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_B05F0831B2_013
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: This is the front facade of the Columbiana County Courthouse. The structure was completed in 1871 by architect H.E. Myer, and is located on the southwest corner of the public square in Lisbon, Ohio. The Italianate style building was renovated in 1934 with funds from the Works Progress Administration. At that time the mansard roof and cornice were replaced with the present flat roof. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F01_084
Subjects: Courthouses;
Places: Lisbon (Ohio); Columbiana County (Ohio); 105 S. Market St.
 

Description: Roxie Chambers leading Buckeye Women's Republican Glee Club members in "Ohio, My Ohio," January 1952. A singer and director of the South Methodist Church choir in Columbus, Chambers also directed the Buckeye Women's Republican Glee Club. Attending all the G.O.P. national conventions between 1932 and 1954, Chambers later became Republican State Central Committeewoman. When Chambers died in 1954, her pallbearers included Chalmers Wylie, James Rhodes, and other Republican dignitaries. This photograph appeared in the February 11, 1952, issue of Life Magazine, illustrating a report of the Franklin County Republican pre-primary convention held the month before. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06311
Subjects: Political parties; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Women in the performing arts; Women--Societies and clubs--Ohio; Political culture--Ohio--History;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of a pig, piglets and chickens feeding at Youngsholm, the farm of Major Charles Young. Charles Young was the first African American to reach the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army and, at the time of his death in 1922, was the highest-ranking African American officer in the Army. He is known for having been forced into retirement due to health concerns before the start of World War I and later riding from Wilberforce, Ohio, to Washington, D.C. to prove his physical fitness for duty. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS3_B02F71_01
Subjects: Animals; Animal feeding; Farm life -- Ohio; Farming; Young, Charles, 1864-1922.
Places: Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
 

Description: 160 ton mixer-type hot metal car built for Armco Steel Corporation Ashland, Kentucky. Car was built by the William B. Pollock Company of Youngstown, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0031_B03F102_004
Subjects: Slag; Steel industry; Hot metal
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio); Ashland (Kentucky)
 

Description: celebrating Neil Armstrong coming back to his hometown Wapakoneta, Ohio after NASA mission Gemini 8. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV_203B2F1_036
Subjects: Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012; Wapakoneta (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: Ohio State Office Building construction site with the Scioto River in the background. The architect was Harry Hake and the general contractor was Struck Construction Co., both of Cincinnati, Ohio View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05469
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph depicts a flame blowing through a Bessemer converter. Bessemer converters release oxygen gas through molten iron, which reacts with carbon and and other impurities to increase the quality of the steel, as well as producing a large flame. This photograph belongs to the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Audiovisual Archives, so its subject is likely located at a Youngstown plant. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B01F09_010
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Bessemer furnace; Steel industry
 

Description: The invitation reads, “The Governor and the General Assembly of the State of Illinois extend to you a cordial invitation to join with the President of the United States in doing honor to the memory of Illinois’ martyred President at the ceremonies attending the dedication of the Remodeled Tomb of Abraham Lincoln in Springfield on Wednesday, June seventeenth (17th) Nineteen hundred thirty-one (1931) at two-thirty P.M.” View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV83_B01F11_01
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Pictorial works; Presidents--United States
Places: Springfield (Illinois)
 

Description: Two folded state-issue blankets for the use of the prisoners. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08380
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Prisons--Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This 29 page booklet contains the text of Governor James Cox’s message to the 84th General Assembly on January 3, 1921. Cox, a Democrat, was the first Ohio governor to serve three full terms; he held the position from 1913 to 1915 and again from1917 to 1921. Dedicated to progressivism, he led the legislature in enacting his proposals, which upheld progressive measures such as the direct primary, the initiative, and the referendum. In addition, Cox reformed the state administration as well as judicial and court procedures. His program also included social and humanitarian acts that improved, for example, mothers’ pensions and workers’ compensations. In his second administration, with the United States’ entrance into World War I, Cox worked to improve labor disputes and civilian morale. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Page1
Subjects: Presidents and Politics; Ohio Government; Governors
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph depicts a large piece of mechanical equipment identified as a pusher bar in a coke plant. Coke plants burn coal in order to purify it and transform it into coke; then, blast furnaces burn layers of coke and iron ore to produce pig iron, the first step of the steelmaking process. This photograph is from the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company Audiovisual Archives, so it likely depicts a Youngstown company plant. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B04F70_009
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry; Coke plants