Description: Charles Foster (1828-1904) was governor of Ohio from 1880 to 1884. Foster chose to run as the Republican candidate for Ohio governor in 1879, and campaigned on the issue of sound money, which would require the government to back paper money with gold. Foster won the election and focused his administration on reforming the state government so that it was more efficient. In addition, Foster supported the temperance movement by favoring higher liquor taxes. Ultimately, his support of this tax, known as the Pond Law, contributed to his defeat in the election of 1883. He later went on to serve as Secretary of the Treasury under President Benjamin Harrison from 1891 through 1893. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02808
Subjects: Governors--Ohio; Other--Federal Government; Republican Party; Temperance; Portrait photography
 

Description: This image shows the Perkins Observatory near Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio. Near the observatory is the famous "Big Ear" radio telescope, which had a collecting area of 340 by 70 feet (104 by 21 meters). The Ohio Sky Survey recorded here between 1965 and 1972 was the most accurate, reliable, and complete mapping of cosmic radio signals (the "radio sky") for many years. This observatory conducted a 24-year continuous search for evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence, during which the famous "Wow!" signal was received in 1977. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06504
Subjects: Astronomical observatories; Astronomy; Telescopes; Interstellar communication; Science and Technology
Places: Delaware (Ohio); Delaware County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph from the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus is of 17-year-old Louis Vernon Hand, a farm hand from Mercer County. His formal attire suggests that the photograph was taken during his trial or sentencing. Hand was convicted of murdering seven-year-old Richard Stover with a hammer in Rockford, Ohio. The caption at the bottom reads: “No. 239 Louis Vernon Hand of Mercer County, Legally Electrocuted January 14th, 1944, for the Murder of Richard Stover.” Some records list Richard's last name as Stober. In 1885 the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio, became the location for all executions, which previously took place in the various county seats. In 1896 the Ohio General Assembly mandated that electrocution replace hanging as the form of capital punishment. The Ohio Penitentiary regularly offered tours as well as souvenir photographs and postcards of the building and prisoners on death row. A total of 315 prisoners, both men and women, were executed in the electric chair known as “Old Sparky” between 1897 and 1963. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08293
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Capital punishment--Ohio--History; Death row; Electrocution; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections; Ohio Penitentiary (Columbus, Ohio); Prisons--Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Rockford (Ohio); Mercer County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of a full length portrait of Lucy Webb Hayes, wife of United States President Rutherford B. Hayes, 1881. Original portrait was created by Daniel Huntington. Lucy Webb was born on August 28, 1831 in Chillicothe, Ohio. She married Rutherford B Hayes on December 30, 1832. They became the parents of eight children. She died in Fremont, Ohio on June 25, 1889 and was buried in Fremont City Cemetery. Later, she was re-interred to Spiegel Grove. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07889
Subjects: Hayes, Lucy Webb, 1831-1889; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women
 

Description: The photograph shows fifteen young men and women inside. Five sit on a sofa and the remaining ten gather around them. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's store, and later as a traveling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). Kinley was also an avid lifelong photographer, and the bulk of the Harry Kinley Collection is comprised of glass plate negatives documenting the Kinley family, the city of Upper Sandusky and Wyandot County and surrounding areas. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV30_B02F03_77
Subjects: Couples; Daily Life; Portrait photography; Photographers--Ohio
Places: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio);
 

Description: This photograph is a part of a series of photographs taken by the Ohio Department of Agriculture documenting farms in Ohio. This is a barn on the farm of George S. Lentz near St. Clairsville, Ohio. Spanning 195 acres, Lentz's farm grew wheat and had a number of horses. Here, two men prepare a team of horses to pull a buggy. The farm was converted into an agriculture experiment station in 1917, where experiments were conducted with various crops and livestock. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA726AV_B01F04_001_1
Subjects: Agriculture--Ohio; Farming; Rural Life; Barns; Horses; Agricultural experimentation--Ohio
Places: St. Clairsville (Ohio); Belmont County (Ohio);
 

Description: Taken by the Ohio Turnpike Commission, this aerial photograph show the results of the 1978 Blizzard on Ohio Turnpike traffic, January 1978. Semitrucks can be seen stranded in deep snow along the roadside. In January and February 1978, a series of three storms hit the Midwest and Northeast United States. These storms were some of the most severe winter events to occur in recent history, and collectively are known as the Blizzard of 1978. The second storm found Ohio in its path. From January 25 to 27, between one and three feet of snow fell across Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Winds averaged between fifty and seventy miles per hour, creating snowdrifts as deep as twenty-five feet. With temperatures already hovering near zero, the wind chill was deadly, reaching sixty degrees Fahrenheit below zero. Created by the Ohio Turnpike Act of 1949, the Ohio Turnpike Commission was authorized to construct, operate, and maintain a turnpike (and related projects) for the State of Ohio. The groundbreaking took place on October 27, 1952, and on December 1, 1954, the first section of the turnpike to be completed (the Niles-Youngstown to the Pennsylvania border) was opened to the public. The remaining portions of the road were completed by October 1, 1955. Over the following decades, various maintenance projects were undertaken and improvements made. In 2013, the 130th General Assembly passed H.B. 51, which renamed the Ohio Turnpike Commission the Ohio Turnpike and Infrastructure Commission. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA7617AV_B22_Blizzard14
Subjects: Blizzards; Natural disasters; Climate and Weather; Transportation--Ohio; Traffic accidents;
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Women gather during a rally in support of the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) on the steps of the Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio, June 30, 1981. The ERA is a proposed constitutional amendment establishing equal legal rights for American citizens regardless of sex, first introduced in Congress in December 1923. A ratification deadline for the amendment passed in 1979, but was extended to 1983. It has regularly been reintroduced to Congress but is still awaiting full ratification by three-fourths of U.S. states. This photograph was taken by Leslie Zak for publication in the Columbus Free Press newspaper. The Columbus Free Press began as a bi-weekly publication in Columbus, Ohio, in 1970. An underground newspaper, it replaced the Ohio State University publication The People, Yes. The earliest known issue of the newspaper appeared on January 4, 1971. The newspaper underwent a series of name changes over the decades, with titles including the Columbus Free Press & Cowtown Times (1972-1976), the Columbus Freepress (1976-1992) and The Free Press (1992-1995). The paper, which covered many liberal and progressive causes, was an alternative to mainstream news sources in central Ohio with the slogan “The Other Side of the News.” In 1995, the paper ceased publication briefly before reemerging as a website in early 1996, and returning as a print publication under the Free Press title in the form of a quarterly journal in 1998. Published under various frequencies during the first part of the 21st century, the Free Press again became a nonprofit monthly publication in 2017 with both a print and web presence, published by the Columbus Institute for Contemporary Journalism and operated by a volunteer staff and board. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1301AV_B04F11_03
Subjects: Civil rights; Equal Rights Amendment (ERA); Protests and protestors; Ohio women; Social issues; Women's rights; Legislation;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: John and Annie Glenn share a kiss on Annie's 75th birthday. The John and Annie Glenn collection is comprised of photographs, slides, books and ephemera documenting the career of John Glenn as an astronaut and U.S. Senator. The collection also documents his life with his wife Annie Glenn née Castor, family and friends, such as Robert and Ethel Kennedy and fellow astronauts. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV329_B18F02_02
Subjects: Glenn, John, 1921-2016; Glenn, Annie, 1920-2020; Birthday parties; Couples
 

Description: Ulysses S. Grant wore this lieutenant general's shoulder mark during the Battle of the Wilderness in Virginia on May 5-7, 1864. He was the first three-star general in the United States Army since George Washington. Born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Point Pleasant Ohio, Grant entered West Point in 1839 where a roster mistakenly listed his name as Ulysses Simpson. He was known as Ulysses S. Grant for the rest of his life. Grant served in the Mexican War but was never happy with military life and resigned his commission in 1854. After unsuccessful attempts at farming and real estate, Grant moved to Galena, Illinois where he worked in his father's leather shop. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he organized a company in Galena and later accepted command of the 21st Illinois Regiment. In August 1861, Lincoln made Grant brigadier general of volunteers. Grant came to national attention by capturing the Confederate Forts Henry and Donelson, the first major union victories of the war. In spite of a devastating defeat at Shiloh, Grant won major victories at Vicksburg and Chattanooga. In 1864, Grant was made lieutenant general commanding all the armies of the U.S. In this position, Grant devised a concerted plan of action for all the Union armies. Although Grant lost to Confederate General Robert E. Lee in battle, other northern armies were successful and weakened the confederacy. Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Grant served as president from 1869-1877. Southern reconstruction was one of the major issues of Grant's presidency. He occasionally encouraged the process with the force of federal troops. Although Grant is considered to have been honest himself, he was surrounded by dishonest men, causing his administration to be marred with scandal. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1434_1160618_001
Subjects: Presidents and Politics; Military Ohio; Civil War; Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885; Military uniforms
Places: Point Pleasant (Ohio); Brown County (Ohio)
 

Description: Homecoming parade held for astronaut Neil Armstrong in 1969. More than 80,000 supporters greeted Armstrong upon his return to Wapakoneta, Ohio on September 6, 1969. Bob Hope served as marshal for the event, and guests included "Tonight Show" sidekick Ed McMahon, and Dr. Albert Sabin, inventor of the polio vaccine. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV_203B2F5_020
Subjects: Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012; Wapakoneta (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: Participants in the Buckeye Girls' State leadership workshop held at Capital University in Columbus making signs and posters to support their campaigns for various offices, June 18, 1957. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00105
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio); Cultural Ohio--Education
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)