Description: The Kinsman House in Warren, Ohio, was built by Frederick Joseph Kinsman in 1832. This photograph was among those produced by the Federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) between 1935 and 1943. Mrs. Thomas Kinsman, heir of Frederick Kinsman, deeded the Greek Revival-style house to Hiram College, which formerly used it as a classroom building for the Dana School of Music. The Kinsman House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06386
Subjects: Greek revival (Architecture); Warren (Ohio); United States. Work Progress Administration; Architecture; National Register of Historic Places
Places: Warren (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio)
 

Description: Floyd Hewitt, of Ashtabula County, electrocuted January 6, 1928, for the Murders of Mrs. Fred Brown and 5 year old son Frederick, Jefferson, Ohio. He was a white male, seventeen years old and his occupation is not listed. He was the youngest person in the country to be executed. He was said to be of low intelligence and became confused easily. He is buried in the Ohio State Prison Cemetery in Lucasville, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08184
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Prisons--Ohio; Death row; Capital punishment; Portrait photography
Places: Jefferson (Ohio); Ashtabula County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Great Seal Of The State Of Ohio. This seal is the last one of about ten seals. The full sheaf of wheat depicts the agriculture and bounty of the state. The cluster of seventeen arrows represents the seventeenth state to enter into the United States of America. The hillside is a representation of Mount Logan in Ross County as seen from Adena Mansion. The three-quarter riding sun with thirteen rays stands for the original thirteen states shining over the the first state from the Northwest Territory. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07897
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government; State seals; State symbols
 

Description: Photograph showing a wasteway, which is a channel that diverts an overflow of water. The caption beneath the photograph reads: "Old Waste-Way, Celina, O., July, 1916." This photograph is part of a series taken by the Board of the Ohio Department of Public Works to document the disrepair of the infrastructure of the Ohio and Erie Canal and Miami-Erie Canal systems in 1916, showing the physical condition of each structure. The Ohio Department of Public Works is one of the oldest departments of state government in continuous existence. Among its other duties, this department was charged with maintenance and administration of the Ohio & Erie and Miami-Erie Canals. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA936AV_B01_026
Subjects: Waterworks; Bridges; Canals; Rivers; Lakes & ponds; Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development
Places: Celina (Ohio); Mercer County (Ohio)
 

Description: Captain Schuyler Hamilton carried this national flag, the colors of the 1st Ohio Volunteer Infantry (O.V.I.), in the Battle of Monterrey in September 1846 during the Mexican War. It measures 65.35 by 188.11 inches (166 by 300 cm). Parts of the flag are missing. Six white, six-pointed stars remain on a blue silk canton above United States arms. Instead of the customary U.S. shield, there is a shield with a side-wheel steamboat bearing the text "Rio Grande," a rising sun, a plow, and a river. The annexation of Texas, American desire to annex New Mexico and California, and Southern politicians' hopes of expanding slavery all contributed to the Mexican War. Among Ohio Whigs in Congress, opposition to the war and the extension of slavery was strong. In the end, however, 7,000 Ohioans enlisted in the war. Many of them served under Zachary Taylor in the northern provinces of Mexico and under Winfield Scott in Mexico City. The Mexican War ended on February 2, 1848, with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which set the southern boundary of Texas and gave the United States control of New Mexico and California. Ohio battle flags were on display at the Ohio Statehouse until the 1960s, when the state formed a committee to oversee efforts to restore the fragile flags. Some of the battle flags were on display on the plaza level of the Ohio History Center 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. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1330_1664678_008
Subjects: Military Ohio; Mexican War; Flags; United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 1st (1861-1864)
Places: Ohio; Monterrey (Mexico)
 

Description: Photograph of Yvonne Walker-Taylor with unidentified students. Walker-Taylor became one of the first female African American college president in the United States when she was named president of Wilberforce in 1984. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B05F01_L
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Wilberforce University; African American Educators; African American women
Places: Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
 

Description: On August 15, 1977, the "Big Ear" radio telescope at the Ohio State University Radio Observatory located in Delaware County detected a highly unusual signal whose source has never been identified, raising the possibility that the signal may be the first record of contact with extraterrestrial intelligence. The so-called "Wow!" signal received its name from the note Dr. Jerry Ehman wrote in the margin of this computer printout. This strange signal, unique in radio astronomy history, has never been recorded again. NAAPO, the North American Astrophysical Observatory, was chartered in 1983 as a non-profit organization originally formed to save, maintain and operate the Ohio State University Radio Observatory's (OSURO) 110-meter "Big Ear" radio telescope, Ohio's only world class radio telescope. A consortium of local colleges and a group of volunteers worked together under the NAAPO charter. Ohio Wesleyan University owned the land on which the "Big Ear" stood and sold it to land developers in 1982. OSU constructed the "Big Ear" beginning in 1956 on OWU land. They operated the radio telescope research for nearly 40 years. The developers leased the land to NAAPO from 1983 through 1997 so they could continue to operate the telescope. In 1998 the "Big Ear" radio telescope was destroyed by the developers and some of the equipment and most of the records were moved to the West Campus of the Ohio State University, in Columbus, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1496_1160821_001
Subjects: Science and Technology; Astronomy; Observatories; Telescopes; Life on other planets; Interstellar communication
Places: Delaware (Ohio); Delaware County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows the front facade of the Fulton County Courthouse. In 1869, the residents of Fulton County passed an "enabling" act that moved the county seat from Ottokee to Wauseon. Though Ottokee was more centrally located, Wauseon had a larger population and more business, making it an appropriate location for the county seat. The act stipulated that private residents had to pay $5,000 of the total estimated building costs of $25,000. The result was the present Italianate style courthouse completed in 1872 by architect C.C. Miller, complete with murals, hand-carved woodwork, and a stained glass dome. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F02_151
Subjects: Courthouses; National Register of Historic Places; mural paintings (visual works); Italianate (North American architecture styles)
Places: Wauseon (Ohio); Fulton County (Ohio); 210 S. Fulton St.
 

Description: Caption reads: "Old Pease Home, W. Carrollton, O." Horace Pease moved from Connecticut to Cincinnati, Ohio in 1816 and moved to Montgomery County in 1823. He lived in Carrollton (now West Carrollton) where he ran the H. & P. Pease flour mill until 1851 or 1852. He also operated a second flour mill in Dayton from 1839 through 1866. His son, Charles Edward Pease, was president of the Buckeye Iron and Brass Works of Dayton. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F10_034_001
Subjects: Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Architecture, Domestic--Ohio--Pictorial works.
Places: West Carrollton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Wapakoneta, Ohio; homecoming celebration for Neil Armstrong. Pictured with wife Janet, mother Viola, and grandmother Callie View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV_203B2F3_020
Subjects: Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012; Wapakoneta (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: James Edward "Eddie" Saunders and other radio station staff working on the "Breaking All Time" telegraph receiving program for Mother's Day, ca. 1950 - 1970. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00743
Subjects: Multicultural Ohio--African American Ohioans
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Cinci., O., Sept. 1937, Schmidlapp Home." Horace Schmidlapp and Jean Maxwell Schmidlapp’s home, located at 10 Grandin Lane in the Hyde Park community of Cincinnati, Ohio was better known as Ca Sole. Horace was the son of Cincinnati's well known businessman, Jacob G. Schmidlapp, known best for founding what is now part of Fifth Third Bank. Jean Maxwell was the daughter of lawyer Lawrence Maxwell, who served as President Grover Cleveland's Solicitor General. Set in the rolling hills of East Walnut Hills, near the Cincinnati Country Club and close to downtown, the home enjoyed views of the Little Miami River. This Italianate style home was built by Grosvenor Atterbury and by the time it was completed in 1927, the couple had separated. The two storied residence was made of buff colored stone with pink and gray terracotta tile roof, with most of the main rooms facing the rear to take of advantage of the view. The windows were trimmed with peacock blue with details in pink and gray brick. Atterbury collaborated with landscape architects Ferruccio Vitale, Alfred Geiffert Jr. and Umberto Innocenti to create beautifully landscaped terraced gardens and a hexagon shaped walled garden with intricate wrought iron gates and arched openings meant to frame the landscape below. The entrance hall was done in light red brick with wood beamed ceilings and wrought iron light fixtures. Glass lantern slides were painted by artist Gladys Pratt. Much of the exterior and entrance details were incorporated into the interior of the rest of the house, to add cohesion to the design. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_b03f03_029_001
Subjects: Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Architecture, Domestic--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Gardens--Ohio--Cincinnati; Atterbury, Grosvenor; Schmidlapp, Jean (Maxwell); Innocenti, Umberto; Vitale, Ferrucio
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)