Cattle-Leading at the Wayne County Fair
subject: Wayne County Fair
description: A line of fair-goers lead cattle across the race track, passing the fairgrounds' stadium.
format: Scan
type: Image
coverage: 199 Vanover Street, Wooster, Ohio 44691

Knesseth Israel Temple Program Cover
subject: religion
subject: religious communities
subject: Judaism
subject: Jewish community
subject: temple
description: Displayed is a cover of the 1966-1967 Yearbook from the Knesseth Israel Temple.
creator: The Wooster Jewish Community Association
source: Wayne County Public Library Genealogy Department
date: 1966-1967
contributor: Knesseth Israel Temple
format: black and white print
language: English
identifier: Knesseth Israel Temple Program

The Plaque on Knesseth Israel Temple's door
subject: Knesseth Israel Temple
subject: Religious Communities
description: Plaque on Knesseth Israel Temples door, detailing the founding of the Temple
creator: Elisabeth Abell
publisher: Elisabeth Abell
date: 6/18/13
contributor: Elisabeth Abell
rights: Copyright-Elisabeth Abell
format: Photograph
language: English
type: Original Photograph
coverage: 1670 Cleveland Rd Wooster, Ohio 44691-2336

Placing the Cornerstone of Knesseth Israel Temple, 1950
subject: Knesseth Israel Temple
subject: Jewish Religious Community
description: Scan from microfilm of a news article commemorating the cornerstone of the Jewish Temple. Headline reads: "Knesseth Israel Cornerstone Placed Sunday."
creator: Wooster Daily Record
source: Wayne County Public Library Genealogy Department
publisher: Wooster Daily Record
date: 9/26/1950
rights: Wooster Daily Record
format: Microfilm
language: English
type: Image
identifier: 9-25-50; Daily Record; p1
coverage: 1670 Cleveland Rd, Wooster, OH 44691, USA

The front of Knesseth Israel Temple
subject: Knesseth Israel Temple
subject: Religious Communities
description: The facade of Knesseth Israel Temple on Cleveland Road, with the front sign in view
creator: Elisabeth Abell
date: 6/13/2013
format: photograph
language: English
coverage: 1670 Cleveland Rd. Wooster, Ohio 44691

Wayne County Barn
subject: Farms--Ohio; Agriculture--Ohio
description: Photo of an early farm in Wayne County, with a flock of sheep in the foreground, circa 1900.
source: Courtesy of the Wayne County Historical Society
publisher: Unpublished
date: circa 1900
rights: No copyright - United States
format: JPEG
type: Still image
coverage: Wayne County, OH

Farmers Crossing Killbuck Creek
subject: Agriculture--Ohio
description: Early photo of travelers to a farm in Wayne County.
source: Courtesy of the Wayne County Historical Society
publisher: Unpublished
date: circa 1900
rights: No copyright - United States
format: JPEG
type: Still Image
coverage: Wayne County, OH

Wagon Train
subject: Agriculture--Ohio; Rural transportation; Wagon trains
description: A wagon train of new farmers to Wayne County, flanked by two wooden fences, traveling from Columbus to Wooster.
source: Courtesy of the Wayne County Historical Society
publisher: Unpublished
date: circa 1870
rights: No copyright - United States
format: JPEG
type: Still Image
coverage: Columbus, OH; Wooster, OH

Barnhart Rice Homestead
subject: History, Local; Agriculture--Ohio
description: Photo of the Barnhart Rice Homestead, currently located on the OARDC campus.
creator: Elisabeth Abell
publisher: Unpublished
date: 2013-07-01
rights: Barnhart Rice Homestead by Elisabeth Abell is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
relation: Simon Rice home located here
format: JPEG
type: Still Image
coverage: Wooster, OH; OARDC Campus

Simon Rice Home
subject: History, Local; Agriculture--Ohio
description: Photo of the Simon Rice Home, now the headquarters of the police at OARDC.
creator: Elisabeth Abell
publisher: Unpublished
date: 2013-07-01
rights: Simon Rice Home by Elisabeth Abell is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
relation: Barnhart Rice Homestead located here
format: JPEG
type: Still Image
coverage: Wooster, OH; OARDC Campus

A Portrait of Farm Life in Wooster, 1873
subject: Farms--Ohio; Agriculture--Ohio; Farm life
description: This sketch from Caldwell's Atlas of 1873 focuses on the farm of A.H. and B.C. Byers, located on the west side of Christmas Run south of Wayne Avenue. It was located so close to downtown Wooster that one can even see the steeples of churches in the background. As Wooster developed, farms such as this one were sold and subdivided into lots.
creator: Caldwell's Atlas of 1873
source: Wayne County Public Library Genealogy and Local History Department
publisher: Joseph A. Caldwell
date: 1873
rights: No copyright - United States
relation: Other images from Caldwell's Atlas located here and here
format: JPEG
type: Still Image
coverage: Wooster, OH

Blough Bros Potato Tag
subject: Potato industry; Agriculture--Ohio; Advertising--Farm produce
description: A tag from the Blough Bros in Orrville, Ohio. In the late Nineteenth century, potatoes were one of Wayne County's staple crops. many local farmers grow potatoes today as well.
creator: Blough Bros.
source: Courtesy of the Wayne County Historical Society
publisher: Unpublished
date: circa 1890
rights: No copyright - United States
format: JPEG
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: Orrville, OH; Wayne County, OH

Notice for Public Sale at the D.Y. Roebuck Farm, 1901
subject: Agriculture--Ohio; Farms--Ohio; Crop yields
description: This public sale notice emphasizes the diversity of crops on every small farm in Wayne County. The D. Y. Roebuck farm advertises their horses, cows, sheep, pigs, hay, corn, and seeds.
creator: D. Y. Roebuck
source: Courtesy of the Wayne County Historical Society
publisher: Unpublished
date: 1901-02-21
rights: No copyright - United States
format: JPEG
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: Wooster, OH

Notice for the Public Sale of Milch Cows
subject: Agriculture--Ohio; Dairy Farming
description: Dairies have been major agricultural businesses in Wayne County for over a century. This public sale notice of Milch Cows underscores the importance of these animals to the farming community.
creator: Frank Brown
source: Courtesy of the Wayne County Historical Society
publisher: Gazette Print Shop, Dalton, OH
date: 1903-02-06
rights: No copyright - United States
format: JPEG
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: Dalton, OH; Wayne County

Fountain Hill Nursery, 1873
subject: Agriculture--Ohio; Farms--Ohio; Farm life
description: This sketch from Caldwell's Atlas of 1873 shows the Fountain Hill Nursery of J. Gardner, two miles west of Orrville on the Wooster Road. As seen in the image, the nursery housed many different crops and animals side-by-side.
creator: Caldwell's Atlas of 1873
source: Wayne County Public Library Genealogy and Public History Department
publisher: Joseph A. Caldwell
date: 1873
contributor: Scanned by Elisabeth Abell
contributor: Courtesy of the Wayne County Public Library Genealogy and Local History Department
rights: United States - no copyright
relation: Other images from Caldwell's Atlas located here and here
format: JPEG
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: Wayne County, OH

Mill Creek Farm, 1873
subject: Agriculture--Ohio; Farms--Ohio; Farm life
description: This sketch from Caldwell's Atlas of 1873 focuses on Benjamin Hershey's Mill Creek Farm, in Chippewa Township. It features a mill in the foreground, surrounded by fields of different crops.
creator: Caldwell's Atlas of 1873
source: Wayne County Public Library Genealogy and Local History Department
publisher: Joseph A. Caldwell
date: 1873
contributor: Scanned by Elisabeth Abell
contributor: Courtesy of the Wayne County Public Library Genealogy and Public History Department
rights: No copyright - United States
relation: Other images from Caldwell's Atlas located here and here
format: JPEG
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: Wayne County, OH

Demonstration of a Plank Drag, 1904
subject: Farms--Ohio; Agriculture--Ohio
description: This photo from the Agricultural College Extension Bulletin demonstrates an innovative piece of technology sold in Wayne County starting in the mid-Nineteenth century - the plank drag.
creator: Agricultural College Extension Bulletin, vol. 4, no. 7, 2
source: Courtesy of the Wayne County Historical Society
publisher: The Ohio State University
date: 1904-03
rights: No copyright - United States
format: JPEG
language: eng
type: Still Image
coverage: Ohio

Front View of Excelsior Mower and Reaper Works
subject: Farms--Ohio; Agriculture--Ohio
description: This piece of innovative technology from the mid-Nineteenth century was captured in a sketch by the Caldwell Atlas of 1873. It features a man cutting lodged and tangled grain with a mower from Cline, Seiberling and Co., of Doylestown, Ohio.
creator: Caldwell's Atlas of 1873
source: Wayne County Public Library Genealogy and Local History Department
publisher: Joseph A. Caldwell
date: 1873
contributor: Scanned by Elisabeth Abell
contributor: Courtesy of the Wayne County Public Library Genealogy and Local History Department
rights: No copyright - United States
relation: Side view located here
format: JPEG
type: Still Image
coverage: Doylestown, OH

Side View of an Excelsior Mower, 1873
subject: Farms--Ohio; Agriculture--Ohio
description: This sketch from Caldwell's Atlas of 1873 features a mower from Excelsior Mower and Reaper Works of Cline, Seiberling and Co., in Doylestown, Ohio. The piece of innovative farm technology was sold in the mid-Nineteenth century to cut lodged and tangled grain in 3 1/2 inch sections.
creator: Caldwell's Atlas of 1873
source: Wayne County Public Library Genealogy and Public History Department
publisher: Joseph A. Caldwell
date: 1873
contributor: Scanned by Elisabeth Abell
contributor: Courtesy of the Wayne County Public Library Genealogy and Public History Department
rights: No copyright - United States
relation: Front view located here
format: JPEG
type: Still Image
coverage: Doylestown, OH

Man Cutting Wheat with a Cradle, 1919
subject: Farms, Small--United States
description: This photograph shows a man cutting wheat with a cradle and binding it by hand. In Paul Conkin's "A Revolution Down on the Farm," he describes the cradle as the second most important farming innovation of the Nineteenth century, after barbed wire.
source: North Carolina State University Special Collections
publisher: Unpublished
date: 1919
rights: United States - No copyright
relation: Men using cradle and binding by hand located here
format: JPEG
type: Still Image
coverage: United States

Men Cutting Wheat with a Cradle and Binding It by Hand, 1919
subject: Farms, Small--United States
description: This photograph shows a group of men cutting wheat with a cradle and binding it by hand. In Paul Conkin's "A Revolution Down on the Farm," he describes the cradle as the second most important farming innovation of the Nineteenth century, after barbed wire.
source: North Carolina State University Special Collections
publisher: Unpublished
date: 1919
rights: No copyright - United States
relation: Man using cradle located here
format: JPEG
type: Still Image
coverage: United States

John Deere
subject: John Deere tractors; Inventions; Businesspeople
description: Photograph of John Deere, of Deere & Co., who was the first the patent the metal plow in 1837.
creator: James Grant Wilson and John Fiske
source: The Cyclopaedia of American biography. New enl. ed. of Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American biography
publisher: Unpublished
date: 1918
rights: No copyright - United States
format: JPEG
type: Still Image
coverage: United States

D.L. Freedlander Fifteenth Anniversary Original Letter, circa 1899
subject: David Louis Freedlander and the Founding of the Store
description: In this rare letter from D.L. Freedlander, he celebrates the continued prosperity of the store and cites his decision to establish fixed prices as a reason for its success.
creator: David Louis Freedlander
source: Wayne County Historical Society
date: Circa 1899
contributor: Courtesy of Wayne County Historical Society
rights: Rights held by Wayne County Historical Society
format: Photo
language: English
type: Image with Text
coverage: Wooster, OH

David Emery's Certificate of Church Membership at the German Reformed Church, 1848
subject: Early German Population
description: This certificate of membership to the German Reformed Church highlights the importance of taking communion. Curiously, the certificate is completely in English.
source: Wayne County Historical Society
date: 1848-06-17
rights: Rights held by the Wayne County Historical Society
format: Photo
language: English
type: Text

Adam Oberlin's Certificate of Membership to Salem's Church, 1849
subject: Early German Population
description: A certificate of church membership to the German Reformed Church. According to the Wayne County Genealogy and Local History Department, in 1849 when this document was dated, the German Reformed Church referred to "Salem's Church," now known as Salem Lutheran Church.
source: Wayne County Public Library Genealogy and Local History Department
publisher: Mrs. ROlland Tubbs, a descendant of Adam Oberlin
date: 1849-04-08
contributor: Scanned by Elisabeth Abell
contributor: Courtesy of the Wayne County Public Library Genealogy and Public History Department
rights: Rights held by the Wayne County Public Library Genealogy and Public History Department
format: Scan
language: English
type: Text
identifier: Salem Church Membership

Seventy-fifth Dedication Anniversary of the Evangelical Christ Church Program, 1913
subject: Early German Population
description: A program, partially in German, from the 1913 dedication anniversary of the Evangelical Christ Church. The congregation was part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.
creator: Evangelical Christ Church
source: Wayne County Historical Socity
date: 1913
rights: Rights held by the Wayne County Historical Society
format: Photo
language: English
language: German
type: Text

D.L. Freedlander Advertisement, circa 1898
subject: David Louis Freedlander and the Founding of the Store
description: Freedlander’s went through many name changes, including D.L. Freedlander’s One Price Clothier, named after David Louis Freedlander, the original owner.
creator: Wayne County Historical Society
source: Wayne County Historical Society
date: Circa 1898
contributor: Courtesy of Wayne County Historical Society
contributor: Photo taken by Laura Merrell
rights: Rights held by Wayne County Historical Society
format: Photo
language: English
type: Image with Text
identifier: June 27, 2013
coverage: Wooster, OH

D.L. Freedlander Buffalo Clothing House Business Letterhead 1894
subject: David Louis Freedlander and the Founding of the Store
description: The original name of the store reflects D.L. Freedlander’s hometown, which both he and his son, Herman worked to make a viable business.
creator: Laura Merrell
date: 1894-06-15
contributor: Courtesy of Ann Freedlander Hunt
rights: Rights held by Ann Freedlander Hunt
format: Photo
language: English
type: Image with Text
identifier: July 3, 2013
coverage: Wooster, OH

Artist's Conception of Early Church Building, 1840
subject: Early German Population
description: An artist's conception of the first Zion Lutheran Church Building, which served as a place of worship from 1840-1855. This cabin was similar to many other Evangelical churches of the time.
creator: Mrs. Roy Miller
source: Wayne County Public Library Genealogy and Local History Department
contributor: Scanned by Elisabeth Abell
contributor: Courtesy of the Wayne County Public Library Genealogy and Local History Department
rights: Rights held by Wayne County Public Library Genealogy and Local History Department
format: Scan
type: Image
identifier: Conception of Early Zion Lutheran

Original D.L. Freedlander Store Sign with Pack Peddler Wagon 1983
subject: David Louis Freedlander and the Founding of the Store
description: D.L. Freedlander would have been on a similar wagon to this when he first set his sights on Wooster and decided to establish a store.
creator: Ann Freedlander Hunt
date: 1983-06-12
contributor: Courtesy of Ann Freedlander Hunt
rights: Rights held by Ann Freedlander Hunt
format: Photo
type: Image
identifier: July 3, 2013
coverage: Wooster, OH