Description: Thomas Davis was electrocuted December 15, 1911, for the murder of two Hungarians (one named Paul Hegyi) in a strip of woods north of Circleville in Pickaway County, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08091
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Capital punishment; Death row; Prisoners and prisons
Places: Pickaway County (Ohio)
 

Description: A native of Coshocton County, William Green (1870-1932) began his working life as a coal miner at age 16 and rose rapidly in the leadership of the United Mine Workers of America. Twice elected to the Ohio Senate, Green served as president pro tempore during his second term. He was instrumental in enacting Ohio's first worker's compensation law in 1912, at a time when progressive-era ideals conflicted with an impersonal industrial system where workers enjoyed few rights and little security. Green, one of the outstanding American trade union leaders of the twentieth century, served as president of the American Federation of Labor from 1924 until his death in 1952. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07684
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government; Politicians; Ohio Economy--Economy--Labor
 

Description: Photograph showing Jack Chester Jr. posing next to a horse at the River Ridge Riding and Polo Club. The photograph was originally preserved in the scrapbook of Ruth Herndon. The caption beneath the photograph reads: "Jack Chester Jr." The caption at the top of the page reads: "Scenes At The Polo Matches-1930." Ruth Weinman Herndon (1907-2002) was a life-long resident of Columbus, Ohio. Born September 6, 1907, she was the daughter of Henrietta Heinmiller Weinman (1869-1957) and William Nelson Weinman (1868-1950), owner of the Weinman Pump Manufacturing Company. The Weinmans were a prominent German-American family in central Ohio throughout the twentieth century. Ruth lived with her parents at 380 King Avenue in Columbus until 1914, when her parents hired Columbus architect Frank Packard to build a home at 1445 Roxbury Road in Marble Cliff. After graduating from Columbus School for Girls in 1925, Ruth studied sociology at Ohio State University, graduating in 1929. She married L. Kermit Herndon. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1344AV_B03_BOOK01_018
Subjects: Men; Horseback riding; Horses--Training; Societies and clubs; Sports; Animals;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Red Cross parade in downtown Columbus, Fall 1918. Red Cross volunteers are seen carrying a large banner reading "Food Will Win The War." 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_156
Subjects: Clinton League; Women--Charities; American Red Cross; World War, 1914-1918--Women--United States; Parades & processions;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Several people look at a car with its hood up at a garage near the intersection of North High Street and 11th Avenue in the University District of Columbus, Ohio. A sign on the station's gas pump reads "We Have Gas Now." 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_B10F269_01
Subjects: Street photography; University District (Columbus, Ohio); Service stations; Automobile repair;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Classroom photograph showing several students along with their teacher at Douglas Alternative School in Columbus, Ohio, taken for the Columbus Free Press. Douglas Alternative School was an elementary school on Columbus's Near East side, part of the Columbus City School District. It closed ca. 2010. The Columbus Free Press began as a bi-weekly publication in Columbus, Ohio, in 1970. An underground newspaper, it replaced the Ohio State University publication The People, Yes. The earliest known issue of the newspaper appeared on January 4, 1971. The newspaper underwent a series of name changes over the decades, with titles including the Columbus Free Press & Cowtown Times (1972-1976), the Columbus Freepress (1976-1992) and The Free Press (1992-1995). The paper, which covered many liberal and progressive causes, was an alternative to mainstream news sources in central Ohio with the slogan “The Other Side of the News.” In 1995, the paper ceased publication briefly before reemerging as a website in early 1996, and returning as a print publication under the Free Press title in the form of a quarterly journal in 1998. Published under various frequencies during the first part of the 21st century, the Free Press again became a nonprofit monthly publication in 2017 with both a print and web presence, published by the Columbus Institute for Contemporary Journalism and operated by a volunteer staff and board. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1301AV_B02F07_06
Subjects: Teachers; Students -- Ohio; Schools; Children; Columbus City Schools;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Holmes County Courthouse was completed in 1886 by architect Joseph Yost. The building is made of locally-quarried stone and steel with a Corinthian-columned entrance. On the east side of the building, there is a hitching rail for Amish buggies. This image shows the building's front facade. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F03_225
Subjects: Courthouses; National Register of Historic Places; porticoes; pilasters; mansard roofs;
Places: Millersburg (Ohio); Holmes County (Ohio); 1 E. Jackson St.
 

Description: Carte de visite of unidentified Civil War officer, probably from Southeastern Ohio. Subject has large beard, but no mustache. Shoulder insignia are unreadable, but denote commissioned rank. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV200_b03_f30_11
Subjects: Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Photographs; Grant, Ulysses S., 1822-1885; Military Ohio
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Employee of the East Ohio Gas Company, now Dominion East Ohio, reading the gas meter at a private home, 1961. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00686
Subjects: Gas industry--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: Trolley conveyor made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio being used to load ice on to refrigerated railroad cars at the St. Louis Independent Packers Company, St. Louis, Missouri, 1928. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01499
Subjects: Conveying machinery; Ohio Economy--Economy--Labor
Places: St. Louis (Missouri)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "District #5, 902 Municipal Bldg. Akron, November 19, 1937. Public square, Alliance, Ohio, showing First National Bank Building and World War Memorial." This photograph depicts downtown from the public square in Alliance, Ohio. There is a statue on the right side of the frame and several people standing on the sidewalk. Some of the storefronts include Vale's Drug Store, C.C. Crawford Co., and the Suburban Power Co. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F07_006_001
Subjects: Central business districts; Storefronts--United States--Pictorial works; Alliance (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project.
Places: Alliance (Ohio); Stark County (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

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