Description: This photograph depicts washers at a blast furnace. Washers were used to clean the flue gas of the furnace after it exited, in order to remove particulate matter and other harmful pollutants. Blast furnaces are used to smelt iron ore with coke to produce pig iron. This is the first step of steel production that occurs at mills. Air is forced into the bottom of the furnace, supporting the combustion, and giving the furnace its "blast" name. This photograph belongs to the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Audiovisual Archives, so its subject is likely located at a Youngstown company plant. A Lake Shore & Michigan railroad car is visible at the bottom of this image. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B02F21_011
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry; Blast furnaces; Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway; Railroad cars--1900-1940
 

Description: Exterior photograph of the Old Kenyon building on the campus of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, ca. 1920-1945. The college was founded by Philander Chase, the bishop of the Episcopalian diocese in Ohio, as a seminary so that the Church could grow in Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03462
Subjects: Schools--Ohio; Multicultural Ohio--Religion in Ohio; Universities and Colleges; College campuses
Places: Gambier (Ohio); Knox County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows the West Side Dock on Kelley’s Island. The West Dock was built in 1906 by the Kelleys Island Lime & Transport company and was located roughly in the middle of the west shore of the island. Sometimes called the Stone Dock, it is elevated pier made of steel and wooden trestles, with railway tracks running along the top, and designed to load crushed limestone into barges from either side. Within six years of being built, more than 500,000 tons were being shipped each year with as many as 8 steam locomotives needed to pull up to 150 full train cars. The company's island quarrying operation comprised more than 1,000 acres; especially impressive considering the whole island is only 2,888 acres. The lakeside ore dock was modified to a "pocket" structure in 1910. This greatly improved efficiency, as it allowed limestone to be stored in large bins until it could be loaded onto ships. While quarrying continues to be a major industry on the island, The Kelley Island Lime & Transport Company, founded in 1896, and which was once the largest producer of limestone and lime products in the world, closed the early 1960s. Numerous ruins of these operations and quarries now dot the island. The East Quarry closed in 1940 and is now a state park. The whole of Kelley’s Island was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F08_004_001
Subjects: Limestone--Ohio; Quarries and quarrying--Ohio; Historic sites--Ohio--Kelleys Island--Pictorial works; National Register of Historic Places
Places: Kelleys Island (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: A jumbo postcard contains a black and white profile portrait of Abraham Lincoln. On the back on the postcard reads, “Abraham Lincoln. Photograph by Mathew B. Brady, made in Washington, D.C., on February 9, 1864. Brady made many photographs of the President during this visit. Brady was our best-known photographer of the period. He had set up a studio in New York in 1842 and later established a branch in Washington. During the Civil War he was given permission to travel with armies and take pictures in the field. Lincoln was planning changes in command that were to prepare for the final stages of the war. Within a month he was to summon Ulysses S. Grant to Washington to become commander of all the Union armies. This photograph is known as the “Brady Profile.” The face on the Lincoln penny is based on this photograph. This photograph is identified as Meserve No. 82, taking its name from Frederick Hill Meserve of New York, the distinguished collector who has devoted the major portion of his life to the collecting and identification of all known Lincoln photographs.” View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV83_B01F06_021_01
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Pictorial works
 

Description: This photograph shows the Zanesville Y bridge during a flood of the Muskingum and Licking rivers in August 1935. The bridge was the fourth y-shaped bridge built at the same location. On January 4, 1902, it was opened for foot passengers. Ten days later, streetcars and wagons began to cross the bridge. In 1979, the fourth Y bridge was judged unsafe. The fifth bridge was opened on November 9, 1984. In 1812 a charter was granted to Moses Dillon and others to construct a toll bridge that spanned the confluence of the Muskingum and Licking rivers, connecting Zanesville with Natchez and West Zanesville. A walled, oak-planked bridge with a central pier where the forks of a "Y" met was opened to the public in 1814. A makeshift structure, this first bridge (1814-1818) needed constant repair and collapsed into the river in 1818. A second bridge (1819-1832) was built on the same site of stronger construction, but it was condemned thirteen years later when twelve-inch-thick ice in the river weakened the superstructure. During renovation work in 1832, a section of the bride collapsed, killing two men, one of whom was Ebenezer Buckingham, an owner of the bridge. The third Y bridge (1832-1900) stood until 1900. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1903_1984416_001
Subjects: Climate and weather; Floods; Muskingum River (Ohio); Licking River (Ohio); Bridges; National Register of Historic Places
Places: Zanesville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: Students walk across the Oval, away from University Hall, on the campus of The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1915-1930. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07738
Subjects: Ohio State University; Education; Universities and colleges
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This whisk broom has a hanging loop. The end was made from aptly named 'broomstraw'. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8893
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Tools
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph depicts workers removing a blooming mill engine so that it can be replaced. Blooming mills take ingots and form them into blooms, bar steel products with a large square or round cross-section. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B02F34_015
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry--1910-1930; Blooming mills
 

Description: Men's black beaver felt top hat, ca. 1816. Beaver felt hats were popular from the 16th century through the 19th century. Beaver fur was useful in creating a hat that retained its shape even after becoming wet. This hat is supposed to have belonged to Nathan Heacock, a Quaker from Pennsylvania. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04933
Subjects: Hats; Popular culture; Clothing and dress; Men
 

Description: This is a photograph of a map of the State of Ohio showing the "Distribution of Population by Counties. It was created by the Ohio Writers' Program of the Work Progress Administration in 1936. However, the data that is presented in the map is from the 1930 census. It shows the proportion of the Negro population as of 1930. The total population at the time was 6.6 million, with 309,000 African Americans living in the state. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F02_041
Subjects: Ohio Federal Writers' Project; Works Progress Administration; Ohio--Population--Statistics; African Americans--Ohio;
Places: Ohio
 

Description: The caption reads: "QUAKER OATS PLANT, bounded by Mill St. and Broadway in Akron. The smaller building at the extreme upper right is the office building which once housed the city government after the riot of 1900. It was razed in 1937. Many of the other buildings are still intact. The Quaker Oats Company was incorporated in 1901 when several companies merged. Later, Henry Crowell purchased the company and developed the two pound round packaging with cooking instructions on the side. The image of a Quaker man was to represent good quality and honest value. The company reportedly has no ties with the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F10_017_1
Subjects: Industries--Ohio--Akron; Quaker Oats Company; United States. Work Projects Administration (Ohio)
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: American flag hanging in the Ohio Statehouse rotunda, ca. 1940. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00242
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Architecture and Engineering
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)