Description: Fountain Square, Cincinnati, Ohio, during the Grand Army of the Republic Parade, September 7, 1898. Taken from the fountain. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00222
Subjects: Hamilton County (Ohio); Ohio History--Presidents and Politics
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: The dining tent and its diners that was set up during a camping trip taken by rubber manufacturer Harvey Firestone, inventor Thomas Edison and automobile manufacturer Henry Ford in 1921. This trip was one of many that Ford, Firestone, and Edison took together between 1916 and 1924. Harding was invited to their camping trip in Maryland in July of 1921, which became known as "Camp Harding." The circular dining table was nine feet in diameter and had a Lazy Susan on the top so that diners could reach any of the dishes they wanted. It also folded so that it could be transported easily. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03564
Subjects: Presidents--United States; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Industrialists--Ohio; Inventors
Places: Pecktonville (Maryland); Pecktonville (Maryland)
 

Description: George B. Cox (1853-1916) of Cincinnati was a delegate to the 1900 Republican National Convention from Ohio. He was indicted on corruption charges in 1906, but was never convicted. He served as a Cincinnati City Councilman in 1879, but continued to influence politics through money, gifts, and illegal voting practices. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03892
Subjects: Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Ohio--Politics and government; Political corruption; Cincinnati (Ohio)
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: The dining tent and its diners that was set up during a camping trip taken by rubber manufacturer Harvey Firestone, inventor Thomas Edison and automobile manufacturer Henry Ford in 1921. This trip was one of many that Ford, Firestone, and Edison took together between 1916 and 1924. Harding was invited to their camping trip in Maryland in July of 1921, which became known as "Camp Harding." The circular dining table was nine feet in diameter and had a Lazy Susan on the top so that diners could reach any of the dishes they wanted. It also folded so that it could be transported easily. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03565
Subjects: Presidents--United States; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Industrialists--Ohio; Inventors
Places: Pecktonville (Maryland); Pecktonville (Maryland)
 

Description: Portrait of Albert Gallatin Riddle (1816-1902), an attorney from Cleveland, Ohio, who served in the Ohio state legislature (1848-1850) and in the United States House of Representatives (1861–1863). Riddle was also a prominent abolitionist involved with the defense of the Oberlin Rescuers in 1859, and a supporter of the women's suffrage movement, notable for his speech titled "The right of women to exercise the elective franchise under the Fourteenth Article of the Constitution," given during a suffrage convention in Washington, D.C., January 11, 1871. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05194
Subjects: United States - Officials and employees; Lawyers--Ohio; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Abolitionists -- Ohio; Suffrage -- Ohio;
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Close up view of President Warren G. Harding and other diners in the dining tent that was set up during a camping trip taken by rubber manufacturer Harvey Firestone, inventor Thomas Edison and automobile manufacturer Henry Ford in 1921. This trip was one of many that Ford, Firestone, and Edison took together between 1916 and 1924. Harding was invited to their camping trip in Maryland in July of 1921, which became known as "Camp Harding." The circular dining table was nine feet in diameter and had a Lazy Susan on the top so that diners could reach any of the dishes they wanted. It also folded so that it could be transported easily. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03566
Subjects: Presidents--United States; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Industrialists--Ohio; Inventors
Places: Pecktonville (Maryland); Pecktonville (Maryland)
 

Description: President Warren G. Harding at the golf course, ca. 1920-1923. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00528
Subjects: Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics
Places: Marion (Ohio); Marion County (Ohio)
 

Description: President and Mrs. Harding traveled along the Alaskan coastline on board the U.S.S. Henderson in 1923. They began their cross-country journey from Washington, D. C. to Alaska on June 20, 1923, in spite of the president's failing health. Warren Gamaliel Harding (1865-1923) was born in Corsica (now called Blooming Grove), a small town in Morrow County, Ohio. Harding graduated from Ohio Central College in Iberia at the age of sixteen. His family moved to Marion, where Harding taught school and briefly studied law. He worked occasionally as a reporter for a local paper before buying the Marion Star in 1884. Within five years, the Star was one of the most successful small-town newspapers in the state. Harding became popular as the leader of the Citizen's Coronet Band, which played 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, Ohio. 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. As President, Harding appointed several friends to federal office who proved untrustworthy. His administration was tainted by corruption, and the infamous "Teapot Dome" scandal (in which Harding's secretary of the interior leased a U.S. petroleum reserve to a private oil company) nearly destroyed his presidency. After he died in office in August 1923, countless scandals were uncovered tarnishing Harding's reputation. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1441_1154065_001
Subjects: Presidents and Politics; Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923; First ladies; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics
Places: Marion (Ohio); Marion County (Ohio); Washington (District of Columbia); Alaska
 

Description: Representatives of county suffrage organizations demonstrate on the steps of the Ohio Statehouse, Columbus, Ohio, July 30, 1914. Ohio ratified the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution extending the right of suffrage to women on June 16, 1919. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00707
Subjects: Rights and Responsibilities; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated 1920, this photograph shows Warren G. Harding sitting outside his home in Marion, Ohio, posing as a sculptor creates a bust portrait. 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_B20F65_004
Subjects: Presidential campaigns; Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923; Sculptures; Art and artists; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics
Places: Marion (Ohio); Marion County (Ohio)
 

Description: Captain John Cleves Symmes Memorial, Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio. Symmes was a captain in the War of 1812, an educator, surveyor, and a philosopher responsible for the Theory of Concentric Spheres and Polar Voids. This monument was erected in the 1840s and the photograph was taken ca. 1940-1949. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00320
Subjects: Monuments; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics
Places: Hamilton (Ohio); Butler County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reproduction of a portrait depicting Victoria Claflin Woodhull from Homer, Ohio. Woodhull was one of the most controversial women of the 19th century. Rejecting conventional women's roles, she toured the country speaking on such topics as women's rights and social reform for women. In 1871, she testified before Congress in an attempt to gain women's rights through the citizenship guarantees of the 14th and 15th amendments. When Congress denied her claims, Woodhull decided to run for president of the United States the following year as the Equal Rights Party Candidate. She and her sister Tennessee Claflin became the first women to own and operate a brokerage firm on Wall Street, and also published a newspaper titled "Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly." Woodhull was at the center of many scandals and eventually even the most radical members of the woman's rights movement tried to distance themselves from her. She moved to England in 1877 and later married an Englishman. She died in 1927. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01099
Subjects: Women's rights; Women social reformers - Ohio; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Political campaigns
Places: Homer (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio)