Description: Visitors entering the French Gratitude Train at an unknown location in Ohio. In 1948 the United States sent a large shipment of food, fuel and clothing to Le Havre, France, to be distributed to needy people in the war-torn country. To reciprocate, the French people collected gifts, including hand-made toys and crafts and local specialities, to send to the United States. The gifts filled 49 box cars, one for each state and one to be shared by Hawaii and Washington, D.C. The train, known as the "Gratitude Train," "Train de la Reconnaissance," or "Merci Train," arrived in the United States in 1949. The boxcars were "40 & 8" type cars that had been used to transport troops during World War I and World War II. The Ohio train traveled through the state from June 5 through October 22, 1950. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC1344_11
Subjects: World War II; Postwar Europe; France; International relations; French Gratitude Train
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Cattle herd crossing the American River in California as they make their way to pasture near Placerville, photographed by Joe Munroe in 1959. Herds are driven to pasture in the spring to graze during the summer, before being rounded up later in the year. 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_B28_001
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Farms; Agriculture; Livestock; Beef cattle
Places: Placerville (California)
 

Description: #4 blast furnace, starting erection of Bailey goggle valve in the gas main between the gas washer and Pollock main at US Steel Ohio Works Youngstown, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0009_B03F221_001
Subjects: Blast furnaces--Equipment and supplies; Blast furnaces--Design and construction; Steel industry and trade--Youngstown (Ohio); Blast furnaces--United States; Blast Furnace--Ohio; United States Steel Corporation
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: This illustration depicts the scene at Shiloh Church, near Pittsburg Landing, on April 7, 1862. The First Ohio Regiment fought to recapture a Union artillery, eventually resulting in the conclusion of the Battle of Shiloh. The illustration shows Union forces firing cannons and preparing to surge toward the artillery, which has several men on the roof. The bodies of fallen or wounded soldiers and horses are strewn along the front of the buildings, and opposing forces can be seen approaching from the back of the image. This illustration was originally printed in "Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War," by Alfred H. Guernsey and Henry M. Alden, 1894. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04290
Subjects: Shiloh, Battle of, Tenn., 1862; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; 1st Army of the Ohio
Places: Pittsburg Landing (Tennessee)
 

Description: This photograph, taken at Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company's Indiana Harbor works coke plant, depicts two large buildings connected by elevators. Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company railroad cars are also pictured. Coke plants produce coke from coal so that it can be used as a fuel in a blast furnace. Blast furnaces are used to smelt iron ore with coke to produce pig iron. This is the first step of steel production that occurs at mills. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B04F67_018
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. Indiana Harbor works; Steel industry; Coke plants; Railroad cars
Places: East Chicago (Indiana)
 

Description: This engraved line-drawingof the Ohio Penitentiary shows a locomotive emerging from a covered bridge. The large building in the background appears to be the penitentiary. The Ohio Penitentiary opened in Columbus in 1834 and continued to house prisoners until 1979. The state had built a small prison in Columbus in 1813, but as the state's population grew, the earlier facility was not able to handle the number of prisoners sent to it by the courts. When the penitentiary first opened in 1834, not all of the buildings were completed. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05983
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections; Prisons--Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph depicts a coupling and welds intended for water lines. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B05F82_018
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry; Couplings
 

Description: A postcard of the interior of the residence of Dr. Regnier at the Lincoln's New Salem State Park Historic Site in New Salem, Illinois. Dr. Francis Reginer was the local doctor for the community of New Salem. The log cabin served as his residence and office. Dr. Reginer was a neighbor of Abraham Lincoln, who lived in New Salem for six years. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV83_B01F04_017
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Pictorial works
Places: New Salem (Illinois); Menard County (Illinois)
 

Description: Home of Philip H. Sheridan in Somerset, Ohio. Somerset is a village in Perry County, Ohio, United States. The population was 1,549 at the 2000 census. General Sheridan is memorialized by Ohio's only equestrian Civil War statue, which stands in the center square in a small park in the middle of the traffic circle. 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: SC2855_E1_02_01
Subjects: Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military officers--Union
Places: Somerset (Ohio); Perry County (Ohio)
 

Description: Thomas Worthington (1773-1827) governors portrait that hangs in the Ohio Statehouse. He served as one of the first United States Senators from Ohio from 1803-1807 and 1811-1814. From 1814-1818 Worthington served two, two-year terms as Governor of Ohio. As governor, Worthington advocated numerous social reforms, including the regulation of bars and taverns, state assistance to paupers, and prison reform. He also became one of the earliest advocates for a canal system and supported free public education in the state. Unfortunately for Worthington, the Ohio legislature refused to enact most of his proposals. However, by the mid to late 1820s, many of Worthington's ideas, such as canals and public education, had become realities in Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV105_1_5
Subjects: Ohio--Governors--Portraits; Ohio History--State and Local Government
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker and Eva Walker with an unidentified couple. Walker was the 66th Bishop of the the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the 10th President of Wilberforce University. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B05F07_N_1
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; African American men; African American women; Wilberforce University; African American Educators
Places: Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph is a reproduction of an original, probably taken ca. 1881-1885, which shows boats on the Columbus Feeder Canal right before its terminus at the Scioto River near West Main Street, formerly Friend Street. The Columbus Feeder linked Columbus with the Ohio Erie Canal at Lockbourne.The two businesses pictured in the background are C. Harris & Co. Dealers in Coal and the Jackson-Guldan Violin Company. The Ohio History Connection's copy of this photograph is from the collection of Pearl S. Nye who was a boat captain on the Ohio and Erie Canal. According to a note on the photograph's reverse, the boat in the foreground, the Wave, was run by Adam Harman. The boat behind the Wave is the Friedley, which was owned by Captain John Hayes. Nye wrote "Wave" on the negative, faintly visible on the right side. The Ohio and Erie Canal was one of Ohio's most important canals during the mid nineteenth century. During the late 1810s, Governor Thomas Worthington and Governor Ethan Allen Brown both supported internal improvements, especially canals. Both men believed that Ohioans needed quick and easy access to the Ohio River and to Lake Erie if they were to profit financially. In 1820, Brown convinced the Ohio legislature to establish the Ohio Canal Commission. Construction began in 1825, and the canal was completed in 1833. Once completed, thirty-three of Ohio's eighty-eight counties either had portions of canals running through them or quarries to mine rock for construction. Most canals remained in operation in Ohio until the late 1800s. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07033
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development; Canals; Ohio and Erie Canal (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)