Description: Photograph of an unidentified woman, taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912. Like most of Ewing's work, it was likely taken in southeastern Ohio or central West Virginia. Born in 1870 in Washington County, Ohio, near Marietta, Ewing most likely began his photography career in the 1890s. The 1910 US Census and a 1912-1913 directory list him as a photographer. A negative signed ""Ewing Brothers"" and a picture with his younger brother, Frank, indicate that Frank may have joined the business. After 1916, directories list Albert as a salesman. He died in 1934. The Ewing Collection consists of 5,055 glass plate negatives, each individually housed and numbered. Additionally, the collection includes approximately 450 modern contact prints made from the glass plate negatives. Subjects include infants and young children, elderly people, families, school and religious groups, animals and rural scenes. In 1982, the Ohio Historical Society received the collection, still housed in the original dry plate negative boxes purchased by Albert J. Ewing. A selection of the original glass plate negatives were exhibited for the first time in 2013 at the Ohio Historical Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV71_b01_f61a
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States--History
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: Photograph of Major General Robert Beightler, Commanding General, 37th Infantry Division, accepting the articles of surrender from Major General Iguchi, Commanding General, 80th Brigade, Imperial Japanese Army, Tuguegarao, Luzon, Philippines, September 5, 1945. The 37th Infantry was nicknamed the Buckeye Division because it was originally comprised of Ohio National Guard units. The division went into combat in April 1943 on Guadacanal, Solomon Islands and spent over 600 days in action before the end of the war, more combat time than any other division. The 37th Infantry played a significant role in the invasion of the Phillippines. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03421
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Soldiers--Ohio
Places: Tuguegarao, Luzon (Philippines)
 

Description: Photograph of a young couple with a horse and a dog, ca. 1910-1919. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06317
Subjects: Horses; Other--Family History; Dogs; Photography--Ohio; Photographers--Ohio; Animals; Clothing and dress
Places: Marysville (Ohio); Union County (Ohio)
 

Description: Students marching into the auditorium for a kindergarten graduation ceremony at the Rick's Child Guidance Center, ca. 1953 - 1969. The school for African-American children was founded in Columbus, Ohio by Elminie Holland Rickman. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00664
Subjects: Multicultural Ohio--African American Ohioans
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph depicts conduit installed at the Sibley, Lindsay, & Curr Company Building in Rochester, New York. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B05F78_012
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry; Sibley, Lindsay and Curr Company; New York
Places: Rochester (New York)
 

Description: This photograph shows the field house at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. 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_27
Subjects: Thorpe, Jim, 1887-1953; Indians of North America--Carlisle--History--Pictoral works School sports
Places: Carlisle (Pennsylvania); Cumberland County (Pennsylvania)
 

Description: Photograph showing preliminary ceremony before a polo match at River Ridge Riding and Polo Club. The photograph was originally preserved in the scrapbook of Ruth Herndon, with a caption beneath the photograph reading: "Preliminary Ceremony." The caption at the top of the page where the photograph is preserved reads: "The 1932 Polo Season Opens When River Ridge Meets Ohio State on May 30." 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 s View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1344AV_B03_BOOK01_039
Subjects: Athletics and athletes; Horseback riding; Horse training; Societies and clubs; Sports; Animals;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: The image is a colored print of a reproduced painting of Abraham Lincoln. The print is framed around Lincoln’s head and shoulders with a full frontal view of his face. The text under the portrait reads, “Reproduction of the Original by J. Redding Kelly in the possession of A. D. Whiteside.” View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV83_B01F07_022
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Pictorial works; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Portraits
 

Description: The Republic Steel Corporation Collection (MSS 192) consists of 13,000 black and white photographic negatives, 2,000 color photographic negatives, and many 35 mm slides which document Republic Steel Corporation’s main production facilities and its subsidiaries, 1941-1975. This collection also includes images of social events such as company picnics, award banquets, and dances. Founded in 1899, Republic Iron and Steel Company was a steel production company based in Youngstown, Ohio, and the result of a consolidation of 34 steel mills across the United States including the Mahoning Valley’s Brown Bonnell Iron Company, Andrews Brothers and Company, and Mahoning Iron Company. From 1927-1937, Republic Iron and Steel Company expanded its reach by acquiring a number of other companies such as Trumbull Steel Company in Warren, Ohio, and Central Alloy Steel Corporation in Canton, Ohio. With its expansion, Republic Iron and Steel Company became the third largest steel producer in the United States behind United States Steel Corporation and Bethlehem Steel Company, and changed its name to Republic Steel Corporation to reflect its new status. After the outbreak of World War II in 1941, the Corporation’s production increased by 33%. This increased production continued into the 1950s and 1960s as the company continued to be one of the leading developers of steel production technology. Due to a myriad of factors including decreased demand for steel from automobile manufacturers and imported foreign steel, steel sales declined and in 1984 the Republic Steel Corporation was purchased by LTV Corporation, which led to the closure of the Youngstown plant. LTV filed for bankruptcy in December 2000. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: YHC_MSS192_B03F455_023
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "Cuyahoga County Courthouse (Pre-Civil War Days)." The building shown here is actually the second incarnation of the Cuyahoga County Courthouse and did not occupy the same site as the current County Courthouse. Erected in 1828, this building replaced the original courthouse when it was finally decided to make Cleveland the permanent county seat. This courthouse was built by Henry Noble and remained in use until the 1850s. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F09_23_01
Subjects: Courthouses--Ohio--Cleveland; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Wedding gown and matching petticoat (Connecticut, 1780-1790). The gray silk and satin damask dress has a low scoop neck, no darts, pinked three-quarter sleeves that have pierced stars and holes for decoration. The underskirt is knife-pleated with silk tape, with red and white stripes, pocket slits, and lined in linen. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04886
Subjects: Women--Ohio; Popular culture; Dresses; Clothing and dress; Wedding costume; Weddings
Places: Connecticut
 

Description: Ohio State Office Building construction site, with the Scioto River in the background. The architect was Harry Hake and the general contractor was Struck Construction Co., both of Cincinnati, Ohio View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05472
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)