Description: This photograph from the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus is of 21-year-old foundry worker George M. Sexton. His formal attire suggests that the photograph was taken during his trial or sentencing. Sexton was found guilty of murder Otto Hoffman, a night watchman, in Sandusky, Ohio.The caption at the bottom reads: "No. 255, George M. Sexton of Erie County, Legally Electrocuted January 30 1948 for the Murder of Mr. Otto Hoffman." 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: AL08309
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); Sandusky (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: National colors of the 34th Engineers Regiment, 95th Infantry Division. Rectangular flag measures 131 cm high by 174 cm wide. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02286
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; World War, 1914-1918
 

Description: National colors of the 24th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Text on flag reads: The 6th to the 24th Ohio; Shiloh, April [??]. The flag is largely disintegrated. It has not been cataloged in this collection. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01909
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Caption from a similar photograph reads "Ohio Tour #19-A, State 46, District #1. "White House" - North Bristol. Unusual example of the Greek Revival influence in Pioneer architecture. Laminated pilasters on front of this house are distinctly unique." This home, built around 1830, is located on State Route 45 in North Bristol, Ohio. In 1936, the building was photographed and documented by Carl Waite of the Historic American Buildings Survey, and photographs and floor plans can be found with the Library of Congress. This house is one of many Greek Revival style homes built in the area. In 1936, the house was occupied by a Mr. Williams and his family. On July 10, 1800, the government of the Northwest Territory authorized the creation of Trumbull County. It originally was a portion of the Connecticut Western Reserve. The county was named in honor of Connecticut Governor Jonathan Trumbull. Trumbull County is located in northeastern Ohio and covers 616 square miles. The county's eastern border helps form the boundary between Ohio and Pennsylvania. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F06_028_001
Subjects: Architeture; Architecture, Domestic--Ohio--Pictorial works.
Places: North Bristol (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio)
 

Description: Painting of national colors of the 174th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02585
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
 

Description: Jacob Lindley was born in 1774 in Pennsylvania. At the age of eighteen he attended Jefferson College, Pennsylvania and later Princeton University, New Jersey, studying theology. In 1803 Lindley moved to Ohio, becoming the pastor of a Presbyterian Church in Waterford. He moved to Athens, Ohio in 1808 after being selected by the first board of trustees of Ohio University to head the university. As the first president of Ohio University he served from 1809-1822. The fireplace mantel pictured in the photograph is from the Lindley House in Athens, Ohio. It is consistent with the Greek revival style that was popular in American architecture during the early 19th century. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F07_002
Subjects: Architecture; Athens (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works; Interiors; Fireplaces; Lindley, Jacob, 1744-1814
Places: Athens (Ohio); Athens County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of an unidentified woman, taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912. Like most of Ewing's work, it was likely taken in southeastern Ohio or central West Virginia. Born in 1870 in Washington County, Ohio, near Marietta, Ewing most likely began his photography career in the 1890s. The 1910 US Census and a 1912-1913 directory list him as a photographer. A negative signed "Ewing Brothers" and a picture with his younger brother, Frank, indicate that Frank may have joined the business. After 1916, directories list Albert as a salesman. He died in 1934. The Ewing Collection consists of 5,055 glass plate negatives, each individually housed and numbered. Additionally, the collection includes approximately 450 modern contact prints made from the glass plate negatives. Subjects include infants and young children, elderly people, families, school and religious groups, animals and rural scenes. In 1982, the Ohio Historical Society received the collection, still housed in the original dry plate negative boxes purchased by Albert J. Ewing. A selection of the original glass plate negatives were exhibited for the first time in 2013 at the Ohio Historical Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV71_b17_f1110
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States--History
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

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: The Republic Steel Corporation Collection (MSS 192) consists of 13,000 black and white photographic negatives, 2,000 color photographic negatives, and many 35 mm slides which document Republic Steel Corporation’s main production facilities and its subsidiaries, 1941-1975. This collection also includes images of social events such as company picnics, award banquets, and dances. Founded in 1899, Republic Iron and Steel Company was a steel production company based in Youngstown, Ohio, and the result of a consolidation of 34 steel mills across the United States including the Mahoning Valley’s Brown Bonnell Iron Company, Andrews Brothers and Company, and Mahoning Iron Company. From 1927-1937, Republic Iron and Steel Company expanded its reach by acquiring a number of other companies such as Trumbull Steel Company in Warren, Ohio, and Central Alloy Steel Corporation in Canton, Ohio. With its expansion, Republic Iron and Steel Company became the third largest steel producer in the United States behind United States Steel Corporation and Bethlehem Steel Company, and changed its name to Republic Steel Corporation to reflect its new status. After the outbreak of World War II in 1941, the Corporation’s production increased by 33%. This increased production continued into the 1950s and 1960s as the company continued to be one of the leading developers of steel production technology. Due to a myriad of factors including decreased demand for steel from automobile manufacturers and imported foreign steel, steel sales declined and in 1984 the Republic Steel Corporation was purchased by LTV Corporation, which led to the closure of the Youngstown plant. LTV filed for bankruptcy in December 2000. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: YHC_MSS192_B02F246_03
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: Probably dated to the 1930s, this photograph shows the Centennial Auditorium at the Ohio State Fairgrounds. The Ohio State Fair is an annual exhibition held at the Ohio Expo Center in Columbus that showcases Ohio farming and commercial products and achievements. In the 1840s, farmers began to join agricultural organizations, and the state of Ohio began to take an interest in the challenges that farmers faced. As a result, the state government created the Board of Agriculture in 1846. The Board of Agriculture planned to hold the first statewide fair in 1849, but a cholera epidemic forced the fair's cancellation. The first Ohio State Fair was held the next year instead. The city of Cincinnati hosted the fair in 1850, which went on for three days. Ultimately, the Board decided that the state capital should be the permanent site for the state fair, and it moved to Columbus in 1874. By the 1870s, the state's railroad system had improved significantly, and it was much easier to travel from all parts of the state. The current fairgrounds, known today as the Ohio Expo Center, were completed in 1886. The Ohio State Fair has been held at these fairgrounds ever since. This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F04C_009_1
Subjects: Ohio State Fair; Auditoriums; Architecture; Columbus (Ohio)
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is the rear facade of the Clark County Courthouse. It was completed in 1924 by architect William Schilling, after the second courthouse was damaged by fire in 1918. The Neoclassical building was constructed from the foundational remains and because of this there are elements from the Second Empire style building evident on the first floor. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F01_069
Subjects: Courthouses; municipal buildings; Neoclassical
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio); 50 E. Columbia St.
 

Description: Photograph shows a large banner reading "United We Stand" in an alcove at a radio station. There is an unlit "On The Air" light next to the banner, on the left. On a shelf underneath the banner are two signs with several war related photographs on each. The sign on the left is in Polish and reads: "Czy chcesz walczyc na ladzie. na morzu czy w powietrzu? decyduj sam. w kanadzie tworza sie Polskie sily zbrojne" which rougly translates as "Do you want to fight on land, sea or air? Decide alone. Canada formed the Polish armed forces" The sign on the right is in Polish and reads: "Polacy i amerykanie w walce o demokracje pokonaja wspolnego wroga. W kanadzie tworza sie polskie sily zbrojne." This roughly translates as: "Poles and Americans in the struggle for democracy defeat a common enemy. In Canada, the Polish armed forces were formed." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F10_026_1
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio). Radio Station WLW; Cincinnati. Radio Station WLW; WLW (Radio Station : Cincinnati, Ohio)
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)