Description: Dated 1920, this photograph shows Warren G. Harding speaking from the front porch of his home in Marion, Ohio. This photograph is part of the Warren G. Harding Photograph Collection. Warren G. Harding, the 29th President of the United States from 1921-1923, was born near Marion, Ohio, in 1865. At age 14, Harding attended Ohio Central College, where he edited the campus newspaper and became an accomplished public speaker. He married Florence Kling de Wolfe in 1891, and embarked on his political career in 1898 by winning a seat in the Ohio legislature for two terms. Harding became Lieutenant Governor in 1903 for two years before returning to the newspaper business. While unsuccessful in a run for Governor in 1910, Harding won election to the U.S. Senate in 1914. Political insider Harry Daugherty began promoting Harding for the Republican presidential nomination in 1920. His campaign, known as “The Front Porch Campaign,” was centered on low-key speeches given from his home in Marion, Ohio, pledging to return the country to “normalcy.” Harding easily won the election, gaining 61 percent of the popular vote. On August 2, 1923, Harding died from a massive heart attack and is entombed in the Marion Cemetery. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P146_B20_P11_01_C11
Subjects: Presidential campaigns; Presidential candidates; Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923--Photographs; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics
Places: Marion (Ohio); Marion County (Ohio)
 

Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the Miami and Erie Canal through Auglaize County, between stations 5518 and 5656. Roads, properties, bridges, aqueducts and other landmarks along the route are noted, including Six Mile Creek. The map was created under the direction of the members of the Canal Commission of the state of Ohio and approved by the Chief Engineer of the Department of Public Works (variously referred to as the Board of Public Works and the Division of Public Works). Construction on the Miami and Erie Canal took place between 1825 and 1845, and the finished route connected Cincinnati and Toledo, as well as the Ohio River with Lake Erie. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: BV4925_008
Subjects: Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio
Places: Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Eddie Rickenbacker in Peugeot #7 at the Maywood Speedway in Chicago, Illinois, 1916. Edward Rickenbacker was born on October 8, 1890 in Columbus, Ohio. During his racing career, he was a part of the Peugeot, Maxwell, and Prest-O-Lite Teams. He stopped racing in 1917 to enlist in the army,, where he became a celebrated pilot. Rickenbacker died in July 1973 in Switzerland. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02928
Subjects: Rickenbacker, Eddie, 1890-1973; Automobile racing; Peugeot automobile
Places: Chicago (Illinois)
 

Description: Engraved images of university buildings at National Normal University, from the "26th Annual Catalogue of the Teachers and Students of the National Normal University, Lebanon, 1881." The image shows the Pentonian, Tetartian, Academy, and Hexonian buildings. The National Normal University was established in 1855 to train teachers. Due to financial difficulties the university closed in 1917. Written across top: UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS. Below top left depiction: PENTONIAN. Below top right depiction: TETARTIAN. Below center depiction: ACADEMY. Below bottom depiction: HEXONIAN. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03860
Subjects: Adult education; Universities and colleges Ohio; College campuses
Places: Lebanon (Ohio); Warren County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of astronaut Neil Armstrong with his wife Jan on their wedding day, January 28, 1956. Armstrong was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio, in 1930, and went on to become the first man to walk on the moon, in 1969. Neil and Janet (nee Shearon) met at Purdue University in the early 1950s. They had three children together, but divorced in 1994 after 38 years of marriage. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05359
Subjects: Couples; Ohio Economy--Science and Technology; Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012; Space flight; Wedding costume; Weddings
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio); Wilmette (Illinois)
 

Description: Boys and girls swim meet, March 1970. Fans watch as young men start their event. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07634
Subjects: Sports; Swimming; Sports--Ohio--History
Places: Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image depicts a W.P.A. Nursery Group in Toledo, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06203
Subjects: Toledo (Ohio); Children; Works Progress Administration; World War II;
Places: Toledo (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a portrait of Stanley Forbes of Franklin County. Forbes was electrocuted April 13, 1923, for the Murder of Policeman Grannison P. Koehler. He was a white male, age twenty-seven and he was a gunman. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08139
Subjects: Capital punishment; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections
Places: Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Main Street in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, looking north from Johnson Street. Thebuilding to the right is the Thurman House Hotel, also known as the Hotel Thurman, a 3-story hotel with 35 rooms built in 1888. The hotel was located at 137 South Sandusky Avenue. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's department store, and later as a travelling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). He 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: AL07782
Subjects: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Historic buildings--Ohio; Architecture; Hotels; Cities and towns
Places: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio)
 

Description: Members of the United Spanish War Veterans of Ohio posed in uniform with weapons. The U.S.W.V. was a fraternal organization that eventually included men who fought in the Spanish American War, the Philippine Insurrection and the China Relief Mission. It was organized into "Departments" by state, and then into smaller groups called "Camps." The organization lasted until 1992, when its last remaining member died at age 106. The Spanish American War was the shortest war in United States history, lasting less than four months. More than 15,000 Ohioans served in the militia and the volunteer army during the war during this time. Of those, few were involved in major action, although 230 died of disease. The Treaty of Paris, negotiated in part by Ohioan Whitelaw Reid, formally ended the war on December 10, 1898, and Spain relinquished to U.S. control the territories of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC1279_10_01
Subjects: Spanish-American War, 1898; Veterans; Soldiers--Ohio; Military Ohio; Fraternal organizations;
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Photograph of Mrs. I.B.(Margaret) Lentz, a member of the Clinton League. 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_206
Subjects: Clinton League; Women--Charities;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing the front of Mr. Brown's Descent, a bar and performance venue located at 1434 North High Street in the University District of Columbus, Ohio. A hand-painted sign on the window advertises that evening's show featuring the bands Law and Hard Sauce. The University District includes the small neighborhoods to the east and south of The Ohio State University campus on either side of the High Street corridor. 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_B10F268_01
Subjects: Street photography; University District (Columbus, Ohio); Bars (Drinking establishments); Bands;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)