Description: The Fort Steuben Bridge is a wire cable suspension bridge that crosses the Ohio River between Steubenville, Ohio and Weirton, West Virginia. Built in 1928 by the Dravo Contracting Co., the bridge was the first suspension bridge on the Ohio River with a concrete floor. Closed in 2008 due to structural weaknesses, Fort Steuben Bridge is slated to be demolished. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F17_042_001
Subjects: Transportation--Ohio--History.; Bridges--Ohio; Transportation--Ohio; Roads--Ohio; Concrete bridges; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Steubenville (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows Big Four Depot. The name Big Four originates with the four cities that it was most associated with. For a time the volume of departures and those riding the trains was quite significant, but this would eventually drop off after a time and the building became defunct. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06745
Subjects: Railroad stations Ohio; Railroad terminals--Ohio; Transportation--Ohio--History
Places: Galion (Ohio); Crawford County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows an Interurban Electric Railway station in downtown Columbus. Stations like this were the places where people would go to travel to other neighborhoods with a degree of convenience and a much lower price than other forms of transportation. They remained popular until the invention of another practical form of transportation that rapidly took hold, the first modern cars. Eventually this particular form of transportation was overtaken and put out of business. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06757
Subjects: Railroad stations Ohio; Railroad terminals--Ohio; Transportation--Ohio--History
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Ohio
 

Description: A group of seven children and two adults (family?) and a horse-drawn cart. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08520
Subjects: Cultural Ohio; Horse-drawn vehicles--Ohio; Transportation--Ohio; Family life
 

Description: This image shows an Interurban Electric Railway station in downtown Columbus. Stations like this were the places where people would go to travel to other neighborhoods with a degree of convenience and a much lower price than other forms of transportation. They remained popular until the invention of another practical form of transportation that rapidly took hold, the first modern cars. Eventually this particular form of transportation was overtaken and put out of business. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06773
Subjects: Railroad stations Ohio; Railroad terminals--Ohio; Transportation--Ohio--History
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Ohio
 

Description: Photograph of a conductor and employee posed with interurban railroad car #500. Interurban railroads were electrically-powered trains that connected communities together across Ohio, providing a quick and cheap alternative to regular railroads, canals, or horses in the late 19th and early 20th century. The first interurban line in the United States connected Newark and Granville, Ohio, while the most profitable and heavily-utilized line in Ohio was the ABC (Akron, Bedford, and Cleveland) Line. By World War I, 2,798 miles of interurban track existed within Ohio, which exceeded the next closest state by approximately 1,000 miles. The advent of the automobile quickly led to a decrease in interurban popularity among travelers, and by the early 1930s, most interurban lines in Ohio had ceased operation. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS2610
Subjects: Railroads--Ohio; Transportation--Ohio--History; Travel; Cities and towns--Ohio;
 

Description: Railroad tracks leading to and from the Tiffin Train Depot. This railroad used to be quite important to the area, allowing for easy transportation and becoming a driver of economic growth and prosperity. Multiple times the railroad was exchanged between various companies before it would eventually be shut down. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06788
Subjects: Railroads; Railroads--Ohio; Transportation--Ohio--History
Places: Tiffin (Ohio); Seneca County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Sciotoville Bridge in Portsmouth, Ohio, designed and built by two famous American Civil Engineers, Gustav Lindenthal, D.Sc. (1850-1935), the Consulting Engineer (and) David Barnard Steinman, D.Sc. (1887-1960), the designer and stress analyst in 1917. A double track railroad bridge of twin spans each 775 feet long, it remained until 1935 the longest continuous truss bridge in the world and stands today as the prototype for continuous structures. Its construction marked a major advance in the art of bridge engineering and was a pioneer achievement in continuous truss analysis. In beauty of design, size and erection techniques it stands as a landmark of progress in man's mastery of his environment. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06800
Subjects: Bridges--Ohio; Architecture--Ohio; Transportation--Ohio
Places: Portsmouth (Ohio); Scioto County (Ohio); Ohio
 

Description: The Sciotoville Bridge in Portsmouth, Ohio, designed and built by two famous American Civil Engineers, Gustav Lindenthal, D.Sc. (1850-1935), the Consulting Engineer (and) David Barnard Steinman, D.Sc. (1887-1960), the designer and stress analyst in 1917. A double track railroad bridge of twin spans each 775 feet long, it remained until 1935 the longest continuous truss bridge in the world and stands today as the prototype for continuous structures. Its construction marked a major advance in the art of bridge engineering and was a pioneer achievement in continuous truss analysis. In beauty of design, size and erection techniques it stands as a landmark of progress in man's mastery of his environment. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06801
Subjects: Bridges--Ohio; Architecture--Ohio; Transportation--Ohio
Places: Portsmouth (Ohio); Scioto County (Ohio); Ohio
 

Description: Color slide showing the Delta Queen steamboat along the Ohio River. This paddle steamer is a National Historic Landmark, and was owned for a time by the Greene Line of Cincinnati, Ohio. First put into service in 1927, she served as a passenger ship along inland U.S. waterways for many decades, and is now docked in Chattanooga, Tennessee, as a floating hotel. The Wonderful World of Ohio slides were used for "The Wonderful World of Ohio" magazine, which was published monthly by the State of Ohio. Originally published in conjunction with the Departments of Natural Resources, Highways, Agriculture, and Development, it was solely the product of the Department of Development by 1970. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA2002AV_B1600970_001
Subjects: Steamboats; Rivers--Ohio; Transportation--Ohio--History;
Places: Ohio River; Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photo of a short span concrete bridge with a concrete road going through a small town in Ohio, ca. 1935-1943. This construction was most likely a part of the Works Progress Administration project, a government office that hired unemployed Americans to work on various government projects from April 8, 1935 to June 30, 1943. In the first six months that the WPA existed, more than 173, 000 Ohioans, including both men and women, found employment through this program. More than 1, 500 unemployed teachers in Ohio found work through the WPA teaching illiterate adults how to read. In twelve separate counties, primarily in southeastern Ohio, more than twenty-five percent of families had at least one member working for the WPA during the late 1930s. By the end of 1938, these various workers had built or improved 12, 300 miles of roads and streets and constructed 636 public buildings, several hundred bridges, hundreds of athletic fields, and five fish hatcheries. WPA employees made improvements to thousands of more buildings, roads, and parks within Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F18_008
Subjects: Bridges--Ohio; Transportation--Ohio; Roads--Ohio; Concrete bridges; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Ohio
 

Description: The photograph shows Harry Kinley and Elmer Walters standing on boards on the street in front of the Grundtisch Bros. Buggy Works in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Behind them stands a horse and buggy, the Reber House Hotel, and a telephone pole. There is another horse further down the brick street. One of the signs on a wooden box to their right reads "New Design." The 1877 Wyandot County Directory lists Grundtisch Wagon Makers at S 4th St. and N Wyandott Ave. Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969) was a native of Upper Sandusky. He was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's department store, and later as a travelling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). He was also an avid lifelong photographer, and the bulk of the Harry Kinley Collection is comprised of glass plate negatives documenting the Kinley family, the city of Upper Sandusky and Wyandot County and surrounding areas. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV30_B01F01_01
Subjects: Families--Ohio; Transportation--Ohio--History; Business--Ohio; City and town life; Carriages & coaches; Horse-drawn vehicles
Places: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio);