Description: William Wright, of Franklin County, was electrocuted on September 20, 1918, for the Murder of Detective William O'Rourke. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08102
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Capital punishment; Death row; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections
Places: Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Birthplace of U. S. Grant. Ulysses Simpson Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant on April 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio. In 1823, his family moved to Georgetown, Ohio. Grant lived there until he received an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1839. Grant graduated from West Point in 1843. He ranked twenty-first in a class of thirty-nine students. Grant served under General Zachary Taylor in the Mexican-American War. In the years before the American Civil War, Grant lived much of the time in St. Louis, Missouri, working as a real estate agent and as a farmer. He failed in both of these businesses. Grant also assisted his father in a tannery business. After the Battle of Fort Sumter in April 1861, Grant volunteered for military duty. He first served as colonel of the Twenty-First Illinois Infantry but soon was promoted to the rank of brigadier general due to his previous military experience. In March 1864, President Lincoln promoted Grant to lieutenant general and named him supreme commander of all Union forces. By early June 1864, Grant had surrounded General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia at Petersburg, Virginia, and a ten month siege ensued. The Northerners finally drove the Confederates from Petersburg in early April 1865, and The Army of Northern Virginia surrendered on April 9, 1865. n 1868, the Democratic Party chose Horatio Seymour as its presidential candidate. Seymour, a former governor of New York, supported states' rights and opposed equal rights for African Americans with whites. The Republican Party selected Grant, a defender of equal opportunities for African Americans with whites and a supporter of a strong federal government. Grant easily won the Electoral College vote, capturing twenty-six of the thirty-four states. Grant's first term as president was troubled with corruption. Grant remained above the corruption, but some of the U.S. public faulted him for his poor leadership and his inability to control his cabinet. Grant sought reelection in 1872. He won easily, receiving fifty-six percent of the popular vote. Grant promised to end the violence in the South but did little about it during his second term. An economic depression in 1873 further alienated the public from Grant. Due to Grant's declining popularity, the Republican Party nominated Rutherford B. Hayes as president, although Grant had desired to seek a third term. Grant also sought the party's candidacy in 1880, but the Republicans selected James Garfield instead. Grant spent his last years in New York, writing his memoirs. When he was elected president, Grant had resigned his commission in the military. In 1885, the United States Congress reappointed Grant as General of the Army. His salary helped him pay rising bills. He died on July 23, 1885 from throat cancer. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07703
Subjects: Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Grant, Ulysses S., 1822-1885; Birthplaces; Historic houses
Places: Point Pleasant (Ohio); Clermont County (Ohio)
 

Description: Glass plate negative of Ruth Weinman Herndon and her mother, Henrietta Heinmiller Weinman. Ruth Weinman Herndon (Mrs. L. Kermit Herndon) 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 Weinman family was a prominent German-American family in Columbus throughout the 20th century. Ruth Weinman (1907-2002) 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_B02F07
Subjects: Children; Families; Children's clothing; Women--Ohio; Portraits; Herndon, L. K. (Lyle Kermit)
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing the "Old High School," used to house high school students for Clinton Township from 1905 until 1910. This building, just east of the main school building at Clinton Heights Avenue and North High Street, continued in use as an annex to the original Clinton Township school (built in the 1890s) as well as the newer Clinton Elementary (built in 1922) before being demolished in 2014. 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_168
Subjects: Clinton League; Women--Charities; School buildings; Education
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Several young adults lead a march carrying a banner that reads "Houston or Bust In God We Trust" along 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 message on this banner is likely in reference to an event called "Millennium ’73" which took place at the Houston Astrodome in November 1973. This three-day New Age spiritual happening was hosted by the Divine Light Mission and featured a 15-year-old guru named Maharaj Ji from India. Prior to the Houston event, a caravan of hundreds of attendees traveled from the East Coast holding promotional events in eight cities along the way, which included Columbus. 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_B12F311_01
Subjects: Street photography; University District (Columbus, Ohio); Parades & processions; Banners;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of children during a stage performance of "Tents of Grace," a play written by Elizabeth Ann James and put on by the Columbus Junior Theater of the Arts, March 4, 1989. The play was about the massacre of members of the Delaware Tribe by United States soldiers at the settlement of Gnadenhutten in 1782. The Columbus Junior Theater of the Arts was founded in 1963, and is now known as the Columbus Children’s Theatre. 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_B02F05_01
Subjects: Actors; Arts and entertainment; Theater--Ohio; Children; Gnadenhutten Massacre, 1782;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows a courtroom inside 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_277
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 2nd Lt. Benjamin F. Bragg, who served with Companies A & B of the 36th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Company A was recruited from Lowell, Washington County, Ohio, and Company B was recruited from Athens & Gallia Counties, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV200_b03_f13_03_01
Subjects: Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Photographs; United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 36th (1861-1865); United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Photographs; United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 36th (1861-1865) Com
Places: Lowell (Ohio); Washington County (Ohio); Athens County (Ohio); Gallia County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reproduction of photograph depicting employees of the East Ohio Gas Company, now Dominion East Ohio, laying one the company's first pipelines for transporting natural gas to the Cleveland, Ohio area, ca. 1900. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00697
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows the discharge end of a 34-B coal cutting and loading machine built by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio in use at the Valier Coal Company, Valier, Illinois, 1918. A single cut with the 34-B took about 20 minutes and yielded over 8 tons of coal. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01390
Subjects: Coal mines and mining; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Valier (Illinois)
 

Description: The caption reads: "Roller Mill Grinding Enamel for Paint, Cleveland. Sherwin-Williams Co." Sherwin Williams was founded in 1866 by Henry Sherwin and Edward Williams in Cleveland, Ohio. They created ready-mixed paints in 1880 so consumers no longer had to buy the ingredients separately and do the mixing themselves. By 1905, they were selling paint across the United States, Canada, South America and Europe. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F08_002_001
Subjects: Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project.
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads "Swimming pool and bathing pavilion on the estate of Charles Williams, 1920 Dexter Ave,. Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, Ohio. Photo by Federal Writer' Photographer, District #2. July 6, 1937". This Second Renaissance Revival house is one of only two in the Walnut Hills community of Cincinnati, Ohio (the other being located at 2923 Wold Avenue). This two story buff colored brick home has terracotta roof shingles and a swimming pool. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F10_025
Subjects: Architecture; Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)