Description: Photograph of Yvonne Walker-Taylor meeting with a group of unidentified Wilberforce University students at the Carnegie Library, which was located on the (old) campus of Wilberforce University. Yvonne Walker-Taylor would later become one of the first female African American college president in the United States when she was named the 16th president of Wilberforce University in 1984. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B06F02_N
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Wilberforce University; African American men; African American women; African American Educators
 

Description: Farmers are subject to the elements when it comes to work, as seen in this 1948 Joe Munroe photograph. Louis Bromfield and his farmhand Bob Huge wait in a barn doorway for the rain to stop on Malabar Farm in Lucas, Ohio. Bromfield was a well-known author and an advocate for subsistence farming. He was innovative in new and environmentally-sound farming techniques, and his work on Malabar Farm served as inspiration for future farmers. Joe Munroe's career began in 1939 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He served in the Air Force during World War II and then joined Cincinnati-based Farm Quarterly magazine. Though raised in Detroit, agriculture became an important subject of Joe's photographs. He moved to California in 1955 and free-lanced, taking magazine assignments and selling his own work. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P400_B27_F622_JPG160
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Bromfield, Louis, 1896-1956; Farming and rural systems economics; Farm life; Malabar Farm
Places: Lucas (Ohio); Richland County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Edwin McMasters Stanton (1814-1869) as a young man with a short beard. Born in Steubenville, Ohio, Stanton was a lawyer and politician. He was Secretary of War under President Abraham Lincoln, who appointed him to that post in 1862. Present at Lincoln's deathbed, Stanton uttered his famous declaration, "Now he belongs to the ages." Stanton remained as Secretary of War under President Andrew Johnson until 1868, when Johnson twice tried to replace him. Stanton played a leading role in Johnson's impeachment. He resigned and returned to practicing law. In 1869 President Ulysses S. Grant nominated Stanton to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the nominee died four days after his appointment was confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Stanton never took the oath of office. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05648
Subjects: Stanton, Edwin McMasters, 1814-1869; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Civil War 1861-1865
Places: Steubenville (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: Robert O'Neil, of Cuyahoga County, was electrocuted January 7, 1921, for the murder of his wife. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08114
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law
 

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_B02F240_06
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of a portrait depicting Phebe Wierman Wright (1790-1873), a Quaker who kept a station on the Underground Railroad with her husband William in Plainfield, Adams County, Pennsylvania. The image was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03209
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Pennsylvania; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights
Places: York Springs (Pennsylvania); Adams County (Pennsylvania)
 

Description: E.H. Huenefeld, the man who created the first successful oven to have a see through glass door. Huenefeld made a significant technological advancement in making his then unique glass door oven. He came up with a novel way to allow his ovens to have a glass door that would be easy to see through even in the middle of cooking, and was sure not to crack from the stress that it was put through. This oven was considered to be a huge advancement in both manufacturing and general convenience for home owners. Suddenly owners could simply look into their ovens without any need to do anything but that. In addition to the ovens, Huenefeld's successful company was also involved in producing a number of other appliances. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06693
Subjects: Glass manufacture; Manufacturing industries--Ohio
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio); 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_B04F560_003
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: Reproduction of a photograph of Civil War general Ulysses S. Grant (in the foreground on the left) at Lookout Mountain, with General Rawlings and General Webster, December 1863. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04545
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
Places: Tennessee
 

Description: A man reading a book in a parlor. This image comes from a collection of glass plate negatives of various Trumbull County and northeastern Ohio scenes, places, people and events taken by John E. Pickering and Edward D. Pickering from the 1880s to the 1910s. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08462
Subjects: Books and reading; Daily life
 

Description: Colored lithographic print titled “American Winter Scenes--Evening,” by Currier & Ives, showing couples in sleighs arriving to a party at a large home by a lake. During the mid to late nineteenth century, the Currier & Ives printing firm was a well-known producer of lithographic prints. Common subjects matter included historical events such as the Civil and Revolutionary Wars, the North American landscape, rural life in the United States and wildlife. Nathaniel Currier began his career in the printing business as an apprentice at a Boston printing firm in 1828, and opened his own printing firm in New York in 1835. James Ives joined the firm in 1852 as a bookkeeper, and was soon made a partner in 1857. They sold prints from their own New York shop and also distributed them through peddlers and country stores across the United States. Currier and Ives were both succeeded in the printing business by their sons, Edward West Currier and Chauncey Ives. Both sons eventually sold their interest in the firm, and in 1907 the last owner, Daniel W. Logan, closed the business and sold the printing equipment. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV25_2_2_001
Subjects: Art and artists; Prints and printmaking; Winter; Popular Culture; Sleds;
Places: New York (New York);
 

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_B05F0846_004
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)