Description: This step stool is made of cherry painted blue. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H9255
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Furniture
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This grained and painted poplar daybed was used for lounging during the day as well as sleeping at night. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H9372
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Furniture; Beds
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Engraved portrait of Laura Smith Haviland (1808-1898). Haviland was an operator on the Underground Railroad, in Raisin (Adrian), Lenawee County, Michigan, because she believed it was her religious duty. 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: AL03074
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Michigan; Slavery--Ohio--History--19th century; Slavery--Michigan
Places: Raisin (Michigan); Lenawee County (Michigan)
 

Description: Photograph of a female employee working in the machine sign shop at the F. & R. Lazarus Company, ca. 1950-1959. 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: AL04420
Subjects: Women--Employment; Lazarus Department Store; Employees; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Lithograph of Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-1893), Republican candidate for president in the 1876 election. Hayes was a successful governor of Ohio and went on to defeat Democrat Samuel Tilden of New York in a highly-contested election. Despite losing the popular vote, Hayes won the Electoral College and was granted the presidency by the Congress after agreements were made to end Reconstruction in the South, a deal that would be known as the Compromise of 1877. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS3328
Subjects: Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Presidential candidates; Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893; Presidential campaigns; Ohio--Politics and government; Governors--Ohio
Places: Fremont (Ohio); Sandusky County (Ohio); Delaware (Ohio); Delaware County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photographic reproduction of a poster for the Sells Brothers Circus. E. Sells, Lewis Sells and Peter Sells, proprietors of the circus, are pictured. When the circus was not traveling it was based in Columbus, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02746
Subjects: Circuses; Popular culture; Arts and entertainment; Businesses; Businesses;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph of Civic Center Drive in Columbus was taken in December 1968. Columbus City Hall is shown on the far left, in front of LeVeque Tower (also known as the American Insurance Union Citadel). The Ohio Department of Transportation Building (later known as the Department of Education Building) and the Departments of State Building are also shown. The Scioto River is in the foreground. The photograph is 2" x 2" (5.08 x 5.08 cm). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3292_4542863_002
Subjects: Ohio Government; Architecture; Rivers; Municipal government; Holidays; Cityscapes; Lighting--Architectural and decorative
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows the Ohio River and countryside near Ripley, Ohio. Ripley was an early stop on the Underground Railroad. The Ripley Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 7, 1985. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06490
Subjects: Ripley (Ohio); Underground Railroad--Ohio; National Register of Historic Places
Places: Ripley (Ohio); Brown County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph from the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus is of Joseph Di Marco, age 24. Di Marco was executed on the same day as Anthony Cirasole; both men were convicted of murdering Edward Erdody. His formal attire suggests that the photograph was taken during his trial or sentencing. The caption at the bottom reads: "No. 228, Joseph Di Marco of Cuyahoga County, Legally Electrocuted January 14, 1941, for the Murder of Edward Erdody, at Cleveland, Ohio." 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: AL08282
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
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows a group of designs for the Ohio State quarter by Daniel Marciniak. They are the Battle of Lake Erie, the Erie Canal, covered bridges, barns, the Ohio state symbols and the Treaty of Greenville. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08701
Subjects: Money; Commemorations; United States Mint; State symbols
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Photograph captioned "Sheet Piling and Rip-rap in Mill Creek Up-stream Sect. of New Work." Mill Creek is a stream that starts in Butler County, flows through Hamilton County and Cincinnati, and empties into the Ohio River. This photograph is part of a series taken by the Board of the Ohio Department of Public Works to document the disrepair of the infrastructure of the Ohio and Erie Canal and Miami-Erie Canal systems in 1916, showing the physical condition of each structure. The Ohio Department of Public Works is one of the oldest departments of state government in continuous existence. Among its other duties, this department was charged with maintenance and administration of the Ohio & Erie and Miami-Erie Canals. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA936AV_B01_1E
Subjects: Waterworks; Canals; Rivers; Lakes--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development
Places: Mill Creek (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows a boy and a girl sitting in a rocking chair outside a home identified as Dr Walton's in Sycamore, Ohio. The boy wears a patterned shirt, tie, and dark pants, and the girl wears a light colored dress, dark stockings, and a white bow in her hair. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's store, and later as a traveling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). Kinley 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_B01F03_65
Subjects: Families; Children; Rural life
Places: Sycamore (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio)