Description: Canal plat map showing the Sidney Feeder of the Miami and Erie Canal through Sidney in Shelby County, between stations 389 and 446. Roads, properties, bridges, rail lines and other landmarks along the route are noted, including the Miami River. 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_002
Subjects: Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio; Rivers--Ohio; Railroads
Places: Sidney (Ohio); Shelby County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photomechanical reproduction of a portrait of Dr. John W. Posey, who was a member of the Executive Committee of the Anti-Slavery League. He harbored fugitive slaves at his coal-bank in Petersburg, Pike County, 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: AL03023
Subjects: Posey, J. W. (John Wesley); Siebert, Wilbur Henry, 1866-1961; Abolitionists; Anti-Slavery League; Activists
Places: Petersburg (Indiana); Pike County (Indiana)
 

Description: Mary Tiers at Hunt Farm, Springfield (Clark County), Ohio, ca. 1890. She is pictured indoors with a musical instrument. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03790
Subjects: Musical instruments; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: Cabinet card portrait of author Paul Laurence Dunbar as a young man, ca. 1890. 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: AL05253
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 "The American Soldier in the Civil War" by Frank Leslie. This battle was one of the last of General Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04590
Subjects: Battlefields; Artists; American Civil War, 1861-1865; Grant, Ulysses S., 1822-1885; Generals--United States
Places: Cold Harbor (Virginia)
 

Description: This photograph shows a group of school-age boys and girls looking at an Indian elephant at the Toledo Zoo. Three boys are looking back at the camera; the rest of the children are turned toward the caged elephant. The children are wearing jackets and sweaters, indicating that the weather likely was cool on the day of their visit. A printed sign posted on a column next to the cage gives background information about the elephant, who was donated to "the people of Toledo in 1923 by Sam Davis." The Toledo Zoo began in 1900, and some of the original buildings, built by the Works Project Administration, are still in use today. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06169
Subjects: Zoos; Toledo (Ohio); Animals; Toledo Zoo (Toledo, Ohio)
Places: Toledo (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Rosario Borgia, of Summit County, was electrocuted February 21, 1919, for the Murder of Partolman Gethin Richards. Borgia was allegedly the leader of one of the earliest mobs in Akron, Ohio, at the start of the 20th century. He was convicted, alongside Frank Mazzano and Paul Chiavaro, of the murder of Patrolman Gethin Richards, who was shot three times near an Akron railroad track. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08106
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Capital punishment
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: A band marches at an unidentified racetrack in Columbus, Ohio. It is most likely Driving Park Race Track. Located on the city's South Side, Driving Park Race Track was a large horse racing complex that eventually allowed auto races. It operated during 19th and early 20th century. In 1905 it hosted world's first 24-hour car race. The park gave its name to Driving Park -- an urban residential area on the Near East Side of Columbus. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07728
Subjects: Popular culture; Horse racing; Automobile racing; Neighborhoods--Ohio--Columbus
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Glass plate negative of Ruth Weinman Herndon and her mother, Henrietta Heinmiller Weinman. Ruth Weinman Herndon (Mrs. L. Kermit Herndon) was a life-long resident of Columbus, Ohio. Born September 6, 1907, she 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_B02F05
Subjects: Children; Families; Children's clothing; Women--Ohio; Portraits; Herndon, L. K. (Lyle Kermit)
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Parke Davis Patton was born February 15, 1923 in Columbus, Ohio to Charles and Jesse Davis Patton. He served as a pharmacist’s mate, second class, in the United States Navy during World War II. During the war, an Evansville, Indiana shipyard produced Landing Ship Tanks (LSTs), which supported the war effort by transporting men and material around the world. The Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Company completed the LST 577 on May 3, 1944. It was launched on June 16, 1944, and was commissioned July 10, 1944. During the morning of February 11, 1945, the LST 577 was part of a convoy formation of ships east of Mindinano, Philippine Islands. The convoy was on a resupply run to Lingayen Gulf, Leyte and was approaching the point of rendezvous with other ships. As a result of the foggy, drizzling weather that morning, the crew had been allowed to sleep in. At approximately 9:05 a.m., two torpedoes from the Japanese submarine R050 passed through the convoy from port to starboard and struck the LST 577, at convoy position Number 21, on the port quarter. The explosion occurred just aft of the auxiliary engine room and broke the ship in two. The entire forward section of the ship aft frame sank immediately, because the main engines and superstructure were located in and on the back half of the ship. The forward section remained afloat. Over 166 Navy and Army personnel, including Patton, lost their lives. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1258AV
Subjects: United States Navy; World War II; Military Ohio; Soldiers--Ohio;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Group photograph of the teachers of Clinton Elementary School in 1926. The women in the top row are identified as Clara Stroh, Sue Mertz, Bess Cook, Margaret DuBois, Ruth Jones, Ella Penn, Mabel Grim, Mary Wrig, Olive Frahm, Sarah Bennett, Myrtle Grady, Mrs. Brevoort, and Principal Celia Vandegriff. In the front row are Inez Richey (extreme left, mostly cut off), Katherine Fogle, Blanche Vanderbeck and Esther Redd. 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_172
Subjects: Clinton League; Women--Charities; School buildings; Education; Educators
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Two workers maintain a fire hydrant along North High Street in the University District of Columbus, Ohio. The University District includes the small neighborhoods to the east and south of The Ohio State University campus on either side of the High Street corridor. 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_B12F309_01
Subjects: Street photography; University District (Columbus, Ohio); Fire prevention;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)