Description: The steamer Clifford F. Hood of the American Steel & Wire Company, a subsidiary of U. S. Steel, at the Central Furnaces and Docks in Cleveland, Ohio, ca. 1920-1935. Wilbur Stout, former chemist at the Columbus Iron and Steel Company and Ohio's state geologist, researched and collected photographs of blast furnaces in Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00820
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph depicts the construction of Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company's Campbell works blast furnace "D". View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B01F16_018
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. Campbell works; Blast furnaces--Design and construction; Steel industry
Places: Campbell (Ohio); Mahoning Country (Ohio)
 

Description: Flank Marker of the 196th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. A flank marker is a small flag carried at each end of a regiment line. To qualify as a flank marker, it must be carried on a long pole. This flag was not cataloged in this collection. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02165
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Open hearth precipitator control room at US Steel Ohio Works Youngstown, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0009_B07F01_015
Subjects: Open-hearth furnaces; United States Steel Corporation; Ohio Works; Steel Industry
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: Illustration of women and children washing in a camp from "The Black Phalanx: A History of the Negro Soldiers of the United States in the Wars of 1775-1812, 1861-'65" by Joseph T. Wilson. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: blackphalanx_27
Subjects: African American women; African American children; Civil War 1861-1865
 

Description: Caption reads: "Greene County - Wilberforce University, Oct. 20, 1936. Old power house to be demolished. Project not yet approved. Near Xenia, Ohio." Wilberforce University is located on US 42, three miles from Xenia, Ohio on land that at one time occupied the Tawawa Springs summer resort. In 1856, the Methodist Episcopal Church established Wilberforce University near Xenia, Ohio, to provide African American access to a college education. The university was the first private black college in the United States. Its founders named the institution after William Wilberforce, a prominent eighteenth-century abolitionist. A number of African-American Ohioans attended the school during its early years. During the American Civil War, attendance declined as many students enlisted in the Union army. Wilberforce University closed in 1862. In 1863, the African Methodist Episcopal Church acquired ownership of the university. Under the direction of Daniel Payne, a bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, John Mitchell, the principal of a school in Cincinnati, and James Shorter, an African Methodist Episcopal pastor from Zanesville, Ohio, Wilberforce reopened its doors. The institution operated as a private university serving the African-American community for the next twenty-four years. In 1887, the State of Ohio began to provide Wilberforce with funds to help finance the institution, brought to an end the university's exclusively private status. The state also helped the university create a Normal and Industrial Department that eventually evolved into Central State University. Wilberforce University has experienced steady growth throughout the twentieth century. During the last decades of the twentieth century, the institution built a new residence hall, a student health center, a recreation and sports facility, and an administrative center. The university offers more than twenty degree programs and has exchange programs with universities around the world. In 2003, enrollment was more than 1,200 students. Arson fire damaged some of the buildings in 1865 and tornado in destroyed much of the campus 1974. Below is a partial list of buildings that have been or are on campus: Galloway Hall - Built in 1905, as an impressive administration building and auditorium. It was destroyed by a tornado in 1974 and was rebuilt as part of the Central State University campus. The new building name is Galloway Alumni Tower. Bundy Hall (recitation building) – built 1917 Arnett Hall (girls dormitory and classrooms) - built 1901 Kenzia Emery Hall (girls dormitory) - built 1913 Shorter Hall (boys dormitory, classrooms and administration) – built 1867 (fire caused remodeling 1922) – survived 1974 tornado - demolished 1999 Carnegie Library - built 1907 (1909?) – survived 1974 tornado - National Register of Historic Places 2004 J.G. Mitchell Hall (boys dormitory and classrooms) - built 1891 S.T. Mitchell Hall (girls dormitory – Model home for senior girls) - built 1912 - Samuel T. Mitchell, President 1884-1900. Mitchell Hall, which once stood where Central State University's Hallie Q. Brown Library and Education Building stands today, was named for President Mitchell. O’Neill Hall (boys dormitory and classrooms – first of the state funded buildings) - built 1890 Model School - built 1889 Howell’s Hall - built 1900 Light, Heat and Power Plant – built 1904 Poindexter Hall (built for the printing and drawing departments) - built 1904 Mechanic Arts (built to house carpentry, blacksmithing and machine shops) – built 1914 Tawawa Hospital – built 1916 Beacom Gymnasium – built 1918 Charles Leander Hill Gymnasium – built 1958 - survived 1974 tornado Margaret Ireland Hall (girls dormitory) – built 1963 – destroyed 1974 Central State University In 1887, the Ohio General Assembly established a separate institution to be housed on the Wilberforce campus known as the Combined Normal and Industrial Department. The state-supported school was to focus on training blacks for work in industrial trades and as school teachers. Although the Combined Normal and Industrial Department imposed no restrictions on the race or sex of its students, it was understood that the Department was intended primarily to serve Ohio's African American community. For six decades the Department was administered as part of Wilberforce University. It was set apart, however, by having its own board of trustees which was responsible for administering the state funding of its activities. In 1941, the Department became the College of Education and established a four year program. In 1947 it was declared legally separate from Wilberforce. Although still sharing its campus with Wilberforce, the institution was now the College of Education and Industrial Arts at Wilberforce. In 1951 the Ohio State Legislature added a liberal arts program and renamed the institution Central State College. Former Wilberforce president Charles H. Wesley served as the first president of Central State from 1947 until 1965. Central State became a university in 1965. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F02_021_1
Subjects: Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Education; Universities and colleges; Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio; Central State University (Wilberforce, Ohio); Power-plants United States
Places: Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Rock Bridge built in 1936 in Eden Park Cincinnati. Ohio" Located between Gilbert Avenue and Columbia Parkway (U.S.) and comprised of about 185 acres in the Mount Adams community of Cincinnati, Ohio, Eden Park was assembled by a series of purchases beginning in 1859. The name came, naturally, from the Garden of Eden and was given by Nicholas Longworth who owned a large tract which constitutes the main portion of the park. Eden Park is the home of the Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati Art Academy, the Navigation Monument, the Capitoline Wolf Statue, and the Irwin M. Krohn (Eden Park) Conservatory. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F06_011_001
Subjects: Parks--Ohio--Cincinnati; Parks--Cincinnati (Ohio)
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Workers at the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company building a spiral conveyor, Columbus, Ohio, 1953. The conveyor was built for the Western States Machine Company. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01597
Subjects: Conveying machinery; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph depicts a crane lifting coils of some material, likely in a steel mill's yard. This photograph belongs to the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Audiovisual Archives, so it likely depicts a Youngstown company plant. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B05F85_007
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry; Steel workers
 

Description: This photograph depicts conduit installed at the Sibley, Lindsay, & Curr Company Building in Rochester, New York. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B05F78_013
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry; Sibley, Lindsay and Curr Company; New York
Places: Rochester (New York)
 

Description: Dated to the winter of 1937, this photograph shows part of Camp Rosen, a Civilian Conservation Corps Camp (C.C.C.) in Warren County, Ohio. There is a log cabin visible through the trees and a stream in the foreground. The Civilian Conservation Corps was a work relief program established as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal that employed young men, ages 18-25 and later expanded to ages 17-28, with jobs in the natural resources field. This 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_B14F07_045_001
Subjects: Camps; Log cabins; Rivers; Winter; Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); Federal Writers' Project
Places: Warren County (Ohio)
 

Description: National colors of the 329th Infantry Regiment, 83rd Infantry Division. Rectangular flag measures 130 cm high by 174 cm wide. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02269
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; World War, 1914-1918