Description: This cooper's adz dates from 1850-1900. This black woodworking tool is made of wood and iron. There is a washer and nut on the bottom of the handle. A cooper's adz is a type of adz (wood-shaping tool) used by barrel-makers. The Ohio Historical Society received this cooper's adz from Miss Margaret E. Lautenklos of Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio, in 1939. This adz belonged to Adam Lautenklos, who was one of a family of German coopers who settled in the United States in approximately 1845. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H73288
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Tools
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the Miami and Erie Canal through Paulding County between stations 3692 and 3862. Properties, bridges, railroads, stations, locks, and other landmarks along the route are also 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: BV4924_010
Subjects: Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio; Bridges
Places: Paulding County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows Isaac Sappe Lane wearing a suit and tie. Lane was born in Screven, Georgia and attended Wilberforce University. He was a third basemen in the Negro league from 1918-1922. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_Lane_aaeo_88-3_002
Subjects: African Americans; Athletes; Baseball;
 

Description: Reproduction of a portrait of inventor Orville Wright from Dayton, Ohio, ca. 1900-1910. Orville and his brother Wilbur built and flew the first mechanically powered airplane. Orville was born on August 19, 1971 in Dayton, Ohio and died at age 76 on January 30, 1948 in Dayton, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02665
Subjects: Montgomery County (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Science and Technology; Inventors--Ohio
 

Description: Front view of grey silk faille wedding gown in the "mode of 1830" worn by Hannah Adams when she married Charles K. West. Mr. West brought it to Ohio in 1834 and it has remained in the state since that time. The dress features large puffed sleeves and a full skirt. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05046
Subjects: Women--Ohio; Popular culture; Dresses; Clothing and dress; Wedding costume; Weddings
 

Description: Carte de visite photograph of Ulysses S. Grant, from the William T. Sherman Photograph Album, ca. 1865-1880. Ulysses S Grant was born on April 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio. He was named Hiram Ulysses Grant and was called by his middle name. After he joined the army, he was called Ulysses S. Grant. 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: AL04245
Subjects: Generals; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics
Places: Point Pleasant (Ohio); Clermont County (Ohio)
 

Description: This color image shows a stone marker denoting Zane's Trace, a travel route, and Treber Inn, which provided lodging for travelers during the early 19th century. The marker, made of pinkish stone, reads: "Zane Trace, Ohio's first highway and mail route authorized by Congress in 1796 / Marked and cleared in 1797 by Col. Ebenezer Zane / A blazed trail, it became the route of the old stage line from Maysville to Wheeling used by noted statesmen to and from the Southwest and Washington. "Tremor Inn, Erected in 1797. Became "traveler's rest" in 1798 / Here, for over sixty years, distinguished guests and weary foot travelers found entertainment / Nearby, in 1793, Asahel Edgington was slain by Indians / the first white man killed in Adams County. "Erected by Adams County Historical Society 1933." Zane's Trace was an early road in the Northwest Territory that connected Wheeling, Virginia, to Limestone, Kentucky (present-day Maysville). It was a major road in early Ohio until well after the War of 1812. In 1796, Ebenezer Zane petitioned Congress for permission to build a road through the region, with the stipulation that the American government would grant him land where the road crossed the Muskingum, Hocking, and Scioto Rivers. The government agreed to his terms and required the road to be open by January 1, 1797. It was widely believed that a road would encourage increased trade and settlement in Ohio. Zane's Trace was more a trail than a road. Zane used existing Native American trails wherever possible and cut down trees to create a primitive path. Tomepomehala, an Indian guide, helped Zane plot the road. Prior to Ohio's statehood, Zane's Trace was not accessible by wagon. It was so narrow and rough that it was only passable on foot or on horseback. Zane built ferries at each of the river crossings and profited from the travel over the road. A small town began to develop where the ferry was located at the mouth of the Licking River. It came to be known as Zanesville. After Ohio became a state in 1803, the state legislature set aside money to improve the road. The goal was to make Zane's Trace accessible to wagons. By 1804, trees had been cut down to make the road twenty feet wide. Logs were laid across marshy areas to create corduroy roads, and several bridges were built. It was now possible to travel by wagon from Wheeling to Chillicothe, although many tree stumps were still standing in the middle of the road. People who traveled the road began to refer to it by a number of different names, including the Wheeling Road, the Wheeling-Limestone Road, or just the Limestone Road, rather than Zane's Trace. Zane's Trace encouraged significant economic and population growth in the Northwest Territory and the young state of Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06963
Subjects: Historical marker; Zane's Trace (Ohio); Zane, Ebenezer, 1747-1812; Transportation--Ohio--History; Northwest Territory; Muskingum County (Ohio)
Places: New Concord (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio); Adams County (Ohio)
 

Description: PFC Michael Petrucci standing outside his bunker #70 at the Marine base in Pohang Dong, Korea, Fall 1953. At the U.S. First Marine Aircraft Wing (K-3) base, located on the east coast of South Korea and overlooking the Sea of Japan, the men slept 15 to 18 Marines to a bunker. Petrucci was born August 9, 1930, in Youngstown, Ohio, where he grew up and attended school. Petrucci enlisted in the Marine Corps in July of 1952, and began basic training at Cherry Point Marine Base in North Carolina in August 1953. He received orders for overseas duty in May 1953, but when the United States and North Korea ended hostilities in July 1953, his transfer to Korea was halted. Petrucci was eventually sent to Korea in September 1953 and stationed at the First Marine Aircraft Wing base in the town of Pohang Dong, where he served until July 1954. By September 1954, Petrucci had returned to civilian life in Youngstown, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07485
Subjects: Ohio History--Military Ohio; Military life; United States Marine Corps; Korean War (1950-1953)
Places: Pohang Dong (Korea)
 

Description: Photograph showing several men working with a steam-powered sorghum reaper attached to a water tower, used in producing molasses at an unidentified farm in Ohio, ca. 1910. The Circle Family Glass Plate Negative Collection came in with the records of John Circle, who served as Franklin County Surveyor between 1981 and 2000. The plates are thought to be part of the family history but have no identification. The images are agricultural but have no other known history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV82_002
Subjects: Agriculture; Agricultural machinery; Farms; Food production
Places: Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing the interior of the Governor's Mansion during an "Early Bird" dinner for Governor James A. Rhodes, June 10, 1978. Located on Parkview Avenue in Bexley, Ohio, the 25-room Tudor-Norman mansion was a gift to the state of Ohio in 1955, and has been the residence of Ohio's governors since 1957. Rhodes was born on September 13, 1909, in Coalton, Ohio. He began his political career by winning election to the school board of Columbus, Ohio, in 1937, then serving as Columbus city auditor. In 1943, he was elected mayor of Columbus, an office he held from 1944 until 1952. Rhodes served as Ohio Auditor from 1952 until 1962, when he won election to his first term as Ohio governor. During his four terms as governor (1962-1970 and 1974-1982), Rhodes oversaw the building of airports, state office buildings, prisons, community colleges, museums and other public structures. He is also notable as the governor who ordered Ohio National Guard troops to Kent State University during a series of student protests against the Vietnam War. On May 4, 1970, the guardsmen fired into a crowd of protestors, killing four and injuring nine. Rhodes retired from politics following an unsuccessful run for a fifth term in 1986, and died March 4, 2001. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV248_01_08_45_04
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government; Rhodes, James A. (James Allen), 1909-2001; Politicians; Ohio Governor's Residence and Heritage Gardens
Places: Bexley (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Mrs. J. M. Bowman, a charter member of the Clinton League who was active from 1912-1917, wearing round glasses and pearl necklace. Bowman served a term as president of the League during the 1913-1914 year. 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_004
Subjects: Clinton League; Women--Charities;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1940-1965, this photograph shows an inmate at the Ohio Reformatory for Women applying makeup, one of the privileges instituted by Marguerite Reilley. In 1911, the Ohio General Assembly authorized the establishment of a separate women’s penal institution. On September 1, 1916, the Ohio Reformatory for Women opened in Marysville, Ohio, with a population of 34 inmates. When Marguerite Reilley was appointed superintendent of the Reformatory in 1935, she found dirty and unkempt inmates with excessively restricted living habits. She instituted the “human being” program which provided recreation, entertainment, jobs, and vocational training for the inmates. State Archived Series 1679 AV consists of 234 photographs which illustrate daily life in the Ohio Reformatory for Women, as well as photographs of the buildings and grounds, superintendents Marguerite Reilley and Martha Wheeler, and notorious inmate Velma West. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1679AV_B01_F06_004
Subjects: Photography--Ohio; Ohio Reformatory for Women; Prisons; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections
Places: Marysville (Ohio); Union County (Ohio)