Description: This image shows main street in Kenton, Ohio. This picture was taken between 1969 and 1982. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F03_200
Subjects: Streets--Ohio; Small business;
Places: Kenton (Ohio); Hardin County (Ohio);
 

Description: Three photographs document the site of Fort St. Clair near Eaton, Ohio. Fort St. Clair was built in 1792 by General James Wilkinson as a supply post on the Ohio frontier. On November 6, 1792, Fort St. Clair was attacked by Miami chief Mishikinakwa (Little Turtle) and more than 200 of his men. The fort was later used as a supply stop by General "Mad" Anthony Wayne, who achieved a decisive victory against the region's American Indians at the Battle of Fallen Timbers. Fort St. Clair Park was created in 1923 to commemorate the site. The photographs measure 8" x 10" (20.32 x 25.4 cm). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3077_3671446_001
Subjects: Military Ohio; Plants and Animals; Forts & fortifications; Bridges; Trees
Places: Eaton (Ohio); Preble County (Ohio)
 

Description: 1967 Air show; Neil Armstrong coming back to his hometown in Wapakoneta, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV_203B2F3_047
Subjects: Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012; Wapakoneta (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: Jim Thorpe carrying a football past a would-be tackler, Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Jim (James Francis) Thorpe was born in 1888 in Oklahoma to Hiram P. and Charlotte Thorpe. Both Hiram and Charlotte were of European and American Indian heritage and Jim was raised in the Sac and Fox tribes. In 1904 he was sent to a boarding school in Carlisle, Pennsylvania for American Indian children. While at Carlisle he played multiple sports, including football, lacrosse, baseball, basketball, and track. He left Carlisle in 1909 and 1910 to play professional baseball with teams in Eastern Carolina League in North Carolina. He returned to Carlisle in 1911 for two successful football seasons. In both 1911 and 1912 he was an All-American halfback for football. In 1912 he became the only person to win gold medals in both the pentathlon and decathlon at the Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden. His Olympic celebrity propelled him a three year contract playing professional baseball for the New York Giants. He also played baseball with the Boston Braves and Cincinnati Reds. However, it was as a professional football player that Thorpe was more successful and strongly tied to Ohio. He was associated with four professional or semi-professional football teams in Ohio as a player and coach: the Canton Bulldogs, the Cleveland Tigers, the Oorang Indians based in LaRue, and the Portsmouth Shoe-Steels. His greatest success was with the Canton Bulldogs, which he led to win national championships in 1915, 1916, 1917 and 1919. From 1922-1923 he was a player and coach for the Oorang Indians, a National Football League team comprised of all native players. The majority of the Oorang Indians team members, like Thorpe, had played at Carlisle. The team owner, Robert Lingo, used the team and Thorpes celebrity to advertise his Oorang Kennels Company, particularly his Airedale terriers. Thorpe played another season with the Bulldogs in 1926 and then went to Portsmouth as a player-coach for the semi-professional Portsmouth Shoe-Steels in 1927. This was Thorpes last athletic job. During the 1930s and 1940s he worked a variety of jobs until he died of a heart attack in 1953. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV235_1_13
Subjects: Jim Thorpe (Pa.)--History--20th century--Pictoral works; Jim Thorpe (Pa.)--Social Life and customs--Pictorial works; Carlisle Indian Industrial School; School sports
Places: Carlisle (Pennsylvania)
 

Description: Portrait of a man and woman with a moon and stars back drop from the Allfree Family Collection, ca. 1940 - 1949. The Allfree Family moved from Alabama to Cincinnati, Ohio around 1900. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00764
Subjects: Multicultural Ohio--African American Ohioans
 

Description: A-6 electric drill made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio in use at the Wheeling Township Coal Mining Company, Adena, Ohio, 1933. It was used to drill holes in the face of a seam of coal. Explosives were placed in the holes and the wall of coal was "shot down". View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01535
Subjects: Jefferson County (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Adena (Ohio)
 

Description: 1862 carte de visite of Major General George B. McClellan. McClellan was a prominent 19th century American military and political leader, born December 3, 1826, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1842, McClellan received an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He graduated in 1846, ranking second in his class. McClellan resigned his army commission in 1857 to become involved in the railroad industry, and using his training in engineering from West Point, he served as an engineer for the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad and the Illinois Central Railroad. During this time, he lived primarily in Cincinnati, Ohio. With the beginning of the American Civil War in April 1861, McClellan reenlisted in the United States Army and played an important role in Ohio's early defense. Early in the war, General McClellan enhanced his reputation as a skillful military leader and was appointed as commander of the Army of the Potomac by President Abraham Lincoln. But after his unsuccessful assault on Richmond, Virginia, and his failure to defeat General Lee’s forces in the Battle of Antietam, Lincoln removed McClellan from his command in November 1862. McClellan never received another military command and later became one of Lincoln’s chief critics. In 1864, the Democratic Party selected McClellan as its presidential candidate to oppose Lincoln’s reelection, but Lincoln won the election by an overwhelming margin. McClellan resigned his commission in the United States Army and later became the governor of New Jersey from 1878 to 1881. He died on October 29, 1885. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC3535_E1_04_01
Subjects: McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Generals--United States; Military officers
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (1841-1924) was appointed by President Harrison to superintend the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1889. He had previously served as the chair of physics at Ohio State University. He oversaw the shift in the fundamental standards of the United States from the English yard and pound to the International Meter and Kilogram. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03914
Subjects: Scientists; Ohio Economy--Science and Technology
 

Description: Demonstrators on the steps of the Ohio Statehouse protesting against Governor James Rhodes, ca. 1970-1975. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00139
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company's Blackburn Plat in East Youngstown (Campbell), Ohio, 1918. The company constructed this housing for mill workers and their families following a strike in the early 20th century, and deliberately made the houses small to discourage the immigrant practice of taking in boarders. These apartments were rented at $15, $18, and $20 per month with water furnished, which constituted about a quarter of the average laborer's wage. By around 1920, well over 200 homes made up Blackburn Plat. The company sold this complex, as well as three others, in the 1940s. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05501
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Architecture and Engineering; Mills and mill-work--Ohio; Steel industry and trade--Ohio--Youngstown--History; Prefabricated houses
Places: East Youngstown (Ohio); Campbell (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: Corn husks and waste are being loaded onto a wagon using loading conveyors made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, Columbus, Ohio. This photograph was taken at a canning factory in Chillicothe, Ohio, August 28, 1910. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00992
Subjects: Conveying machinery; Ohio Economy--Economy--Labor
Places: Chillicothe (Ohio)
 

Description: Postcard showing the swimming pool at Indianola Park, Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1910-1915. Indianola Park was a 30-acre amusement park operated in Columbus’s University District at N. 4th Street and E. 19th Avenue. It opened to the public on June 8, 1905, and early visitors could enjoy a large swimming pool, a dance pavilion, a roller coaster, a restaurant and picnic grounds, and more. A vaudeville-style theater was added in 1908, soon to be followed by more roller coasters, a funhouse, and a “Shoot the Shutes” water ride. The park was also home to the Columbus Panhandles pro football team, serving as their home field between 1909 and 1915. During the 1910s and early 20s, Indianola hosted as many as 10,000 visitors in a single weekend, and could see up to 5,000 people enjoying its pool on hot summer days. But in the wake of the Great Depression and other cultural shifts, the park eventually shut down in 1937. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07733
Subjects: Popular culture; Swimming; Amusement parks; Roller coasters
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)