Description: A Columbus police officer stands with the mask of his helmet raised against a backdrop of posters and flyers along North High Street in the University District of Columbus, Ohio, during the annual Ohio State University-University of Michigan football game. The University District includes the small neighborhoods to the east and south of The Ohio State University campus on either side of the High Street corridor. The High Street Photograph Collection is comprised of over 400 photographs of High Street in Columbus, Ohio, taken in the early 1970s. These photographs were taken primarily at street level and document people and the built environment from the Pontifical College Josephinum on North High Street in Worthington through Clintonville, the University District and Short North, Downtown and South Columbus. The photographs were used in a television photo documentary that aired on WOSU called "High Street." Photographers that were involved in this project were Alfred Clarke, Carol Hibbs Kight, Darrell Muething, Clayton K. Lowe, and Julius Foris, Jr. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV254_B11F296_01
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Street photography; University District (Columbus, Ohio); Police officers; Sports rivalries
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: A police officer directs traffic in the street as pedestrians use the crosswalk during the Worthington Historical Society Flea Market, along North High Street in the Worthington suburb of Columbus, Ohio. The High Street Photograph Collection is comprised of over 400 photographs of High Street in Columbus, Ohio, taken in the early 1970s. These photographs were taken primarily at street level and document people and the built environment from the Pontifical College Josephinum on North High Street in Worthington through Clintonville, the University District and Short North, Downtown and South Columbus. The photographs were used in a television photo documentary that aired on WOSU called "High Street." Photographers that were involved in this project were Alfred Clarke, Carol Hibbs Kight, Darrell Muething, Clayton K. Lowe, and Julius Foris, Jr. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV254_B15F407_01
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Street photography; Flea markets; Police officers; Pedestrians
Places: Worthington (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Albert L. Yates, a patrolman born in Springfield, Ohio, on May 22, 1870, who was appointed to the Springfield Police Department on January 1, 1905. The first African American officers appointed to the Springfield Police Department were reported to be in the mid-1880s. The city had its first African American chief of police, James Burch, named in 1984. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: 352_2Sp8h_Yates
Subjects: African American Ohioans; Law enforcement; Police officers; City employees
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Lisbon Basey, a patrolman born in Springfield, Ohio, on February 17, 1867, who was appointed to the Springfield Police Department on November 1, 1900. The first African American officers appointed to the Springfield Police Department were reported to be in the mid-1880s. The city had its first African American chief of police, James Burch, named in 1984. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: 352_2Sp8h_Basey
Subjects: African American Ohioans; Law enforcement; Police officers; City employees
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Matthew Taylor, a patrolman born in Springfield, Ohio, on February 10, 1882, who was appointed to the Springfield Police Department on December 1, 1904. The first African American officers appointed to the Springfield Police Department were reported to be in the mid-1880s. The city had its first African American chief of police, James Burch, named in 1984. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: 352_2Sp8h_Taylor
Subjects: African American Ohioans; Law enforcement; Police officers; City employees
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: Police Officer Margaret Stiver at front desk, Columbus, Ohio, 1953. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00134
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio); Police Officers; Women--Employment; Law enforcement
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing the 3rd Precinct of the Cleveland Police Department, ca. 1878, from the collection of Louis Baus. Baus, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, was born in 1875. He began his career as a professional photographer doing studio work before becoming a staff photographer for the Cleveland Advocate in 1911. Baus worked for the paper, which was later purchased by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, for thirty-eight years until his death in 1949. He was also an avid collector of historic photographs. The Louis Baus Collection consists of over one thousand photographs mounted in eleven albums, showing historic Cleveland, the village of Zoar and Ohio covered bridges and mills. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P223_B01_A03_275
Subjects: Cleveland (Ohio); Police officers; Law enforcement; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law;
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Two black men being removed from an Austin-Healey 3000 sports car by a Cincinnati, Ohio, police officer. Rioting erupted in the Avondale section of Cincinnati, Ohio, on April 8, 1968, five days after the assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The rioting was touched off by an accidental shooting. A man, James Smith, armed with a shotgun, was trying to protect his property from looters. A person approached Smith, grabbed the barrel of the shotgun, causing the gun to accidentally fire, killing Smith's wife. A rumor spread that "a white policeman had killed a colored woman," according to the Cincinnati Enquirer, April 9, 1968. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV3_B16F28_01
Subjects: Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century; Riot control; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Law enforcement; Police officers;
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of William A. Jackson, a patrolman born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1860, who was appointed to the Lima (Ohio) Police Department in 1891. The first first African American officer appointed to the police force in Lima, Jackson retired in 1895 and reappointed in 1898. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: 352_2L626h_Jackson
Subjects: African American Ohioans; Law enforcement; Police officers; City employees
Places: Lima (Ohio); Allen County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Aytch Miller, a residential patrolman who was appointed to the Columbus Police Department on December 17, 1907. The first African American officer appointed to the Columbus Police Department is reported to be Nelson Tate, ca. 1890. The city had its first African American chief of police, James G. Jackson, named in 1990. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: 363_20977157H629c_Miller
Subjects: African American Ohioans; Law enforcement; Police officers; City employees
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Thomas H. Lonesome, a patrolman born in Virginia on April 14, 1866, who was appointed to the Youngstown (Ohio) Police Department on December 12, 1895. Lonesome and his fellow patrolman Charles Williams were among the earliest African Americans to join the police force in Youngstown in the 1890s. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: 352_2771391_Y87h_Lonesome
Subjects: African American Ohioans; Law enforcement; Police officers; City employees
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of George Gaston, a patrolman who was appointed to the Columbus Police Department on May 23, 1899. The first African American officer appointed to the Columbus Police Department is reported to be Nelson Tate, ca. 1890. The city had its first African American chief of police, James G. Jackson, named in 1990. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: 363_20977157H629c_Gaston
Subjects: African American Ohioans; Law enforcement; Police officers; City employees
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)