Description: Illustration titled "Shakers at Meeting The Final Procession." The Shakers were a religious group that originated in Great Britain ca. 1750. Originally known as Shaking Quakers because they commonly trembled in their religious services as God came over them, Shakers arrived in Ohio in 1805. They established several communities in the state, but the most successful ones were at Lebanon and North Union (modern-day Shaker Heights). By 1846, more than four hundred Shakers called Lebanon home. The Shakers established typical communities in Ohio, making productive livings from their orchards, livestock, and other farming activities, as well as from their furniture-making endeavors. By 1900, Ohio's Shakers had virtually disappeared, mainly due to the lack of new converts. As their numbers declined, many Ohio Shakers moved to Shaker communities in other states. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04033
Subjects: Shakers; Multicultural Ohio--Religion in Ohio; Dance--Religious aspects--Shakers; Religious services
 

Description: Illustration of Shakers dancing in Warren County, Ohio, from "Historical Collections of Ohio" by Henry Howe, 1847. The Shakers are a Christian religious group that originated in Great Britain ca. 1750, originally known as Shaking Quakers because they commonly trembled in religious fervor during their services. Shakers arrived in America during the 1770s, and reached Ohio in 1805. They established several communities in the state, but the most successful ones were at Lebanon and North Union (modern-day Shaker Heights). By 1846, more than four hundred Shakers called Lebanon home. The Shakers established typical communities in Ohio, making productive livings from their orchards, livestock, and other farming activities, as well as from their furniture-making endeavors. By 1900, Ohio's Shakers had virtually disappeared, mainly due to the lack of new converts. As their numbers declined, many Ohio Shakers moved to Shaker communities in other states. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04034
Subjects: Shakers; Multicultural Ohio--Religion in Ohio; Dance--Religious aspects--Shakers; Religious services
Places: Warren County (Ohio)
 

Description: Lithograph print showing Reverend L. F. Drake, Chaplain of the 31st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, preaching at Camp Dick Robinson near Danville, Kentucky, on November 10, 1861. The sketch was drawn by Alfred E. Mathews, who served with the 31st O.V.I. Mathews (1831-1874) was born in Bristol, England, but moved with his family to settle in Rochester, Ohio, when he was two years old. He was working as a schoolteacher in Alabama when the Civil War broke out, and returned north to enlist in the 1st Ohio Artillery in August 1861. He later joined the 31st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and fought in battles including Corinth, Stone River, Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. During his three-year enlistment he drew numerous sketches of scenes he witnessed, which were made into lithographs and sold, including publication in Harper's Weekly. He moved west following the war and continued his work as an artist, until his sudden death at the age of 43. He is buried on his ranch near Longmount, Colorado. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08603
Subjects: Civil War 1861-1865; Battlefields; Military encampments; Military life; Religious services;
Places: Kentucky
 

Description: Broadside notifying the public that Embury Camp Ground will remain open one week longer despite water levels following heavy rains, and inviting people to attend meetings and hear the church celebrities' sermons. Camp meetings like those described here were held in a large tent or outdoors and often lasted several days. Embury Park Campground was a site located along the Miami River just outside of Dayton, Ohio, which was often used for events like this camp meeting during the 19th century. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS1826
Subjects: Religion in Ohio; Religious services; Meetings and conventions;
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: This engraving depicts a circuit rider on horseback as he crosses a small creek. A circuit rider was a clergyman who travels from church to church, especially in a rural district. The Methodist ministerial role was originated in England by John Wesley. The first of the American circuit riders was Robert Strawbridge, who arrived in the colonies in 1764. A few years later Wesley sent missionaries to the American colonies, but most of them departed when revolution threatened. The name of the rider depicted in this drawing is unknown. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC1098_01
Subjects: Religion in Ohio; Religious services; Clergy; Horses;
 

Description: Photograph showing a church in the Penitentes area of northern New Mexico, taken by Joe Munroe, 1974. The Penitentes is a lay ministry group that works together to promote the idea of the Roman Catholic faith in the area of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado. This group was formed after Spanish missionaries left the area once Mexico gained its independence, when local communities banded together to help one another in the absence of a parish priest. Joe 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_B31_F2226_JPG215
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Religious services; Penitentes; Lay ministry
Places: New Mexico
 

Description: Illustration showing a Jew lighting the Sabbath candle, from "The Jewish Nation: Containing an Account of their Manners and Customs, Rites and Worship, Laws and Polity," by D.P. Kidder, 1850. Jews have lived in Ohio from the state's creation in 1803. Before the American Civil War, however, the number of Jews residing in Ohio remained small. During this period, Cincinnati was the largest city in Ohio and the center of the Jewish community in the state, though it was not until 1824 that Jews in Cincinnati established their first congregation. Illustrating the small Jewish population in Ohio during this period, only forty thousand Jews lived west of the Appalachian Mountains by 1850 and only 150,000 Jews lived in the entire United States by 1870. The lighting of the candle shortly before sunset on Friday nights to usher in the Jewish Sabbath is a weekly tradition in many Jewish homes. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04255
Subjects: Ohio--Religion; Multicultural Ohio--Ethnic Communities; Jews--Social life and customs; Religious services
 

Description: Thomas Barnhardt's baptism in Boggs Creek, near Marysville (Union County, Ohio), April 1890. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03636
Subjects: Baptism; Ohio--Religion; Religious services
Places: Marysville (Ohio); Union County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of a group of African American women standing on the front steps of a building. A carved wooden sign mounted in front identifies it as the Fourth Street Baptist Church, along with information about services. This postcard comes from the collection of the Ohio Baptist General Association. The Ohio Baptist General Association, an organization of African American Baptist churches with its headquarters in Columbus, was founded in 1895 as the Ohio Baptist State Convention and reorganized as the Ohio Baptist General Association in 1919. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P190_B01_02
Subjects: African American women; Group portraits; Church buildings; Religious services;
 

Description: Dated ca. 1935-1965, this photograph shows a church service at the Ohio Reformatory for Women during the Christmas season. In 1911, the Ohio General Assembly authorized the establishment of a separate women’s penal institution. On September 1, 1916, the Ohio Reformatory for Women opened in Marysville, Ohio, with a population of 34 inmates. When Marguerite Reilley was appointed superintendent of the Reformatory in 1935, she found dirty and unkempt inmates with excessively restricted living habits. She instituted the “human being” program which provided recreation, entertainment, jobs, and vocational training for the inmates. State Archived Series 1679 AV consists of 234 photographs which illustrate daily life in the Ohio Reformatory for Women, as well as photographs of the buildings and grounds, superintendents Marguerite Reilley and Martha Wheeler, and notorious inmate Velma West. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1679AV_B01_F12_001
Subjects: Photography--Ohio; Ohio Reformatory for Women; Prisons; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections; Christmas; Religious services
Places: Marysville (Ohio); Union County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1935-1965, this photograph shows a church service at the Ohio Reformatory for Women during the Christmas season. In 1911, the Ohio General Assembly authorized the establishment of a separate women’s penal institution. On September 1, 1916, the Ohio Reformatory for Women opened in Marysville, Ohio, with a population of 34 inmates. When Marguerite Reilley was appointed superintendent of the Reformatory in 1935, she found dirty and unkempt inmates with excessively restricted living habits. She instituted the “human being” program which provided recreation, entertainment, jobs, and vocational training for the inmates. State Archived Series 1679 AV consists of 234 photographs which illustrate daily life in the Ohio Reformatory for Women, as well as photographs of the buildings and grounds, superintendents Marguerite Reilley and Martha Wheeler, and notorious inmate Velma West. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1679AV_B01_F12_002
Subjects: Photography--Ohio; Ohio Reformatory for Women; Prisons; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections; Christmas; Religious services
Places: Marysville (Ohio); Union County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1935-1965, this photograph shows inmates singing in the choir at the Ohio Reformatory for Women. In 1911, the Ohio General Assembly authorized the establishment of a separate women’s penal institution. On September 1, 1916, the Ohio Reformatory for Women opened in Marysville, Ohio, with a population of 34 inmates. When Marguerite Reilley was appointed superintendent of the Reformatory in 1935, she found dirty and unkempt inmates with excessively restricted living habits. She instituted the “human being” program which provided recreation, entertainment, jobs, and vocational training for the inmates. State Archived Series 1679 AV consists of 234 photographs which illustrate daily life in the Ohio Reformatory for Women, as well as photographs of the buildings and grounds, superintendents Marguerite Reilley and Martha Wheeler, and notorious inmate Velma West. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1679AV_B01_F12_003
Subjects: Photography--Ohio; Ohio Reformatory for Women; Prisons; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections; Religious services; Choirs (Music)
Places: Marysville (Ohio); Union County (Ohio)