Description: Taken at the end of the first Persian Gulf War in 1991, this photograph from the Rodger Cuccio Collection shows security police watching a C-130 take off from the Kuwait International Airport in Kuwait City. The 3rd Armored Division soldiers on board were bound for the United States. Rodger Cuccio was a member of the 356th Tactical Airlift Squadron stationed at Rickenbacker Air Force Base near Columbus. His unit, along with four others, was attached to the 907th Tactical Airlift Group, U.S. Airforce Reserve. This squadron, made up of over 250 servicemen and women, served in the Gulf War from January to June of 1991. While in Kuwait, Cuccio’s unit flew over 2,000 sorties, hauled over 4,400 tons of cargo and moved more than 13,000 people during Operation Desert Storm. Additional missions of the 907th squadron included resupplying Kuwait City after its liberation, redeployment of troops from Iraq to Saudi Arabia following the signing of the United Nations peace treaty, and evacuation of Shiite Muslims from southern Iraq. The men and women of the 907th Tactical Airlift Group returned to Westover Air Force Base in Massachusetts on June 14, 1991, after 141 days overseas. Other photographs in the Cuccio Collection depict camp life for U.S. soldiers, old artillery and military aircraft, Kuwaiti refugees, and Kuwait City and the surrounding areas. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3216_3813089_001
Subjects: Military Ohio; Transportation; Persian Gulf War, 1991; Soldiers; Aircraft; Flags; Jeep Corporation; Military police; Automobiles;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Kuwait City (Kuwait);
 

Description: The Muskingum County Courthouse combines elements of both Italianate and the Second Empire architectural styles. It is made of limestone and has a mansard roof, hood moldings and a tower that rises to 156 feet. The clock tower is topped with a dome and a weathervane. This image shows the building's front facade and clock tower. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F05_367
Subjects: Courthouses; National Register of Historic Places
Places: Zanesville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio); 401 Main St.
 

Description: A portrait sketch of Abraham Lincoln in black ink inspired from a photograph taken by Mathew Brady in the early 1860s. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV83_B01F07_006
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Pictorial works
 

Description: Photograph of Eva Walker, mother of Yvonne Walker-Taylor and wife of Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker, who was the 66th Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He resided over the A.M.E. Fifth Episcopal District and was the 10th president of Wilberforce University. Walker-Taylor who 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_B06F05_F
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Wilberforce University; African American men; African American women; African American Educators
 

Description: Forsyth's Mill on the Olentangy River, ca. 1886-1888. This photograph is part of a collection compiled by Henry Howe while researching the 1889 edition of "Historical Collections of Ohio." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00250
Subjects: Olentangy River (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Agriculture
 

Description: Three boys playing marbles at recess, Springfield Township, Clark County, ca. 1900-1910. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01130
Subjects: Games; Boys; Photography--Ohio; Children
Places: Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: Two Guidons of the 1st Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, Battery D. Text on flag reads: LADY HAYWARD. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01818
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio History--Military Ohio
 

Description: Exterior view photograph of City Hall in Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1910. Ground was broken for the building on E. State Street in 1869 and the city council held its first meeting there in 1872. In 1921 it was destroyed by fire. Construction on a new city hall began in 1927 on W. Broad Street near the Scioto River. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03256
Subjects: Architecture; Columbus (Ohio)--Politics and government
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows Zane Grey and friends forming a human pyramid, taken from a scrapbook kept during Grey's youth. Grey attended the University of Pennsylvania for dentistry, only to decide after graduation that he wanted to be a writer. In his lifetime he wrote over ninety books--most were Westerns, but fishing was also a common theme. Some of his works include "Spirit of the Border," "Desert Gold," "The Last Trail," "The Call of the Canyon," and "The Thundering Herd." The photo has lightened over time and has large yellow spot in the lower corner. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03923
Subjects: Young men; Popular culture; Authors; Grey, Zane, 1872-1939
 

Description: This 31 page booklet contains the text of Governor Salmon P. Chase’s message to the 54th General Assembly on January 2, 1860. Chase (1808-1873), the first of a string of Republican governors in the nineteenth century, served from 1856 to 1860. Strongly opposed to the extension of slavery, he was active in the Free Soil party. Under Chase, Ohio pursued a radical antislavery position, supporting personal liberties as well as economic conservatism. He also enacted militia reform. In addition to his terms as governor, Chase served in the U. S. Senate, as U. S. Treasury Secretary under President Lincoln, and as Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Page1
Subjects: Governors; Ohio Government; Presidents and Politics
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Governor Martin L. Davey (front row right, wearing top hat) and a group of men, ca. 1935. Davey was Ohio's governor from 1935 to 1939. Despite being a Democrat, Davey opposed many of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs and engaged in a public feud with federal relief administrator Harry Hopkins. Although the governor was cleared of all charges, the stigma cost him politically. He lost his bid for re-election in 1938. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05635
Subjects: Davey, Martin L. (Martin Luther), 1884-1946; Governors; Ohio History--State and Local Government
 

Description: This is a photograph of the guidon of the 107th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The swallowtail flag had thirteen red and white stripes and the blue field contains thirty-two stars - one star in each corner, nineteen in the outer circle and eleven in the inner circle. The thirty four stars represented the states in the Union at the beginning of the Civil War. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02079
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Places: Ohio