Description: Confederate currency produced in Columbus, Georgia in the amount of four dollars. Confederate currency was originally produced in the capital of Montgomery, Alabama. After Virginia seceded from the Union the capital was moved to Richmond in May 1861, where currency was then printed. Toward the end of the Civil War, the currency significantly lost value and many of the notes in existence were destroyed. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_VFM_28_3
Subjects: Confederate States of America; Currency; Civil War 1861-1865
Places: Columbus (Georgia)
 

Description: This forming roller is made of iron. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H72189
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Tools and equipment
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This wooden butter paddle was made by hand. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H9436
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Kitchen utensils--United States--History
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of William Woodward (b. 1810), who was an operator on the Underground Railroad at Triadelphia, Morgan 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: AL03163
Subjects: Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Underground Railroad--Ohio; Antislavery movements--Ohio--History--19th century; Abolitionists;
Places: Triadelphia (Ohio); Morgan County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photomechanical reproduction of an image of a home used by Nathaniel Topliff Allen (1823-1903) to keep fugitive slaves at 35 Webster Street, West Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, despite being threatened with arson. This image was sent to Wilbur H. Siebert by Miss Lucy Ellis Allen, Nathaniel's daughter. Siebert (1866-1961) began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03072
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Massachusetts; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights
Places: West Newton (Massachusetts); Middlesex County (Massachusetts)
 

Description: Photograph of musical instruments for sale at The F. & R. Lazarus Company, on the first floor of the South Front and West State Streets building, ca. 1958-1959. 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: AL04449
Subjects: Musical instruments; The F. & R. Lazarus Company (Columbus, Ohio); Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Black Diamond Girl Scout Council Area 2 representatives receiving a "Thanks Badge," ca. 1965-1975. Pictured left to right are Sally Roberts (Wheeling), an unidentified woman, Betty Kelly (Martins Ferry) and Ethel Micker (Martins Ferry). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06063
Subjects: Girl Scouts of the United States of America; Popular culture; Women--Societies and clubs--Ohio
Places: Martins Ferry (Ohio); Belmont County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows an aerial of Village of Pomeroy, Ohio. Pomeroy is the county seat of Meigs County, Ohio. The first settler, probably Nathaniel Clark, arrived in 1816. The town was named for Samuel Wyllis Pomeroy, who was an early resident of the community. Although Meigs County was formed in 1819, Pomeroy did not become the county seat until 1841. Pomeroy grew quickly. This growth primarily resulted from an abundance of coal in the region. During the twentieth century, Pomeroy's economic situation deteriorated. Salt and coal mining declined dramatically, forcing many residents to move elsewhere to find employment. This is one of the lowest per capita income averages and highest poverty rates in Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06519
Subjects: Coal; ; Coal mines and mining; Ohio Economy--Economy--Labor
Places: Pomeroy (Ohio); Meigs County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph from the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus is of Kenneth Salter, a 32-year-old printer of Toledo, Ohio. His formal attire suggests that the photograph was taken during his trial or sentencing. Salter was convicted of raping and murdering 11-year-old Barbara Dunn, and became the 257th individual to be executed via the electric chair in Ohio. The caption at the bottom reads: “No. 257, Kenneth Salter of Lucas County, Legally Electrocuted April 23, 1948, for the murder of Barbara Dunn.” 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: AL08311
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); Toledo (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: The photograph shows the J.H. Kinley residence, at 328 Henderson Street, Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Taken from the street, the photograph also shows the sidewalk, lawn, and trees. A woman in white sits on a swing in the side yard. 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_16
Subjects: Daily life; Families; Houses;
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, and shows the barn on the Kirk farm, owned by H.H. Kirk near Canfield, Ohio. On his 100 acres, Kirk had three acres of apple orchard and eight acres of wheat. He also grew rye, clover, oats, and Timothy-grass, and raised dairy cattle and 75 head of sheep. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA726AV_B01F07_006_1
Subjects: Agriculture; Barns; Rural Life
Places: Canfield (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio);
 

Description: Dated ca. 1940, this is a photograph of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House located at 2950 Gilbert Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45206. Born in Litchfield, Connecticut on June 14, 1811, Harriet Beecher Stowe was a prolific author and abolitionist. She moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, to stay with her father, Reverend Lyman Beecher, a prominent religious leader, and his large family, a prolific group of religious leaders, educators, writers and antislavery and women's rights advocates. Harriet lived there during her formative years which later led her to write the best-selling novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin," a fictionalized account of the pain slavery imposed on its victims and of the difficult struggles of slaves to escape and travel via the Underground Railroad to freedom in the northern states or Canada. The Harriet Beecher Stowe House is an Ohio History Connection site managed locally by the Friends of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House, Inc. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P365_B13_F09_02
Subjects: Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896; Historic houses; Historic preservation; Women abolitionists - Ohio; Authors; Activists
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)