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A. Roy Knabenshue and his airship [graphic]

 Collection
Identifier: SC 207
Scope and Contents Flights of aeronaut A. Roy Knabenshue, who flew his one-man airship around Ohio, including the Ohio State Fairgrounds and Ohio Statehouse. Includes several photographs taken by A.B. Graham, as well as postcards of the airship.
Dates: 1905-1907

Abraham Lincoln presidential collection [graphic]

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Identifier: AV 83
Scope and Contents Collection illustrates the life and death of Abraham Lincoln. Included are portraits of Lincoln as a young man and during the Presidency; the Republican Presidential ticket of 1860 and the Union Presidential ticket of 1864; photographs and postcards of his boyhood home and his home in Springfield, Illinois; pamphlets and invitations to events held in honor of Lincoln after his death; photographs of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. and photographs, prints and postcards of busts and...
Dates: circa 1860-197-?

Alexander Winton [graphic]

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Identifier: SC 4155
Scope and Contents Reproductions of photographs documenting Alexander Winton driving one of the automobiles built by his Cleveland based auto manufacturing company on rough and rocky terrain in the early twentieth century. The pictures are possibly of a failed attempt that Winton made in May 1901 to drive cross country. Beginning in San Francisco he crossed the Sierra Nevada mountains, but stopped in Nevada due to the difficult desert terrain. Additionally, the collection includes a reproduction of an engraved...
Dates: 19---19--

Allen G. Thurman [graphic]

 Collection
Identifier: SC 3890
Scope and Contents Collection consists of prints and cabinet card portraits of Ohio politician Allen G. Thurman. There are also photographic reproductions of an engraved portrait; an illustration from Harper's Weekly depicting Thurman and the cover of a piece of sheet music titled "The Old Roman March" dedicated to Thurman.||||Credits: Photographers C.M. Bell, Sarony; publisher Western Biogl. Pub. Co.; engraver E.G. Williams & Bro.
Dates: 188-?-19--

Andrew Johnson [graphic]

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Identifier: SC 3030
Scope and Contents Collection consists of portraits of United States President Andrew Johnson, including three on cartes de visite. One print of Johnson is based on a painting by Alonzo Chappel and published by Johnson Fry & Co. Publishers of New York. Mounted on one carte de visite is a small, oval shaped photograph of Johnson. It is framed by an embossed pattern on the carte de visite mount. The card was manufactured by the Salisbury, Bro. & Co. Text printed on the back of the card indicates they sold...
Dates: 186--19-?

Annie Oakley [graphic]

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Identifier: SC 2787
Scope and Contents Photographs of internationally famous sharpshooter Annie Oakley, most are reproductions. She is pictured with rifles and wearing many of the awards she received in shooting competitions. Oakley, who performed most notably with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, was known as "Little Sure Shot," "The Peerless Lady Wing -Shot," and "The Peerless Wing and Rifle Shot." There are two copies of an image of Oakley pictured with her husband Frank Butler; a photograph of her home in Darke County, Ohio; and a...
Dates: 19--?-19--?

Anthony Wayne [graphic]

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Identifier: SC 4229
Scope and Contents The collection includes portraits of General Anthony Wayne, known as Mad Anthony Wayne, who lead a military campaign against Native American tribes in the Northwest Territory that culminated with the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794 and the signing of the Treaty of Greene Ville in 1795. There are also photographs of a portrait of Wayne painted by Edward Savage in 1795, a monument in Cincinnati, Ohio marking the location of Wayne's army encampment in 1793 and a pipe, spurs and watch fob owned by...
Dates: 18---19--

Arthur St. Clair [graphic]

 Collection
Identifier: SC 4029
Scope and Contents Collection is comprised of prints and photographic reproductions of portraits depicting Revolutionary War General and Governor of the Northwest Territory Arthur St. Clair. Many of these images of St. Clair are based on the portrait made of him by Charles Vincent Peale. Additionally, the collection includes a photograph mounted on a boudoir card of a cabin that is identified by a sign as "The Log House in which Gov. St. Clair signed Treaty with the Indians 1788." There is also a small, painted...
Dates: 18---19--

Automobiles [graphic]

 Collection
Identifier: SC 60
Scope and Contents Photographs and advertisements of various antique automobiles, most from around 1905, including Packards, Fords, Studebakers, Oldsmobiles, and Harmans. Most automobiles are not identified.
Dates: circa 1902-1960

Battle of Fallen Timbers [graphic]

 Collection
Identifier: SC 196
Scope and Contents The collection includes two photographs of the painting "Battle of Fallen Timbers" by R. F. Zogbaum. There are two photographic reproductions of a print illustrating the Battle of Fallen Timbers and a print depicting another interpretation of the battle scene. The collection contains 17 photographs of the battlefield in Lucas County, Ohio and the monument erected there to commemorate the battle. There are five photographs of an artist's model of the monument and four close up photographs of the...
Dates: 18--?-19--