Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the Miami and Erie Canal through Allen County, between stations 5132 and 5199. Roads, properties, locks, rail lines 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_012
Subjects: Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio; Railroads
Places: Allen County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photomechanical reproduction of an image of a home, known as the Old Bacon Home, a station on the Underground Railroad in Indiana. Hiram Bacon, the station operator, owned the house and dairy farm. 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: AL03011
Subjects: Siebert, Wilbur Henry, 1866-1961; Bacon, Hiram, 1806-1879; Underground Railroad--Indiana
Places: Indianapolis (Indiana)
 

Description: Child in front of a chicken house on S. T. Campbell's farm, Richland County, Ohio, 1910. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03780
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Agriculture; Farms; Children
Places: Richland County (Ohio)
 

Description: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company's Highview Plat, ca. 1919. The Highview Plat was one of the company's housing complexes which offered detached homes available for either rent ($25.00 per month) or for purchase (between $3,000.00 and $5,000.00). Neighborhoods like these were constructed by steel companies to house mill workers and their families. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05515
Subjects: Youngstown (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Architecture and Engineering; Mills and mill-work--Ohio; Steel industry and trade--Ohio--Youngstown--History
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: Illustration of an African American soldier insisting that General Grant put out his cigar while near ammunition, 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: AL04579
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S., 1822-1885; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio--History, Military; African Americans; Presidents--United States; Soldiers
 

Description: This photograph shows people gathered at Fort Meigs in Perrysburg, Ohio, possibly during the fort's centennial in 1913. A large crowd of people is gathered near a light-colored tent on the banks of the Maumee River, seen in the background. Several other tents are visible. A tall, light-colored obelisk Several horse-drawn buggies and carriages are on the road or parked beside it. A bicycle is propped against a fence. Women are wearing long skirts and blouses (or long dresses) typical of feminine attire in the 1910s. A U.S. flag and a tall, light-colored obelisk also are visible. Fort Meigs, completed in 1813 in the midst of the War of 1812, was a strategic fortification along the banks of the Maumee River in present-day Perrysburg, Ohio. The fort withstood two British sieges in 1813 and became a turning point in the war in favor of the American forces. Today, the fort is the largest reconstructed wooden-walled fort in the United States and is an Ohio Historical Society site as well as a National Historic Landmark. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06158
Subjects: Fort Meigs (Ohio); United States--History--War of 1812; Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood; Centennial celebrations
Places: Perrysburg (Ohio); Wood County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of Wesley Jenkins of Montgomery County, who was electrocuted December 4, 1914, for the murder of Nellie Bailey. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08096
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Capital punishment; Death row
Places: Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing a group of unidentified people and Ruth Weinman Herndon at the River Ridge Riding and Polo Club. Beneath the photograph the caption reads: "At Shepard's-Summer 1928." 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_008
Subjects: Women; Horseback riding; Horses--Training; Societies and clubs; Sports; Animals;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of a float, part of 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_157
Subjects: Clinton League; Women--Charities; American Red Cross; World War, 1914-1918--Women--United States; Parades & processions;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: An older man wearing eyeglasses and suspenders stands behind the cash register at the counter of the Stadium Shop, located at 1630 North High Street in the University District of Columbus, Ohio. Behind him is a large shoe display. 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_B10F278_01
Subjects: Street photography; University District (Columbus, Ohio); Retail trade--Ohio--Columbus; Stores and shops;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing students and parents after a workshop session by the Columbus Junior Theater of the Arts, from the Columbus Free Press Collection. 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_B02F07_02
Subjects: Arts and entertainment; Theater--Ohio; Children
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This Speedline made by the Union Fork & Tool Company of Columbus, Ohio, was made from an Army bayonet. The hoe was used for turning garden soil and manufactured for residential use. Union Fork and Hoe Company was founded in Columbus, Ohio in 1890. A leading manufacturer and marketer of non-powered lawn and garden tools in North America, the company is now known as UnionTools. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3334_4716880_001
Subjects: Agriculture; Garden tools; Hoes; Gardening
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)