Description: This wood scraper fragment is marked "A.P. Platz". View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H73466
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Tools
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Two Guidons of the 7th Independent Battery, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery. Text on flag reads: MOLLIE PARKS. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01829
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio History--Military Ohio
 

Description: The caption reads: "The Old McGirr House". The McGirr house is an historic landmark, built in 1854. It is one of Chillicothe's best examples of residential architecture of the mid 19th century. It is located at 71 West 4th Street. Today, it is called the David Nickens Heritage Center which is dedicated to telling little know bits of history. The permanent three exhibits are The Underground Railroad, African American Women in the 19th Century and The Black Church in America. It is located beside the First Baptist Church of Chillicothe, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F02_008_1
Subjects: Chillicothe (Ross County, Ohio); Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.
Places: Chillicothe (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: Seen here is a photograph of Edgemont Inn, the former Harriet Beecher Stowe residence, that was taken in November, 1936. Edgemont Inn is a 2-story gray painted brick building on the corner of Gilbert and Foraker Ave. This former Beecher Homestead was the home of Rev. Dr Lyman Beecher (1775-1863). His family included Harriet Beecher Stowe and it is reasonable to assume that she received some of her anti-slavery sentiments in this house where prominent abolitionists came to visit. Among them was Levi Coffin "President" of The Underground Railroad, whose residence was around the corner on 3131 Wehrman Ave. This structure was completed in 1833 to house the president of Lane Seminary, founded in 1830. Dr. Beecher was the first president of the seminary. Harriet Beecher Stowe's first two children, twins, Eliza and Harriet, were born in the house in 1836. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06015
Subjects: Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Women abolitionists - Ohio; Hotels; Activists
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Crosley Field is located at the corner of Western Avenue and Findley Street in Cincinnati, Ohio. Originally named Redland Field, this steel and concrete Major League Baseball park was designed by architect Henry Hake and cost $225, 000 to build. It was renamed Crosley Field in 1934, when the team was bought by local businessman Powel Crosley Jr., who's ownership saw some important structural renovations to the building. It 1935, lights were added to allow for games to be played at night, in order to increase attendance during the Depression. Crosley Field was also used for other events throughout the years. Crosley Field was one of the smallest parks in the MLB, in both capacity and field size, and was notorious for "the terrace", a fifteen degree incline in left field. The last game at Crosley Field was played June 24, 1970, and the team moved to Riverfront Stadium. It was destroyed on April 19, 1972, and today seven buildings and a street occupy the place where it stood. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F10_007_1
Subjects: Crosley Field (Cincinnati, Ohio); Baseball--Ohio--Cincinnati
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Col. Charles Lindbergh sitting in the cockpit of a plane at Norton Field, Columbus, Ohio, on August 10, 1928. Lindbergh visited Columbus to support the building of an airport there. He was involved in designing a transcontinental network for Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT, which in 1930 merged with Western Air Express to become Trans World Airlines, or TWA), who hoped to secure government airmail contracts. Soon after this photograph, voters approved a bond issue to build Port Columbus Airport, and on October 6, 1928, Lindbergh chose Columbus as the eastern terminus of TAT’s transcontinental flights. The first flight arrived June 25, 1929. The dedication of Port Columbus was held July 8, 1929. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05639
Subjects: Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974; Airports; Aviation; Port Columbus International Airport; Popular culture
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: 1944 poster reading "We Caught Hell! -someone must have talked," and showing a U.S. soldier carrying a wounded comrade, designed to promote a sense of common purpose during World War II. Posters like these, generally commissioned by the U.S. Government, aimed to show civilians how they could contribute to the war effort through everyday activities and aid with the allied victory overseas. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04739
Subjects: World War II; World War, 1939-1945--War work; Ohio History--Military Ohio; War posters--Ohio
 

Description: Five photographs document damage to the home of the National Guard Unit Company A, 166th Infantry following the Xenia tornado of 1974. The slides measure 2" x 2" (5.08 x 5.08 cm). On April 4, 1974 an F5 tornado (the most intense tornado, reaching speeds of over 261 miles per hour) hit Xenia. It touched down at 4:30 p.m. nine miles southwest of Xenia and entered town at 4:40 p.m. Of 25,000 residents, 33 were killed and 1600 were injured. More than 1400 buildings were damaged or destroyed and total estimated damages exceeded $400 million. Xenia was declared a national disaster area, and the American Red Cross, as well as several hundred Ohio National Guard troops, moved into Xenia for several weeks to assist with the rescue and clean up. The Xenia tornado was the deadliest and most damaging of storms that comprised the "Super Outbreak" that occurred April 3 and 4, 1974, when 148 storms hit thirteen states. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3127_3729308_015
Subjects: Military Ohio; Climate and weather; Tornadoes; National Guard; Natural disasters
Places: Xenia (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Joseph Ray, most famous for authoring mathematical textbooks. In 1834, Truman & Smith, a Cincinnati publishing company, published "An Introduction to Ray's Eclectic Arithmetic." Ray eventually authored several other textbooks. By the end of the nineteenth century, Ray's texts had become the most widely-used math books in the United States, with sales approaching 120 million copies. For a time, they were the most used textbooks across all disciplines. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07145
Subjects: Education; Ohio authors; Mathematics
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Ohio Picture Book. Page: 33. Picture: 40. Credit: None. Caption: State Fair, Cleveland, in 1860's." This is a photograph of a drawing of a State Fair in Cleveland. There are signs for both Carriage Entrance and Carriage Exit as well as Foot Entrance, Foot Exit and Ticket Office. There are stables along the right side which are labeled "All Work & Draft Horses." Stables at the top right are for "Roadsters." At the top center a sign reads " [?], Devons & Ayershires [Ayrshires]" and below that "Short Horne." The Ohio State Fair is an annual exhibition held at the Ohio Expo Center in Columbus that showcases Ohio farming and commercial products and achievements. In the 1840s, farmers began to join agricultural organizations, and the state of Ohio began to take an interest in the challenges that farmers faced. As a result, the state government created the Board of Agriculture in 1846. The Board of Agriculture planned to hold the first statewide fair in 1849, but a cholera epidemic forced the fair's cancellation. The first Ohio State Fair was held the next year instead. The city of Cincinnati hosted the fair in 1850, which went on for three days. In the early years of the fair, most visitors and exhibitors came from the general vicinity of where the fair was being held. Transportation connecting the state together was still limited. As a result, the Board of Agriculture decided to move the fair to a different location each year so that more people would have access to it over time. A number of cities hosted the fair, including Columbus (1851, 1855, 1864, 1865), Cleveland (1852, 1856, 1862, 1863), Cincinnati (1850, 1857), Dayton (1853, 1860, 1861, 1866, 1867), Sandusky (1858), Zanesville (1859), Toledo (1868, 1869), Springfield (1870, 1871), and Mansfield (1872, 1873). Ultimately, the Board decided that the state capital should be the permanent site for the state fair, and it moved to Columbus in 1874. By the 1870s, the state's railroad system had improved significantly, and it was much easier to travel from all parts of the state. The current fairgrounds, known today as the Ohio Expo Center, were completed in 1886. The Ohio State Fair has been held at these fairgrounds ever since. There are two large tents and one smaller tent as well as several more permanent buildings. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F10_12_01
Subjects: Ohio State Fair
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a painting of the regimental colors of the 10th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. The blue silk flag served as the regimental colors of the 10th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. The flag was manufactured in the United States between 1861 and 1865. The United States arms is positioned in the center of the flag's front or obverse side. The arms consists of an embroidered, gold-colored bald eagle holding an olive branch in its right talon and a bundle of arrows in its left talon. The eagle holds in its beak a painted, gold-outlined scroll with the motto "E PLURIBUS UNUM" (Latin for "one out of many"). A shield with red and white stripes and a blue upper portion is positioned on the eagle's breast. Thirteen gold-painted stars outlined in red are arranged in two arcs above the arms. A gold-outlined banner below the arms features gold text that reads: "10th OHIO CAVALRY." The reverse side of the flag features gold text at its center that reads: "TUNNEL HILL / RESACCA / ATLANTA, MACON / WAYNESBORO / SAVANNAH." The text is framed by brown and green laurel. A gold star appears in each of the flag's four corners. 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: AL01848
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Flags--Ohio, Civil War, 1861-1865
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Signs for an exhibit at the Ohio State Fair in Columbus. The origins of the Ohio State Fair go back to the 1840s. In 1846, the Board of Agriculture was formed. The first state fair was scheduled for 1849, though it was delayed for a year by an outbreak of cholera. After another year of waiting, the fair was held in Cincinnati. Originally the fair was held in a different place every year, due to the difficulty in traveling long distances. When the year 1874 rolled around, it was decided there should be a permanent location for the fair. Columbus was chosen as it was the state capital, and this was made possible by much improved transportation. The fair has very rarely been cancelled, the only examples being a few years during the Second World War. During that time the fairgrounds was being used by the U.S. military. After 1945, things were business as usual. In 2003, the number of state fairs over the years reached 150. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06670
Subjects: Ohio State Fair (Columbus, Ohio); Animals; Snakes
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)