Description: The photograph shows twelve members of the Kinley family gathered on the front steps of the John H. Kinley home at 328 Henderson Street in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Harry Kinley's parents, siblings, and siblings' spouses can all be seen. John H. and Caroline Kinley sit at the top of the steps. Harry and wife Abbie Kinley sit on the bottom left, with Harry's brother Avery and his wife sitting above them. George Kinley sits in the middle looking at the camera with his wife to the left. Villa Kinley's husband Joseph Neidhart sits on the step below to the right of George Kinley, and Villa Kinley sits above George the right. Everet Kinley and his wife sit on the far right. 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_12
Subjects: Families; Reunions; Portrait photography;
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 two men accompanying a horse-drawn cart on the Allen farm, owned by F.L. Allen near Kinsman, Ohio. On his 250 acres, Allen grew potatoes, apples, and peaches. He also owned a ditching machine and had 22 miles of ditching on his farm. Later, Allen became state director of Ohio Farmers' Institutes under the State Board of Agriculture. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA726AV_B01F08_001_1
Subjects: Agriculture; Rural Life; Barns; Horse-drawn vehicles
Places: Trumbull County (Ohio); Kinsman (Ohio);
 

Description: Dated February 9, 1945, 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_01
Subjects: Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896; Historic houses; Historic preservation; Women abolitionists - Ohio; Authors; Activists
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: A banner hangs from an apartment building calling for a boycott of the fast food restaurant Borden Burger, in support of Columbus Coated Fabrics (CCF) textile workers, 1974. This photograph was taken for publication 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_B04F08_05
Subjects: Protests and protestors; Demonstrations; Activism; Labor movement--United States--History--20th century; Labor unions -- Ohio; Fast food restaurants
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This portrait shows Annie Glenn smiling while standing behind a light-colored chair. She is wearing a pink suit and a pale gold bracelet. The photograph was taken in 1969 in Zanesville, Ohio. 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_B01F03_03
Subjects: Glenn, Annie, 1920-2020; Portrait photography
Places: Zanesville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: Print of Philip Sheridan while he was the Lieutenant General of the army. Sheridan (1831-1888) was born to Irish immigrants John and Mary Sheridan, who settled in Somerset, Ohio. As a young man, he graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point. When the Civil War broke out, Sheridan was a captain in the army; by the end of the war, he had been promoted to major general. Just before his death he became the fourth man to receive the rank of full general, following George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant, and William T. Sherman. Over the course of his career he held numerous important positions, including Commander of the Army of the Shenandoah, military governor of Texas and Louisiana, and commander in chief of the U.S. Army. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC2855_07
Subjects: Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military officers--Union
Places: Somerset (Ohio); Perry County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a view of the Cincinnati skyline probably taken from the Mt. Adams area. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F01_040_1
Subjects: Street photography; Buildings--Cincinnati (Ohio); Cincinnati (Ohio)
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Ohio State School for the Blind utilized models, like this one, to allow its students to perceive the shape of large buildings they would otherwise be unable to experience. Models of stagecoaches and covered wagons are seen being constructed in this photo. Attached document reads: In the time before railroad trains and automobiles were invented people traveled from one town to another in such a public conveyance as this coach. This particular type of coach was used as the trains are used today, a set rate was paid for every miles traveled. It was this coach that carried the early gold hunters across the great western prairies from Dodge City, Kansas, to San Francisco. These coaches all belonged to the Wells Fargo company who also owned and operated the Pony Express. One the inside of the coach six people could sit. This was considered the safest and most comfortable place to ride and was usually occupied by the women. On top, of course, was the driver who had the responsibility of the team of four or sometimes six horses. Usually there was at least one guard who rode with the driver, whose responsibility it was to see that bandits, both Indian and White did not molest the coach and its valuable cargo. The coaches were not as comfortable as they could have been. The seats were upholstered in leather, as a general rule, but the springs were made either of leather straps or very crude hand forged iron. It was difficult to turn the coach sharply or guide it very carefully since the body set on the axels and was not provided with wheel wells. These wheel wells were indentations in the body of such a cab which could have allow- ed the wheels to turn either to right or left much more freely. However, they were not to come for a considerable time as yet. So instead of having these wells, the axles were made very wide to enable the coach to turn more quickly. The passenger's belongings and freight were stowed in the little pen which is located on top of the cab. Additional freight could be fastened to a platform in the back of some of the coaches underneath the driver's seat. Of course, travel by this method was both dangerous and slow. The coach traveled only during the daytime, staying at wayside inns at night. The roads were poor, often only a patch across the plains. It was not particularly unusual to have a stage come into the town, the horses in full gallop, foam flecked and red eyed with fright. Often too they wrought the driver or guard or perhaps a passenger wounded or killed in an encounter with robbers or Indians. The passengers all went armed, as a matter of course, and often a running fight would take place with the lawless men of the plains. The days of Buffalo Bill Cody and the Wells Fargo Express were days of quick fortunes and quicker poverty, of a vast empire of gold and silver and rolling Oregon farms, a day which changed but did not entirely die with the coming of the Iron Horse. COVERED WAGON To understand the background and use of this wagon it will be necessary to go back to the days of immediately following the Revolutionary War. When General Washington dismissed his army and the war was truly over, the country was faced with a depression such as we have just witness in the last few years. This depression was caused by two things. In the first place the young country had no stable currency and the paper money which Congress issued rapidly became practically worthless. This fact added to the dumping of hundreds of soldiers backs onto the country means of supporting themselves. General Washington was actively concerned with the welfare of these men who had given so long and so loyally that the nation might be free. In the case where the men had ever owned anything in the way of homes, or farms, these had either been confiscated or ruined by the long years of neglect. What was to be done with these men and their families? After the purchase of the Louisiana Territory it was obvious that there was an enormous tract of very fertile and beautiful land waiting beyond the mountains for settlers. These settlers were not hard to find. They gathered their belongings and families and departed to new hope and a new life, after the horrors of the war, in a new home. The old soldiers remembered the wagons which had done such service in transporting ammunition during the war. They recalled that the conventional wagon of the day --- four wheels with removable bed resting on the axels --- had been converted into an ammunition conveyance by fastening hoopes of willow to the side of the bed so as to form a support for the canvas which made the roof. What could be more natural than that these men should adopt this same kind of wagon to carry their household effects and families over the mountains to their new homes. Countless stories could be told of the adventurers of the type of wagon which got its start then. Many times settlers in bands were attacked by Indians and all the members killed. Other times death met them in the form of disease or lack of food or water, but for every one who died many (the number is of course not known) lived to reach new homes, at first in Ohio, then choice sports further and further west, until the Pacific was reached. This wagon was the accepted means of conveyance for any who hoped to take his household with him. the method of locomotion varied with the person who drove and with the kind of territory through which the people were to travel. Sometimes mules were used, but more often oxen or horses did the heavy work of moving the cumberson and heavy wagons. The people who traveled in this uncomfortable conveyance were not, as may be suspected, the poorest and crudest in the country. There rests in the museum in Denver today definite proof of this. There is a tiny spinet (the ancestor of the modern day piano) which is built of beautiful rosewood, obviously expensive and probably imported from England. The story of this lovely piano is simple. It was found on a prairie not far from Denver by a band of settlers in the smoldering debris of what had once been a caravan of settlers. The people who had driven the oxen were all kead, killed by Indians, but the following band of settlers had been so close behind that they were able to come up before the fire had destroyed the wreckage of the wagons. Who owned that spinet and where they were going, no one knows. Wave upon wave of settlers continued to come despite the hardships and dangers and they came in their time proven covered wagons. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F04_25_001
Subjects: Models; Schools--Ohio; Students; Ohio State School for the Blind; Blind--Education--Ohio--Columbus; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows a small harbor on Lake Erie with a few private docks scattered along the coast. While this scene is typical of many different areas along the coast of Lake Erie, it is mostly likely from the Sandusky Bay or Lake Erie Islands area, as it was grouped with others from that area. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F09_026_1
Subjects: Lake Erie; Erie, Lake, Coast (Ohio); Boats and boating--Erie, Lake; Geography and Natural Resources; Docks and ports; Lakes; Recreation; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Caption reads: "People at Work and Play." This man is welding at work in Cincinnati, Ohio. The man is wearing a welding helmet while clamping and welding two pieces of metal together. The man appears to be stick welding, otherwise known as Shielded metal arc welding (SMAW), or manual metal arc (MMA) welding. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F03_029_01
Subjects: Ohio Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration; Welding
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Regimental colors of the 6th Infantry Regiment, 37th Infantry Division. Rectangular flag measures 130 cm high by 173 cm wide. Text on flag reads: Sixth Ohio U.S. Infantry. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02228
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; World War, 1914-1918
 

Description: The Republic Steel Corporation Collection (MSS 192) consists of 13,000 black and white photographic negatives, 2,000 color photographic negatives, and many 35 mm slides which document Republic Steel Corporation’s main production facilities and its subsidiaries, 1941-1975. This collection also includes images of social events such as company picnics, award banquets, and dances. Founded in 1899, Republic Iron and Steel Company was a steel production company based in Youngstown, Ohio, and the result of a consolidation of 34 steel mills across the United States including the Mahoning Valley’s Brown Bonnell Iron Company, Andrews Brothers and Company, and Mahoning Iron Company. From 1927-1937, Republic Iron and Steel Company expanded its reach by acquiring a number of other companies such as Trumbull Steel Company in Warren, Ohio, and Central Alloy Steel Corporation in Canton, Ohio. With its expansion, Republic Iron and Steel Company became the third largest steel producer in the United States behind United States Steel Corporation and Bethlehem Steel Company, and changed its name to Republic Steel Corporation to reflect its new status. After the outbreak of World War II in 1941, the Corporation’s production increased by 33%. This increased production continued into the 1950s and 1960s as the company continued to be one of the leading developers of steel production technology. Due to a myriad of factors including decreased demand for steel from automobile manufacturers and imported foreign steel, steel sales declined and in 1984 the Republic Steel Corporation was purchased by LTV Corporation, which led to the closure of the Youngstown plant. LTV filed for bankruptcy in December 2000. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: YHC_MSS192_B03F421_001
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)