Description: This photograph from the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus is of 58-year-old Anthony Treat of Hamilton County. His formal attire suggests that the photograph was taken during his trial or sentencing. Treat confessed to murdering 10-year-old Helen Sellers on Christmas Day in Cincinnati, Ohio. The caption at the bottom reads: "No. 236, Anthony Treat of Hamilton County, Legally Electrocuted June 30th, 1943, for the Murder of Helen Sellers." 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: AL08290
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); Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Display of a remnant of the National Colors of the 41st Ohio Veteran's Volunteer Infantry with Civil War era-weapons, ca. 1870 to 1890. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03580
Subjects: Flags; Ohio History--Military Ohio; American Civil War, 1861-1865
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

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_B02F251_02
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: Silk flag served as the national colors of the 8th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The flag was manufactured in the United States between 1861 and 1863. There are 34 white appliqued stars arranged in a grid pattern on a blue canton. The flag has thirteen alternating red and white stripes. Black text to the lower right of the canton reads: "8th OVI." The flag has a white streamer and a cord attached to its sleeve. Ohio battle flags were on display at the Ohio Statehouse until the 1960s, when the state formed a committee to oversee the efforts to restore the fragile flags. Some of the battle flags were on display on the Plaza Level of the Ohio Historical Society from 1970 until 1989. For conservation reasons, the flags have been in storage since 1989. In the 1960s, the collection was photographed and commercial artist Robert Needham painted illustrations of many Civil War flags. Photographs of the flags and the paintings are now part of the society's archival collections. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01872
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Civil War 1861-1865
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Photograph of Wilberforce University's Reserve Officers' Training Corps cadets in front of the Wilberforce Carnegie Library. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B05F03
Subjects: African American men; Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Wilberforce University
Places: Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
 

Description: Theodore Burton was born in Jefferson, Ohio, in 1851. He went on to have an active career in politics as a member of the Republican Party. He served as a US senator from 1909 to 1915; and in the House of Representatives from 1921 until the end of 1928. When he died in 1929, he was serving in the US Senate as the appointed replacement for Frank B. Willis. Burton was born in Jefferson, Ashtabula County, Ohio on December 20, 1851. He died on October 28, 1929 in Washington, D. C. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07063
Subjects: United States. Congress. Senate; Republican Party;
Places: Ashtabula County (Ohio)
 

Description: Group portrait of members of the Young Peoples' Socialist League of Cleveland, Ohio, on an outing. The photograph is dated May 17, but the year is difficult to read. The photograph was likely taken between 1909 and 1917. Party activist Charles E. Ruthenberg, who went on to found the Communist Party of the USA, is pictured kneeling in the second row. A circle has been drawn around his head. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05166
Subjects: Demonstrations; Socialist Party of the United States of America--History; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Ruthenberg, Charles Emil, 1882-1927; Portrait photography
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

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_B04F760_001
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: Painting of national colors of the 114th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Text on the flag reads: Presented by the Young Ladies of Pickaway County. 114th Regt. O.V.I. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02550
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
 

Description: A class photograph of the G. W. Silcott School. The students have a chalkboard that reads, " G. W. Silcott School Sept. 14 1906" The school was most likely named for George W. Silcott, a local Confederate Ranger (guerilla fighter) from the early years of the Civil War, who operated in the area. This photograph was 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_b04_f254
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); School photography; Children
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: Robert (Bob) A. Taft, II (b. 1942) was Ohio's 67th Governor, serving 2 terms during 1999-2007. Taft expressed his desire to be known as "the education governor." Unfortunately for Taft and Ohioans, tight economic times made it difficult for the state to allocate more funds to education. Public universities saw a decreasing amount of funds from the state government, causing tuition to increase dramatically. Complicating the situation were tax cuts in the first years of Taft's governorship. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV105_1_46
Subjects: Ohio--Governors--Portraits; Ohio History--State and Local Government
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Carte de visite photograph of Brigadier General Morgan Lewis Smith, from the William T. Sherman Photograph Album, ca. 1865-1880. Morgan Lewis Smith was born on March 8, 1822 in Oswego County, New York. He served the Union in the American Civil War. He died December 29, 1874 in Jersey City, New Jersey. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04355
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio History--Military Ohio