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_B02F248_14
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: Bob Hope backstage at homecoming celebration. In background are Governor Rhodes, Viola Armstrong (mother) and Delores Hope. Held at Auglaize County Fairgrounds, more than 80,000 supporters greeted Armstrong upon his return to Wapakoneta, Ohio on September 6, 1969. Bob Hope served as marshal for the event, and guests included "Tonight Show" sidekick Ed McMahon, Governor Rhodes, and Dr. Albert Sabin, inventor of the polio vaccine. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV_203B2F6_068
Subjects: Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012; Wapakoneta (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Rock house on CCC Highway, Montgomery Co., near Dayton, Ohio." As seen from the photograph this house sat on US Route 22 or OH State Route 3. From Cincinnati to Washington Court House, US 22 and State Route 3 follow the 3C Highway which connected Cincinnati, Columbus, and Cleveland. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F09_021_001
Subjects: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio); Architecture
Places: Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: The photograph shows the ice jam above the Lockington Dam. This is a view from upstream, illustrating that the dam holds back ice and protects Dayton further downstream. Lockington Dam is an earthen embankment located across the Loramie Creek in southern Shelby County near the Village of Lockington. The road across the top of the dam is a maintenance road closed to the public. Construction of the dam began in February of 1918 and was completed in October of 1921. It is currently operated by the Miami Conservancy District. The MCD was born as a direct result of the 1913 flood. The Flood of 1913 is known as the greatest natural disaster in Ohio history. Soon after the flood, residents raised enough money to hire a young engineer to develop a regional flood protection system that has protected the region since 1922. While maintaining the commitment to its core mission of flood protection, over the years MCD has been at the forefront of emerging water issues, growing as needed to meet the region’s water needs. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F06_014_001
Subjects: Flood control; Dams--1910-1920; Dams--History; Dams--Ohio--Dayton Region--History--20th century--Pictorial works
Places: Lockington (Ohio); Shelby County (Ohio); Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photographic postcard depicting fallen power lines, damaged after a storm that struck Cleveland and northeastern Ohio in November 1913. The heavy snowfall was part of an early winter storm that was called the "Great Lakes Hurricane," "the Ultimate Storm" and "the Big Blow." 18 to 25 inches of snow fell in two days across northeastern Ohio, covering telephone, telegraph and electrical wires. In the photograph, the visible street sign reads "Stevenson Rd NE" and appears to be in Cleveland, most likely at the intersection of that street with St. Clair Avenue. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03881
Subjects: Natural disasters--United States; Blizzards; Winter; Snow
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio); Northeastern Ohio
 

Description: Portrait of Josephine Klippart and her mother, Mrs. Emeline Rahn Klippart, ca. 1870. Josephine, a painter and illustrator from Columbus, Ohio, specialized in the scientific illustration of Ohio's fishes and birds. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00769
Subjects: Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women
Places: Franklin County (Ohio);
 

Description: George H. Kocher 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_B01F068_17
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Republic Steel Corporation -- Employees
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Sign at top of machine reads: "'The Super Kleen' Bottle Washer built for Coca Cola Bottling Co. Cincinnati, Ohio. by The Liquid Carbonic Corporation." "The Super Kleen" bottle washer was put out by Loew Manufacturing Company, of Cleveland, Ohio, and was an improvement and merging of two previous types of washers (dormant and pressure). Mr. Charles Leow gives the following excellent description of this machine. The operation of the "Superkleen" is as follows: The operator at the feed end of the "Superkleen" takes the bottles out of the delivery cases, which are supplied to him on a rolling gravity conveyor, and places them onto a feeding table. This table moves intermittently upward and the row of bottles slided out into the steel pockets. They are then carried up into the machine and as they enter it each bottles receives a washing inside and outside with reclaimed warm water. This reclaimed water has then performed its function and is run into sewer. They then pass through and are treated with several solutions of various degrees of strength and temperature. This travel requires twenty minutes, in which time all the dirt, grease, etc., is thoroughly dissolved and soaked up, to be then easily removed by the water brush of the "Superkleen" This water brush consists of five rows of spindles which travel up into the bottles and which partially lift them out of the steel pockets. When the spindles are traveling up through the bottles and down again, they receive a fan-like treatment under high pressure from the reclaimed water supplied by rinsing spindles. This pressure fan-like water treatment acts like a brush, inasmuch as it sweeps the entire bottle ten times from the lip of the bottle to the bottom, thus removing any remnant of dirt or impurity which has already been throughly loosened by the former intensive solution treatments. After the bottles have passed through these ten water brush treatments they receive three fresh water injections from three rows of spindles. These spindles also lift the bottle partially out of the steel pockets and back into same so that in actual operation each bottle receives six of these fresh water treatments - three up and three down. When the water brush and rinsing spindles thus left the bottles out of the pocket, they by means of a rounded tip on the spindles begin automatically to revolve, so that the water brush acts on the entire surface of the interior of the bottle sweeping any impurities still clinging to the walls thereof resistlessly before it down and out of the mouth of the bottles. The bottles then travel through the automatic sterilzing compartment. In this compartment each bottle receives an injection of distilled water, making the bottles absolutely sterile when they are delivered on the conveyor to the filling machine. The distilled water is furnished by the steam which heats up the bottles and which runs through a cooling coil, which is kept cold by the rinsing or reclaimed water. After all these intensive treatments, the bottles, no matter how dirty they have entered the "Superkleen" are delivered absolutely clean, sterile and sparkling, at the temperature of the cooling city water which is used on the outside for the cooling of the bottles. Through their entire travel from the end of the solution compartment to the discharge, the bottles are cooled with water of progressively decreasing temperatures in such a manner that there can be no breakage. All the water used by the city water rinsing spindles, as well as that for the outside cooling, is re-used in the water brush, and for the preliminary washing of the bottles before they enter the soaking compartments proper. In this manner not only all the water is used several times over, but the steam as well, which carries out the regenerative system of pre-heating and cooling to the highest degree of efficiency. This machine is most substantially built, is sturdy, neat and attractive in appearance. The "Superkleen" is built in sizes ranging from 24 to 180 bottles per minute and is guaranteed for a term of five years. Coca-Cola was concerned that straight sided bottles would be confused with imitators so they and bottlers asked glass manufacturers to create a design for a distinctive bottle. The Root Glass Company of Terra Haute, Indiana won the approval and the bottle was introduced in 1916. The contour bottle became one of the few packages ever granted trademark status by the US Patent Office View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F10_013_1
Subjects: Coca-Cola Bottling Company United (U.S.); Bottling machinery; Liquid Carbonic Industries Corporation
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton 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_B04F759_003
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: Downtown area of Marysville, Union County, Ohio, ca. 1886-1888 View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00435
Subjects: Horse-drawn vehicles; Streets--Ohio; Stores and shops; Small business--Ohio;
Places: Marysville (Ohio); Union County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows a large number of sailboats in a harbor in Lake Erie and others at dock. This photograph was probably taken around the Sandusky Bay or Lake Erie Islands area, though more information is needed to be certain. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F09_002_1
Subjects: Lake Erie; Erie, Lake, Coast (Ohio); Boats and boating--Erie, Lake
Places: Ohio
 

Description: National colors of the 27th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. This flag is largely integrated and has no visible markings. It has not been cataloged in this collection. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01916
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Places: Ohio