Description: This photograph from the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus is of Frank Henry Milhouse, a 23-year-old laborer. His formal attire suggests that the photograph was taken during his trial or sentencing. Milhouse was the 271st individual to be executed via the electric chair in Ohio. The caption at the bottom reads: “No. 271 Frank Henry Milhouse of Cuyahoga County, Legally Electrocuted May 25, 1949 for the Murder of Yordan Ranchoff.” In 1885 the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio, became the location for all executions, which previously took place in the various county seats. In 1896 the Ohio General Assembly mandated that electrocution replace hanging as the form of capital punishment. The Ohio Penitentiary regularly offered tours as well as souvenir photographs and postcards of the building and prisoners on death row. 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: AL08323
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Capital punishment; Death row; Electrocution; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections; Ohio Penitentiary (Columbus, Ohio); Prisons--Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated 1880-1890, this pieced crazy quit was made in Columbus, Ohio. It's bound in olive-green velvet and backed with plaid taffeta. This square quilt has four rows of four blocks, some of which include fabric painted with floral motifs. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H6531_001
Subjects: Quilts; Textiles; Art and artists; Blankets
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Frederick Douglass published on the cover of Harper's Weekly Volume 27, Number 1405 on November 24, 1883. Frederick Douglass, born a slave named Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, was an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_OVS24
Subjects: Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895; Harper's Weekly; Underground Railroad; Slavery; Abolitionists; African American men; Activists; African American authors; Civil rights
Places: New York City (New York)
 

Description: Photograph of Corporal Josiah Wright, who served with Company H of the 7th Ohio Cavalry. Company H was recruited from Marietta, Washington County, Ohio, and was also known as "The Newton Guards." Photograph is mounted in case. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV200_b02_07
Subjects: Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Photographs; United States. Army. Ohio Cavalry Regiment, 7th (1862-1865) Company H
Places: Marietta (Ohio); Washington County (Ohio)
 

Description: A close-up photograph of the Lincoln-Vicksburg Monument located at Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio. Thomas Dow Jones carved the scene of the Confederates Generals Bowen, Montgomery and Pemberton surrendering to Union Generals Grant, McPherson, and Sherman after the Siege of Vicksburg in Vicksburg, Mississippi on July 4, 1863. A bust of Abraham Lincoln also sculpted by Thomas Dow Jones is included in the Lincoln-Vicksburg Monument. The monument was revealed to the public in 1871 to honor the soldiers of the Civil War and President Abraham Lincoln. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV83_B01F05_031
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Pictorial works
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: West faade of the Ohio Statehouse facing High Street in Columbus, Ohio, 1972. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00196
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of two women, each leading a horse by the reins. A log structure is seen in the background. This photograph 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: AL06374
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States—History; Horses; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Portrait photography--United States--History; Log structures; Farms
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: This 1914 photograph shows only one-half of the total area of the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company's main machine shop in Columbus, Ohio. Overhead is the crane that was used to raise large loads which could then be moved from one end of the building to the other on rails. Natural lighting was provided by the large number of windows in the building. Power for the machines on the factory floor was provided from overhead pulley shafts and belts. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00938
Subjects: Machinery industry--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Harry L. Williams identification photograph from the files of the Republic Steel Corporation, Central Alloy District. The Central Alloy District consisted of two plants: one in Canton, Ohio, and one in Massillon, Ohio. Identification photographs were taken over a period of time and logged into the files as one batch on June 3, 1942. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: YHC_MSS192_B01F082_08
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Republic Steel Corporation -- Employees
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Peter B. Sarchet (b. 1800) built this house in 1831, in Guernsey County, Ohio. He concealed fugitive slaves here prior to the Civil War. This photograph, taken by Van De Mark, was sent to Wilbur H. Siebert by Ed Smith. Siebert (1866-1961) began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03188
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Ohio; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights
Places: Guernsey County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Republic Steel Corporation Collection (MSS 192) consists of 13,000 black and white photographic negatives, 2,000 color photographic negatives, and many 35 mm slides which document Republic Steel Corporation’s main production facilities and its subsidiaries, 1941-1975. This collection also includes images of social events such as company picnics, award banquets, and dances. Founded in 1899, Republic Iron and Steel Company was a steel production company based in Youngstown, Ohio, and the result of a consolidation of 34 steel mills across the United States including the Mahoning Valley’s Brown Bonnell Iron Company, Andrews Brothers and Company, and Mahoning Iron Company. From 1927-1937, Republic Iron and Steel Company expanded its reach by acquiring a number of other companies such as Trumbull Steel Company in Warren, Ohio, and Central Alloy Steel Corporation in Canton, Ohio. With its expansion, Republic Iron and Steel Company became the third largest steel producer in the United States behind United States Steel Corporation and Bethlehem Steel Company, and changed its name to Republic Steel Corporation to reflect its new status. After the outbreak of World War II in 1941, the Corporation’s production increased by 33%. This increased production continued into the 1950s and 1960s as the company continued to be one of the leading developers of steel production technology. Due to a myriad of factors including decreased demand for steel from automobile manufacturers and imported foreign steel, steel sales declined and in 1984 the Republic Steel Corporation was purchased by LTV Corporation, which led to the closure of the Youngstown plant. LTV filed for bankruptcy in December 2000. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: YHC_MSS192_B03F406_004
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of the room in the home of Civil War General and United States President Ulysses S. Grant where he died, in Mount McGregor, New York, ca. 1885. It is said that Grant slept in these two chairs for months prior to his death. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04534
Subjects: Presidents -- Death and burial; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Grant, Ulysses S., 1822-1885
Places: Mount McGregor (New York)