Description: Manuscript handwritten on unlined paper by Paul Laurence Dunbar for an unpublished, untitled poem, whose first line reads "Last night I lay a-sleeping, love." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS114_B10_F03_009
Subjects: Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906; Love--Poetry; Dialect poetry; African American Ohioans; Authors; Poetry;
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Sharps, Davis and Bonsall Company built this steam engine in Salem, Ohio in 1856. The firm was formed in 1851 by mechanics Joel Sharp, Simeon Sharp, Milton Davis, and Joel S. Bonsall. The company, which initially had twelve employees, produced engines to replace oxen or water-power for grain or saw mills, became the largest manufacturing concern in the county. In 1870 the name of the firm was changed to the Buckeye Engine Company. Their engines were sold nationally and internationally. By the turn of the century, Buckeye Engine Company employed 300 workers. The company was sold to the Bliss Company in 1924. Bliss ceased operations in 2000. An ambrotype is an early photograph created by imaging a negative on glass backed by a dark surface. This example measures 5" by 6.75" (12.70 by 17.15 cm). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1452_1160744_001
Subjects: Business and labor; Equipment; Steam-engines
Places: Salem (Ohio); Columbiana County (Ohio)
 

Description: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company's Highview Plat, ca. 1919. The Highview Plat was one of the company's housing complexes which offered detached homes available for either rent ($25.00 per month) or for purchase (between $3,000.00 and $5,000.00). Neighborhoods like these were constructed by steel companies to house mill workers and their families. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05515
Subjects: Youngstown (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Architecture and Engineering; Mills and mill-work--Ohio; Steel industry and trade--Ohio--Youngstown--History
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: Illustration of an African American soldier insisting that General Grant put out his cigar while near ammunition, published in "A Personal History of Ulysses S. Grant" by Albert Deane Richardson in 1885. Ulysses S. Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Point Pleasant, Ohio. During the U. S. Civil War, Grant was promoted to the rank of General and granted command of the Union army by President Abraham Lincoln. After the victory of the Union over the Confederacy, Grant's popularity led to his election as the 18th President of the United States in 1868. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04579
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S., 1822-1885; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio--History, Military; African Americans; Presidents--United States; Soldiers
 

Description: This 18 page booklet contains the text of Governor Jacob Cox’s message to the 58th General Assembly on Jan. 6, 1868. Cox (1828-1900) was a Republican governor who served from 1866 to 1868. Despite his membership in the Union party, Cox’s views with regard to African-Americans were conservative, as he opposed suffrage for African-Americans and proposed a separate reservation system for African-Americans. Cox’s administration was plagued by the divided Republican party. Cox himself was a proponent of President Johnson’s Reconstruction policies, and worked to bring together the ideologies of Johnson and the radical Republicans. Cox also served as Secretary of the Interior. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Page1
Subjects: Presidents and Politics; Ohio Government; Governors
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Oberlin (Ohio); Lorain County (Ohio); Warren (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows people gathered at Fort Meigs in Perrysburg, Ohio, possibly during the fort's centennial in 1913. A large crowd of people is gathered near a light-colored tent on the banks of the Maumee River, seen in the background. Several other tents are visible. A tall, light-colored obelisk Several horse-drawn buggies and carriages are on the road or parked beside it. A bicycle is propped against a fence. Women are wearing long skirts and blouses (or long dresses) typical of feminine attire in the 1910s. A U.S. flag and a tall, light-colored obelisk also are visible. Fort Meigs, completed in 1813 in the midst of the War of 1812, was a strategic fortification along the banks of the Maumee River in present-day Perrysburg, Ohio. The fort withstood two British sieges in 1813 and became a turning point in the war in favor of the American forces. Today, the fort is the largest reconstructed wooden-walled fort in the United States and is an Ohio Historical Society site as well as a National Historic Landmark. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06158
Subjects: Fort Meigs (Ohio); United States--History--War of 1812; Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood; Centennial celebrations
Places: Perrysburg (Ohio); Wood County (Ohio)
 

Description: This 2.55 by 2.75-inch (6.5 by 7 cm) oil painting on ivory shows Eleanor Worthington, the wife of Ohio political leader Thomas Worthington. She was born Eleanor Swearingen in present-day West Virginia. Orphaned at an early age, she inherited land and slaves. In 1796, she married Worthington and the couple moved to Ohio soon after. The Worthingtons freed their slaves and brought several of them to Chillicothe. Eleanor Worthington (1777-1848) was the mother of ten children, all of whom survived to adulthood. She frequently ran Adena, the family estate, while her husband traveled and after his death in 1827. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1385_1160552_001
Subjects: Ohio Women; Ohio Government; Portraits; Worthington, Eleanor, 1777-1848
Places: Chillicothe (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Perry County Courthouse was completed in 1888 by architect Joseph Yost. The Richardsonian Romanesque stone facade has an arched entrance and corner tourelles. The clock was added in 1900, replacing the bell that had been in the 1857 courthouse. This image shows the building's side facade. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F05_383
Subjects: Courthouses; National Register of Historic Places;
Places: New Lexington (Ohio); Perry County (Ohio); 105 North Main St.
 

Description: This 1974 photograph by Joe Munroe shows a lone windmill on the Nebraska plains. Windmills were a great help to advancing settlers as they crossed the Great Plains region of the United States. In addition to grinding grains, they were adapted to help pump water from the ground. This was useful in a variety of ways, including providing drinking water for herds as they roamed across the plains. This practice also served as a form of irrigation to help pump out fields that were flooded with water, thereby making them useful for growing. 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_B33_F2418_JPG107
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Wind pumps; Windmills; Irrigation;
Places: Nebraska
 

Description: This is a photograph of Wesley Jenkins of Montgomery County, who was electrocuted December 4, 1914, for the murder of Nellie Bailey. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08096
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Capital punishment; Death row
Places: Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: A postcard of the Carding Mill at the Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site in New Salem, Illinois. Starting in the 1830s, the New Salem locals would bring their wool to this mill so it can be cleaned and pulled into strips of yarn. The original owner of the mill was Samuel Hill and was eventually sold to Hardin Bale. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV83_B01F04_019
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Pictorial works
Places: New Salem (Illinois); Menard County (Illinois)
 

Description: The image is a black and white portrait of Abraham Lincoln. In the photograph, Lincoln is sitting with his arms rested on the chair's arms. His body positioned turned slightly to the right. The photograph was taken by Alexander Gardner on February 9, 1864, during the Civil War. This image inspired the statue of Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV83_B01F06_008
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Pictorial works