Description: This wardrobe is made of poplar painted mottled blue. The wardrobe has a paneled door. Provenance: Sewin View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8650
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Furniture
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the Miami and Erie Canal in Shelby County, between stations 7422 and 7454. Roads, properties 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: BV23170_021
Subjects: Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio
Places: Shelby County (Ohio)
 

Description: William Hunt, Jr. (second from left) and fellow Civil War soldiers N. Houghton, Charles S. Rice, A. Mattox and Samuel R. Strayer (left to right), ca. 1863. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03792
Subjects: Soldiers--Ohio; Military Ohio; United States History Civil War, 1861-1865
 

Description: Cabinet card portrait of author Paul Laurence Dunbar as a young man, ca. 1890. He was born in Dayton, Ohio, in 1872 to Joshua and Matilda Dunbar, both former slaves, and was encouraged by his mother in poetry and his schooling from an early age. He attended Dayton Central High School and was the sole African American student at that time. Following his high school graduation, Dunbar worked as an elevator operator while writing poetry in his free time. He built a reputation as a successful literary voice and writer of dialect poetry, and was the first African American poet to receive critical acclaim for his work. Dunbar authored twelve collections of poetry, five novels, one play, and a large number of newspaper articles before his death from tuberculosis on February 9, 1906. He is buried in the Woodland Cemetery in Dayton. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05255
Subjects: Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906; African American poets; American poetry--Ohio; Literary Ohio
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Illustration of conversation between General George Meade and General Ulysses S. Grant during the Battle of the Wilderness in May 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. Ulysses S. Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Point Pleasant, Ohio. During the U. S. Civil War, Grant was promoted to the rank of General and granted command of the Union army by President Abraham Lincoln. After the victory of the Union over the Confederacy, Grant's popularity led to his election as the 18th President of the United States in 1868. General George Meade was born in Cadiz, Spain, and later in his life immigrated to the United States where he was appointed to the United States Military Academy. During the Civil War, he commanded the Army of the Potomac until Ulysses S. Grant was put in charge of the Union army. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04592
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S., 1822-1885; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio--History, Military; Presidents--United States; Generals--United States
 

Description: This photograph shows an exterior image of St. Joseph's Church and Priory, Somerset, Ohio, ca. 1935-1943. St. Joseph's Church, a log cabin erected in 1818, was the first Catholic church built in Ohio. This Gothic structure, which dates from 1843, is the third St. Joseph's Church erected on the site. The attached priority was dedicated in 1882. The church and priority are situated at the top of a gradual incline, behind an expanse of lawn and trees. Father Edward Fenwick (1768-1832), a member of the Order of Friars Preachers (commonly known as the Dominicans), traveled from Kentucky to Ohio as a missionary in 1808. A year later Jacob and Catharine Dittoe deeded 320 acres of land to Father Fenwick for the site of a church. The first church was a small log cabin dedicated on December 6, 1818, by Father Fenwick and his nephew, Father Nicholas Dominic Young. It had a dirt floor and measured only 18 feet by 22 feet. In 1821 Father Fenwick became the first Bishop of Cincinnati, a new diocese. Membership in St. Joseph's Church continued to grow, as did the number of priestly vocations. In 1828 a brick church replaced the log cabin, and a priory for resident friars was completed in 1837. A college for the education of future priests was completed in 1854. In 1843 the current Gothic structure was dedicated, four years after its construction began. In 1864 fire destroyed the priority and left only the church's brick shell. The church was rebuilt three years later, and the college was demolished to make way for the 1882 priory. St. Joseph's Church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06172
Subjects: Church buildings--Ohio; Perry County (Ohio); Fenwick, Edward D. (Edward Dominic), 1768-1832; Dominicans; Somerset (Ohio); Cultural Ohio--Education; National Register of Historic Places
Places: Somerset (Ohio); Perry County (Ohio)
 

Description: James Morgan, of Williams County, was electrocuted September 26, 1919, for the Murder of Alexander Grant. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08108
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law
 

Description: Two students sitting on the north bank of Mirror Lake on the Ohio State University campus. Mirror Lake was purchased by OSU along with a piece of land from William Neil. Originally it was spring-fed but it dried up in 1891 and the water was subsequently provided by municipal water supply. Since 1990 there has been a tradition of students jumping into the lake around midnight on the Thursday night prior to the annual football game between the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Michigan Wolverines. It is said that the the lake is haunted by multiple ghosts of students who lost their lives in unfortunate accidents in or near the lake. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07741
Subjects: Cultural Ohio--Education; History of the Ohio State University; Ohio State University--Football; Parks: Lakes & ponds; Recreation
Places: Columbus (Ohio)
 

Description: Broadside for the candidacy of Salmon P. Chase for President and Jefferson Davis as Vice-President. In 1855, Chase successfully ran for governor of Ohio as a Republican. Slavery was the dominant issue of the campaign, and as governor, Chase continued to focus on the issue of slavery, but also supported a number of other ideas that were of interest to many Ohioans of this era. He supported reform of the state militia, improved property rights for women, and changes in public education. . Chase was reelected as governor in 1857, but his second term was much less productive as Democrats gained control of the state legislature. Chase also sought the Republican nomination for the presidency in 1856 and 1860, but he was unsuccessful. The principal reason for these losses was Chase's radical abolitionist position. In the meantime, Republicans regained control of the Ohio legislature in 1859 and chose to send Chase back to the U.S. Senate in 1860. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: VFM5419_Chase
Subjects: Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873; Presidential campaigns; Governors--Ohio; Ohio History--State and Local Government;
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Portrait of Robert E. Satterfield in his Navy uniform, ca. 1941-1945. Satterfield and his wife, Martha Jane (Sininger) Satterfield, of West Union, Ohio, had four daughters: Margaret, Mary, Kathy, and Caroline. Satterfield served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Following the war, he worked for Texaco and was also elected as Adams County Engineer, a position he held for 22 years. The Satterfield family was involved with the Democratic Party and frequented Democratic events such as Governor DiSalle’s birthday party. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1464AV_B02F12_01
Subjects: United States Navy; World War II; Military Ohio; Soldiers--Ohio;
Places: West Union (Ohio); Adams County (Ohio);
 

Description: Photograph showing Clintonville School, ca. 1895, which replaced an original red brick building on the site. This building, located at Clinton Heights Avenue and North High Street, was also the Clinton Township High School from 1897 through 1905, when a secondary building was built to house high school pupils for the township. 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_174
Subjects: Clintonville (Ohio); Clinton League; Women--Charities; School buildings; Education--Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: A fireman descends the ladder of a fire truck responding to a fire above Molly McGuire's, a bar and restaurant located at 1596 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_B12F317_01
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Street photography; University District (Columbus, Ohio); Fire engines & equipment; Fires; Bars (Drinking establishments);
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)