Description: A declaration by Gary Richard Herbert, Governor of Utah, honoring Colonel Charles Young and the Buffalo Soldiers with their own day. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS2009_B01F05_E
Subjects: African Americans; African American soldiers; Young, Charles, 1864-1922.; Buffalo Soldiers; Buffalo Soldiers Day; National Minority Military Museum Foundation (NMMMF); Certificates
Places: Utah
 

Description: The Utah state flag background is blue and in the center is the seal of Utah with a gold circle around it. The seal contains a bald eagle which is the national bird signifying protection in peace and war. The flowers in the seal are lilies and represent peach. The state motto, Industry, in written on the seal. The beehive represents progress and hard work and the United States flag shows commitment and support of the United States. The year 1847 was the year that the Mormons entered Salt Lake valley and the year Utah was admitted to the union was 1896. The flag is made of cotton and measures 90 by 155 cm. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H65288_001
Subjects: State Flags; Ceremonial artifact; Communication artifacts
Places: Utah
 

Description: This conveyor to move block ice was built by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio. It was used by the Utah Ice and Storage Company, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1911. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01304
Subjects: Conveying machinery; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Salt Lake City (Utah)
 

Description: James Jepson, photographed here by Joe Munroe at the age of 93, was part of a duo that helped to create the Hurricane Canal Company, which raised the funds to create an irrigation canal in Utah. The goal was to help bring water to the land and make it usable for farmers. The canal took ten years to complete and serviced 2,000 acres of land, running an eight-mile span across ravines and through mountains. 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_B04_F16_003
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Farm life; Irrigation, Hurricane (Utah); Farming
Places: Utah
 

Description: Spiral chute made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio. A Jeffrey conveyor delivered blocks of ice across the bridge to the left of the spiral chute. The blocks of ice slid down the chute to the chain conveyor seen on the bottom right of the photograph. This chute and conveyor were used by the Utah Ice and Storage Company, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1911. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01303
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Salt Lake City (Utah)
 

Description: Photograph of blind Mormon farmer James Jepson of Utah. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05905
Subjects: Farmers; Rural life; Portrait photography
Places: Utah
 

Description: 1974 Joe Munroe photograph showing an oil tanker train rolling through a Utah desert that has been blanketed with snow. Trains remain one of the most efficient way of moving large quantities of products across the United States, especially oil. 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_B33_F2375_JPG204
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Petroleum refineries; Trains; Oil industry
Places: Utah
 

Description: 1974 photograph of an open pit copper mine in Utah, taken by Joe Munroe. Open pits require the removal of the top layers of the earth to get at the minerals, rather than tunneling into the earth as in traditional mining. It is extremely impact on the environment as it requires the removal of large volumes of earth, similar to the technique of strip mining. 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_B33_F2413_JPG185
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Mining; Open pit mining;
Places: Utah
 

Description: Ensuring enough water for crops is a challenge for farmers. But through the use of irrigation, previously dry lands can be made fertile for growing. Nowhere is this more evident than in the American West. In this 1947 photograph by Joe Munroe, a Utah farmer digs and maintains his irrigation ditches by hand. 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_B27_571_JPG082
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Farming; Irrigation farming;
Places: Utah
 

Description: 1955 calendar advertising and themed around Ohio author and conservation advocate Louis Bromfield's famed Malabar Farm in Lucas, Ohio. The full-color twelve-month calendar includes color photographs by Joe Munroe and short caption essays by Louis Bromfield. Calendar verso pages feature longer essays on the history and rehabilitation of Malabar and vignettes of farm life also written by Bromfield. The Friends of the Land Collection (1930-1960) contains the papers of the Friends of the Land (1940-1959), a prominent national soil conservation education organization headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. FOTL produced an international literary arts quarterly, THE LAND (edited by New Deal agriculture writer Russell Lord) in addition to several members' only publications (LAND LETTER) and informational pamphlets. They also hosted annual conferences; ran conservation tours, teacher training labs, and workshops; and operated as a national clearinghouse for conservation information. Ohio farmer and novelist Louis Bromfield was active in the organization. Much of the collection reflects the career and interests of FOTL Executive Secretary Ollie Fink, who was a prominent conservation education pioneer in Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Page1
Subjects: Conservation education; Bromfield, Louis (1896-1956); Agriculture; Soil science; Malabar Farm
Places: Mansfield (Ohio); Richland County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows author Zane Grey beneath Rainbow Bridge in Utah. Rainbow Bridge is also known as Nonnezoshe, or "rainbow turned to stone," a name given by the Paiute and Navajo people who lived nearby. The photograph belongs to the Zane Grey Photograph Collection. Grey was a popular and widely-read novelist of the American West. He was born in Zanesville, Ohio, on January 31, 1872, to Lewis Grey and Alice Josephine Zane Grey. As a teenager, Grey was an excellent baseball player. He won a baseball scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied to become a dentist. Once he left school and began his dental practice in New York, Grey realized that he was not happy. He decided to leave dentistry behind and become a writer. Grey's first novel, "Betty Zane" drew inspiration from the stories he had heard about frontier Ohio when he was growing up. He wrote "Betty Zane" in 1904 but was not able to find a publisher at first. Refusing to give up, Grey traveled west and continued writing. In 1910, he had his first success when Harper's Magazine published "The Heritage of the Desert." Two years later, Harper's published "Riders of the Purple Sage." Grey died unexpectedly of a heart attack on October 23, 1939. By the time of his death, he had written almost ninety books. Most of his books were Westerns, but he also wrote nine books that had a fishing theme. Grey also published many short stories, a biography of George Washington as a young man, and several stories for children. Some of Grey's other popular Western novels included "Spirit of the Border" "Desert Gold" "The Last Trail" "The Call of the Canyon" and "The Thundering Herd." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P49_B08F01_04_001
Subjects: Landscape photography; National parks & reserves; ; Authors, American--Ohio; Grey, Zane, 1872-1939;
Places: Rainbow Bridge (Utah)
 

Description: A certificate remembering, honoring, and recognizing Colonel Charles Young for his military service by Senator Robin L. Webb and the Commonwealth of Kentucky. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS2009_B01F04_H
Subjects: African Americans; African American soldiers; Young, Charles, 1864-1922.; Buffalo Soldiers; National Minority Military Museum Foundation (NMMMF); Certificates
Places: Kentucky