War Conversion

"War conversion of beverage containers, Firestone factory at Akron, Ohio, February 1942."

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Warren Gamaliel Harding

Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was the 29th President of the United States (1921–1923). A Republican from Ohio, Harding was an influential self-made newspaper publisher. Before his nomination, Warren G. Harding declared, "America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality...."

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Harriet Marshall

Harriet Gibbs Marshall was born in Victoria, British Columbia, (1868-1941). In 1869 her family moved to Oberlin, Ohio. Marshall began her study of music at the age of nine and continued the pursuit at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music where she studied piano, pipe organ, and voice culture. Graduating in 1889, she was the first African American to complete the program and earn a Mus.B. degree, which at the time was Oberlin’s equivalent of a Bachelor of Music degree.

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Vintage Photo

Chester Park was a popular amusement park near Cincinnati, Ohio. The amusement park itself closed in 1932 while the pool and skating rink were not shut down until 1941.

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