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Title
John
and
Jane
Rankin
photograph
Subject
African American Ohioans
Civil Liberties
Underground Railroad
Religion in Ohio
Rankin House
National Register of Historic Places
Time Period
1870s
Place
Ripley (Ohio)
Brown County (Ohio)
Description
This
photograph
of
John
Rankin
and his
wife
Jane
(identified
in
some
later
records
as
Jean)
Lowry
Rankin
was
taken
on the
occasion
of their
fiftieth
wedding
anniversary
.
It
measures
4
by
5.25
inches
(10
by
14
cm)
.
John
Rankin
(1793-1886)
was a
Presbyterian
minister
and
educator
who
devoted
much
of his
life
to the
antislavery
movement
. His
house
in
Ripley
,
Ohio
, was a
stop
on the
Underground
Railroad
.
It
is
situated
at the
top
of a
hill
overlooking
the
Ohio
River
.
Escaping
slaves
climbed
the
100-step
"
Freedom
Stairway
" from the
river
to
reach
the
house
. The
house
has
several
secret
rooms
in
which
slaves
were
hidden
. A
light
was
placed
in the
window
of the
house
to
indicate
that
it
was
safe
for
slaves
to
approach
. The
John
Rankin
House
is
now
a
museum
,
part
of the
Ohio
Historical
Society's
state-wide
network
of
historic
sites
.
Rankin
is
credited
with
helping
two
thousand
slaves
escape
to
freedom
. The
character
of
Eliza
in
Harriet
Beecher
Stowe's
Uncle
Tom's
Cabin
was
reportedly
inspired
by a
story
of a
woman
who
crossed
the
partially-frozen
Ohio
River
with a
baby
in her
arms
,
making
it
safely
to
Rankin's
house
. The
building
is
listed
on the
National
Register
of
Historic
Places
.
Date of Original
1872
Collection
Rankin-DeGraf-Doak
Families
Small
Picture
Collection
http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/database/histpres.html
(for
more
information
about
the
National
Register)
Source
Audiovisual
material
;
SC
3799
Format
picture
Submitting Institution
Ohio Historical Society
Rights
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to
http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type
StillImage
File Name
Om1277_781136_122.tif
Image Height
1821
Image Width
1271
File Size
261.537 KB
Date created
2009-01-09
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