Description: Erwin Zepp (on the right), director of the Ohio Historical Society, pictured seated with two Society trustees. The trustees are identified as Foley (on the left) and Milligan (center). Hanging behind them is the painting "The Fighting McCook's" from the Society's fine art collection. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07536
Subjects: Other--Ohio Historical Society; Historical museums--Ohio; Employees--United States; Historical societies
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows the construction of the north side of paved drive at Fort Ancient, ca. 1900-1908. The path consists of irregularly shaped stones inserted at varying angles into the earth. The path, which curves to the right, has a shallow earthen bank on either side. The Fort Ancient Earthworks are a series of earthen embankments that extend for more than three and one half miles around a high bluff along the Little Miami River in southwestern Ohio. Although it is called a "fort," it probably never served as a defensive work. Ditches are located inside the walls rather than outside as might be expected in a fortification. There are more than 60 gateways in the walls, making it difficult to defend the site against enemies. The Hopewell culture (100 B.C. to 500 A. D.) of prehistoric American Indian people constructed the earthworks. Later native residents built a village and a cemetery within the walls of the already ancient South Fort. Archaeologists mistakenly assumed that these villagers had built the earthen walls. It was called the Fort Ancient culture (1000 A.D. to 1650 A.D.) after the name of the site. This mistake has caused confusion for later students of Ohio archaeology. Recent excavations at Fort Ancient have discovered the remains of Hopewell culture houses and ceremonial features both inside and outside of the enclosure walls. It is not known whether the houses located inside the enclosure were occupied before or after the enclosure was built. It also has yet to be determined whether the houses were the dwellings of more or less full time residents, or the temporary shelters of visitors. The Fort Ancient Earthworks is an Ohio Historical Society site open to visitation. It is located seven miles southeast of Lebanon, in Warren County, Ohio. In addition to the earthworks, the site features a museum with interpretive exhibits about Ohio's ancient past. The Fort Ancient Earthworks site also is a National Historic Landmark. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05739
Subjects: Fort Ancient (Ohio); Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1-400) (A.D. 1–400); Earthworks (Archaeology); American Indian history and society; Other--Ohio Historical Society
Places: Warren County (Ohio)
 

Description: Final home of poet Paul Laurence Dunbar at 219 Paul Laurence Dunbar Street in Dayton, Ohio, ca. 1940-1970. After Dunbar's death in 1906 his mother, Matilda Dunbar, continued to live in the house until her death in 1934. In 1936 the Dunbar house became the first state memorial to honor an African American. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01024
Subjects: Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906; Other--Ohio Historical Society
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Interior view of the Quaker Meeting House in Mount Pleasant, Ohio, 1974. It was built in 1814 and used regularly for religious services until 1909. It can accommodate up to 2,000 people. The state of Ohio acquired the meeting house in 1950 and it was restored and opened to the public by the Ohio Historical Society. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01022
Subjects: Quakers; Other--Ohio Historical Society
Places: Mount Pleasant (Ohio)
 

Description: Home of abolitionist John Rankin in Ripley, Ohio, ca. 1950-1970. The house, built in 1828, sits on a hill overlooking the Ohio River and served as an important stop on the Underground Railroad. Rankin and his wife Jane (identified in some later records as Jean) worked with their neighbors to assist thousands of slaves to escape to freedom. The house was purchased by the state of Ohio in 1938 and ten years later the Ohio Historical Society opened the refurbished site to the public. It is now a National Historic Landmark. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01027
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Ohio; Other--Ohio Historical Society; Abolitionists -- Ohio; Antislavery movements--Ohio--History--19th century
Places: Ripley (Ohio); Brown County (Ohio)
 

Description: Distant view of Seip Mound looking east, Ross County, Ohio, 1906. Seip Mound is the center mound in a group of earthworks built by the pre-historic Hopewell people, 100 BC-AD 500. William C. Mills, archeologist and curator for the Ohio Archeological and Historical Society, now the Ohio History Connection, oversaw the excavation of the mound in 1906 and 1908. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01020
Subjects: Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1-400) (A.D. 1–400); Mounds--Ohio--Ross County; Other--Ohio Historical Society
Places: Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: Exterior view of the Tallmadge Congregational Church located on the public circle in Tallmadge, Summit County, Ohio, ca. 1930 - 1939. Construction of the church building began in 1822 and the church was dedicated in 1825. The state of Ohio acquired the church in 1971. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00824
Subjects: Summit County (Ohio); Other--Ohio Historical Society
Places: Tallmadge (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of the W.P. Snyder Jr., a steam-powered paddleboat launched around 1918. The W.P. Snyder, Jr. is located at the Ohio River Museum, an Ohio History Connection site in Marietta, Ohio. It is the last intact steam-powered "pool-type" stern-wheeled towboat in the United States. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3270_001
Subjects: Steamboats; Other--Ohio Historical Society; Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development
Places: Marietta (Ohio); Washington County (Ohio)
 

Description: These three employees, who were with the Works Progress Administration, worked at the Ohio Historical Society. They are: Bolden Williams, Carl G. Beason and Margaret Clark Oakfield, 1936-1937. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02617
Subjects: African Americans--Employment; Other--Ohio Historical Society; Works Progress Administration
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Aerial view of Serpent Mound, Adams County, Ohio. It is the largest serpent effigy mound in the United States. The Ohio Historical Society has managed the site since 1900. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02747
Subjects: Adams County (Ohio); Other--Ohio Historical Society; Mounds--Ohio--Adams County; Great Serpent Mound (Ohio)
Places: Adams County (Ohio)
 

Description: Exterior view of the home of Henry C. Shetrone, archaeologist and former director of the Ohio Archeological and Historical Society, in Columbus, Ohio. Shetrone's most important work, "The Mound-Builders," published in 1930, was a comprehensive synthesis of Ohio's mound-building cultures in relation to what was then known about the archaeology of eastern North America. As director of the Ohio Historical Society, he focused his efforts on preserving archaeological sites and promoting public education about Ohio's Native American heritage. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02863
Subjects: Dwellings--Ohio; Other--Ohio Historical Society
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Two women examine the silver service from the Ohio battleship. USS Ohio (BB-12), a Maine-class battleship, was the third ship of the United States Navy named for the 17th state. Ohio was laid down on April 22, 1899, by Union Iron Works, San Francisco. She was launched on May 18, 1901. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07537
Subjects: Other--Ohio Historical Society; U.S. Navy; World War I; World War, 1914-1918--Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)