Description: Photograph showing a young man and woman in old-fashioned clothing. He holds the rope to a bell tower as they gaze off camera. The image was submitted by photographer Marcus T. Orr of Columbus, Ohio, in the Amateur category of the Spirit of Ohio Bicentennial Photo Contest. A caption provided by the photographer reads, "Proud old bells in Ohio's rural towns and farms joined others across the nation when the Liberty Bell was rung at 2 p.m., July 4, 1976 in observance of the Bicentennial. Scott Shaffer, 13, and Kathy Orr, 14, ring the bell in 117-year old Mt. Pleasant United Presbyterian Church in Kingston. The church was founded in 1798. Kathy wears the wedding dress her great-grandmother wore in 1889." 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_B02F116_02_01
Subjects: American Revolution Bicentennial (1976); Bell towers; Ceremonies; Churches; Fourth of July celebrations;
Places: Kingston (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing a young woman in old-fashioned clothing, holding the rope to a bell tower as she gazes off camera. The image was submitted by photographer Marcus T. Orr of Columbus, Ohio, in the Amateur category of the Spirit of Ohio Bicentennial Photo Contest. A caption provided by the photographer reads, "Proud old bells in Ohio's rural towns and farms joined others across the nation when the Liberty Bell was rung at 2 p.m., July 4, 1976 in observance of the Bicentennial. Kathy Orr, 14, rings the bell in 117-year old Mt. Pleasant United Presbyterian Church in Kingston. The church was founded in 1798. Kathy wears the wedding dress her great-grandmother wore in 1889." 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_B02F116_01_01
Subjects: American Revolution Bicentennial (1976); Bell towers; Ceremonies; Churches; Fourth of July celebrations;
Places: Kingston (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of engraving of Colonel Robert Kingston Scott, 68th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (Civil War), chief of South Carolina's Freedmen's Bureau, as well as governor of that state, ca. 1860-1869. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00589
Subjects: United States - Officials and employees; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights
 

Description: Section of a panorama painted by Albert Ruger in the 1880's depicting an event known as the "Great Locomotive Chase" or "Andrews' Raid." In 1862, Secret Service Agent James J. Andrews led volunteer Union soldiers, mostly Ohioans, on a mission to steal a Confederate locomotive and drive from the south to the north, destroying the rail lines along the way. The mission failed shortly after it was begun and several of the captured men were hung while others were later exchanged and some escaped. This scene is a map of the geographic area covered by the Raiders. William J. Knight was a private in the 21st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company E who participated in the raid. Knight escaped and in 1878 he began touring and giving lectures describing the raid. Ruger's panorama accompanied him for more than eighteen years. The panorama is now part of the museum collections of the Ohio Historical Society. The map shows parts of Tennessee and Georgia including cities along the Tennessee River like Shelbyville, Decator, Chatanooga, Cleveland, Dalton, Adairsville, Kingston, Rome, Etowah, Marietta, and Atlanta that were the covered by the Raiders. The train on the map is entering the "TUNNEL HILL." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02938
Subjects: Chattanooga Railroad Expedition, 1862; Ohio--History, Military--19th century; Andrews' Raid, 1862; Ruger, A.