Description: Reverse reads: "Social Studies Class, South High School, Lima. Photograph by courtesy of South High School" This is a photo of a social studies class at Lima South High School in Lima, Ohio. There is a teacher at the head of classroom the room and several students working on classwork. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F07_003_001
Subjects: High schools; Social studies; Classrooms; Lima (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works; Maps; Students; Teachers; Education; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Lima (Ohio); Allen County (Ohio)
 

Description: Illustration, published in "The American Soldier in the Civil War" by Frank Leslie, of the construction of the headquarters of the Union army under General Ulysses S. Grant outside of Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1863. Ulysses S. Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Point Pleasant, Ohio. During the U. S. Civil War, Grant was promoted to the rank of General and granted command of the Union army by President Abraham Lincoln. After the victory of the Union over the Confederacy, Grant's popularity led to his election as the 18th President of the United States in 1868. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04598
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio History--Military Ohio
Places: Vicksburg (Mississippi)
 

Description: National colors of the 177th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02135
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Dist. #6. Springfield Clark Co. Chamber Commerce bldg. (Sullivan arch?)" This is a photograph of the Clark County Chamber of Commerce building, also known as the Lagonda Club, in downtown Springfield, Ohio. The Lagonda Club building was completed in 1895 and was designed by architect Frank Mills Andrews. It is an early example of Beaux-Arts architecture and is three-stories tall with a large basement. After it was no longer in use by the Lagonda Club, it became the Chamber of Commerce headquarters. The building still stands and is rented out to retail businesses. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F06_003_001
Subjects: Beaux-Arts Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Clubhouses; Springfield (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; National Register of Historic Places; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project.
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: Stereograph showing an organized protest held by women against the legal sale of alcohol. Title listed on the back reads "Pickets in the rain." Three women identified on the back are Mrs. Calkins, Mrs. John Cooper and Mary Mitabell. The stereograph is part of a collection consisting of twenty-six stereographs from a series published by Fred S. Crowell titled "The Whiskey Crusade in Ohio." The images document the activities of women who participated in the Temperance Crusade of 1873 - 1874 in Mount Vernon, Ohio. The Temperance Movement was an organized effort during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to limit or outlaw the consumption and production of alcoholic beverages in the United States. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC5354_008_01
Subjects: Temperance; Women--Societies and clubs--Ohio; Women social reformers - Ohio; Prohibition
Places: Mount Vernon (Ohio); Knox County (Ohio)
 

Description: Handwritten on reverse: "Dunkard Group. FWP - Dayton, Ohio." This photograph shows a group of seven people, wearing the traditional Dunkard clothing. Men usually wear a long, black coat, with a flat-brimmed hat and 'barn door pants' that button up the side, as well as plain-toed (Congress) boots. Women traditionally wear a grayish brown dress with a shawl, apron and bonnet. Old German Baptist Brethren (OGBB) descend from a pietist movement in Schwarzenau, Germany, in 1708, when Alexander Mack founded a fellowship with seven other believers. They are one of several Brethren groups that trace themselves to that original founding body. These emerged from the German Reformed and Lutheran Churches, and are historically known as German Baptists rather than English Baptists. Other names by which they are sometimes identified are Dunkers, Dunkards, Tunkers, and Täufer, all relating to their practice of baptism by immersion. They are part of the post-reformation Anabaptists (which include, among others, the Amish and Mennonites), who rejected baptism of infants as a biblically valid form of baptism. Because of persecution, many Brethren emigrated to America with the greatest influx being in the 1719 and 1729. As of 2008, almost 54% of the members live in Ohio and Indiana. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F09_013_1
Subjects: Ohio--Religion; Anabaptists--United States; Dunkards; Dunkers
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows William Howard Taft (1857-1930) receiving his ballot for the presidential primary in Cincinnati, Ohio, March 1908. Taft was elected president later that year and served one term in office. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of Attorney General Alphonso Taft. In this photograph Taft is surrounded by a group of men, one of whom is handing him a white piece of paper. A notation written in white ink appears on the photo: "Wm. H. Taft receiving his ballot. Photo F. Boellinger." Another notatation, written on the bottom white border, reads: "Copyright applied for. Nov-08." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06178
Subjects: Presidents and Politics; Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930; Voting; Presidential elections
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Unidentified soldier posing on Lookout Mountain, Tennessee. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV200_b02_15
Subjects: Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Photographs;
Places: Ohio; Lookout Mountain (Tennessee)
 

Description: This flag has a white background with red letters spelling Peace appliqued on it. it has a blue halyard edge on the rectangular shaped flag. The dimensions are 135 cm by 235 cm. The flag is made of wool. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H65547_001
Subjects: Communication artifacts; Ceremonial artifact; Textile--wool
 

Description: Photograph of Yvonne Walker-Taylor meeting with a group of unidentified Wilberforce University students at the Carnegie Library, which was located on the (old) campus of Wilberforce University. Yvonne Walker-Taylor would later become 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_N
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Wilberforce University; African American men; African American women; African American Educators
 

Description: Farmers are subject to the elements when it comes to work, as seen in this 1948 Joe Munroe photograph. Louis Bromfield and his farmhand Bob Huge wait in a barn doorway for the rain to stop on Malabar Farm in Lucas, Ohio. Bromfield was a well-known author and an advocate for subsistence farming. He was innovative in new and environmentally-sound farming techniques, and his work on Malabar Farm served as inspiration for future farmers. Joe Munroe's career began in 1939 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He served in the Air Force during World War II and then joined Cincinnati-based Farm Quarterly magazine. Though raised in Detroit, agriculture became an important subject of Joe's photographs. He moved to California in 1955 and free-lanced, taking magazine assignments and selling his own work. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P400_B27_F622_JPG160
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Bromfield, Louis, 1896-1956; Farming and rural systems economics; Farm life; Malabar Farm
Places: Lucas (Ohio); Richland County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Edwin McMasters Stanton (1814-1869) as a young man with a short beard. Born in Steubenville, Ohio, Stanton was a lawyer and politician. He was Secretary of War under President Abraham Lincoln, who appointed him to that post in 1862. Present at Lincoln's deathbed, Stanton uttered his famous declaration, "Now he belongs to the ages." Stanton remained as Secretary of War under President Andrew Johnson until 1868, when Johnson twice tried to replace him. Stanton played a leading role in Johnson's impeachment. He resigned and returned to practicing law. In 1869 President Ulysses S. Grant nominated Stanton to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the nominee died four days after his appointment was confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Stanton never took the oath of office. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05648
Subjects: Stanton, Edwin McMasters, 1814-1869; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Civil War 1861-1865
Places: Steubenville (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)