Description: Portrait of General William Tecumseh Sherman from Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio. Sherman, who rose in rank during the Civil War, was promoted to full general and commander of the United States Army by President Ulysses S. Grant in 1869. He held this post until his retirement in 1883 and passed away in 1891. This portrait was produced as a memorial to General Sherman after his death. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00543
Subjects: Ohio History--Military Ohio; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Military officers
Places: Lancaster (Ohio); Fairfield County (Ohio); New York (New York)
 

Description: Order form for a public service announcement given by Bob Hope and Dixie Lee Etheridge, Miss Wheelchair 1976. The form is printed on Bob Hope National Honorary Chairman letterhead, with the Miss Wheelchair America logo printed in the top left corner. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS934_B01_F48_001
Subjects: Pageants--Ohio; Pageants--United States; Women with disabilities--Attitudes; Hope, Bob, 1903-2003; Public service announcement
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This round cake pan was handmade from tin. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H9406
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Kitchen utensils--United States--History
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This power house at the Columbus Railway Power and Light Company used many conveyors that were made and installed by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio, 1917. Conveyors in power houses moved coal to and ash from boiler rooms. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01374
Subjects: Conveying machinery; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio)
 

Description: This oval bread tray is made of tin painted red and decorated with flowers. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H9387
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Cooking tools and equipment
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reproduction of a portrait of African American inventor Granville T. Woods. Woods was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1856. He and his brother formed the Woods Railway Telegraph Company in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1884. Woods received 35 patents for electrical and mechanical devices between 1884 and 1907. Most of his inventions were for the improvement of the railroad system, including telegraphony, which allowed telegraph stations to send both voice and telegraph messages over a single wire. Woods is often referred to as "the Black Thomas Edison." He died in New York City in 1910. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02705
Subjects: African Americans; Multicultural Ohio--African American Ohioans; Woods, Granville, 1856-1910; Railroads--Communication systems; Inventors; African American Ohioans
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Exterior photograph of Baker Art Gallery, on the corner of State and High Streets, Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1905. Baker Art Gallery was founded by Lorenzo Marvin Baker, who began working as a photographer in the early 1860s. By 1886 he had established his business as Baker Art Gallery. Four generations of the Baker family ran the studio until 1955. After the studio closed, the Baker family gave photographs, glass and film negatives to the Ohio Historical Society. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03647
Subjects: Photographers--Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: 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: AV71_b03_f189
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States--History; Animals
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: Cover of The Bromwell Brush & Wire Goods Co., annual company catalogue, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1899. This company was started in 1819 by Jacob Bromwell as a wire-weaving and housewares business producing important tools for frontier life. It was originally located at 181 Walnut Street in Cincinnati, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05069
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Economy--Business; Catalogs
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This swallowtail silk guidon of the national colors was used by the 40th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The flag was manufactured in the United States between 1861 and 1863. There are 34 painted stars arranged in concentric circles with an additional star in each of the blue canton's four corners. The flag has thirteen alternating red and white stripes. The flag measures 64 by 80 cm. The 40th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was organized at Camp Chase in Columbus, Ohio, and mustered into service on December 7, 1861. Major engagements in which the regiment took part include Middle Creek, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge, the Atlanta Campaign, and Franklin. On December 10, 1864, after the battle of Franklin, the regiment was consolidated with the 51st Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Ohio battle flags were on display at the Ohio Statehouse until the 1960s, when the state formed a committee to oversee the efforts to restore the fragile flags. Some of the battle flags were on display on the Plaza Level of the Ohio Historical Society from 1970 until 1989. For conservation reasons, the flags have been in storage since 1989. In the 1960s, the collection was photographed and commercial artist Robert Needham painted illustrations of many Civil War flags. Photographs of the flags and the paintings are now part of the society's archival collections. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01950
Subjects: Ceremonial artifact; Communication artifact; Military flags; Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Textile--silk; United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 40th (1861-1864)
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photographic portrait of Samuel Medary, ca. 1860, in formal attire. Medary was an Ohio Senator and publisher of the Ohio Statesman (1832-1857), which he used to endorse the Democratic Party's candidates and to build support for its policies. Medary bought the "Ohio Monitor," changed its name to the "Ohio Statesman," and later established "The Crisis." Samuel Medary was born on February 25, 1801, in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. He relocated to Ohio in 1825. He died in Columbus, Ohio, on November 7, 1864, and is buried in Greenlawn Cemetery. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04267
Subjects: Political parties; Ohio History--State and Local Government; Journalism; Newspaper publishing; Medary, S. (Samuel), 1801-1864
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows Xenia, Ohio, rescue workers searching through bricks after the April 3, 1974 tornado. The unidentified workers are inside a structure searching through rubble (loose bricks and sections of brick wall). Some of the workers appear to be National Guard members wearing uniform and helmets. The tornado "super outbreak" of April 3-4, 1974, resulted in 148 tornadoes in 13 states. The Xenia tornado caused the most deaths of any tornado in the outbreak. The tornado touched down at 4:30 p.m. nine miles southwest of Xenia and entered the city about ten minutes later. It continued northeastward on a path of 32 miles through Xenia and Wilberforce into Clark County. The tornado killed 32 people from Xenia to Wilberforce. About half of the buildings in the city of 27,000 were damaged, and 300 homes destroyed. Nine Xenia churches were destroyed, as were seven of the twelve schools in the city. Fortunately, the tornado occurred an hour after classes had been dismissed. The roof and windows were blown from the Greene County Courthouse. A train passing through Xenia was struck by the tornado and 7 of the 47 cars were blown over, resulting in the blockage of Main Street. More than 1,300 people were treated for injuries at Green Memorial Hospital. Restaurants that were not destroyed handed out thousands of free meals to residents and rescue workers in Xenia. Convoys of generators, floodlights, bulldozers, and dump trucks arrived overnight from nearby Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The tornado also struck Wilberforce University and Central State University, destroying many buildings and injuring several people on each campus. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05947
Subjects: Tornadoes--Ohio--Xenia; Xenia (Ohio)--History; Natural disasters; Greene County (Ohio)
Places: Xenia (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)