Description: A photograph of an unidentified woman seated in a chair. She has her left arm behind the chair and is turned slightly in that direction. She has a piece of cloth in her hand and a locket pinned to her chest. This photograph was taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912. Like most of Ewing's work, it was likely taken in southeastern Ohio or central West Virginia. Born in 1870 in Washington County, Ohio, near Marietta, Ewing most likely began his photography career in the 1890s. The 1910 US Census and a 1912-1913 directory list him as a photographer. A negative signed "Ewing Brothers" and a picture with his younger brother, Frank, indicate that Frank may have joined the business. After 1916, directories list Albert as a salesman. He died in 1934. The Ewing Collection consists of 5,055 glass plate negatives, each individually housed and numbered. Additionally, the collection includes approximately 450 modern contact prints made from the glass plate negatives. Subjects include infants and young children, elderly people, families, school and religious groups, animals and rural scenes. In 1982, the Ohio Historical Society received the collection, still housed in the original dry plate negative boxes purchased by Albert J. Ewing. A selection of the original glass plate negatives were exhibited for the first time in 2013 at the Ohio Historical Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Description: This stemmed, lanceolate point has a blade with nearly parallel sides that has possibly been re-worked. The stem is broad with parallel sides and a squared base. The flint is mottled black, dark gray, and white and there are natural flaws within the flint. This piece comes from Paleo-Indian Culture. Paleo-Indians occupied Ohio between 15,000 and 9,000 years ago. They learned to thin their spear points and knife blades by careful flaking, called knapping, rather than by fluting. In the western plains of North America, Paleo-Indians hunted mammoths and other game; because they moved in herds, caribou may have been a favored prey. Lanceolate points were a later development in Paleo-Indian technology. Sometimes a Paleo-Indian flintknapper would made a tool of special elegance - perhaps they saw an artistic value to their work. View on Ohio Memory.
Description: This gray Harrison County flint projectile point is of the Turkey-Tail type, which is leaf-shaped or feather-shaped. Harrison County flint is also known as Wyandotte chert or Indiana hornstone. This particular point has two small notches at one end. It was intentionally broken at the time it was buried, as part of a large deposit of points, and has since been repaired. This piece comes from Red Ocher Culture. The flint-working skills of the Late Archaic cultures are clearly shown in the turkey-tail points made by the Red Ocher people. Sometimes the Red Ocher people piled many of these points next to the cremated bodies in their burial sites. The way that the Red Ocher people disposed of turkey-tail points shows that they had special meaning either as ritual objects or as trade items. They clearly were passed from one group to another since they are nearly all made from high quality flint from Indiana. Some archaeologists think that breaking and burying large numbers of turkey-tail points may have been a way of increasing their "value" by decreasing the number in circulation. View on Ohio Memory.
National Colors of the 59th O.V.I.
Description: National colors of the 59th Ohio Volunteer infantry. View on Ohio Memory.
Description: Regimental colors of the 331st Infantry Regiment, 83rd Infantry Division. Rectangular flag measures 131 cm high by 166 cm wide. Text on flag reads: 331st U.S. Infantry. View on Ohio Memory.
Description: This is a photograph of the guidon battle flag of the 324th Field Artillery, Battery F. It is a swallowtail flag with a red background and the number 324, crossed cannons and the letter F in yellow. The dimensions are 102 cm by 69 cm. The provenance was given by Captain Thomas Md Caw. View on Ohio Memory.
Description: Photograph of three (living) young children with the body of a deceased child, likely their sibling. Postmortem photographs, sometimes called memorial portraiture or memento mori, were used as a way to remember the deceased and peaked in popularity around the end of the 19th century. This photograph was taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912. Like most of Ewing's work, it was likely taken in southeastern Ohio or central West Virginia. Born in 1870 in Washington County, Ohio, near Marietta, Ewing most likely began his photography career in the 1890s. The 1910 US Census and a 1912-1913 directory list him as a photographer. A negative signed "Ewing Brothers" and a picture with his younger brother, Frank, indicate that Frank may have joined the business. After 1916, directories list Albert as a salesman. He died in 1934. The Ewing Collection consists of 5,055 glass plate negatives, each individually housed and numbered. Additionally, the collection includes approximately 450 modern contact prints made from the glass plate negatives. Subjects include infants and young children, elderly people, families, school and religious groups, animals and rural scenes. In 1982, the Ohio Historical Society received the collection, still housed in the original dry plate negative boxes purchased by Albert J. Ewing. A selection of the original glass plate negatives were exhibited for the first time in 2013 at the Ohio Historical Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Description: This photograph was taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912. Like most of Ewing's work, it was likely taken in southeastern Ohio or central West Virginia. Born in 1870 in Washington County, Ohio, near Marietta, Ewing most likely began his photography career in the 1890s. The 1910 US Census and a 1912-1913 directory list him as a photographer. A negative signed "Ewing Brothers" and a picture with his younger brother, Frank, indicate that Frank may have joined the business. After 1916, directories list Albert as a salesman. He died in 1934. The Ewing Collection consists of 5,055 glass plate negatives, each individually housed and numbered. Additionally, the collection includes approximately 450 modern contact prints made from the glass plate negatives. Subjects include infants and young children, elderly people, families, school and religious groups, animals and rural scenes. In 1982, the Ohio Historical Society received the collection, still housed in the original dry plate negative boxes purchased by Albert J. Ewing. A selection of the original glass plate negatives were exhibited for the first time in 2013 at the Ohio Historical Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Description: This Strike-A-Light, used together with flint to start fires, is C-shaped. It is made of iron that is highly corroded. This piece comes from the Historic Period. The Historic Period in North America began in the late 1400s when Europeans wrote down accounts of their experiences in the New World. It did not begin in Ohio, however, until 1650 when French map makers first depicted the southern shore of Lake Erie on their maps. Although nearly two centuries had passed before Europeans arrived in the Ohio area, their presence on the east coast greatly affected the Indians of the interior. The Indians of the Historic Period used many European-made tools. Still, they did not immediately give up all their traditional crafts, such as chipping flint arrow points. View on Ohio Memory.
Description: This biface is a thick, roughly worked oval. It is made of gray and dark gray Wyandotte flint. On one face there is a significant amount of the weathered outer layer of the flint core, from which the point was made (cortex). The cortex is pale yellow in color. This piece comes from Hopewell Culture. In Ohio, the Hopewell Indians (100 B.C.-A.D. 500) built burial mounds and large earthen enclosures in geometric shapes (circles, squares, and octagons) to mark the places where the people gathered periodically to participate in many social and ceremonial events. Some of these sites were quite large - the Newark Earthworks complex extends over a 4-square-mile area. The Hopewell people also maintained a large trade network extending as far as the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming, the Florida coast and Appalachians, and northern Lake Superior. View on Ohio Memory.
National Colors of the 118th O.V.I.
Description: National colors of the 118th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. View on Ohio Memory.
National Colors of the 72nd O.V.I.
Description: Painting of national colors of the 72nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. View on Ohio Memory.