Description: Map of Columbus titled "City of Columbus Franklin County Ohio," 1856. Beneath the title is "Surveyed & Published by Hart & Mapother, Civil Engineers. N.W. cor. of Trinity Pl. & Thames St. N.Y." Inset illustrations include the Ohio Statehouse, the residence of W.A. Gill, Franklin County courts and offices, the residence of Dr. J.W. Baker, Starling Medical College, and the Esther Institute. Other notable Columbus locations include the Ohio Institution for the Blind, Goodale Park, the Ohio Penitentiary, the Ohio Lunatic Asylum, the Franklin County Infirmary, the Capitol, and the State Fairground (southwest of Franklinton). Five separate "ward" are also identified by color around the central part of the city. Wards are subdivisions of a city or other locality, often designated for electoral purposes. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: VFM0112_2_1
Subjects: Maps--Ohio; Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood; Capitols;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: The photograph shows three children standing on the side of the Kinley family home. The two girls wear boy's clothes (dark suits and hats) and the boy between them wears girl's clothes (a shirt, skirt, and hat). Both of the girls smile at the camera while the boy stares with a serious expression. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's store, and later as a traveling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). Kinley was also an avid lifelong photographer, and the bulk of the Harry Kinley Collection is comprised of glass plate negatives documenting the Kinley family, the city of Upper Sandusky and Wyandot County and surrounding areas. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV30_B02F03_78
Subjects: Children; Costumes; Families
Places: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio);
 

Description: This photograph is a part of a series of photographs taken by the Ohio Department of Agriculture documenting farms in Ohio. Pictured is the farm of R.A. Hayne, just outside of Adena, Ohio. Spanning 130 acres, Hayne grew crops and raised 200 sheep and a number of horses--including the mare and her foal seen here. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA726AV_B01F03_004_1
Subjects: Agriculture; Rural Life; Livestock; Horses
Places: Jefferson County (Ohio); Adena (Ohio);
 

Description: Taken by the Ohio Turnpike Commission, this aerial photograph show the results of the 1978 Blizzard on Ohio Turnpike traffic, January 1978. A semitruck can be seen blocked by a drift of snow next to a freeway overpass. In January and February 1978, a series of three storms hit the Midwest and Northeast United States. These storms were some of the most severe winter events to occur in recent history, and collectively are known as the Blizzard of 1978. The second storm found Ohio in its path. From January 25 to 27, between one and three feet of snow fell across Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Winds averaged between fifty and seventy miles per hour, creating snowdrifts as deep as twenty-five feet. With temperatures already hovering near zero, the wind chill was deadly, reaching sixty degrees Fahrenheit below zero. Created by the Ohio Turnpike Act of 1949, the Ohio Turnpike Commission was authorized to construct, operate, and maintain a turnpike (and related projects) for the State of Ohio. The groundbreaking took place on October 27, 1952, and on December 1, 1954, the first section of the turnpike to be completed (the Niles-Youngstown to the Pennsylvania border) was opened to the public. The remaining portions of the road were completed by October 1, 1955. Over the following decades, various maintenance projects were undertaken and improvements made. In 2013, the 130th General Assembly passed H.B. 51, which renamed the Ohio Turnpike Commission the Ohio Turnpike and Infrastructure Commission. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA7617AV_B22_Blizzard18
Subjects: Blizzards; Natural disasters; Climate and weather; Transportation--Ohio; Traffic accidents;
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) used this iron document box to store orders, correspondence, and inventories of supplies. Grant received the box after he was promoted to general-in-chief in command of all Union armies in March 1864. It measures 12.67 by 9 by 6.69 inches (32.2 by 23 by 17 cm). Born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Point Pleasant Ohio, in 1839 Grant entered the United States Military Academy at West Point, where a roster mistakenly listed his name as Ulysses Simpson. He was known as Ulysses S. Grant for the rest of his life. Grant served in the Mexican War, but was never happy with military life and resigned his commission in 1854. After unsuccessful attempts at farming and real estate, Grant moved to Galena, Illinois, where he worked in his father's leather shop. 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, Lincoln made Grant brigadier general of volunteers. Grant came to national attention by capturing the Confederate Forts Henry and Donelson, the first major Union victories of the war. In spite of a devastating defeat at Shiloh, Grant won major victories at Vicksburg and Chattanooga. In 1864, Grant was made lieutenant general commanding all the armies of the U.S. In this position, Grant devised a concerted plan of action for all the Union armies. Although Grant lost to Confederate General Robert E. Lee in battle, other Northern armies were successful and weakened the Confederacy. He presided over General Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox on April 9, 1865. Grant served as president from 1869-1877. Southern reconstruction was one of the major issues of Grant's presidency. He occasionally encouraged the process with the force of federal troops. Although Grant is considered to have been honest himself, he was surrounded by dishonest men, causing his administration to be marred with scandal. He was re-elected in 1872 and ran for a third time in 1880 but was unsuccessful. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1428_1535042_001
Subjects: Military Ohio; Presidents and Politics; Boxes; Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
Places: Point Pleasant (Ohio); Brown County (Ohio)
 

Description: A drawing of Abraham Lincoln's coffin is on displayed in the streets of Columbus, Ohio in front of the Columbus state building. Crowds of mourners covered the street in Columbus. Reverse side reads: "Sketch contemporary of Lincoln Funeral cortege" View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV83_B01F03_019_001
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Pictorial works; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Funeral
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Homecoming parade held for astronaut Neil Armstrong in 1969. More than 80,000 supporters greeted Armstrong upon his return to Wapakoneta, Ohio on September 6, 1969. Bob Hope served as marshal for the event, and guests included "Tonight Show" sidekick Ed McMahon, and Dr. Albert Sabin, inventor of the polio vaccine. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV_203B2F5_019
Subjects: Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012; Wapakoneta (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: Members of the Women's Army Corps employed at the Lordstown Depot marching in a Civilian Defense Parade in Warren, Ohio, May 8, 1943. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00104
Subjects: Trumbull County (Ohio); Ohio History--Military Ohio; Celebrations
Places: Warren (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio)
 

Description: "Eleventh Hour Defenders" (Soldiers crossing the Ohio) from Cincinnati. Story of the Queen City by Clara Longworth de Chambrun. p.221 (From a print in the Cincinnati Public Library) More information needed. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F01_002_001
Subjects: Illustrations; Cincinnati (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: St. Joseph Hall, Dayton University. It is one of the most treasured architectural achievements on campus. St. Joseph Hall was reconstructed and modernized after a major fire in 1989. Dayton University is the largest Private University in Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F02_055_1
Subjects: Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Buildings; Education; Universities and colleges; University of Dayton
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated 1930-1943, this photograph shows a teacher at the Ohio State School for the Blind guiding a boy as he explores the interior of a model of a blockhouse. A note on the photograph's reverse reads “Block House - Looking at a trap door used to pull ladder through.” 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_B11F04_16_001
Subjects: Ohio State School for the Blind; Blockhouses; Education; Models and modelmaking; Teachers
Places: Ohio
 

Description: This photograph show the vineyards of a winery in Ohio, probably around the Sandusky or Put-In-Bay area. Because the lake tempers the climate, the islands and shore-line areas have the longest growing season in Ohio. Apples, peaches, and grapes are leading crops, and wine making has been an important industry in the Sandusky area and the Lake Erie Islands since the 1860s. Wine has been produced in Ohio since 1823 when Nicholas Longworth planted the first Alexander and Isabella grapes in the Ohio River Valley. In 1825, Longworth planted the first Catawba grapes in Ohio. Others soon planted Catawba in new vineyards throughout the state and by 1860, Catawba was the most important grape variety in Ohio. At this time, Ohio produced more wine than any other state in the country, and Cincinnati was the most important city in the national wine trade. As in many other states, Prohibition in the United States destroyed the Ohio wine industry, which has struggled to recover View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F09_009_1
Subjects: Wine and wine making--Ohio
Places: Ohio