Description: This photograph from the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus is of Henry Hagert, an 18-year-old carpenter's apprentice from Lakewood, Ohio. His formal attire suggests that the photograph was taken during his trial or sentencing. Hagert was 17 years old when he murdered twin 13-year-old brothers, James and Charles Collins, and became the 245th individual to be executed via the electric chair in Ohio. The caption at the bottom reads: “No. 245, Henry W. Hagert of Cuyahoga County, Legally Electrocuted October 3, 1945, for the Murder of Charles and James Collins.” 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: AL08299
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); Lakewood (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: This spiral ice chute was made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio, for Uta Coal and Ice Cold Storage Company, Uta, Colorado. This photograph was taken at the Jeffrey factory, 1911. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01294
Subjects: Machinery industry--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing several men working with a steam-powered sorghum reaper used in producing molasses, at an unidentified farm in Ohio, ca. 1910. The Circle Family Glass Plate Negative Collection came in with the records of John Circle, who served as Franklin County Surveyor between 1981 and 2000. The plates are thought to be part of the family history but have no identification. The images are agricultural but have no other known history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV82_006
Subjects: Agriculture; Agricultural machinery; Farms; Food production
Places: Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This graphic of a map shows the Court of Appeals districts in the state of Ohio in 1936. It was created by the Ohio Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F02_032
Subjects: Books; Works Progress Administration; Ohio Federal Writers' Project; Maps; Courts--Ohio--History;
Places: Ohio
 

Description: 200 cubic foot chemical dump short-pour hot metal car and ladle built in Germany for Soviet Union by the William B. Pollock Company of Youngstown, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0031_B02F77_001
Subjects: Slag; Steel industry; Hot metal
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photographic reproduction of a scene showing dead soldiers in front of Battery Robinett after the Battle of Corinth on October 3rd and 4th, 1862, during the Civil War. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04585
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Battlefields
Places: Mississippi
 

Description: This is a photograph of a map of the Underground Railroad in Ohio, showing the stations where fugitive slaves were assisted in their flight. The map was created by the Ohio Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in 1936. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F02_044
Subjects: Ohio Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration; Maps; Underground Railroad
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Fugitive slaves left Fairport Harbor to cross Lake Erie into Canada, where they could escape the bonds of slavery. This photograph was taken by W.S. Smith of Painesville, Ohio, in 1891. 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: AL03154
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Ohio; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights
Places: Fairport (Ohio); Lake County (Ohio)
 

Description: This blue silk flag served as the regimental colors of the 29th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The flag was manufactured in the United States between 1861 and 1863. The United States arms is painted in the flag's center. The arms consists of a bald eagle holding an olive branch in its left talon and a bundle of arrows in its right talon. The eagle holds in its beak a scroll with the motto "E Pluribus Unum" (Latin for "one out of many"). A shield emblazoned with red and white stripes is positioned on the eagle's breast. Thirty-four gold stars are arranged in a double-arc pattern above the arms. A red banner is positioned below the arms. The flag has gold fringe with plied-cut ends six centimeters in length. The dimensions of the flag are 182 by 192 cm. 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: AL01918
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Places: Ohio
 

Description: 14 inch and 16 inch mills at Republic Steel Youngstown, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0012_B04F24_001
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel Industry; Rolling-mill machinery;
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: The title of the poster reads "Am I Proud!.. - I'm fighting famine...by canning food at home" It shows a woman with dark hair wearing an apron holding three quart jars of canned vegetables. There are three more sitting in front of her. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1222_F8_08
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945--Posters; War posters--Ohio; War Posters, American
 

Description: Title reads "A New Map of Ohio with its Canals, Roads & Distances" by H. S. Tanner, 1846. The counties are shown in color to show the boundaries. A steamboat distance chart is included. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02658
Subjects: Maps--Ohio; Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood