Description: This photograph from the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus is of 30-year-old Howard Elwood Payton. His formal attire suggests that the photograph was taken during his trial or sentencing. Payton was the 265th individual to be executed via the electric chair in Ohio. The caption at the bottom reads: “No. 265, Howard Elwood Payton of Stark County, Legally Electrocuted February 28, 1949 for the Murder of Clyde L. Engle.” In 1885 the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio, became the location for all executions, which previously took place in the various county seats. In 1896 the Ohio General Assembly mandated that electrocution replace hanging as the form of capital punishment. The Ohio Penitentiary regularly offered tours as well as souvenir photographs and postcards of the building and prisoners on death row. A total of 315 prisoners, both men and women, were executed in the electric chair known as “Old Sparky” between 1897 and 1963. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08317
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Capital punishment; Death row; Electrocution; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections; Ohio Penitentiary (Columbus, Ohio); Prisons--Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Stark County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph is probably of Cyrus M Roberts, who was born on Jan 14, 1839 in Morgan County, Ohio. In March 1867, he married Ella Crane McCarty. On Oct 21, 1861, Cyrus joined the Ohio Volunteer Infantry 78th Company E. He joined for three years. On Dec 23, 1861, he was appointed to 2nd Lieutenant. On he 10, 1863 he detached with the signal corp and on Feb 14, 1863 he was appointed to 1st Lieutenant. Then in 1864 he was promoted to Captain of Company F. On March 30, 1865 he detached as Commissary of Musters and on July 31, 1865 he was mustered out in Louisville, KY. Cyrus died on Dec 15, 1900 in Liking County, Ohio, where he was buried. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AP1964_01
Subjects: Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment, 78th (1861-1865); Portrait photography;
 

Description: This photograph shows the Kinley family gathered outside by the side of a house. The four Kinley brothers stand in the back, from left to right: Harry, Everet, Avery, and George. Their parents John H. and Caroline sit in chairs in front of them, and their sister Villa sits in the grass. A dog sits on Villa's lap. Photograph from the collection of 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_B03F02_15
Subjects: Families; Daily life; Portrait photography; Photographers--Ohio
Places: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio);
 

Description: This photograph is part of a series of photographs taken by the Ohio Department of Agriculture documenting farms in Ohio. This photograph shows the Allen family home on the Allen farm, owned by F.L. Allen near Kinsman, Ohio. On his 250 acres, Allen grew potatoes, apples, and peaches. He also owned a ditching machine and had 22 miles of ditching on his farm. Later, Allen became state director of Ohio Farmers' Institutes under the State Board of Agriculture. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA726AV_B01F08_006_1
Subjects: Agriculture; Farmhouses; Rural Life
Places: Trumbull County (Ohio); Kinsman (Ohio);
 

Description: A protestor dressed as a butcher and wearing a Richard Nixon mask is seen with a sign reading, "Nixon-Agnew Butcher Co. --A Subsidiary of I.T.T. -- We Specialize in Asians." This photograph was taken for publication in the Columbus Free Press newspaper. The Columbus Free Press began as a bi-weekly publication in Columbus, Ohio, in 1970. An underground newspaper, it replaced the Ohio State University publication The People, Yes. The earliest known issue of the newspaper appeared on January 4, 1971. The newspaper underwent a series of name changes over the decades, with titles including the Columbus Free Press & Cowtown Times (1972-1976), the Columbus Freepress (1976-1992) and The Free Press (1992-1995). The paper, which covered many liberal and progressive causes, was an alternative to mainstream news sources in central Ohio with the slogan “The Other Side of the News.” In 1995, the paper ceased publication briefly before reemerging as a website in early 1996, and returning as a print publication under the Free Press title in the form of a quarterly journal in 1998. Published under various frequencies during the first part of the 21st century, the Free Press again became a nonprofit monthly publication in 2017 with both a print and web presence, published by the Columbus Institute for Contemporary Journalism and operated by a volunteer staff and board. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1301AV_B04F06_02
Subjects: Protests and protestors; Demonstrations; Presidents--United States; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This portrait shows John Glenn smiling and standing while leaning on a table with a prop book. He wears a dark suit, patterned tie and lapel pin. The photograph was taken in 1969 in Zanesville, Ohio. In 1970, John Glenn received the second-most votes in the Democratic primaries for the U.S. Senate seat in Ohio. The John and Annie Glenn collection is comprised of photographs, slides, books and ephemera documenting the career of John Glenn as an astronaut and U.S. Senator. The collection also documents his life with his wife Annie Glenn née Castor, family and friends, such as Robert and Ethel Kennedy and fellow astronauts. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV329_B01F03_01
Subjects: Glenn, John, 1921-2016; Politicians; Portrait photography
Places: Zanesville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: Matted print of George B. McClellan with is signature underneath his image. McClellan was a prominent 19th century American military and political leader, born December 3, 1826, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1842, McClellan received an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He graduated in 1846, ranking second in his class. McClellan resigned his army commission in 1857 to become involved in the railroad industry, and using his training in engineering from West Point, he served as an engineer for the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad and the Illinois Central Railroad. During this time, he lived primarily in Cincinnati, Ohio. With the beginning of the American Civil War in April 1861, McClellan reenlisted in the United States Army and played an important role in Ohio's early defense. Early in the war, General McClellan enhanced his reputation as a skillful military leader and was appointed as commander of the Army of the Potomac by President Abraham Lincoln. But after his unsuccessful assault on Richmond, Virginia, and his failure to defeat General Lee’s forces in the Battle of Antietam, Lincoln removed McClellan from his command in November 1862. McClellan never received another military command and later became one of Lincoln’s chief critics. In 1864, the Democratic Party selected McClellan as its presidential candidate to oppose Lincoln’s reelection, but Lincoln won the election by an overwhelming margin. McClellan resigned his commission in the United States Army and later became the governor of New Jersey from 1878 to 1881. He died on October 29, 1885. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC3535_03
Subjects: McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Generals; Military officers
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Female telephone switchboard operators at the Ohio Bell Company, 1946. A caption on the reverse reads "Dial assistance and intercepting switchboard. Wrong numbers, calles to disconnected telephones and requests for assistance in completing calls come into this switchboard." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00132
Subjects: Telephone companies--Employees; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Telephone operators;
 

Description: Students at Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio in chemistry class, February 1909. The image is a photographic postcard that was mailed by a student pictured in the class to his Miss Helen Gray of New Philadelphia, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00916
Subjects: Ohio Northern University; Education
Places: Ada (Ohio); Hardin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated April 15, 1936, this photograph shows teachers for the Butler County Emergency School, a Works Progress Administration program, at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The photograph's caption reads "Emergency School Teachers-April 15, 1936, meeting at Y.W.C.A. H.R. Reade, County Supervisor. Mr. Reade in gray suit in front row." The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a government office that hired unemployed Americans to work on various government projects from April 8, 1935 to June 30, 1943. In the first six months that the WPA existed, more than 173, 000 Ohioans, including both men and women, found employment through this program. More than 1, 500 unemployed teachers in Ohio found work through the WPA teaching illiterate adults how to read. In twelve separate counties, primarily in southeastern Ohio, more than twenty-five percent of families had at least one member working for the WPA during the late 1930s. By the end of 1938, these various workers had built or improved 12, 300 miles of roads and streets and constructed 636 public buildings, several hundred bridges, hundreds of athletic fields, and five fish hatcheries. WPA employees made improvements to thousands of more buildings, roads, and parks within Ohio. WPA artists also painted a number of murals in Ohio post offices. 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_B02F04_011_1
Subjects: Teachers; Education; Schools--Ohio; United States. Works Progress Administration of Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Hamilton (Ohio); Butler County (Ohio)
 

Description: Leather tanner William Woodward and his wife Abigail (Cutter) Woodward donated land in 1827 for a school. In 1831,Woodward High School open. It was a four room, red brick school, located on Franklin Street. Woodward High School is called the first high school in the Northwest Territory. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F01_016_001
Subjects: Portraits; Woodward, William; Schools--Ohio; Woodward College (Cincinnati, Ohio); Woodward High School (Cincinnati, Ohio); Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio) Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads, "Sail and Steam." The Eastern States, D&C passenger steamer pulls in back of the City of New York, Byrd ship at the 9 street docks. District #4, Cleveland Project Photographer: John Steinke, 1940" This is a photo of a passenger steamer pulling up behind a traditional schooner on Lake Erie. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F02_006_001
Subjects: Passenger ships; Lake Erie; Boats and Boating; Cleveland (Ohio)--Pictorial works; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)