Description: Eddie Rickenbacker as a race car driver, ca. 1909-1917. Edward Rickenbacker was born on October 8, 1890 in Columbus, Ohio. Between 1909 and 1917 he was one of the top race car drivers in the country. He raced with Peugeot, Maxwell, and Prest-O-Lite Teams and competed several times in the Indianapolis 500. In 1917, he enlisted in the army, where he became a celebrated pilot. He died in July 1973 in Switzerland. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02933
Subjects: Rickenbacker, Eddie, 1890-1973; Automobile racing; Automobile racing drivers
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Print titled "Cincinnati's sorrowful Sabbath morning," from "The Great Cincinnati Riots" (The Old Franklin Publishing House, 1884). Riots erupted in Cincinnati in March 1884 due to public outrage over the outcome of a murder trial. The Hamilton County courthouse was severely damaged by fire and Ohio National Guard troops were called to the city to end the unrest. Text at bottom reads: "Cincinnati's sorrowful Sabbath morning." "Cincinnati's trauriger Sabbath Morgen." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03864
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio)--Riot, 1884; Courthouses Ohio; Engravings (prints); Disasters
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Full length view of a Speedline hoe, made from an Army bayonet which was produced by the Union Fork & Tool Company of Columbus, Ohio, between 1946 and 1950. It has an elongated arrowhead-shaped steel blade with a rounded tip and a swallowtail back. The wood handle is painted blue. Impressed into the wood at the base are the words "Bayonet Hoe Repair Handle No B220" and "Speedline Made from an Army Bayonet." Above that is a glued label that reads "Perfect as a Circle Forks Union Hoes." The steel ferrule that connects the blade with the handle is also painted blue. The Ohio Historical Society received this object from the Center of Science and Industry (COSI) of Columbus in 1999. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05406
Subjects: Manufacturing industries--Ohio; Hoes; Tools; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Boys and girls swim meet, March 1970. Fans and swimmers watch young men competing in their event. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07637
Subjects: Sports; Cultural Ohio--Ohio Sports; Swimming; Sports--Ohio--History
Places: Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows the recreation building in Mariemont, Ohio that was erected in 1928. Mariemont was a planned community east of downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06206
Subjects: Architecture--Ohio; Public buildings; Mariemont (Ohio)
Places: Mariemont (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Adam Logan Roberts, of Franklin County, was electrocuted September 6, 1923, for the Murder of Ben Pfifer. He was a black male, age forty-one and an escaped convict. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08142
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Prisons--Ohio
Places: Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Horse-drawn sleigh in front of the community Christmas tree, outside the Wyandot County Courthouse in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. A man is posed in the sleigh dressed as Santa Claus. The Wyandot County Courthouse is one of the best-preserved examples of classical architecture from the turn of the century, built in 1899 on the site of a cemetery for soldiers who died in battle in the War of 1812. The County Municipal Courtroom served as the setting for courtroom scenes in the film “The Shawshank Redemption.” 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: AL07785
Subjects: Christmas trees; Holidays; Ohio History--State and Local Government; Photographers--Ohio; Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Historic buildings--Ohio;
Places: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio)
 

Description: Postcard showing a photograph of the McCook house. The Fighting McCooks, a family of Union Army volunteers during the American Civil War, resided in the county. During the American Civil War, fifteen members of the McCook family from Ohio fought for the Union, earning them the nickname "The Fighting McCooks." Although scholars disagree on the exact number of McCooks who fought in the Civil War, it appears that Daniel McCook and eight of his nine sons took up arms for the North, as did his brother, John McCook, and John's five sons. Individually, the two families were known as the Tribe of Dan and the Tribe of John. Together, they came to be referred to as the "Fighting McCooks." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Series6560AV_B05F011_006_001
Subjects: Postcards; Tourism; McCook family; Historic houses; Civil War 1861-1865; Families;
Places: Carrollton (Ohio); Carroll County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing a float of the United Spanish War Veterans in the Northwest Territory Sesquicentennial parade in Chillicothe, Ohio, May 9, 1938. The float was sponsored by the E.U. Weidler Camp #48 and the Captain G.W. Brandle Auxiliary #29 of the U.S.W.V. Identified left to right on the float are William A. Wolcott, Harry B. Ankrom, Mrs. Ruth Griesheimer, Claude Raynals, Mrs. Dorothy Nichols, William Drake, Elmer L. Valentine and Howard Strawser. Standing is Walter E. Owen. The United Spanish War Veterans 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_13_01
Subjects: Spanish-American War, 1898; Veterans; Military Ohio; Parades--Ohio; Northwest Territory--History; Fraternal organizations;
Places: Chillicothe (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph taken during an "Antique Tea" held by Mrs. Linn of the Clinton League. The women pictured are identified as Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Greubler, Mrs. McIntosh, Mrs. Linn, Mrs. Florence Pegg Wood, Mrs. Beechy, Mrs. Holcomb and Mrs. McCoy. 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_209
Subjects: Clintonville (Ohio); Clinton League; Women--Charities; Performers; Skits
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: An elderly woman smiles from her porch along North High Street in the University District of Columbus, Ohio. She holds a small kettle in her hand, possibly to water the plants on the railing. 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_B12F324_01
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Street photography; University District (Columbus, Ohio); Porches; Gardening;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of the spring house at Johnston Farm. Typed caption on the reverse of the photograph reads "Scene at spring house, Johnston homestead, Piqua, Ohio." Johnston Farm, maintained as a state memorial, is the homestead of John Johnston. Johnston is best known for holding the office of Indian Agent for over 30 years, appointed by President James Madison in the early years of the state to oversee the American Indian reservations in northwest Ohio. Johnston was an important political and social figure in Ohio who also served as a state canal commissioner, helped to found Kenyon College and served on the board of trustees of Miami University. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV29_B01F08_002
Subjects: Johnston, John, 1775-1861; Historic sites Ohio; Farm life;
Places: Piqua (Ohio); Miami County (Ohio);