Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the Miami and Erie Canal through Putnam and Van Wert County, between stations 4600 and 4688. Roads, properties and other landmarks along the route are noted, including Jennings Creek. 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: BV23169_004
Subjects: Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio
Places: Van Wert County (Ohio)
 

Description: Hand-drawn portrait of Sally Towell Thompson (1805-1891), who kept an Underground Railroad station northwest of Salem in Washington County, Indiana, with her husband James. The image was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03014
Subjects: Siebert, Wilbur Henry, 1866-1961; Underground Railroad--Indiana; Thompson, Sally, 1805-1891; Thompson, James L., 1804-1886; Abolitionists--Indiana--History
Places: Salem (Indiana); Washington County (Indiana)
 

Description: Robert and George Hunt with Fan the horse, ca. 1870-1879. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03787
Subjects: Horses; Ohio Economy--Agriculture; Rural life; Farming
 

Description: Engraved portrait of Lyman R. Critchfield, Sr. (1831-1917), who served as Attorney General of Ohio from 1863 to 1865. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05248
Subjects: Ohio--Officials and employees; Ohio History--State and Local Government
Places: Millersburg (Ohio); Holmes County (Ohio)
 

Description: Illustration of the Battle of the Wilderness, May 6, 1864, published in 'The American Soldier in the Civil War' by Frank Leslie. The Battle of the Wilderness was the opening battle of Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign against the army of the Confederate States of America. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04587
Subjects: Battlefields; Artists; Civil War 1861-1865; Grant, Ulysses S., 1822-1885; Generals--United States
Places: Virginia
 

Description: This photograph shows the Monroe Street entrance to the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio. The original building, which opened in 1912, was designed in the Neoclassical (Classical Revival) architectural style by Edward B. Green and Harry W. Wachter. The photograph’s vantage point emphasizes the museum’s landscaped environment that includes trees, shrubs, and lawn. The Toledo Museum of Art underwent two expansions, in 1926 and in 1933. The museum's east and west wings, which are visible in this photograph, were added in 1933. The museum was founded in 1901 by two artists, an attorney, an architect, an industrialist, a realtor, and a journalist. In 1907, Edward Drummond Libbey (1854-1925) and his wife, Florence Scott Libbey, donated six acres of land on Monroe Street for the site of a new building. Libbey was the founder of the Libbey Glass Company and the Libbey-Owens Sheet Glass Company, both located in Toledo. Since 1912 the museum campus has grown substantially. It now comprises 36 acres with six buildings. Due to the benevolences of its founders and membership support, the museum remains a privately endowed, nonprofit institution. Admission is free and open to the public six days per week, 309 days per year. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06166
Subjects: Toledo Museum of Art; Architecture--Ohio; Toledo (Ohio); Neoclassicism (Architecture); Galleries and museums; Greek revival (Architecture); Libbey, Edward Drummond, 1854-1925
Places: Toledo (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Pasquale Biondo, of Summit County, was electrocuted October 4, 1918, for the Murder of Patrolman Edward J. Costigan. Biondo was allegedly part of an early mob led by Rosario Borgio in Akron, Ohio, which was associated with the shooting and killing of numerous patrolmen. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08103
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Capital punishment--Ohio; Summit County (Ohio)
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: Cyanotype portrait showing Ruth Weinman Herndon holding a doll. The little girl is wearing a long dress with a lace hem and yoke, dark shoes, and a necklace. She is seated on an armchair and is holding a doll with both hands. Born September 6, 1907, Ruth was the daughter of Henrietta Heinmiller Weinman (1869-1957) and William Nelson Weinman (1868-1950), owner of the Weinman Pump Manufacturing Company. The Weinman family was a prominent German-American family in Columbus throughout the 20th century. Ruth Weinman (1907-2002) lived with her parents at 380 King Avenue in Columbus until 1914, when her parents hired Columbus architect Frank Packard to build a home at 1445 Roxbury Road in Marble Cliff. After graduating from Columbus School for Girls in 1925, Ruth studied sociology at Ohio State University, graduating in 1929. She married L. Kermit Herndon. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1344AV_B02F01
Subjects: Children--Ohio; Families--Ohio; Children's clothing; Women--Ohio; Portraits; Herndon, L. K. (Lyle Kermit)
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Miss Celia Vandegriff, Principal of Clinton Elementary School from 1915 until 1937. This image was included in a "Memory Book" compiled by Mrs. H. V. Cottrell, historian for the Clinton League (sometimes called the Clinton Welfare League) from 1938-1943. The book shows the development of the Clintonville neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio, and records the history of the League. The Clinton League was a women's group founded in 1912 to promote child welfare and later general welfare in Columbus, but which was based in and primarily focused on the area of Clintonville. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P285_MB1_169
Subjects: Clintonville (Ohio); Clinton League; Women--Charities; School buildings; Education--Ohio; Educators
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: A young man in a flat-brimmed hat poses for a portrait, outside of the University Shop for Women near the intersection of 15th Avenue and North High Street in the University District of Columbus, Ohio. The University District includes the small neighborhoods to the east and south of The Ohio State University campus on either side of the High Street corridor. 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_B11F281_01
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Street photography; University District (Columbus, Ohio); Portrait photography;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows the front entrance of the Lorain County Courthouse. Construction on this Renaissance Revival building was completed in 1881. It is made of Amherst sandstone and is identical to the courthouse in Marion, Indiana, which was built at the same time. The central dome of the courthouse was removed in 1943. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F04_283
Subjects: Courthouses--Ohio; National Register of Historic Places; pilasters; balustrades; pediments; bays (building divisions); porticoes; pavilions (building divisions); cornices; Renaissance Revival
Places: Elyria (Ohio); Lorain County (Ohio); 308 2nd St.
 

Description: Carte de visite of 2nd Lt. Benjamin F. Bragg, who served with Companies A & B of the 36th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Company A was recruited from Lowell, Washington County, Ohio, and Company B was recruited from Athens and Gallia Counties, Ohio. Taken by John Brown, of Wheeling, West Virginia. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV200_b03_f13_03_02
Subjects: Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Photographs; United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 36th (1861-1865) Company A; United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 36th (1861-1865) Company B
Places: Lowell (Ohio); Washington County (Ohio); Athens County (Ohio); Gallia County (Ohio); Wheeling (West Virginia)