Description: The "Miss Osaka Prefecture" doll represents a Japanese girl around seven years of age. She is dressed in a silk kimono with a pattern of flowers, butterflies, leaves and buildings, closed with a wide silk "obi," and wears white Japanese toe socks known as "tabi" on her feet. This doll, which stands 80 cm (31.5 inches) tall, was handmade by Goyo Hirata in Japan in 1927. The Committee on World Friendship Among Children of the Federal Council of the Church of Christ in America donated the "Miss Osaka Prefecture" doll and her accessories to the Ohio History Connection in 1929. This doll, along with 57 others known as "Japanese Friendship Dolls," were part of a goodwill exchange program between the United States and Japan during the late 1920s. This effort, spearheaded by Dr. Sidney Gulick, a former American missionary to Japan, and Japanese Viscount Eiichi Shibusawa, was intended to ease cultural tension between the two nations. The Japanese dolls represented different prefectures, cities and regions in that country, and were sent to various museums and libraries in the U.S. in response to an original gift of nearly 13,000 dolls sent from the U.S. to Japanese children in 1927. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H83552_01
Subjects: International relations; United States--Foreign relations--Japan; Dolls; Diplomacy
Places: Osaka (Japan); Ohio
 

Description: Accessories which accompanied the "Miss Osaka Prefecture" doll, a "Japanese Friendship Doll" which represents a Japanese girl around seven years of age. The Committee on World Friendship Among Children of the Federal Council of the Church of Christ in America donated the "Miss Osaka Prefecture" doll and her accessories to the Ohio History Connection in 1929. Accessories pictured here include a laquered tray (H 83536), two kimono chests (H 83537 and H 83547), a set of bowls (H 83538, H 83541, H 83542, H 83543), a round tray (H 83545), miniature wooden trunks (H 83546.001 and H 83546.002), and a series of small boxes (H 83548, H 83549 and H 83550). This doll, along with 57 others known as "Japanese Friendship Dolls," were part of a goodwill exchange program between the United States and Japan during the late 1920s. This effort, spearheaded by Dr. Sidney Gulick, a former American missionary to Japan, and Japanese Viscount Eiichi Shibusawa, was intended to ease cultural tension between the two nations. The Japanese dolls represented different prefectures, cities and regions in that country, and were sent to various museums and libraries in the U.S. in response to an original gift of nearly 13,000 dolls sent from the U.S. to Japanese children in 1927. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: A0969_accessories
Subjects: International relations; United States--Foreign relations--Japan; Dolls; Diplomacy
Places: Osaka (Japan); Ohio
 

Description: 1955 calendar advertising and themed around Ohio author and conservation advocate Louis Bromfield's famed Malabar Farm in Lucas, Ohio. The full-color twelve-month calendar includes color photographs by Joe Munroe and short caption essays by Louis Bromfield. Calendar verso pages feature longer essays on the history and rehabilitation of Malabar and vignettes of farm life also written by Bromfield. The Friends of the Land Collection (1930-1960) contains the papers of the Friends of the Land (1940-1959), a prominent national soil conservation education organization headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. FOTL produced an international literary arts quarterly, THE LAND (edited by New Deal agriculture writer Russell Lord) in addition to several members' only publications (LAND LETTER) and informational pamphlets. They also hosted annual conferences; ran conservation tours, teacher training labs, and workshops; and operated as a national clearinghouse for conservation information. Ohio farmer and novelist Louis Bromfield was active in the organization. Much of the collection reflects the career and interests of FOTL Executive Secretary Ollie Fink, who was a prominent conservation education pioneer in Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Page1
Subjects: Conservation education; Bromfield, Louis (1896-1956); Agriculture; Soil science; Malabar Farm
Places: Mansfield (Ohio); Richland County (Ohio)
 

Description: PFC Michael Petrucci at Itami Air Force Base, Japan, on way to R&R in Kyoto, Japan, January 1954. Petrucci was born August 9, 1930, in Youngstown, Ohio, where he grew up and attended school. Petrucci enlisted in the Marine Corps in July of 1952, and began basic training at Cherry Point Marine Base in North Carolina in August 1953. He received orders for overseas duty in May 1953, but when the United States and North Korea ended hostilities in July 1953, his transfer to Korea was halted. Petrucci was eventually sent to Korea in September 1953 and stationed at the First Marine Aircraft Wing base in the town of Pohang Dong, where he served until July 1954. By September 1954, Petrucci had returned to civilian life in Youngstown, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07501
Subjects: Ohio History--Military Ohio; Military life; United States Marine Corps; Korean War (1950-1953)
Places: Japan
 

Description: PFC Michael Petrucci in the courtyard of the Royal Shinto Temple, Kyoto, Japan, while on R&R in January 1954. Petrucci was born August 9, 1930, in Youngstown, Ohio, where he grew up and attended school. Petrucci enlisted in the Marine Corps in July of 1952, and began basic training at Cherry Point Marine Base in North Carolina in August 1953. He received orders for overseas duty in May 1953, but when the United States and North Korea ended hostilities in July 1953, his transfer to Korea was halted. Petrucci was eventually sent to Korea in September 1953 and stationed at the First Marine Aircraft Wing base in the town of Pohang Dong, where he served until July 1954. By September 1954, Petrucci had returned to civilian life in Youngstown, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07502
Subjects: Ohio History--Military Ohio; Military life; United States Marine Corps; Korean War (1950-1953)
Places: Kyoto (Japan)
 

Description: U.S. Marine Corporal Petrucci on R&R in Tokyo, Japan, May 1954, standing in front of a shop where he hocked his wristwatch. Michael John Petrucci was born August 9, 1930, in Youngstown, Ohio, where he grew up and attended school. Petrucci enlisted in the Marine Corps in July of 1952, and began basic training at Cherry Point Marine Base in North Carolina in August 1953. He received orders for overseas duty in May 1953, but when the United States and North Korea ended hostilities in July 1953, his transfer to Korea was halted. Petrucci was eventually sent to Korea in September 1953 and stationed at the First Marine Aircraft Wing base in the town of Pohang Dong, where he served until July 1954. By September 1954, Petrucci had returned to civilian life in Youngstown, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07505
Subjects: Ohio History--Military Ohio; Military life; United States Marine Corps; Korean War (1950-1953)
Places: Tokyo (Japan)
 

Description: This is a photograph of a silk sash or "Bandolier of 1000 Stitches" which was made in Japan and dates from 1940-1943. This rectangular sash resembles a scarf and is made of white silk stitched with orange thread and decorated with Japanese brush writing. The fabric is silk. The Ohio Historical Society received this bandolier from Wu Kung of Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, in 1945. This bandolier was captured from a Japanese soldier in Burma on November 23, 1944. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H49124_001
Subjects: World War II--Pacific; Flags--Japan; Flags--World War 1939-1945; Imperial Japanese
 

Description: Typed caption on the back of the photograph reads "Scene in the old Johnston grave yard, Piqua, Ohio." Pictured is a monument for the graves of Catherine Johnston Holtzbecker (1822-1843), and Stephen Johnston (1803-1848), daughter and son of John and Rachel Johnston. Johnston Farm, maintained as a state memorial, is the homestead of John Johnston. Johnston is best known for holding the office of Indian Agent for over 30 years, appointed by President James Madison in the early years of the state to oversee the American Indian reservations in northwest Ohio. Johnston was an important political and social figure in Ohio who also served as a state canal commissioner, helped to found Kenyon College and served on the board of trustees of Miami University. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV29_B01F03_003
Subjects: Cemeteries; Death and burial; Monuments & memorials; Families--Ohio
Places: Piqua (Ohio); Miami County (Ohio);
 

Description: Typed caption on the back of the photograph reads "Scene in old Johnston grave yard, Piqua, Ohio." The three monuments pictured are for (left to right) Catherine Johnston Holtzbecker and Lieutenant Stephen Johnston, Benjamin Whiteman, Col. John Johnston, and Rosanna Johnston and Harriet Jones Johnston. Johnston Farm, maintained as a state memorial, is the homestead of John Johnston. Johnston is best known for holding the office of Indian Agent for over 30 years, appointed by President James Madison in the early years of the state to oversee the American Indian reservations in northwest Ohio. Johnston was an important political and social figure in Ohio who also served as a state canal commissioner, helped to found Kenyon College and served on the board of trustees of Miami University. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV29_B01F03_002
Subjects: Cemeteries; Death and burial; Monuments & memorials;
Places: Piqua (Ohio); Miami County (Ohio);
 

Description: This photographic reproduction of an engraving is a portrait of John A. Bingham, who served as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1855 to 1863 and again from 1865 to 1873. The image appears to be one of several portraits of government officials; portions of oval frames are visible to the lower right and left of Bingham’s portrait. Header text on the page reads: “Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District…” The caption underneath Bingham’s portrait identifies him as “Bingham, Ohio.” Likely the portraits are included in an official government directory or record. Bingham, an early advocate of emancipation, is credited with drafting the first section of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. He also served as a prosecutor during the trial of the individuals charged with conspiring to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln. Members of the U.S. House of Representatives chose Bingham as one of seven “managers” to lead impeachment proceedings against President Andrew Johnson in 1868. Bingham was born in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, the son of Hugh Bingham and Ester Bailey Bingham. The elder Bingham was a prosperous artisan who was active in local politics. When John Bingham was twelve years old, his mother died, and he went to live with his uncle, Thomas Bingham, in Cadiz, Ohio. He worked as a printer’s apprentice for two years, then attended Franklin College (New Athens, Ohio), studied law, and was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1840. He established a law practice in New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, but later returned to Cadiz, where he married his first cousin, Amanda Bingham, in 1844. Active in local politics, Bingham originally was a member of the Whig Party. In 1846, Tuscarawas County voters elected him to the office of prosecuting attorney, a position he held until 1849. Five years later he won election to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Whig and was re-elected as a Republican for three more consecutive terms (serving from 1855 to 1863). He unsuccessfully ran for re-election to the House in 1862. In 1864, President Abraham Lincoln appointed him judge-advocate of the Union Army with the rank of major in 1864. That fall Bingham defeated incumbent U.S. Representative Joseph White, a Democrat, in the Congressional elections. Bingham began his second tenure in the House in March 1865, just weeks before Lincoln’s assassination. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton appointed Bingham to a three-member team that prosecuted the defendants on trial for conspiring to assassinate Lincoln. In December 1865, Republican leaders selected Bingham as one of nine congressmen to represent the House on the Joint Committee on Reconstruction. In January 1866, Bingham introduced a proposal that the United States Constitution be amended to establish that "The Congress shall have the power to make all laws necessary and proper to secure to all persons in every state within this Union equal protection in their rights of life, liberty and property." Bingham's proposal subsequently became the basis for the first section of the Fourteenth Amendment, which was approved by Congress in June 1866 and ratified by the states in July 1868. On March 2, 1868, House members selected Bingham as one of seven "managers to conduct the impeachment against Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, on the part of the House" Bingham chaired the committee of managers and presented the prosecution's closing, three-day summation in Johnson's trial before the Senate. In 1872 Bingham lost his bid for re-election to the House. In 1873, President Ulysses S. Grant appointed him as U.S. minister to Japan, a post he held until 1885. Bingham returned to Cadiz, Oho, where he was a vocal opponent of Jim Crow laws that were being enacted in the South. He died on March 19, 1900. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05833
Subjects: Bingham, John Armor, 1815-1900; United States--Politics and government--1861-1865; United States--Politics and government--1865-1883; United States--Foreign relations--Japan; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics
 

Description: John and Annie Glenn stand elevated in a crowd during a NASA goodwill tour to Japan in 1963. Reporters gather with microphones for commentary while other attendees bring flowers. 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_B01F04_03
Subjects: Glenn, John, 1921-2016; Tourism; National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Places: Japan
 

Description: Pvt. Michael Petrucci (right) and an unidentified Marine on board a ship to Kobe, Japan, en route to Korea in September of 1953. Petrucci was born August 9, 1930, in Youngstown, Ohio, where he grew up and attended school. Petrucci enlisted in the Marine Corps in July of 1952, and began basic training at Cherry Point Marine Base in North Carolina in August 1953. He received orders for overseas duty in May 1953, but when the United States and North Korea ended hostilities in July 1953, his transfer to Korea was halted. Petrucci was eventually sent to Korea in September 1953 and stationed at the First Marine Aircraft Wing base in the town of Pohang Dong, where he served until July 1954. By September 1954, Petrucci had returned to civilian life in Youngstown, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07476
Subjects: Ohio History--Military Ohio; Military life; United States Marine Corps; Korean War (1950-1953)