Description: The banners are red with gold lettering and are the battle banners of the 47th Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry. They were organized at Camp Dennison on August 13, 1861. They joined General Sherman on his March to the Sea on November 15th, 1864 and were mustered out at Little Rock, Arkansas on August 11, 1865. The text of banners reads: Chattanooga & Mission Ri[d]ge; Charleston, VA; Wilstach Regiment; Tuscumbia, ALA.; Siege of Jackson; Vicksburg, MISS. May 19th & 22nd 1863; Carnifex Ferry; Siege of Vicksburg; 47th Regt. O.V.V.I. These banners have not been cataloged in this collection. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01972
Subjects: Ceremonial artifact; Communication artifact; Military flags; Stars & Stripes; Textile--cotton; Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; 47th OVVI; Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry
Places: Germany (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This commemorative glass is made of mold-blown, clear glass. It has a depiction of the Zoar Hotel. Writing on the glass reads: "ZOAR HOTEL, ZOAR, OHIO. MADE IS GERMANY" View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H9222
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Glassware
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing Birdie Schmidt (later Birdie Schmidt Larrick) with fellow performers in the American Red Cross Cinemobile and 7th Army Special Service Show, at the Stadt Theater in Heidelberg, Germany, September 1945. From left to right are Chuck Moffett, Schmidt, John O'Neil, Helen Malsed, and Eddy Phillips. Seated in front is Sidney Porcelain. During World War II, Columbus native Birdie Schmidt Larrick (1919-2009) became the only woman serving in the Red Cross to have an American bomber named after her. In early December 1943, Birdie traveled to the Air Base in Wendling, England, as program director of the American Red Cross (ARC) Aero Club. Also stationed in Wendling was the 392nd Bombardment Group (BG), which moved to the base in August 1943 and was assigned to the 8th Air Force. As program director, and later as director, Birdie’s responsibilities included managing the Aero Club staff, organizing programs and events for the enlisted men and officers, and managing the club's supplies for soldiers. Because of her popularity among the men at the base, the 392nd named a B-24 Liberator the “Birdie Schmidt ARC” in her honor. A portrait of Birdie’s face was painted on one side of the bomber with the symbol for the Red Cross on the other. The plane flew missions from August 1944 until it was shot down in February 1945. That same year, Birdie joined the ARC Cinemobile and performed with the 7th Army Special Service Shows before returning home in November of 1945. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1528AV_B03F01_01
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945--Women; American Red Cross; United States Air Force; Military aircraft;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Heidelberg (Germany)
 

Description: The photograph shows a headstone in a cemetery reading "Stecher," which sits between two small pines. More headstones sit before and behind the Stecher monument, with large trees growing throughout the cemetery lawn. The stone most likely marks the grave of George J. Stecher, Harry Kinley's maternal grandfather. George J. and Christina Stecher immigrated from Germany to Upper Sandusky, Ohio in 1854. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's store, and later as a traveling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). Kinley was also an avid lifelong photographer, and the bulk of the Harry Kinley Collection is comprised of glass plate negatives documenting the Kinley family, the city of Upper Sandusky and Wyandot County and surrounding areas. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV30_B01F01_39
Subjects: Cemeteries--Ohio; Tombstones (sepulchral monuments); Families--Ohio;
Places: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio);
 

Description: Gustav Herman Otto Labinski on the beach with his grandson Charles Gustav Willhelm Braun, Cleveland, Ohio, ca. 1915. Gustav Herman Otto Labinski immigrated to the United States with his wife, Anna Friedricka Albertina Pantermuhl, and daughters, Hilda and Dora Anna from Germany. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03753
Subjects: Beaches; Other--Family History; Families; Children
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Charles William Braun pictured with his class in Oriental costumes, 1922. He was the son of German immigrants, Carl August Braun and Hilda Anna Malvina Labinski Braun, who immigrated to the United States from Germany as children. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03766
Subjects: Children of immigrants; Cultural Ohio--Education
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Charles William Braun pictured with his class at East View School, Cleveland, Ohio, 1920. He was the son of German immigrants, Carl August Braun and Hilda Anna Malvina Labinski Braun, who immigrated to the United States from Germany as children. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03767
Subjects: Children of immigrants; Cultural Ohio--Education; School children United States
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Sketch of Wittenberg College drawn by Henry Howe, ca. 1847. The college was funded by the Lutheran Church in Springfield, Ohio, in 1845. It reflected the growing number of German immigrants to the region. The school was named after the original Wittenberg University in Germany. This image is taken from Historical Collections of Ohio by Henry Howe, 1847. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04058
Subjects: Wittenberg University; Cultural Ohio--Education; Universities and colleges; Lutheran Church--Education--History--United States
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: Family portrait from the wedding of Dora Anna Labinski, ca. 1918. Dora was the daughter of Gustav Herman Otto Labinski and Anna Friedricka Albertina Pantermuhl, who were both born in Germany. They immigrated to Cleveland, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03735
Subjects: Immigrants--Ohio; Other--Family History; Weddings; Celebrations
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "New Zoar Meeting House." The brick meeting house was built by the Society of Separatists of Zoar in 1853. When the Society of Separatists of Zoar was dissolved in 1898 the former members of the Society formed an Evangelical church which held services in this building. A group of separatists from Germany, eventually known as Zoarites, established the small community of Zoar in Tuscarawas County in 1817. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, they had separated from the official German religion, the Lutheran Church. The community of Zoar was not originally organized as a commune, but its residents had a difficult time surviving in 1818 and early 1819. As a result, on April 19, 1819, the group formed the Society of Separatists of Zoar. Each person donated his or her property to the community as a whole. In exchange for their work, the society would provide for them. In the decades following the establishment of the Zoar commune, the separatists experienced economic prosperity. Due in part to influences from the outside world and the death of original residents, in 1898, the remaining members decided to dissolve the society, and its property was divided among the Zoarites. It was an end to the communistic experience at Zoar.  View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F01_020_1
Subjects: Tuscarawas County (Ohio); Zoar, O; Society of Separatists of Zoar; Zoar (Tuscarawas County, Ohio)--History--Pictorial works
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Edition of "The Doughboy," dated March 1, 1919. This newspaper was published by and for the soldiers of the 7th Infantry Brigade stationed with the occupying forces in Adenau, Germany, shortly after World War I. The paper was intended to entertain and inform the soldiers. This edition includes humorous poems and cartoons, news stories about the 7th Brigade's military maneuvers, a brigade horse show and basketball tournament, wages for Germans in the area, military awards and more. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS7311
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918--Occupied territories; United States. Army. Infantry Brigade, 7th; Newspapers;
Places: Adenau (Germany)
 

Description: This photograph is a black-and-white image of a colorful mural titled "Mail—The Connecting Link’," painted in 1938 by artist Sally F. Haley (1908-2007). The mural depicts the significant role that mail (and the postal service) plays in the life of individuals and of the entire nation. Three human figures (a mail carrier, a woman, and a little girl) occupy the center of the image, forming a triangular space that divides the background between urban and rural settings. The mail carrier is delivering a letter to the woman as the little girl watches. Bags of mail travel to distant locations via trains (rural areas and small towns) and boats (large urban areas). On the left side the mural, a railroad signal bears the number “1938,” the year that Haley painted the mural. The mural, painted in oil on canvas, is located in the McConnelsville, Ohio, post office. It measures 5 feet high by 17 feet wide. The mural was funded by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Section of Painting and Sculpture, one of the department’s three visual arts programs instituted during the Great Depression. Established in 1934, the Section of Painting and Sculpture commissioned artists to create paintings and sculpture that would decorate new federal buildings. The commissions were awarded competitively. Unlike other cultural programs of the New Deal, the Section’s primary goal was to procure art for public buildings, not to provide work relief. Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Sally Haley was the daughter of Elizabeth Akers Haley and John P. Haley, a portrait photographer. John Haley was a friend of photographers Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen. Two of Sally’s brothers also became artists. In 1931, Sally Haley graduated from Yale University with a bachelor of fine arts degree. She taught art in a Bridgeport high school for two years, studied art in Germany for a few months, and then returned to the U.S. to paint full time. In 1935 she married artist Michele Russo, and the couple lived in Connecticut until 1947, when they moved to Portland, Oregon. Haley was very active in the Portland art scene, and her paintings were widely praised. She died in 2007 at age 99. In 1988 photographer Connie Girard took color and black-and-white images of this mural for an article in "Timeline" magazine (June/July 1989). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04495
Subjects: Mural paintings (visual works); Post office buildings--Ohio; United States. Department of the Treasury. Section of Painting and Sculpture; Great Depression and the New Deal; McConnelsville (Ohio)
Places: McConnelsville (Ohio); Morgan County (Ohio)