Description: This photograph from the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus is of 55-year-old Dovie Blanche Dean, a Batavia housewife. Her formal attire suggests that the photograph was taken during her trial or sentencing. Dean, convicted of poisoning and killing her newlywed husband, was the 293rd individual (and second of three women) to be executed via the electric chair in Ohio. The caption at the bottom reads: “No. 293 Dovie Blanche Dean Clermont County, Ohio, Legally Electro-cuted, January 15, 1954, for the Murder of Hawkins Dean.” 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: AL08345
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); Batavia (Ohio); Clermont County (Ohio)
 

Description: Group of piglets suckling on a sow, photographed by Joe Munroe, 1962. Piglets can eat up to twelve meals a day. Joe Munroe's career began in 1939 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He served in the Air Force during World War II and then joined Cincinnati-based Farm Quarterly magazine. Though raised in Detroit, agriculture became an important subject of Joe's photographs. He moved to California in 1955 and free-lanced, taking magazine assignments and selling his own work. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P400_B01_F15_001
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Farms; Agricultural; Livestock; Pigs
Places: Grey Summit (Missouri)
 

Description: This photograph was taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912. It shows a large floral arrangement around a small portrait of a young man, likely deceased. 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_b02_f128
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States--History; Funerals
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: Portrait of William Stanberry, US Congressman from Ohio, CA 1830s Father of Henry Stanberry, Ohio's 1st Attorney General (1866-68). William Stanberry was born in New Jersey in 1788 and studied law in New York City. He then moved to Newark, Ohio and began practicing law. He was elected to the Ohio Senate in 1824 and 1825 and elected as an Ohio representative to the House of Representatives in 1827 and 1828 (as a Jacksonian candidate) and 1830 (as an Anti-Jacksonian candidate). His time in congress was surrounded by some controversy. Stanberry made accusations about Sam Houston's involvement with Native Americans. Houston confronted him and beat him with a Hickory cane. In reaction, Stanberry allegedly tried to shoot Houston, but his pistol misfired. Houston was afterwards arrested and found guilty. After not gaining re-election in 1832, Stanberry resumed his law practice in Newark, where he stayed until his death in 1873. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07055
Subjects: United States. Congress. House; Law & legal affairs; Newark (Ohio)
Places: Newark (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is an image of a ladle. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8067
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Cooking tools and equipment; Kitchen utensils--United States--History
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing the Better Farming Special Train, a traveling agricultural demonstration, on behalf of the Agricultural Extension Service, College of Agriculture, Ohio State University, 1909. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00633
Subjects: Agriculture; Education
 

Description: This is a portrait of William Leon Dawson (1873-1928), from "The Condor," (March/April 1913). Dawson was born in Iowa but lived in Ohio for part of his childhood, going on to attend Oberlin College and later Oberlin Theological Seminary. He was a famous American ornithologist and was well-known for his 1903 work "Birds of Ohio." The portrait seen here appears in "The Condor," an international journal on ornithology that has been in publication since 1899. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02780
Subjects: Ornithologists; Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; Scientists
 

Description: This World War II poster shows a woman spraying an insect eating her tomatoes with pesticide with the message "Shoot to kill!" across the top and "Protect your victory garden" at the bottom. This poster type was designed to promote how civilians could contribute to the war effort by enlisting in the armed forces, buying bonds, and rationing food and gas. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Series_2829_F27
Subjects: World War II; War posters; Propaganda; Daily life; Agriculture; World War, 1939-1945--Women
 

Description: This setting hammer is made of iron with a hickory handle. The head is octagonal shaped. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H72358
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Tools and equipment
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This automobile engine assembly line used chain made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, Columbus, Ohio. This photograph depicts an engine plant owned by the Chevrolet Motor Car Company, Buffalo, New York, 1928. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01506
Subjects: Conveying machinery; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Buffalo (New York)
 

Description: This book has a leather cover and is dated 1812. The book is titled Paradiesgartlein and is by Johann Urnds. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8444_closed
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History;
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: National Colors of 33rd Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry. Rectangular flag measures 186 cm high by 190 cm wide. Text on flag reads: 33rd Reg. O.V.V.I. Chaplin Hills, Stone River, Hoover's Gap, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge, Atlanta, Savannah, Averysboro, Bentonville, Raleigh. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01929
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865