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--Ohio; 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
 

Description: Two laborers using a portable bag stacker built by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, Columbus, Ohio at the Hershey Chocolate Company, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 1934. Bag stackers were used by manufacturers to reduce the labor cost of stacking bags and boxes. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01540
Subjects: Conveying machinery; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Hershey (Pennsylvania)
 

Description: This black and white photograph taken June 20, 1937 shows three picketers manning their position on a log barrier at Republic Steel's Hot Metal gate on South Main St. in Warren, Ohio. The picture was taken during the course of the violent and deadly 'Little Steel' strike of 1937 in Youngstown, Niles and Warren, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0017_F01_025
Subjects: Steel strike, 1937; Steel Workers Organizing Committee (U.S.); Steel industry; Republic Steel Corporation; Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Campbell (Ohio); Warren (Ohio); Niles (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Improvement of E. Main St. from Detroit St. to E. Corporation line, Removing car tracks and repairing. Greene County, Xenia, O, Oct. 13, 1936. 4x5 Neg., 2 - 8x10 sent to Columbus, 6 8x10 to Mr. Jackson, Nov. 5, 1936. State 14-29-1304, WPA 6390." Xenia is a city in Greene County, Ohio. As of the 2009 census, the city had a population of 27,437. The name comes from the Greek word Xenia which means "hospitality". View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F02_003_001
Subjects: Roads--Design and construction
Places: Xenia (Ohio); Greene 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_B05F0871_005
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: This coal chute, made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, Columbus, Ohio, was owned by the Vandalia Coal Company, Vandalia, Illinois, 1906. The chutes shown in the photograph each dispensed coal of a different size depending on the way the coal was to be burned. Jeffrey crushers were used to produce different sizes of coal. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01248
Subjects: Conveying machinery; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Vandalia (Illinois)
 

Description: Caption reads: "View of the facade to Withrow High School, Cincinnati." Withrow High School (formerly East Side High School) is a public high school at 2520 Madison Avenue on the east side of Cincinnati, Ohio. It is part of the Cincinnati Public Schools. The school opened in 1919 and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 with other historic buildings in Ohio. Frederick W. Garber's firm was involved in the school's design known for its arching entry bridge, 114 foot clock tower, plantings and trees, 27 acre campus, and large sports complex. Garber also designed Walnut Hills High School, Rothenberg School and Westwood Elementary (formerly Westwood School). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F14_013_1
Subjects: Garber, Frederick; Cincinnati (Ohio). Withrow High School; Withrow High School; Cincinnati (Ohio). Public Schools; Cincinnati Public Schools; Public schools--Ohio--Cincinnati
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Painting of regimental colors of the 174th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02592
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865