Description: Carte de visite of Pvt. Robert Coen, who served with Company A of the 43rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Company A was recruited from Bellaire, Bridgeport, & Martins Ferry, Belmont County, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV200_b03_f20_03
Subjects: Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Photographs; United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 43rd (1862-1865) Company A
Places: Bellaire (Ohio); Bridgeport (Ohio); Martins Ferry (Ohio); Belmont County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph from the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus is of William (Bill) Sevastis, a 54-year-old waiter of Belmont County, Ohio. His formal attire suggests that the photograph was taken during his trial or sentencing. was the individual to be executed via the electric chair in Ohio. Sevastis was convicted of murdering Mike Kutsos, his employer, and was the 230th individual to be executed via the electric chair in the State of Ohio. The caption at the bottom reads: "No. 230, Bill Sevastis of Belmont County, Legally Electrocuted February 26, 1941, for the Murder of Mike Kutsos, at Martins Ferry, Ohio." 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: AL08284
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); Martins Ferry (Ohio); Belmont County (Ohio)
 

Description: Girl Scout float in the Martins Ferry, Ohio, Christmas parade, 1966. The signs read "Peace on Earth" and "Duty to God and My Country." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06061
Subjects: Parades & processions; Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture; Girl Scouts
Places: Martins Ferry (Ohio); Belmont County (Ohio)
 

Description: Black Diamond Girl Scout Council Area 2 representatives receiving a "Thanks Badge," ca. 1965-1975. Pictured left to right are Sally Roberts (Wheeling), an unidentified woman, Betty Kelly (Martins Ferry) and Ethel Micker (Martins Ferry). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06063
Subjects: Girl Scouts of the United States of America; Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture; Women--Societies and clubs--Ohio
Places: Martins Ferry (Ohio); Belmont County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a portrait of journalist and author William Dean Howells, ca. 1900. Howells was born on March 1, 1837, in Martinsville (now Martins Ferry), Ohio, but later moved with his family to Hamilton, Dayton, Xenia, Columbus, Ashtabula and finally Jefferson. By his early 20s, Howells had become a newspaper reporter; he also began to write poetry and published his first collection in 1859. The Atlantic Monthly also began to publish his literary work, and Howells' reputation grew quickly. In 1860, the Republican Party selected him to write a biography of their presidential candidate, Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln won the election of 1860 and rewarded Howells by appointing him the United States Consul to Venice. Howells remained in this position until 1865, when he returned to the United States and became an editor with The Atlantic Monthly, and later with Harper's and Cosmopolitan. Howells became a well-known novelist during the late 19th century, publishing his first novel, "Their Wedding Journey," in 1872. He authored 35 novels over the next fifty years, as well as numerous short stories, plays, and poems. Howells was the first president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died on May 11, 1920. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02671
Subjects: Authors, American--Ohio; Cultural Ohio--Literary Ohio; Journalists
 

Description: Group photograph of the Black Diamond Girl Scout Council Area 2 Representatives. These scouts represented Area 2 of the Black Diamond Girl Scout Council for a statewide celebration of the 75th anniversary of the birth of the Girl Scouting movement in May 1987. Front row, from left are: Valerie Gerchow of Bellaire, Amanda Schnelle of Wheeling, Beth Ronevich of Bellaire and April Fullerton of Cameron; second row: Patty Perry of Bellaire, Carrie Dorsey of McMechen, Jennifer Hornyak of Wheeling, Dolly Groves of Cameron, Andrea Gerchow of Bellaire and Heather Martin and Melissa Carnahan, both of Wheeling; and back row: Michaelann Kalinowski of Bellaire and Carrie Stingle. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06062
Subjects: Women--Societies and clubs--Ohio; Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture; Children; Girl Scouts
Places: Martins Ferry (Ohio); Belmont County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a portrait of journalist and author William Dean Howells, seen with his wife Elinor (Mead) Howells in Venice, Italy, where he served as U.S. Consul, ca. 1862-1865. Howells was born on March 1, 1837, in Martinsville (now Martins Ferry), Ohio. By his early 20s, Howells had become a newspaper reporter; he also began to write poetry and published his first collection in 1859. The Atlantic Monthly also began to publish his literary work, and Howells' reputation grew quickly. In 1860, the Republican Party selected him to write a biography of their presidential candidate, Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln won the election of 1860 and rewarded Howells by appointing him the United States Consul to Venice. Howells remained in this position until 1865, when he returned to the United States and became an editor with The Atlantic Monthly. Howells became a well-known novelist during the late 19th century, publishing his first novel, "Their Wedding Journey," in 1872. He authored 35 novels over the next fifty years, as well as numerous short stories, plays, and poems. Howells was the first president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died on May 11, 1920. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC3403_001
Subjects: Authors, American--Ohio; Cultural Ohio--Literary Ohio; Couples; United States - Officials and employees
Places: Venice (Italy)