Description: This photograph is an elevated view of a crowd gathered on the street in Chillicothe, Ohio, after the parade celebrating the Ohio Centennial on May 21, 1903. On the stand reviewing the parade are Senator Marcus Hanna and Governor George K. Nash. In 1802, as Ohio moved toward statehood, Chillicothe hosted the Ohio Constitutional Convention. When Ohio became a state in 1803, Chillicothe was named its capital, in part due to its central location as well as the prominent political figures, like Edward Tiffin and Thomas Worthington, who resided there. The city served as Ohio's capital until 1810, when state government moved to Zanesville. The capital returned to Chillicothe two years later, only to move to Columbus, 45 miles to the north, in 1816. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02636
Subjects: Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood; Centennial celebrations; Capitols; Ohio--Politics and government
Places: Chillicothe (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a front view of the wedding dress and poke bonnet worn by Sarah Pearson in 1823 in Miami County, Ohio. Made of muslin and linen, the dress features an empire waist with a drawstring that ties in the back and a reinforced yoke lined with linen, with long and full sleeves. Sarah married her second cousin, Moses Pearson, and they had eight children, Rhoda, Mahalah, Timothy, Anna, Joshua, Abram, Nathan and Serepta. Sarah Pearson was a Quaker and member of the Mill Creek Friends Meeting House in Miami County. In 1837, Moses and Sarah were sent by the Indiana Yearly Missionaries to the Shawnee Indians who had recently been removed from Ohio to the present-day Kansas City, Missouri. Sarah died on February 7, 1844, and was buried in Union Joint Cemetery in Ludlow Falls, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05000
Subjects: Weddings; Wedding costume; Clothing and dress; Hats; Women--Ohio
Places: Miami County (Ohio)
 

Description: This bird's-eye view shows the layout of Camp Chase in Columbus, Ohio. Established in 1861, Camp Chase served as a recruitment and training center for the Union Army and as a prison camp for captured Confederate soldiers during the Civil War. There are over 2,200 Confederate soldiers buried in the cemetery at Camp Chase. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04216
Subjects: Camp Chase (Ohio); United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Prisoners of war; Ohio History--Military Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows John J. Lentz (1856-1931), founder of American Insurance Union (AIU), applying mortar during the cornerstone laying of the AIU Citadel building, Columbus, Ohio, on February 23, 1926. Now called the LeVeque Tower, the building is one of the city's most famous architectural landmarks. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. Lentz was born in Belmont County, Ohio, and graduated from Columbia Law School in 1883. That same year he was admitted to the bar in Columbus, Ohio. He founded AIU in 1894 and served two terms as a U.S. Representative from Ohio's 12th Congressional District (1897 to 1901). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06937
Subjects: American Insurance Union Citadel; Leveque Tower (Columbus, Ohio); Construction industry; Lentz, John Jacob, 1856-1931; Columbus (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Cornerstone laying; Architecture
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Ohio
 

Description: The Arcade, a mall in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. The Arcade is built between two nine-story Victorian-era buildings. It is 300 feet long with glass skylights. It was opened on Memorial Day (May 31) of 1890, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 20, 1973. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07258
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Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph showing the homes on Linden Ave. in Zanesville, Ohio, following the flood of 1913. In late March 1913, an unusually heavy rainstorm moved into Ohio. It rained steadily for five days and the water levels rose rapidly. By the third day of the downpour, levees were over-topped and many towns suffered disastrous flooding. When the flood waters receded, tons of mud and debris covered the streets, homes, businesses and factories of towns like Zanesville, where the Muskingum River had crested 27 feet above flood stage and water was 20 feet deep at several downtown intersections. The death toll for the disaster stood at 361, and property damages were well over $100,000,000 and 65,000 were forced to temporarily leave their homes. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P28_B05_F06_1
Subjects: Climate and weather; Floods; Natural disasters; Zanesville (Ohio)
Places: Zanesville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: A black-and-white 8 x 10 photographic print of Columbus, Ohio, fashion designer H. Harold Curmode and Miss Central Ohio Roseann Wolpert wearing one of Curmode's designs. The ballgown was made of white silk organza with a white lace strapless top, and was one of several designs Curmode created for Wolpert to wear at the Miss Ohio Contest held in Mansfield, Ohio, in July 1961. The photograph was taken by an unknown photographer at the Columbus Citizen-Journal. Curmode was born on July 11, 1928, and moved with his family to Columbus in 1936. He served in the U.S. Army and was discharged in 1952. In 1955, Curmode married Doris Ann Vaughn and began his career as a fashion designer, establishing "The House of Harold." By 1960, he was well-established as a local designer in Columbus, and during the 1970s and early 1980s, he collaborated with several local theatre groups as a costume designer. Curmode died in 1989. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV157_B01F06_001
Subjects: Curmode, Harry Harold, 1928-1989 (Designer); Fashion designers; Clothing and dress; Pageants--Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio);
 

Description: This image depicts the bud of a tree, likely awaiting the planting process by elementary students. The planting process was likely a late celebration of Arbor Day. Arbor Day is a United States holiday dedicated to the planting of trees on a national scale, education on the importance of trees, and education on how to plant trees. The holiday is celebrated the last Friday in April in the United States. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA2002AV_B01_00010_12
Subjects: Trees; Arbor Day; Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio
Places: Ohio;
 

Description: This photograph, taken in the 1960s, documents four models of Jeeps manufactured by Willys-Overland Company (later Kaiser Jeep Corporation) of Toledo between 1940 and 1963. On the left is the MA model, which was built in small quantities in 1940 and 1941. The Jeep second from the left is the MB model. It was mass-produced for U.S. and Allied forces during World War II (1941-1945). 368, 714 of the Jeeps were built. Second from the right is the M38, which was produced between 1950 and 1952 for troops serving in the Korean War (1950-1952). On the right is the M38A1, manufactured between 1952 and 1963. The photograph is 8" x 10" (20.32 x 25.4 cm). Willys-Overland was the second-largest automobile manufacturer in the United States in the 1950s, employing one-third of Toledo's work force. Barely surviving the Great Depression of the 1930s, the company produced Jeeps for military use in World War II. The Willys-Overland Company became a part of DaimlerChrysler in 1998 and continued to produce SUVs (sport utility vehicles) for the general public. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3262_4549698_001
Subjects: Transportation; Business and labor; Automobiles; Automobile industry; Jeep Corporation; Willys-Overland Motors, Inc.
Places: Toledo (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: One man and two women look through items to buy at a yard sale while a cat strolls through the yard nearby, in Columbus, Ohio's, South Side. In yard sales, private individuals typically sell used household goods in order to make money or to get rid of unwanted possessions. 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_B02F014_01
Subjects: Street photography; Secondhand trade; Garage sales; Cats
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Miss Harriet Keeler of Cleveland, Ohio. Keeler (1846-1921) was included on the "Ohio State Honor Roll" from the League of Women Voters of Ohio, ca. 1930, which listed prominent Ohio women involved in the suffrage movement. Her brief biography from the Honor Roll reads: "Harriet L. Keeler was born in New York State and was a pupil of Betsy M, Cowles. Miss Cowles so fired the imagination of Miss Keeler for a higher education that she prepared herself for Oberlin College, and graduated from there. For thirty years Miss Keeler was a brilliant and inspiring teacher of English at Central High School. For a short time she was Superintendent of Schools of the city of Cleveland. Miss Keeler was a famous botanist, and among the widely known books she has written, are: Our Garden Flowers , Our Northern Shrubs, and Our Native Trees, all of which are classics. Because of her outstanding distinction in this field, the Metropolitan Park Board has set aside 300 acres in the Brecksville woods and dedicated them as the Harriet Keeler Memorial Woods. Miss Keeler was devoted to the cause of woman's suffrage. As one of the presidents of the Cuyahoga County Woman's Suffrage party, she did much to bring credit and respect to the movement in Cleveland. She was also a member of the National American Woman's Suffrage Association." This photograph comes from the League of Women Voters of Ohio Collection. The League of Women Voters was first formed at the national level in early 1920 by Carrie Chapman Catt, President of the National Woman Suffrage Association. Soon, additional leagues began to form at the state and local level, with the League of Women Voters of Ohio being organized in May 1920 in Columbus. The League was first formed to empower women to use their newfound right to vote, and today its primary purpose remains citizen education. To this goal, it supports voter registration efforts, provides information on candidates and issues, sponsors debates and offers publications on public policy and voter engagement topics. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS354_B10_LWVO_HarrietKeeler
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Social movements; League of Women Voters of Ohio; Suffragists; Activism; Educators; Botany
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Taken in 1971 by U.S. Army medic Charles Tweel, this photograph shows women performing at Camp Evans, with soldiers on stage, as part of a United Service Organization (USO) show for the 101st Airborne Division during the Vietnam War. This performance was part of the 1971 Miss America USO Show, which featured that year's Miss America, Phyllis George, pictured here with white bows in her hair, and some of the state winners. The USO is an American non-profit organization dedicated to providing services to troops abroad and those returning home, including hosting concerts and performances at military bases overseas. 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_B01F03_016
Subjects: Vietnam War (1961-1975); United States. Army. Airborne Division, 101st; Arts and entertainment; Military life
Places: Camp Evans (Vietnam)