Description: Birds Eye View of Columbus, Ohio by Caldwell & Gould civil engineers. Drawn by H.H. & O.H. Bailey. Printed by Strobridge & Co. Lith. Cincinnati. O. Published by Fowler & Bailey The statehouse, Union Station, and the Scioto River are prominent features of 19th century Columbus. View extends from the penitentiary and Goodale Park in the North to German Village in the South, and from Franklinton in the West to The Ohio State School for the Deaf in the East. An *asterisk* indicates the building stands today. Legend along left: 1 Capitol *Broad & High* 2 U.S. Arsenal 3 State Arsenal 4 Blind Asylum 5 Deaf and Dumb Asylum *East Town Street* 6 Penitentiary 7 Medical Institute 8 Courthouse 9 City Hall 10 High School 11 Public Schools 12 Goodale Park 13 Hannah Neil Mission 14 John L. Gill's Car & Car and Agricultural Works CHURCHES 15 Baptist 16 Cathedral (Catholic) *East Broad & Fifth Street* 17 Church of the Holy Cross (Catholic) 18 St. Patrick's (Catholic) 19 Town Street (Methodist) 20 Bigelow Chapel (Methodist) 21 German (Methodist) 22 Wesley Chapel (Methodist) 23 Congregational *South Third Street* 24 Presbyterian 25 Presbyterian 26 St. Paul's Lutheran 27 German (Lutheran) 28 English (Lutheran) 29 Hebrew 30 Evangelical 31 Episcopal *East Broad & Third Street* View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS5682
Subjects: Maps; Pictorial maps; Columbus (Ohio)--1872;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: The photograph shows an illustration of the original town plat of Springfield, Ohio. The eight buildings are numbered, but there is no legend of what these buildings are. In the upper right corner, the map reads, "SPRINGFIELD, O., / ORIGINAL TOWN PLAT / Buildings Erected Before 1804" The map shows Buck Creek, Mill Run, North Street, Main Street (now Columbia Street), South Street (now Main Street), West Street (now Fountain Street), Limestone Street, and East Street (now Spring Street). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F05_036_001
Subjects: Maps; Pictorial maps; Springfield (Ohio)--Maps; Illustrations; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: 275 degree shot South to East taken from the NW corner of the roof of the Capitol Building in downtown Columbus. Taken between 1906 (McKinley statue built) and 1919 (Bryce Bros. closed). Scene includes trolley cars, horse buggies, early automobiles, and the famous arches over High. Caption across bottom reads "Panoramic View of Capitol Square Columbus O". Text to the right reads "Myers Photo Co., Makers of Big Pictures". Gold photo stamp below reads "Myers Columbus O." Extreme left (facing South on High Street) -- The Lazarus advertising tower is visible as well as the 4-story structure at 2 S. High which still stands. Farther right are an advertisement for Hotel Schrader, a cigar shop, Bryce Bros. & Co Clothing & Shoes, an illegible drug store, and the William McKinley statue on the statehouse lawn. Down Capitol Street lies the water tower for The Wolfe Bros. Shoe Co. Visible between Capitol and Broad are The Norfolk and Western Railway Building, The Buckeye Republican Club, advertisements for Linke Grocers and Mail Pouch Tobacco, John G. Grossman Steamship Agent, J.P. Vail & Sons Real Estate, and the Postal Telegraph Cable Co. on the SW corner of Broad & High. Along this stretch workers are pulling up the bricks and rails along High. Center (facing North on High Street) -- Starting at the NW corner of Broad & High is Child's Dry Goods, and Edward ? The Rental Man. From the NE corner are ? Cashier, a building housing bank and law offices which still stands today, and a buiding which also still stands housing The Home Insurance Company, B. & O. Railroad, Pretzman Law, Sherman & Sherman Law, and Lorain Coal & Dock Company. The following building at the corner of Broad and Pearl stands today. Extreme right (facing East on Broad Street) -- Heading East on Broad past Pearl is The Board and Trade Building which houses Givens Law, D.K. Watson Law, and Schoedinger Law. In the next building East are L.A. Cole & Co. Coke and Coal, Mutual Life Insurance Co. New York, Stoddart Law, Midland Mutual Life, Monett Law, and Massachusetts Mutual Life Ins. Co. Several men are seen standing near their windows looking out. In the background lies the Central Union Telephone Co Building which stands today. The Trinity Episcopal Church at SE corner of Broad and Third also stands today. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS_0262
Subjects: Maps; Pictorial maps; Statehouse--Ohio;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption: Chickamauga Battlefield sketched by J.G. McElroy of the Ohio Commission, Late Captain 18th Ohio Infantry 1895. The Great Seal of the State of Ohio lies below. Made in 1895, this map includes Ohio monuments and tablet markers in relation to strategic movements of the Confederate and Union forces on September 18 and 19, 1863. The battle pitted the Union's Army of the Cumberland, commanded by General William Rosecrans of Ohio, against the Confederate's Army of Tennessee, commanded by General Braxton Bragg. The Northern army numbered approximately sixty thousand men, while the Confederates had forty-three thousand soldiers. Major General William S. Rosecrans from Delaware County, Ohio commanded the Army of the Cumberland. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Chikamauga_ALConsWOH4261-9
Subjects: Maps--Topography; Pictorial maps; Maps--Midwest--Ohio; Civil War 1861-1865; Historical Marker;
Places: Chickamauga (Georgia); Delaware County (Ohio)
 

Description: This map shows the attack on Fort Stephenson during the War of 1812. Located in present day Fremont, Ohio, the fort, under George Croghan, withstood the attack by British forces, who fought under Henry Proctor and Native American chief Tecumseh. The battle was the last western battle fought in U.S. territory during the war. The map details troop advancement and the geography surrounding the fort. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03966
Subjects: United States--History--War of 1812; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Pictorial maps
Places: Fremont (Ohio); Sandusky County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Social Studies Class, South High School, Lima. Photograph by courtesy of South High School" This is a photo of a social studies class at Lima South High School in Lima, Ohio. There is a teacher at the head of classroom the room and several students working on classwork. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F07_003_001
Subjects: High schools; Social studies; Classrooms; Lima (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works; Maps; Students; Teachers; Education; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Lima (Ohio); Allen County (Ohio)
 

Description: Captions on front reads: "Lake County 'Garden Spot of Ohio.'" and "Exhibited By Kirtland Arts & Crafts Associates. Originating Book - Music - Oil & Water Colors - Art Pottery - Handicrafts." This photograph (ca. 1935-1943) shows a framed painting of Lake County centered on Painesville, Ohio. Painesville, the county seat, was incorporated in 1832 and named after General Edward Paine (1746–1841), one of the early settlers of the Western Reserve, who settled in the area around 1800 and represented the region in the territorial legislature. Paine had served as a captain in the Connecticut militia during the American Revolutionary War. When the plat of land was laid in 1805 its original name was Champion after General Henry Champion. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F07_001_001
Subjects: Lake County (Ohio)--Maps, Pictorial
Places: Lake County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: At last she knows Columbus. You can imagine what an impossible task it would be to convey to a blind person a concept of the layout of Columbus but here, Emogene Ritteger, a seventh grade pupil at the Ohio State School for the Blind, Columbus is learning Columbus quickly and easily by running her fingers over a map built by WPA workers to show the streets, scale models of important and rough models of other structures. In 1837, the Ohio Institution for the Education of the Blind was established. In the 1900s, the school changed its name to the Ohio State School for the Blind, and the Ohio Department of Education took control of the school. In 1953, the school moved from Main Street in Columbus to 5220 North High Street. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F04_31_001
Subjects: Ohio State School for the Blind; Ohio Institution for the Education of the Blind; Blind--Education--Ohio--Columbus; Columbus (Ohio)--Maps, Pictorial; Works Progress Administration of Ohio (U.S.)
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: caption reads: "Shriner parade (1898) crossing viaduct at Union Station" Constructed between 1895 and 1899, Union Station was actually the third train station built in Columbus. It was located at the corner of High and East Naghten. As automobile use increased throughout the course of the 1900s, the popularity of Union Station dwindled. This led to its demolition in 1976. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F04_001_1
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio); Columbus (Ohio)--Aerial views; Columbus (Ohio)--Maps, Pictorial; Passenger trains;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of maps made for the Ohio State School for the Blind of portions of the United States. They were used as teaching tools for the students. The map on the left is New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The map on the right is Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F02_071_001
Subjects: Models; Maps; Schools--Ohio; Ohio State School for the Blind; Blind--Education--Ohio--Columbus; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of Ahaz Merchant's 1835 rendering which was the first accurate, published map of Cleveland, rectifying British Lieutenant Henry Bayfield's 1817-1818 "Sketch of the Mouth of the Cayanoga River." The Village of Cleveland planned for its eventual growth in a 1797 survey; the two-acre, ten-acre, and hundred-acre lots then defined are visible in Merchant's map. The map provided fodder for real estate speculation, especially on the west side of the river, in Ohio City. 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_B04F10_42_01
Subjects: Cleveland (Ohio)--Maps; Merchant, Ahaz; Maps.; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph is a relief map of a portion of the city of Columbus. It is used as a teaching tool for the blind students at the Ohio School for the Blind. As of 1941, it would take 81 models of this size to portray the whole city. This model is exact with the arrangement of the buildings, the street names and arrangements of blocks, it is considered a pictorial diagram rather than a to scale model. The buildings are labeled in Braille and in one corner is a wire arrow lettered to denote the directions, East, West, North and South. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F02_048_001
Subjects: Relief maps; Models; Schools--Ohio; Ohio State School for the Blind; Blind--Education--Ohio--Columbus; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)