Description: This is a left profile 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: AL04997
Subjects: Weddings; Wedding costume; Clothing and dress; Hats; Women--Ohio
Places: Miami County (Ohio)
 

Description: 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_b05_f292
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States--History; Children; Families
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

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: This photograph shows buses and automobiles crossing the Y-Bridge which spans the confluence of the Muskingum and Licking Rivers in Zanesville, Ohio, ca. 1930-1950. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01783
Subjects: Buses; Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development; Bridges;
Places: Zanesville (Ohio)
 

Description: Spiral chute made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio. A Jeffrey conveyor delivered blocks of ice across the bridge to the left of the spiral chute. The blocks of ice slid down the chute to the chain conveyor seen on the bottom right of the photograph. This chute and conveyor were used by the Utah Ice and Storage Company, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1911. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01303
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Salt Lake City (Utah)
 

Description: This carte de visite depicts Ambrose E. Burnside, a military officer who fought in the Mexican War and the Civil War. He was born on May 23, 1824, near Liberty, Indiana. After graduating from West Point in 1847, he served in the Mexican War. As a Union Army general in the Civil War, he conducted successful campaigns in North Carolina and East Tennessee, but suffered disastrous defeats in the Battle of Fredericksburg and the Battle of the Crater. Following the war, he served as the governor of Rhode Island from 1866 to 1868, and in the United States Senate from 1875 to 1881. Burnside died in Bristol, Rhode Island, on September 13, 1881. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04214
Subjects: Generals--United States; West Point (Military academy); Mexican War, 1846-1848; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio History--Military Ohio
Places: Rhode Island
 

Description: This is a photograph of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Young's wife, Ada Young, with two unidentified women. Charles Young was the first African American to reach the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army and, at the time of his death in 1922, was the highest-ranking African American officer in the Army. He is known for having been forced into retirement due to health concerns before the start of World War I and later riding from Wilberforce, Ohio, to Washington, D.C. to prove his physical fitness for duty. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS2_B04F05_G
Subjects: African American women; Young, Charles, 1864-1922.; Military officers; World War I, 1914-1918; African American soldiers
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Jan. 4, 1938 District #5 902 City Bldg. Akron, Ohio MILL CREEK PARK, located in the city of Youngstown, Ohio. Credit Line: W. A. Bartz" View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F04_032_001
Subjects: Mill Creek Park (Youngstown, Ohio)
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: Rodney V. Marsh kept a station on the Underground Railroad in his home at Brandon, in Rutland County, Vermont. The Marsh home was built in 1853 and contained more than 50 closets that were used for hiding. It had 8 escape stairways from several levels and a tunnel connecting the cellar to the outdoors. Several houses in the area had tunnels leading to the Marsh home. The image was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03223
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Vermont; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights
Places: Brandon (Vermont); Rutland County (Vermont)
 

Description: Regimental colors of the 52nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Rectangular flag measures 183 cm high by 202 cm wide. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01993
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio History--Military Ohio
 

Description: This photograph shows John J. Lentz (1856-1931), founder of American Insurance Union (AIU), during the cornerstone laying of the AIU Citadel building, Columbus, Ohio, on February 23, 1926. Lentz is gesturing as he stands next to the the cornerstone, which reads: "1894 / American Insurance Union / John J. Lentz / Founder and Builder / A.I.U. Citadel / 1926". A few years after building's formal dedication in 1927, AIU was in serious financial straits. The stock market crash and cost overruns incurred during the Citadel's construction led AIU to declare bankruptcy in 1935. Businessmen Leslie LeVeque of Columbus and John Lincoln of Cleveland bought the building, which became known as the Lincoln-Leveque Tower. In 1977 its name was changed officially to the LeVeque Tower. One of the city's most famous architectural landmarks, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. Lentz was born in Belmont County, Ohio, and graduated from Columbia Law School in 1883. That same year he was admitted to the bar in Columbus, Ohio. He founded AIU in 1894 and served two terms as a U.S. Representative from Ohio's 12th Congressional District (1897 to 1901). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06935
Subjects: American Insurance Union Citadel; Leveque Tower (Columbus, Ohio); Construction industry; Lentz, John Jacob, 1856-1931; Columbus (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Cornerstone laying; Architecture
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Back reads: Nov. 24, 1937 District #5 902 Municipal Building Akron, Ohio Wingfoot Lake, 12 miles east of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company's fleet of blimps, and war-time air station for training pilots and testing balloons. Control now in hands of Goodyear. Located 1 mi. south of Suffield (Portage County). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F10_004_001
Subjects: Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project.
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)