Description: Everett Koon, of Marion County, was electrocuted February 15, 1929, for the Murder of Henry Foos at Marion, Ohio. He was a white male, twenty-nine and his occupation was listed as a paroled convict. He seemed to lead a life of crime, once killing a man after robbing him of 55 cents. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08192
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Prisons--Ohio; Death row; Capital punishment--Ohio; Portrait photography
 

Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the route of the Ohio and Erie Canal through Summit County, between stations 1237 and 1388. The Cuyahoga River, Furnace Creek, and a portion of the community of Everett are shown, and properties, bridges, railroads, stations, locks, and other landmarks along the route are also noted. The map was created under the direction of the members of the Canal Commission of the state of Ohio and approved by the Chief Engineer of the Department of Public Works (variously referred to as the Board of Public Works and the Division of Public Works). The Ohio and Erie Canal was constructed between 1825 and 1832, eventually connecting Cleveland and Lake Erie with Portsmouth and the Ohio River. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: BV4907_010
Subjects: Ohio and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio; Rivers--Ohio; Bridges--Ohio
Places: Everett (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: In 1885, the Ohio Penitentiary became the site of all executions for prisoners on death row; formerly, executions had taken place in the county where the crime was committed. In 1896, the Ohio General Assembly mandated that electrocution replace hanging as the state’s only form of capital punishment. Altogether there were 315 people who were electrocuted at the Ohio Penitentiary, their deaths occurring between 1897 and 1963. This photograph shows 33-year-old Everett Jones, the 206th prisoner in Ohio to be executed in this manner. Jones’s portrait was displayed in the east annex of the Ohio Penitentiary along with hundreds of other photographs of prisoners who were executed by the state of Ohio. These were housed in the same area of the penitentiary as death row and the execution chamber itself. The caption at the bottom of this photograph reads: “No. 206, Everett Jones of Fayette County, Electrocuted March 25th, 1938 for the Murder of Robert Lindsey at Washington C. H., Ohio.” View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08260
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections; Capital punishment--Ohio--History; Electrocution; Death row; Ohio Penitentiary (Columbus, Ohio); Portrait photography
Places: Fayette County (Ohio); Washington Court House (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Columbus (Ohio)
 

Description: Carte de visite of General Ambrose Everett Burnside, who served in the Union Army during the Civil War. A very well-liked general, he was nevertheless roundly criticized for his handling of troops in battle. He is particularly known for his sloth in assaulting what is now known as Burnside's Bridge at Antietam, which may have resulted in a stalemate rather than a potential Union victory. Burnside also fought at Bull Run, South Mountain, Fredericksburg, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Courthouse, Cold Harbor, and the Crater. He lends a reversed form of his name to his distinctive facial hair, "side burns" View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV200_b03_f33_41
Subjects: Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Photographs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military officers--Union
Places: Ohio; Liberty (Indiana)
 

Description: This photograph shows the Municipal Building in Akron, Ohio. The reverse of the photograph documents that this building is the former Academy of Music at the northeast corner of Main and Market Streets in Akron. When the building was photographed in 1937, the building had since been completely remodeled and was then used as an office building. The building opened originally on June 12, 1871, was destroyed in a fire on July 18, 1897, and was rebuilt as an office building by S.T. Everett. It housed several different businesses, including the Cleveland Insurance Company, Charley's Metropolitan Dining Hall, and is presently occupied by Huntington Bank. This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F05_17_001
Subjects: Historic buildings--Ohio--Akron--Pictorial works; Insurance companies--Ohio; Works Progress Administration; Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit (Ohio)