Description: This photograph shows the partially completed steel frame of the future Ohio State Office Building, 65 South Front Street, Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1930-1933. In the background, two cranes rise above the structure. The Scioto River and retaining wall appear in the lower right foreground. Workers are visible at ground level and also on various levels of the frame. Groundbreaking for the Ohio State Office Building, 65 South Front Street, took place on November 19, 1929. Construction began in October 1930, and the cornerstone was laid on May 16, 1931. An explosion damaged the structure on April 14, 1932, but the building eventually opened on March 27, 1933. The 14-story building was designed by architect Harry Hake, Frank Bail, and Alfred Hahn. The building later became the Ohio Judicial Center. In 2011 the state Supreme Court named the center in honor of the late Chief Justice Thomas Moyer, who was the second-longest-serving chief justice in state history at the time of his death in April 2010. The Thomas J. Moyer Ohio Judicial Center is considered an excellent example of architecture from the Art Deco period. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06934
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government; Construction industry
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Charles G. Dawes had an active career in law and the Republican party between 1896 and 1932. He was born in Marietta, Ohio, on August 27, 1865. He was a graduate of Marietta College and the Cincinnati Law School. He was the Vice President to Calvin Coolidge from March 4, 1925 to March 4, 1929. He died in Evanston, Illinois on April 23, 1951. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07066
Subjects: Marietta (Ohio); Republican Party; Politicians; Portrait photography;
 

Description: This is a photograph showing North 4th Street and the Masonic Temple in Zanesville, Ohio, following the flood of 1913. Also seen in the photograph are the Bailey Drug Company, Bell's Restaurant, Herron Drugs, and the Fergus Electric Company. In late March 1913, an unusually heavy rainstorm moved into Ohio. It rained steadily for five days and the water levels rose rapidly. By the third day of the downpour, levees were overtopped and many towns suffered disastrous flooding. When the flood waters receded, tons of mud and debris covered the streets, homes, businesses and factories of towns like Zanesville, where the Muskingum River had crested 27 feet above flood stage and water was 20 feet deep at several downtown intersections. The death toll for the disaster stood at 361, and property damages were well over $100,000,000 and 65,000 were forced to temporarily leave their homes. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P28_B05_F05_1
Subjects: Climate and weather; Floods; Natural disasters; Zanesville (Ohio)
Places: Zanesville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image depicts the planting of trees by elementary students. The planting process was likely a late celebration of Arbor Day. Arbor Day is a United States holiday dedicated to the planting of trees on a national scale, education on the importance of trees, and education on how to plant trees. The holiday is celebrated the last Friday in April in the United States. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA2002AV_B01_00010_27
Subjects: Tree planting; Arbor Day; Students--Ohio; Children
Places: Ohio;
 

Description: This photograph depicts a man walking down a narrow street or alley near North High Street in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Several parked cars and traffic signs are visible in the photograph. 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_B04F091_01
Subjects: Street photography; Downtowns; Pedestrians
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Mrs. Elizabeth Coit of Columbus, Ohio. Coit (1820-1905) was included on the "Ohio State Honor Roll" from the League of Women Voters of Ohio, ca. 1930, which listed prominent Ohio women involved in the suffrage movement. Her brief biography from the Honor Roll reads: "Elizabeth Greek Coit, mother of Belle Coit Kelton, was president of the first suffrage society of Columbus, a lecturer on Woman's Rights and one who fought valiantly for political education for women through the very early days of the struggle for equal rights." This photograph comes from the League of Women Voters of Ohio Collection. The League of Women Voters was first formed at the national level in early 1920 by Carrie Chapman Catt, President of the National Woman Suffrage Association. Soon, additional leagues began to form at the state and local level, with the League of Women Voters of Ohio being organized in May 1920 in Columbus. The League was first formed to empower women to use their newfound right to vote, and today its primary purpose remains citizen education. To this goal, it supports voter registration efforts, provides information on candidates and issues, sponsors debates and offers publications on public policy and voter engagement topics. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS354_B10_LWVO_ElizabethCoit
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Social movements; League of Women Voters of Ohio; Suffragists; Activism
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio);
 

Description: Taken in 1971 by U.S. Army medic Charles Tweel, this photograph shows a river, probably the Perfume River, where Tweel and his men would go swimming after working at a MedCAP station. MedCAP, or Medical Civic Action Program, stations were established throughout Vietnam during the war by American medical staff to provide limited medical care to civilians. As a medic, Tweel spent some time at MedCAPs offering various services to local men, women, and children, particularly immunizations. This photograph is part of the Charles Tweel Collection (AV 324) at the Ohio History Connection. Charles Tweel grew up in Columbus, Ohio, and attended The Ohio State University. After graduation in 1968, he enlisted in the U.S. Army as a non-combatant, first training as a medic at Fort Sam Huston, followed by nine months of additional training at Valley Forge General Hospital in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. He finished his training as a Specialist 3 and 91C, MOS, and went on to serve in Bamberg, Germany, with combat engineers for one year. In January 1971, Tweel served in Vietnam with the Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion (Air Mobile), 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, based out of Camp Evans near Phu Bai, north of Hue, until December of that year. Tweel spent most of his service on various firebases as the medic in charge, and occasionally shared firebases with South Vietnamese soldiers. He also visited MedCAP stations (Medical Civic Action Programs) where he treated civilians. Tweel received the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious achievement, and was promoted to Specialist 5 in 1971. After discharge from the Army, he went to medical school and was in private practice as a family practitioner from 1979-2016, and now works part-time in inner city medical clinics in Columbus, Ohio, and Charleston, South Carolina. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV324_B01F09_034
Subjects: Vietnam War (1961-1975); United States. Army. Airborne Division, 101st; Rivers; Military life; Leisure
Places: Vietnam
 

Description: Photograph from the Columbus Citizen-Journal Collection captioned on its reverse as "Personnel at the Civil Defense Air Raid Filter Center, 33 W. Gay St." in Columbus, Ohio. The three men in the top row are identified as spotters, and include (left to right) Staff Sergeant Alfred B. Brown, Sergeant Donald E. Witt, and PFC Gene A. Cooper. The men below are identified as (left to right) Lieutenant James M. Diley, Lieutenant Granville F. Miller, Private John A. Fisher, Second Lieutenant Tony C. Lombardi, and Phillip D. Hertenstein, ADM Supervisor. Beginning during World War II and into the Cold War, civilians volunteered as observers in the Ground Observer Corps, part of the nation's civil defense framework. These volunteers would report aircraft sightings to regional filter centers, which were staffed by both volunteers and Air Force members who would plot positions and flight paths. Information was then relayed to air defense centers for evaluation and identification of threats. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P339_B17F01_15_01
Subjects: Civil Defense; Ohio History--State and Local Government; Cold War, 1945-1989; United States Air Force;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This 7 by 5 inch (17.8 by 12.7) photograph, which was taken in 1890, shows the Friends Meeting House in Mount Pleasant, Ohio, the first yearly meeting house west of the Alleghenies. The three-story brick building was completed in 1814 for the Ohio Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends, whose members are known as Friends or Quakers. Members of five quarterly meetings in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana came together to worship and conduct business. The building's interior is dominated by a large auditorium with extensive galleries above. A retractable wooden partition divided the 2000-seat auditorium so that men and women could meet separately during some meetings. The building was in active use until 1909. It is now a state memorial and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om712_1008529_001
Subjects: Religion in Ohio; Quakers; Society of Friends; Religious facilities; National Register of Historic Places
Places: Mount Pleasant (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Van Wert County Courthouse dominates Van Wert's business district with its impressive facade composed of galvanized iron with pressed-zinc trimmings. Because the walls are made of pressed brick, the building is fireproof. Above the entrance is an 8 foot tall statue of Justice. It represents Second Empire style architecture. This image shows the building's front and side facades. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F06_482
Subjects: Courthouses; National Register of Historic Places;
Places: Van Wert (Ohio); Van Wert County (Ohio); 101 E. Main St.
 

Description: Lima, Ohio airport; Neil Armstrong returning to his hometown of Wapakoneta, Ohio after NASA mission Gemini 8 View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV_203B2F1_009
Subjects: Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012; Wapakoneta (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows Zane Grey and his wife Dolly in field of flowers, 1906. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00491
Subjects: Authors; Popular culture
Places: Lackawaxen (Pennsylvania); Pike County (Pennsylvania)