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_B03F370_014.tiff
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "Draftsmen at work in City Plan Board on Traffic Survey, Dayton, Ohio." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F07_037_001
Subjects: City planning--Ohio--Dayton; Drafters
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: “Negative of – Southwest corner of Fort Steuben Jefferson County.” Named after Prussian army officer Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Fort Steuben features four monuments on each corner to commemorate Steuben’s assistance to George Washington during the Revolutionary War. The inscription for this memorial reads: “South-west Corner of Fort Steuben, erected 1786, named in honor of Major General Frederick William Augustus Baron von Steuben, who rendered distinguished service to the United States army in the War of the Revolution with General George Washington, February 7, 1778 to April 15, 1784.” View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F03_012_01
Subjects: Fort Steuben (Steubenville, Ohio); Von Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, 1730-1794
Places: Steubenville (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: Pictured is the title page of “Old Papermaking,” a book written by Dard Hunter and published in Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1923. Hunter was a notable printer and papermaker. The title page shows Hunter's bull-and-branch printer's mark. A printer’s mark is a publisher's emblem or trademark, which usually was placed on a book's title page. Hunter added a new branch to his printer's mark whenever he wrote, designed, and printed a new book. Therefore, this mark shows that "Old Papermaking" was Hunter's third book. William Joseph “Dard” Hunter (1883-1966) was born in Steubenville, Ohio, where his father, William Henry Hunter, ran a newspaper business. The elder Hunter was an advocate of hand crafts and also an amateur woodcarver. Dard (a family nickname) learned typesetting at his father's business and the mechanics of papermaking at a paper mill near his home. In 1900 the Hunter family moved to Chillicothe, Ohio, to run another newspaper, and Dard was its artist. In 1904 he moved to East Aurora, New York, to join the Roycrofters, a community of craft workers and artists that was a branch of the Arts and Crafts Movement in the United States. Hunter created designs for books, leather, glass, and metal, and also tried his hand at pottery, jewelry, and furniture. He founded a correspondence school, the Dard Hunter School of Handicrafts. In 1910 he moved to Vienna, where he took courses in lithography, book decoration, and letter design. Afterward he settled in London, where he developed a fascination for papermaking. In 1912 Hunter and his wife, Edith, moved to Marlborough, New York, where he designed and built a water-powered paper mill and designed a distinctive font that bears his same. In 1919 Hunter and his family returned to Chillicothe, where he worked and lived for the rest of this life. He founded Mountain House Press, a letterpress printing studio where he wrote and published 20 books on papermaking. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05959
Subjects: Art and Artists; Hunter, William Joseph, 1883-1966; Papermaking; Printing industry and trade--Ohio; Roycroft Shop
Places: Chillicothe (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: On September 10-14, 1888, the 22nd Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) was held in Columbus, Ohio. Composed of Civil War veterans, the G.A.R. was founded in 1866 in Illinois. Pictured is the locomotive, the "General," which was stolen on April 12, 1862 by Andrews' Raiders. There were 22 raiders, all from Ohio, who participated in this raid which was aimed at isolating Atlanta, Georgia, by disrupting the Western & Atlantic Railroad. James T. Andrews devised this raid, and he and all other participants were caught. Eight were hanged by the Confederates and nineteen received a Medal of Honor. This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F04C_005_1
Subjects: Military Ohio; Civil War; Andrews' Raiders; Grand Army of the Republic; Transportation--Ohio--History.; Locomotives
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin 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_B05F1047_008
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: Masons, put to work by the Works Progress Administration, building benches/risers. Photo taken between 1935-1943. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F04_002_006_001
Subjects: Industries--Ohio---Labor; New Deal; Masonry; Works Progress Administration; Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Photograph of "Skaters" painted by Clyde Singer in 1941. The painting is located at a post office in New Concord, Ohio in Muskingum County. Photographed by Connie Girard in 1988. The photo is from the Ohio Post Office Artwork Collection, AV 48. The collection represents thirty murals or plaster reliefs installed in twenty-five Ohio post offices between 1937 and 1943. In 1988, Connie Girard photographed the artwork. Photos were published in the article “Not By Bread Alone, Post Office Art of the New Deal.” Timeline. June-July 1989, p. 2-19 by Gerald Markowitz and Marlene Park. In 1932, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected President he promised Americans a "New Deal" and created public works programs to provide jobs for the millions of unemployed people, including artists. Ten thousand unknown and established artists were commissioned by the government to create murals, paintings, photographs, posters, prints and sculpture. The goal was not only to employ artists, but also to bring fine art into the daily lives of all people. The Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) was funded for six months in 1933 – 1934. The PWAP was succeeded by the Treasury Department’s Section of Painting and Sculpture. Organized in 1934 the Section of Painting and Sculpture operated until 1943. Under the auspices of this organization sixty-six new Ohio post offices received artwork. The majority of the post offices were located in small towns. Post offices were chosen as a location for artwork because, particularly in small towns, they were centers of community activity. Most of the painted murals or murals in plaster relief created are realistic images reflecting the history, common activities or major industries of the communities in which the post offices are located. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: av48_b2_f20_01
Subjects: Post office stations and branches--Ohio--Photographs; Public art--Ohio--Photographs; Public Works of Art Project (United States); New Deal art
Places: New Concord (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image is a formal portrait of Lorain A. Pearson (1859-1935) of the 83rd Ohio General Assembly House of Representatives (1919-1920). Pearson was born in Miami County, Ohio, and attended school in Covington, Ohio. He served two terms in Ohio General Assembly House of Representatives (1918 to 1920). He was a banker in West Milton, Ohio. Pearson died in April 1935. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07021
Subjects: Legislators--Ohio; Ohio History--State and Local Government; Politicians; Ohio General Assembly House of Representatives; Miami County (Ohio)
Places: West Milton (Ohio); Miami County (Ohio)
 

Description: Construction of blast furnace at Republic Steel in Warren, Ohio 1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0012_B04F08_008
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel Industry; Blast furnaces--Equipment and supplies; Blast furnaces--Design and construction; Steel industry and trade--Youngstown (Ohio); Blast furnaces--United States
Places: Warren (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Nina L. Brown, sister-in-law of Hallie Quinn Brown, and her daughters Frances and Lois. Hallie Q. Brown was the daughter of freed slaves Thomas and Frances Jane who were actively involved with the Underground Railroad. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Wilberforce University and later became Dean of Women at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Brown helped found the National Association of Colored Women (NACW), was elected Secretary of Education of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1900 and served as the 7th National President of the NACW. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS5_B10F05_F
Subjects: Brown, Hallie Q. (Hallie Quinn), d. 1949; African American Educators; African American women; Wilberforce University; Tuskegee Institute
Places: Tuskegee (Alabama); Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows a one-room schoolhouse class, posed with a chalkboard reading "Hill Grove School, Dec. 24, 1907." It was taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912. Like most of Ewing's work, it was likely taken in southeastern Ohio or central West Virginia. Born in 1870 in Washington County, Ohio, near Marietta, Ewing most likely began his photography career in the 1890s. The 1910 US Census and a 1912-1913 directory list him as a photographer. A negative signed "Ewing Brothers" and a picture with his younger brother, Frank, indicate that Frank may have joined the business. After 1916, directories list Albert as a salesman. He died in 1934. The Ewing Collection consists of 5,055 glass plate negatives, each individually housed and numbered. Additionally, the collection includes approximately 450 modern contact prints made from the glass plate negatives. Subjects include infants and young children, elderly people, families, school and religious groups, animals and rural scenes. In 1982, the Ohio Historical Society received the collection, still housed in the original dry plate negative boxes purchased by Albert J. Ewing. A selection of the original glass plate negatives were exhibited for the first time in 2013 at the Ohio Historical Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV71_b02_f162
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States--History; School photography
Places: Ohio; West Virginia