Description: This wood wedge is used in woodworking to hold a piece at an angle. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H73519
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Tools
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This rickshaw is made of wood and iron and painted red and blue. The rickshaw is meant to be pulled by hand. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8636
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Transportation
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the Miami and Erie Canal through Allen County, between stations 5039 and 5132. Roads, properties, culverts, rail lines and other landmarks along the route are noted. 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: BV23169_011
Subjects: Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio; Railroads
Places: Allen County (Ohio)
 

Description: Hand-drawn portrait of James L. Thompson (1804-1886), who kept a station on the Underground Railroad with his wife, Sally, northwest of Salem in Washington County, Indiana. 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: AL03013
Subjects: Siebert, Wilbur Henry, 1866-1961; Underground Railroad--Indiana; Thompson, James L., 1804-1886; Abolitionists; Thompson, Sally, 1805-1891; Activists
Places: Salem (Indiana); Washington County (Indiana)
 

Description: Robert and George Hunt with Fan the horse, ca. 1870-1879. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03786
Subjects: Horses; Ohio Economy--Agriculture; Rural life; Agriculture
 

Description: Composite portrait of prominent members of the Ohio State Bar Association, ca. 1878. Each man's name is printed under his portrait. The Ohio State Bar Association was founded in 1880 as a professional organization for those in the legal profession who have passed the bar examination. Two of the more notable portraits include James Garfield, who served as the twentieth president of the United States but was assassinated after only four months in office, and Alphonso Taft, who served as U.S. Attorney General and Secretary of War, and whose son William became president in 1909. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05247
Subjects: Lawyers; Columbus (Ohio); Law & legal affairs; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Illustration of the Battle of the Wilderness, May 6, 1864, published in 'The American Soldier in the Civil War' by Frank Leslie. The Battle of the Wilderness was the opening battle of Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign against the army of the Confederate States of America. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04586
Subjects: Battlefields; Artists; American Civil War, 1861-1865; Grant, Ulysses S., 1822-1885; Generals
 

Description: This stereograph shows the Lucas County Courthouse in Toledo, Ohio. Pedestrians are strolling on walkways leading to the courthouse. Opened in 1897, the courthouse is on the National Register of Historic Places. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06165
Subjects: Architecture; Toledo (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio); Courthouses; National Register of Historic Places
Places: Toledo (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: William Wright, of Franklin County, was electrocuted on September 20, 1918, for the Murder of Detective William O'Rourke. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08102
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Capital punishment; Death row; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections
Places: Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Birthplace of U. S. Grant. Ulysses Simpson Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant on April 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio. In 1823, his family moved to Georgetown, Ohio. Grant lived there until he received an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1839. Grant graduated from West Point in 1843. He ranked twenty-first in a class of thirty-nine students. Grant served under General Zachary Taylor in the Mexican-American War. In the years before the American Civil War, Grant lived much of the time in St. Louis, Missouri, working as a real estate agent and as a farmer. He failed in both of these businesses. Grant also assisted his father in a tannery business. After the Battle of Fort Sumter in April 1861, Grant volunteered for military duty. He first served as colonel of the Twenty-First Illinois Infantry but soon was promoted to the rank of brigadier general due to his previous military experience. In March 1864, President Lincoln promoted Grant to lieutenant general and named him supreme commander of all Union forces. By early June 1864, Grant had surrounded General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia at Petersburg, Virginia, and a ten month siege ensued. The Northerners finally drove the Confederates from Petersburg in early April 1865, and The Army of Northern Virginia surrendered on April 9, 1865. n 1868, the Democratic Party chose Horatio Seymour as its presidential candidate. Seymour, a former governor of New York, supported states' rights and opposed equal rights for African Americans with whites. The Republican Party selected Grant, a defender of equal opportunities for African Americans with whites and a supporter of a strong federal government. Grant easily won the Electoral College vote, capturing twenty-six of the thirty-four states. Grant's first term as president was troubled with corruption. Grant remained above the corruption, but some of the U.S. public faulted him for his poor leadership and his inability to control his cabinet. Grant sought reelection in 1872. He won easily, receiving fifty-six percent of the popular vote. Grant promised to end the violence in the South but did little about it during his second term. An economic depression in 1873 further alienated the public from Grant. Due to Grant's declining popularity, the Republican Party nominated Rutherford B. Hayes as president, although Grant had desired to seek a third term. Grant also sought the party's candidacy in 1880, but the Republicans selected James Garfield instead. Grant spent his last years in New York, writing his memoirs. When he was elected president, Grant had resigned his commission in the military. In 1885, the United States Congress reappointed Grant as General of the Army. His salary helped him pay rising bills. He died on July 23, 1885 from throat cancer. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07703
Subjects: Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Grant, Ulysses S., 1822-1885; Birthplaces; Historic houses
Places: Point Pleasant (Ohio); Clermont County (Ohio)
 

Description: Glass plate negative of Ruth Weinman Herndon and her mother, Henrietta Heinmiller Weinman. Ruth Weinman Herndon (Mrs. L. Kermit Herndon) was a life-long resident of Columbus, Ohio. Born September 6, 1907, she was the daughter of Henrietta Heinmiller Weinman (1869-1957) and William Nelson Weinman (1868-1950), owner of the Weinman Pump Manufacturing Company. The Weinman family was a prominent German-American family in Columbus throughout the 20th century. Ruth Weinman (1907-2002) lived with her parents at 380 King Avenue in Columbus until 1914, when her parents hired Columbus architect Frank Packard to build a home at 1445 Roxbury Road in Marble Cliff. After graduating from Columbus School for Girls in 1925, Ruth studied sociology at Ohio State University, graduating in 1929. She married L. Kermit Herndon. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1344AV_B02F07
Subjects: Children; Families; Children's clothing; Women--Ohio; Portraits; Herndon, L. K. (Lyle Kermit)
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing the "Old High School," used to house high school students for Clinton Township from 1905 until 1910. This building, just east of the main school building at Clinton Heights Avenue and North High Street, continued in use as an annex to the original Clinton Township school (built in the 1890s) as well as the newer Clinton Elementary (built in 1922) before being demolished in 2014. 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_168
Subjects: Clinton League; Women--Charities; School buildings; Education
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)