Description: This image is of a sieve-style cornhusk sifter made of wood. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8646
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Tools and equipment
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the Miami and Erie Canal past Newport in Shelby County, between stations 6968 and 6998. Roads, properties, bridges and other landmarks along the route are noted, including Loramie Creek. The map was created under the direction of the members of the Canal Commission of the state of Ohio and approved by the Chief Engineer of the Department of Public Works (variously referred to as the Board of Public Works and the Division of Public Works). Construction on the Miami and Erie Canal took place between 1825 and 1845, and the finished route connected Cincinnati and Toledo, as well as the Ohio River with Lake Erie. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: BV23170_007
Subjects: Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio
Places: Shelby County (Ohio)
 

Description: Daniel Worth was an operator on the Underground Railroad in West River Township, Indiana. The image was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03012
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Indiana; Siebert, Wilbur Henry, 1866-1961; Worth, Daniel, 1795-1862; Abolitionists; Activists
Places: West River Township (Indiana); Randolph County (Indiana)
 

Description: Mary Tiers at the Hunt Farm, Springfield, showing the spring house, smoke house, and barn, with home on far left, ca. 1890. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03789
Subjects: Horses; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of author Paul Laurence Dunbar, ca. 1904, reproduced on a postcard. He was born in Dayton, Ohio, in 1872 to Joshua and Matilda Dunbar, both former slaves, and was encouraged by his mother in poetry and his schooling from an early age. He attended Dayton Central High School and was the sole African American student at that time. Following his high school graduation, Dunbar worked as an elevator operator while writing poetry in his free time. He built a reputation as a successful literary voice and writer of dialect poetry, and was the first African American poet to receive critical acclaim for his work. Dunbar authored twelve collections of poetry, five novels, one play, and a large number of newspaper articles before his death from tuberculosis on February 9, 1906. He is buried in the Woodland Cemetery in Dayton. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05252
Subjects: Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906; American poetry--Ohio; Literary Ohio; African American Ohioans; Poets; Authors
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Illustration of the Battle of Cold Harbor, fought from May to June of 1864, published in "Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War" by Alfred H. Guernsey. This battle was one of the last of General Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign. Ulysses S. Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Point Pleasant, Ohio. During the U. S. Civil War, Grant was promoted to the rank of General and granted command of the Union army by President Abraham Lincoln. After the victory of the Union over the Confederacy, Grant's popularity led to his election as the 18th President of the United States in 1868. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04589
Subjects: American Civil War, 1861-1865; Art and artists; Battlefields; Grant, Ulysses S., 1822-1885; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio--History, Military; Presidents--United States; Generals--United States
Places: Cold Harbor (Virginia)
 

Description: This photograph shows the Main Library building in Toledo, Ohio, located at 325 Michigan Street. Designed by the architectural firm Hahn & Hayes, the Art Deco structure opened in 1940, and its $2 million cost was financed largely by the Works Progress Administration. This building replaced the city's original main library, located at Madison Avenue and Ontario Street, which opened in 1890. That structure was razed in 1940, shortly after the new main library opened. Toledo's public library system has its roots in subscription libraries that charged an annual fee to its members. The Young Men's Association organized the city's first such library in 1838. The nationwide public library movement began during the 1870s, and in 1873 the Toledo city council authorized the purchase of two subscription library collections. This step marked the beginning of the Toledo Public Library. The original main library was Toledo’s only public library until 1917, when Carnegie Foundation financed the construction of branch libraries. By the 1930s, space in the main library was at a premium; within the space of a decade, a new facility became a reality. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06168
Subjects: Architecture--Ohio; Toledo (Ohio); Libraries--Ohio--History; Art Deco
Places: Toledo (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Frank Mazzano, of Summit County, was electrocuted February 21, 1919, for the Murder of Partolman Gethin Richards. In spring 1918, Officer Gethin Richards went to investigate three suspicious looking men near a railroad in Akron, Ohio. One of the men, Mazzano, fired three shots and killed Gethin. A passerby summoned the police, and Richards was captured shortly afterward. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08105
Subjects: Summit County (Ohio); Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Capital punishment; Death row; Portrait photography
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Banzai Bridge at Olentangy Park, Columbus, Ohio. The Banzai Bridge was purchased in 1905, along with other buildings of the Fair Japan exhibit, such as a tea house and a Japanese garden. Olentangy Park was an amusement park that opened in 1893 by Robert M. Turner, originally called The Villa. It was bought in 1896 by the Columbus Street and Railroad Company, and then again by the Dusenbury brothers in 1899. The brothers constructed a theater, a merry-go-round, and other rides like Loop-the-Loop roller coaster. The property was sold again in 1926 to the Olentangy Amusement Company, then to Leo and Elmer Haenlein in 1929. At this point a zoo and a ballroom were added to the park. Olentangy Park closed in 1937 after being purchased by the L. L. Leveque Company. The Gooding Amusement Company bought the Ferris wheel, airplane ride, rifle range, and the carousel, which is now located at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium. The park was located along the banks of the Olentangy River on land which, as of 2014, was owned by the Olentangy Village Apartments. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07727
Subjects: Popular culture; Amusement parks; Bridges
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Glass plate negative of Ruth Weinman Herndon holding a doll. The little girl is wearing a long dress with a lace hem and yoke, dark shoes, and a necklace. She is seated on an armchair and is holding a doll with both hands. Born September 6, 1907, Ruth was the daughter of Henrietta Heinmiller Weinman (1869-1957) and William Nelson Weinman (1868-1950), owner of the Weinman Pump Manufacturing Company. The Weinman family was a prominent German-American family in Columbus throughout the 20th century. Ruth Weinman (1907-2002) lived with her parents at 380 King Avenue in Columbus until 1914, when her parents hired Columbus architect Frank Packard to build a home at 1445 Roxbury Road in Marble Cliff. After graduating from Columbus School for Girls in 1925, Ruth studied sociology at Ohio State University, graduating in 1929. She married L. Kermit Herndon. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1344AV_B02F04
Subjects: Children; Families; Children's clothing; Women--Ohio; Portraits; Herndon, L. K. (Lyle Kermit)
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Corporal Michael John Petrucci, who served in the United States Marine Corps from 1952 to 1954 and was on active duty in Pohang Dong, South Korea. This formal portrait was taken in August of 1954 after his return from Korea. Petrucci was born August 9, 1930, in Youngstown, Ohio, where he grew up and attended school. Petrucci enlisted in the Marine Corps in July of 1952, and began basic training at Cherry Point Marine Base in North Carolina in August 1953. He received orders for overseas duty in May 1953, but when the United States and North Korea ended hostilities in July 1953, his transfer to Korea was halted. Petrucci was eventually sent to Korea in September 1953 and stationed at the First Marine Aircraft Wing base in the town of Pohang Dong, where he served until July 1954. By September 1954, Petrucci had returned to civilian life in Youngstown, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC_5738_042
Subjects: Ohio History--Military Ohio; Military life; United States Marine Corps; Korean War (1950-1953)
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio); Pohang Dong (Korea);
 

Description: Photograph of the new Clintonville elementary school, built in 1922 at the corner of Clinton Heights Avenue and North High Street, when it opened in 1924. 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_171
Subjects: Clinton League; Women--Charities; School buildings; Education
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)