Description: Orange chiffon dress worn by Jacquelyn Mayer of Sandusky, Ohio, for the talent competition in the 1962 Miss America pageant. The dress features three thin straps on each shoulder with gathered fabric at the bodice, and is part of the Ohio Historical Society museum collections. Mayer went on to be crowned Miss America in that year's competition. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07141
Subjects: Dresses; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Miss America Pageant; Women--Ohio--History; Women--Ohio; Clothing & dress
Places: Sandusky (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: Roxie Chambers and members of the Buckeye Women's Republican Glee Club, ca. 1940-1950. A singer and director of the South Methodist Church choir in Columbus, Chambers also directed the Buckeye Women's Republican Glee Club. Attending all the G.O.P. national conventions between 1932 and 1954, Chambers later became Republican State Central Committeewoman. When Chambers died in 1954, her pallbearers included Chalmers Wylie, James Rhodes, and other Republican dignitaries. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06310
Subjects: Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Women--Ohio--History; Women in the performing arts; Women--Societies and clubs--Ohio; Older women
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing Judge Thompson and his wife, Eliza Jane Trimble "Mother" Thompson. Eliza (1815-1905) was the only daughter of Allen Trimble (1783-1870), Ohio's eighth and tenth governor. She was a national and local leader of the Temperance movement from Hillsboro, Ohio. She married James H. Thompson in 1837, and together they were the parents of eight children. The photograph was taken in one of the room's in Governor Trimble's home in Hillsboro. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC3875_001
Subjects: Women--Ohio--History; Women social reformers - Ohio; Temperance--History;
Places: Hillsboro (Ohio); Highland County (Ohio);
 

Description: Dated 1950-1959, this photograph shows notorious Ohio Reformatory for Women inmate Velma West, who was serving a life sentence for beating her husband to death with a hammer for refusing to take her to a bridge game. She and another inmate escaped the Reformatory in 1939, but were captured and returned to the prison. In 1911, the Ohio General Assembly authorized the establishment of a separate women’s penal institution. On September 1, 1916, the Ohio Reformatory for Women opened in Marysville, Ohio, with a population of 34 inmates. When Marguerite Reilley was appointed superintendent of the Reformatory in 1935, she found dirty and unkempt inmates with excessively restricted living habits. She instituted the “human being” program which provided recreation, entertainment, jobs, and vocational training for the inmates. State Archived Series 1679 AV consists of 234 photographs which illustrate daily life in the Ohio Reformatory for Women, as well as photographs of the buildings and grounds, superintendents Marguerite Reilley and Martha Wheeler. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00177
Subjects: Correctional institutions--Ohio; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections
Places: Marysville (Ohio); Union County (Ohio)
 

Description: Mrs. Samuel S. Crocker was an Underground Railroad worker in Fitchburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts. This cabinet card is from J.C. Moulton at 368 Main Street, Fitchburg, Massachusetts. The image was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03070
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Massachusetts; Women; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights
Places: Fitchburg (Massachusetts); Worcester County (Massachusetts)
 

Description: Members of the Gym Daisies at Cedar Point, Columbus, ca. 1915. The Gym Daisies was a club of 30 Columbus working girls who named their club for their interest in gymnasiums and physical exercise. Club members took annual trips to Cedar Point, Vermilion and other destinations along the coast of Lake Erie. Headquartered at the Godman Guild in Columbus, the club's colors were red and black. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06305
Subjects: Beaches; Women--Ohio--History; Women--Societies and clubs--Ohio; Clothing & dress; Photography--Ohio;
Places: Cedar Point (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Margaret Grey-Eyes "Mother" Solomon, last Wyandot Indian, ca. 1880. Her family lived on the Grand Reserve, the twelve-by-nineteen square mile reservation in what is now known as Wyandot County. She attended the first school on the reservation, established by missionary John Stewart. In July 1843, she, her first husband David Young and their children, were among the tribe members relocated to Kansas City, Kansas. She and her second husband, John Solomon, returned to live in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, around 1865. Margaret's work in the Wyandot community earned her the nickname "Mother Solomon." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03678
Subjects: Wyandot Indians--History; Women--Ohio; Multicultural Ohio--Ethnic Communities; American Indian history and society;
 

Description: In this photograph, Polly Jackson, a conductor on the Underground Railroad, is seated on a chair in front of steps leading to a building. She wears a patterned blouse and a long calico skirt. Her arms are folded. Jackson was a key figure in the Underground Railroad movement, and her name is listed on a local monument dedicated to her and others who risked their lives to help free the enslaved. During the 19th century, the migration of fugitives from the Deep and Upper South to the North accelerated. Many, like Polly Jackson, traveled to Ohio. It was difficult for women to defend themselves against male pursuers, and this sometimes discouraged them from running away. However, women driven to the end of their limits would flee and defend themselves in any manner that they could. According to legend, as a fugitive herself, Jackson fought off bounty hunters with a butcher knife and Kettle of boiling water. Jackson joined a community of free blacks in the settlement of Africa, Ohio, that was established near Ripley. Many of the local black residents served as conductors on the Underground Railroad. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05880
Subjects: African American women; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Underground Railroad--Ohio; Women abolitionists - Ohio;
Places: Ripley (Ohio); Brown County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated 1920, this photograph shows women holding signs supporting Warren G. Harding for president at a campaign rally near the Harding home in Marion, Ohio. This photograph is part of a photograph album in the Warren G. Harding Photograph Collection (P146). Warren G. Harding, the 29th President of the United States (1921-1923), was born in Blooming Grove, Ohio, in 1865. At age 14, Harding attended Ohio Central College in Iberia, Ohio, where he edited the campus newspaper and became an accomplished public speaker. He married Florence Kling de Wolfe in 1891, and embarked on his political career in 1900 by winning a seat in the Ohio legislature. After serving two terms as an Ohio Senator, Harding served as Lieutenant Governor in 1904 for two years before returning to the newspaper business. Although he lost the 1910 gubernatorial race, Harding was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1914. Political insider Harry Daugherty promoted Harding for the Republican presidential nomination in 1920. His front porch campaign was centered on speeches given from his home in Marion, Ohio, pledging to return the country to “normalcy” in this post World War I era. Harding easily won the election, gaining 61 percent of the popular vote. On August 2, 1923, Harding unexpectedly died from a massive heart attack while touring the western United States, and is entombed in the Marion Cemetery. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P146_B20P03_001
Subjects: Ohio women; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Presidential campaigns; Campaign paraphernalia; Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923
Places: Marion (Ohio); Marion County (Ohio)
 

Description: Mary Ellen Richards and Velma West, who escaped from the Ohio Reformatory for Women, with Mark Murphy a reporter from the Columbus Citizen-Journal, July 27, 1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00111
Subjects: Ohio Reformatory for Women; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections
Places: Marysville (Ohio); Union County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated 1920, this photograph shows Florence Kling Harding, wife of Warren G. Harding, smiling and standing outside. This photograph is part of the Warren G. Harding Photograph Collection. Warren G. Harding, the 29th President of the United States from 1921-1923, was born near Marion, Ohio, in 1865. At age 14, Harding attended Ohio Central College, where he edited the campus newspaper and became an accomplished public speaker. He married Florence Kling de Wolfe in 1891, and embarked on his political career in 1898 by winning a seat in the Ohio legislature for two terms. Harding became Lieutenant Governor in 1903 for two years before returning to the newspaper business. While unsuccessful in a run for Governor in 1910, Harding won election to the U.S. Senate in 1914. Political insider Harry Daugherty began promoting Harding for the Republican presidential nomination in 1920. His campaign, known as “The Front Porch Campaign,” was centered on low-key speeches given from his home in Marion, Ohio, pledging to return the country to “normalcy.” Harding easily won the election, gaining 61 percent of the popular vote. On August 2, 1923, Harding died from a massive heart attack and is entombed in the Marion Cemetery. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P146_B20_P02_02
Subjects: Presidential campaigns; Harding, Florence Kling, 1860-1924; First ladies (United States); Ohio women; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics
Places: Marion (Ohio); Marion County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption: "W.P.A. Physical Education Class. Toledo, Ohio." The WPA health projects in Toledo included preventative care for the unemployed and tuberculosis and diphtheria immunizations, as well as the construction of health clinics, municipal pools, recreational parks, and school gymnasiums. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F12_008_001
Subjects: Physical education and training--Ohio; Gymnasiums; Sports and recreation facilities; Exercise for women; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Toledo (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)