Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the Miami and Erie Canal through Lucas County, between stations 315 and 421. Also pictured is the Maumee City Side-cut Canal between stations 29 and 90. Properties, railroads, stations, locks, and other landmarks along the route are 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). Construction on the Miami and Erie Canal took place between 1825 and 1845, and the finished route connected Cincinnati and Toledo, as well as the Ohio River with Lake Erie. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: BV4923_003
Subjects: Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio;
Places: Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Ohio Governor James Rhodes with then-California Governor Ronald Reagan at the Cincinnati Convention Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 1967. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03593
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government; Rhodes, James A. (James Allen), 1909-2001; Governors--Ohio; Reagan, Ronald
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows a three-quarter front view of a white cotton textured pattern dress dated ca. 1810. The dress is embroidered all over, with two tucks in skirt and a puffy ruffle, with scalloped eyelet added, and a bodice with lace insets. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05031
Subjects: Dresses; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Clothing and dress
 

Description: Born in Sandusky, Ohio, Jay Cooke (1821-1905) was the son of Congressman Eleutheros Cooke. Cooke entered the E.W. Clarke banking house at the age of eighteen. He formed the Jay Cooke and Company banking house in Philadelphia soon after the Civil War began in 1861 and began working to raise money for the war effort. Cooke developed a system in which bonds could be redeemed in between five and 20 years and investors could buy bonds in low denominations or through installment plans. By the end of the war in 1865, Cooke had made it possible for three million people to buy in excess of a billion dollars in bonds. Cooke's strategies were used in subsequent wars as well. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04229
Subjects: Sandusky (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Economy--Finance; Banks and banking
Places: Sandusky (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: This drawing by Lt. Henry O. Dwight depicts the confrontation between his unit, the 20th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and the veteran 7th Texas Infantry Regiment on May 12, 1863, during the Battle of Raymond (Mississippi). Dwight, an amateur artist, titled his drawing "A Question of Right of Way - 20th Ohio VS. 7th Texas." In the foreground, Ohio soldiers lie on the ground in a row, firing at the Texans, who are barely visible behind a curtain of smoke, trees, and brush. The body of one casualty from the Ohio unit lays face down (lower right foreground). Two men from the 20th each have taken cover behind a tree. The figure that commands the viewer's attention, however, is that of the Ohio officer who calmly refills his meerschaum pipe while standing in clear view of the enemy. Dwight later wrote a compelling account of the battle that was published in the "New York Semi-Weekly Tribune" on November 19, 1886. In this article he recalls the episode of the pipe-smoking officer: "All this time we were hanging on to the bank of the brook with those fellows pouring gun smoke in our faces and we answering back so fast that the worst game of football is nothing to the fatigue of it. As for the noise of that discussion between the 20th Ohio and the 7th Texas, a clap of thunder is nowhere. It was more like a sheet of thunder, a wicked roar with no separation between the bolts, and all the time the Johnnies made it hot for us in flank and rear as well as in front. "The Johnnies seemed rather to like it. We could see them tumble over pretty often, but those who were left didn't mid it. One officer, not more than thirty feet from where I stood quietly loaded up an old meerschaum [pipe] and lit a match. His pistol was hanging from his wrist. When he got his pipe agoing, he got hold of his pistol and went on popping away at us as leisurely as if he had been shooting rats." The Battle of Raymond was one episode in the Vicksburg Campaign, whose success was a major victory for the Army of the Tennessee, commanded by Maj. General Ulysses S. Grant. The Union Army thus gained control of the Mississippi River, and the Confederacy was split in two. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06950
Subjects: Drawings (visual works); Civil War 1861-1865; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works; Dwight, Henry Otis, 1843-1917; United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 20th (1861-1865); Battlefields
Places: Raymond (Mississippi)
 

Description: Pvt. Michael John Petrucci (right) and Pvt. Charles Hanna (left), preparing to donate blood in Cherry Point, North Carolina, Summer 1952. Petrucci was born August 9, 1930, in Youngstown, Ohio, where he grew up and attended school. Petrucci enlisted in the Marine Corps in July of 1952, and began basic training at Cherry Point Marine Base in North Carolina in August 1953. He received orders for overseas duty in May 1953, but when the United States and North Korea ended hostilities in July 1953, his transfer to Korea was halted. Petrucci was eventually sent to Korea in September 1953 and stationed at the First Marine Aircraft Wing base in the town of Pohang Dong, where he served until July 1954. By September 1954, Petrucci had returned to civilian life in Youngstown, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07471
Subjects: Ohio History--Military Ohio; Military life; United States Marine Corps; Korean War (1950-1953)
Places: Cherry Point (North Carolina)
 

Description: Article from "The Waterways Journal" (September 8, 1962) in which Ignace McCurdy (nee Eisenbarth, daughter of E.E. and Julia Ann Eisenbarth) recounts her youth with her father's Eisenbarth-Henderson Floating Theatre. Ellsworth Eugene Eisenbarth was born October 22, 1864, in Ironton, Ohio. The family later moved to Wetzel County, West Virginia. By 1889, Eisenbarth was traveling the mid-Atlantic states in "The Oregon Indian Medicine Show," which featured such entertainment as real cowboys and “Indians.” He next bought a floating store, which he refitted as a showboat and christened "The Eisenbarth Wild West & Floating Opera." The endeavor lasted from 1891 to 1895. By the late 1890s, Eisenbarth and his wife Julia had founded "The Eisenbarth & Henderson Mammoth and Combined Uncle Tom’s Cabin Company," complete with calliope, band and orchestra, which also traveled throughout the middle states by rail. In February of 1900, E.E. and Julia converted a glass barge named the E.V. Poke No. 2 into "The Eisenbarth-Henderson Floating Theatre, Temple of Amusement." This showboat and its successor ("The Eisenbarth-Henderson Floating Theatre-The New Great Modern Temple of Amusement")were devoted to bringing Shakespearean plays and other dramas, such as “Human Hearts” to the waterways. Eisenbarth also worked with a traveling company of players, perhaps to remain off the rivers during the winter months. The Temple cleared more money than almost any other boat on the Ohio River, even though it only played four nights a week and never on Sunday. Julia Eisenbarth died sometime after, and E.E. remarried in 1908 to Jennie Salina Brown. In 1909, he presented his last show on a riverboat, “The Castle.” He sold The Temple showboat to the Needham-Steiner Amusement Company that year, and although he made bids on other boats, these proved unsuccessful and The Temple ended up being his last showboat. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Page1
Subjects: Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture; Showboats; Ohio River; Traveling shows; Theater--Ohio
Places: Ohio River; Marietta (Ohio); Washington County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing lumber and debris on Lee Street in Zanesville, Ohio, following the flood of 1913. Men are seen at work near the entrance to Brown's Grocery. 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_F08_3
Subjects: Climate and Weather; Floods--Ohio; Natural disasters; Zanesville (Ohio)
Places: Zanesville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image depicts the construction 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_01
Subjects: Musicians--United States--Pictorial works; Concerts; Construction;
Places: Cuyahoga Falls (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio);
 

Description: Pedestrians cross the street at a busy intersection at High and State Street in downtown Columbus, Ohio. A post office truck, COTA buses, and cars travel past local businesses on High Street, including banks, jewelry stores, and restaurants. 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_B04F071_01
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Street photography; Downtowns; Business--Ohio; Pedestrians
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Three older men are photographed in conversation 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_B06F147_01
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Street photography; Downtowns; Men; Conversation;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Taken in 1971 by U.S. Army medic Charles Tweel, this photograph shows the staging area. 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_B01F08_009
Subjects: Vietnam War (1961-1975); United States. Army. Airborne Division, 101st; Military encampments
Places: Vietnam