Description: This is a photograph of several unidentified individuals ice skating on the frozen canal at Canal Winchester, Ohio. The Ohio and Erie Canal runs through the historic part of Canal Winchester. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06129
Subjects: Canals
Places: Canal Winchester (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Fairfield County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image depicts one of the greens on the campus of Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Ohio University was founded as a public research university in 1804. It is located on 1,850 acres in Athens, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06487
Subjects: Ohio University; Universities and colleges; Education, Higher
Places: Athens (Ohio); Athens County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of the street floor of The F. & R. Lazarus Company, 1966. Between 1851 and 1965, the F & R Lazarus Company retail store dominated the trade and physical landscape of Columbus. The company rose from its early years as a men's clothier in a 20 x 40 foot room downtown, to its position by 1965 as a member of the largest department store chain, Federated Department Stores. Lazarus' growth reflects that of the capital city; from small beginnings through a "golden age" of downtown development, and eventually branching out into the surrounding countryside. In 2003, the Lazarus Company was incorporated with Macy's, a member of the Federated Department stores, and is no longer in existence. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04440
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio); Lazarus Department Store; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Harry L. Davis (1878-1950) of Cleveland, Ohio, ca. 1924. He served as governor of Ohio from 1921 to 1923. As governor, Davis's main contribution to Ohio was the Administrative Reorganization Code of 1921. Following World War I, many Americans, including numerous Ohioans, sought a more efficient and smaller government at the state and federal levels. The Administrative Reorganization Code addressed these concerns, by reordering the state government. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV105_1_32
Subjects: Ohio--Governors--Portraits; Ohio History--State and Local Government
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of an unidentified family on their front porch taken by Ben Shahn for the Farm Security Administration, ca. 1935-1943. The family, which includes a man, a woman, three daughters and a son, possibly lived in Ohio. The FSA was a program as part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal that aimed at raising rural farmworkers out of poverty. One of its most notable offshoots was its photography program, which ran from 1935-1944 and documented the lives and struggles of American farm families. Other famous photographers involved with the FSA program include Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans and Jack Delano. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07270
Subjects: Families; Other--Family History; Portrait photography--United States--History; Farms; Farmers
 

Description: This mattress cover made of white, machine-sewn cotton. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H9711
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Bedding
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "The swimming project, Linden Center, Dayton, Ohio. Life guards instructing in the way to break wrist holds. March 1936." This is a photograph of several men practicing breaking wrist holds at the Linden Center pool in Dayton, Ohio. These lessons were most likely a part of the Works Progress Administration, a project that hired unemployed Americans to work on various government projects from April 8, 1935 to June 30, 1943. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F02_027_001
Subjects: Swimming pools; Swimming; Lifeguards; Bathing suits; Self-defense; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project.
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: According to the oral history of the donor, The First Unitarian Church of Marietta, Ohio, completed this comforter. The quilt is constructed of square patches alternating solid cream and solid baby blue cottons in a checkerboard pattern. Each cream patch as a name written diagonally across and all the signatures are in the same hand. The corners of each block are tied with cream and blue yarn. The back is solid cream fabric. The binding is applied baby blue cotton. The size of the quilt is 220cm x 190cm (87 x 75 inches). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3474_6643249_001
Subjects: Ohio Women; Daily life; Quilts
Places: Marietta (Ohio); Washington County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph focuses on a press along a roller factory line in the center, with a cooling rack off to one side and tubes to another. The photograph may depict an accident scene. It belongs to the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company Audiovisual Archives, so the subject may be located at the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B01F03_018
Subjects: Steel industry; Steel industry and trade--Accidents; Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
 

Description: Alfred Knapp of Butler County. Electrocuted August 19, 1904, for the Murder of his Wife. Alfred Knapp murdered his second wife, Hannah G. Knapp in Hamilton, Ohio. Her body was found in a nearby river, and Knapp was sentenced to death by the electric chair. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08069
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law
Places: Hamilton (Ohio); Butler County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph from the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus is of Monroe Bohannon, a 33-year-old of Hamilton County, Ohio. His formal attire suggests that the photograph was taken during his trial or sentencing. Bohannon was the 226th individual to be executed via the electric chair in Ohio. The caption at the bottom reads: "No. 226, Monroe Bohannon of Hamilton County, Legally Electrocuted July 10, 1940 for the Murder of Joseph Peters, Cincinnati, 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: AL08280
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); Hamilton County (Ohio); Cincinnati (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing Ruth Weinman Herndon and her father, William Weinman, on the hill that was to become the site of their Frank Packard-designed house on Roxbury Road in the Marble Cliff neighborhood of Columbus. Ruth 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. Ruth Weinman (1907-2002) 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: AL06051
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Architecture and Engineering; German Americans; Children; Families
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)