Description: Dated 1920, this photograph shows a framed image of a woman belonging to the Harding family, likely the grandmother of President Warren G. Harding. This photograph is part of a photograph album in the Warren G. Harding Photograph Collection (P146). Warren G. Harding, the 29th President of the United States (1921-1923), was born in Blooming Grove, Ohio, in 1865. At age 14, Harding attended Ohio Central College in Iberia, Ohio, where he edited the campus newspaper and became an accomplished public speaker. He married Florence Kling de Wolfe in 1891, and embarked on his political career in 1900 by winning a seat in the Ohio legislature. After serving two terms as an Ohio Senator, Harding served as Lieutenant Governor in 1904 for two years before returning to the newspaper business. Although he lost the 1910 gubernatorial race, Harding was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1914. Political insider Harry Daugherty promoted Harding for the Republican presidential nomination in 1920. His front porch campaign was centered on speeches given from his home in Marion, Ohio, pledging to return the country to “normalcy” in this post World War I era. Harding easily won the election, gaining 61 percent of the popular vote. On August 2, 1923, Harding unexpectedly died from a massive heart attack while touring the western United States, and is entombed in the Marion Cemetery. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P146_B20F64_002
Subjects: Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923; Ohio women; Genealogy and local history
Places: Marion (Ohio); Marion County (Ohio)
 

Description: Two students headed to school in southern Michigan, photographed by Joe Munroe, 1947. One-room schools were common even into the 1950s, providing the backbone for the education of local farm children. Eventually their districts would be combined with larger districts and the buildings fell by the wayside. Joe Munroe's career began in 1939 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He served in the Air Force during World War II and then joined Cincinnati-based Farm Quarterly magazine. Though raised in Detroit, agriculture became an important subject of Joe's photographs. He moved to California in 1955 and free-lanced, taking magazine assignments and selling his own work. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P400_B12_F01_001
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Farm life; One-room schools; Education; Children
Places: Williamston (Michigan)
 

Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the route of the Columbus feeder canal and the Ohio and Erie Canal in Franklin County, Ohio, near Shadeville. Shown along the canal route are the Scioto River, bridges, and properties in Shadeville. 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). The Ohio and Erie Canal was constructed between 1825 and 1832, eventually connecting Cleveland and Lake Erie with Portsmouth and the Ohio River. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: BV4916_004
Subjects: Maps; Ohio and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio;
Places: Shadeville (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: National colors of the 25th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Text on flag reads: 25th Regt. Ohio [?]. Battle names recorded on the flag are difficult to read. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01910
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio History--Military Ohio
 

Description: Company H, 4th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (O.V.I.), are pictured in Tracy Park, Portsmouth, Ohio, after their return from Puerto Rico ca. 1899. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03360
Subjects: Soldiers--Ohio; Ohio History--Military Ohio; United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 4th (1861-1864)
Places: Portsmouth (Ohio); Scioto County (Ohio)
 

Description: This portrait depicts Ezekial Walker (1802-1883) of Cincinnati, Ohio, seated at a table with books, a candle, a microscope and a human skull, ca. 1870-1879. He is described as "a lawyer and money broker, a civic worker, a promoter of art, a maker of violins, a philosopher in a school of his own and in his later years a recluse." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06978
Subjects: Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood; Lawyers--Ohio
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Illustration of "The crusading women of New Vienna," from Henry Howe's "Historical Collection of Ohio," 1909. This illustration shows an organized protest held by women in support of Temperance outside of an unidentified New Vienna saloon, likely during the ca. 1870 Whiskey Crusade. The Temperance movement was an organized effort during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to limit or outlaw the consumption and production of alcoholic beverages in the United States. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04044
Subjects: Temperance--United States--1870-1880; Women--Societies and clubs--Ohio
Places: New Vienna (Ohio); Clinton County (Ohio)
 

Description: The bookplate of James McBride of Hamilton, Ohio, features a drawing of a contemplative scene. A seated woman is holding a book in her right hand, her chin resting on her left hand. A tree on either side of her frame the scene. A poem at the top of the bookplate reads: "An elegant sufficiency, content,/Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books,/Ease and alternate labour, useful life,/Progressive, virtue, and approving Heaven!" The Motto reads "Pro aris et focis" ("For our altars and hearths"), which was used to express attachment to everything most dear. The name "James McBride," written in script, appears at the bottom edge. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05717
Subjects: Bookplates; Books and reading
 

Description: The outside of the Sherman Home in Lancaster, Ohio. This is where John Sherman (1823-1900) was raised. Sherman is best known as a man who would serve in the senate for over ten years. Sherman at first held a few other jobs before getting into the world of politics, working both as an engineer and an attorney. Before he went on to serve in the senate, he served for a number of years as a representative in Congress. During his time in politics he would support at first the Whig Party, which favored more power for the central government as opposed to the states. After the demise of the Whig party, he became an avid supporter of Republican party policies and was so passionate about the cause of preserving the Union he considered abandoning politics at least for a time and fight the Confederacy. In the end, he abandoned this idea and devoted his time to pushing for his favored policies in Congress. He continued to serve in the senate and hold his own during the turbulent time of Reconstruction. Sherman usually came off as a moderate voice in the time of increasing conflict between the Senate and the President over how to bring the United States back together. He was not afraid to criticize both and advocated for a moderate approach. Sherman left the Senate for a period to become a cabinet official, returning to the Senate upon his leaving the cabinet. While he was once again serving in the senate, he formulated and would give his name to the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, which made it possible for business monopolies to be dismantled. He would continue to serve in the Senate until a few years before his death, leaving in 1897, and dying three years later in 1900. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06775
Subjects: Sherman, John, 1823-1900; United States. Congress. Senate; United States. Congress. House; American Civil War, 1861-1865
Places: Lancaster (Ohio); Fairfield County (Ohio); Ohio
 

Description: The Bicentennial barn-painting program was an inexpensive, grassroots marketing campaign that painted the official logo of the Ohio Bicentennial on a highly visible historic barn in each of Ohio's 88 counties. Over 2,000 farmers and landowners submitted their barn descriptions to the committee for consideration. Beginning in 1998, artist Scott Hagan spent five years painting the logos, tailored to every barn's unique character. Typically, the barn owners hosted a celebration at the completion of their barn painting. This photograph is an exterior view of Barn #40, the 40th barn that Hagan painted, located on Old Route 24 in Paulding County. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08537
Subjects: Centennial celebrations; Ohio History--State and Local Government; Barns; Ohio Bicentennial, 2003
Places: Antwerp (Ohio); Paulding County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows inmates at the Ohio Reformatory for Women producing Ohio and American flags as part of their vocational training. In 1911, the Ohio General Assembly authorized the establishment of a separate women’s penal institution which opened on September 1, 1916, as the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville, Ohio, with a population of 34 inmates. When Marguerite Reilley was appointed superintendent of the Reformatory in 1935, she found dirty and unkempt inmates with excessively restricted living habits. She instituted the “human being” program which provided recreation, entertainment, jobs, and vocational training for the inmates. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA2002AV_B03_00189_023
Subjects: Ohio Reformatory for Women; Correctional institutions; Prisoners; Flags
Places: Marysville (Ohio); Union County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing the Bryden House in Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1980-1995, taken by photographer Allen Zak for publication in the Columbus Free Press newspaper. Various signs advertise union labor involved in construction of this low income housing site, including the AFL-CIO and I.B.E.W. Local 683. 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_B03F04_04
Subjects: Construction industry; Labor unions; Housing--Ohio--Columbus;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)