Description: A photo of workmen working on foundation construction of garage and workshop. This project was approved for construction on November 14, 1934. It was built to be a three truck and one car garage with a workshop and a little storage space. The photo was used as the frontispiece of the monthly progress report for Fort Hill State Park, December 1934 - January 1935. The photo was taken as part of Project No. 28b, Other Structures. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: 3076_89_11_dec34_b35_29
Subjects: Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); New Deal, 1933-1939; Fort Hill State Memorial (Ohio); Building
Places: Hillsboro (Ohio); Highland County (Ohio)
 

Description: A camp training certificate from the Reserve Officers' Training Corps awarded to Thurston E. Jamison. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS26_B01F01
Subjects: African Americans; African American soldiers; Jamison, Thurston E.; Reserve Officers' Training Corps; United States Army; Certificates
Places: Fort Washington (Maryland)
 

Description: Photograph showing the former home and grounds of John Rankin, a Presbyterian minister who assisted around 2,000 runaway slaves to find freedom. From his home on top of Liberty Hill, he would signal to runaway slaves when it was safe to cross the Ohio River. They then climbed 100 wooden steps to the house, where he would give them shelter and food before they continued their journey to Canada. The house was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 9, 2012. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Series6560AV_B07F13_001_001
Subjects: Underground Railroad; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Rankin House; Zoar (Tuscarawas County, Ohio)
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This pen holder is made of red plastic. It has a reservoir and nib. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H79369
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Pens (drawing and writing)
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This pair of wire nippers is made of iron painted black. "X/X3" is marked on the nippers. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H72284
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Tools and equipment; Cutting tools
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated 1920, this photograph shows Florence Kling Harding, wife of Warren G. Harding, standing outside near their home in Marion, Ohio. 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 (1921-1923), was born in Blooming Grove, Ohio, in 1865. At age 14, Harding attended Ohio Central College in Iberia, Ohio, 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 1900 by winning a seat in the Ohio legislature. After serving two terms as an Ohio Senator, Harding served as Lieutenant Governor in 1904 for two years before returning to the newspaper business. Although he lost the 1910 gubernatorial race, Harding was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1914. Political insider Harry Daugherty promoted Harding for the Republican presidential nomination in 1920. His front porch campaign was centered on speeches given from his home in Marion, Ohio, pledging to return the country to “normalcy” in this post World War I era. Harding easily won the election, gaining 61 percent of the popular vote. On August 2, 1923, Harding unexpectedly died from a massive heart attack while touring the western United States, and is entombed in the Marion Cemetery. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P146_B20F71_002
Subjects: Harding, Florence Kling, 1860-1924; First ladies (United States); Ohio women; Presidential campaigns
Places: Marion (Ohio); Marion County (Ohio)
 

Description: Even with technological advancements in the years following World War II, some farms still picked cotton by hand. The three workers pictured here, photographed by Joe Munroe in 1960, carry sacks with them that they will fill throughout the day. Munroe's career began in 1939 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He served in the Air Force during World War II and then joined Cincinnati-based Farm Quarterly magazine. Though raised in Detroit, agriculture became an important subject of Joe's photographs. He moved to California in 1955 and free-lanced, taking magazine assignments and selling his own work. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P400_B11_F01_002
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Cotton picking; Farming; Cotton-picking machinery; Farm equipment
Places: Plainview (Texas)
 

Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the route of the Ohio and Erie Canal in Ross County, Ohio, between stations 236 and 368. The Scioto River, Norfolk and Western Railroad, and locks along the route are also noted. The map was created under the direction of the members of the Canal Commission of the state of Ohio and approved by the Chief Engineer of the Department of Public Works (variously referred to as the Board of Public Works and the Division of Public Works). The Ohio and Erie Canal was constructed between 1825 and 1832, eventually connecting Cleveland and Lake Erie with Portsmouth and the Ohio River. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: BV4918_001
Subjects: Maps; Ohio and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio; Rivers--Ohio
Places: Ross County (Ohio);
 

Description: Regimental colors of the 21st Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry. Rectangular flag measures 180 cm high by 188 cm wide. Text on flag reads: 21st Reg. Ohio, Vet. Vol. Inft'. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01921
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio History--Military Ohio
 

Description: Photographic postcard with the text "Between the halves at a division team football game - Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio," ca. 1918. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03372
Subjects: Sports; Football
Places: Chillicothe (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: "General Jacquiminot" rose, a plate from "The Specimen Book of Fruits, Flowers, and Ornamental Trees Carefully Drawn and Colored from Nature for the Use of Nurserymen," by Frank Morse. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04828
Subjects: Gardens; Gardening; Flowers; Ohio Economy--Agriculture
Places: Rochester (New York)
 

Description: Photographic reproduction of a print depicting Arthur St. Clair (1736-1818), who served as the territorial governor of the Northwest Territory from 1788 to 1802. As Ohio moved towards statehood, St. Clair actively opposed Ohio's admittance to the United States. He hoped that what is now Ohio would not become a single state but rather two states. If this occurred, St. Clair believed that the Federalists would outnumber the Democratic-Republicans, which would allow the Federalists to continue to control the government of the new states. Because of this opposition, President Thomas Jefferson eventually removed St. Clair as governor prior to Ohio's admission to the Union in 1803. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06998
Subjects: Northwest Territory--Politics and government; Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood
Places: Ohio