Description: Dated to 1840, this is a cotton quilt made by Mrs. Wesley Wright of Trough Creek Valley, Pennsylvania, in Huntington County. This quilt has red, yellow, green and white blocks with appliqued Dutch tulips pieced together diagonally. Red and green diamond blocks and appliqued green vines and red roses form a border around the outer edge. The back of the quilt is white and the binding is red. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H6523_001
Subjects: Quilts; Textiles; Women artists; Art and artists; Blankets
Places: Trough Creek Valley (Pennsylvania)
 

Description: George W. Thoma, of Richland County, electrocuted April 8, 1927, for the Murder of Mr. And Mrs. Benjamin Greenwalts. He was a white male, twenty three years old and his occupation is unknown. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08178
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Prisons--Ohio
Places: Richland County (Ohio)
 

Description: This North Carolina flag has a blue vertical field with a horizontal red field and white field. On the blue field an "N" and a "C" are in gold with a white star in between. Above is a banner with the date May 20, 1775 which is the date of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. Below is a banner with the date April 12, 1776 which is the date of the Hallifax Resolves. The fabric is cotton and the dimenstions are 90 by 155 cm. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H65292_001
Subjects: State Flags; Ceremonial artifact; Communication artifacts
Places: State/Province :Pennsylvania, Town/City :Philadelphia
 

Description: This photograph shows a one-room schoolhouse class, posed with a chalkboard reading "Jan 7 1909." It 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_b02_f156
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States--History; Children; School photography
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: This is an image of a crock. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8146
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Vessels (containers)
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: National colors of the 26th Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry. The flag is largely disintegrated and the only visible marking is the number 26. The flag is not cataloged in this collection. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01912
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Photograph of Yvonne Walker-Taylor as a young child standing in the yard of her family's home in Chelsea Massachusetts. Walker-Taylor was the daughter of Reverend Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker, president of Wilberforce University in the 1940s. Walker-Taylor later went on to follow in his footsteps, and 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_B05F06_E_3
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Howard University; Wilberforce University; African American Educators; African American women; African American children
 

Description: Photograph of "The Wright Brothers in Ohio" painted by Henry Simon in 1941. The painting is located in a post office in Fairborn, Ohio in Greene County. Photographed by Connie Girard in 1988. The photo is from the Ohio Post Office Artwork Collection, AV 48. The collection represents thirty murals or plaster reliefs installed in twenty-five Ohio post offices between 1937 and 1943. In 1988, Connie Girard photographed the artwork. Photos were published in the article “Not By Bread Alone, Post Office Art of the New Deal.” Timeline. June-July 1989, p. 2-19 by Gerald Markowitz and Marlene Park. In 1932, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected President he promised Americans a "New Deal" and created public works programs to provide jobs for the millions of unemployed people, including artists. Ten thousand unknown and established artists were commissioned by the government to create murals, paintings, photographs, posters, prints and sculpture. The goal was not only to employ artists, but also to bring fine art into the daily lives of all people. The Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) was funded for six months in 1933 – 1934. The PWAP was succeeded by the Treasury Department’s Section of Painting and Sculpture. Organized in 1934 the Section of Painting and Sculpture operated until 1943. Under the auspices of this organization sixty-six new Ohio post offices received artwork. The majority of the post offices were located in small towns. Post offices were chosen as a location for artwork because, particularly in small towns, they were centers of community activity. Most of the painted murals or murals in plaster relief created are realistic images reflecting the history, common activities or major industries of the communities in which the post offices are located. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: av48_b2_f17_01
Subjects: Post office stations and branches--Ohio--Photographs; Public art--Ohio--Photographs; Public Works of Art Project (United States); New Deal art
Places: Fairborn (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
 

Description: Confederate currency produced in Richmond, Virginia in the amount of one dollar. Confederate currency was originally produced in the capital of Montgomery, Alabama. After Virginia seceded from the Union the capital was moved to Richmond in May 1861, where currency was then printed. Toward the end of the Civil War, the currency significantly lost value and many of the notes in existence were destroyed. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_VFM_28_2
Subjects: Confederate States of America; Currency; Civil War 1861-1865
Places: Richmond (Virginia)
 

Description: A smiling woman wearing trousers, a tie and a cocked hat, standing in the snow with her legs crossed. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's department store, and later as a travelling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). He was also an avid lifelong photographer, and the bulk of the Harry Kinley Collection is comprised of glass plate negatives documenting the Kinley family, the city of Upper Sandusky and Wyandot County and surrounding areas. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07847
Subjects: Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Snow; Women--Ohio--History
Places: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio)
 

Description: This leaf-shaped cookie cutter was pressed out of tin. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H72423
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Kitchen utensils--United States--History
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Painting of national colors of the 177th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02588
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865