Description: Photomechanical reproduction of Levi Coffin's home that was located in Fountain City, Wayne County, Indiana, and served as a stop on the Underground Railroad. Levi Coffin (1798-1877) and his wife Catharine (1803-1881) were reputed to have harbored more than two thousand slaves from the fall of 1826 to 1846. Coffin was even referred to as the "President of the Underground Railroad." Coffin later moved to Cincinnati, Ohio where he continued to offer his home as an Underground Railroad stop. The person in the photograph is not identified. 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. On the photograph written in the left hand corner is: "MARetts Prep" Next to the figure in photograph is written: "Under Ground Railway Hotel. Fountain City Ind [Indiana]" Next to the tree in the photograph is written: "Built 1839" The sign on the building reads: "HOTEL" View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03010
Subjects: Siebert, Wilbur Henry, 1866-1961; Coffin, Levi, 1798-1877; Underground Railroad--Indiana
Places: Fountain City (Indiana); Wayne County (Indiana)
 

Description: Inmate developing photographs, Ohio State Penitentiary, ca. 1960-1969. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03778
Subjects: Prisoners; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Modern contact print made from a glass plate negative depicting three children in a tree swing on Gibraltar Island, Ottawa County, Ohio, ca. 1891-1892. The children are Carlotta Barney, Russell Cooke and Henry Cooke, Jr. 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: AL05493
Subjects: Gibraltar Island (Ohio); Other--Family History; Children; Clothing and dress
Places: Gibraltar Island (Ohio); Ottawa County (Ohio)
 

Description: Illustration of the guard of honor for Ulysses S. Grant 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. Caption reads: "Guard Mount, Camp of Co. E. The Guard of Honor." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04577
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S., 1822-1885; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio--History, Military; Presidents--United States
Places: Mount McGregor (New York)
 

Description: This photograph shows two Goodyear blimps in the air, flying above a body of water. Canoes and motorboats are visible on the lake. The name and number of each airship is visible on its tail. The Columbia (N2A) is the left; the Mayflower (N3A) is on the left. Both of these airships likely were built in the 1960s, when the Goodyear-Zeppelin Company developed the GZ-19A model (an airship named "Mayflower" was built in 1963). The GZ-20 model was introduced in 1968; an airship named "Columbia" and based on this model was built in 1969. Zeppelins are a type of airship, named for and invented by Ferdinand von Zeppelin. They are also known as blimps, airships, and dirigibles. Zeppelins once used heated air to become airborne. Over time, hydrogen and helium replaced the heated air. Zeppelins are different than hot-air balloons because balloons float with the wind, while zeppelins have engines that can steer the airship. Militaries have used them in wartime to observe and bomb enemy positions and companies have also utilized them to advertise products. The center of zeppelin production in the United States was Akron, Ohio. In 1916, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company purchased land near Akron to build a plant that could produce zeppelin aircraft. In 1917, the main Goodyear Company created a subsidiary known as the Goodyear Zeppelin Company to manufacture the zeppelins. That same year, the firm received a contract from the federal government to manufacture nine zeppelins for the United States military during World War I. Unfortunately for the company, its manufacturing facilities were not complete in 1917, so Goodyear completed the first airships inside of a large amusement park building in Chicago, Illinois. The military used these airships to bomb and to spy upon enemy positions. At the conclusion of World War I, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company continued to manufacture zeppelins. The firm used most of these ships to advertise its products. Zeppelins originally used heated air or hydrogen, but most of these ships utilized helium to become airborne. During this period, other companies, especially European ones, were constructing airships to transport passengers, including across the Atlantic Ocean. Goodyear also manufactured two airships, the "Akron" and the "Macon," for the United States military during the early 1930s. During World War II, the company manufactured 104 airships for the military at its Akron facility. Following World War II, the Goodyear Zeppelin Company continued to manufacture airships, but it also expanded into producing other types of aircraft and aircraft parts. The main thrust of the company, however, remained the airships. The company now used the zeppelins almost exclusively for advertising purposes. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06156
Subjects: Airships; Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation; Zeppelin (airship);
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: Frank Kinney of Cuyahoga County, was electrocuted December 12, 1913, for the Murder of Captain Byrne. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08094
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Capital punishment; Death row; Portrait photography
Places: Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: The once-massive limestone rock outcropping standing in the Maumee River known as Roche de Boeuf has marked many events in the history of the Maumee Valley. It was a legendary site for American Indians and the place where they gathered before the Battle of Fallen Timbers in August 1794. Early records indicate a nearby French settlement in the 1700s was called both Roche de Bout and Roche de Boeuf (spelled here Rouche de Boeuf), but for the last hundred years or so the latter has been most frequently used for both the rock and the lost settlement. About one-third of the rock was destroyed when the railroad bridge was built which caused a great controversy. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07687
Subjects: American Indian history and society; Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; Maumee River (Ind. and Ohio); Geology--Ohio
Places: Waterville (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing Ruth Weinman Herndon at the River Ridge Riding and Polo Club in her riding gear. 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_013
Subjects: Women; Horseback riding; Horses--Training; Societies and clubs; Sports; Animals;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of children watching a Red Cross parade in downtown Columbus, Fall 1918. An accompanying caption describes the parade as follows: "During the World War (I) Period, Columbus club women were a unit in their support of all types of effort toward winning the war. The Red Cross was naturally the central agency from which most of the work was conducted and nearly all clubs maintained a Red Cross Unit. One of the most spectacular events of the period was the great parade which took place in downtown Columbus on a Sunday afternoon in the early fall of 1918. Beautiful floats displaying wartime slogans bore prominent officials of the Red Cross organization and the Federation of Women's Clubs. Behind the floats marched the white clad women of the various Red Cross units thruout the city. Each unit had been carefully trained to march and countermarch. Bands furnished wonderful music and the whole effect was both beautiful and inspiring. We don't remember how long we marched nor how far but it seemed many miles for the day was very warm and the white shoes that women of that period wore were not especially designed for comfort. Mrs. E.S. Ingraham was the very efficient leader of our Clinton Welfare League's Red Cross unit for this parade." 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_159
Subjects: Clinton League; Women--Charities; American Red Cross; World War, 1914-1918--Women--United States; Parades & processions
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: A young boy looks out the second-story window of a brick building at 1764 North High Street 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_B11F285_01
Subjects: Street photography; University District (Columbus, Ohio); Children; Rental housing
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows the side facade and clock tower of the Logan County Courthouse. This Italianate and Second Empire structure is the county’s third courthouse. Its tower is 135 feet tall and has a statue of justice. It sits on the site of the county’s former courthouse, in the public square and cost $125,000 to build. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F04_274
Subjects: Courthouses; National Register of Historic Places; hood moldings; mansard roofs; dormers; Second Empire; Italianate (North American architecture styles)
Places: Bellefontaine (Ohio); Logan County (Ohio); 101 S. Main St.
 

Description: Carte de visite of unidentified Civil War Soldier, probably from Southeastern Ohio. Subject is seated, wearing dark shell jacket and a neck cloth. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV200_b03_f30_15
Subjects: Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Photographs; Military Ohio
Places: Ohio