Description: This photographic postcard features a color image of Ulysses Grant's birthplace, located in Point Pleasant, Ohio. The wood cabin, painted white, has two windows on either side of the front door. A tall brick chimney, also white, stands on the cabin's right side. A white fence extends along the front of the cabin, and a stone walkway leads to the front steps. A sign identifying the site is located on the lawn. The cabin was removed from its foundation in Point Pleasant in 1888 and placed aboard a boat for exhibition in Cincinnati. Afterwards it was moved to Goodale Park (Columbus, Ohio) as part of the Northwest Territory centennial. During the 1890s the cabin was returned to the fairgrounds in Columbus. It remained there until 1936, when the Ohio Historical Society, under a legislative order, returned it to its original site in Point Pleasant, Ohio. The dismantling of the badly deteriorated cabin for relocation occurred in February 1936 at the Columbus Fairgrounds. The cabin was restored with period furniture and opened to public tours. The Grant Birthplace memorial is located at 1551 State Rt 232, in Point Pleasant (Clermont County), just off of U.S. Route 52, about five miles east of New Richmond. Ulysses Simpson Grant was an American military leader and the eighteenth president of the United States. He served in the Mexican War but was never happy with military life and resigned his commission in 1854. 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 1864 Grant became lieutenant general commanding all the armies of the U.S. He served as U.S. president from 1869-1877. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05762
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885; Historic preservation; Historic sites Ohio; Point Pleasant (Ohio); Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Photographic postcards; Birthplaces
Places: Point Pleasant (Ohio); Clermont County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph depicts steelworkers at the gate of Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company's Campbell works. A sign in the photograph reads, "DANGER: DRIVE IN CENTER OF BRIDGE ONLY." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B03F52_014
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. Campbell works; Steel industry; Steel workers
Places: Campbell (Ohio); Mahoning Country (Ohio)
 

Description: An aerial view of the Ohio Hospital for Epileptics. he hospital facility, a former Union Hospital site during the Civil War, was the first of its kind in the United States. Before the use of this hospital there did not exist any hospitals for epileptics within the United States. The reason for this hospital was to provide for those who were afflicted with epilepsy who could not find support or support themselves. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06817
Subjects: Hospitals--Ohio; Medicine--History; Gallia County (Ohio); Gallipolis (Ohio)
Places: Gallipolis (Ohio); Gallia County (Ohio); Ohio
 

Description: This wrapped basket was woven from ryestraw. It's brown in color. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8889
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Baskets (containers)
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Bicentennial barn-painting program was an inexpensive, grassroots marketing campaign that painted the official logo of the Ohio Bicentennial on a highly visible historic barn in each of Ohio's 88 counties. Over 2,000 farmers and landowners submitted their barn descriptions to the committee for consideration. Beginning in 1998, artist Scott Hagan spent five years painting the logos, tailored to every barn's unique character. Typically, the barn owners hosted a celebration at the completion of their barn painting. This photograph is an exterior view of Barn #26, the 26th barn that Hagan painted, located at 6844 Bale Kenyon Road in Lewis Center, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08580
Subjects: Centennial celebrations; Ohio History--State and Local Government; Barns; Ohio Bicentennial, 2003
Places: Lewis Center (Ohio); Delaware County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is an image of a round, soldered tin coffeepot with a bail handle and ring pull up. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H73896
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Cooking tools and equipment
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Map showing Columbus and Franklin County, Ohio, in 1923. The corporation of Columbus is delineated by a thick black line. The map also shows property ownership for Columbus and the surrounding county. Columbus was first laid out in 1812 and incorporated in 1816. Columbus was not the original capital, but the state legislature chose to move the state government there after its location for a short time at both Chillicothe and Zanesville. Columbus was chosen as the site for the new capital because of its central location within the state and access by way of major transportation routes (primarily rivers) at that time. By 1923, Columbus had a population of around 240,000, while Franklin County as a whole had approximately 283,000 citizens. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MAPVFM_0074F
Subjects: Maps; Cities and towns; Surveying;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Yvonne Walker-Taylor amongst unidentified individuals at a train station. Yvonne Walker-Taylor was the daughter of Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker, president of Wilberforce University in the 1940s. She later went on to follow in his footsteps, and became one of the first female African American college president in the United States when she was named the 16th president of Wilberforce University in 1984. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B06F02_F
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Wilberforce University; African American men; African American women; African American Educators
 

Description: A photograph of an unidentified child seated in a chair. The top corner has been broken off of the negative. 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.
Image ID: AV71_b01_f23
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States--History; Children
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: Caption reads: "Adelbert College, also known as Administration Building Western Reserve University." Western Reserve College opened in 1826. It was the predecessor to Adelbert College. In 1892, Amasa Stone donated a sizable fund of money to the institution. As a result of this gift, Western Reserve College became Adelbert College of Western Reserve University. Adelbert was the name of Stone’s son. In 1967, Adelbert College and Case Institute of Technology merged, creating modern-day Case Western Reserve University. This picture shows Adelbert Hall which continues to serve as the school's adminstation building to this day. In 1991, it was gutted by a fire. Restoration was completed in 1993. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F04_028_1
Subjects: Western Reserve University; Adelbert College; Buildings; College campuses--Ohio; Education; Universities and colleges; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Federal Arts Project was the second division of what was broadly defined as the "fine arts projects" of the WPA. Over a six year period, various bands gave 16,080 performances to an estimated audience of 708,000 people. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F09_036_1
Subjects: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio); Orchestra
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of a Guidon of the 37th Division Transportation, 37th Infantry Division. Rectangular flag measures 91 cm high by 118 cm wide. The divisional Colors of the 37th Division Transportation are shown with a blue field with "37" and "T" appliqued with white fabric. The gold fringe, 6 cm long with self plied loops, is on three sides of the rectangular shaped flag. It was machine sewn with appliques. Ohio battle flags were on display at the Ohio Statehouse until the 1960s, when the state formed a committee to oversee the efforts to restore the fragile flags. Some of the battle flags were on display on the Plaza Level of the Ohio Historical Society from 1970 until 1989. For conservation reasons, the flags have been in storage since 1989. In the 1960s, the collection was photographed and commercial artist Robert Needham painted illustrations of many Civil War flags. Photographs of the flags and the paintings are now part of the society's archival collections. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02295
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; World War, 1939-1945 - Ohio; Military flags; Communication artifact; Ceremonial artifact