Description: Dated 1915, this photograph shows steelworkers manufacturing cotton ties at Upper Union Mills, Carnegie Steel Company. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03660
Subjects: Steel industry; Labor--Ohio; Businesses; Steel industry and trade--Ohio--Youngstown--History
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: A postal card from the Ohio State University sent through campus mail to W.D. Overman at the Ohio State Archaeological Museum dated February 1, 1936. The card reflects Donald McDowell's, NYA student worker, change in hourly rate from .30 cents to .40 cents. In June 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, signed an executive order establishing the National Youth Administration (NYA) created specifically to deal with the problem of unemployment among Depression-era youth. The NYA addressed the problem of unemployment in two parts. First, by providing grants to high school and college students in exchange for work. Second, by providing on-the-job training, for youth who were both unemployed and not in school, to obtain marketable skills by working in federally funded work projects. In addition, the NYA included young women unlike the Civilian Conservation Corps which was aimed at employing young men age 18-24. The NYA was a New Deal program that operated under the Works Progress Administration (WPA) from 1935 to 1943. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: 3078_92_23_03_01
Subjects: New Deal, 1933-1939; United States. National Youth Administration in Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is an image of a brown, wood molding plane. Marks on the molding plane are "12 73". View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H73378
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Tools and equipment; Woodworking tools
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: P. A. Vignos identification photograph from the files of the Republic Steel Corporation, Central Alloy District. The Central Alloy District consisted of two plants: one in Canton, Ohio, and one in Massillon, Ohio. Identification photographs were taken over a period of time and logged into the files as one batch on June 3, 1942. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: YHC_MSS192_B01F083_13
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Republic Steel Corporation -- Employees
Places: Ohio
 

Description: The minute book of the Gilead Anti-Slavery Society of Clermont County, Ohio contains its constitution, which was adopted on August 14, 1836 after an address by noted abolitionist Reverend John Rankin of Ripley, Ohio. Society membership roll, minutes, and library records are also included. The group resolved that "forming a society and discussing the subject of slavery are the most effective means to procure its abolition." It then started a library of books and periodicals dealing with abolition. Among the materials purchased by the society were abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison's The Liberator, a book by African American poet Phyllis Wheatly, and a collection of Rankin's letters. The minute book is twenty pages and measures 8" x 7" (20.32 x 17.8 cm). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1376_1156106_001
Subjects: Civil liberties; African American Ohioans; Slavery; Abolition; Abolitionists; Societies and clubs; Activists
Places: Clermont County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "Cinci., O., Sept. 1937 Spring Street." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F02_15_01
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio); Streets--Cincinnati (Ohio); Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: View of Cincinnati, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F01_019_01
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio)
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Back cover of the Storrs & Harrison Co. catalog, Painesville, Ohio, Spring 1910. The company was founded in 1881 by J.J. Harrison and Jesse Storrs as a nursery selling plants and seeds. In the late 1800s, they put out 5 catalogs a year through which individuals could order seeds by mail. By 1927, Storrs and Harrison was one of the largest nurseries in the country. It was sold in 1940. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05081
Subjects: Gardening; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business; Catalogs; Flowers
Places: Painesville (Ohio); Lake County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Republic Steel Corporation Collection (MSS 192) consists of 13,000 black and white photographic negatives, 2,000 color photographic negatives, and many 35 mm slides which document Republic Steel Corporation’s main production facilities and its subsidiaries, 1941-1975. This collection also includes images of social events such as company picnics, award banquets, and dances. Founded in 1899, Republic Iron and Steel Company was a steel production company based in Youngstown, Ohio, and the result of a consolidation of 34 steel mills across the United States including the Mahoning Valley’s Brown Bonnell Iron Company, Andrews Brothers and Company, and Mahoning Iron Company. From 1927-1937, Republic Iron and Steel Company expanded its reach by acquiring a number of other companies such as Trumbull Steel Company in Warren, Ohio, and Central Alloy Steel Corporation in Canton, Ohio. With its expansion, Republic Iron and Steel Company became the third largest steel producer in the United States behind United States Steel Corporation and Bethlehem Steel Company, and changed its name to Republic Steel Corporation to reflect its new status. After the outbreak of World War II in 1941, the Corporation’s production increased by 33%. This increased production continued into the 1950s and 1960s as the company continued to be one of the leading developers of steel production technology. Due to a myriad of factors including decreased demand for steel from automobile manufacturers and imported foreign steel, steel sales declined and in 1984 the Republic Steel Corporation was purchased by LTV Corporation, which led to the closure of the Youngstown plant. LTV filed for bankruptcy in December 2000. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: YHC_MSS192_B02F187_04
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Municipal Building Findlay Hanckock Co Size - to size 10" It does not appear this building is still standing. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F05_38_001
Subjects: Findlay (Ohio); Public buildings--Ohio;
Places: Findlay (Ohio); Hancock County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph most likely shows a cobblestone beach on Kelley's Island. Kelleys Island is in fact a mass of solid limestone rock, lifted about twelve feet out of the Lake Erie, and rising in some points to an elevation of 40 or 50 feet above the level of the lake. Geologically, the island consists of successive strata of Columbus limestone with as many as 60 layers which vary in thickness from 2 to 8 inches and full of marine fossils. The eastern shores of the island have mostly been worn smooth from a westbound glacier, producing gentle shores full of rocky beaches. Western facing shores are more sharp and jagged, with erosion caused from the waves of lake. Beaches covered with limestone cobbles of every size can be found mainly along the southeastern shores. Columbus limestone can be found in a north-south line from Kelleys Island in Lake Erie to south of Columbus and many quarries are, or have been, actively removing this high-calcium limestone for use in production of cement, rip-rap, driveway gravel and road base, agricultural lime, and other uses. The unit was formed in a clear, shallow, tropical sea that covered the state. Fossils of marine animals are abundant in the Columbus View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F08_049_001
Subjects: Limestone--Ohio; Erie, Geology--Ohio; Erie, Lake, Coast (Ohio); Lake Erie Islands (Ohio); National Register of Historic Places
Places: Kelleys Island (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: This broadside, created in 1859 by the Democratic Party of Ohio, was directed to defeat William H. Gibson, the Radical Republican candidate for Congress, by reminding the public of his conviction in Ohio for embezzlement of state bonds. Gibson had participated in a cover-up of a deficiency in the Ohio Treasury, left by his predecessor, John G. Breslin. He was forced to resign as Ohio State Treasurer in 1857, and returned to Tiffin to start a law office. Gibson was Brigadier General of the Union Army’s 49th Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the American Civil War, and is remembered as a powerful orator and patriotic leader for his service in the war. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04279
Subjects: Political parties; Ohio History--State and Local Government; Ohio--Politics and government--1787-1865
Places: Tiffin (Ohio); Seneca County (Ohio)