Description: Photograph of a group of unidentified individuals standing in the street in St. Vincent in the West Indies, the birthplace of Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker. Walker was the 66th Bishop appointed to the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the 10th president of Wilberforce University in the 1940s. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B05F10_A_2
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Religion in Ohio; Wilberforce University; African American men; African American women; African American Educators
Places: West Indies
 

Description: This photograph depicts the Bankhead Hotel in Birmingham, Alabama. Youngstown pipe and Youngstown-Buckeye conduit were used in the construction of this hotel. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B03F49_006
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Construction; Steel industry and trade--Alabama--Birmingham Region--History
Places: Birmingham (Alabama)
 

Description: This image shows the gravestone of Benjamin Russel Hanby in Westerville, Ohio. Hanby (1833-1867) was a famous composer from Westerville who attended Otterbein College and became a minister in the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. A music composer, he wrote "Darling Nellie Gray," (1856) which depicted some of the evils of slavery. He also wrote "Up on the Housetop" and "Who is He in Yonder Stall?" View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06467
Subjects: Composers; Multicultural Ohio--Religion in Ohio; Music; Arts and entertainment; Cemeteries
Places: Westerville (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows a farm house in the winter. To the fight of the house is a building that may be a shed or some kind of storage building. On the left and a bit behind the house is the barn. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F04_004_013
Subjects: House; Family farms--Ohio; Farms--Ohio
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Photograph of Thaddeus Armstrong Minshall (1834-1908), a Civil War veteran from Ohio who became a Justice on the Ohio Supreme Court. Born in Ross County, Minshall enlisted at the outbreak of the Civil War and served in both the 22nd Ohio Infantry (Company C) and the 33rd Ohio Infantry (Company H). After returning to his law practice in Chillicothe, he was nominated for the Ohio Supreme Court and served from 1885 until 1902. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC4501_001
Subjects: Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Soldiers; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Ohio. Supreme Court; Judges; Lawyers--Ohio;
Places: Chillicothe (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing Philip Sheridan, standing at left, with his men. George Custer is seated on the right facing away from the camera. Sheridan (1831-1888) was born to Irish immigrants John and Mary Sheridan, who settled in Somerset, Ohio. As a young man, he graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point. When the Civil War broke out, Sheridan was a captain in the army; by the end of the war, he had been promoted to major general. Just before his death he became the fourth man to receive the rank of full general, following George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant, and William T. Sherman. Over the course of his career he held numerous important positions, including Commander of the Army of the Shenandoah, military governor of Texas and Louisiana, and commander in chief of the U.S. Army. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06598
Subjects: Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Military Ohio; Military officers
Places: Somerset (Ohio); Perry County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of a man, possible Works Progress Administration (WPA) employee, posing for the camera in front of a wood shed. This photo is from the small collection 5676, coal mine fire, New Straitsville, Ohio. Photographs from the small collection 5676 document smoke rising from the underground fires, men who were possibly employees of the WPA working to stop the spread of the fire, a map of the territory affected by the mine fires and a street scene in New Straitsville, Ohio. The photos were taken March 7 and 8, 1938 by Walter E. Burton. The mine fires are said to have started November 13, 1884, when striking miners pushed burning cars into a mine, during a strike over wages between the New Straitsville Mining Company's management and mine workers. A small group of union members decided to sabotage the mines. Cars filled with oil-soaked timber were set on fire and were pushed into a mine owned by the New Straitsville Mining Company. The fire quickly spread to the coal seam underground. Reportedly, the coal seam was fourteen feet across and extended an undetermined distance into the Earth. It took several days for the fire to be discovered. By that point, it was too late to stop the fire's spread. As a result of the fire, the mine closed. The New Straitsville mine fire has raged ever since 1884. In 1936, the WPA began work to stop the spread of the fire by building barriers across burning veins of coal. In 1938, nearly 350 men were employed on the project, which then was estimated to cost less than $1,000,000. Under the direction of James R. Cavanaugh, a veteran mine fire fighter, tunnels were driven through veins in the path of the fire, and were filled with a clay-water mixture or similar non-burning material. The mines fires affected coal deposits in Hocking and Perry Counties in southeastern Ohio. It was estimated that by 1938 the coal destroyed, more than two hundred square miles, was worth fifty million dollars. In 2003, smoke began to emerge from the soil of the Wayne National Forest, 119 years after the fire began. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: sc5676_13
Subjects: New Straitsville (Ohio)--Photographs; Coal mines and mining; United States. Works Progress Administration
Places: New Straitsville (Ohio); Perry County (Ohio)
 

Description: These man's leather boots were machine-sewn. They are Sunday boots. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8969
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Clothing & dress
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows Sam Thomas, a 23-year-old man, of Hamilton County, Ohio. Thomas was electrocuted on October 26th, 1938 for the murder of Mr. Francis Rutz in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1885, the Ohio Penitentiary became the site of all executions for prisoners on death row; formerly, executions had taken place in the county where the crime was committed. In 1896, the Ohio General Assembly mandated that electrocution replace hanging as the form of capital punishment. Throughout the 1930s, the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio, displayed photographs of inmates who were sentenced to death. A total of 315 prisoners, both men and women, were executed in the electric chair known as “Old Sparky” between 1897 and 1963. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08265
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Capital punishment; Death row; Electrocution; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections; Ohio Penitentiary (Columbus, Ohio)
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio);
 

Description: This is a picture of the process of wood weathering for wood pulp. This is the process of leaving wood out so it starts to break down naturally and obtain an aged look to it. This is taking place at the Mead Corporation, one of the largest manufacturers of paper pulp and lumber. The Mead Corporation was founded in 1846 in Dayton, Ohio. In 1890, a facility was purchased in Chillicothe, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F02_006_1
Subjects: Chillicothe (Ross County, Ohio)--History; Ross County (Ohio)--History; Wood-pulp industry; Mead Corporation
Places: Chillicothe (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads; "Scene in Ohio University Library Stacks". Photo depicts a student standing on a chair, reaching for a book on the top shelf of a bookshelf in the stacks at the OSU Main Library. The William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library, anchoring the western end of The Oval, is the Ohio State University’s main branch and single largest repository. Also called the Main Library, it was named after the university’s fifth president. The Thompson Library, designed by the Boston firm of Allen and Collens in the Italianate Renaissance Revival style was opened January 6, 1913. Its placement on the Oval was suggested by the Olmsted brothers who had designed New York City's Central Park. The library has been renovated or expanded three times since its original date of construction. The first addition, a massive extension of the original three-floor structure, the addition of a 10-story tower, as well as single story extensions to the north and south ends of the east entrance. This first renovation was completed on June 2, 1951. The second expansion added an unadorned modern extension to the west wing, finished on January 5, 1977. In July 2006, the library closed to begin the $108 million dollar renovation of the building started on January 10, 2007. The 2007-09 renovation included hazardous materials abatement, replacement and expansion of the 1977 addition, and restoration of the building's original east facade. The library reopened on August 3, 2009, and it was officially dedicated on September 24, 2009. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F03_026_1
Subjects: Education; Universities & colleges--United States--1890-1940; Ohio State University. Library; Ohio State University. William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library; William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library; Ohio State University; Thompson, W. O. (William Oxley), 1855-1933
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Two state-issue mattresses for prisoners. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08382
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Prisons--Ohio; Beds
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)