Description: "The Tail End of the Republican Presidential Procession" cartoon depicting Benjamin Harrison, drawn by Frederick Opper and published in Puck Magazine, August 22, 1888. The cartoon shows Harrison parading as "The Greatest Living Statesman," and carrying "Free whiskey for the promotion of Temperance and morality." Puck was America's first successful humor magazine of colorful cartoons, caricatures and political satire of the issues of the day. It was published from 1871 until 1918. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04091
Subjects: Presidents--Election; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Cartoonists; Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901
 

Description: The dining tent and its diners that was set up during a camping trip taken by rubber manufacturer Harvey Firestone, inventor Thomas Edison and automobile manufacturer Henry Ford in 1921. This trip was one of many that Ford, Firestone, and Edison took together between 1916 and 1924. Harding was invited to their camping trip in Maryland in July of 1921, which became known as "Camp Harding." The circular dining table was nine feet in diameter and had a Lazy Susan on the top so that diners could reach any of the dishes they wanted. It also folded so that it could be transported easily. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03564
Subjects: Presidents--United States; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Industrialists--Ohio; Inventors
Places: Pecktonville (Maryland); Pecktonville (Maryland)
 

Description: This pro-Garfield illustration depicts presidential candidate James Garfield as a farmer cutting down grass and snakes with a scythe on his way towards the White House. The scythe is labeled "Honesty, Ability and Patriotism," while the evils he is cutting down are symbolized as snakes labeled "Malice," "Defamation," "Hatred," "Venom" and "Fraud." Beneath his feet are two snakes named "Calumny" and "Falsehood." The cartoon is captioned "Farmer Garfield Cutting a Swath to the White House," and was published by Currier and Ives in 1880. Born in Orange, Ohio, Garfield spent time teaching at Hiram College and attained the rank of major general in the Civil War. He served nine consecutive terms in the House of Representatives before he was elected President of the United States in 1880, but served for only four months before he was shot by Charles J. Guiteau while waiting for a train in Washington, DC. Garfield lived for two more months, before dying on September 19, 1881. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04094
Subjects: Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Presidential campaigns; Assassinations
 

Description: United States President Warren G. Harding (1865-1923) standing at tee at Shaughnessy Heights Golf Club in Vancouver, Canada. Harding was the 29th U.S. president and served in office from 1921 to 1923. Warren Gamaliel Harding was born on a farm in the small Ohio community of Corsica (now Blooming Grove). He graduated from Ohio Central College (now defunct) in 1882 and moved to Marion, Ohio, where he worked as a newspaper reporter, got married to Florence Kling De Wolfe, and eventually became a newspaper publisher. His political career began in 1898 by winning election to the Ohio Senate where he served two terms. He was elected lieutenant governor in 1903. Despite his defeat in his campaign for governor in 1910, he remained active in Republican politics. On most issues he allied himself with the conservative (“Old Guard”) wing of the Republican Party. He won the 1914 Republican primary election as a candidate for the United States Senate and was elected for the 1915-1921 term. Harding resigned from the United States Senate in December 1920, and was inaugurated twenty-ninth President of the United States on March 4, 1921. Even though his post World War I campaign was promising a "return to normalcy" with following words: "America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration,", he was unsuccessful in fulfilling his promise and is considered by historians to be one of America's worst presidents. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07660
Subjects: Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923--Photographs; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Golf; Presidents--United States--1920-1930
Places: Vancouver (Canada)
 

Description: Photograph of a patriotic window display advertising war bonds at The F. & R. Lazarus Company, 1944. The display features mannequins of United States Presidents Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, and Franklin Pierce. 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: AL04384
Subjects: Lazarus Department Store; Presidents--United States; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Front page of the Columbus Dispatch announcing the death of President William McKinley, September 14, 1901. Just six months after his inauguration for a second term as president, McKinley was visiting the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, on September 1, 1901, when he was shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz during a public reception. Though he initially appeared to be recovering well, his health took a turn for the worse and he succumbed to his injuries in the early morning hours of September 14th. His death meant the third successful presidential assassination in our country’s history, and the second for a president from Ohio. In the wake of McKinley's assassination, memorials to the fallen president abounded, including the creation of the McKinley Memorial in Canton, Ohio, completed in 1907. Two of his lasting contributions include far more vigilant security for U.S. presidents over the past century, and the selection of the red carnation as Ohio’s state flower in 1904. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P245_B01F19_001
Subjects: McKinley, William, 1843-1901; Presidents--Death and burial; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Assassinations; Newspapers
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Buffalo (New York);
 

Description: The dining tent and its diners that was set up during a camping trip taken by rubber manufacturer Harvey Firestone, inventor Thomas Edison and automobile manufacturer Henry Ford in 1921. This trip was one of many that Ford, Firestone, and Edison took together between 1916 and 1924. Harding was invited to their camping trip in Maryland in July of 1921, which became known as "Camp Harding." The circular dining table was nine feet in diameter and had a Lazy Susan on the top so that diners could reach any of the dishes they wanted. It also folded so that it could be transported easily. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03564
Subjects: Presidents--United States; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Industrialists--Ohio; Inventors
Places: Pecktonville (Maryland); Pecktonville (Maryland)
 

Description: Four photographs taken in January 1937 depict the town of Point Pleasant, Ohio, particularly the area surrounding the birthplace of Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885), Civil War general and the eighteenth president of the United States. The first image shows the cabin marking Grant's birthplace nearly submerged by flood waters on January 26, 1937. The next three photographs were taken two days later on January 28, 1937. They depict the house and surrounding area. The final image shows the Grant Memorial Bridge, almost fully covered by water. The photographs measure 5" by 7" (12.7 by 17.8 cm). Along the Ohio River, from Gallipolis to the Ohio-Indiana border, January 1937 was a terrible month. New high-water marks were set at every town. Portsmouth and Cincinnati were particularly affected. In the Queen City, waters rose to nearly 80 feet, a new record. Flooding extended beyond Ohio too, impacting the lives of more than a million people and causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage. Dayton and the Miami Valley were spared, however, as flood control efforts in the region protected it from harm. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3222_3832033_001
Subjects: Presidents and Politics; Transportation; Climate and Weather; Architecture; Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885; Presidents; Floods; Houses; Bridges
Places: Point Pleasant (Ohio); Clermont County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Benjamin Harrison who served as President from 1889-1893. Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901) was born on his family's farm in North Bend, Ohio. He attended Farmer's College near Cincinnati and later transferred to Miami University in Oxford. He graduated from that institution in 1852 and went on to read law in Cincinnati. In 1853, Harrison married Caroline Scott and the couple moved to Indianapolis, where Benjamin Harrison set up a successful law practice. He also became involved in the newly formed Republican Party. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Harrison helped to raise the 70th Indiana Infantry regiment and served with distinction. When the war ended, Harrison returned to Indianapolis and resumed his law practice and political activities. He ran unsuccessfully for governor of Indiana in 1876 and was elected to the U. S. Senate in 1881. Harrison was chosen as the Republican nominee for President in 1888. During the campaign he supported a high tariff to protect American industries against foreign competition. Harrison won the election and during his term in office, Congress raised the tariff and passed acts relating to coining silver money and regulating monopolies. The United States also became more involved in foreign affairs. Harrison ran unsuccessfully for re-election in 1892. Many of his policies had proved unpopular and his wife was terminally ill, which limited his campaigning. Harrison died in 1901. Whitelaw Reid (1837-1912) was a native of Xenia. Like Harrison, he was also a graduate of Miami University. He gained acclaim as a newspaper man and wrote for papers in Xenia and Cincinnati before becoming the managing editor of the New York Tribune. Later in life, Reid served as ambassador to Great Britain. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01076
Subjects: Presidents--United States; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics
 

Description: Photographic postcard of Alice Roosevelt Longworth at the ceremony dedicating the memorial to United States President and former Ohio Governor William McKinley, on the grounds of the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio September 14, 1906. She was the eldest daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, who had served as McKinley's vice president, and who became President in 1901 after McKinley was assassinated. In 1906, Alice married Ohio representative Nicholas Longworth. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05322
Subjects: Memorials--Ohio; Ohio History--State and Local Government; McKinley, William, 1843-1901; Presidents--United States; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Postcard image of the house at the Ohio State Fairgrounds in Columbus which was constructed to protect the log cabin in which Ulysses S. Grant was born, ca. 1908. The small frame cabin in which Grant was born in 1822 was removed from its foundation in Point Pleasant in 1888. It was placed aboard a boat for exhibition in Cincinnati. Afterwards, it was moved to Columbus's Goodale Park as part of the Northwest Territory centennial. During the 1890s the cabin was returned to the fairgrounds in Columbus, where it remained until 1936,. In 1936 the cabin was disassembled and returned to its original location. Image caption reads: HOUSE AT STATE FAIR GROUNDS WHICH PROTECT THE OLD LOG CABIN IN WHICH GEN. U.S. GRANT WAS BORN. COLUMBUS. OHIO. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03854
Subjects: Presidents--Dwellings--Ohio; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Ulysses S. Grant's birthplace loaded on trucks for return to its original location in Point Pleasant, Ohio, February 24, 1936. The small frame cabin in which Grant was born in 1822 was removed from its foundation in Point Pleasant in 1888. It was placed aboard a boat for exhibition in Cincinnati. Afterwards, it was moved to Columbus's Goodale Park as part of the Northwest Territory centennial. During the 1890s the cabin was returned to the fairgrounds in Columbus, where it remained until 1936,. In 1936 the cabin was disassembled and returned to its original location. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03855
Subjects: Presidents--Dwellings--Ohio; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)