Description: Illustration of the Union army entering Richmond, Virginia on April 3, 1865, as published in "The American Soldier in the Civil War" by Frank Leslie. Caption reads; "The Federal Army Entering Richmond, VA, April 3, 1865. - Reception of the Troops in Main Street. - From a Sketch by Joseph Becker." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04609
Subjects: Soldiers; Civil War 1861-1865; United States of America; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Places: Richmond (Virginia)
 

Description: Illustration depicting the marks of punishment inflicted upon an an enslaved person in Richmond, Virginia. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_SC18_B01F16
Subjects: Slavery; Ohio History -- Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; African Americans--History
Places: Richmond (Virginia)
 

Description: Confederate currency produced in Richmond, Virginia in the amount of one dollar. Confederate currency was originally produced in the capital of Montgomery, Alabama. After Virginia seceded from the Union the capital was moved to Richmond in May 1861, where currency was then printed. Toward the end of the Civil War, the currency significantly lost value and many of the notes in existence were destroyed. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_VFM28_1
Subjects: Confederate States of America; Currency; Civil War 1861-1865
Places: Richmond (Virginia)
 

Description: Confederate currency produced in Richmond, Virginia in the amount of one dollar. Confederate currency was originally produced in the capital of Montgomery, Alabama. After Virginia seceded from the Union the capital was moved to Richmond in May 1861, where currency was then printed. Toward the end of the Civil War, the currency significantly lost value and many of the notes in existence were destroyed. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_VFM_28_2
Subjects: Confederate States of America; Currency; Civil War 1861-1865
Places: Richmond (Virginia)
 

Description: Confederate currency produced in Richmond, Virginia in the amount of one dollar. Confederate currency was originally produced in the capital of Montgomery, Alabama. After Virginia seceded from the Union the capital was moved to Richmond in May 1861, where currency was then printed. Toward the end of the Civil War, the currency significantly lost value and many of the notes in existence were destroyed. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_VFM_28_4
Subjects: Confederate States of America; Currency; Civil War 1861-1865
Places: Richmond (Virginia)
 

Description: Confederate currency produced in Richmond, Virginia in the amount of two dollars. Confederate currency was originally produced in the capital of Montgomery, Alabama. After Virginia seceded from the Union the capital was moved to Richmond in May 1861, where currency was then printed. Toward the end of the Civil War, the currency significantly lost value and many of the notes in existence were destroyed. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_VFM_28_5
Subjects: Confederate States of America; Currency; Civil War 1861-1865
Places: Richmond (Virginia)
 

Description: This illustration from Harper's Weekly depicts President Abraham Lincoln, escorted by Union soldiers, arriving in Richmond, Virginia. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_OVS25A-D_007
Subjects: African American men; African American women; Civil War 1861-1865; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Places: Richmond (Virginia)
 

Description: Illustration of the ruins of Main Street in Richmond, Virginia published in "Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War" by Alfred H. Guernsey. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04608
Subjects: Civil War 1861-1865; War damage compensation
Places: Richmond (Virginia)
 

Description: This fertilizer loader operating at a company in Richmond, Virginia was made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio. It was powered by an electric motor and could move one ton of fertilizer per minute. The bucket conveyor emptied fertilizer into a hopper where a clam shell valve was used to dispense the product into waiting carts or wheelbarrows. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00980
Subjects: Conveying machinery; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Richmond (Virginia)
 

Description: The caption reads: " 'Never too old to learn!' Carrie Kirk, an ex-slave who is 101 years of age, is a regular student in a WPA literacy class in Sterling Library, Cleveland. "Mother Kirk," as she is known to the other class members, was born on March 31, 1837, on a plantation in West Virginia. During the Civil War, her master sold her services for $100 a year as a seamstress in a large factory in Charlotte where she made Confederate uniforms. She is the mother of 16 children. she has lived in Cleveland for 18 years, having moved in 1920 from Richmond, Virginia." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F05_011_001
Subjects: Works Progress Administration; Older women; African American women--Ohio; Adult education--Ohio; Literacy; Former slaves
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Carte de visite of Major General George B. McClellan, ca. 1861-1865. McClellan was a prominent 19th century American military and political leader. He was born on December 3, 1826, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1842, McClellan received an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He graduated in 1846, ranking second in his class. McClellan resigned his army commission in 1857 to become involved in the railroad industry, and using his training in engineering from West Point, he served as an engineer for the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad and the Illinois Central Railroad. During this time, he lived primarily in Cincinnati, Ohio. With the beginning of the American Civil War in April 1861, McClellan reenlisted in the United States Army and played an important role in Ohio's early defense. Early in the war, General McClellan enhanced his reputation as a skillful military leader and was appointed as commander of the Army of the Potomac by President Abraham Lincoln. But after his unsuccessful assault on Richmond, Virginia, and his failure to defeat General Lee’s forces in the Battle of Antietam, Lincoln removed McClellan from his command in November 1862. McClellan never received another military command and later became one of Lincoln’s chief critics. In 1864, the Democratic Party selected McClellan as its presidential candidate to oppose Lincoln’s reelection, but Lincoln won the election by an overwhelming margin. McClellan resigned his commission in the United States Army and later became the governor of New Jersey from 1878 to 1881. He died on October 29, 1885. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC3535_E1_05_01
Subjects: McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Generals--United States; Military officers
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This portrait of a young girl posed outside a home with a parasol was taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912. Written on the negative is the name John Richmond of Sistersville, West Virginia. Like most of Ewing's work, it was taken in the region of southeastern Ohio and central West Virginia. Born in 1870 in Washington County, Ohio, near Marietta, Ewing most likely began his photography career in the 1890s. The 1910 US Census and a 1912-1913 directory list him as a photographer. A negative signed "Ewing Brothers" and a picture with his younger brother, Frank, indicate that Frank may have joined the business. After 1916, directories list Albert as a salesman. He died in 1934. The Ewing Collection consists of 5,055 glass plate negatives, each individually housed and numbered. Additionally, the collection includes approximately 450 modern contact prints made from the glass plate negatives. Subjects include infants and young children, elderly people, families, school and religious groups, animals and rural scenes. In 1982, the Ohio Historical Society (now the Ohio History Connection) received the collection, still housed in the original dry plate negative boxes purchased by Ewing. A selection of the original glass plate negatives were exhibited for the first time in 2013 at the Ohio History Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV71_B24_F2138
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Photographers--Ohio; Portrait photography--United States--History; Children
Places: Sistersville (West Virginia);