Description: Re-enactment of the landing of the pioneers at Marietta, Ohio to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the first settlers arrival in the Northwest Territory in 1788. The re-enactors traveled on the Ohio River and landed at Marietta on April 7, 1938. Participants in the re-enactment are dressed as pioneers, Native Americans and soldiers. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01142
Subjects: Ohio River; Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood
Places: Marietta (Ohio)
 

Description: Ambrotype portrait showing Sargent Joseph Penn of Company I, 69th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in his uniform. This item is missing the front cover of the case. It appears in "Over Here, Over There," an exhibit that opened at the Ohio History Center on July 1, 2011. The 69th O.V.I. was organized in Columbus, Ohio, beginning in November 1861 and was active through July 17, 1865. They saw action at the Battle of Chickamauga, the Atlanta Campaign. the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, and Sherman's March to the Sea, among other engagements. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AP1822_01
Subjects: Photography--Ohio--History--19th century; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Soldiers; Military uniforms
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Steel frame of the south addition to the Ohio State Office Building, Columbus, Ohio, July 21, 1963. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05484
Subjects: Public buildings--Ohio; Ohio History--State and Local Government
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Painting of national colors of the 95th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Text on flag reads: Richmond Ky. Jackson. 95th Reg't O.V.U.S.[A.] Siege of Vicks[burg]. [?]ces Cross Roads. Tupelo. Nashv[ille]. Old Town. [?] View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02525
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
 

Description: Photograph showing a house that was used as station on the Underground Railroad. The description on the back of the photograph reads: "One of the Winder Houses north of North Lewisburg where slaves were harbored [sic]." The Underground Railroad was a system of safe houses and hiding places that helped fugitive slaves escape to freedom in the northern United States or across the border in Canada. Thomas Winder, a Quaker, was an operator who helped escaped slaves in the North Lewisburg, Ohio, area along with other members of his family. Quakers were strongly opposed to slavery and offered help to slaves seeking their freedom as early as the late 1700s. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC1338_001_001
Subjects: Underground Railroad; Abolitionists; African Americans; Slavery; Houses; Underground Railroad--Pennsylvania; Activists
Places: North Lewisburg (Ohio); Champaign County (Ohio)
 

Description: Samuel Lewis wrote these three letters to R.M. Haseltine, chief inspector of mines, regarding the distribution of supplies to striking workers in southern Ohio during the 1897 strike. The 1897 strike was one of a number of labor disputes between coal miners and mine owners in the Hocking Valley region between 1880 and 1940. The letters measure 8.25" x 10" (20.96 cm x 25.4 cm). In the first letter, dated August 20, 1897, Lewis informs Haseltine of the arrival of a supply car in Wellston, Ohio. He explains that the crowd had lined up waiting for its arrival at 8:00 a.m. The train arrived at 7:00 p.m. and rations were given to 100 families. The letter is three pages. In a second, one-page letter Lewis writes about the arrival of donations from Portsmouth and Chillicothe and the distribution of "bean dinners" at Wellston and chicken dinners at Glenroy. The final two-page letter, dated September 4, 1897, reports on relief efforts in Wellston, Jackson, and Glenroy. According to Lewis, Wellston needed the most help. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1538_1645224_008
Subjects: Coal mines and mining; Strikes and lockouts;
Places: Wellston (Ohio); Jackson (Ohio); Coalton (Ohio); Glenroy (Ohio); Jackson County (Ohio); Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: 1804 map of Ohio engraving signed: "Drawn by S. Lewis, Engraved by A. [illegible]." Samuel Lewis of Philadelphia was a famous American geographer and cartographer and an extremely important figure in early American map-making who learned his trade from the prominent English cartographer Aaron Arrowsmith. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07758
Subjects: Maps--Ohio; Ohio History; Engraving; Land settlement--Ohio; Geography and Natural Resources
 

Description: Regimental colors of the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01923
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio History--Military Ohio
 

Description: Photograph of Zane Grey, his wife Lina, and two of their three children. Grey was a popular and widely-read novelist of the American West. He was born in Zanesville, Ohio, on January 31, 1872, to Lewis Grey and Alice Josephine Zane Grey. As a teenager, Grey was an excellent baseball player. He won a baseball scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied to become a dentist. Once he left school and began his dental practice in New York, Grey realized that he was not happy. He decided to leave dentistry behind and become a writer. Grey's first novel, "Betty Zane," drew inspiration from the stories he had heard about frontier Ohio when he was growing up. He wrote "Betty Zane" in 1904 but was not able to find a publisher at first. Refusing to give up, Grey traveled west and continued writing. In 1910, he had his first success when Harper's Magazine published "The Heritage of the Desert." Two years later, Harper's published "Riders of the Purple Sage." Grey died unexpectedly of a heart attack on October 23, 1939. By the time of his death, he had written almost ninety books. Most of his books were Westerns, but he also wrote nine books that had a fishing theme. Grey also published many short stories, a biography of George Washington as a young man, and several stories for children. Some of Grey's other popular Western novels included "Spirit of the Border," "Desert Gold," "The Last Trail," "The Call of the Canyon," and "The Thundering Herd." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P49_5_2_1
Subjects: Authors; Books; Grey, Zane, 1872-1939; Education; Families
Places: Zanesville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio);
 

Description: In the later half of the nineteenth century, it became more difficult to keep younger farmers interested in staying on the farm. With the lure of new opportunities in the city, many youths took the opportunity to go to college and move away from farm life. In this 1974 photograph, Maynard Raffety speaks with his grandson, Michael, about his enthusiasm and wisdom gained from working on a farm. Michael was interested in computers and later worked for a firm in Chicago. 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_B04_F09_001
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Farming; Farm life; Family farms
Places: Grinnell (Iowa)
 

Description: This photograph shows the Rockefeller Building, a 17-story office building erected by John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) between 1903 and 1905. The view is of the front entrance. A lone male pedestrian is walking past the building. Designed by Know and Elliot, the Rockefeller Building exemplifies the "Sullivanesque" style as it resembles to Louis Sullivan's Guaranty Building in Buffalo, New York. The historic Weddell House hotel built in 1847 previously stood on the site, which is at the corner of Superior and West 6th Street. The Rockefeller Building was rented to businesses involved in iron, coal, and lake-shipping industries. The original structure consisted of seven bays along Superior Avenue, and in 1910 an additional four bays in the same design were added to the west side. Josiah Kirby bought the building in 1920 and changed its name to the Kirby Building. Rockefeller was angered by the change and bought the building back, restoring the name in 1923. Rockefeller moved to the Cleveland area with his family at age fourteen. He ventured into the oil business in 1863. During the 1870s and 1880s, Rockefeller sought to expand Standard Oil's influence. The company began to purchase or drive oil refiners out of business across the United States. By 1878, Standard Oil purportedly controlled ninety percent of the oil refineries in the United States. In 1881 the Standard Oil Company became known as the Standard Oil Trust. In essence, the Standard Oil Company created various companies across the United States that were purportedly their own entities. In reality, Rockefeller directed all of these businesses. Rockefeller was alive during the government's attack on Standard Oil, but he had retired from the company in 1895, well before the dispute ended. In 1901, his wealth was estimated at $900 million, making him the wealthiest man in the world. He dedicated the remainder of his life to philanthropic efforts. He used his wealth to establish the University of Chicago in 1892 and the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in 1901. Rockefeller also was a driving force behind the preservation of Williamsburg, Virginia, as an historic landmark. He donated funds to innumerable other charities through the Rockefeller Foundation. John Rockefeller died in 1937 at Ormond Beach, Florida. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06619
Subjects: Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison), 1839-1937; Buildings; Cities and towns;
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Paul Laurence Dunbar wrote this poem titled "Morning" in 1905. The manuscript poem is part of a larger Paul Laurence Dunbar Collection held by the Ohio History Connection. It measures 8.5 by 11 inches (22 by 28 cm). Dunbar (1872-1906) is acknowledged as the first significant African American poet in the United States. He was born Dayton, Ohio, to parents who had been slaves. After high school, the Wright brothers (Orville and Wilbur) assisted Dunbar in publishing the Dayton Tattler, an African American newspaper. His first book of poetry, titled "Oak and Ivy," was published in 1893. It was followed by "Lyrics of a Lowly Life," "Majors and Minors," ten other books of poetry, four books of short stories, five novels and a play, before Dunbar's death in 1906. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1393_1543821_003
Subjects: Literary Ohio; Authors; Poetry; Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)