Description: Index/numeric listing of photos of mixer type hot metal cars. Index is listed by contract number and photo number and includes purchaser information. Index was created by the William B. Pollock Company of Youngstown, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0031_B03F117_007
Subjects: Slag; Steel industry; Hot metal
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph depicts an accident at a cold strip mill. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B01F03_035
Subjects: Steel industry; Steel industry and trade-- Accidents; Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
 

Description: This photograph depicts a worker checking threads of couplings. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B05F81_022
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry; Steel workers; Couplings
 

Description: Confederate currency produced in Richmond, Virginia in the amount of one dollar. 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_4
Subjects: Confederate States of America; Currency; Civil War 1861-1865
Places: Richmond (Virginia)
 

Description: This scoop is made by hand of tin. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H72208
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This wooden butter paddle was made by hand. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H9437
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Kitchen utensils--United States--History
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Rebecca Updegroff (1790-1867) kept a station on the Underground Railroad with her husband David at Mt. Pleasant, Jefferson 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: AL03147
Subjects: Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Underground Railroad--Ohio; Antislavery movements--Ohio--History--19th century; Ohio women; Abolitionists;
Places: Mount Pleasant (Ohio); Jefferson 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: AL03073
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Massachusetts; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights
Places: West Newton (Massachusetts); Middlesex County (Massachusetts)
 

Description: Photograph of customers admiring a train set in Toyland at The F. & R. Lazarus Company, ca. 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: AL04450
Subjects: Toys; Columbus (Ohio); Lazarus Department Store; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Modern reproduction of a photograph depicting General Ulysses S. Grant posed with his staff while campaigning in Virginia during the Civil War, 1864. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06095
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885; Presidents
Places: Point Pleasant (Ohio); Clermont County (Ohio); Virginia
 

Description: This image shows a covered bridge near Chester, Ohio, where John Morgan made his escape. John Hunt Morgan was a prominent Confederate cavalry officer in the American Civil War. The Northern soldiers took Morgan and most of his captured men to Columbus after an attempted raid into Ohio. The enlisted men were confined in the Camp Chase Confederate prison camp. Morgan and several of his officers were held at the Ohio Penitentiary. Morgan arrived there on October 1. He and several of his men immediately made plans to escape. They tunneled out of a cell into an airshaft on November 13, 1863. They remained in their cells until November 27, when Morgan and six of his soldiers used the airshaft to reach the prison yard. They then fashioned a rope from their prison uniforms and scaled the wall. Utilizing some of the one thousand dollars that his sister had smuggled into the prison inside a Bible, Morgan purchased a train ticket to Cincinnati. He then made his escape across the Ohio River into Kentucky. After his escape, Morgan returned to the Confederate army. He led cavalry forces in Tennessee and Kentucky. On September 4, 1864, Northern soldiers surrounded a farmhouse near Greenville, Tennessee, where Morgan was staying. The Confederate general attempted to escape from the house, but was shot by the Union soldiers. Morgan died from his wounds. General John Hunt Morgan is buried in Lexington, Kentucky. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06520
Subjects: Bridges; Prisoners of war; American Civil War, 1861-1865
Places: Chester (Ohio); Meigs County (Ohio); Ohio River
 

Description: This photograph from the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus is of Clifford Gayles, age 34. His formal attire suggests that the photograph was taken during his trial or sentencing. Gayles was the 258th individual to be executed via the electric chair in Ohio. The caption at the bottom reads: “No. 258, Clifford Gayles of Butler County, Legally Electrocuted July 2, 1948, for the Murder of Edna Adkins.” 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: AL08312
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; Portrait photography
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Hamilton (Ohio); Butler County (Ohio)