Description: This spice container was made by hand of tin. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H72397
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Vessels (containers)
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This highchair is made of oak painted brown and has spindle decoration. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H9491
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Furniture; Children
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of the family of William Thorne, whose home was an Underground Railroad station at Selma, Clark County, Ohio. Mary C. Thorne and her husband William are the seated individuals in the photograph. The individuals standing in the photograph are Mary C. Thorne's son and a mixed-race slave who escaped on the Underground Railroad and was taken in by the Thorne family. The image was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03116
Subjects: Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Underground Railroad--Ohio; Antislavery movements--Ohio--History--19th century; Ohio women; Abolitionists;
Places: Selma (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Richard Henry Dana Jr. (1815-1882), who served as a lawyer for fugitive slaves in Boston, Massachusetts. The image was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad as a way to interest his students in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03050
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Massachusetts; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights
Places: Boston (Massachusetts); Suffolk County (Massachusetts)
 

Description: Wide shot of the first floor clock, The F. & R. Lazarus Company, 1926. Between 1851 and 1965, the F & R Lazarus Company retail store dominated the trade and physical landscape of Columbus. The company rose from its early years as a men's clothier in a 20 x 40 foot room downtown, to its position by 1965 as a member of the largest department store chain, Federated Department Stores. Lazarus' growth reflects that of the capital city; from small beginnings through a "golden age" of downtown development, and eventually branching out into the surrounding countryside. In 2003, the Lazarus Company was incorporated with Macy's, a member of the Federated Department stores, and is no longer in existence. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04463
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio); Lazarus Department Store; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Berkeley Plantation in Charles County, Virginia, ca. 1920-1960. It was the birthplace of William Henry Harrison, the 9th President of the United States. Harrison was born on February 9, 1773. His father was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06230
Subjects: Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics
Places: Charles City County (Virginia)
 

Description: C.T. Weber created this painting of Levi Coffin and his wife "Aunt Katie" (Catherine Coffin) receiving a company of fugitive slaves outside of Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. The painting was done in 1893 for the Columbian World's Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. The image was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03134
Subjects: Women abolitionists - Ohio; Underground Railroad--Ohio; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Activists
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Ohio State Reformatory opened in 1896 in Mansfield, Ohio. In 1990, it closed, but has since served as a set for several films. It was built between 1886 and 1910 and remained in operation until a 1990 federal court ruling (the 'Boyd Consent Decree') ordered the facility to be closed. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06533
Subjects: Prisons--Ohio; Mansfield (Ohio); Architecture; Historic preservation
Places: Mansfield (Ohio); Richland County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph from the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus is of 40-year-old James Osinski. His formal attire suggests that the photograph was taken during his trial or sentencing. Osinski, convicted of murdering his wife and her parents in Toledo, was the 274th individual to be executed via the electric chair in Ohio. The caption at the bottom reads: “No. 247 James Osinski of Lucas County, Legally Electrocuted July 22, 1949, for the Murder of Loretta Osinski; Louise Ditmyer, and Raymond Ditmyer.” 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: AL08326
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); Toledo (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: The photograph shows 26 members of the Stecher family (photographer Harry Kinley's mother's family) gathered around a brick front porch. Harry Kinley can be seen on the furthest left standing behind his father, J.H. Kinley. Harry Kinley's mother, Caroline Kinley, stands in the second row in the middle with her hand on her sister Hannah Burkhardt's chair. 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_24
Subjects: Families; Reunions; Portrait photography; Photography--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 Spencer farm owned by L.G. Spencer near Warren, Ohio. Spencer's farm spanned 15 acres in Warren, and he owned another 90 acres near Hartford, Ohio. Spencer kept one cow and one horse and, on ten acres, he grew small fruit including apples, cherries, and peaches. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA726AV_B01F10_003_1
Subjects: Agriculture; Farmhouses; Rural Life; Barns
Places: Trumbull County (Ohio); Warren (Ohio)
 

Description: Protestors hold banners at an anti-racism demonstration in this photograph 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_B04F07_04
Subjects: Protests and protestors; Demonstrations; Activism; Civil rights; Ku Klux Klan (1915- );
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)