Description: Photographic reproduction of a drawing by Henry Howe depicting Ohio University at Athens, Ohio in 1846. Ohio University, founded in 1804, was the first institution of higher education established west of the Allegheny Mountains. This photographic reproduction of Howe's drawing dates ca. 1970-1979. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00219
Subjects: Athens County (Ohio); Cultural Ohio--Education; Ohio University; Cultural Ohio--Education; Universities and colleges; Education, Higher
Places: Athens (Ohio); Athens County (Ohio)
 

Description: Grandstand and race track at the Wyandot County Fair, with a crowd waiting in anticipation. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's department store, and later as a travelling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). He was also an avid lifelong photographer, and the bulk of the Harry Kinley Collection is comprised of glass plate negatives documenting the Kinley family, the city of Upper Sandusky and Wyandot County and surrounding areas. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07778
Subjects: Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture; Fairgrounds; Fairs--Ohio; Photographers--Ohio; Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Cultural Ohio--Art and Artists
Places: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio)
 

Description: Two horses during a harness race at the Wyandot County Fairgrounds. The first Wyandot County Fair was held in 1851 on the Thompson farm, (now the site of the Fairhaven Community on Marseilles Avenue) in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. The fair was held in that location until 1856 when the current fairgrounds site was purchased. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's department store, and later as a travelling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). He was also an avid lifelong photographer, and the bulk of the Harry Kinley Collection is comprised of glass plate negatives documenting the Kinley family, the city of Upper Sandusky and Wyandot County and surrounding areas. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07802
Subjects: Cultural Ohio--Ohio Sports; Horse racing; Fairgrounds; Photographers--Ohio; Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Cultural Ohio--Art and Artists
Places: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio)
 

Description: Cartoonist Billy Ireland looking out the window from his office at the Columbus Dispatch, Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1910-1930. Ireland entertained readers with his full page, color comic strip "The Passing Show," which ran in the Sunday edition of the newspaper from 1908 to 1935. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01774
Subjects: Ireland, Billy, 1880-1935; Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture; Cultural Ohio--Art and Artists; Cartoonists; Newspapers
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio);
 

Description: Print showing campus buildings at Marietta College, from "Historical Collections of Ohio" by Henry Howe, 1847. Marietta College was established by Ohio's Congregationalists in 1835 and is one of Ohio's oldest continually-operating institutions of higher education. It was originally known as the Marietta Collegiate Institute and Western Teachers' Seminary, View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03999
Subjects: Education--Ohio; Cultural Ohio--Education; Art, American--Ohio; Universities and colleges--Pictorial works
Places: Marietta (Ohio); Washington County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Medical College of Ohio was founded by Daniel Drake in 1819 in Cincinnati. In 1920, the college changed its name to the College of Medicine of the University of Cincinnati. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04006
Subjects: Education--Ohio; Cultural Ohio--Education; Art, American--Ohio
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Boy Scouts trying on gas masks as they visit a United States Army Reserve Center, ca. 1952-1968. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03779
Subjects: Children--Ohio; Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture; Boy Scouts of America
Places: Whitehall (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing Ruth Weinman Herndon at the River Ridge Riding and Polo Club, Columbus, Ohio. The caption reads: "Taken At The Club, Autumn 1930." Ruth Weinman Herndon (Mrs. L. Kermit Herndon) 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 20th century. Ruth Weinman (1907-2002) lived with her parents at grew up 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_001
Subjects: Women--Ohio; Cultural Ohio--Ohio Sports; Societies and clubs; Animals; Horseback riding; Horses
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of two young girls seated on a chair in the parlor of the Dunbar House, ca. 1938. This home, at 219 Paul Laurence Dunbar Street in Dayton, Ohio, was the final home of poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. After Dunbar's death in 1906 his mother, Matilda Dunbar, continued to live in the house until her death in 1934. In 1936 the Dunbar House became the first state memorial to honor an African American. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03328
Subjects: Children--Ohio; Cultural Ohio--Literary Ohio; Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906--Homes and haunts--Ohio
Places: Dayton (Ohio)
 

Description: In 1837, the Presbyterian Church founded Muskingum College at New Concord, Ohio. One of the first coeducational institutions of higher education in the United States, the college has a current enrollment of approximately 1,550 students. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04013
Subjects: Education--Ohio; Cultural Ohio--Education; Art, American--Ohio
Places: New Concord (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: Children of various ages huddled around a stove in the center of their school room for warmth in a one room schoolhouse in eastern Ohio, ca. 1906-1910. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01126
Subjects: Schools--Ohio; Cultural Ohio--Education; Photography--Ohio
 

Description: Photograph of a man standing before a closet at the Dunbar House with clothing and a bicycle likely used by poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, ca. 1938. This home, at 219 Paul Laurence Dunbar Street in Dayton, Ohio, was the final home of poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. After Dunbar's death in 1906 his mother, Matilda Dunbar, continued to live in the house until her death in 1934. In 1936 the Dunbar House became the first state memorial to honor an African American. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03331
Subjects: Authors, American--Ohio; Cultural Ohio--Literary Ohio; Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906--Homes and haunts--Ohio
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)