Description: Photograph of a hospital nurse's home at Grant Hospital, October 1946. Grant Hospital was opened in 1900 in downtown Columbus. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03641
Subjects: Women--Ohio; Nurses and nursing--Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This grayscale image of Abraham Lincoln is from "The Pictorial History of the Great Civil War" by John Laird Wilson, ca. 1881. Lincoln's portrait is enclosed in an oval frame surrounded by abstract vine forms and tassels. The top of the frame has a small grouping of symbols: a quill pen, inkwell, a medal, as well what appears to be the first page of the Constitution, and a piece of paper with indistinguishable writing. A small rectangle beneath his portrait shows an illustration of eight men around a table, with "CABINET COUNCIL" at the bottom of the rectangle. A facsimile of Lincoln's signature can be seen on the bottom of the image. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04261
Subjects: Presidents--United States; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Portraits; American Civil War, 1861-1865
 

Description: PFC Michael Petrucci at Itami Air Force Base, Japan, on way to R&R in Kyoto, Japan, January 1954. 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: AL07501
Subjects: Ohio History--Military Ohio; Military life; United States Marine Corps; Korean War (1950-1953)
Places: Japan
 

Description: Photograph of a young child in a perambulator, taken on an unidentified farm in Ohio, ca. 1910. 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_016
Subjects: Agriculture; Farms; Children; Photography--Ohio;
Places: Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of a home along North Broadway in Clintonville, identified as the home of the Daniel family. 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_019
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 playing softball. 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_F10_002
Subjects: Photography--Ohio; Ohio Reformatory for Women; Prisons; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections; Softball; Recreation
Places: Marysville (Ohio); Union County (Ohio)
 

Description: Two large semi-trailer trucks owned by Scot Lad Foods, Inc. drive past St. Joseph Cemetery on U.S. Route 23. Scot Lad Foods, a subsidiary of Roundy's Supermarkets, Inc., is based in Lansing, Illinois. St. Joseph Cemetery, located at 6440 South High Street in Lockbourne, Ohio, belongs to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus. Founded in 1910, the large cemetery features a beautiful brick and stone chapel erected in 1929. An electric utility pole and a barn are also visible in the photograph. 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_B02F042_01
Subjects: Street photography; Cemeteries; Sepulchral monuments; Truck driving;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Taken in 1971 by U.S. Army medic Charles Tweel, this photograph shows a U.S. Army serviceman in Vietnam, probably at Camp Evans. This photograph is part of the Charles Tweel Collection (AV 324) at the Ohio History Connection. Charles Tweel grew up in Columbus, Ohio, and attended The Ohio State University. After graduation in 1968, he enlisted in the U.S. Army as a non-combatant, first training as a medic at Fort Sam Huston, followed by nine months of additional training at Valley Forge General Hospital in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. He finished his training as a Specialist 3 and 91C, MOS, and went on to serve in Bamberg, Germany, with combat engineers for one year. In January 1971, Tweel served in Vietnam with the Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion (Air Mobile), 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, based out of Camp Evans near Phu Bai, north of Hue, until December of that year. Tweel spent most of his service on various firebases as the medic in charge, and occasionally shared firebases with South Vietnamese soldiers. He also visited MedCAP stations (Medical Civic Action Programs) where he treated civilians. Tweel received the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious achievement, and was promoted to Specialist 5 in 1971. After discharge from the Army, he went to medical school and was in private practice as a family practitioner from 1979-2016, and now works part-time in inner city medical clinics in Columbus, Ohio, and Charleston, South Carolina. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV324_B01F02_001
Subjects: Vietnam War (1961-1975); United States. Army. Airborne Division, 101st; Military life
Places: Camp Evans (Vietnam)
 

Description: This is the front facade of the Columbiana County Courthouse. The structure was completed in 1871 by architect H.E. Myer, and is located on the southwest corner of the public square in Lisbon, Ohio. The Italianate style building was renovated in 1934 with funds from the Works Progress Administration. At that time the mansard roof and cornice were replaced with the present flat roof. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F01_083
Subjects: Courthouses;
Places: Lisbon (Ohio); Columbiana County (Ohio); 105 S. Market St.
 

Description: Neil Armstrong coming back to his hometown in Wapakoneta, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV_203B2F1_034
Subjects: Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012; Wapakoneta (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Major Anson G. McCook from Steubenville, Ohio, 2nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry, August 6, 1861. He was a member of the McCook Family, known as the "Fighting McCook's" a name referring to the number of family members who served in the Civil War. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00537
Subjects: Soldiers--Ohio; Other--Family History
Places: Steubenville (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: Lathe operator on the job at the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, Columbus, Ohio, 1916. This belt-driven lathe was used to bore out the axle hole on steel wheels. The steel rollers were parts for conveying machinery made by Jeffrey. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01356
Subjects: Machinery industry--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio)