Description: This photograph from the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus is of Anthony Cirasole, age 31. Cirasole was executed on the same day as Joseph Di Marco; both men were convicted of murdering Edward Erdody. His formal attire suggests that the photograph was taken during his trial or sentencing. The caption at the bottom reads: "No. 229, Anthony Cirasole of Cuyahoga County, Legally Electrocuted January 14, 1941, for the Murder of Edward Erdody, at Cleveland, 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: AL08283
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); Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Roslynn Ferrell, of Union County, was Electrocuted March 1, 1901, for the Murder of Eugene Lane. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08060
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Prisons--Ohio
 

Description: This photograph shows twelve young people in front of a house. The photograph appears to have been taken at the Kinley family home. Harry Kinley sits in a chair on the far left and his brother Avery stands in the back. Photograph from the collection of 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_66
Subjects: Families; Daily life; Portrait photography; Photographers--Ohio
Places: Upper Sandusky (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 the Maple Valley Farm family home, 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_005_1
Subjects: Agriculture; Farmhouses; Rural life; Dairy industry
Places: Mount Pleasant (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: This panoramic photograph was taken on Broad Street in downtown Columbus, Ohio, around 1913. It shows the city to the west across the Scioto River and depicts construction of the Broad Street bridge and the Town Street bridge in progress. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS1528
Subjects: Streets--Ohio--Columbus; Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development; Scioto River (Ohio); Bridges;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: John Glenn stands at a podium to announce his inclusion in the upcoming space shuttle mission, STS-95. Behind him hangs a large photograph of his younger self in a space helmet, likely from around the time of his Friendship 7 flight in 1962, where he became the first American to orbit Earth. The spacecraft, Discovery, launched later that year on October 29, 1998. At the time, Glenn set the record for oldest person in space at age 77, where he participated in research for NASA to study the effects of aging in space. 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_B19F06_01A
Subjects: Glenn, John, 1921-2016; National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); Discovery (Spacecraft);
 

Description: This photograph from the 1940s shows the Sunday Creek Coal Mine #6 in Millfield, Ohio, the site of one of the worst mining disasters in Ohio's history. On November 5, 1930, a buildup of methane gas exploded when the trolley the miners used to carry coal out of the mine produced a spark on the track. Eighty-two men were killed. Following the explosion, the mine closed for about a month. It reopened and operated until 1945. Tougher safety regulations were instituted in 1931 as a result of the Sunday Creek Coal Mine disaster. The photograph measures 8" x 10" (20.32 x 25.4 cm). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3075_3671414_001
Subjects: Geography and Natural Resources; Coal mines and mining; Disasters
Places: Millfield (Ohio); Athens County (Ohio)
 

Description: A photograph of Abraham Lincoln's funeral hearse in Cleveland, Ohio. Reverse side reads "Lincoln's catafalque on the Public Square in Cleveland, 1865. (from photo in Cleveland Public Library)." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV83_B01F03_014_001
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Pictorial works; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Funeral
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: 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_010
Subjects: Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012; Wapakoneta (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows Jim Thorpe and three other football players from Carlisle Indian Industrial School. 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_4
Subjects: Jim Thorpe (Pa.)--History--20th century--Pictoral works Jim Thorpe (Pa.)--Social Life and customs--Pictorial works Indians of North America--Carlisle--History--Pictoral works School sports
Places: Carlisle (Pennsylvania); Cumberland County (Pennsylvania)
 

Description: Greenville was founded in 1793, General Anthony Wayne built his fort, Fort Greene Ville, to gain control over the Northwest Territory. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F07_025_1
Subjects: Geography and Natural Resources; Parks--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Stadiums
Places: Greenville (Ohio); Darke County (Ohio)
 

Description: Immaculata Church, Mount Adams / Mount Ida neighborhood, Cincinnati Ohio. Built 1859 for the German Catholic population of the area, from 1860 to present it has been a pilgrimage church. In 1977 it absorbed the nearby Irish parish of Holy Cross. Listed National Register of Historic Places (1978 -- #78002079). Reverse reads: "Cincinnati Churches; Church of the Immaculate Conception; Good Friday" View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F16_037_1
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Catholic church--Ohio--Cincinnati
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)