Description: This color image shows the interior of the Ulysses S. Grant birthplace, located in Point Pleasant, Ohio. The room includes a brick fireplace, a mantel painted turquoise blue, a wooden table and serving items, a corner cabinet, and wooden bench. Hiram Ulysses Grant was born in this one-story, timber-frame home on April 27, 1822, to Jesse and Hannah Simpson Grant. The Grants settled in Point Pleasant the previous year, and Jesse took charge of the tannery located near the cottage. The cabin was removed from its foundation in Point Pleasant in 1888 and placed aboard a boat for exhibition in Cincinnati. Afterwards it was moved to Goodale Park (Columbus, Ohio) as part of the Northwest Territory centennial. During the 1890s the cabin was returned to the fairgrounds in Columbus. It remained there until 1936, when the Ohio Historical Society, under a legislative order, returned it to its original site in Point Pleasant, Ohio. The dismantling of the badly deteriorated cabin for relocation occurred in February 1936 at the Columbus Fairgrounds. The cabin was restored with period furniture and opened to public tours. The Grant Birthplace memorial is located at 1551 State Rt 232, in Point Pleasant (Clermont County), just off of U.S. Route 52, about five miles east of New Richmond. Ulysses Simpson Grant was an American military leader and the eighteenth president of the United States. He served in the Mexican War but was never happy with military life and resigned his commission in 1854. 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 1864 Grant became lieutenant general commanding all the armies of the U.S. He served as U.S. president from 1869-1877. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07014
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885; Birthplaces; Point Pleasant (Ohio); Clermont County (Ohio)
Places: Point Pleasant (Ohio); Clermont County (Ohio)
 

Description: Aerial view of the southern end of the South Bass Island in Lake Erie, the location of South Bass Island Light lighthouse. South Bass Island Light was brought into service in 1897 and is considered to be the only lighthouse in the United States to be owned by a university - the Ohio State University. It was constructed on Parker Point on the southwest corner of the island to help mark the passage from Sandusky to Toledo. In 1962 the light was deactivated and the lens was transferred to the Lake Erie Island Historical Museum. The Ohio State University took the permanent possession of the lighthouse in 1997 and currently uses it to house researchers and staff, occasionally making it available for tours. The lighthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 5, 1990. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07512
Subjects: Lighthouses--Ohio; Lake Erie Islands (Ohio); Erie, Lake, Coast (Ohio); Great Lakes (North America); National Register of Historic Places
Places: South Bass Island (Ohio); Ottawa County (Ohio); Lake Erie
 

Description: Photograph taken during the surrender of Major General Iguchi, Commanding General, 80th Brigade, Imperial Japanese Army, to Major General Robert Beightler, Commanding General, 37th Infantry Division. This event took place on Tuguegarao, Luzon, Philippines, September 5, 1945. The 37th Infantry was nicknamed the Buckeye Division because it was originally comprised of Ohio National Guard units. The division went into combat in April 1943 on Guadacanal, Solomon Islands and spent over 600 days in action before the end of the war, more combat time than any other division. The 37th Infantry played a significant role in the invasion of the Phillippines. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P295_B06_F126_02
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Soldiers--Ohio;
Places: Tuguegarao, Luzon (Philippines);
 

Description: Photograph showing a section of Walhalla Ravine (now Walhalla Road) in the Clintonville neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. The ravine got its name from Mathias Armbruster, an early settler in the neighborhood who lived at the intersection of Walhalla and North High Street. Armbruster was a native of Germany whose interest in Norse mythology inspired the name of the ravine (after the paradise reserved for Norse warriors killed in battle) as well as several other streets in the vicinity. This image was included in a "Memory Book" compiled by Mrs. H. V. Cottrell, historian for the Clinton League (sometimes called the Clinton Welfare League) from 1938-1943. The book shows the development of the Clintonville neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio, and records the history of the League. The Clinton League was a women's group founded in 1912 to promote child welfare and later general welfare in Columbus, but which was based in and primarily focused on the area of Clintonville. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P285_MB1_030
Subjects: Clintonville (Ohio); Clinton League; Women--Charities; Columbus (Ohio)--History
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1935-1965, this photograph shows inmates working in the fields at the Ohio Reformatory for Women. Farming and gardening was one of the vocational trades offered to inmates at the Reformatory. In 1911, the Ohio General Assembly authorized the establishment of a separate women’s penal institution. On September 1, 1916, the Ohio Reformatory for Women opened in Marysville, Ohio, with a population of 34 inmates. When Marguerite Reilley was appointed superintendent of the Reformatory in 1935, she found dirty and unkempt inmates with excessively restricted living habits. She instituted the “human being” program which provided recreation, entertainment, jobs, and vocational training for the inmates. State Archived Series 1679 AV consists of 234 photographs which illustrate daily life in the Ohio Reformatory for Women, as well as photographs of the buildings and grounds, superintendents Marguerite Reilley and Martha Wheeler, and notorious inmate Velma West. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1679AV_B01_F14_003
Subjects: Photography--Ohio; Ohio Reformatory for Women; Prisons; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections; Agriculture; Gardening
Places: Marysville (Ohio); Union County (Ohio)
 

Description: Taken by the Ohio Contractors Association, this photograph shows men installing a large concrete pipeline at an unidentified location in Ohio, ca. 1967. The Ohio Contractors Association Collection includes photographs and negatives of heavy construction projects in Ohio for use in the Ohio Contractors Magazine, with particular emphasis on highway construction and other public works projects throughout the state. The Ohio Contractors Association was founded in Columbus, Ohio, in 1918. Members of the organization include construction companies, suppliers, engineers and other service providers involved in the construction of highways and utilities throughout Ohio. Its purpose is to promote the construction and upkeep of airport facilities, mass transportation, recreational facilities, roadways, and water delivery, treatment and conservation systems. Members are also involved in the construction and upkeep of the utility systems that provide electricity, natural gas, oil and telecommunication lines to Ohio's homes and businesses. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV127_B01F17_001
Subjects: Construction; Public works; Laborers; Ohio Contractors Association
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Three workers inspect grapes in a vineyard of off Route 23 south of Columbus, Ohio. Vintners have produced wine in Ohio since 1823, and there are currently over 100 commercial wineries in Ohio. The High Street Photograph Collection is comprised of over 400 photographs of High Street in Columbus, Ohio, taken in the early 1970s. These photographs were taken primarily at street level and document people and the built environment from the Pontifical College Josephinum on North High Street in Worthington through Clintonville, the University District and Short North, Downtown and South Columbus. The photographs were used in a television photo documentary that aired on WOSU called "High Street." Photographers that were involved in this project were Alfred Clarke, Carol Hibbs Kight, Darrell Muething, Clayton K. Lowe, and Julius Foris, Jr. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV254_B02F022_01
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Street photography; Vineyards; Laborers; Grape growers;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Taken in 1971 by U.S. Army medic Charles Tweel, this photograph shows a carpenter in Hue, Vietnam, building something out of wooden ammunition boxes. This photograph is part of the Charles Tweel Collection (AV 324) at the Ohio History Connection. Charles Tweel grew up in Columbus, Ohio, and attended The Ohio State University. After graduation in 1968, he enlisted in the U.S. Army as a non-combatant, first training as a medic at Fort Sam Huston, followed by nine months of additional training at Valley Forge General Hospital in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. He finished his training as a Specialist 3 and 91C, MOS, and went on to serve in Bamberg, Germany, with combat engineers for one year. In January 1971, Tweel served in Vietnam with the Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion (Air Mobile), 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, based out of Camp Evans near Phu Bai, north of Hue, until December of that year. Tweel spent most of his service on various firebases as the medic in charge, and occasionally shared firebases with South Vietnamese soldiers. He also visited MedCAP stations (Medical Civic Action Programs) where he treated civilians. Tweel received the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious achievement, and was promoted to Specialist 5 in 1971. After discharge from the Army, he went to medical school and was in private practice as a family practitioner from 1979-2016, and now works part-time in inner city medical clinics in Columbus, Ohio, and Charleston, South Carolina. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV324_B01F01_001
Subjects: Vietnam War (1961-1975); United States. Army. Airborne Division, 101st; Civilians in war
Places: Hue (Vietnam)
 

Description: This image shows the cornerstone of the Fairfield County Courthouse. Although this building, completed in 1872 by architect Jacob Orman, has been replaced by the Fairfield County Hall of Justice as the official building for Probate, Juvenile, and Common Pleas Court, it remained the courthouse until 1975. Currently, this building houses administrative offices, but it has retained its title as Fairfield County Courthouse. The Italianate and Colonial Revival building is made entirely of locally quarried stone View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F02_135
Subjects: Courthouses--Ohio; flat roofs; bays (building divisions); arches; hood moldings; cornices; dentils; cornerstones; Italianate (North American architecture styles)
Places: Lancaster (Ohio); Fairfield County (Ohio); 210 E. Main St.
 

Description: Parade down Auglaize Street celebrating Neil Armstrong coming back to his hometown Wapakoneta, Ohio after NASA mission Gemini 8. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV_203B2F1_045
Subjects: Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012; Wapakoneta (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: A black and white portrait of Abraham Lincoln along with the portraits of Lincoln’s cabinet members: Edward Bates, Attorney General; Montgomery Blair, Postmaster General; John P. Usher, Secretary of the Interior; Hannibal Hamlin, Vice President; Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury; William H. Seward, Secretary of State; Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy; Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War; Caleb B. Smith, Ex.-Secretary of the Interior; Simon Cameron, Ex-Secretary of War. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV83_B01F12_002
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Pictorial works
 

Description: Photograph of an oil painting by Charles T. Webber titled "The Fighting McCook's" done in 1871. The painting depicts members of the McCook Family who served in the Union Army during the Civil War and the pre-Civil War Navy. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00548
Subjects: McCook family; Other--Family History
Places: Carrollton (Ohio); Carroll County (Ohio); Steubenville (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)