Description: Photograph of the 48th Annual Reunion of the 17th Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry, at General William Tecumseh Sherman's Birthplace, Lancaster, Ohio, September 26, 1928. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03362
Subjects: Fairfield County (Ohio); Ohio History--Military Ohio; Veterans; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Places: Lancaster (Ohio); Fairfield County (Ohio)
 

Description: The caption on this monument reads: "In memory of the veterns of the World War" View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F10_057
Subjects: Monuments--Ohio; Veterans
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Reverse reads: “Greene County, Xenia, Ohio, Oct. 13, 1936 State 14-29-992 WPA 11355 - Ohio Soldiers & Sailors Orphan’s Home. View of Tile Yard, where the concrete tiles are being made for the storm sewer being installed in Home Grounds.” Established in 1869, the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home was established by the Grand Army of the Republic, a veterans' organization of Union soldiers who fought in the American Civil War. Originally, the institution was shelter to children who had lost their fathers during the American Civil War. Later, the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home was open to orphans of all military conflicts. Children at the institution received a traditional education, and the boys received military training. In 1901, Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home became the largest the institution of its kind in the world, with nine hundred residing children. The institution ceased operation in 1997. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F09_001_1
Subjects: Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home; Orphans; Social services--Ohio; Veterans
Places: Xenia (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
 

Description: Handwritten on reverse: "Veterans of Civil, Spanish - American and World War outside the Eagles Home, Steubenville. J. E. Bishop." This photograph shows a large group of people standing and sitting, posed, in front of the Fraternal Order of Eagles building in Steubenville, Ohio. The house is decorated in red, white and blue, with American Flags waving everywhere. A flag hangs at the top of the house which reads: "Steubenville, O. F.O.E. 421." The five Civil War Veterans seated at the front of the photograph, all wearing Grand Army of the Republic ribbons, appear together in another photograph. Just right of center stands a group of men wearing kilts , some holding bagpipes. The light colored uniforms bear "F.O.E. 412" on the collars. An embossed stamp reads: "Ideal Studio. C. M. Caruso." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F06_022_001
Subjects: Veterans--Ohio; Fraternal Order of Eagles; Veterans--Ohio; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Veterans; Grand Army of the Republic. Dept. of Ohio
Places: Steubenville (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Dr. John G. F. Holston. Holston was born in 1809 in Hamburg, Germany. After travelling the world as a cabin boy, he landed in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, where he attended Washington College and graduated with honors. He attended Cleveland College where he studied medicine. He was later called to be chair of surgery in the National Medical College at Washington. He served in the Civil War for the Union, and was eventually promoted to serve as medical director in General Ulysses S. Grant’s staff. After the war, he opened a medical practice in Zanesville, Ohio, but soon moved back to Washington D.C., where he was appointed a professor of anatomy at Georgetown Medical School and served as physician to President Grant’s family. Holston married Mary Ann Campbell, with whom he had eight children. He died on May 1, 1874 at the age of sixty-five. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07669
Subjects: Medicine--History; Zanesville (Ohio); Veterans; Immigrants--Ohio
 

Description: Dated January 1938, this photograph shows the The Dayton Soldiers' Home, with a caption that reads "Old Barracks #9, 10, 11, 12 at Soldiers' Home." The Dayton Soldiers' Home, originally known as the Central Branch of The National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (NHDVS), was made possible by congressional legislation signed by President Abraham Lincoln on March 3, 1865. The Central Branch was one of the original three branches that served the disabled Veterans of the Civil War. National focus was placed on the hospital, which opened in 1870 and was widely regarded as the best hospital in the United States at that time. National focus was also placed on the Home Church since it was the first permanent church constructed by the U.S. Government. Today, it is the site of the Dayton VA Medical Center. This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F05_034_001
Subjects: Soldiers' homes--Ohio--Dayton; Veterans--Medical care; Barracks; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Jefferson County. Civil War vets." This photograph shows four men, all Civil War veterans, standing on the steps of a building. Three of the men wear Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) ribbons in memoriam of E. M. Stanton. The man second from the right is wearing a hearing device, which looks similar to those invented around 1910 by Akustik Gesellschaft, of Germany. A stamp on the front of the photograph reads: "Ideal Filson Photo. 1931." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F06_023_001
Subjects: Veterans--Ohio; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Veterans; Grand Army of the Republic. Dept. of Ohio
Places: Steubenville (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: Handwritten note of reverse reads: "The last roll call. Civil War vets in front of Stanton's statue. Sort of a striking future all these are dead now. Can get their names if needed - Jene E. Bishop." This photograph shows five men, veterans of the Civil War, standing in front of the Edwin Stanton statue which stands on the steps of the Jefferson County Courthouse in Steubenville, Ohio. All the men wear a badge and ribbon. A photographer's mark on the front of the photo reads: "Ideal Photo" Four of the men wear a ribbon which reads "In Memoriam. E. M. Stanton, G. A. R. (Grand Army of the Republic) Steubenville, Ohio." The man second from the left has only one arm. The man second from the right is wearing an electric hearing device, which were invented in the early 1900s) and his ribbon clearly reads "Henry Hale" (fought in the Civil War Company G, 43rd Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Died May 19, 1862) The engraved plaque on the front of the statue reads: "Edwin McMasters Stanton. Born in this city December 19, 1814. U.S. Attorney General 1860 1861. Secretary of War 1862 1868. U.S. Supreme Court 1869. Died December 24, 1869. Erected 1911." The Edwin M. Stanton Monument stands in front of the Jefferson County Courthouse, at 301 Market Street. The 18 foot bronze likeness of Stanton, unveiled in 1906, was sculpted by Alexander Doyle of Steubenville. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F06_001_001
Subjects: Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Veterans; Grand Army of the Republic. Dept. of Ohio; Stanton, Edwin McMasters, 1814-1869--Statues' Doyle, Alexander, 1857-1922
Places: Steubenville (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: Members of the United Spanish War Veterans of Ohio posed in uniform with weapons. The U.S.W.V. was a fraternal organization that eventually included men who fought in the Spanish American War, the Philippine Insurrection and the China Relief Mission. It was organized into "Departments" by state, and then into smaller groups called "Camps." The organization lasted until 1992, when its last remaining member died at age 106. The Spanish American War was the shortest war in United States history, lasting less than four months. More than 15,000 Ohioans served in the militia and the volunteer army during the war during this time. Of those, few were involved in major action, although 230 died of disease. The Treaty of Paris, negotiated in part by Ohioan Whitelaw Reid, formally ended the war on December 10, 1898, and Spain relinquished to U.S. control the territories of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC1279_10_01
Subjects: Spanish-American War, 1898; Veterans; Soldiers--Ohio; Military Ohio; Fraternal organizations;
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Group photograph showing members of the United Spanish War Veterans. The U.S.W.V. was a fraternal organization that eventually included men who fought in the Spanish American War, the Philippine Insurrection and the China Relief Mission. It was organized into "Departments" by state, and then into smaller groups called "Camps." The organization lasted until 1992, when its last remaining member died at age 106. The Spanish American War was the shortest war in United States history, lasting less than four months. More than 15,000 Ohioans served in the militia and the volunteer army during the war during this time. Of those, few were involved in major action, although 230 died of disease. The Treaty of Paris, negotiated in part by Ohioan Whitelaw Reid, formally ended the war on December 10, 1898, and Spain relinquished to U.S. control the territories of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC1279_11_01
Subjects: Spanish-American War, 1898; Veterans; Soldiers--Ohio; Military Ohio; Fraternal organizations;
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Group photograph of former Department Commanders of Ohio for the United Spanish War Veterans, June 26-29, 1927. Names are provided on the back of the photograph. Front row (left to right): "Chas. F. Cramer (Past dept. com. & pc-c), Chas. C. Chapp (p. dept. com.), Geo. W. Cunningham (p.d.c.), Syl. Garver (p.d.c.), Myer Geberd (p.d.c.), Harry Syfert." Middle row (left to right): "Alex Frank, Frank Arch, Ben F. Atkinson, Jos. V. Hirsch, O. Noble, August Rupinaw, John G. De Camp." Back row (left to right): Albert Dalnard (p.c.c.-p.d.c.), Ray E. Layton, Ralph H. Carroll, Clarence W. Brinkle, Chas. S. Wragg." The United Spanish War Veterans was a fraternal organization that eventually included men who fought in the Spanish American War, the Philippine Insurrection and the China Relief Mission. It was organized into "Departments" by state, and then into smaller groups called "Camps." The organization lasted until 1992, when its last remaining member died at age 106. The Spanish American War was the shortest war in United States history, lasting less than four months. More than 15,000 Ohioans served in the militia and the volunteer army during the war during this time. Of those, few were involved in major action, although 230 died of disease. The Treaty of Paris, negotiated in part by Ohioan Whitelaw Reid, formally ended the war on December 10, 1898, and Spain relinquished to U.S. control the territories of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC1279_12_01
Subjects: Spanish-American War, 1898; Veterans; Soldiers--Ohio; Military Ohio; Fraternal organizations;
Places: Bucyrus (Ohio); Crawford County (Ohio)
 

Description: Members of the Brotherhood of the Forgotten Warriors, a Vietnam veterans group, are shown in this photograph taken for publication in the Columbus Free Press newspaper by photographer Allen Zak, 1983. They are identified in an accompanying caption as: (back row) Lori Ashline, Don Ashline, Pat Strawser and Mike Kinser; and (front row) the two Ashline children, Jim Nuzum and Marsha Giffin. The Columbus Free Press began as a bi-weekly publication in Columbus, Ohio, in 1970. An underground newspaper, it replaced the Ohio State University publication The People, Yes. The earliest known issue of the newspaper appeared on January 4, 1971. The newspaper underwent a series of name changes over the decades, with titles including the Columbus Free Press & Cowtown Times (1972-1976), the Columbus Freepress (1976-1992) and The Free Press (1992-1995). The paper, which covered many liberal and progressive causes, was an alternative to mainstream news sources in central Ohio with the slogan “The Other Side of the News.” In 1995, the paper ceased publication briefly before reemerging as a website in early 1996, and returning as a print publication under the Free Press title in the form of a quarterly journal in 1998. Published under various frequencies during the first part of the 21st century, the Free Press again became a nonprofit monthly publication in 2017 with both a print and web presence, published by the Columbus Institute for Contemporary Journalism and operated by a volunteer staff and board. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1301AV_B04F19_01
Subjects: Vietnam War (1961-1975); Activism; Veterans; Military service; Soldiers--Ohio;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)