Description: This portrait photograph shows Helen E. Simpson as a child, wearing a white dress and sitting on a wicker chair. Helen Eugenie Simpson (1934-1972) was Manager of Advertising and Promotion for WKYC-Channel 3 in Cleveland, Ohio, and received an Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. This photograph was likely taken in Cleveland, Ohio, where the McWorter-Simpson family lived at the time. This photograph is part of the Helen McWorter-Simpson Collection, which contains materials from the early 1800s through the early 1990s from the McWorter-Simpson families, mostly in Cleveland, Ohio and Pike County, Illinois. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS2019_aaeo_93-15_002
Subjects: African Americans; Children; Portrait photography;
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio);
 

Description: Photograph of a group of African American women standing on the front steps of a building. A carved wooden sign mounted in front identifies it as the Fourth Street Baptist Church, along with information about services. This postcard comes from the collection of the Ohio Baptist General Association. The Ohio Baptist General Association, an organization of African American Baptist churches with its headquarters in Columbus, was founded in 1895 as the Ohio Baptist State Convention and reorganized as the Ohio Baptist General Association in 1919. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P190_B01_02
Subjects: African American women; Group portraits; Church buildings; Religious services;
 

Description: Reproduction of an illustration depicting a group of women praying in the street, attempting to persuade a saloon keeper to stop selling alcoholic beverages, ca. 1873-1874. The caption reads "Pleading with a Saloonist." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02691
Subjects: Demonstrations; Other--Social Welfare; Temperance--United States--1870-1880
 

Description: Photograph of the partially-covered steel frame of the State Office (Ohio Departments of State) building, Columbus, ca. 1931-1932. Groundbreaking for the Ohio State Office Building took place on November 19, 1929. The building, located at 65 South Front Street in downtown Columbus, took over the site of 34 businesses. Construction began on October 31, 1930 and the cornerstone was laid on May 16, 1931. A gas line explosion on April 14, 1932 damaged the nearly finished building. Eventually it opened in 1933. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03638
Subjects: Public buildings--Ohio--Columbus; Ohio--Politics and government; Construction industry
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Aerial view illustrating Johnson's Island Confederate Prison and Cemetery. Johnson's Island, leased for $500 per year from Leonard B. Johnson during the Civil War, was the site of a prisoner of war camp for Confederate officers along the Lake Erie coast of Ohio. While it was the only Union prison camp exclusively for officers, there were regular soldiers there as well. During the war, approximately 10,000 to 15,000 soldiers were processed through the camp. It was guarded by the 128th Ohio Voluntary Infantry.. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04258
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Prisoners of war; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Johnson's Island Prison Camp
Places: Johnson's Island (Ohio); Sandusky (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: This bust portrait is titled "Thomas Corwin, Governor of Ohio." Corwin (1794-1849) is depicted in front of a red drape with books, an inkwell, feather pen, and column. In the background, visible through a window, is the driver of a Conestoga wagon with red wheels and four horses passing in front of the Ohio Statehouse. The painting has many blemishes, and its colors are faded. Thomas Corwin (1794-1865) was born in Kentucky. His father moved the family to what would become Warren County, Ohio, in 1798. The War of 1812 saw northern Ohio ravaged by the Indian confederation that was allied with the British. After General Hull surrendered Detroit to the British, protection from these destructive raids was minimal. Corwin, then a teenager, drove supply wagons north to feed the starving American troops. Self-taught in the law, he was admitted to the bar in 1817. His political career began in 1818, when he served as Warren County prosecuting attorney. A member of the Whig Party, Corwin served two terms in the Ohio state legislature and five terms in the United States Congress. In 1840 he was elected the fifteenth governor of Ohio. In 1845 he was elected to the U.S. Senate, where he eloquently expressed his opposition to the Mexican War. He served in the cabinet of President Millard Fillmore as secretary of the treasury from 1850-1853. Corwin became Secretary of the Treasury in 1850, but two years later he returned to Lebanon, Ohio, and practiced law from his office in Cincinnati. He was re-elected to Congress in 1860, and a year later President Abraham Lincoln appointed him minister to Mexico. Corwin was able to secure Mexico's support for the Union during the Civil War. He then established a law practice in Washington, where he died in 1865. Samuel Swan Walker (1806-1848) of Butler County, Ohio, was trained as a physician but left the medical profession in 1836 to become a portrait and miniature painter, working principally in Cincinnati. He traveled frequently as an itinerant painter, working primarily in Ohio, where he created portraits of well-known Ohioans and giving art lessons to wealthy patrons. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05937
Subjects: Corwin, Thomas, 1794-1865; Governors--Ohio; Ohio History--State and Local Government; Walker, Samuel S.; Art and artists;
 

Description: This image is a reproduction of a map of the United States created in 1820 by cartographer John Melish (1771-1822.) the map is included in C.V. Lasvoisne's "A Complete Genealogical, Historical, Chronological and Geographical Atlas" (Philadelphia: M. Carey & Son, 1820). The original print was a color lithograph. Melish titled his map " United States of America compiled from the latest & best Authorities." The map scale is 120 miles to the inch. The map depicts the area bounded by New Brunswick, Canada, on the east; Missouri Territory on the west; the Great Lakes region (Canada and the U.S.) on the north; and Florida and present-day northern Mexico on the south. John Melish (1771-1822) was born in Scotland and apprenticed to a cotton maker. His job brought him to America at various times, and he settled permanently in Philadelphia in 1811. He wrote extensively of his travels in America during the early 19th century and became one of his adopted country's best cartographers during this period. His most famous map, published in 1816, depicted the United States from coast to coast. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06994
Subjects: Maps--United States; Historical map; Map drawing; Melish, John, 1771-1822
 

Description: Marine PFC Michael Petrucci with a French priest at a Korean orphanage north of the First Marine Aircraft Wing base at Pohang Dong, Korea, where the Marines would bring food, clothing and supplies. There was a significant mortality rate at the orphanage. 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: AL07498
Subjects: Ohio History--Military Ohio; Military life; United States Marine Corps; Korean War (1950-1953)
Places: Pohang Dong (Korea)
 

Description: Photograph of two girls sitting in a swing with a man, possibly their father, standing behind to push. The Circle Family Glass Plate Negative Collection came in with the records of John Circle, who served as Franklin County Surveyor between 1981 and 2000. The plates are thought to be part of the family history but have no identification. The images are agricultural and have no known history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV82_013
Subjects: Agriculture; Farms; Children; Photography--Ohio; Families;
Places: Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of a home along North High Street in Columbus, Ohio, identified as the Harbarger house, located at the intersection of West Como and High. 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 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_016
Subjects: Clinton League; Women--Charities; Houses;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1935-1965, this photograph shows inmates at the Ohio Reformatory for Women roller skating. In 1911, the Ohio General Assembly authorized the establishment of a separate women’s penal institution. On September 1, 1916, the Ohio Reformatory for Women opened 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. State Archived Series 1679 AV consists of 234 photographs which illustrate daily life in the Ohio Reformatory for Women, as well as photographs of the buildings and grounds, superintendents Marguerite Reilley and Martha Wheeler, and notorious inmate Velma West. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1679AV_B01_F09_002
Subjects: Photography--Ohio; Ohio Reformatory for Women; Prisons; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections; Recreation; Roller skating
Places: Marysville (Ohio); Union County (Ohio)
 

Description: Pedestrians walk past women shopping at a fruit market located at 105 South High Street in downtown Columbus, Ohio. A large banner hanging outside the building encourages customers to "Order Your Holidays Fruit Baskets Now!" 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_B05F137_01
Subjects: Street photography; Downtowns; Farm produce; Holidays
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)