Description: Dated ca. 1930-1939, this photograph shows art students at Hayes Elementary School in Lakewood, Ohio, making garden plans and garden tools. The original Hayes Elementary School, located at 16401 Delaware Avenue, was demolished in 2005 and the new school opened in 2007. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F07_030_001
Subjects: Art Education; Lakewood (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works; Elementary schools--United States; Students; Children
Places: Lakewood (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph from the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus is of Henry Hagert, an 18-year-old carpenter's apprentice from Lakewood, Ohio. His formal attire suggests that the photograph was taken during his trial or sentencing. Hagert was 17 years old when he murdered twin 13-year-old brothers, James and Charles Collins, and became the 245th individual to be executed via the electric chair in Ohio. The caption at the bottom reads: “No. 245, Henry W. Hagert of Cuyahoga County, Legally Electrocuted October 3, 1945, for the Murder of Charles and James Collins.” 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: AL08299
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); Cleveland (Ohio); Lakewood (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing a historical reenactment of a battle in the American Revolution, taken by Warren Baightel of Lakewood, Ohio. The image was one of ten to win Honorable Mention in the Amateur category of the Spirit of Ohio Bicentennial Photo Contest. 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_B01_12
Subjects: American Revolution Bicentennial (1976); Historical reenactments; American Revolutionary War (1775-1783); Battlefields;
Places: Lakewood (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reproduction of a photograph depicting a supply car used by the Cleveland Railway entering the car barn, Lakewood, Ohio, ca. 1930-1950. The Cleveland Railway was the city's system of public transit from 1910 to 1942, and consisted of over 1,700 streetcars and buses. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02692
Subjects: Street-railroads--Ohio; Street-cars; Transportation--Ohio--History
Places: Lakewood (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Richard Celeste, ca. 1983-1991, who served two, four year terms as Ohio Governor. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio on November 11, 1937 and went to school in Lakewood, Ohio. He has held many political offices. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08430
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government; Governors--Ohio; Politicians
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of a large home in Cleveland, Ohio. The typed caption on the back reads, "Lakewood 'mystery' mansion with secret passage to beach. Cleveland, Ohio." Handwritten underneath this reads, "Tunnel said to have been used to take runaway slaves to the beach--Lakewood a station of the Underground R.R." This has since been identified as the home of Julius Feiss (1848-1931), a prominent Cleveland businessman in the garment industry. The original address for this home, which numerous references refer to as Ednawood, was 10520 Lake Avenue in Cleveland, which was later changed to 10530 Edgewater Drive. Rumors about use of the home's tunnel as an Underground Railroad route appear to be false, as the home was constructed in the 1890s, and the connection to Lakewood, a nearby Cleveland suburb, is also incorrect. This is one of many visual materials collected for publication 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_B04F09_29_01
Subjects: Mansions--Ohio; Cleveland (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works; Domestic architecture; Ohio Federal Writers' Project; Works Progress Administration
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated 1920, this photograph shows the crowd at a campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate Senator Warren G. Harding, probably at his home in Marion, Ohio. Some attendees carry signs that read "Lakewood, O. for Harding" and "Harding for America[,] Knox County for Harding." Another sign, partially illegible, references his Democratic opponent, Ohio Governor James M. Cox. This photograph is part of a photograph album in the Warren G. Harding Photograph Collection (P146). Warren G. Harding, the 29th President of the United States from 1921-1923, was born near Marion, Ohio, in 1865. At age 14, Harding attended Ohio Central College, where he edited the campus newspaper and became an accomplished public speaker. He married Florence Kling de Wolfe in 1891, and embarked on his political career in 1898 by winning a seat in the Ohio legislature for two terms. Harding became Lieutenant Governor in 1903 for two years before returning to the newspaper business. While unsuccessful in a run for Governor in 1910, Harding won election to the U.S. Senate in 1914. Political insider Harry Daugherty began promoting Harding for the Republican presidential nomination in 1920. His campaign, known as “The Front Porch Campaign,” was centered on low-key speeches given from his home in Marion, Ohio, pledging to return the country to “normalcy.” Harding easily won the election, gaining 61 percent of the popular vote. On August 2, 1923, Harding died from a massive heart attack and is entombed in the Marion Cemetery. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P146_B20P42_002
Subjects: Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923; Presidential campaigns; Campaign paraphernalia; Front porch campaigns
Places: Marion (Ohio); Marion County (Ohio)