Description: Official program of the Wilberforce University vs. Tuskegee Institute football game played at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois on October 14, 1938. The series between the two schools began in 1928. Tuskegee and Wilberforce played a total of twenty games. Wilberforce won the overall series with a final win in 1949, making their total nine to Tuskegee's eight. Three games in the series ended in a tie. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS6_B08F01_02
Subjects: Tuskegee University; Wilberforce University; Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Sports
Places: Soldier Field; Tuskegee (Alabama); Tuskegee Institute; Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio); Chicago (Illinois)
 

Description: Official program for the 11th Annual Football Game, Tuskegee Institute vs. Wilberforce University, Oct. 11, 1940, Soldier Field, Chicago, Illinois. The series between the two schools began in 1928. Tuskegee and Wilberforce played a total of twenty games. Wilberforce won the overall series with a final win in 1949, making their total nine to Tuskegee's eight. Three games in the series ended in a tie. ALTERNATE TEXT: An off-white sports program with a thick red border at the top, and a thinner red border at the bottom of the page. There are two blue lines running vertically along the sides of the program, with the innermost line being the thinnest. The font is navy blue and red. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS6_B08F02_01
Subjects: Tuskegee University; Wilberforce University; Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Sports
Places: Wilberforce, Greene County (Ohio); Soldier Field; Chicago (Illinois); Tuskegee (Alabama)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Plebeians of the River. Taken from the High Level Bridge. Barges and tugs on the Cuyahoga River, Cleveland. District #4, Cleveland. Photographer: John Steinko, 1940." This photograph shows a Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. boat hauling cargo long the Cuyahoga River. Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company is an American company providing construction services in dredging and land reclamation, currently the largest such provider in the United States. GLD&D operates primarily in the United States but conducts one-quarter of its business overseas. It is currently based in Oak Brook, Illinois. The company was founded in 1890 as the partnership of William A. Lydon & Fred C. Drews and was named Lydon & Drews dredging company. Early projects included the shoreline structures for the Chicago's Columbian Exposition. The company soon had satellite operations throughout the Great Lakes. It was renamed the Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company (GLD&D) in 1905. Between 1900 and 1950, GLD&D undertook major projects such as the Sabin Lock, straightening of the Chicago River west of the Chicago Loop, the Michigan Avenue Bridge, foundation landfill and reclamation of the area where the Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, Soldier Field, Meigs Field and Field Museum of Natural History stand today in Chicago and harbor work for the Naval Station Great Lakes. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F08_15_01
Subjects: Cuyahoga River (Ohio); Boats and boating--Ohio; Cargo ships; Transportation--Ohio--History.; Rivers; Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: This flag has a blue field with an image of a soldier and thirteen stars in white. The United States Government awarded these flags to businesses with 90% or higher employee participation rate in war bond purchases. It is a cotton flag measuring 110 cm by 170 cm. In 1948 Ralph W. Lewis donated this flag in honor of his father, Merlin E. Pickering, of Rushville, Ohio View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H65539_001
Subjects: Ceremonial artifact; Communication artifact; Military flags; World war 1935-1945; War bonds; Textile--cotton;
Places: Rushville (Ohio); Fairfield County (Ohio)
 

Description: Illustration of the 2nd La. Colored Regiment at the Battle of Fort Hudson, titled "Assault of the Second Louisiana (Colored) Regiment on the Confederate Works at Fort Hudson, May 27th, 1863." Caption reads: "From a Sketch by F. B. Schell." ALTERNATE TEXT: A Union troop of African American solders charge uphill towards Rebel soldiers in a chaotic battle scene. The field is covered in grass and the sky is filled with smoke and dust from the battle. A red and white "11 Rgt Louisiana" flag can be seen to the middle left of the fight. The soldiers carry guns with bayonets while some soldiers carry swords. Injured and or dead men are laying around the ground as a result of the violence. A man towards the right side of the scene carries an American flag near a Confederate soldier wielding a Confederate flag. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_OVS21_secondlouisiana_1
Subjects: African American soldiers; Civil War 1861-1865
 

Description: Mounted photograph depicting Major General Alexander McDowell McCook and his staff in the field during the Civil War. McCook, one of "The Fighting McCooks" from Carrollton, Ohio, is seated in the center and flanked by officers on both sides. A soldier standing behind the seated officers is holding the flag of the 20th Army Corps. There is no photographer's mark on the mount. A caption written in pencil below the image states "Maj Gen McCook & Staff 1863." The photograph was likely taken in Tennessee when McCook was commanding the 20th Corps during the Tennessee Campaign. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC5814
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Photographs; McCook family; Military officers; Soldiers--Ohio;
Places: Tennessee
 

Description: This Japanese flag has a red circle at the center of a rectangular white field. This flag dates from World War II (1939-1945) and was carried by a Japanese soldier. There is Japanese script in black on the flag. The dimensions are 103 cm by 71 cm. Doug Powelson of Columbus, Ohio, donated this flag to the Ohio Historical Society in 1987 View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H52463_001
Subjects: Flags--Japan; World War, 1939-1945; Imperial Japanese;
 

Description: This broadside, titled "Proposals for the Log Cabin," promotes the candidacy of William Henry Harrison, who went on to defeat President Martin Van Buren in the U.S. presidential election of 1840. The broadside bears the signatures of Harrison supporters who are advertising the availability of "13 numbers of a paper" titled "Log Cabin." The document is dated February 29, 1840. During the campaign, Harrison's supporters portrayed him as a common man who was born in a log cabin and liked to drink hard cider. It was not the first or last time that exaggerated and inaccurate claims have been made about a candidate by his friends. A rugged log cabin became the campaign's iconic symbol. William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) was an American political and military leader and the ninth President of the United States. Born in Charles County, Virginia, he graduated college and then studied medicine at his father’s insistence. After his father’s death in 1791, he joined the U.S. Army and served in the military until 1798. In the Northwest Territory he assisted General Anthony Wayne as an aide-de-camp. He participated in the Battle of Fallen Timbers and was present at the negotiating and signing of the Treaty of Greeneville. After leaving military service, Harrison was Secretary of the Northwest Territory and later represented the Northwest Territory in the U.S. Congress. He served as governor of Indiana Territory (modern-day Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan) from 1800 to 1813. While he was governor, Harrison also was the Superintendent for Indian Affairs in the American Northwest. He convinced many Native Americans to relinquish millions of acres of land in what is now the Midwestern U.S. Because the United States had reserved this land to the Native Americans in the Treaty of Greeneville, some Native Americans refused to forsake their claims. Chief among these people were the Shawnee, led by Tecumseh and the Prophet, Tecumseh's brother. These two men worked to form a confederation of all Native American tribes west of the Appalachian Mountains. Harrison marched against Tecumseh in late 1811. While Tecumseh was away seeking additional followers, Harrison attacked the Shawnees' major village, Prophetstown. On November 7, 1811, at the Battle of Tippecanoe, the U.S. army destroyed the village and hindered the success of the native alliance. During the War of 1812, Harrison rose to the rank of brigadier-general and commanded the Army of the Northwest. In October 1813 the Army of the Northwest fought a joint British and Native American force led by General Henry Proctor and Tecumseh in the Battle of the Thames. The British ran from the battlefield, leaving the Native Americans to fight on alone. The Americans defeated the Native Americans, killing Tecumseh. Following the War of 1812, Harrison returned to politics. He made his home at North Bend, just west of Cincinnati, Ohio. He represented Ohio in the U.S. Congress for two terms and also was U.S. ambassador to Colombia. In 1836 he ran as a Whig Party candidate for the presidency of the United States but lost to Martin Van Buren. With John Tyler as his running mate during the 1840 presidential campaign, Harrison emphasized his military record against Tecumseh and the British in the War of 1812. His famous campaign slogan was "Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too." The American voters elected Harrison with the wide margin of victory of 234 electoral-college votes for Harrison to Van Buren's sixty. The sixty-eight-year-old Harrison took office in 1841. He served the shortest time in office of any man elected to the presidency. He died of pneumonia on April 4, 1841, one month after taking office. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS4980_B58
Subjects: Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841; Broadsides--1800-1890; Political campaigns; Presidential campaigns; Propaganda; Presidents; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics
 

Description: This drawing titled 'Soldier's Memorial, Spanish-American War of 1898' lists members of Company A of the 4th Regiment of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The list of soldiers is divided into three panels: a center panel lists officers and field staff, flanked by two panels listing the privates. A small box at the bottom of the drawing reads "Mustered into the United States Service at Columbus, O., May 9, 1898." The panels are surrounded by drawings of military scenes or the life of a soldier, with a battle scene featured below. In the bottom two corners are two portraits of young men inserted into the drawing, probably young men who were mustered in for the Spanish-American War. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS5494
Subjects: Spanish American War; War memorials; Drawings (visual works); Military Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)