Description: Illustration from "The Black Phalanx: A History of the Negro Soldiers of the United States in the Wars of 1775-1812, 1861-'65" by Joseph T. Wilson. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: blackphalanx_05
Subjects: African American soldiers; African American men; Civil War 1861-1865
 

Description: This cylindrical bowl was made by hand of brown, glazed ceramic and is decorated with brown dots. There are chips on the lip of the bowl. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H79218
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Vessels (containers)
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This soldering iron is made of copper and iron. It is a two pound soldering iron. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H72200
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Tools and equipment
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated 1920, this photograph shows Warren G. Harding preparing an American flag to be raised, outside his house in Marion, Ohio, with three men standing nearby. This photograph is part of a photograph album in the Warren G. Harding Photograph Collection (P146). Warren G. Harding, the 29th President of the United States (1921-1923), was born in Blooming Grove, Ohio, in 1865. At age 14, Harding attended Ohio Central College in Iberia, Ohio, 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 1900 by winning a seat in the Ohio legislature. After serving two terms as an Ohio Senator, Harding served as Lieutenant Governor in 1904 for two years before returning to the newspaper business. Although he lost the 1910 gubernatorial race, Harding was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1914. Political insider Harry Daugherty promoted Harding for the Republican presidential nomination in 1920. His front porch campaign was centered on speeches given from his home in Marion, Ohio, pledging to return the country to “normalcy” in this post World War I era. Harding easily won the election, gaining 61 percent of the popular vote. On August 2, 1923, Harding unexpectedly died from a massive heart attack while touring the western United States, and is entombed in the Marion Cemetery. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P146_B20P05_003
Subjects: Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923; Historic houses; Flag raising and lowering; Presidential campaigns; Presidential candidates
Places: Marion (Ohio); Marion County (Ohio)
 

Description: View of author-conservationist Louis Bromfield's Malabar Farm from the top of Mt. Jeez, Richland County, Ohio, August, 1948. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00640
Subjects: Agricultural conservation; Ohio Economy -- Agriculture
Places: Lucas (Ohio); Richland County (Ohio)
 

Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the route of the Miami and Erie Canal in Shelby and Miami Counties between stations 7608 and 7710. The Miami River, Loramie Creek, aqueducts, culverts, bridges and other landmarks along the route are also 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: BV4927_001
Subjects: Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio; Rivers--Ohio
Places: Shelby County (Ohio); Miami County (Ohio);
 

Description: Display of the National Colors of the 49th Ohio Veteran's Volunteer Infantry with Civil War era weapons, ca. 1870 to 1890. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03299
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Flags; Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry, 49th (1861-1865)
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: "Come Across for Red Cross," a 1943 Red Cross poster promoting financial support of the war effort and donation to the 1943 war fund. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04770
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945--War work; Ohio History--Military Ohio
 

Description: City officials dedicating the State Office Building, Columbus, Ohio, 1931. Construction of the building began in 1930 and was completed in 1933. The 14-story, white marble building was designed by Cincinnati architect Harry Hake and serves as a classic example of the Modernistic style. The building was later known as the Ohio Judicial Center until 2011, when the state Supreme Court named the center in honor of the late Chief Justice Thomas Moyer, who was the second-longest chief justice in state history at the time of his death in April 2010. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05674
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government; Architecture;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: The First United Methodist Church in Mansfield. The history of the Methodist Church goes as far back as the first half of the 18th Century. The driving force behind its founding and philosophy was a man named John Wesley, who was a student at Oxford at the time when the ideas of the Methodist Church were being formed by students interested in religious study. The church became relatively popular in the early days of the United States among those living in the rugged lands being settled. It would come to be widespread throughout the state of Ohio, drawing people in with its idea that all people may go to heaven. Controversy within the Church occurred over divisions about the teachings of John Wesley and the increasingly divisive issue of whether or not it was immoral to keep slaves. This caused multiple divisions within the church and it splintered into numerous separate Methodist denominations. After over 100 years of a divided church, the various Methodist churches joined together and eventually the United Methodist Church was formed. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06732
Subjects: Multicultural Ohio--Religion in Ohio; Ohio--Religion; Churches
Places: Mansfield (Ohio); Richland County (Ohio)
 

Description: A woman holding a yawning infant in a gown. Glass plate negatives of various Trumbull County and northeastern Ohio scenes, places, people and events taken by John E. Pickering and Edward D. Pickering from the 1880s to the 1910s. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08492
Subjects: Photography--Ohio; Infants; Women
 

Description: Photograph of C. Walder Parke standing in front of a curved staircase by a stream or lake. The location of this photograph is unknown, but a Huth Seed store is visible in the background. Huth Seed Company was a major distributor of floral seeds and hardware in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Charles Walder Parke was born on July 28, 1924, and grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio. He enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces in 1942 intending to be a pilot during WWII, but spent most of his military career as a navigator on B-17 Flying Fortresses in the 94th Bombardment Group. Parke earned two Bronze Stars, an Air Medal with several Oak Leaf Clusters, and the Distinguished Flying Cross for his successful bombing missions, including some over Berlin. He is best known for being on board a B-17 which was shot down over France by German planes on June 25, 1944, during a non-combat mission. The crew managed to make an emergency landing, and everyone inside survived. After the war, Parke founded the Cleveland-based Laurel Industries Inc., which became a prominent supplier of antimony oxide to the plastics industry. He died of Lou-Gehrig’s Disease on September 15, 1996, at the age of 72. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1510_B03F01_004
Subjects: Parke, Charles Walder, 1924-1996; Staircases; United States Air Force; Military uniforms; Air pilots