Description: Photograph of inventor Thomas Edison relaxing in a chair while camping in Maryland with Harvey Firestone and Henry Ford, July 23-24, 1921. This trip was one of many that Ford, Firestone, and Edison took between 1916 and 1924. President Warren G. Harding was invited to their camping trip in Maryland in July of 1921, which became known as "Camp Harding." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02728
Subjects: Inventors--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Science and Technology; Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931
Places: Pecktonville (Maryland)
 

Description: This photograph, taken at the Lincoln Memorial dedication in Washington, D.C., shows Vice President Calvin Coolidge, Supreme Court Chief Justice and former president William Howard Taft, President Warren G. Harding, General John J. Pershing, Robert Todd Lincoln and "Uncle Joe" Cannon. President Warren G. Harding spoke at the dedication of the memorial on May 30, 1922. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08538
Subjects: Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Monuments & memorials; Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923
Places: Washington (D.C.)
 

Description: On Christmas 1921, President Warren G. Harding was given a locket containing a portrait of Abraham Lincoln along with a lock of his hair. The portrait is a painted sketch based from a photograph taken in April 1861. Text under the portrait reads, “To Mrs. Lucy G. Speed, from whose pious hand I accepted the present of an Oxford Bible twenty years ago. A. Lincoln” View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV83_B01F06_016
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Pictorial works
 

Description: This Republican campaign poster from the 1920 election displays portraits of candidates for various offices, including Warren G. Harding, candidate for President of the United States; Frank B. Willis, candidate for the U.S. Senate; Harry L. Davis, candidate for governor of Ohio; W. R. Green, candidate for the state Senate; and five other African American men who are candidates for the state House of Representatives. Harding is quoted saying that he believes in equality before the law, and that "You can not give one right to a white man and deny the same right to a black man." The poster indicates that African Americans in Ohio remained in possession of their right to vote, even while many blacks in the American South were being disenfranchised. By appearing on this poster, the major Republican candidates for Ohio both endorsed African American Republican candidates, and attempted to secure the African American vote for their own election. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS5072
Subjects: African American Ohioans; Political campaigns; Political elections; Republican Party; Elected officials; Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923;
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Dining tent at Camp Harding, Pecktouville, Maryland, July 23-24, 1921. This camping trip was one of many taken by Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone and Thomas Edison between 1916 and 1924. President Warren G. Harding was invited on the trip to their Maryland camping site in July of 1921, which became known as "Camp Harding." Harding can be seen seated just to the right of center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03825
Subjects: Presidents--United States; Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923--Photographs; Firestone, Harvey Samuel, 1868-1938; Ford, Henry, 1863-1947; Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931
Places: Pecktonville (Maryland)
 

Description: Dated July 3, 1923, this photograph shows an elderly American Indian woman riding a horse, with a man to her right, in Meacham, Oregon. A car, teepee, and people are in the background. This occurred while President Warren G. Harding was in town giving a speech commemorating the Oregon Trail. The caption reads "None too old to pay honor to our president." The President and First Lady stopped in Meacham during their "Voyage of Understanding," a cross-country train journey that included numerous stops along the route where Harding had speaking engagements, and culminated in the first-ever presidential visit to the territory of Alaska. The trip was taken in spite of the president's failing health, and on August 2, Harding suffered a heart attack, and never made it to his second stop in Portland, scheduled for July 28. He died August 2, 1923, at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, California. This photograph is part of a photograph album in the Warren G. Harding Photograph Collection (P146). Warren G. Harding, the 29th President of the United States (1921-1923), was born in Blooming Grove, Ohio, in 1865. At age 14, Harding attended Ohio Central College in Iberia, Ohio, where he edited the campus newspaper and became an accomplished public speaker. He married Florence Kling de Wolfe in 1891, and embarked on his political career in 1900 by winning a seat in the Ohio legislature. After serving two terms as an Ohio Senator, Harding served as Lieutenant Governor in 1904 for two years before returning to the newspaper business. Although he lost the 1910 gubernatorial race, Harding was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1914. Political insider Harry Daugherty promoted Harding for the Republican presidential nomination in 1920. His front porch campaign was centered on speeches given from his home in Marion, Ohio, pledging to return the country to “normalcy” in this post World War I era. Harding easily won the election, gaining 61 percent of the popular vote. On August 2, 1923, Harding unexpectedly died from a massive heart attack while touring the western United States, and is entombed in the Marion Cemetery. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P146_B37F10_08
Subjects: Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923; American Indians; Horseback riding; United States--Oregon National Historic Trail; Celebrations; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics
Places: Meacham (Oregon)
 

Description: Photograph of an unidentified boy, possibly Warren Casteel, named in honor of then-Senator Warren G. Harding, dated July 7, 1920. A handwritten note accompanying the photo indicates that he was two and a half years old when this picture was taken, and was the son of Mrs. Hazel Casteel. This image comes from a group of photographs of babies and young children named after President Warren G. Harding, which were sent to Harding while he was in office and eventually transferred to the Ohio Historical Society from the Harding Memorial Association. Harding’s election provided a short burst of popularity for the name Warren, which had been steadily gaining in popularity during the 1910s. According to data from the Social Security Administration, the name rose from 122nd place in 1910 to 82nd place in 1919, with its largest jump in 1920 when it reached 39th. It jumped again in 1921, ranking 24th that year. After Harding's election in November of 1921, and his subsequent death on August 2, 1923, the name declined in popularity throughout the 20th century. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P146_B45F01_004
Subjects: Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923; Children; Portrait photography; Presidents--United States--1920-1930;
 

Description: Photograph showing President elect Warren G. Harding with Lodge #23 of the Knights of Pythias in St. Augustine, Florida, 1921. Harding was a member of the Knights of Pythias, a fraternal order founded in 1864 and the first be chartered under an act of U.S. Congress. Warren Gamaliel Harding (1865-1923) was born in Corsica (now called Blooming Grove), a small town in Morrow County, Ohio. His family moved to Marion, where Harding taught school, briefly studied law, and worked occasionally as a reporter for a local paper before buying the Marion Star in 1884. Harding became popular as a local bandleader at political rallies, and for his skill as an orator. Willing to follow the lead of political bosses, Harding advanced rapidly in Ohio politics, serving as state senator and lieutenant governor. In 1914, Harding was elected to the U. S. Senate. He launched his famous "front porch" 1920 presidential campaign from the porch of his Victorian home in Marion. He won the presidency with sixty percent of the popular vote, promising a "return to normalcy" following the wave of reforms begun during Theodore Roosevelt's administration. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P146_B05_Lodge23
Subjects: Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923--Photographs; Presidents and Politics; Fraternal orders;
Places: St. Augustine (Florida);
 

Description: Formal portrait of Harry M. Daugherty, 1921. He served as a campaign adviser to candidate Warren G. Harding during the 1920 presidential campaign. After Harding was elected he appointed Daugherty Attorney General, a cabinet post that Daugherty held from 1921-1924. He resigned amid charges that he was involved in a conspiracy to defraud the government known as the Teapot Dome scandal. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01004
Subjects: United States - Officials and employees; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics
 

Description: Dated July 3, 1923, this photograph shows a train of covered wagons traveling along a trail lined with spectators in Meacham, Oregon, while President Warren G. Harding was in town giving a speech commemorating the Oregon Trail. The caption reads, "Hickory Yoke & Oxen Red." The President and First Lady stopped in Meacham during their "Voyage of Understanding," a cross-country train journey that included numerous stops along the route where Harding had speaking engagements, and culminated in the first-ever presidential visit to the territory of Alaska. The trip was taken in spite of the president's failing health, and on August 2, Harding suffered a heart attack, and never made it to his second stop in Portland, scheduled for July 28. He died August 2, 1923, at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, California. This photograph is part of a photograph album in the Warren G. Harding Photograph Collection (P146). Warren G. Harding, the 29th President of the United States (1921-1923), was born in Blooming Grove, Ohio, in 1865. At age 14, Harding attended Ohio Central College in Iberia, Ohio, where he edited the campus newspaper and became an accomplished public speaker. He married Florence Kling de Wolfe in 1891, and embarked on his political career in 1900 by winning a seat in the Ohio legislature. After serving two terms as an Ohio Senator, Harding served as Lieutenant Governor in 1904 for two years before returning to the newspaper business. Although he lost the 1910 gubernatorial race, Harding was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1914. Political insider Harry Daugherty promoted Harding for the Republican presidential nomination in 1920. His front porch campaign was centered on speeches given from his home in Marion, Ohio, pledging to return the country to “normalcy” in this post World War I era. Harding easily won the election, gaining 61 percent of the popular vote. On August 2, 1923, Harding unexpectedly died from a massive heart attack while touring the western United States, and is entombed in the Marion Cemetery. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P146_B37F10_07
Subjects: Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923; United States--Oregon National Historic Trail; Parades and processions; Celebrations; Wagon trains
Places: Meacham (Oregon)
 

Description: Dated July 3, 1923, this photograph shows people lining the Old Oregon Trail in Meacham, Oregon for a parade on horseback. This occurred while President Warren G. Harding and First Lady Florence Kling Harding were in town giving a speech commemorating the Oregon Trail. The caption reads, "Pageant coming over Old Oregon Trail." The President and First Lady stopped in Meacham during their "Voyage of Understanding," a cross-country train journey that included numerous stops along the route where Harding had speaking engagements, and culminated in the first-ever presidential visit to the territory of Alaska. The trip was taken in spite of the president's failing health, and on August 2, Harding suffered a heart attack, and never made it to his second stop in Portland, scheduled for July 28. He died August 2, 1923, at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, California. This photograph is part of a photograph album in the Warren G. Harding Photograph Collection (P146). Warren G. Harding, the 29th President of the United States (1921-1923), was born in Blooming Grove, Ohio, in 1865. At age 14, Harding attended Ohio Central College in Iberia, Ohio, where he edited the campus newspaper and became an accomplished public speaker. He married Florence Kling de Wolfe in 1891, and embarked on his political career in 1900 by winning a seat in the Ohio legislature. After serving two terms as an Ohio Senator, Harding served as Lieutenant Governor in 1904 for two years before returning to the newspaper business. Although he lost the 1910 gubernatorial race, Harding was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1914. Political insider Harry Daugherty promoted Harding for the Republican presidential nomination in 1920. His front porch campaign was centered on speeches given from his home in Marion, Ohio, pledging to return the country to “normalcy” in this post World War I era. Harding easily won the election, gaining 61 percent of the popular vote. On August 2, 1923, Harding unexpectedly died from a massive heart attack while touring the western United States, and is entombed in the Marion Cemetery. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P146_B37F10_10
Subjects: Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923; United States--Oregon National Historic Trail; Parades and processions; Celebrations
Places: Meacham (Oregon)
 

Description: Theodore Burton (1851-1929) was born in Jefferson, Ohio, on December 20, 1851, and graduated from Oberlin College in 1872. He began his political career in 1889 after being elected as a Representative and years later as a Senator from Ohio. Throughout his life he had interrupted spells in the US House of Representative and Senate. In 1916, he was a candidate for Republican nomination for president. In 1922, President Warren G. Harding appointed Burton to represent the United States at the World War Debt Funding Commission, and Burton served as the head of the American delegation at the Geneva Conference in 1925. He died in Washington, DC, on October 28, 1929. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04089
Subjects: Presidents--Election; Other--Federal Government; Cleveland (Ohio); Oberlin College; Politicians
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)