Description: This candle extinguisher tray is Japanned tin painted with flowers. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H9420
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Lighting--Architectural and decorative
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Marius Racine Robinson (1806-1878) of Salem, Columbiana County, Ohio. Robinson was a minister and anti-slavery advocate who edited the Salem "Anti-Slavery Bugle" from 1851-1861. This cabinet card is from S.V. Courtney Photographic Art Studio. 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: AL03118
Subjects: Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Underground Railroad--Ohio; Antislavery movements--Ohio--History--19th century; Abolitionists;
Places: Salem (Ohio); Columbiana County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a portrait of William M. Brooks (b. 1835), who worked as an Underground Railroad agent at Tabor College in Fremont County, Iowa. 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: AL03031
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Iowa; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Ohio History
Places: Tabor (Iowa); Fremont County (Iowa)
 

Description: Photograph of trucks and vans in The F. & R. Lazarus Company fleet, ca. 1940-1949. Between 1851 and 1965, the F & R Lazarus Company retail store dominated the trade and physical landscape of Columbus. The company rose from its early years as a men's clothier in a 20 x 40 foot room downtown, to its position by 1965 as a member of the largest department store chain, Federated Department Stores. Lazarus' growth reflects that of the capital city; from small beginnings through a "golden age" of downtown development, and eventually branching out into the surrounding countryside. In 2003, the Lazarus Company was incorporated with Macy's, a member of the Federated Department stores, and is no longer in existence. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04436
Subjects: Trucks; The F. & R. Lazarus Company (Columbus, Ohio); Businesses;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: John Gleason's prize-winning corn in the Grand Champion Sweepstakes at the Ohio State Corn Show, 1925. John Gleason (1886-1932) was a Clinton County, Ohio, farmer who developed hybrid seed corn and raised pedigreed poultry. He was known throughout Ohio and the region as a progressive farmer who was interested in corn culture. Because of his knowledge and ability, Gleason was in demand as a judge of corn at various shows and county fairs. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06031
Subjects: Corn--Hybridization; Ohio Economy--Agriculture; Farming
Places: Clinton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows the James Garfield House in Mentor, Ohio. James Abram Garfield was the twentieth President of the United States. Garfield purchased the home in 1876 to accommodate his growing family. The home, named Lawnfield by onlookers, was the site of the first successful front porch campaign in 1880. That same year, Garfield had 11 more rooms added to the building to accommodate his large family. James A. Garfield was President from March 4, 1881, until his death on September 19, 1881. Four years after his assassination, the Memorial Library wing was added by Mrs. Garfield and her family - setting the precedent for presidential libraries. In 1859, Garfield began a political career, winning election to the Ohio Senate as a member of the Republican Party. During the Civil War, Garfield resigned his position as president of Hiram College and joined the Union Army. He began as lieutenant-colonel of the Forty-Second Ohio Volunteer Infantry and fought in the Battles of Shiloh and Chickamauga. He resigned from the army on December 5, 1863, with the rank of major general. Garfield resigned his commission because Ohio voters had elected him to the United States House of Representatives. He served nine consecutive terms in the House of Representatives before he was elected President of the United States in 1880. In Congress, Garfield was a supporter of the Radical Republicans. He opposed President Andrew Johnson's lenient policy toward the conquered Southern states and demanded the enfranchisement of African-American men. Garfield served for only four months before he was shot by Charles J. Guiteau. The president lived for two more months, before dying on September 19, 1881. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06509
Subjects: Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881; National parks & reserves; Historic houses
Places: Mentor (Ohio); Lake County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph from the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus is of 52-year-old Elder Johnson of Franklin County. His formal attire suggests that the photograph was taken during his trial or sentencing. Johnson was convicted of murder night watchman Moses Terry, and became the 244th individual to be executed via the electric chair in Ohio. The caption at the bottom reads: “No. 244, Elder Johnson of Franklin County, Legally Electrocuted September 8th, 1945, for the Murder of Moses Terry.” 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: AL08298
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)
 

Description: Presented by the U.S. Marine Corps Women's Reserve, this World War II poster shows a woman dressed in a women's marine uniform with men fighting in the background, with "Be a Marine... Free a Marine to Fight" at the bottom. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1222_F7_18
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945--Posters; War posters--Ohio; Women marines--History
 

Description: This photograph shows photographer Harry Kinley's maternal uncle, Christian Stecher, standing in grass with a dog on a chain leash. He wears a hat, suit, and striped tie. 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_79
Subjects: Families--Ohio; Daily Life; Pets; Dogs
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. Pictured here is the farm of Lewis J. Taber near Barnesville, Ohio. By the 1920s, Taber had risen to prominence within the Patrons of Husbandry (more commonly known as the Grange), and served as Ohio's first Director of Agriculture from 1921-1923. From 1923 to 1941, he was a Master of the National Grange, and later served as Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Farmers and Traders Life Insurance Company in Syracuse, New York, from 1926 to 1958. Taber also played an active role in the Ohio Council of Churches, serving six terms as president, and in local government. Spanning 55 acres, Taber's farm focused primarily on intensive farming practices where he grew various crops and raised 40 head of livestock. Taber raised 30 cows and sold milk and ice cream. The Department of Agriculture notes that Taber had the best corn of any other farm in the area. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA726AV_B01F05_002_1
Subjects: Farming; Farmhouses; Agriculture--Ohio; Rural Life; Barns;
Places: Belmont County (Ohio); Barnesville (Ohio);
 

Description: This photograph shows Japanese American Mae Takasugi with a parasol, taken in 1943 by Charles Buxton in Alliance, Ohio. The photograph was taken before Mae Takasugi and her husband Kingo left for an incarceration camp in California. Originally residents of California, the couple moved to Alliance in 1940 for Kingo's engineering job. Because the couple still listed California as their place of residency, they were ordered to an incarceration camp in California in 1943, along with Mae's extended family. Mae and Kingo were good friends with Buxton, an amateur photographer. Before the couple left Alliance, Buxton took this portrait of Mae, and when they were forced to leave, Mae gave the parasol and portrait to Buxton as a token of friendship. When they were released, Mae and Kingo moved to Southern California where Kingo continued to work as an engineer. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS7471
Subjects: World War II; World War, 1939-1945 -- Women; Incarceration camps; Japanese Americans
Places: Alliance (Ohio); Stark County (Ohio)
 

Description: Women marching during a "Take Back the Night" event down North High Street, a major thoroughfare in Columbus, Ohio, May 15, 1993. This photograph was taken by a photographer 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_06
Subjects: Civil rights; Protests and protestors; Ohio women; Social issues; Public safety;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)