Description: Photograph of Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker standing with an unidentified group of men. Bishop Walker was the 10th president of Wilberforce University in the 1940s and the 66th Bishop appointed to the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He was the father of Yvonne Walker-Taylor, who 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_B06F02_K
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Wilberforce University; African American men; African American women; African American Educators
 

Description: Stevengraph bookmark with image of General Ulysses S. Grant, ca. 1862-1889. Weaver Thomas Stevens of Coventry created the process that used a mechanically operated jacquard looms to weave intricate, three-dimensional images in silk. The images were actually part of the design, not a painted or dyed picture. He created the first stevengraph bookmarks in 1862. This bookmark features an oval portrait of Ulysses S. Grant wreathed in laurel leaves. Above Grant's picture is an American bald eagle and shield. The caption below Grant's portrait reads: "General U.S. Grant, President of the United States of America." The bookmark includes a tassel. The bookmark's fabric is badly faded, making its original colors hard to determine. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05911
Subjects: Bookmarks; Stevengraph pure silk woven pictures; Jacquard weaving; Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885; Stevens, Thomas, 1828-1888
Places: Coventry (England)
 

Description: Neil and his parents Stephen and Viola (at right) attend dedication of moon landing bust. Bust reads "Neil A. Armstrong, First Man on the Moon, Apollo XI". More than 80,000 supporters greeted Neil Armstrong upon his return to Wapakoneta, Ohio on September 6, 1969. Bob Hope served as marshal for the event, and guests included "Tonight Show" sidekick Ed McMahon, Governor James Rhodes, Mayor Donald Wittwer, and Dr. Albert Sabin, inventor of the polio vaccine. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV_203B2F6_032
Subjects: Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012; Wapakoneta (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: The east annex of the Ohio Penitentiary, where death row and the execution chamber were located, displayed photographs of hundreds of prisoners who were condemned to death throughout the state’s history. This portrait of 22-year-old James Murphy is one of them. James and his brother, Joseph, were both convicted for the murder of Perry Friedhoff, a cashier at a bank in Silverton, during a robbery. The caption at the bottom of Murphy’s photograph reads: “No. 176, James Murphy of Hamilton County, electrocuted August 14, 1933, for the Murder of Perry Friedhoff.” Altogether there were 315 people who were electrocuted in the state of Ohio between 1897 and 1963. James Murphy was the 176th prisoner to be executed in this manner. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08235
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections; Capital punishment; Electrocution; Death row; Ohio Penitentiary (Columbus, Ohio)
Places: Silverton (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Columbus (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of a guillotine from a collection of models for the Ohio State School for the Blind. The guillotine is an instrument used to carry out executions by decapitation. The most historic use was during the "Reign of Terror" during the French Revolution. This model guillotine is a replica on which Charlotte Corday was executed for the assassination of Jean-Paul Marat. Model dimensions: length 12", width 12.5", height 37". Photograph is 5" x 7". Photographs and descriptions of models were included in the book "Models for the Blind," compiled by workers of the Ohio Writers' Program. The book was meant as a guide, to be used in the building and study of models, and as documentation of the achievements at the Ohio State School for the Blind. The models were a result of research, design and construction by employees of the Works Projects Administration. Models were made of durable materials to withstand regular usage. The average cost of labor for larger models was $45. A special room was built to store the models where teachers could borrow them to be used in classroom instruction. In 1837, the Ohio government established the Ohio Institution for the Education of the Blind. This institution was the predecessor of the Ohio State School for the Blind. It was the first public school for the blind in the United States. It was the first in the nation to be created and maintained entirely by the State government. The school opened its doors in 1839, and it was located in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Any blind children residing in Ohio could attend the institution. Eleven students enrolled at the Ohio Institution for the Education of the Blind this first year. The school initially had a maximum capacity of sixty students, but upon moving to a new building in 1874, more than three hundred students could attend at one time. Between 1839 and 1901, 2,058 students enrolled at the Ohio Institution for the Education of the Blind, with 339 attending in 1901 alone. In the early 1900s, the Ohio Institution for the Education of the Blind became known as the Ohio State School for the Blind, and the Ohio Department of Education assumed control of the school. In 1953, the school moved ten miles north of its original location to its present home. In 2005, 126 students enrolled in the Ohio State School for the Blind. Students as young as three and as old as twenty-one years of age attended the school. Students could receive their entire education (kindergarten through high school) at the institution. In addition, the Ohio State School for the Blind offered vocational training for its students. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F02_059_001
Subjects: United States. Work Projects Administration; Blind--Education--Ohio; Ohio State School for the Blind; Guillotine
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Painting of regimental colors of the 24th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Text on flag reads: 24th Reg't O[hio] Vol[unteers] [USA] View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02389
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
 

Description: This color images shows a male golfer putting on a green, ca. 1965-1970. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06958
Subjects: Golf; Sports; Recreation; Golf courses
 

Description: Painting of national colors of the 73rd Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry. Text on flag reads: 73rd Ohio Vet. Vols. Resacca. McDowell. Cross Key. Freeman's Ford. 2nd Bull R[un]. Chancellorsvill[e]. Gettysbur[g]. Lookout Vall[ey]. Mission-Ridge. Ca[?] New Hope Church. Lost Mou[?]. Kenesaw Mtn. Powder's [?] C[h]attahoochee River. P[each] [?]. Atlan[ta]. Aver[ysboro]. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02486
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
 

Description: Dated ca. 1940-1949, this photograph shows the interior of the Columbia Sugar Company in Paulding, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00393
Subjects: Paulding (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Economy--Business; Food production
Places: Paulding (Ohio); Paulding County (Ohio)
 

Description: Valentine card comprised of red, blue and silver paper in the shape of a circle with leaves forming corners overlayed with a piece of white cut paper. Card is adorned with paper cut outs of blue flowers and a young girl pulling a wagon in the center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07959
Subjects: Popular culture; Valentines; Greeting cards
 

Description: Original description reads: "Laying blocks for traffic lane on Riverview Ave." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F05_035_001
Subjects: Roads--Design and construction; Transportation--Ohio--Dayton
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated 1937, this photograph shows a La Belle Boulevard covered with water and a portion of the Pennsylvania Railroad in Steubenville, Ohio. The greatest volume of water ever known to pass along Ohio’s southern shores flooded all Ohio River communities during the last two weeks of January 1937. With damage stretching from Pittsburgh to Cairo, Illinois, 1 million were left homeless, with 385 dead and property losses reaching $500 million, further worsened by the fact that it occurred during the Great Depression and just a few years after the Dust Bowl. Crests were 20 to 28 feet above flood stage and 4 to 9 feet above previous records. Six to 12 inches of rain fell in Ohio during January 13-25, 1937, totals never before or since experienced over such a large area of Ohio. January 1937 remains as the wettest month ever recorded in Ohio. 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_B01F17_036_001
Subjects: Ohio River; Floods; Natural disasters; Steubenville (Ohio); Railroads
Places: Steubenville (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)