Description: "Johnnie Clem, Drummer Boy of Shiloh," from "Howe's Historical Collections of Ohio" by Henry Howe, 1907. Johnny Clem, born John Joseph Klem, was a soldier in the service of the United States for most of his life. He was born on August 13, 1851, in Newark, Ohio. Some accounts claim that Clem first had been permitted to join the Twenty-Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Other sources claim that Clem joined the Twenty-Second Michigan Infantry Regiment when it marched through Newark. Since Johnny Clem was too young to join the army officially, officers of the Twenty-Second Michigan contributed money to pay him a monthly wage. Soldiers provided him with a gun and uniform and trained him to be a drummer boy. Clem was finally allowed to enlist in the United States Army in May 1863, when he was only twelve. In the meantime, Clem had already participated in numerous battles and had become quite famous. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04226
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Children--Ohio; Soldiers--Ohio
Places: Newark (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio)
 

Description: St. Joseph's School, Wapakoneta, Ohio, ca. 1900. According to the caption at the bottom of the photo, the school was dedicated June 10, 1900. The school is Richardsonian Romanesque in style, with Queen Anne turrets. It was likely designed by the architectural firm Yost & Packard because it closely resembles the firm's 1896 design for Emerson School (Westerville High School) in Westerville, Ohio. St. Joseph's School and St. Joseph's Church were placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05898
Subjects: Wapakoneta (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works; Church buildings--Ohio; Architecture--Ohio; National Register of Historic Places; Cultural Ohio--Education
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: Sign near Bucyrus, Ohio, that reads: "Bucyrus, Ohio. Population 12,000 Located on the Pennsylvania RY. and N.Y. Central RY. Two Interurbans, Three Steamlines and Lincoln Highway. You are invited to locate in Bucyrus, Good Factory Sites. Chamber of Commerce." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07269
Subjects: Crawford County (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development
Places: Bucyrus (Ohio); Crawford County (Ohio)
 

Description: This 1882 photograph shows a work crew posing at a bridge in Lowell, Ohio, across the Muskingum River. The crew rebuilt the covered bridge, which had been damaged in a recent windstorm. Constructed by a Marietta firm called Hall, Becker and Bailey, the bridge was eventually washed out by floodwaters two years later. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P259_B01F01_001
Subjects: Covered bridges--Ohio; Muskingum River (Ohio); Laborers; Transportation--Ohio--History;
Places: Lowell (Ohio); Washington County (Ohio);
 

Description: Photograph showing a neighborhood street strewn with debris in Zanesville, Ohio, following the flood of 1913. In late March 1913, an unusually heavy rainstorm moved into Ohio. It rained steadily for five days and the water levels rose rapidly. By the third day of the downpour, levees were overtopped and many towns suffered disastrous flooding. When the flood waters receded, tons of mud and debris covered the streets, homes, businesses and factories of towns like Zanesville, where the Muskingum River had crested 27 feet above flood stage and water was 20 feet deep at several downtown intersections. The death toll for the disaster stood at 361, and property damages were well over $100,000,000 and 65,000 were forced to temporarily leave their homes. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P28_B05_F07_4
Subjects: Climate and Weather; Floods--Ohio; Natural disasters; Zanesville (Ohio)
Places: Zanesville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image depicts the original sign marking the construction site of the Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. The Center is named after Dudley S. Blossom, who served as president of the Cleveland Orchestra from 1936 to 1938. The Blossom Music Center opened in 1968, and serves as the summer home of the Cleveland Orchestra. Over the years it has earned a reputation as a popular venue for performers across musical genres. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA2002AV_B01_00002_27
Subjects: Music; Musicians--United States--Pictorial works; Concerts; Construction
Places: Cuyahoga Falls (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio);
 

Description: Two women gaze through the windows of Diamond Gallery, a local jewelry store at 99 S. High Street in downtown Columbus, Ohio. In addition to necklaces and watches, the store also sells such keepsake mementos as clocks, plates, and cups. The reflections of several cars can be seen in the store windows. The High Street Photograph Collection is comprised of over 400 photographs of High Street in Columbus, Ohio, taken in the early 1970s. These photographs were taken primarily at street level and document people and the built environment from the Pontifical College Josephinum on North High Street in Worthington through Clintonville, the University District and Short North, Downtown and South Columbus. The photographs were used in a television photo documentary that aired on WOSU called "High Street." Photographers that were involved in this project were Alfred Clarke, Carol Hibbs Kight, Darrell Muething, Clayton K. Lowe, and Julius Foris, Jr. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV254_B05F122_01
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Street photography; Downtowns; Stores and shops
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Five women are pictured seated with drinks on the steps of the Ohio Statehouse in downtown Columbus, Ohio. The High Street Photograph Collection is comprised of over 400 photographs of High Street in Columbus, Ohio, taken in the early 1970s. These photographs were taken primarily at street level and document people and the built environment from the Pontifical College Josephinum on North High Street in Worthington through Clintonville, the University District and Short North, Downtown and South Columbus. The photographs were used in a television photo documentary that aired on WOSU called "High Street." Photographers that were involved in this project were Alfred Clarke, Carol Hibbs Kight, Darrell Muething, Clayton K. Lowe, and Julius Foris, Jr. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV254_B06F143_01
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Street photography; Downtowns; Ohio Statehouse (Columbus, Ohio); Young women
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Taken in 1971 by U.S. Army medic Charles Tweel during the Vietnam War, this photograph shows a bushy plant with pink flowers, with what appears to be a plant with spiky fronds growing through the bush's branches. This photograph is part of the Charles Tweel Collection (AV 324) at the Ohio History Connection. Charles Tweel grew up in Columbus, Ohio, and attended The Ohio State University. After graduation in 1968, he enlisted in the U.S. Army as a non-combatant, first training as a medic at Fort Sam Huston, followed by nine months of additional training at Valley Forge General Hospital in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. He finished his training as a Specialist 3 and 91C, MOS, and went on to serve in Bamberg, Germany, with combat engineers for one year. In January 1971, Tweel served in Vietnam with the Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion (Air Mobile), 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, based out of Camp Evans near Phu Bai, north of Hue, until December of that year. Tweel spent most of his service on various firebases as the medic in charge, and occasionally shared firebases with South Vietnamese soldiers. He also visited MedCAP stations (Medical Civic Action Programs) where he treated civilians. Tweel received the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious achievement, and was promoted to Specialist 5 in 1971. After discharge from the Army, he went to medical school and was in private practice as a family practitioner from 1979-2016, and now works part-time in inner city medical clinics in Columbus, Ohio, and Charleston, South Carolina. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV324_B01F09_007
Subjects: Vietnam War (1961-1975); United States. Army. Airborne Division, 101st; Flowers
Places: Vietnam
 

Description: Photograph from the Columbus Citizen-Journal Collection showing a patriotic parade down High Street in Columbus, Ohio. A military band and men in uniform walk down the street past a crowd of onlookers. Businesses seen along the street include Morehouse Fashion, Foerster's Restaurant, Woolworth's, the Trautman Building, Baker's Shoes and more. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P339_B03F02_01_01
Subjects: Parades & processions; Military Ohio; Bands; Downtowns; Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Robert Seldon Duncanson (1821-1872) painted this work in 1845, early in his career. It was Duncanson's first romantic landscape, a genre for which he would later become well known. It measures 19 by 28 inches (48.26 by 71.12 cm). The painting's alternate title is Light and Shade. Robert S. Duncanson (1821-1871) was born to free black parents in upstate New York. The Duncanson family moved to Canada for a time, but Robert Duncanson came to Cincinnati at the age of 19 and began to exhibit his artwork. Cincinnati was becoming a major western outpost for landscape painting, and in 1861 the Cincinnati Gazette declared Duncanson "the best landscape painter in the west." This was remarkable praise considering the racial attitudes of the time. Duncanson's still-lifes and landscapes earned him generous patronage from many prominent Cincinnatians, including Nicholas Longworth, who commissioned a series of twelve panels for his mansion. Duncanson also received much support from Cincinnati's abolitionists. In 1853, Duncanson traveled to Europe with William Sontag, another Cincinnati artist; the Anti-Slavery League sponsored the trip. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1437_1500368_001
Subjects: Arts and Entertainment; African American Ohioans; Duncanson, Robert S., 1821-1872; Artists
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: The present Union County Courthouse was designed in 1883 and is identical to the Henry County Courthouse. The building is positioned in the middle of a large square, and is made of brick and cut stone with galvanized iron trimmings. The tower bells play tunes like "America the Beautiful" every hour. It is Second Empire style. This image shows an interior staircase. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F06_477
Subjects: Courthouses--Ohio; mansard roofs; towers (building divisions); porticoes; pediments; pilasters; clock towers; Second Empire
Places: Marysville (Ohio); Union County (Ohio); 5th and Court Streets