Description: This is a photograph of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Young's wife, Ada Young, with two unidentified women. Charles Young was the first African American to reach the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army and, at the time of his death in 1922, was the highest-ranking African American officer in the Army. He is known for having been forced into retirement due to health concerns before the start of World War I and later riding from Wilberforce, Ohio, to Washington, D.C. to prove his physical fitness for duty. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS2_B04F05_G
Subjects: African American women; Young, Charles, 1864-1922.; Military officers; World War I, 1914-1918; African American soldiers
 

Description: This 'Zoar Society' box lid features nails and holes and is rectangular in shape. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H73799
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This ovoid jug has an applied handle. It is gray in color and made from stoneware. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8688
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Kitchen utensils--United States--History
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the Miami and Erie Canal in Shelby County, between stations 6810 and 6891. 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_005
Subjects: Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio
Places: Shelby County (Ohio)
 

Description: Harry C. Pepon at Childress Air Force Base in Texas on the day that he received his bombardier wings, July 22, 1944. Pepon was born in Hilliard, Ohio, and served as a bombardier on a B-17 crew stationed in Italy during World War II. His plane was hit by enemy fire on its first mission to bomb a German refinery. The plane went missing and the crew was presumed dead. After the war, debris from the plane was found in Yugoslavia. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07527
Subjects: Soldiers--Ohio; Ohio History--Military Ohio; World War, 1939-1945 - Ohio; Air pilots; Aircraft
Places: Childress Air Force Base (Texas)
 

Description: Illustration of the ruins of Main Street in Richmond, Virginia published in "Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War" by Alfred H. Guernsey. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04608
Subjects: American Civil War, 1861-1865; War damage compensation
Places: Richmond (Virginia)
 

Description: Arthur Harding, of Lucas County, was electrocuted February 24, 1922, for the Murder of Policeman William H. Kress. He was a black man, age thirty-eight and he was an ex-convict. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08123
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Prisons--Ohio
Places: Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Group photograph of young men and women playfully seated on one another's laps. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's department store, and later as a travelling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). He 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: AL07765
Subjects: Photographers--Ohio; Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Art and Artists;
Places: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio)
 

Description: Two men and a dog stand alongside what appears to be the southeast corner of City Park Avenue and Lansing Street in Columbus, Ohio. This photograph was taken in Columbus's German Village neighborhood. Located in the south end of Columbus, German Village is an historic neighborhood largely settled by German immigrants, who at one time comprised a third of the city's population. The area is characterized by small, closely-built homes, and residential streets interspersed with small commercial buildings. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC0866_001
Subjects: Streets--Ohio--Columbus; German Americans;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of future president William McKinley while he was a 1st Lieutenant in the 23rd O.V.I., ca. 1863-1865. McKinley was the twenty-fifth president of the United States. He was born on January 29, 1843, in Niles, Ohio. For a brief period he attended Allegheny College and then taught school. In 1861 he enlisted as a private in the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company E, under the command of Rutherford B. Hayes. In 1865 he left the service as a brevet rank of Major. He studied law in Ohio and New York and was admitted to the bar in 1867. He opened a law practice in Canton, Ohio, and in 1869 became a prosecuting attorney of Stark County. He married Ida Saxton on January 25, 1871. From 1876 to 1890 he served as a Republican representative in the United States Congress. He served as governor of Ohio from 1891 to 1896. In 1896 he was elected President of the United States and led the nation as commander in chief during the Spanish-American War. McKinley was elected to a second term in 1900. Unfortunately, his second term was cut short when McKinley was assassinated in 1901 while attending the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P399_001_01
Subjects: Presidents and Politics; Military Ohio; American Civil War, 1861-1865; McKinley, William, 1843-1901; United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 23rd (1861-1865)
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Photograph showing the home of Mrs. E.J. Moore at 257 Erie Road in Clintonville. Mrs. Moore's home was the site for the June 1928 Annual Picnic of the Clinton League. 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_189
Subjects: Clinton League; Women--Charities; Houses; Columbus (Ohio)--History
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: A young African American woman with a small puppy folds laundry in a laundromat identified as the Wash and Dry at 1295 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_B10F271_01
Subjects: Street photography; University District (Columbus, Ohio); Laundry; Dogs
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)