Description: Portrait of Dr. John G. F. Holston. Holston was born in 1809 in Hamburg, Germany. After travelling the world as a cabin boy, he landed in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, where he attended Washington College and graduated with honors. He attended Cleveland College where he studied medicine. He was later called to be chair of surgery in the National Medical College at Washington. He served in the Civil War for the Union, and was eventually promoted to serve as medical director in General Ulysses S. Grant’s staff. After the war, he opened a medical practice in Zanesville, Ohio, but soon moved back to Washington D.C., where he was appointed a professor of anatomy at Georgetown Medical School and served as physician to President Grant’s family. Holston married Mary Ann Campbell, with whom he had eight children. He died on May 1, 1874 at the age of sixty-five. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07669
Subjects: Medicine--History; Zanesville (Ohio); Veterans; Immigrants--Ohio
 

Description: In this photograph, Italian immigrant Florindo Dipinto operates his tool-grinding cart on the sidewalk in Cleveland, Ohio, ca. 1950-1960. Dipinto immigrated to the United States from Italy in 1913 at age 17. He originally settled in Chicago where he learned the tool-grinding trade from his uncle, Vincenzo Fabrizio. After one year of working with his uncle, he was able to purchase his own tool-grinding cart. Before settling in Cleveland, he worked in a coal mine in Colorado; served briefly in the United States Army during World War I; operated his grinding cart in Youngstown, Ohio, and returned to Italy where he served in the Army and met his wife Maria. Between 1927 and 1961, Dipinto operated his grinding cart in Cleveland, sharpening tools for a variety of customers. He retired in 1961 and passed away in 1981. The grinding cart is part of the Ohio Historical Society museum collections. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07057
Subjects: Multicultural Ohio--Ethnic Communities; Immigrants--Ohio; Tools
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: This handmade two-wheeled cart used for sharpening knives and scissors was made in Chicago, Illinois, around 1910. The wooden frame is painted green and sits on two red wheels. Two handles at one end have a striped cloth seat between them. The top of the machine has several grinding stones on a metal rod. Wrapped around the rod is a belt attached to a large wheel in the center of the cart, which is operated by several foot pedals at the base. The cart was originally owned by Vincenzo Fabrizio, an Italian immigrant in Chicago. Fabrizio arranged for his nephew, Florindo DiPinto, to immigrate to the United States in 1913 when DiPinto was 17 years old. DiPinto learned the sharpening and grinding craft from his uncle on this cart. With this grinding cart, DiPinto sharpened such things as razors, knives, scissors, swords, saws, hedge trimmers and lawnmower blades. After a year, DiPinto purchased this cart from his uncle. In 1917, DiPinto moved to Youngstown from Chicago with this sharpening machine and pursued his trade there. In 1927, DiPinto moved to Cleveland with this machine and stayed active with it until his retirement in 1961. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H43618_01
Subjects: Multicultural Ohio--Ethnic Communities; Immigrants--Ohio; Tools; Immigration and Ethnic Heritage;
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio); Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: This broadside reveals the views of General William Henry Harrison on immigrants, and their rights as Americans, by summarizing a speech given by Harrison on October 1, 1840. Harrison's speech confronted accusations that he was against granting asylum to immigrants who wanted to escape "the oppression of foreign despots." William Henry Harrison would go on to become the ninth President of the United States in 1841. He died 32 days after taking office of complications from pneumonia, making him the first president to die while in office. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS4995_B58
Subjects: Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Presidential campaigns; Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841; Immigrants--Ohio
 

Description: This is a photograph of the North Bridge employee entrance at Youngstown Sheet and Tube's Campbell Works, East Youngstown (Campbell), Ohio, ca. 1910-1919. Shown is the gatehouse, gatekeeper, and the bridge that led into the plant. The sign posted above the bridge is written in two different Slavic languages, depicting the immigrant influence at Youngstown Sheet and Tube at this time. During James A. Campbell's tenure as president of the company, thousands of immigrants were employed by Youngstown Sheet and Tube. The company tried to ease the immigrants' assimilation into their new homeland by providing signs and manuals in their native languages as well as offering classes in English. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05581
Subjects: Steel industry and trade--Ohio; Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business; Immigrants--Ohio; Factories
Places: East Youngstown (Campbell) (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Cinci., O., Sept. 1937. Back Street." This photograph shows a grocery store at the junction of Hamer, Back and Benton Street, near Jackson Hill Park, north of downtown in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. Germans fleeing the upheaval of the revolutions of 1848 settled in Cincinnati in large numbers. By mid-century, a German area north and east of Central Parkway, centered on Vine Street, had become known as Over-the-Rhine. By the 1890s its high concentration of breweries and bars made it the entertainment center of the city; though the neighborhood never recovered from Prohibition, it retains the greatest density of Italianate architecture in the United States. The area was a poor and working-class neighborhood for much of the 20th century, and in the 21st century it continued to endure alternate periods of investment and disinvestment. The area was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F02_04_01
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Streets; Automobiles; Immigrants--Ohio; Stores and shops; Over-the-Rhine (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1939, this photograph shows the intersection of Back Street and Hamer Street in Over-the-Rhine in Cincinnati, Ohio. Germans fleeing the upheaval of the revolutions of 1848 settled in Cincinnati in large numbers. By mid-century, a German area north and east of Central Parkway, centered on Vine Street, had become known as Over-the-Rhine. By the 1890s its high concentration of breweries and bars made it the entertainment center of the city; though the neighborhood never recovered from Prohibition, it retains the greatest density of Italianate architecture in the United States. The area was a poor and working-class neighborhood for much of the 20th century, and in the 21st century it continued to endure alternate periods of investment and disinvestment. The area was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F10_32_01
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Streets; Automobiles; Immigrants--Ohio; Stores and shops; Over-the-Rhine (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing Vietnamese and Laotian immigrants practicing conversation with their teacher. The image was submitted by photographer Jean Orr of Columbus, Ohio, in the Amateur category of the Spirit of Ohio Bicentennial Photo Contest. A caption provided by the photographer reads, "Central Ohio welcomed families from Laos and Vietnam during the Bicentennial Year, and Westerville City Schools initiated one of the first programs to help them gain enough English to apply for jobs and shop for household needs. Here, young adults practice conversation with their American teacher during a break in the twice-weekly evening class. The Ohio Department of Education approved the use of Federal funds for the Westerville program." In August 1976, the Ohio American Revolution Bicentennial Advisory Committee (OARBAC) began the Spirit of Ohio Bicentennial Photo Contest as part of a larger effort in Ohio to celebrate the 1976 American Bicentennial. The contest was meant to document "the spirit and character of the people and places which represent Ohio during [the] bicentennial year," and to create a permanent photographic archive of the year's festivity for use by future researchers. Both professional and amateur photographers submitted over 500 photographs for consideration, all taken within the state between January 1 and December 31, 1976. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA2734AV_B02F115_01_01
Subjects: American Revolution Bicentennial (1976); Immigrants--Ohio; Immigration and Ethnic Heritage; Conversation;
Places: Westerville (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated 1930-1939, this photograph shows first generation Americans in an Americanization course in Dover, Ohio, in Tuscarawas County. This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B14F03_027_001
Subjects: Americanization; Citizenship--America; Education; Immigrants; Ohio Women; Working class women
Places: Dover (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This map shows the immigrant and African American communities in Cleveland in 1915. Ethnic groups represented at the time were Czechoslovakian, Finnish, German, Greek and Syrian, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Jewish, Lithuanian, Polish, Rumanian, Russian, Yugoslav and African American. The most substantial and diverse migration to Cleveland occurred between 1870 and 1914, and included many Southern and Eastern Europeans. This large exodus was fostered by shortages of land in the home countries, more liberal emigration policies, increased military conscription, and, particularly for those of Jewish descent, persecution. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MAPVFM47_8
Subjects: Immigrants--Ohio; Immigration and Ethnic Heritage; Multicultural Ohio--Ethnic Communities
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: This reproduction of a photograph depicts members of the family of John Klassen boarding the train to immigrate from the Ukraine to Ohio in 1923. The Klassen family settled in Bluffton, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02637
Subjects: Immigrants--Ohio; Multicultural Ohio--Ethnic Communities
Places: Chortiza (Ukraine)
 

Description: This is a reproduction of a photograph depicting John Klassen, his wife and five children, ca. 1923. The Klassen family immigrated from the Ukraine and settled in Bluffton, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02638
Subjects: Immigrants--Ohio; Multicultural Ohio--Ethnic Communities