Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the Miami and Erie Canal through Delphos, Ohio, in Van Wert and Allen Counties, between stations 4749 and 4779. Roads, properties, bridges and other landmarks along the route are 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: BV23169_007
Subjects: Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio
Places: Delphos (Ohio); Van Wert County (Ohio); Allen County (Ohio)
 

Description: Engraved portrait depicting William Wells Brown (1815-1884), who was a fugitive slave born in Kentucky. He was given that name by a Quaker agent on the Underground Railroad. 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: AL03004
Subjects: Brown, W. Wells (William Wells), 1814?-1884; Fugitive slaves--Ohio--History; Siebert, Wilbur Henry, 1866-1961; Underground Railroad--Ohio
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Modern print from a glass plate negative depicting African American men at a YMCA evening class, Buckeye Steel Castings Company, ca. 1912-1919. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03777
Subjects: Popular culture; Education; African American Ohioans
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Modern contact print made from a glass plate negative depicting Fred Lohman killing chickens in the yard of the Cooke home on Gibraltar Island, Ottawa County, Ohio, 1886. For many years, Gibraltar was the summer home of the Jay Cooke family. Today, the island is owned by The Ohio State University, who maintains the Stone Laboratory, a freshwater research and teaching facility. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05492
Subjects: Ottawa County (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Agriculture; Chickens; Gibraltar Island (Ohio)
Places: Gibraltar Island (Ohio); Ottawa County (Ohio)
 

Description: Illustration of Ulysses S. Grant returning to the town of Galena, Illinois, where he lived before the outbreak of the U. S. Civil War, published in "A Personal History of Ulysses S. Grant" by Albert Deane Richardson in 1885. Ulysses S. Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Point Pleasant, Ohio. 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: AL04576
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S., 1822-1885; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio--History, Military; Presidents--United States; Parades
Places: Galena (Illinois)
 

Description: This engraving features a sketch of Fort McIntosh, which was established in 1778 near present-day Beaver, Pennsylvania. The log fort is situated on a bluff above the Ohio River, slightly less than a mile below the mouth of the Beaver River. Paths zigzag down the bluff to the river. The fort itself consists of logs placed horizontally; a flag attached to a flagpole is waving high above the palisade. A caption below the drawing reads: “View of Fort McIntosh.” The western wilderness played a major role in American, British, and American Indian strategy during the American Revolution. In May 1778, General George Washington, commander of the Continental Army, ordered Brigadier General Lachlan McIntosh to establish a new fort in the Western Department, one of the regional divisions within the Continental Army. The Western Division included the area that would become the Northwest Territory, including the future state of Ohio. The French engineer who designed the fort, Chevalier DeCambray, named it in honor of its new commander. During the American Revolution, Fort McIntosh had the largest assembly of troops west of the Alleghenies. Originally the fort was intended to be the starting point for an offensive against the British garrison at Detroit and against the Wyandot Indians. At the time, most American Indians residing in the Ohio Country allied themselves with the British. Although they were neutral in the conflicts, the Christian Delaware Indians were among the few natives who were friendly to the Americans. During November 1778, McIntosh decided not to carry out his orders due to the winter months that lay ahead. Rather he decided to wait until the warmer spring months before conducting his attacks. Instead, he ordered the construction of a fort along the Tuscarawas River (Fort Laurens, near modern-day Bolivar, Ohio) to help his men survive the harsh winter weather. Fort Laurens was Ohio’s only Revolutionary War fort. In 1785 Fort McIntosh was the site of meeting where a treaty was signed by representatives of the Continental Congress and by American Indian tribal leaders from the Chippewa, Delaware, Ottawa, and Wyandot. They signed a treaty that surrendered control of American Indian lands in southern and eastern Ohio to the United States government. Most Indians rejected the validity of the treaty, and rather than improving relations, the Treaty of Fort McIntosh only intensified existing tensions between the United States government and the Indian tribes. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06155
Subjects: McIntosh, Lachlan, 1725-1806; Treaties; American Revolutionary War, 1775-1783
Places: Beaver (Pennsylvania)
 

Description: Domminick Sellvagio, of Erie County, electrocuted November 22, 1912, for the Murder of three Italians. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08093
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Capital punishment; Ohio Penitentiary (Columbus, Ohio); Portrait photography
Places: Erie County (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio);
 

Description: J.C. Connell was born on April 20, 1854, in Ireland, and when he was two years old, his family moved to Waterford, Pennsylvania. As a young man, he travelled to Titusville, Pennsylvania, and started in the oil business. In 1887, he moved to Findlay, Ohio, and was key in the organization of the Ohio Oil Company in Findlay, Ohio. In 1911, Donnell became the president of Ohio Oil until his death in 1927. In the 1962, Ohio Oil changed its name to Marathon Oil. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07686
Subjects: Oil industry; Businesses
 

Description: Photograph showing Luther Lamotte and Ed Bretschneider on horses at the River Ridge Riding and Polo Club. The legible part of the handwriting on the photograph reads: "To Ruth, with a smile while on Dick Luther." The caption beneath the photograph reads: "Luther Lamotte and Ed Bretschneider." Ruth Weinman Herndon (1907-2002) was a life-long resident of Columbus, Ohio. Born September 6, 1907, she was the daughter of Henrietta Heinmiller Weinman (1869-1957) and William Nelson Weinman (1868-1950), owner of the Weinman Pump Manufacturing Company. The Weinmans were a prominent German-American family in central Ohio throughout the twentieth century. Ruth lived with her parents at 380 King Avenue in Columbus until 1914, when her parents hired Columbus architect Frank Packard to build a home at 1445 Roxbury Road in Marble Cliff. After graduating from Columbus School for Girls in 1925, Ruth studied sociology at Ohio State University, graduating in 1929. She married L. Kermit Herndon. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1344AV_B03_BOOK01_014
Subjects: Horseback riding; Horses--Training; Societies and clubs; Sports; Animals; Men
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Cartoons by Billy Ireland, a long-time editor of "the Passing Show" page of the Columbus Dispatch. These cartoons refer to recommended restrictions on wheat and other supplies due to wartime shortages during World War I. America, characterized as Uncle Sam, is seen embracing cornbread as an alternative to traditional wheat bread. 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_146
Subjects: Clinton League; Women -- Charities; Rationing; Cartoonists; World War, 1914-1918--Ohio;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: A crowd watches a military parade along North High Street near a restaurant called Frank N Stein in the University District of Columbus, Ohio. The University District includes the small neighborhoods to the east and south of The Ohio State University campus on either side of the High Street corridor. The High Street Photograph Collection is comprised of over 400 photographs of High Street in Columbus, Ohio, taken in the early 1970s. These photographs were taken primarily at street level and document people and the built environment from the Pontifical College Josephinum on North High Street in Worthington through Clintonville, the University District and Short North, Downtown and South Columbus. The photographs were used in a television photo documentary that aired on WOSU called "High Street." Photographers that were involved in this project were Alfred Clarke, Carol Hibbs Kight, Darrell Muething, Clayton K. Lowe, and Julius Foris, Jr. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV254_B11F283_01
Subjects: Street photography; University District (Columbus, Ohio); Parades & processions; Military Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph titled "Farm Auction," showing three men amid a small crowd during an auction taking place outside a large barn. The man in the center holds up what appears to be a sausage press. The man at left looks behind him while resting his hand on a basket of other small implements. The man on the right, possibly the auctioneer, looks at the camera while gesturing with his index finger. The image was submitted by photographer Matt McGookey of Castalia, Ohio, in the Amateur category of the Spirit of Ohio Bicentennial Photo Contest. In August 1976, the Ohio American Revolution Bicentennial Advisory Committee (OARBAC) began the Spirit of Ohio Bicentennial Photo Contest as part of a larger effort in Ohio to celebrate the 1976 American Bicentennial. The contest was meant to document "the spirit and character of the people and places which represent Ohio during [the] bicentennial year," and to create a permanent photographic archive of the year's festivity for use by future researchers. Both professional and amateur photographers submitted over 500 photographs for consideration, all taken within the state between January 1 and December 31, 1976. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA2734AV_B02F112_02_01
Subjects: American Revolution Bicentennial (1976); Food production; Tools; Farms; Rural life; Auctions;
Places: Castalia (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)