Description: Aerial view of the Ohio State Fairgrounds, 1854. The Ohio State Fair is an annual exhibition that showcases Ohio farming and commercial products and achievements. The first fair was held in 1850, and after moving to various locations around the state for several decades, the event settled at its permanent location at the Ohio Expo Center in Columbus in 1886. From September 19 through 22, 1854, the fair was held at Newark's Great Circle Mound (now known as Moundbuilders Park). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04155
Subjects: Ohio State Fair (Newark, Ohio); Ohio Economy--Agriculture; Fairs--Ohio; Mounds--Ohio--Licking County
Places: Newark (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio)
 

Description: Poster advertising the Ohio State Fair and Industrial Exhibition, August 29 through September 2, 1904. Highlighted on the poster are the trotting and pacing races and the livestock buildings. The Ohio State Fair is an annual exhibition that showcases Ohio farming and commercial products and achievements. The first fair was held in 1850, and after moving to various locations around the state for several decades, the event settled at its permanent location at the Ohio Expo Center in Columbus in 1886. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04156
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Agriculture; Fairs--Ohio; Livestock
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Watercolor of a round barn and silo by Ralph Fanning, ca. 1945-1955. Artist and art historian Ralph Fanning was born on Long Island in 1889. A Quaker, Fanning served in France in compassionate non-military service during World War I. In the 1920s, he joined the Ohio State University Art Department, becoming a full professor in 1924. Fanning was a skilled artist, especially talented at depicting bridges and buildings. He sketched and painted numerous buildings in Columbus and throughout Ohio. In 1950, Fanning became ill and was later diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. The disease affected his work, but he continued to paint and sketch. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04158
Subjects: Barns; Ohio Economy--Agriculture; Cultural Ohio--Art and Artists; Ohio State University--History
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This picture is displaying Ohio farm products with a sign stating that Ohio is "35th in Area, 6th in Agriculture, farm income $569,000,000 in 1943". View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02651
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Ohio; Ohio Economy--Agriculture
 

Description: This is a color print illustrating a pamphlet of the Warder, Bushnell & Glessner Company, ca. 1889-1893. The company, based in Springfield, Ohio, and Chicago, Illinois, manufactured Champion harvesting machinery. The print depicts the exterior of their Springfield factory. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02732
Subjects: Agricultural machinery; Ohio Economy--Agriculture; Manufacturing industries--Ohio; Factories
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: Lantern slide of children working in school garden with the caption, "Rocky Ground... Strong Children". Location unknown. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06003
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Agriculture; Children--Ohio; Gardens--Ohio; Garden tools
 

Description: Lantern slide of children posed with display of vegetables, caption reads The Industrial Club and Its Exhibit, hand colored, location unknown. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06004
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Agriculture; Children--Ohio; Clothing & dress
 

Description: Display of award winning canned goods at the Ohio State Fair, Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1992-1993. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01044
Subjects: Ohio State Fair (Columbus, Ohio); Ohio Economy--Agriculture; Fairs--Ohio; Expositions and fairs;
Places: Columbus (Ohio)
 

Description: Young boy posed with his watermelon that won the blue ribbon for Largest and Best at the Ohio State Fair, Columbus, Ohio, 1991. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01052
Subjects: Ohio State Fair (Columbus, Ohio); Ohio Economy--Agriculture; Fairs--Ohio; Expositions and fairs;
Places: Columbus (Ohio)
 

Description: Engraved image of of the John Johnston farm, located in Upper Piqua, Miami County, Ohio, from "Historical Collections of Ohio" by Henry Howe, 1847. Johnston served as a local Indian Agent in the early years after Ohio's founding. He was appointed by President James Madison and held the position until the 1840s. His responsibility was to help Native Americans interact with settlers, which filled a need left by the state and federal government when it came to Native American rights. He was also notable for helping to found Kenyon College, and forming the first Sunday School in Miami County. The Ohio Historical Society now maintains John Johnston's farm as a state memorial. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03981
Subjects: Farm life--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Agriculture; Piqua (Ohio); Kenyon College
Places: Upper Piqua (Ohio); Miami County (Ohio)
 

Description: Marker recognizing the birthplace of the tomato, Reynoldsburg, Franklin County, Ohio, ca. 1965. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00297
Subjects: Franklin County (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Agriculture
Places: Reynoldsburg (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio); Fairfield County (Ohio)
 

Description: Sprinkler irrigation at author-conservationist Louis Bromfield's Malabar Farm, Richland County, Ohio, June 1949. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00641
Subjects: Agricultural machinery; Ohio Economy -- Agriculture
Places: Lucas (Ohio); Richland County (Ohio)