Description: Wood apron conveyor made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio in use at the Victor Food Corporation, Victor, New York, 1924. It was used to move husked ears of corn at this canning factory. Jeffrey drive chain and sprockets are also seen in this photograph. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01460
Subjects: Conveying machinery; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Victor (New York)
 

Description: Wood apron conveyor made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio in use at the Victor Food Corporation, Victor, New York, 1924. It was used to move husked ears of corn at this canning factory. Overhead can be seen drive shafts, pulleys and belts that powered factory machinery. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01461
Subjects: Conveying machinery; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Victor (New York)
 

Description: A portrait of Clark Gable associated with his MGM film "The Hucksters". Clark Gable was born in 1901 in Cadiz, Ohio. His mother died shortly after his birth, so Gable lived with his grandparents until his father remarried in 1907. His step mother, Jennie Dunlap, encouraged him to read and learn music. When his father, William, bought a farm, he wanted Gable to work the farm, but Jennie convinced him not to. Instead, Gable worked in theater companies in New York and Kansas. Gable moved to Portland, Oregon, where he met Josephine Dillon, an acting teacher. She took an interest in Gable, gave him acting lessons and fixed his hair and teeth. They moved to Hollywood together and were married in 1924. Gable struggled to find acting roles because of his large ears. His break came from his supporting role in The Painted Desert (1931), which impressed Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) executives into signing Gable. Over the next several years Gable became a Hollywood leading man. He appeared in movies such as Red Dust (1932), Dancing Lady (1933), It Happened One Night (1934), and many others. In 1939, he appeared in what was perhaps his most famous role as Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind. Gable married his third wife, Carole Lombard, in 1939, but the actress was killed in a plane crash in 1942. After her death, Gable left Holylwood to join the Army Air Corps, where he served as a tail gunner in World War II. He received the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal. After the war, he returned to acting. Some of his well known films include The Hucksters (1947), Mogambo (1953), and The Misfits (1961), in which Marilyn Monroe costarred. Gable died from a heart attack on November 16, 1960. By his death Gable had starred in sixty-five films. The Hucksters follows the story of war veteran Victor Albee Norman (Gable), who goes to New York to look for work in advertising. After landing a job at the Kimberly Advertising Agency, he is assigned to work with the Evans Beauty Soap company, run by the unconventional Mr. Evan Llewellyn Evans (Sydney Greenstreet), where he meets Kay Dorrance (Deborah Kerr). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07665
Subjects: Actors; Motion picture film--History; Motion picture industry
 

Description: This image is a black-and-white photographic reproduction of a watercolor painting by Ulysses S. Grant in 1841, when he was a cadet attending the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York. Grant was an average student, although he excelled in mathematics and horsemanship. He also studied art and painting at West Point and completed many sketches and paintings as a cadet. In this painting Grant portrays a trade bargaining session between two men, one of them a Native American. A Native American woman holding an infant stands behind the man who is wearing a cap and holding a light-colored blanket. This painting is displayed in the West Point Museum. Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822-1885) was a U.S. military leader and the eighteenth President of the United States. He was born Hiram Ulysses Grant on April 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio. In 1823, his family moved to Georgetown, Ohio. Grant lived there until he received an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point in July 1839. The congressman who appointed Grant submitted his name as Ulysses Simpson Grant rather than Hiram Ulysses Grant. It was because of this mistake that Grant changed his name. Grant graduated from West Point in 1843. He ranked twenty-first in a class of thirty-nine students. His first assignment was in the Southwest. Grant served under General Zachary Taylor in the Mexican-American War. He remained in the West following the war. In 1852, after quarreling with a higher-ranking officer, Grant resigned his commission. At the outbreak of the Civil War he organized a company in Galena and later accepted command of the 21st Illinois Regiment. In August 1861, President Abraham Lincoln made Grant brigadier general of volunteers. In March 1864, President Lincoln promoted Grant to lieutenant general and named him supreme commander of all Union forces. Under his leadership the Union Army emerged the victor in April 1865. Grant served as U.S. president from 1869-1877. He spent his last years in New York, writing his memoirs. He died on July 23, 1885, of throat cancer. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04524
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885; Paintings; American Indian history and society; West Point Museum; Ohio History--Military Ohio
Places: West Point (New York)