Description: This boulder and cement armory at 419 East Main Street in Eaton, Ohio was built in 1911 for $24,000 dollars. It serves as the home for the 1487th Transportation Company for the Ohio National Guard. Most recently men from that company were deployed for Operation Iraqi Freedom where they served with other members of the 106th Battalion. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F06_012
Subjects: Ohio. National Guard; Armories
Places: Eaton (Ohio); Preble County (Ohio)
 

Description: Four photographs depict the activities of Ohio National Guard troops at the Republic Steel Corporation's Warren Plant during the 1937 "Little Steel" Strike. The first image shows two guardsmen with a machine gun aimed at Main Street. The second and third photographs show troops with a machine gun on the office lawn. In the final image, a guardsman sits at the short wave radio station. These 4.5" by 6.5" (11.43 by 16.5 cm) photographs are part of a scrapbook maintained by the Republic Steel Corporation documenting events at its Warren Plant during the strike. The scrapbook is labeled Miscellaneous Communications, Posters and Pictures Relating to the C.I.O. Strike of the Warren Plant of the Republic Steel Corporation, Summer 1937, Vol. III. In June 1936 the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers and the Committee for Industrial Organization (C.I.O.) agreed to a joint effort to organize the steel industry. This led to the formation of the Steel Workers Organizing Com View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1619_2586942_038
Subjects: Military Ohio; Business and Labor; Strikes; Steel industry; Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.); Labor unions; Soldiers; Ohio. National Guard
Places: Niles (Ohio); Warren (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio)
 

Description: Stereograph image of the 8th Ohio Infantry Regiment, U.S. Volunteers training at Camp Alger, Virginia, prior to their departure for Cuba during the Spanish American War. The 8th Ohio Infantry Regiment was an Ohio National Guard regiment organized in July 1876 and mustered into federal service in May 1898 at Camp Bushnell in Columbus. Men in the regiment were from northern Ohio, predominantly Ashland, Holmes, Medina, Richland, Wayne, and Stark counties. The 8th Ohio was nicknamed "McKinley's Own" or "The President's Own" because three companies were from President William McKinley's hometown of Canton. The regiment assembled in Akron, Ohio, on April 26th, 1898, just three days after the call for troops. On July 4th, 1898, following several months of training at Camp Bushnell and Camp Alger, the 8th Ohio received orders to move to New York, where they would set sail for Cuba. The regiment disembarked at Siboney, Cuba on July 11. Although the unit never participated in combat, it was plagued by disease. The soldiers that did not perish from illness left Cuba on August 17 aboard the S.S. Mohawk. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03702
Subjects: Ohio. National Guard; Ohio History--Military Ohio; 8th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (O.V.I.); Spanish American War
Places: Camp Alger (Virginia)
 

Description: Stereograph image of the 8th Ohio Infantry Regiment, U.S. Volunteers training at Camp Alger, Virginia, prior to their departure for Cuba during the Spanish American War. The 8th Ohio Infantry Regiment was an Ohio National Guard regiment organized in July 1876 and mustered into federal service in May 1898 at Camp Bushnell in Columbus. Men in the regiment were from northern Ohio, predominantly Ashland, Holmes, Medina, Richland, Wayne, and Stark counties. The 8th Ohio was nicknamed "McKinley's Own" or "The President's Own" because three companies were from President William McKinley's hometown of Canton. The regiment assembled in Akron, Ohi,o on April 26th, 1898, just three days after the call for troops. On July 4th, 1898, following several months of training at Camp Bushnell and Camp Alger, the 8th Ohio received orders to move to New York, where they would set sail for Cuba. The regiment disembarked at Siboney, Cuba on July 11. Although the unit never participated in combat, it was plagued by disease. The soldiers that did not perish from illness left Cuba on August 17 aboard the S.S. Mohawk. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03703
Subjects: Ohio. National Guard; Ohio History--Military Ohio; 8th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (O.V.I.); Spanish American War
Places: Camp Alger (Virginia)
 

Description: The men of the 8th Ohio Infantry Regiment, U.S. Volunteers at Camp Alger, Virginia, prior to their departure for Cuba during the Spanish American War. The 8th Ohio Infantry Regiment was an Ohio National Guard regiment organized in July 1876 and mustered into federal service in May 1898 at Camp Bushnell in Columbus. Men in the regiment were from northern Ohio, predominantly Ashland, Holmes, Medina, Richland, Wayne, and Stark counties. The 8th Ohio was nicknamed "McKinley's Own" or "The President's Own" because three companies were from President William McKinley's hometown of Canton. The 8th Ohio assembled in Akron, Ohio, on April 26th, 1898, just three days after the call for troops. On July 4th, 1898, following several months of training at Camp Bushnell and Camp Alger, the 8th Ohio received orders to move to New York, where they would set sail for Cuba. The regiment disembarked at Siboney, Cuba on July 11. Although the unit never participated in combat, it was plagued by disease. The soldiers that did not perish from illness left Cuba on August 17 aboard the S.S. Mohawk. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03704
Subjects: Ohio. National Guard; Ohio History--Military Ohio; 8th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (O.V.I.); Spanish American War
Places: Camp Alger (Virginia)
 

Description: Stereograph close-up of the men of the 8th Ohio Infantry Regiment, U.S. Volunteers at Camp Alger, Virginia, prior to their departure for Cuba during the Spanish American War. The 8th Ohio Infantry Regiment was an Ohio National Guard regiment organized in July 1876 and mustered into federal service in May 1898 at Camp Bushnell in Columbus. Men in the regiment were from northern Ohio, predominantly Ashland, Holmes, Medina, Richland, Wayne, and Stark counties. The 8th Ohio was nicknamed "McKinley's Own" or "The President's Own" because three companies were from President William McKinley's hometown of Canton. The 8th Ohio assembled in Akron, Ohio, on April 26th, 1898, just three days after the call for troops. On July 4th, 1898, following several months of training at Camp Bushnell and Camp Alger, the 8th Ohio received orders to move to New York, where they would set sail for Cuba. The regiment disembarked at Siboney, Cuba on July 11. Although the unit never participated in combat, it was plagued by disease. The soldiers that did not perish from illness left Cuba on August 17 aboard the S.S. Mohawk. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03705
Subjects: Ohio. National Guard; Ohio History--Military Ohio; 8th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (O.V.I.); Spanish American War
Places: Camp Alger (Virginia)
 

Description: Ohio National Guardsmen marching in Athens, Ohio, Athens County, during student riots at Ohio University, May, 1970. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00597
Subjects: Ohio National Guard; Revolution, Reaction, and Reform; Ohio History--Military Ohio
Places: Athens (Ohio); Athens County (Ohio)
 

Description: Ohio National Guardsmen in defensive positions with weapons during student protests of the Vietnam War on campus of Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, Franklin County, April, 1970. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00602
Subjects: Ohio National Guard; Revolution, Reaction, and Reform; Ohio History--Military Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Ohio National Guardsmen and firefighters in front of fire-damaged building during riot in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, 1966. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00625
Subjects: Ohio National Guard; Demonstrations; Ohio History--Military Ohio
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of the 147th Infantry Regiment Color Guard in United States, ca. 1940-1941. The 147th was part of the 37th Infantry Division and was stationed in the Pacific Theater during World War II. The 37th Infantry Division was a part of the Ohio National Guard. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03399
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Ohio. National Guard
 

Description: Photograph of the 147th Infantry Regiment training at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana, 1941. The 147th was part of the 37th Infantry Division and was stationed in the Pacific Theater during World War II. The 37th Infantry Division was a part of the Ohio National Guard. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03393
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Ohio. National Guard
Places: Camp Claiborne (Louisiana); Rapides Parish (Louisiana)
 

Description: These photographs, taken between July 31 and August 2, 1939, were compiled in a scrapbook as a report to the Ohio adjutant general by two National Guard officers, Brigadier General L. S. Conelly and Captain L. J. Abele. The officers were sent to the Fisher Body Plant in Cleveland as observers for the Ohio National Guard during the 1939 strike at the plant. The back of each photograph is labeled with a number and a brief caption. Images 2 and 57 include Eliot Ness, who was Cleveland's director of public safety at the time of the strike. Before coming to Cleveland, Ness successfully battled mobster Al Capone in Chicago. His book, The Untouchables, was published in 1957. Other images in this collection include confrontations between police and strikers, non-striking workers inside the plant and police and fire officials at the scene. The photographs measure 6" x 8" (15.24 x 20.32 cm). Fisher Body Plant opened in 1921 to build car bodies for the Cleveland Automobile Company and the Chandler Motor Car Company. It became a division of General Motors (GM) in 1926. Several major strikes occurred in the automobile industry in the 1930s, as workers were asked to work for less and less due to the effects of the Great Depression. In 1937, workers at the Fisher Body Plant began a sit-down strike that spread to the GM factory in Michigan. The strike ended when GM agreed to recognize the United Auto Workers. During World War II the Fisher Body plant made parts for tanks, guns and airplanes. The plant closed in 1982. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1526_4400787_003
Subjects: Ohio Government; Military Ohio; Business and Labor; Strikes; Factories; Automobile industry workers; International Union, United Automobile Workers of America (CIO); Ohio. National Guard
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)