Description: A group of male and female students gathered on the campus of Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio, July 1908. The image is a photographic postcard that was mailed by a student pictured in the group to his mother. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00915
Subjects: Ohio Northern University; Cultural Ohio--Education
Places: Ada (Ohio); Hardin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Students at Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio in chemistry class, February 1909. The image is a photographic postcard that was mailed by a student pictured in the class to his Miss Helen Gray of New Philadelphia, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00916
Subjects: Ohio Northern University; Cultural Ohio--Education
Places: Ada (Ohio); Hardin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Students at Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio pulling a class prank, May 1909. The image is a photographic postcard. The message on the back explains that the members of the junior class were holding members of the senior class in the wooden cage. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00917
Subjects: Ohio Northern University; Cultural Ohio--Education
Places: Ada (Ohio); Hardin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Tracks leading to the Passenger Depot in Ada, Ohio. The Ada, Ohio station was built in 1887 by the Pennsylvania Railroad. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. The structure is wooden on a stone foundation with an asphalt roof. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06856
Subjects: Hardin County (Ohio); Railroad stations Ohio
Places: Ada (Ohio); Hardin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Students who were members of the first class in agriculture at Ohio Northern University, Ada, Ohio, ca. 1908. In 1871, Henry Solomon Lehr established Ohio Northern University in Ada as the Northwestern Ohio Normal School. Originally, the school was to just train teachers, but it soon began offering other majors designed to meet the needs of its students. To reflect this expanded curriculum, the school was renamed the Ohio Normal University in 1885. From its beginnings, the institution was coeducational. In 1903, Ohio Normal University became Ohio Northern University. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01109
Subjects: Agricultural education; Cultural Ohio--Education; Ohio Northern University
Places: Ada (Ohio); Hardin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Carte de visite portrait of actress Ada Isaacs Menken, ca. 1860-1868. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03506
Subjects: Actresses; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women
Places: New York (New York)
 

Description: Photograph of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Young and his wife Ada Young with unidentified people. Charles Young was the first African American to reach the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army and, at the time of his death in 1922, was the highest-ranking African American officer in the Army. He is known for having been forced into retirement due to health concerns before the start of World War I and later riding from Wilberforce, Ohio, to Washington, D.C. to prove his physical fitness for duty. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS2_B04F05_J
Subjects: African American soldiers; African American men; Military officers; World War I, 1914-1918; Young, Charles, 1864-1922.
 

Description: This is a photograph of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Young's wife, Ada Young, with two unidentified women. Charles Young was the first African American to reach the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army and, at the time of his death in 1922, was the highest-ranking African American officer in the Army. He is known for having been forced into retirement due to health concerns before the start of World War I and later riding from Wilberforce, Ohio, to Washington, D.C. to prove his physical fitness for duty. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS2_B04F05_G
Subjects: African American women; Young, Charles, 1864-1922.; Military officers; World War I, 1914-1918; African American soldiers
 

Description: Photograph of pianist Hazel Harrison signed and addressed to Ada Young, wife of Charles Young. Inscription reads: "To dear Mrs Young with my best wishes. Sincerely, Hazel Harrison, Dec. 18, 1924." Charles Young was the first African American to reach the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army and, at the time of his death in 1922, was the highest-ranking African American officer in the Army. He is known for having been forced into retirement due to health concerns before the start of World War I and later riding from Wilberforce, Ohio, to Washington, D.C. to prove his physical fitness for duty. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS3_B02F082
Subjects: African American women; Artists; Music; Musicians; Military officers; World War I, 1914-1918; Young, Charles, 1864-1922.
 

Description: Photographs of Ada Young, wife of Colonel Charles Young, standing in front of the Youngs' home in Wilberforce, Ohio. Charles Young was the first African American to reach the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army and, at the time of his death in 1922, was the highest-ranking African American officer in the Army. He is known for having been forced into retirement due to health concerns before the start of World War I and later riding from Wilberforce, Ohio, to Washington, D.C. to prove his physical fitness for duty. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS3_B02F71_09
Subjects: African American soldiers; African American men; African American women; Military officers; Young, Charles, 1864-1922.
Places: Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Ada Young, wife of Charles Young, taken by Fernand de Gueldre in Chicago, Illinois. Charles Young was the first African American to reach the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army and, at the time of his death in 1922, was the highest-ranking African American officer in the Army. He is known for having been forced into retirement due to health concerns before the start of World War I and later riding from Wilberforce, Ohio, to Washington, D.C. to prove his physical fitness for duty. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS2_B06F25
Subjects: African American women; Young, Charles, 1864-1922.
Places: Chicago (Illinois)
 

Description: Group portrait of the 1909 class of East High School in Columbus, Ohio. Students are gathered on the front steps of the school building. Each student and teacher pictured is numbered and the photograph is accompanied by a key identifying them by name. East High School (which was also called Franklin Junior High School for a time) was constructed at 1390 Bryden Road in 1889. As enrollment continued to grow, East High was eventually replaced by the new East High School located on East Broad Street. The original building was later demolished. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS7309_1
Subjects: Education--Ohio; School buildings; School photography; Students--Ohio;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)