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28 April 2015

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23 April 2015

  • Women in the Industrial Workforce

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    This photograph of women workers making sparkplugs at the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company in Akron, Ohio was taken around 1930. It measures 8" x 10" (20.32 x 25.4 cm). Harvey S. Firestone (1868-1938) was born in rural Columbiana County, Ohio and incorp...

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  • Women in the Industrial Workforce

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  • Shaping the Land

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  • Akron, Ohio

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    This illustration of the city of Akron appears in "Historical Collections of Ohio" published by Henry Howe in 1907. Akron was originally laid out in 1825 and in 1841 became the seat of Summit County. The name came from a Greek word meaning "an elevatio...

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  • John D. Rockefeller

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  • Standard Oil Company

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    Portrait of American industrialist John D. Rockefeller, ca. 1910. Rockefeller was born in New York in 1839, but his family settled in northeast Ohio in the early 1850s. Rockefeller eventually became the first American billionaire after the massive succ...

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  • Terence Powderly

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  • Knights of Labor

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    Terence V. Powderly (1849-1924) led the Knights of Labor, a powerful advocate for the eight-hour day in the 1870s and early 1880s. Under Powderly's leadership, the union discouraged the use of strikes and advocated restructuring society along cooperati...

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  • Eastern Timber Wolf

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  • Wayne's Indian Campaign of 1794

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  • Wayne's Indian Campaign of 1794

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  • Anthony Wayne

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    Portrait of Anthony Wayne, ca. 1795. General Wayne led 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 Greenville in 1795. These ev...

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  • Aaron Burr

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    Portrait of Aaron Burr (1756-1836), who was an attorney in New York. Burr served as the Vice President to Thomas Jefferson in 1800 after tying on electoral votes, but losing in the House of Representatives. Near the end of his term as Vice President, a...

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  • Mastodon and Mammoth Fossils

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  • Extinct

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  • Ice Age Ohio

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    View of a mastadon skeleton known as the Conway Mastodon that is on display at the Ohio Historical Center in Columbus, Ohio. During the Ice Age, mastodons roamed the North American continent. This skeleton was found in 1887 in a swamp located between C...

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  • Radical Republicans

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    Reproduction of an engraved copper portrait of Governor John Brough. He was elected in 1864 during the Civil War and pledged to continue military support for the Union cause. Brough died in 1865 and did not complete his two year term.

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  • Eliot Ness

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    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 Fi...

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  • Arthur St. Clair

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    Governor's portrait of Arthur St. Clair (1736-1818) that hangs in the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio. St. Clair served as governor of the Northwest Territory from 1788 to 1802. He actively opposed Ohio's admittance to the United States.

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  • Bleeding Kansas

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  • Bleeding Kansas

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  • John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry

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  • John Brown

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