Description: Reproduction of a print depicting William Henry Harrison at the time he was appointed Governor of the Indiana Territory, May 13, 1800. Harrison was the ninth President of the United States. He was born in Charles County, Virginia, on February 9, 1773, son of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. After a successful military career in the War of 1812, Harrison made his home at North Bend just west of Cincinnati. He became the first president to die in office when he succumbed to pneumonia in April 1841, just a few weeks after his inauguration. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02743
Subjects: Presidents--United States; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841; Portrait photography--United States--History
 

Description: This image shows a memorial to Fort Amanda, in the vicinity of Wapakoneta, Ohio. The fort was originally built in the fall of 1812 by Kentucky troops under the command of Lt. Col. Robert Pogue It was enlarged to almost double the original size during the spring of 1813 by Ohio militia soldiers under the command of Capt. Daniel Hosbrook. A fifth blockhouse was added during the second phase of construction as well as several cabins and storage buildings. The walls stood 11 feet above the ground. Fort Amanda was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 10, 1970 View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06488
Subjects: Wapakoneta (Ohio); War of 1812; National Register of Historic Places
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph from the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus is of Eugene Harris, a 24-year-old male from Montgomery County, Ohio. His formal attire suggests that the photograph was taken during his trial or sentencing. Harris was the 227th individual to be executed via the electric chair in Ohio. The caption at the bottom reads: "No. 227, Eugene Harris of Montgomery County, Legally Electrocuted October 23, 1940, for the Murder of Policeman Lucius Rice, at Dayton, Ohio." 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: AL08281
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); Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Birthplace of Aviation. This design was submitted by Todd Donahue who was a student at Bradford School. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08700
Subjects: Money; Commemorations; United States Mint; State symbols
Places: Ohio
 

Description: The caption under the photograph reads: "Carthage Aqueduct--Looking up stream thro. New Work." An aqueduct refers to one of two kinds of structures: a water passage through land artificially constructed for the purpose of boats, ships, etc. to travel, or a channel (any type) used to transport water from one location to another. This photograph is part of a series taken by the Board of the Ohio Department of Public Works to document the disrepair of the infrastructure of the Ohio and Erie Canal and Miami-Erie Canal systems in 1916, showing the physical condition of each structure. The Ohio Department of Public Works is one of the oldest departments of state government in continuous existence. Among its other duties, this department was charged with maintenance and administration of the Ohio & Erie and Miami-Erie Canals. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA936AV_B01_1D
Subjects: Waterworks; Canals; Rivers; Lakes--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio);
 

Description: The photograph shows a group of five seated on a porch. Two men sit in rocking chairs, and three women sit on the porch steps in front of them. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's store, and later as a traveling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). Kinley 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: AV30_B01F03_64
Subjects: Families; Daily life; Portrait photography; Photographers--Ohio
Places: Sycamore (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio);
 

Description: This photograph is a part of a series of photographs taken by the Ohio Department of Agriculture documenting farms in Ohio. This is a barn at the Maple Valley Farm, owned by George E. Scott near Mount Pleasant, Ohio. Scott was a prominent dairy farmer in Ohio and served as state chief dairy inspector, as well as on the Ohio Experiment Station board of control, the Ohio State Grange executive committee, and the State Grange legislative committee. Scott's farm spanned 125 acres where he raised 70 sheep and about 10 head of cattle. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA726AV_B01F01_002_1
Subjects: Agriculture; Rural life; Dairy industry; Barns;
Places: Mount Pleasant (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: U. S. Senator John Glenn (left) speaks with President Jimmy Carter (right) in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington D.C. The John and Annie Glenn collection is comprised of photographs, slides, books and ephemera documenting the career of John Glenn as an astronaut and U.S. Senator. The collection also documents his life with his wife Annie Glenn née Castor, family and friends, such as Robert and Ethel Kennedy and fellow astronauts. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV329_B05F06_02
Subjects: Glenn, John, 1921-2016; Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
Places: Washington (District of Columbia)
 

Description: A photograph of Abraham Lincoln's funeral railroad car on tracks, being guarded by three uniformed officers. Reverse side reads "Lincoln, Abraham, funeral railroad car, Columbus (?), Ohio." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV83_B01F03_016_001
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Pictorial works; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Funeral
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Sign reads "Hi from Seabrook Texas". Homecoming parade held for Armstrong in 1969. More than 80,000 supporters greeted Armstrong upon his return to Wapakoneta, Ohio on September 6, 1969. Bob Hope served as marshal for the event, and guests included "Tonight Show" sidekick Ed McMahon, and Dr. Albert Sabin, inventor of the polio vaccine. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV_203B2F5_007
Subjects: Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012; Wapakoneta (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of the US Army cadets at the Carlisle Barracks in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Carlisle Indian Industrial School was founded by Richard Pratt to allow Indians to receive an education apart from the reservations. Jim (James Francis) Thorpe was born in 1888 in Oklahoma to Hiram P. and Charlotte Thorpe. Both Hiram and Charlotte were of European and American Indian heritage and Jim was raised in the Sac and Fox tribes. In 1904 he was sent to a boarding school in Carlisle, Pennsylvania for American Indian children. While at Carlisle he played multiple sports, including football, lacrosse, baseball, basketball, and track. He left Carlisle in 1909 and 1910 to play professional baseball with teams in Eastern Carolina League in North Carolina. He returned to Carlisle in 1911 for two successful football seasons. In both 1911 and 1912 he was an All-American halfback for football. In 1912 he became the only person to win gold medals in both the pentathlon and decathlon at the Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden. His Olympic celebrity propelled him a three year contract playing professional baseball for the New York Giants. He also played baseball with the Boston Braves and Cincinnati Reds. However, it was as a professional football player that Thorpe was more successful and strongly tied to Ohio. He was associated with four professional or semi-professional football teams in Ohio as a player and coach: the Canton Bulldogs, the Cleveland Tigers, the Oorang Indians based in LaRue, and the Portsmouth Shoe-Steels. His greatest success was with the Canton Bulldogs, which he led to win national championships in 1915, 1916, 1917 and 1919. From 1922-1923 he was a player and coach for the Oorang Indians, a National Football League team comprised of all native players. The majority of the Oorang Indians team members, like Thorpe, had played at Carlisle. The team owner, Robert Lingo, used the team and Thorpes celebrity to advertise his Oorang Kennels Company, particularly his Airedale terriers. Thorpe played another season with the Bulldogs in 1926 and then went to Portsmouth as a player-coach for the semi-professional Portsmouth Shoe-Steels in 1927. This was Thorpes last athletic job. During the 1930s and 1940s he worked a variety of jobs until he died of a heart attack in 1953. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV235_1_28
Subjects: Carlisle Indian Industrial School;
Places: Carlisle (Pennsylvania); Cumberland County (Pennsylvania)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Yankee Road Swimming pool and Foundation for filter house, Yankee Road at Taylor St." Middletown is located in Butler County, which is in Ohio's southwestern corner and borders Indiana on its western border. Butler County was established by the State of Ohio on March 24, 1803. Originally a part of Hamilton County, Butler County was named in honor of Richard Butler, who was killed in St. Clair’s Defeat in 1791. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F03_011_1
Subjects: Swimming pools--Pictorial works; Butler County (Ohio)
Places: Middletown (Ohio); Butler County (Oho)