Description: National colors of the 16th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Much of the flag has disintegrated and has no visible markings. The flag has not been cataloged in this collection. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01889
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Places: Ohio
 

Description: This photograph from the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus is of 27-year-old Max Amerman of Medina. His formal attire suggests that the photograph was taken during his trial or sentencing. Amerman was the 284th individual to be executed via the electric chair in Ohio. The caption at the bottom reads: “No. 284 -- Max Amerman of Medina County, Legally Electrocuted November 15, 1951, for the Murder of Harold Mast.” 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. Max Amerman, of Medina County, was legally electrocuted November 15, 1951, for the Murder of Harold Mast. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08336
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); Medina (Ohio); Medina County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of the Army Air Force Choral Group performing in Greensboro, North Carolina on November 29, 1944. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS15_B08_03
Subjects: Music; Musicians; African American men; United States. Air Force.
 

Description: George Washington, the first President of the United States was born on February 22, 1732 in Westmoreland, Virginia, British America. He died on December 14, 1799 at Mount Vernon, Virginia. He was Commander in Chief of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07624
Subjects: Presidents--United States; Presidents and Politics; Other--Federal Government; Washington, George, 1732-1799
 

Description: Painting of national colors of the 122nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02566
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
 

Description: Photograph showing telephone lines located along the still-unpaved National Road, east of Zanesville. Beginning construction in 1806, the National Road (also known as the Cumberland Road) was the first federally-funded interstate highway. Crossing six states from Cumberland, Maryland, to Vandalia, Illinois, over 220 miles of the 600-mile road pass through Ohio. During the nineteenth century it was an important commercial artery for Midwestern merchants and farmers, and in the twentieth century, it continued to be a major east/west route for automobile travel. The National Road has been named both an "All-American Road" and a "National Scenic Byway" by the U.S. Department of Transportation. General road scenes also included in this collection illustrate driving conditions before and after the National Road was paved. Prior to paving, photographs show that the National Road could be very rutted and muddy. There are also photographs of road construction, mile markers, photographic reproductions of maps, a sign that lists rates of toll, a tollbooth on the National Road, and a worker on the National Road. Other states represented in the collection include West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Illinois. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV119_B01_F10_09
Subjects: Roads; Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development; Travel; Streets--Ohio; National Road;
Places: Zanesville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio);
 

Description: A growing herd is always a good sign that a farmer is succeeding, and Joe Munroe has photographic proof of this Idaho farmer's success in the form of a newborn lamb with its mother, 1967. 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_B32_F2289_JPG034
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Sheep; Livestock; Farming
Places: Idaho
 

Description: Caption reads: "One of the best examples of Gothic architecture in Ohio." University Hall was completed in 1931. The University of Toledo was established in 1872, and in 1967 became a member of the state university system. It is one of the thirteen state universities in Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F03_003_1
Subjects: University of Toledo; College buildings--Ohio--Toledo; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works
Places: Toledo (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows a young woman in formal white dress, standing before a studio backdrop and holding what appears to be a diploma. It 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_b02_f132
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States--History;
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: Caption reads; "Dam at Baerd's Mill on Greenville Creek (on site of Major Adam's Mill)." Major George Adams erected a mill five miles below Greenville. It became a township in 1819, and was named in Major Adams honor. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F07_024_1
Subjects: Geology and Natural Resources; Rivers; Business and Labor; Mills
Places: Greenville (Ohio); Darke County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Hallie Q. Brown at Homewood Cottage in Wilberforce, Ohio. The picture is signed to her niece, Lois A. Brown, on July 24, 1925. Brown was the daughter of freed slaves Thomas and Frances Jane who were actively involved with the Underground Railroad. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Wilberforce University and later became Dean of Women at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Brown helped found the National Association of Colored Women (NACW), was elected Secretary of Education of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1900 and served as the 7th National President of the NACW. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS5_B10F01_K
Subjects: Brown, Hallie Q. (Hallie Quinn), d. 1949; African American women; African American Educators; Wilberforce University; Tuskegee Institute; Religion in Ohio
Places: Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
 

Description: Known as Trairanga Flag, this cotton flag bears two outer red stripes, two inner white stripes, and one center blue stripe. Artifact acquired between 1950-1970. The dimensions of the flag are 140 by 130 cm. Thailand's current flag design has been in use since World War I (1917). It has been suggested that the center red stripe was changed to blue in solidarity with the Allied Forces. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H65493_001
Subjects: Ceremonial artifact; Communication artifact; Military flags; Textile--cotton; National Flag--Thailand; World War, 1939-1945;
Places: Thailand, Asia