Description: Dated 1860-1875, this black and white print titled 'Battle of Lake Erie; Commodore Perry's Victory' shows Oliver H. Perry and the Battle of Lake Erie. The Battle of Lake Erie took place on September 10, 1813, and Admiral Oliver Hazard Perry led the American fleet. Perry lost his flagship, the Lawrence, but continued the battle on the Niagara River. Commander Robert Heriot Barclay's surrender ended British control of the Great Lakes and allowed Perry to transport General William Henry Harrison's troops across Lake Erie to Canada. The War of 1812 ended in the northwest with the defeat of the British and American Indian troops at the Battle of the Thames. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H27019
Subjects: Prints and printmaking; War of 1812; Battle of Lake Erie; Perry, Oliver Hazard, 1785-1819; Lake Erie; U.S. Navy
Places: Lake Erie
 

Description: Dated ca. 1813, this print titled 'Perry at the Battle of Lake Erie' shows a rowboat rowed by four men with a man and boy standing at the bow. In the background are several large ships. The text beneath the image on the lower right side reads "M. W. Baldwin" and the text on the left reads "J. E. Kelly." The Battle of Lake Erie took place on September 10, 1813, and Admiral Oliver Hazard Perry led the American fleet. Perry lost his flagship, the Lawrence, but continued the battle on the Niagara River. Commander Robert Heriot Barclay's surrender ended British control of the Great Lakes and allowed Perry to transport General William Henry Harrison's troops across Lake Erie to Canada. The War of 1812 ended in the northwest with the defeat of the British and American Indian troops at the Battle of the Thames. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H97834
Subjects: War of 1812; Prints and printmaking; Battle of Lake Erie; Ships; U.S. Navy
Places: Lake Erie
 

Description: Perry's Victory, painted by William Henry Powell of Cincinnati in 1865, illustrates Oliver Hazard Perry's decisive victory over the British fleet in the Battle of Lake Erie (Sept. 10, 1813). This victory ensured American control of the Great Lakes. The painting is currently hanging in the rotunda of the Ohio Statehouse. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00195
Subjects: Battle of Lake Erie; Ohio History--Military Ohio
Places: Lake Erie
 

Description: Gibraltar Island, known as "Gem of Lake Erie", is a 6.5 acre Ohio island located on Lake Erie. It is part of Put-in-Bay Township, Ottawa County, Ohio, but was owned by the state of Connecticut until 1807. The island was and observation site for Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry's naval forces during the Battle of Lake Erie in September 1813. In 1864 Jay Cooke, a Sandusky, Ohio native, bought the island and built a Victorian-Gothic mansion (now known as Cooke Castle). Julius Stone, a Trustee of The Ohio State University, purchased the island from Cooke's family and presented it to the Ohio State University in 1925. It became a home to Stone Laboratory - the oldest freshwater biological field station in the United States. The Jay Cooke Castle, built in 1865, is a National Historic Landmark. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07514
Subjects: Lake Erie Islands (Ohio); Erie, Lake, Coast (Ohio); Battle of Lake Erie; Great Lakes (North America); History of the Ohio State University; National Register of Historic Places
Places: Ottawa County (Ohio)