Description: Valentine Nicholson (1809-1904) was an agent of the Underground Railroad at Harveysburg in Warren County, Ohio. The image was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03182
Subjects: Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Underground Railroad--Ohio; Antislavery movements--Ohio--History--19th century; Abolitionists;
Places: Harveysburg (Ohio); Warren County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of the budget lingerie department, on the second floor of The F. & R. Lazarus Company, 1949. 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: AL04443
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio); Lazarus Department Store; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing Ruth Weinman Herndon in front of her family's King Avenue house. Ruth (1907-2002) 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. The Weinmans were a prominent German-American family in central Ohio throughout the 20th century. Ruth 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: AL06054
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio); Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Children
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of a candle in a holder, from the collections of the Ohio Historical Society. Also called a candlestick, this device held a lit candle while catching wax drippings in its wide base. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02870
Subjects: Candlesticks; Daily life; Kitchen utensils--United States--History
Places: Ohio
 

Description: This image depicts a quarry in the Sandstone Center of the World, Amherst, Ohio. The City of Amherst was founded in 1811. Beginning in 1847, Amherst developed and prospered around the sandstone industry and its associated quarries. This sandstone proved to be an important economic blessing to our early settlers and is the foundation of Amherst's existence. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06513
Subjects: Geology; Natural resources--Ohio;
Places: Amherst (Ohio); Lorain County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph from the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus is of 22-year-old Fred Wormack, Jr. of Hamilton County. His formal attire suggests that the photograph was taken during his trial or sentencing. Wormack, who murdered a Cincinnati taxi driver, was the 251st individual to be executed via the electric chair in Ohio. The caption at the bottom reads: “No. 251, Fred Wormack, Jr. of Hamilton County, Legally Electrocuted April 16, 1947, for the Murder of Buddy James White.” 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: AL08305
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: The photograph shows Harry Kinley's brother, J. Avery Kinley, on the porch steps of the Kinley family home at 328 Henderson Street in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Avery wears a dark suit and bowler hat and holds a suitcase.Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky. Kinley 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 traveling 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: AV30_B03F02_05
Subjects: Families; Portrait photography; Young men
Places: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio);
 

Description: This photograph is part of a series of photographs taken by the Ohio Department of Agriculture documenting farms in Ohio. This photograph shows the Burlingame farm, owned by S.W. Burlingame near Caldwell, Ohio. Burlingame raised 50 sheep on his 115 acres, and took pride in his orchards where he grew prunes, peaches, apples, and locust trees. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA726AV_B01F06_004_1
Subjects: Agriculture; Rural Life; Barns;
Places: Noble County (Ohio); Caldwell (Ohio);
 

Description: A group of protestors march in downtown Columbus, Ohio, in support of the Kent State University "Move the Gym" protests, organized by the May 4th Coalition, August 1977. In 1976, the university administration made the decision to build a gym annex on the Kent State campus that would be located adjacent to the ground where the shooting of students by Ohio National Guardsmen took place on May 4, 1970. Over the coming months, protestors demanded a halt to construction, and eventually occupied the building site over the summer of 1977 until they were forcibly removed. Construction went ahead, and the gym facility was completed in 1979. The location of the shooting is now known as the May 4 Memorial Site, and was designated on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. This photograph was published in the Columbus Free Press newspaper. The Columbus Free Press began as a bi-weekly publication in Columbus, Ohio, in 1970. An underground newspaper, it replaced the Ohio State University publication The People, Yes. The earliest known issue of the newspaper appeared on January 4, 1971. The newspaper underwent a series of name changes over the decades, with titles including the Columbus Free Press & Cowtown Times (1972-1976), the Columbus Freepress (1976-1992) and The Free Press (1992-1995). The paper, which covered many liberal and progressive causes, was an alternative to mainstream news sources in central Ohio with the slogan “The Other Side of the News.” In 1995, the paper ceased publication briefly before reemerging as a website in early 1996, and returning as a print publication under the Free Press title in the form of a quarterly journal in 1998. Published under various frequencies during the first part of the 21st century, the Free Press again became a nonprofit monthly publication in 2017 with both a print and web presence, published by the Columbus Institute for Contemporary Journalism and operated by a volunteer staff and board. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1301AV_B04F10_04
Subjects: Demonstrations; Protests and protestors; Kent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, 1970; Activism;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: John Glenn leans over a chocolate-frosted birthday cake to blow out candles. The photo was taken on his 58th birthday, July 18, 1979. The party was disco skate themed. The John and Annie Glenn collection is comprised of photographs, slides, books and ephemera documenting the career of John Glenn as an astronaut and U.S. Senator. The collection also documents his life with his wife Annie Glenn née Castor, family and friends, such as Robert and Ethel Kennedy and fellow astronauts. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV329_B05F10_01
Subjects: Glenn, John, 1921-2016; Birthday parties;
 

Description: This 8" by 10" (20.32 by 25.4 cm) photograph, taken circa 1945, shows the University Circle area in Cleveland, Ohio. The Fine Arts Garden Pool can be seen in the foreground, with the Garden Center visible at the water's edge. On the left is Severance Hall, home of the Cleveland Orchestra. Rising in the background are the buildings of the hospital group of the Western Reserve University Medical School. The church on the extreme right is Amasa Stone Chapel of Adelbert College. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3201_3806464_001
Subjects: Religion in Ohio; Architecture; Arts and entertainment; Education; Plants and Animals; Parks; Churches; Hospitals; Universities and colleges
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Front of certificate reads "Lincoln Dioramic Association, Certificate of Admission, This Certificate entitles the Holder to one admission to the Diorama of the Funeral Obsequies of Abraham Lincoln, and a photographic view of some one of the remarkable scenes represented by the Diorama, also to a share in the Award of Diorama, Farms & other Premiums, Columbus, Ohio." Ticket number: 285023. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV83_B01F03_010
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Pictorial works; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Funeral