Description: This photograph was taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912. Like most of Ewing's work, it was likely taken in southeastern Ohio or central West Virginia. Born in 1870 in Washington County, Ohio, near Marietta, Ewing most likely began his photography career in the 1890s. The 1910 US Census and a 1912-1913 directory list him as a photographer. A negative signed "Ewing Brothers" and a picture with his younger brother, Frank, indicate that Frank may have joined the business. After 1916, directories list Albert as a salesman. He died in 1934. The Ewing Collection consists of 5,055 glass plate negatives, each individually housed and numbered. Additionally, the collection includes approximately 450 modern contact prints made from the glass plate negatives. Subjects include infants and young children, elderly people, families, school and religious groups, animals and rural scenes. In 1982, the Ohio Historical Society received the collection, still housed in the original dry plate negative boxes purchased by Albert J. Ewing. A selection of the original glass plate negatives were exhibited for the first time in 2013 at the Ohio Historical Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV71_b03_f189
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States--History; Animals
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: This swallowtail silk guidon of the national colors was used by the 40th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The flag was manufactured in the United States between 1861 and 1863. There are 34 painted stars arranged in concentric circles with an additional star in each of the blue canton's four corners. The flag has thirteen alternating red and white stripes. The flag measures 64 by 80 cm. The 40th Ohio Volunteer Infantry was organized at Camp Chase in Columbus, Ohio, and mustered into service on December 7, 1861. Major engagements in which the regiment took part include Middle Creek, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge, the Atlanta Campaign, and Franklin. On December 10, 1864, after the battle of Franklin, the regiment was consolidated with the 51st Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Ohio battle flags were on display at the Ohio Statehouse until the 1960s, when the state formed a committee to oversee the efforts to restore the fragile flags. Some of the battle flags were on display on the Plaza Level of the Ohio Historical Society from 1970 until 1989. For conservation reasons, the flags have been in storage since 1989. In the 1960s, the collection was photographed and commercial artist Robert Needham painted illustrations of many Civil War flags. Photographs of the flags and the paintings are now part of the society's archival collections. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01950
Subjects: Ceremonial artifact; Communication artifact; Military flags; Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Textile--silk; United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 40th (1861-1864)
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photographic portrait of Samuel Medary, ca. 1860, in formal attire. Medary was an Ohio Senator and publisher of the Ohio Statesman (1832-1857), which he used to endorse the Democratic Party's candidates and to build support for its policies. Medary bought the "Ohio Monitor," changed its name to the "Ohio Statesman," and later established "The Crisis." Samuel Medary was born on February 25, 1801, in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. He relocated to Ohio in 1825. He died in Columbus, Ohio, on November 7, 1864, and is buried in Greenlawn Cemetery. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04267
Subjects: Political parties; Ohio History--State and Local Government; Journalism; Newspaper publishing; Medary, S. (Samuel), 1801-1864
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows Xenia, Ohio, rescue workers searching through bricks after the April 3, 1974 tornado. The unidentified workers are inside a structure searching through rubble (loose bricks and sections of brick wall). Some of the workers appear to be National Guard members wearing uniform and helmets. The tornado "super outbreak" of April 3-4, 1974, resulted in 148 tornadoes in 13 states. The Xenia tornado caused the most deaths of any tornado in the outbreak. The tornado touched down at 4:30 p.m. nine miles southwest of Xenia and entered the city about ten minutes later. It continued northeastward on a path of 32 miles through Xenia and Wilberforce into Clark County. The tornado killed 32 people from Xenia to Wilberforce. About half of the buildings in the city of 27,000 were damaged, and 300 homes destroyed. Nine Xenia churches were destroyed, as were seven of the twelve schools in the city. Fortunately, the tornado occurred an hour after classes had been dismissed. The roof and windows were blown from the Greene County Courthouse. A train passing through Xenia was struck by the tornado and 7 of the 47 cars were blown over, resulting in the blockage of Main Street. More than 1,300 people were treated for injuries at Green Memorial Hospital. Restaurants that were not destroyed handed out thousands of free meals to residents and rescue workers in Xenia. Convoys of generators, floodlights, bulldozers, and dump trucks arrived overnight from nearby Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The tornado also struck Wilberforce University and Central State University, destroying many buildings and injuring several people on each campus. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05947
Subjects: Tornadoes--Ohio--Xenia; Xenia (Ohio)--History; Natural disasters;
Places: Xenia (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
 

Description: Marines returning home after service in Korea and Japan. Cpl. Michael Petrucci returned on this trip. Petrucci was born August 9, 1930, in Youngstown, Ohio, where he grew up and attended school. Petrucci enlisted in the Marine Corps in July of 1952, and began basic training at Cherry Point Marine Base in North Carolina in August 1953. He received orders for overseas duty in May 1953, but when the United States and North Korea ended hostilities in July 1953, his transfer to Korea was halted. Petrucci was eventually sent to Korea in September 1953 and stationed at the First Marine Aircraft Wing base in the town of Pohang Dong, where he served until July 1954. By September 1954, Petrucci had returned to civilian life in Youngstown, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07507
Subjects: Ohio History--Military Ohio; Military life; United States Marine Corps; Korean War (1950-1953)
Places: Pacific Ocean
 

Description: Photograph showing University Hall, located on the main campus of the Ohio State University. Built in 1874, University Hall was the first and main building on the OSU campus, housing classrooms as well as faculty and student housing. The building was demolished in 1971 but replaced with a replica by 1976 that is still in use today. The photograph was taken by the Baker Art Gallery of Columbus, Ohio, a major photographic studio from the 1880s through World War II. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P51_B01F01_001
Subjects: Ohio State University--History; College campuses; Universities and colleges; Education, Higher
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of a silk guidon of the 1st Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, Battery H. This swallowtail Stars and Stripes once bore 34 stars: 12 in inner circle, 18 in outer circle, and one each in the canton's for corners. The regiment was called upon April 21, 1861 in a letter to Colonel James Barnett from the Governor, William Dennison. Each Battery of the 1st has its own history and operated independently in battle. Their initial appointment was for three months, though most served an additional campaign for three to five years. Battery H was quickly appointed to another 3 year campaign at Camp Dennison near Cincinnati and mustered into service November 7,1861. Major engagements in which the battery took part include Port Republic, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg (see below), the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, Cold Harbor, and the siege of Petersburg. The battery was mustered out at Camp Cleveland on June 14, 1865. Historical Marker at site of Battle of Gettysburg: Front): Huntington's Battery H 1st Ohio Light Artillery 3rd Volunteer Brigade Artillery Reserve July 2d and 3d 1863. Erected by the State of Ohio (Back): Battery H 1st Ohio Light Artillery Organized at Camp Dennison, Ohio, November 7, 1861. Took part in 12 general engagements and the siege of Petersburg. was mustered out at Cleveland, Ohio. June 14, 1865. Loss at Gettysburg 2 Killed. 1 Mortally wounded. 4 Wounded. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01821
Subjects: Ceremonial artifact; Communication artifact; Military flags; Flags--Ohio, Civil War, 1861-1865; 1st Regiment, Battery H, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery; Statehouse--Ohio; Textile--silk;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Painting of national colors of the 81st Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Text on flag reads: Shiloh, April 6 & 7, 1862. Siege of Corinth. Iuka. Corinth. Town Creek. Resaca. Lay's Ferry. Rome X Roads. Dallas. Kenesaw Mt. Nick O Jack. Atlanta 22d & 28th July, 1864. Jonesboro. Love [Joy]. Savannah. Columbia. Bentonville. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02503
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
 

Description: Caption reads: "New Zoar Meeting House." The brick meeting house was built by the Society of Separatists of Zoar in 1853. When the Society of Separatists of Zoar was dissolved in 1898 the former members of the Society formed an Evangelical church which held services in this building. A group of separatists from Germany, eventually known as Zoarites, established the small community of Zoar in Tuscarawas County in 1817. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, they had separated from the official German religion, the Lutheran Church. The community of Zoar was not originally organized as a commune, but its residents had a difficult time surviving in 1818 and early 1819. As a result, on April 19, 1819, the group formed the Society of Separatists of Zoar. Each person donated his or her property to the community as a whole. In exchange for their work, the society would provide for them. In the decades following the establishment of the Zoar commune, the separatists experienced economic prosperity. Due in part to influences from the outside world and the death of original residents, in 1898, the remaining members decided to dissolve the society, and its property was divided among the Zoarites. It was an end to the communistic experience at Zoar.  View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F01_020_1
Subjects: Tuscarawas County (Ohio); Zoar, O; Society of Separatists of Zoar; Zoar (Tuscarawas County, Ohio)--History--Pictorial works
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker, Reverend Higman and unidentified individuals at the grave of Reverend Cole, which is located in the cemetery of the Kingstown Methodist Church in the West Indies. Bishop D.O.B. Walker was the 66th Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He resided over the A.M.E. Fifth Episcopal District and was the 10th president of Wilberforce University. His daughter, Yvonne Walker-Taylor later became one of the first female African American college president in the United States when she was named the 16th president of Wilberforce University in 1984. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B05F10_I_2
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Wilberforce University; African American men; African American women; African American Educators
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Covenant, 1st Presby Church, SW cor. 8th & Elm." This is actually St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral, located on the south east corner of Seventh and Plum Streets in Cincinnati, Ohio. Cincinnatians worshipped here for decades, after the stately church was completed in 1852. It was demolished 1937, its members having long since moved to outlying suburbs, and for a short time, the site held a parking lot and filling station. Eventually, the lot was purchased by the Cincinnati Bell Telephone company, to build a modern addition to their original building, which can be see in the background, on the left of the photograph. The spirit of St. Paul's now rolls along in the Wayside Cathedral, a trailer car equipped with an alter, which sallies up and down country roads in the service of Episcopalians. Covenant First Presbyterian Church still stands at the corner of Eight and Elm, and is now on the National Register of Historic Places. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F16_005_1
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Episcopal Church--Ohio.
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows the front facade of the Ross County Courthouse. This building was intended to resemble the county’s previous 1801 courthouse, that had served as both county courthouse and statehouse. It was destroyed in 1852 to make room for the present building, which has one story wings on either side of the two story central structure. This is a unique building, reflecting trends in antebellum East Coast architecture. Additions were made to the building in 1929 and 1961. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F06_417
Subjects: Courthouses
Places: Chillicothe (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio); 2 N. Paint St.