Description: Mary Ann Edmondson was ten years old when she stitched this sampler. She was born in 1824 in Dayton, Ohio and was given training in "plain and ornamental" sewing at a Quaker school in Waynesville, Ohio. Only samplers made by the Quakers of Waynesville feature the baskets seen in this example. Young girls created samplers as part of their education and to practice sewing techniques, since clothes would often be marked to establish a laundering and use schedule. As was common with samplers in the nineteenth century, this piece features letters of the alphabet and numbers done using varying stitches. The sampler measures 17.32 by 17.71 inches (44 by 45 cm). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1465_1149202_001
Subjects: Daily life; Religion in Ohio; Quakers; Samplers; Needlework
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Waynesville (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Lorenzo Carter, captain of the 1940 Wilberforce University football team, wearing an Army uniform and holding a military rifle. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B05F08_B
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; African American men; Wilberforce University; African American Educators; African American soldiers; Firearms; World War II
Places: Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
 

Description: Group portrait of a baseball team that was possibly company sponsored, ca. 1890-1910. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07880
Subjects: Sports; Baseball
Places: Washington Court House (Ohio); Fayette County (Ohio)
 

Description: This color image is an exterior view of Old Town Hall and Academy, Tallmadge, Ohio, ca. 1960-1969. The two-story white building is located within the Tallmadge Town Square Historic District. The Village of Tallmadge was founded in 1807. The first academy building was erected in 1815. The historic building seen in this image was erected in 1859. It was both a town hall (first floor) and the academy's new home (second floor). Until 1876 the academy served students from northeast Ohio who desired advanced courses not offered by local school systems. Besides functioning as the town's assembly hall and auditorium, the building also housed various city government and law enforcement offices during its history. During its early years Old Town Hall hosted touring and local theatrical troupes that performed on its stage. In 1971 the City of Tallmadge made the second floor available to the Tallmadge Historical Society for a museum. Nine years later the Tallmadge City Council leased the entire building to the Society for ninety-nine years. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06634
Subjects: City and town halls; Tallmadge (Ohio); Schools--Ohio; Education; National Register of Historic Places
Places: Tallmadge (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: Painting of national colors of the 4th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Text on flag reads: Romney Blufs Ga[?] Harrison's Landing [?] 4th Regt. O.[V.I.] Chancellorsville. Gettysburgh. Bristoe. Mine Run. The Wilderness. Spottsylvania. Por[?] Prospect [?] View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02341
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
 

Description: This photograph from the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus is of 23-year-old Willie Caldwell of Cuyahoga County. The caption at the bottom reads: "No. 223, Willie Caldwell, of Cuyahoga County, Legally Electrocuted June 14th, 1939, for the Murder of Mr. Fred Raymot, at Cleveland, Ohio.” In 1885 the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio, became the location for all executions, which previously took place in the various county seats. In 1896 the Ohio General Assembly mandated that electrocution replace hanging as the form of capital punishment. The Ohio Penitentiary regularly offered tours as well as souvenir photographs and postcards of the building and prisoners on death row. A total of 315 prisoners, both men and women, were executed in the electric chair known as “Old Sparky” between 1897 and 1963. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08277
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Capital punishment; Death row; Electrocution; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections; Ohio Penitentiary (Columbus, Ohio); Prisons--Ohio
 

Description: Northwest view of tube works store house and scale foundation at Republic Steel Youngstown, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0012_B04F45_001
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel Industry; Tube mills
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows the front and side facades of the Franklin County Courthouse, which is located in the heart of Columbus' County Government Center. This building was built between 1884 and 1887 by George H. Maetzel. It was the county’s third courthouse and made of Berea sandstone. Before its destruction in 1974 due to irreparable structural faults, it was one of the finest examples of Second Empire architecture in the United States. An annex was added in 1951. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F02_147
Subjects: Courthouses; Second Empire
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); 373 S. High St.
 

Description: This photograph shows a back view of a white cotton textured pattern dress dated ca. 1810. The dress is embroidered all over, with two tucks in skirt and a puffy ruffle, with scalloped eyelet added, and a bodice with lace insets. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04918
Subjects: Dresses; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Clothing and dress
 

Description: Portrait of Gerard Fowke.. Col. Fowke was born in 1606 in Staffordshire, England and was in America in when he married Ann Thoroughgood in 1660. He served in the British military. He died about 1670 in Maryland. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08415
Subjects: Military officers
 

Description: The hand-sewn wool flag was carried by Company F, 148th Ohio Volunteer Infantry of Washington County (Ohio). The 36 stars are arranged symmetrically in canton pattern of six rows by six rows. Nevada added the 36th star in 1864 (October 31). Comprised of the 96th Battalion of Vinton County and the 46th of Washington County, the 148th mustered out of Marietta on May 18, 1864 under Colonel Thomas W. Moore. On May 23 the Regiment was involved in an accident on the Union Railroad leaving three soldiers seriously wounded. The 148th Ohio Volunteer Infantry mustered out September 14, 1864. By the war's end they had lost 2 officers and 37 enlisted men from disease. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H18372_001
Subjects: Ceremonial artifact; Communication artifact; Textile--wool; Civil War, 1861-1865; 148th OVI, Company F; Union Railroad; National Guard--Ohio Volunteer Infantry;
Places: Marietta (Ohio); Washington County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dr. John McCook, 1806-1865. Dr McCook was born in 1806 in Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania. He attended the medical school at Jefferson College. When the Civil War broke out, he volunteered as a surgeon. His five sons were also in the war along with his brother and nine nephews. He died shortly after the was was over, on October 11, 1865 at the headquarters of his son, General Anson G. McCook, in Washington D. C. He was buried in Union Cemetery in Steubenville, Ohio View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08424
Subjects: Ohio History--Military Ohio; McCook family; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865