Description: This poster, titled "Your Victory Garden Counts More Than Ever," encourages Americans to grow victory gardens during World War II. The poster measures 19" x 21" (48.26 x 53.34 cm). During World War II (1941-1945), many people supplemented the food they had available for personal use by planting vegetable gardens, both to support the war effort and due to food shortages and rationing. The gardens were promoted widely by the government and industry, and were known as "victory gardens" due to their importance to the war effort. Gardens were planted during World War I as well, but were called "war gardens" until the end of the war, when the term "victory garden" came into use. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3330_4692176_002
Subjects: Daily Life; Agriculture; Military Ohio; World War II; Victory gardens
Places: Ohio; Washington (District of Columbia)
 

Description: Carte de visite portrait of John Sherman, 1862. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1855 - 1861. He was elected United States Senator from Ohio in 1861 to fill the Senate seat left vacant by Salmon P. Chase. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00781
Subjects: Legislators--United States; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Ohio--Politics and government; Politicians
Places: Washington (District of Columbia)
 

Description: Photographs of Yvonne and friends Grace, Gwen, Cecilia and Petty at Howard University. This is one of several pages taken from a scrapbook that belonged to Yvonne Walker-Taylor. Walker-Taylor was the daughter of Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker, the 66th Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and president of Wilberforce University in the 1940s. Walker-Taylor later went on to follow in his footsteps, and became one of the first female African American college president in the United States when she was named president of Wilberforce in 1984. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B05F04_09_2
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Howard University; Wilberforce University; African American Educators; African American women
Places: Washington (District of Columbia)
 

Description: This is a lithograph of an oil painting of Shawnee leader Tenskwatawa, or The Prophet, published in "History of the Indian Tribes of North America" by Thomas Loraine McKenney and James Hall. Tenskwatawa worked with his brother Tecumseh to unite American Indian tribes in the Northwest Territory to defend themselves against white settlers. The title across bottom of the page reads "Tens-Kwau-Ta-Waw." Thomas Loraine McKenney (1785–1859) served as the U.S. Superintendent of Indian trade from 1816–1822 and superintendent of Indian affairs from 1824-1830. James Hall (1793–1868) was a lawyer, writer, and editor who lived in Cincinnati, Ohio, from 1833 until his death in 1868. Their book was illustrated with portraits from the Indian Gallery in the Department of War in Washington, D.C. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02992
Subjects: Shawnee Tribe; American Indian history; American Indians--Portraits; American Indian tribal leaders; American Revolutionary War (1775-1783)
Places: Washington (District of Columbia)
 

Description: Photograph of Charles Harris Wesley, a prominent African American scholar, artist, minister and civil rights figure. He received degrees from Fisk University, Yale University and Harvard University and taught at Howard University in Washington. He was a minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and was awarded the Doctor of Divinity degree by Wilberforce University. He served as president of Wilberforce University in the 1940s, founded of Central State College in 1948 and served as the first director of the Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the 1970s. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_VFM34_1
Subjects: Activists; Civil Liberties; Civil rights; Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century; African American men; African American authors; Wilberforce University; Howard University; Central State College
Places: Washington (District of Columbia); Philadelphia (Pennsylvania); Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows President Warren G. Harding with his dog, Laddie Boy, at the White House, ca. 1921-1923. Harding, from Marion, Ohio, was the twenty-ninth president, serving from 1921 until August 1923 when he died in office. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01083
Subjects: Dogs; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923; Dogs; Pets
Places: Washington (District of Columbia)
 

Description: Photograph from the Columbus Citizen-Journal Collection showing marchers as part of the "Bonus Army" on their way to demonstrate in Washington, D.C., 1932. The handwritten caption on the back reads, "Strikers and vets on bonus march to White house." During the Great Depression, a group of over 40,000 demonstrators gathered in Washington, D.C. to demand payment on bonus certificates awarded to World War I veterans in 1924. The certificates were not redeemable until 1948, but thousands of out-of-work veterans demonstrated calling for immediate cash payment to counter the effects of the Depression. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P339_B03F10_01_01
Subjects: Great Depression; World War I, 1914-1918; Veterans; Demonstrations;
Places: Washington (District of Columbia);
 

Description: Harriet Taylor Upton was born in 1853 in Ravenna, Ohio. In 1880, her father, Judge Ezra B. Taylor, was elected as a Republican representative to Congress. Harriet accompanied her widowed father to Washington, D.C., where she served as his hostess and companion. In Washington, she met George Upton and they were married in 1884. While living in Washington, Upton became involved in the women's suffrage movement. In 1890, she joined the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and was elected treasurer in 1894, an office she held until 1910. Upton also served as president of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association from 1899 to 1908 and again from 1911 to 1920. A life-long member of the Republican Party, Upton became the first woman to serve on the Republican National Executive Committee, in 1920. She ran unsuccessfully for the United States House of Representatives in 1926. Harriet Taylor Upton died in 1945 in Pasadena, California, at the age of 90. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC2850
Subjects: Upton, Harriet Taylor; Suffrage--Ohio; Suffragists; Social reformers
Places: Ravenna (Ohio); Portage County (Ohio); Washington (District of Columbia);
 

Description: Photograph of Douglas R. Stanfield (right), former president of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation, with William Moore McCulloch (center) and a third unidentified man on their annual Farm Bureau trip to Washington, D.C., ca. 1957. The men are posed in front of an Ohio apportionment map. A signed note on the photo reads, "Best wishes, always, to my good friend "Doug" Stanfield. Sincerely yours, William M. McCulloch, 5/27/57." McCulloch was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio's 4th District, and was in office from 1947 until 1973. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P3_B01_F08_001
Subjects: Ohio Farm Bureau Federation; Agriculture--Ohio; United States. Congress. House; Politicians;
Places: Washington (District of Columbia);
 

Description: Handwritten on reverse: "Monument at Washington D.C." The Washington Monument is an obelisk near the west end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., built to commemorate the first U.S. president, General George Washington. The monument, made of marble, granite, and sandstone, is both the world's tallest stone structure and the world's tallest obelisk, standing 555 feet 5⅛ inches. There are taller monumental columns, but they are neither all stone nor true obelisks. It is also the tallest structure in Washington D.C.. It was designed by Robert Mills, an architect of the 1840s. The actual construction of the monument began in 1848 but was not completed until 1884, almost 30 years after the architect's death. The cornerstone was laid on July 4, 1848; the capstone was set on December 6, 1884, and the completed monument was dedicated on February 21, 1885. It officially opened October 9, 1888. Upon completion, it became the world's tallest structure, a title previously held by the Cologne Cathedral. The monument held this designation until 1889, when the Eiffel Tower was completed in Paris, France. The monument stands due east of the Reflecting Pool and the Lincoln Memorial. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F10_050_1
Subjects: Washington, D.C. Washington Monument; Mills, Robert, 1781-1855; Washington, George, 1732-1799
Places: Washington (District of Columbia)
 

Description: Evva and Henry Heath photographed with their foster child, Harry. Harry lived with the couple for while they practiced law in Washington, D.C. Evva Kenney was born and grew up in Cardington, Ohio, where she attended the predominantly white Cardington-Union Schools and graduated from high school in 1897. After teaching for a year in West Virginia, Evva moved Columbus in the spring of 1898 and began taking business courses at Parsons Community College. She later married Henry Heath and the couple attended Howard University Law School. She and Henry founded their own law firm, Heath & Heath Attorneys and Counselors at Law, and practiced in Washington, D.C. In 1907, Evva returned to Cardington to care for her ailing mother. Evva became ill early in 1908 and died in 1909 at the age of 29. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1274_B05F05_01
Subjects: African American Ohioans; Families; Lawyers; Law firms
Places: Washington (District of Columbia)
 

Description: U. S. Senator John Glenn (left) speaks with President Jimmy Carter (right) in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington D.C. The John and Annie Glenn collection is comprised of photographs, slides, books and ephemera documenting the career of John Glenn as an astronaut and U.S. Senator. The collection also documents his life with his wife Annie Glenn née Castor, family and friends, such as Robert and Ethel Kennedy and fellow astronauts. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV329_B05F06_02
Subjects: Glenn, John, 1921-2016; Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
Places: Washington (District of Columbia)