Description: This photograph depicts an interior view of a power house. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B05F90_027
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry
 

Description: Photograph of Works Progress Administration (WPA) worker lifting a young child out of a window during a refugee rescue. The photo is from the "Portsmouth, Ohio, flood of 1937", SC 381. This collection contains 37 photographic black and white prints, 21 x 26cm or smaller; and 4 postcards in black in white, 9 x 14 cm. Photographs document the flood damage in Portsmouth, including sandbagging, floodwall construction, and WPA rescue efforts. In 1937, southern Ohio faced one of the worst floods in its history, known today as the "Great Flood of 1937." The Ohio River flood of 1937 took place in late January and February. In Cincinnati, the flood was particularly difficult for the city, where flood levels reached its crest of 79.99 feet on Tuesday, January 26, 1937. Communities along the Ohio River in Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois also faced serious problems. Many people lost their homes as a result of the flood. The Ohio River Flood of 1937 caused more than twenty million dollars in damages. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: sc381_27
Subjects: Floods--Ohio River; Portsmouth (Ohio)--Flood, 1937
Places: Portsmouth (Ohio); Scioto County (Ohio)
 

Description: This illustration published in Harper's Weekly depicts an African American regiment in action on the battlefield during the U.S. Civil War. ALTERNATE TEXT: A print of a battle scene in the U.S. Civil War. An African American regiment faces off against the Rebel army. The battlefield is on a hill with water in the distance. One African American soldier holds a tattered American flag at the top of the hill. Much of the battlefield is covered in smoke or dust from gunfire and fighting. The scene includes seven visible horses in the skirmish. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_OVS25A-D_005
Subjects: African American soldiers; Civil War 1861-1865; Newspapers
 

Description: This handmade wood cooling rack was designed for cooling pretzels, and was stained brown. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H73710
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This varnished cherry sleigh bed is decorated with knobs. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8679
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Beds
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the Miami and Erie Canal in Shelby County, between stations 7259 and 7296. Roads, properties, culverts 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_017
Subjects: Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio
Places: Shelby County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Governor James M. Cox and Franklin D. Roosevelt, ca. 1920. Cox was born in Butler County, Ohio, March 31, 1870. He served three two-year terms as Governor of Ohio from 1913-1915 and 1917-1921. In 1920, he was the Democratic candidate for President, but lost the election to fellow Ohioan Warren G. Harding. His running mate was Franklin D. Roosevelt. He died in Dayton, Ohio, on July 15, 1957. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02902
Subjects: Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945; Cox, James M. (James Middleton), 1870-1957; Presidential elections; Governors--Ohio
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Illustration of General Ulysses S. Grant and soldiers crossing a river and establishing a camp while doing reconnaissance near Columbus, Kentucky, published in "Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War" by Alfred H. Guernsey. 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: AL04605
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S., 1822-1885; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio--History, Military; Presidents--United States; Generals; Camps
Places: Columbus (Kentucky)
 

Description: This photograph shows the gates to the grounds of the Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio. . The museum was built around 1820 as a Greek Revival villa for Martin Baum. Successive owners included Nicholas Longworth, David Sinton, his daughter Anna Sinton and her husband, Charles Phelps Taft. Charles Taft was the half brother of William Howard Taft, who accepted the nomination for the U.S. presidency under the portico of this house. in 1927 Anna and Charles Taft donated the house and its collection of art to the people of Cincinnati with the statement "We desire to devote our collection of pictures, porcelains and other works of art to the people of Cincinnati in such a manor that they may be readily available for all." The house opened as the Taft Museum of Art in 1932. It is a National Historic Landmark. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06184
Subjects: Art museums; Taft Museum of Art; Greek revival (Architecture); Taft, Anna Sinton, -1931; Taft, Charles Phelps, 1843-1929
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Sylvester Brown, of Mahoning County, was electrocuted September 9. 1921, for the Murder of Patrolman Alexander Warren. He was a black male, twenty-seven years old and his occupation was listed as a steelworker. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08120
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Prisons--Ohio; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections; Death row
Places: Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: Young men and women sitting in and standing around an outdoor swing. Another negative identifies the date as July 1908. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky. He was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's department store, and later as a travelling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). He was also an avid lifelong photographer, and the bulk of the Harry Kinley Collection is comprised of glass plate negatives documenting the Kinley family, the city of Upper Sandusky and Wyandot County and surrounding areas. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07762
Subjects: Photographers--Ohio; Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Couples
Places: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing Roebke Hardward & Implement Co., located at 3rd and State Streets in Columbus, Ohio. Painted on the window is also the name "McFarland Hardware & Implement Co. Plumbing & Heating." Next door is a carriage repository adversting automobile gasoline engines. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC0836_001
Subjects: Streets--Ohio--Columbus; Stores & shops; Tools;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)