Description: This image is a black-and-white photographic reproduction of a watercolor painting by Ulysses S. Grant in 1841, when he was a cadet attending the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York. Grant was an average student, although he excelled in mathematics and horsemanship. He also studied art and painting at West Point and completed many sketches and paintings as a cadet. In this painting Grant portrays a trade bargaining session between two men, one of them a Native American. A Native American woman holding an infant stands behind the man who is wearing a cap and holding a light-colored blanket. This painting is displayed in the West Point Museum. Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822-1885) was a U.S. military leader and the eighteenth President of the United States. He was born Hiram Ulysses Grant on April 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio. In 1823, his family moved to Georgetown, Ohio. Grant lived there until he received an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point in July 1839. The congressman who appointed Grant submitted his name as Ulysses Simpson Grant rather than Hiram Ulysses Grant. It was because of this mistake that Grant changed his name. Grant graduated from West Point in 1843. He ranked twenty-first in a class of thirty-nine students. His first assignment was in the Southwest. Grant served under General Zachary Taylor in the Mexican-American War. He remained in the West following the war. In 1852, after quarreling with a higher-ranking officer, Grant resigned his commission. At the outbreak of the Civil War he organized a company in Galena and later accepted command of the 21st Illinois Regiment. In August 1861, President Abraham Lincoln made Grant brigadier general of volunteers. In March 1864, President Lincoln promoted Grant to lieutenant general and named him supreme commander of all Union forces. Under his leadership the Union Army emerged the victor in April 1865. Grant served as U.S. president from 1869-1877. He spent his last years in New York, writing his memoirs. He died on July 23, 1885, of throat cancer. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04524
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885; Paintings; American Indian history and society; West Point Museum; Ohio History--Military Ohio
Places: West Point (New York)
 

Description: Panoramic watercolor rendering of the exterior of a pottery factory. Based on the intertwined "MTC" design seen on the large building at left, it has been identified as the Mosaic Tile Company factory that was located in Zanesville, Ohio. The artist, whose signature is seen on the lower right, is tentatively identified as Andrew Loomis (1892-1959), an American illustrator who grew up in Zanesville. His father, Newell E. Loomis, appears to have been employed by the Mosaic Tile Company, and served as secretary beginning in 1917 and general manager beginning in 1923. The Mosaic Tile Company was incorporated in Zanesville in1894, and variously produced floor tiles of different types, wall and trim tile, artistic tile murals and faience tile. The company operated until 1967. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS710
Subjects: Pottery industry -- Ohio; Manufacturing industries--Ohio; Factories; Artists; Landscape paintings
Places: Zanesville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of a mural titled "Mail - The Connecting Link" by Sally F. Haley. The mural is located in the McConnelsville, Ohio post office. It is oil on canvas and measures 5' by 17'. The mural was created in 1938 with funding from the Section of Painting and Sculpture, a depression era public works program administered by the Treasury Department that provided work for unemployed artists. They awarded commissions through competitions and paid artists for their work, for a total of more than 1300 murals and 300 sculptures. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04713
Subjects: Artists; Paintings; mural paintings (visual works); Public buildings--Ohio; Great Depression; New Deal, 1933-1939
Places: McConnelsville (Ohio); Morgan County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of a painting titled "Exodus to the Cities" by Karl Anderson. The painting is located in the Bedford, Ohio post office. It is oil on canvas and measures 6 1/8' by 5'. The mural was created in 1937 with funding from the Section of Painting and Sculpture, a depression era public works program administered by the Treasury Department that provided work for unemployed artists. They awarded commissions through competitions and paid artists for their work, for a total of more than 1300 murals and 300 sculptures. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04714
Subjects: Artists; Paintings; mural paintings (visual works); Public buildings--Ohio; Great Depression; New Deal, 1933-1939
Places: Bedford (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of a mural titled "New London Facets" by Lloyd R. Ney. The mural is located in the New London, Ohio post office. It is oil on canvas and measures 5' by 14'. The mural was created in 1940 with funding from the Section of Painting and Sculpture, a depression era public works program administered by the Treasury Department that provided work for unemployed artists. They awarded commissions through competitions and paid artists for their work, for a total of more than 1300 murals and 300 sculptures. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04715
Subjects: Artists; Paintings; mural paintings (visual works); Public buildings--Ohio; Great Depression; New Deal, 1933-1939
Places: New London (Ohio); Huron County (Ohio)
 

Description: Oil painting showing Dr. William Gleason (sometimes spelled Glysson) at a patient's bedside. Gleason is taking the pulse of the patient, who is shown only as a hand extended through the bedcurtains of a tall-post bed. The doctor sits in a straight-leg, Chippendale-style chair and holds an ivory-handled walking stick in his right hand. An unusual detail is the inclusion of a spur on Gleason's boot, implying that he is on a "house call." Artist Winthrop Chandler created the painting in Woodstock, Connecticut, around 1785, one of a pair of paintings made at that time. The other is a portrait of Mary Kidder Gleason and her daughter Bethia Pitt Putnam Tupper. Winthrop Chandler is thought to be the brother of Mrs. Mary Kidder Gleason, wife of Dr. William Gleason (1750-1793). Chandler's wife was also named Mary Gleason, and was presumably the sister of Dr. William Gleason. Mary Kidder Gleason moved to Ohio in 1800, at which time the portraits were reportedly brought to the Putnam House in Belpre, Ohio, where they hung for many years. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H27065
Subjects: Chandler, Winthrop, 1747-1790; Artists; Medicine--History; Paintings
Places: Connecticut; Belpre (Ohio); Washington County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a watercolor on paper that shows an urn and grave monument beneath a tree. Two weeping women visit the grave and a white dove flies above them with a wreath in its beak. The urn is inscribed "1815" and the monument is inscribed "A memorial of John Whipple, died March 29th, aged 35 years." A note written at the bottom of the painting reads "John Whipple--was buried at Cincinnati, March 30, 1815, aged 35--was death denied poor man would live in vain." The painting is stored in a frame under glass. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H6852
Subjects: Death; Tombs and sepulchral monuments; Paintings; Women
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This watercolor shows an eagle with arrows and an olive branch in its talons and a banner which reads "Liberty" in its beak. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H26991
Subjects: Art, American--Ohio; Paintings; America; Eagles
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Reverse reads: "ART PROJECT Panel depicting undersea life, one of a series of six representing various stages of organic evolution, painted in the spring of 1936 by The W.P.A. Project of Dayton, Ohio. These panels, 36"x30" and executed in oils will be framed by a class in Manual Training and presented to the schools in the fall of 1936." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F09_055_001
Subjects: Artists--Ohio; Paintings; Fish; Art--Study and teaching
 

Description: This image shows the front facade of the Fulton County Courthouse. In 1869, the residents of Fulton County passed an "enabling" act that moved the county seat from Ottokee to Wauseon. Though Ottokee was more centrally located, Wauseon had a larger population and more business, making it an appropriate location for the county seat. The act stipulated that private residents had to pay $5,000 of the total estimated building costs of $25,000. The result was the present Italianate style courthouse completed in 1872 by architect C.C. Miller, complete with murals, hand-carved woodwork, and a stained glass dome. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F02_151
Subjects: Courthouses--Ohio; National Register of Historic Places; clock towers; belfries (equipment spaces); arches; domes (architectural elements); mural paintings (visual works); Italianate (North American architecture styles)
Places: Wauseon (Ohio); Fulton County (Ohio); 210 S. Fulton St.
 

Description: This image shows the front and side facades of the Fulton County Courthouse. In 1869, the residents of Fulton County passed an "enabling" act that moved the county seat from Ottokee to Wauseon. Though Ottokee was more centrally located, Wauseon had a larger population and more business, making it an appropriate location for the county seat. The act stipulated that private residents had to pay $5,000 of the total estimated building costs of $25,000. The result was the present Italianate style courthouse completed in 1872 by architect C.C. Miller, complete with murals, hand-carved woodwork, and a stained glass dome. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F02_153
Subjects: Courthouses--Ohio; National Register of Historic Places; clock towers; belfries (equipment spaces); arches; domes (architectural elements); mural paintings (visual works); Italianate (North American architecture styles)
Places: Wauseon (Ohio); Fulton County (Ohio); 210 S. Fulton St.
 

Description: This image shows the front facade of the Fulton County Courthouse. In 1869, the residents of Fulton County passed an "enabling" act that moved the county seat from Ottokee to Wauseon. Though Ottokee was more centrally located, Wauseon had a larger population and more business, making it an appropriate location for the county seat. The act stipulated that private residents had to pay $5,000 of the total estimated building costs of $25,000. The result was the present Italianate style courthouse completed in 1872 by architect C.C. Miller, complete with murals, hand-carved woodwork, and a stained glass dome. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F02_152
Subjects: Courthouses--Ohio; National Register of Historic Places; clock towers; belfries (equipment spaces); arches; domes (architectural elements); mural paintings (visual works); Italianate (North American architecture styles)
Places: Wauseon (Ohio); Fulton County (Ohio); 210 S. Fulton St.