Description: This horseshoe was for a draft horse and was made from iron. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H73596
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Horses; Animals; Agriculture
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This kerosene lamp is made from glass and brass. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8670
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Lighting--Architectural and decorative
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the Miami and Erie Canal past the small community of Dawson in Shelby County, between stations 7170 and 7197. Roads, properties, rail lines and other landmarks along the route are noted. The map was created under the direction of the members of the Canal Commission of the state of Ohio and approved by the Chief Engineer of the Department of Public Works (variously referred to as the Board of Public Works and the Division of Public Works). Construction on the Miami and Erie Canal took place between 1825 and 1845, and the finished route connected Cincinnati and Toledo, as well as the Ohio River with Lake Erie. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: BV23170_013
Subjects: Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio; Railroads
Places: Dawson (Ohio); Shelby County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of a log cabin built ca. 1840 in Madison County, Ohio. This photograph was taken shortly before the cabin was moved to the museum of the Ohio Historical Society in Columbus, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02897
Subjects: Madison County (Ohio); Ohio Historical Society; Dwellings
Places: Madison County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of author Paul Laurence Dunbar on horseback, ca. 1890-1906. A note written on the back of the photograph indicates that the horse may have inspired Dunbar's poem "Dat Ol' Mare O' Mine." Dunbar was born in Dayton, Ohio, in 1872 to Joshua and Matilda Dunbar, both former slaves, and was encouraged by his mother in poetry and his schooling from an early age. He attended Dayton Central High School and was the sole African American student at that time. Following his high school graduation, Dunbar worked as an elevator operator while writing poetry in his free time. He built a reputation as a successful literary voice and writer of dialect poetry, and was the first African American poet to receive critical acclaim for his work. Dunbar authored twelve collections of poetry, five novels, one play, and a large number of newspaper articles before his death from tuberculosis on February 9, 1906. He is buried in the Woodland Cemetery in Dayton. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05265
Subjects: Authors; Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906; Multicultural Ohio--African American Ohioans; Horses; Literary Ohio
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Illustration, published in "Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War" by Alfred H. Guernsey, of the headquarters of General Ulysses S. Grant at City Point, Virginia. Ulysses S. Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Point Pleasant, Ohio. During the U. S. Civil War, Grant was promoted to the rank of General and granted command of the Union army by President Abraham Lincoln. After the victory of the Union over the Confederacy, Grant's popularity led to his election as the 18th President of the United States in 1868. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04599
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S., 1822-1885; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio--History, Military; Presidents--United States; Generals
Places: City Point (Virginia)
 

Description: This photograph is an image of Cincinnati Reds pitcher Johnny Vander Meer, the only baseball player to pitch two consecutive no-hitters. This achievement occurred in 1938, during his rookie year with the Cincinnati Reds. The first no-hitter was against the Boston Red Sox on June 11; second, on June 15 against the Dodgers in Brooklyn. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06179
Subjects: Vander Meer, Johnny, 1914- 1997; Baseball; Cincinnati Reds (Baseball team)
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Charles Cross, of Cuyahoga County, was electrocuted January 20, 1921, for the Murder of Jacob Bernstein. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08115
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Capital punishment; Death row; Portrait photography
 

Description: Helen Rhodes in front of the governor's mansion. Helen Rhodes, née Helen Rawlins (1915-1987), was the wife of the Republican Ohio governor James Rhodes. She served as Ohio's first lady for 16 years, from 1963 to 1971 and again from 1975 to 1983, longer than any other first lady in the state. James Allen Rhodes (1909-2001) was the 61st and 63rd governor of Ohio (1963-71, 1975-83) and the 44 mayor of Columbus, Ohio (1944–1952). His decision to send the Ohio National Guard troops to Kent State University campus in order to control protests resulted in shooting of students on May 4, 1970. He and Hellen Rowlins married in 1941 and had three daughters. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07756
Subjects: Rhodes, James A. (James Allen), 1909-2001; Ohio History--State and Local Government; Governors--Ohio; Mayors--Ohio; May 4 Shootings at Kent State University, 1970
Places: 358 North Parkview Ave., Columbus, Ohio
 

Description: Photograph taken during the christening of the B-24 "Birdie Schmidt" bomber, August 10, 1944. Seen from left to right are Schmidt (now Birdie Schmidt Larrick), Honorable Frances and Mary Roche, their father Morris (Lord Fermoy) and Lt. Col. Lorin Johnson of Utah. During World War II, Columbus native Birdie Schmidt Larrick (1919-2009) became the only woman serving in the Red Cross to have an American bomber named after her. In early December 1943, Birdie traveled to the Air Base in Wendling, England, as program director of the American Red Cross (ARC) Aero Club. Also stationed in Wendling was the 392nd Bombardment Group (BG), which moved to the base in August 1943 and was assigned to the 8th Air Force. As program director, and later as director, Birdie’s responsibilities included managing the Aero Club staff, organizing programs and events for the enlisted men and officers, and managing the club's supplies for soldiers. Because of her popularity among the men at the base, the 392nd named a B-24 Liberator the “Birdie Schmidt ARC” in her honor. A portrait of Birdie’s face was painted on one side of the bomber with the symbol for the Red Cross on the other. The plane flew missions from August 1944 until it was shot down in February 1945. That same year, Birdie joined the ARC Cinemobile and performed with the 7th Army Special Service Shows before returning home in November of 1945. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1528AV_B03F17_01
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945--Women; American Red Cross; United States Air Force; Military aircraft;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Wendling (England)
 

Description: Photograph showing two women acting in a play put on by the Clinton League, November 1924. The caption for this and accompanying photographs reads, "Mrs. Kinkead, Madame Delzell and Mrs. Wood as they appeared in "The Work House Ward," Nov. '24. Members voted this one of the cleverest bits of acting ever produced in the League. Mrs. Kinkead at this time was 64 years of age, Madame Delzell was 71 and Mrs. Wood 85." 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_181
Subjects: Clinton League; Women--Charities; Performers; Skits
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: A man wearing a leather vest, boots, and a cowboy hat carries a briefcase past a chain link fence along North High Street in the University District of Columbus, Ohio. 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_B12F312_01
Subjects: Street photography; University District (Columbus, Ohio); Pedestrians;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)