Description: Reproduction of a portrait of abolitionist John Rankin of Ripley, Ohio, ca. 1850-1880. Rankin and his wife Jane (identified in some later records as Jean) worked with their neighbors to assist thousands of slaves to escape to freedom. His house in Ripley, situated at the top of a hill overlooking the Ohio River, was a stop on the Underground Railroad. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01174
Subjects: Abolitionists; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Activists
Places: Ripley (Ohio); Brown County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Eva Walker standing with an unidentified individual in front of the Payne Theological Seminary / Holy Trinity African Methodist Episcopal Church. Eva was the wife of Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker, 10th president of Wilberforce University and 66th Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Eva and Bishop Dougal O.B. Walker were the parents of Yvonne Walker-Taylor who 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_B05F06_D_2
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Howard University; Wilberforce University; African American Educators; African American women
 

Description: Photograph of inventor Thomas Edison and businessmen Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone, ca. 1920-1929. Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, in 1847 and was known for his many inventions, including his most famous--the light bulb. Henry Ford was born in Michigan in 1863 and was known for his feats in automobile production. Harvey Firestone was born Columbiana, Ohio, in 1868 and was known creating the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in Akron, Ohio. All three American industry leaders often worked and vacationed together. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02918
Subjects: Ford, Henry, 1863-1947; Firestone, Harvey Samuel, 1868-1938; Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931
 

Description: Republican Party campaign poster entitled "Our Republican Standard Bearers: Economy, Efficiency, Integrity in Nation and in State for Preservation of the Constitution and Maintenance of the Law." Poster contains cameo portraits of Presidential candidate Calvin Coolidge, Gubernatorial candidate Harry L. Davis, and Vice Presidential candidate Charles Dawes. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS_3696
Subjects: Ohio Government; Presidents and Politics; Governors
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio);
 

Description: Group photograph of members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy's Dixie Chapter, Columbus, Ohio, 1985. Front row: Nancy Coe Hill, Betsy Wood, Mrs. Wright, Peg McCune. Back row: Bruce Duncan, Sandy Schirmer, Jane Shelton, Betts Slater, Lucille Kirk, Sue Hayward, Margaret Berry, Jerry Wright, Helen Keith, Mary Jane Ford, and Ann Millard. (Names listed on back) View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03844
Subjects: Women--Ohio; United Daughters of the Confederacy; American Civil War, 1861-1865
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Joe Munroe experiments with photographic exposures in this photograph of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, 1950. The photo appears to show Ascension Hall, located on the Kenyon campus. Joe 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_B27a_F767_JPG320a
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Kenyon College; Trick photography
Places: Gambier (Ohio); Knox County (Ohio)
 

Description: This unidentified group portrait was taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912. The negative is extremely overexposed, obscuring most of the image. 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_f200
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States--History;
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: National colors of the 15th Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry. Text on flag reads: Shiloh Stone River Liberty [Ga]p 15th Ohio Vet. Vol. [I]nf. The flag has disintegrated and is difficult to read with much of it missing. The flag has not been cataloged in this collection. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01887
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Places: 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_B02F253_04
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: The ship pictured is likely the escort U.S.S. Rinehart, commanded by Woody Hayes during World War II. It was commissioned in February 1944 and built in Newark, New Jersey. Between May 1944 and May 1945, she made escort voyages on the Atlantic Ocean from the United States to Tunisia, the United Kingdom and France. The ship was then sent to the Pacific Ocean where she was used as an escort and a weather ship until returning to the United States in February 1946. The Rinehart was out of commission by July 1946. In 1950 the ship was transferred to the Netherlands and sailed in the Dutch Navy until 1967. Hayes enlisted in the United States Navy in July 1941, and obtained the rank of Lieutenant Commander during World War II. He commanded PC 1251 in the Palau Islands invasion and the destroyer-escort USS Rinehart in both the Atlantic and Pacific operations. Born Wayne Woodrow "Woody" Hayes in Clifton, Ohio, in 1913, Hayes is best-known for his 28 seasons as head football coach of the Ohio State Buckeyes. He died in 1987. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07534
Subjects: Ships; World War, 1939-1945 - Ohio; Hayes, Woody, 1913-1987
Places: Newark (New Jersey)
 

Description: Plum Street Temple, now called the Isaac M. Wise temple, is located at 720 Plum Street at the corner of Eighth Street in Cincinnati, Ohio. Designed by architect James Keys Wilson, the first president of the Cincinnati Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, it is one of only two American temples built in the Byzantine-Moorish (or Byzantine-Saracenic) style, a Germanic style that combined Neo-Byzantine with Moorish Revival. The facade was copied from the Leopoldstadter Tempel in Vienna, Austria.. The building, completed in 1866, is one of the oldest synagogues still standing in the United States and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F12_013
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc; Synagogues--Ohio--Cincinnati; Wilson, James Keys, 1828-1894; Wise, Isaac Mayer, 1819-1900
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Regimental colors of the 737th Ordnance Battalion, 37th Infantry Division. Rectangular flag measures 88 cm high by 152 cm wide. Text on flag reads: 737th Ordnance. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02302
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; World War, 1939-1945 - Ohio