Description: Photograph of a Sells Brothers Circus parade in Delaware, Ohio, 1873. The circus was founded ca. 1872 by brothers Allen, Ephraim, Lewis and Peter Sells and operated for thirty-five years. Their winter quarters were in Columbus, Ohio. Text across bottom reads "SELLS BROS CIRCUS PARADE - DELAWARE, O - 1873." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02920
Subjects: Sells Bros. Circus; Circus--United States--History; Parades & processions
Places: Delaware (Ohio); Delaware County (Ohio)
 

Description: Founded by the Methodist Church in 1842, Ohio Wesleyan University is located in Delaware, Ohio. This illustration depicts Elliott Hall, the oldest building on campus. Originally built in 1833 as a luxury health resort called the Mansion House Hotel, Elliott Hall is Ohio's oldest collegiate Greek Revival building. Renamed in 1877 for Dr. Charles Elliott, who helped establish Ohio Wesleyan University, the building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and the National Register of Historic Buildings in 1982. This image is from the "Historical Collections of Ohio," published by Henry Howe in 1847. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04167
Subjects: Ohio Wesleyan University; Education, Higher--Ohio--History; College buildings; Cultural Ohio--Education; Greek Revival
Places: Delaware (Ohio); Delaware County (Ohio)
 

Description: Girls' Industrial School inmates in the dining room, ca. 1900-1909. The purpose of the school was "the reformation of exposed, helpless, evil disposed, and vicious girls." In 1878, the term "incorrigible" was added. A five-member board of trustees purchased a piece of property known as the Ohio White Sulphur Springs Resort, eighteen miles north of Columbus. The first six girls were admitted to the school in October 1869. The inmates spent their mornings performing domestic chores. They also learned various vocational trades, including basket-making, music, sewing, and stenography. In the afternoons, the girls attended school, where they studied, reading, writing, spelling, arithmetic, geography, literature, and United States history among other topics. The girls remained at the school until they reached seventeen years of age or completed their sentence. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00205
Subjects: Delaware (Ohio); Women--Education - Ohio; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections
Places: Delaware (Ohio); Delaware County (Ohio)
 

Description: Girls' Industrial School inmates in the school laundry, 1919. The purpose of the school was "the reformation of exposed, helpless, evil disposed, and vicious girls." In 1878, the term "incorrigible" was added. A five-member board of trustees purchased a piece of property known as the Ohio White Sulphur Springs Resort, eighteen miles north of Columbus. The first six girls were admitted to the school in October 1869. The inmates spent their mornings performing domestic chores. They also learned various vocational trades, including basket-making, music, sewing, and stenography. In the afternoons, the girls attended school, where they studied, reading, writing, spelling, arithmetic, geography, literature, and United States history among other topics. The girls remained at the school until they reached seventeen years of age or completed their sentence. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00206
Subjects: Delaware (Ohio); Women--Education - Ohio; Multicultural Ohio--African American Ohioans; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections
Places: Delaware (Ohio); Delaware County (Ohio)
 

Description: School band on the steps of the Girls' Industrial School, ca. 1910-1919. The purpose of the school was "the reformation of exposed, helpless, evil disposed, and vicious girls." In 1878, the term "incorrigible" was added. A five-member board of trustees purchased a piece of property known as the Ohio White Sulphur Springs Resort, eighteen miles north of Columbus. The first six girls were admitted to the school in October 1869. The inmates spent their mornings performing domestic chores. They also learned various vocational trades, including basket-making, music, sewing, and stenography. In the afternoons, the girls attended school, where they studied, reading, writing, spelling, arithmetic, geography, literature, and United States history among other topics. The girls remained at the school until they reached seventeen years of age or completed their sentence. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00208
Subjects: Delaware (Ohio); Women--Education - Ohio; Musical instruments; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections
Places: Delaware (Ohio); Delaware County (Ohio)
 

Description: Girls' Industrial School performing an outdoor play, ca. 1930-1931. The purpose of the school was "the reformation of exposed, helpless, evil disposed, and vicious girls." In 1878, the term "incorrigible" was added. A five-member board of trustees purchased a piece of property known as the Ohio White Sulphur Springs Resort, eighteen miles north of Columbus. The first six girls were admitted to the school in October 1869. The inmates spent their mornings performing domestic chores. They also learned various vocational trades, including basket-making, music, sewing, and stenography. In the afternoons, the girls attended school, where they studied, reading, writing, spelling, arithmetic, geography, literature, and United States history among other topics. The girls remained at the school until they reached seventeen years of age or completed their sentence. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00211
Subjects: Delaware (Ohio); Women--Education - Ohio; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections
Places: Delaware (Ohio); Delaware County (Ohio)
 

Description: A roadside market selling Dahlias and vegetables in Delaware County, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F04_006_1
Subjects: Agriculture--Ohio--History--20th century.; Harvesting; Vegetables; Flowers
Places: Delaware County (Ohio)
 

Description: A photograph of Duroc hogs in red clover on a farm in Delaware County, Ohio. The Duroc hog is an older American breed of Hogs. They are red, large framed, medium length and muscular with partially drooping ears and tend to be one of the most aggressive breed of swine. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F06_022_1
Subjects: Agriculture--Ohio--History--20th century.; Hogs
Places: Delaware County (Ohio)
 

Description: The photograph shows eight people standing on the steps in front of a doorway labeled "195." Two boys and two young women stand in front with two men and two women standing behind them. An accompanying caption reads "Walters at Delaware," possibly referring to a Walters family in Delaware, Ohio. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's store, and later as a traveling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). Kinley 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: AV30_B01F03_43
Subjects: Families--Ohio; Daily Life; Portrait photography; Photographers--Ohio
Places: Delaware (Ohio); Delaware County (Ohio);
 

Description: Two American Indian women who participated in "The Longest Walk," resting at Delaware State Park, Delaware, Ohio, taken for the Columbus Free Press ca. 1978. The Longest Walk was an American Indian Movement-led event in support of tribal sovereignty for American Indians and in protest of anti-Indian legislation that was being proposed at the time. The walk covered a 3,200-mile stretch across the United States. The Columbus Free Press began as a bi-weekly publication in Columbus, Ohio, in 1970. An underground newspaper, it replaced the Ohio State University publication The People, Yes. The earliest known issue of the newspaper appeared on January 4, 1971. The newspaper underwent a series of name changes over the decades, with titles including the Columbus Free Press & Cowtown Times (1972-1976), the Columbus Freepress (1976-1992) and The Free Press (1992-1995). The paper, which covered many liberal and progressive causes, was an alternative to mainstream news sources in central Ohio with the slogan “The Other Side of the News.” In 1995, the paper ceased publication briefly before reemerging as a website in early 1996, and returning as a print publication under the Free Press title in the form of a quarterly journal in 1998. Published under various frequencies during the first part of the 21st century, the Free Press again became a nonprofit monthly publication in 2017 with both a print and web presence, published by the Columbus Institute for Contemporary Journalism and operated by a volunteer staff and board. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05848
Subjects: American Indian women; Cultural heritage; American Indian history and society; American Indian Movement (AIM); Activism; Protests and protestors;
Places: Delaware (Ohio); Delaware County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dedicated at the 1893 commencement, the construction of University Hall/Gray Chapel was termed "the greatest undertaking since the opening of the college." David S. Gray, Ohio Wesleyan University Trustee, gave money to build the 1500-1800 seat chapel/auditorium in memory of his father, David Gray, "a sturdy pioneer preacher." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F02_032_1
Subjects: Ohio Wesleyan University; Ohio Wesleyan University--History; Ohio Wesleyan University--Miscellanea
Places: Delaware (Ohio); Delaware County (Ohio)
 

Description: Lithograph of Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-1893), Republican candidate for president in the 1876 election. Hayes was a successful governor of Ohio and went on to defeat Democrat Samuel Tilden of New York in a highly-contested election. Despite losing the popular vote, Hayes won the Electoral College and was granted the presidency by the Congress after agreements were made to end Reconstruction in the South, a deal that would be known as the Compromise of 1877. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS3328
Subjects: Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Candidates for president; Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893; Presidential campaigns; Ohio--Politics and government; Governors--Ohio
Places: Fremont (Ohio); Sandusky County (Ohio); Delaware (Ohio); Delaware County (Ohio)