Description: Portrait of Belle Coit Kelton of Columbus, Ohio. Kelton (1855-1956) was included on the "Ohio State Honor Roll" from the League of Women Voters of Ohio, ca. 1930, which listed prominent Ohio women involved in the suffrage movement. Her brief biography from the Honor Roll reads: "Belle Coit Kelton was an early pioneer in suffrage movements and president of the Franklin County Suffrage Association. She was one of the organizers of the Franklin County League of Women Voters, its president for two years and is now its honorary president." This photograph comes from the League of Women Voters of Ohio Collection. The League of Women Voters was first formed at the national level in early 1920 by Carrie Chapman Catt, President of the National Woman Suffrage Association. Soon, additional leagues began to form at the state and local level, with the League of Women Voters of Ohio being organized in May 1920 in Columbus. The League was first formed to empower women to use their newfound right to vote, and today its primary purpose remains citizen education. To this goal, it supports voter registration efforts, provides information on candidates and issues, sponsors debates and offers publications on public policy and voter engagement topics. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS354_B10_LWVO_BelleCoitKelton
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Social movements; League of Women Voters of Ohio; Suffragists; Activism; Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Taken in 1971 by U.S. Army medic Charles Tweel, this photograph shows a boy sitting outside a building with a thatched roof, probably his home. He sites next to a pile of firewood, and a chicken stands on the platform to the right. This photograph is part of the Charles Tweel Collection (AV 324) at the Ohio History Connection. Charles Tweel grew up in Columbus, Ohio, and attended The Ohio State University. After graduation in 1968, he enlisted in the U.S. Army as a non-combatant, first training as a medic at Fort Sam Huston, followed by nine months of additional training at Valley Forge General Hospital in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. He finished his training as a Specialist 3 and 91C, MOS, and went on to serve in Bamberg, Germany, with combat engineers for one year. In January 1971, Tweel served in Vietnam with the Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion (Air Mobile), 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, based out of Camp Evans near Phu Bai, north of Hue, until December of that year. Tweel spent most of his service on various firebases as the medic in charge, and occasionally shared firebases with South Vietnamese soldiers. He also visited MedCAP stations (Medical Civic Action Programs) where he treated civilians. Tweel received the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious achievement, and was promoted to Specialist 5 in 1971. After discharge from the Army, he went to medical school and was in private practice as a family practitioner from 1979-2016, and now works part-time in inner city medical clinics in Columbus, Ohio, and Charleston, South Carolina. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV324_B01F01_014
Subjects: Vietnam War (1961-1975); United States. Army. Airborne Division, 101st; Civilians in war; Children; Daily life
Places: Vietnam
 

Description: Photograph showing the violin section of the Columbus Philharmonic Orchestra, from the Columbus Citizen-Journal newspaper. Identified on the reverse are Robert Gross (left), concertmaster, and Mario Mancinelli (right), assistant concertmaster. The Columbus Philharmonic Orchestra was a professional symphony orchestra based in Columbus between 1941 and 1949. Under conductor Izler Solomon, the group performed at Franklin County Memorial Hall and featured full-time professional musicians. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P339_B03F05_05_01
Subjects: Musicians; Musical performances; Musical instruments; Arts and entertainment
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This shows the cornerstone of the Tuscarawas County Courthouse. The structure was built from 1882 to 1884, during a time of prosperity, when many counties were constructing ambitious courthouses, competing with one another for the best building. Roman arches, square and round columns and Doric and Corinthian capitals are incorporated into this structure. Originally there was a zinc-plated statue of three women that sat on top of the building's dome, but it was replaced by a cupola with a brass eagle in 1973 after the original statue began to deteriorate. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F06_468
Subjects: Courthouses; National Register of Historic Places;
Places: New Philadelphia (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio); 101 E. High Ave.
 

Description: Neil Armstrong coming back to his hometown in Wapakoneta, Ohio. Neil A. Armstrong was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio on August 5, 1930. He received Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in aeronautical engineering from Purdue University. After serving as a naval aviator from 1949 to 1952, Armstrong joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in 1955. For the next 17 years he worked for NACA and its successor agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). As a research pilot at NASA's Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, he was a project pilot on many pioneering high speed aircraft. Armstrong transferred to astronaut status in 1962 and was assigned as command pilot for the Gemini 8 mission, which was launched on March 16, 1966. As spacecraft commander for Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing mission, Armstrong gained the distinction of being the first man to land a craft on the moon and first to step on its surface. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV_203B2F1_007
Subjects: Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012; Wapakoneta (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Mrs. Ida Saxton McKinley, ca. 1896. Wife of William McKinley, she was First Lady from 1897-1901. This is a modern photographic print made from the original glass plate negative in the Courtney Studio Collection. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00498
Subjects: Stark County (Ohio); Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women
Places: Canton (Ohio); Stark County (Ohio)
 

Description: The grab bucket seen in this photograph was made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio. The bucket, which opened in the middle like a clam shell, was suspended by cable from a traveling crane in the Jeffrey yard, 1908. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01255
Subjects: Machinery industry--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Johnny Vander Meer when he pitched 2 no-hit games for the Reds. Cincinnati, Ohio." This photo depicts an action shot of Johnny Vander Meer pitching one of 2 no-hit games at Crosley Field in Cincinnati, Ohio. Vander Meer is known as the only Major League Baseball pitcher to throw two consecutive no-hitter games. He was an MLB pitcher from 1937 through 1951 and in addition to the Reds, played for the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians. He was a left-handed pitcher, batted as a switch hitter and had 29 career shutouts. Vander Meer was inducted into the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame in 1958. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F01_001_001
Subjects: Cincinnati Reds (Baseball team); Pitchers (Baseball); Vander Meer, Johnny, 1914-1997; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Western Hills Viaduct." Cincinnati's largest viaduct at 3, 500 feet long, the Western Hills Viaduct crosses the Mill Creek Valley in Cincinnati, joining eastern Spring Grove Avenue and Central Parkway with western Queen City and Harrison Avenues. Built from 1930 to 1932 as part of the Union Terminal project, the viaduct has arch spans at each end, spanning Spring Grove Ave to the east and Mill Creek to the west. In the center section, the viaduct spans the CSX Queensgate yard. The double deck viaduct originally had four traffic lanes on each 40 foot deck. The structure has undergone changes since it was first built, the most dramatic in 1960 when the eastern portion of the viaduct was removed for construction of I-75 underneath and rebuilt with interchange access to the interstate. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F17_024_001
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio); Viaducts
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: The original description reads: "This is the Taylor Street Canal Bridge taken March 22, 1911." This photo shows the state of the Miami and Erie canal in Dayton in the 1910s. The Miami and Erie Canal connected the Ohio River in Cincinnati and Lake Erie in Toledo and was completed in 1845. Running along the right of the canal is the "electric mule" track, a machine that ran on rails that would supposedly do away with the old method of mules and horses that propelled the canal boats. The electric mule never became widely used, however, as canals were almost completely abandoned shortly after the electric mule was developed in favor of pure rail transportation. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F05_006
Subjects: Canals--Ohio; Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads "Cinci., O., Sept. 1937. Eden Park, Art Museum from Elsinore Tower" Eden Park Located between Gilbert Avenue and Columbia Parkway (U.S.) and comprised of about 185 acres in the Mount Adams community of Cincinnati, Ohio, Eden Park was assembled by a series of purchases beginning in 1859. The name came, naturally, from the Garden of Eden and was given by Nicholas Longworth who owned a large tract which constitutes the main portion of the park. Eden Park is the home of the Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati Art Academy, the Navigation Monument, the Capitoline Wolf Statue, and the Irwin M. Krohn (Eden Park) Conservatory. Elsinore Arch The Elsinore Arch (sometimes called Elsinore Castle, or Elsinore Tower) is an impressive stone entrance to Eden Park, with steep stairs leading to the Cincinnati Museum of Art. It was designed by Charles B. Hannaford in 1883 as a result of the Kronborg Castle backdrop for Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” at Music Hall. It was not only intended as an impressive entrance, but also a means for the Cincinnati Water Works to extend the water main supply tunnel, which started at a reservoir in Eden Park. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F08_004_1
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Parks--Ohio--Cincinnati; Parks--Cincinnati (Ohio); Cincinnati (Ohio). Water Works; Cincinnati (Ohio). Art Museum; National Register of Historic Places
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1935-1940, this photograph shows the south side of the Case Main Building. The letters CSAS (Case School of Applied Science) can be seen in stone at the top of the building. The original Case Main Building, formerly located on the site which is now the Case Quadrangle, was designed by John Eisenmann, who was not only the school’s first professor of civil engineering and a pioneer in structural steel construction, but who also designed the flag for the state of Ohio. Completed in 1885, and similar to the Adelbert College building, the 3-story building with basement and attic was built of bricks made on Murray Hill, a fireproof design. However, on October 27, 1886, a heavy explosion and fire destroyed most of the building. The architect for the new building was Clarence O. Arey and reopened in 1888. In 1892, the attic was converted to a gymnasium and in 1896 electricity was installed in the building. Additional remodeling was done in 1940 and 1948. The building was demolished in 1972, and its stones used to build the Michelson-Morely fountain and the Case Institute of Technology sign at the corner of Euclid Avenue and Martin Luther King Boulevard, as well as being given to Alumni of Case as souvenirs. This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F08_04_01
Subjects: Case Western Reserve University; Western Reserve College; Universities and colleges; Architecture; Cleveland (Ohio)
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)