State University. After graduation in 1968, he enlisted in the U.S. Army as a non-combatant, first training as a medic at Fort Sam Huston, followed by nine months of additional training at Valley Forge General Hospital in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. He finished his training as a Specialist 3 and 91C, MOS, and went on to serve in Bamberg, Germany, with combat engineers for one year. In January 1971, Tweel served in Vietnam with the Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion (Air Mobile), 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, based out of Camp Evans near Phu Bai, north of Hue, until December of that year. Tweel spent most of his service on various firebases as the medic in charge, and occasionally shared firebases with South Vietnamese soldiers. He also visited MedCAP stations (Medical Civic Action Programs) where he treated civilians. Tweel received the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious achievement, and was promoted to Specialist 5 in 1971. After discharge from the Army, he went to medical school and was in private practice as a family practitioner from 1979-2016, and now works part-time in inner city medical clinics in Columbus, Ohio, and Charleston, South Carolina. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV324_B01F01_024
Subjects: Vietnam War (1961-1975); United States. Army. Airborne Division, 101st; Agriculture
Places: Vietnam
Image ID: AV324_B01F01_024
Subjects: Vietnam War (1961-1975); United States. Army. Airborne Division, 101st; Agriculture
Places: Vietnam
Threshing on a Mentor farm photograph Save
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Description: This photograph shows a group of men at harvest time on the Goodhold farm in Mentor, Ohio, in the 1930s, and documents the increasing mechanization of farming that took place in the 20th century. Although horses were still being used as motive power for the wagons to bring wheat from the fields, steam power is being used for threshing, the process of separating the wheat from the chaff.
This photograph was to be included in the Cleveland Guide, one of several guides on selected American cities to be published by the Federal Writers' Project. The Federal Writers' Project was a Depression-era program created to employ writers, under the umbrella of the Works Progress Administation. Most of the work for the Cleveland Guide was complete when the program was abolished in 1943, but the Cleveland Guide was not published. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1038AV_B01F04_01
Subjects: Agriculture--Ohio; Agricultural machinery; Farming; Federal Writers' Project;
Places: Mentor (Ohio); Lake County (Ohio)
Image ID: SA1038AV_B01F04_01
Subjects: Agriculture--Ohio; Agricultural machinery; Farming; Federal Writers' Project;
Places: Mentor (Ohio); Lake County (Ohio)
Vietnamese farmers photograph Save
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Description: Taken in 1971 by U.S. Army medic Charles Tweel, this photograph shows three people wearing rice hats working in a field.
This photograph is part of the Charles Tweel Collection (AV 324) at the Ohio History Connection. Charles Tweel grew up in Columbus, Ohio, and attended The Ohio State University. After graduation in 1968, he enlisted in the U.S. Army as a non-combatant, first training as a medic at Fort Sam Huston, followed by nine months of additional training at Valley Forge General Hospital in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. He finished his training as a Specialist 3 and 91C, MOS, and went on to serve in Bamberg, Germany, with combat engineers for one year. In January 1971, Tweel served in Vietnam with the Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion (Air Mobile), 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, based out of Camp Evans near Phu Bai, north of Hue, until December of that year. Tweel spent most of his service on various firebases as the medic in charge, and occasionally shared firebases with South Vietnamese soldiers. He also visited MedCAP stations (Medical Civic Action Programs) where he treated civilians. Tweel received the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious achievement, and was promoted to Specialist 5 in 1971. After discharge from the Army, he went to medical school and was in private practice as a family practitioner from 1979-2016, and now works part-time in inner city medical clinics in Columbus, Ohio, and Charleston, South Carolina. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV324_B02F12_020
Subjects: Vietnam War (1961-1975); United States. Army. Airborne Division, 101st; Agriculture; Civilians in war
Places: Vietnam
Image ID: AV324_B02F12_020
Subjects: Vietnam War (1961-1975); United States. Army. Airborne Division, 101st; Agriculture; Civilians in war
Places: Vietnam
Butter sculpture at Ohio State Fair Save
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Description: Photograph from the Columbus Free Press Collection showing the butter sculpture at the 1985 Ohio State Fair. This sculpture, credited to artist Dan Ross, shows a veterinarian standing with a cow and calf. The "butter cow" has been a tradition sponsored by the Ohio State University and Dairy Processors of Ohio at the State Fair since the early 1900s. Dan Ross served as the sculptor each summer for more than 30 years.
The Columbus Free Press began as a bi-weekly publication in Columbus, Ohio, in 1970. An underground newspaper, it replaced the Ohio State University publication The People, Yes. The earliest known issue of the newspaper appeared on January 4, 1971. The newspaper underwent a series of name changes over the decades, with titles including the Columbus Free Press & Cowtown Times (1972-1976), the Columbus Freepress (1976-1992) and The Free Press (1992-1995). The paper, which covered many liberal and progressive causes, was an alternative to mainstream news sources in central Ohio with the slogan “The Other Side of the News.”
In 1995, the paper ceased publication briefly before reemerging as a website in early 1996, and returning as a print publication under the Free Press title in the form of a quarterly journal in 1998. Published under various frequencies during the first part of the 21st century, the Free Press again became a nonprofit monthly publication in 2017 with both a print and web presence, published by the Columbus Institute for Contemporary Journalism and operated by a volunteer staff and board. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1301AV_B02F09_09
Subjects: Ohio State Fair; Agriculture--Ohio; Dairy industry; Dairy products; Cows;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
Image ID: MSS1301AV_B02F09_09
Subjects: Ohio State Fair; Agriculture--Ohio; Dairy industry; Dairy products; Cows;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
'Ohio Farmer' cartoons Save
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Description: These two cartoons appeared in "The Ohio Farmer" on September 12 and 26, 1936. In the first, an elderly farmer rejects a salesman's corn harvesting machine in favor of an old-fashioned corn knife. He is unwilling to spend money "just to save a little work." At the end of an exhausting day in the fields, he has reconsidered and is calling the salesman to buy the machine.
In the second cartoon, the same farmer and his two helpers are breaking their backs digging potatoes until he decides to buy a mechanized potato digger. Though still horse-drawn, this bit of technology makes his day much easier. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: 630_5_Oh5_v178_01
Subjects: Farming; Agricultural machinery; Agriculture--Ohio; Crops; Harvesting;
Places: Ohio
Image ID: 630_5_Oh5_v178_01
Subjects: Farming; Agricultural machinery; Agriculture--Ohio; Crops; Harvesting;
Places: Ohio
Migrant worker rights protest Save
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Description: Protestors carry signs in support of migrant farm worker rights and calling for a boycott of grapes and lettuce outside of a Kroger grocery store in Columbus, Ohio. This photograph was taken for publication in the Columbus Free Press newspaper.
The Columbus Free Press began as a bi-weekly publication in Columbus, Ohio, in 1970. An underground newspaper, it replaced the Ohio State University publication The People, Yes. The earliest known issue of the newspaper appeared on January 4, 1971. The newspaper underwent a series of name changes over the decades, with titles including the Columbus Free Press & Cowtown Times (1972-1976), the Columbus Freepress (1976-1992) and The Free Press (1992-1995). The paper, which covered many liberal and progressive causes, was an alternative to mainstream news sources in central Ohio with the slogan “The Other Side of the News.”
In 1995, the paper ceased publication briefly before reemerging as a website in early 1996, and returning as a print publication under the Free Press title in the form of a quarterly journal in 1998. Published under various frequencies during the first part of the 21st century, the Free Press again became a nonprofit monthly publication in 2017 with both a print and web presence, published by the Columbus Institute for Contemporary Journalism and operated by a volunteer staff and board. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1301AV_B04F08_01
Subjects: Protests and protestors; Demonstrations; Activism; Labor movement--United States--History--20th century; Agriculture;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
Image ID: MSS1301AV_B04F08_01
Subjects: Protests and protestors; Demonstrations; Activism; Labor movement--United States--History--20th century; Agriculture;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
Rural Vietnam photograph Save
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Description: Taken in 1971 by U.S. Army medic Charles Tweel, this photograph shows crop fields in the lowlands of Vietnam. Workers work in the fields to the right, and on the left a child rides a water buffalo.
This photograph is part of the Charles Tweel Collection (AV 324) at the Ohio History Connection. Charles Tweel grew up in Columbus, Ohio, and attended The Ohio State University. After graduation in 1968, he enlisted in the U.S. Army as a non-combatant, first training as a medic at Fort Sam Huston, followed by nine months of additional training at Valley Forge General Hospital in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. He finished his training as a Specialist 3 and 91C, MOS, and went on to serve in Bamberg, Germany, with combat engineers for one year. In January 1971, Tweel served in Vietnam with the Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion (Air Mobile), 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, based out of Camp Evans near Phu Bai, north of Hue, until December of that year. Tweel spent most of his service on various firebases as the medic in charge, and occasionally shared firebases with South Vietnamese soldiers. He also visited MedCAP stations (Medical Civic Action Programs) where he treated civilians. Tweel received the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious achievement, and was promoted to Specialist 5 in 1971. After discharge from the Army, he went to medical school and was in private practice as a family practitioner from 1979-2016, and now works part-time in inner city medical clinics in Columbus, Ohio, and Charleston, South Carolina. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV324_B01F03_019
Subjects: Vietnam War (1961-1975); United States. Army. Airborne Division, 101st; Agriculture; Farming
Places: Vietnam
Image ID: AV324_B01F03_019
Subjects: Vietnam War (1961-1975); United States. Army. Airborne Division, 101st; Agriculture; Farming
Places: Vietnam
Slagle family in cornfield photograph Save
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Description: Photograph showing three men and a woman, all in patriotic dress and holding flags, posed in a corn field. They wear hats that read "Slagle." The image was submitted by photographer Nelson Slagle of Huntington Beach, California, in the Amateur category of the Spirit of Ohio Bicentennial Photo Contest. Slagle provided the following caption: "Slide was taken July 4, 1976 at 1154 Columbus-Sandusky Road (Rt 98), Marion, Ohio the morning before the Slagle family (Emily, Jim, John, & Gene) rode in the Marion Bicentennial Parade. Gene Slagle was State Senator representing the 26th district. The slide projects the bicentennial spirit as it was taken on the nations 200th birthday in a bountiful field of corn and included campaign hats and American flags. The corn is much taller than July 4th knee high standard."
In August 1976, the Ohio American Revolution Bicentennial Advisory Committee (OARBAC) began the Spirit of Ohio Bicentennial Photo Contest as part of a larger effort in Ohio to celebrate the 1976 American Bicentennial. The contest was meant to document "the spirit and character of the people and places which represent Ohio during [the] bicentennial year," and to create a permanent photographic archive of the year's festivity for use by future researchers. Both professional and amateur photographers submitted over 500 photographs for consideration, all taken within the state between January 1 and December 31, 1976. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA2734AV_B02F145_01_01
Subjects: American Revolution Bicentennial (1976); Families; Flags; Corn; Agriculture; Ohio General Assembly Senate; Fourth of July celebrations;
Places: Marion (Ohio); Marion County (Ohio)
Image ID: SA2734AV_B02F145_01_01
Subjects: American Revolution Bicentennial (1976); Families; Flags; Corn; Agriculture; Ohio General Assembly Senate; Fourth of July celebrations;
Places: Marion (Ohio); Marion County (Ohio)
Miami Valley Threshers photograph Save
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Description: Photograph of men threshing hay, taken by James B. Scott of Circleville, Ohio. The photographer provided a caption reading: "Miami Valley Thresher's Steam Show and Reunion - Madison Co. Fairgrounds - London, Ohio." The image was one of ten to win Honorable Mention in the Amateur category of the Spirit of Ohio Bicentennial Photo Contest.
In August 1976, the Ohio American Revolution Bicentennial Advisory Committee (OARBAC) began the Spirit of Ohio Bicentennial Photo Contest as part of a larger effort in Ohio to celebrate the 1976 American Bicentennial. The contest was meant to document "the spirit and character of the people and places which represent Ohio during [the] bicentennial year," and to create a permanent photographic archive of the year's festivity for use by future researchers. Both professional and amateur photographers submitted over 500 photographs for consideration, all taken within the state between January 1 and December 31, 1976. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA2734AV_B01_04
Subjects: American Revolution Bicentennial (1976); Agriculture--Ohio; Farming; Wheat; Harvesting; Agricultural machinery;
Places: Circleville (Ohio); Pickaway County (Ohio); London (Ohio); Madison County (Ohio)
Image ID: SA2734AV_B01_04
Subjects: American Revolution Bicentennial (1976); Agriculture--Ohio; Farming; Wheat; Harvesting; Agricultural machinery;
Places: Circleville (Ohio); Pickaway County (Ohio); London (Ohio); Madison County (Ohio)