Description: A little boy holding on to a tricycle. Glass plate negatives of various Trumbull County and northeastern Ohio scenes, places, people and events taken by John E. Pickering and Edward D. Pickering from the 1880s to the 1910s. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08489
Subjects: Cultural Ohio; Photography--Ohio; Bicycles & tricycles
 

Description: A young boy poses for a photograph on an old-fashioned tricycle. He wears a flat cap and turtleneck with a suit jacket and short pants. Handwriting on the negative appears to include the last name Harrison and the location of "Gville," likely Grantsville, West Virginia. This photograph was taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912. Like most of Ewing's work, it was taken in the region of southeastern Ohio and central West Virginia. Born in 1870 in Washington County, Ohio, near Marietta, Ewing most likely began his photography career in the 1890s. The 1910 US Census and a 1912-1913 directory list him as a photographer. A negative signed "Ewing Brothers" and a picture with his younger brother, Frank, indicate that Frank may have joined the business. After 1916, directories list Albert as a salesman. He died in 1934. The Ewing Collection consists of 5,055 glass plate negatives, each individually housed and numbered. Additionally, the collection includes approximately 450 modern contact prints made from the glass plate negatives. Subjects include infants and young children, elderly people, families, school and religious groups, animals and rural scenes. In 1982, the Ohio Historical Society (now the Ohio History Connection) received the collection, still housed in the original dry plate negative boxes purchased by Ewing. A selection of the original glass plate negatives were exhibited for the first time in 2013 at the Ohio History Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV71_B27_F2520
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Photographers--Ohio; Portrait photography--United States--History; Children; Bicycles & tricycles
Places: Grantsville (West Virginia)
 

Description: Taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912, this photograph shows a girl in a white dress sitting on a tricycle. Like most of Ewing's work, it was likely taken in southeastern Ohio or central West Virginia. Born in 1870 in Washington County, Ohio, near Marietta, Ewing most likely began his photography career in the 1890s. The 1910 US Census and a 1912-1913 directory list him as a photographer. A negative signed "Ewing Brothers" and a picture with his younger brother, Frank, indicate that Frank may have joined the business. After 1916, directories list Albert as a salesman. He died in 1934. The Ewing Collection consists of 5,055 glass plate negatives, each individually housed and numbered. Additionally, the collection includes approximately 450 modern contact prints made from the glass plate negatives. Subjects include infants and young children, elderly people, families, school and religious groups, animals and rural scenes. In 1982, the Ohio Historical Society (now the Ohio History Connection) received the collection, still housed in the original dry plate negative boxes purchased by Albert J. Ewing. A selection of the original glass plate negatives were exhibited for the first time in 2013 at the Ohio Historical Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV71_b17_f1164
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States--History; Girls; Bicycles and tricycles
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: This photographic portrait of Henry Scott Minich, taken when he was four and a half years old (April 23, 1882) shows him posed on a tricycle in a photography studio. Henry was the son of Napoleon Jerome Alexander (N.J.A.) Minich. Born October 2, 1849, in Columbia, Pennsylvania, N. J. A. Minich worked for a series of newspapers in Columbia, Pennsylvania, Akron, Ohio, and Kent, Ohio. He founded the Akron Daily Argus and was the editor and proprietor of the Kent Saturday Bulletin. In 1909 and 1911, Minich was elected as mayor of Kent, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06355
Subjects: Children; Portrait photography--United States--History--19th century; Clothing & dress; Bicycles & tricycles