Description: A photograph of the United States Capitol building, located in Washington DC. This photograph was taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912. 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 received the collection, still housed in the original dry plate negative boxes purchased by Albert J. Ewing. A selection of the original glass plate negatives were exhibited for the first time in 2013 at the Ohio Historical Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV71_b04_f250
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Landscape photography; United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
Places: Washington DC
 

Description: This certificate is in an black, oak frame. The document reads: "DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR WASHINGTON DC THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT THE HISTORIC BUILDING KNOWN AS THE SEWING HOUSE IN THE COUNTY OF TUSCARAWAS AND THE STATE OF OHIO HAS BEEN SELECTED BY THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE OF THE BUILDINGS SURVEY AS POSSESSING EXCEPTIONAL HISTORIC OR ARCHITECTURAL INTEREST AND AS BEING WORTHY OF MOST CAREFUL PRESERVATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF FUTURE GENERATIONS AND THAT TO THIS END A RECORD OF ITS PRESENT APPEARANCE AND CONDITION HAS BEEN MADE AND DEPOSITED FOR PERMANENT REFERENCE IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ATTEST [SIGNATURE] [SIGNATURE] Distract Officer Secretary of the Interior View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H9190
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Documents
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of the aftermath of the hanging of four of conspirators convicted in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Size 7 7/8" X 5 1/2". The execution took place on July 7, 1865 at the Old Arsenal in Washington D.C. Executed were David E. Harold, Lewis Payne, Mrs. Mary E Surratt and George A. Azterott. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV83_B01F01_002
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Pictorial works
Places: Washington DC
 

Description: Photograph taken by an unknown photographer of President Nixon, his cabinet, and advisors holding up Joe Munroe's famous ""Loving Pigs"" print with the caption ""Hogs are Beautiful!"" Joe 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_B34_F2464_JPG267
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Presidents; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994; Portrait photography
Places: Washington DC
 

Description: Portrait of William Tecumseh Sherman in military uniform, painted by George Peter Alexander Healy (181301894), ca. 1865-1870. This painting is a watercolor study for an oil portrait that hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC. The watercolor is part of the fine art collection of the Ohio Historical Society. Sherman was a prominent nineteenth-century military leader born on February 8, 1820, in Lancaster, Ohio. He played an important role for the Union during the Civil War, including during the Battle of Shiloh, the Battle of Chattanooga and the "March to the Sea" following the fall of Atlanta in 1864. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05053
Subjects: Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891; Civil War 1861-1865; Ohio History--Military Ohio
 

Description: Carte de visite photograph of General Joseph Eggleston Johnston, from the William T. Sherman Photograph Album, ca. 1865-1880. Joseph Eggleston Johnston was born in Farmville, Virginia, on February 3, 1807. He was educated at the United States Military Academy and graduated in 1829, 13th out of 46 cadets. He served as a top-ranking general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War and died in Washington DC on March 21, 1891. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04333
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Confederate States of America; Generals--United States
 

Description: A photograph of Warren G. Harding's dog, Laddie Boy in a music store window. The sign reads "Laddie Boy the Airdale dog to be presented to Pres. Harding at Washington DC March 6, 1921 Caswell Kennels. The kennels were located in Toledo, Ohio. Laddie Boy was born on July 26, 1920 and died on January 23, 1929. He was the first prominent White House dog. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08535
Subjects: Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923; Dogs
Places: Toledo (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing Temperance protestors outside an unidentified Ohio saloon. During the late 1800s, support for Prohibition ("the outlawing of alcohol's manufacture, transportation, and consumption") gained tremendous support. On May 24, 1893, temperance advocates in Ohio formed the Ohio Anti-Saloon League in Oberlin, Ohio. This organization's members believed that American society was in moral decline. As people moved from rural areas to urbanized ones, many Americans believed that they were losing touch with their religious values. One way that people were violating God's desires was by consuming alcohol. The Ohio Anti-Saloon League hoped to prohibit alcohol by enforcing existing laws and by implementing new ones. This same year, temperance supporters in Washington, DC, formed their own Anti-Saloon League. In 1895, the Ohio and Washington organizations united to create the National Anti-Saloon League, which eventually became the Anti-Saloon League of America. The Anti-Saloon League adopted Prohibition as its primary goal, but also sought to eliminate bars, taverns, and saloons, believing that these businesses promoted the consumption of alcohol. For the first fifteen years of its existence, the Anti-Saloon League and its subsidiaries focused on implementing anti-alcohol laws in local communities. As support grew, including among such prominent Americans as John D. Rockefeller, the League began a national campaign to implement Prohibition. In 1913, the League sponsored a parade in Washington, DC. At the gathering's conclusion, the League's superintendent, Purley Baker, presented an amendment to the United States Congress and to the House of Representatives. This amendment would be the basis for the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which made Prohibition the law of the land. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P156_B02F09_001_01
Subjects: Temperance--History; Alcohol; Women--Societies and clubs--Ohio;
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Three 5" by 7" (12.7 by 17.8 cm) photographs depict some of the celebrations in honor of the 150th anniversary of the Treaty of Greenville, which took place in August 1945. Events included a parade, an appreciation dinner for artist Howard Chandler Christy, and exhibition of the original Treaty of Greenville, on loan from the National Archives. The state of Ohio commissioned Christy (1873-1952), a nationally-known illustrator, to create the work for the 150th anniversary of the treaty that ended the Indian Wars in Ohio. The painting "The Signing of the Treaty of Greene Ville" was unveiled in a ceremony on August 3. Christy (in the white suit) can be seen sitting on the left in the first and second images. Governor Frank Lausche is seated next to him and can be seen addressing the crowd in the third image. Christy, born just south of Zanesville in Duncan Falls, Ohio, went to New York to study art at the age of sixteen. He began working at Scribner's Magazine in 1898 as an illustrator. During the Spanish American War, his illustrations of Cuba and Puerto Rico were seen around the United States. He returned to Duncan Falls after the war and began painting. By the early twentieth century Christy's elegant illustrations of women, collectively called "Christy Girls," appeared in Scribner's, Century, Ladies Home Journal, McClure's, and several books. Christy Girls were also used in recruitment posters during World War I. Christy began painting portraits after World War I; his best-known subjects were Calvin Coolidge, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Amelia Earhart, and Douglas MacArthur. The Depression of the 1930s changed Christy's artistic emphasis to historical subjects. In addition to the Greenville painting, Christy painted the "Scene of the Signing of the Constitution of the United States," which hangs in the Capitol in Washington, DC. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3220_3832019_001a
Subjects: Ohio Government; Military Ohio; American Indians in Ohio; Arts and Entertainment; Christy, Howard Chandler, 1873-1952; Treaty of Greenville; Treaties; Celebrations; Lausche, Frank John, b. 1895; Governors; Artists
Places: Greenville (Ohio); Darke County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Charles Dick, stationed at Camp McKinley with the Ohio National Guard in 1903. Charles William Frederick Dick was born in Akron, Ohio, on November 3, 1858. He studied law and was admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1894 and set up practice in his hometown. Dick briefly left his legal practice to serve in the Eighth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, during the Spanish-American War. When the war ended, Dick returned to Akron and his law career. Associating himself with the Republican Party, Dick first entered politics as Summit County auditor from 1886 to 1894. He also was very active in the national Republican Party, serving as secretary of the Republican National Committee from 1896 to 1900. When Congressman Stephen A. Northway died in office in 1898, Dick was appointed to replace him in the U.S. House of Representatives. He subsequently gained reelection three times. Dick resigned from his seat in 1904 in order to accept appointment as a senator. Once again, Dick was replacing an Ohioan who had died in office -- Marcus A. Hanna. He served in the Senate from 1904 until 1911, when he failed to win reelection. After leaving the Senate, Dick resumed his legal practice in both Washington, DC, and Akron. He reentered the political arena once again in 1922, when he attempted to become the Republican candidate for the Senate, but was unsuccessful. Dick died in Akron, Ohio, on March 13, 1945. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC2394_Charles_Dick_001
Subjects: Spanish-American War, 1898; Military life; Soldiers--Ohio--Photographs; Politicians; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law;
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio);
 

Description: This pro-Garfield illustration depicts presidential candidate James Garfield as a farmer cutting down grass and snakes with a scythe on his way towards the White House. The scythe is labeled "Honesty, Ability and Patriotism," while the evils he is cutting down are symbolized as snakes labeled "Malice," "Defamation," "Hatred," "Venom" and "Fraud." Beneath his feet are two snakes named "Calumny" and "Falsehood." The cartoon is captioned "Farmer Garfield Cutting a Swath to the White House," and was published by Currier and Ives in 1880. Born in Orange, Ohio, Garfield spent time teaching at Hiram College and attained the rank of major general in the Civil War. He served nine consecutive terms in the House of Representatives before he was elected President of the United States in 1880, but served for only four months before he was shot by Charles J. Guiteau while waiting for a train in Washington, DC. Garfield lived for two more months, before dying on September 19, 1881. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04094
Subjects: Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Presidential campaigns; Assassinations
 

Description: This photograph album commemorates the trip President Warren G. Harding and First Lady Florence Harding took to the territory of Alaska in July 1923. It was presented by the Seattle Chamber of Commerce to President Harding at Tacoma, Washington, on July 5, 1923. Included are photographs of locations visited on the trip, including the Inside Passage, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau, Seward, Turnagain Arm, Mt. McKinley and more, as well as a fold-out map of the Alaska Territory. The cross-country train journey undertaken by the Hardings from Washington, DC, to Alaska was called the "Voyage of Understanding." It included numerous stops along the route where Harding had speaking engagements, and culminated in the first-ever presidential visit to the territory of Alaska, from July 5 through July 26. The trip was taken in spite of the president's failing health, and on August 2, Harding suffered a heart attack while touring the western United States. He died August 2, 1923, at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, California. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Page1
Subjects: Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923; Harding, Florence Kling, 1860-1924; Presidents--United States--1920-1930; Travel
Places: Alaska