Description: Photograph of a newly wounded soldier of the 37th Infantry Division after being bandaged by the medics of 2nd Battalion 129th Infantry Regiment, Bougainville, Solomon Islands, ca. 1943-1944. The 37th Infantry was nicknamed the Buckeye Division because it was originally comprised of Ohio National Guard units. The division went into combat in April 1943 on Guadacanal, Solomon Islands and spent over 600 days in action before the end of the war, more combat time than any other division. The 37th Infantry played a significant role in the invasion of the Phillippines. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03401
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Soldiers--Ohio
Places: Bougainville Island, Papua (New Guinea)
 

Description: Road construction on 6th St. N. E. in Canton, Stark County, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F03_008_001
Subjects: Canton (Ohio); Roads; Highways
Places: Canton (Ohio); Stark County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a three-quarter view of the wedding dress and poke bonnet worn by Sarah Pearson in 1823 in Miami County, Ohio. Made of muslin and linen, the dress features an empire waist with a drawstring that ties in the back and a reinforced yoke lined with linen, with long and full sleeves. Sarah married her second cousin, Moses Pearson, and they had eight children, Rhoda, Mahalah, Timothy, Anna, Joshua, Abram, Nathan and Serepta. Sarah Pearson was a Quaker and member of the Mill Creek Friends Meeting House in Miami County. In 1837, Moses and Sarah were sent by the Indiana Yearly Missionaries to the Shawnee Indians who had recently been removed from Ohio to the present-day Kansas City, Missouri. Sarah died on February 7, 1844, and was buried in Union Joint Cemetery in Ludlow Falls, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04987
Subjects: Weddings; Wedding costume; Clothing and dress; Hats; Women--Ohio
Places: Miami County (Ohio)
 

Description: Type on reverse reads: "ITEM 8 Men leaving factory. Cars and men pour out of this Youngstown steel mill as the shift changes. Credit line, Youngstown Vindicator, Youngstown, Ohio. Picture shows numerous men bundled in hats and coats as they walk across a bridge leaving the steel mill at the end of their working day. The bridge appears to be a steel quadrangular through warren truss bridge. Four cars face the photographer as they finish crossing the bridge and drive on a brick road. Four cylindrical stacks are in the middle ground in the photograph and another stack is visible in the background. Smoke or steam rises from short chimneys on a building in the background. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B14F11_007_001
Subjects: Industries--Ohio; Factories; Steel-works--Ohio--Pictorial works;
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning (Ohio); Trumbull (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Anna Arnold Hedgeman, Martin Luther King, Jr. and W. Averell Harriman. Anna Arnold Hedgeman was a prominent figure in civil rights, women's rights and education in the 20th century. She taught at Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi, after graduating as the first African American woman to earn a degree from Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. Hedgeman was the first African American woman to serve on the cabinet of a New York mayor in the 1950s, and in 1963 she helped A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin plan the March on Washington. She held honorary doctorates from both Howard University and Hamline University, was an executive of the YWCA and was the author of two books: "The Trumpet Sounds" and "The Gift Of Chaos." Harriman served one term as governor of New York from 1955 through 1958, and was also active in the presidential administrations of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS15_B08_06
Subjects: African American women; African American authors; African American Educators; Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Politicians; Civil rights; Howard University; Activists
 

Description: Reverse side of photograph of Abraham Lincoln’s house reads: “Photographs for sale at the Lincoln Homestead, Springfield, Ill. (Illinois). No.1. Interior Stereoscopic View of Oldroyd’s Lincoln Memorial Collection, 25¢. No. 2. Same in Cabinet Style, 25¢.No. 3 Exterior View of the House (the Elm Tree in front of the House was planted by Mr. Lincoln), 25¢. No. 4. Exterior Cabinet View of the House, with Lincoln on his Horse, 25¢. No. 5. Portrait of Lincoln, photographed by Brady of Washington, in 1864 (Cabinet), 25¢. No. 6. Portrait of Lincoln, taken a few days before his departure for Washington; the first photograph taken after wearing whiskers (Cabinet), 25¢. No. 7. View of the Home taken on the day of the Funeral, May 4th 1865 (The House is heavily draped), 25¢ Sent on Receipt of Price. O. H. Oldroyd, State Custodian.” The photograph is No. 3 view of the front of the Abraham Lincoln’s house in Springfield, Illinois. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV83_B01F04_028_002
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Pictorial works
Places: Springfield (Illinois); Sangamon County (Illinois)
 

Description: Transporting penstocks made by the William B. Pollock Company of Youngstown, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0031_B12F127_025
Subjects: Penstocks; William B. Pollock Company; Steel Industry
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of a model frontier town from a collection of models for the Ohio State School for the Blind. The typical frontier town, a fortified town of log cabins, was similar to the Roman forts built in the wooded sections of North Europe. A formidable wall around the settlement was built from sharpened wooden posts. A blockhouse, usually built in a corner of the settlement, provided storage room and as a place of last defense. The corner placement of the blockhouse, allowed access to both the inside and outside for better defense. Firing platforms could be found in the corners of the palisades. A settlement, had to have a good water supply, or could not survive. The stream in the model was probably from a spring inside the town, since streams could be polluted and diverge from their courses. Model dimensions: length 24", width 30", height 6.5". Photograph is 4.5" x 7". Photographs and descriptions of models were included in the book "Models for the Blind," compiled by workers of the Ohio Writers' Program. The book was meant as a guide, to be used in the building and study of models, and as documentation of the achievements at the Ohio State School for the Blind. The models were a result of research, design and construction by employees of the Works Projects Administration. Models were made of durable materials to withstand regular usage. The average cost of labor for larger models was $45. A special room was built to store the models where teachers could borrow them to be used in classroom instruction. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F02_051_001
Subjects: United States. Work Projects Administration; Blind--Education--Ohio; Ohio State School for the Blind; Models and modelmaking
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Side view of a hand-sewn brocaded cream silk crepe, Empire-style infare gown with satin trim, silk braid and tucks, dating from 1824. It was worn by Elva (Dana) Fearing following her marriage to Henry Fearing in 1824. An infare is a house-warming, reception or party given by a newly-married couple or by the husband upon receiving the wife to his house. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04866
Subjects: Women--Ohio; Popular culture; Dresses; Clothing and dress; Wedding costume; Weddings
 

Description: The Hardin County Courthouse is in Kenton, Ohio. This is a photo of blueprints for the Hardin County Courthouse. They show transverse and longitudinal views. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F05_21_001
Subjects: Court-houses
Places: Kenton (Ohio); Hardin County (Ohio)
 

Description: An image of the early campus of Oberlin College in Oberlin, Lorain County, Ohio. Oberlin College and the town of Oberlin were founded by Presbyterian ministers, John J. Shipherd and Philo P. Stewart in 1833. In 1835, it was the first college to admit women and black students. A liberal arts college, it is connected to the Oberlin conservatory of Music, the oldest continuously operating conservatory in the United States. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06413
Subjects: Oberlin College; Universities and colleges Ohio; African American Ohioans
Places: Oberlin (Ohio); Lorain County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Warder Public Library, Cor. Spring & High Sts., Springfield, Ohio, Jan 28, 1937." This photograph shows the Warder Public Library, located at 137 East High Street, on the southwest corner of Spring Street in Springfield, Ohio. In the late 1800s, Benjamin H. Warder commissioned the firm of Shipley, Rutan and Coolidge to construct a building for Springfield's Free Public Library. Like the Bushnell house located further east on High Street, the Warder Library was built in the Richardson Romanesque style from Ohio buff stone and trimmed with brown Worcester stone. The library featured a large reading room heated by a massive stone fireplace at one end measuring 18 feet high and 12.5 feet across. The building was dedicated in 1890 and housed the library until 1989, when the new main branch of the Clark County Public Library was opened at 201 South Fountain Avenue. The Warder building continued to be used as the Clark County (Warder) Literacy Coalition Center. Now called the Clark County Public Library, the main library moved to its new facility on Fountain Avenue in 1989. The library has five locations throughout Clark County. It also has two bookmobiles that cover 41 community stops, 7 schools, 14 daycare centers and 5 Head Start Programs. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F06_14_01
Subjects: Springfield (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Public libraries--Ohio; Library architecture--United States; Warder Public Library; National Register of Historic Places
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)