Description: Home Economics Extension School, ca. 1910-1919. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00634
Subjects: Women--Education - Ohio; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Stock room, Crowell Publishing Co., Springfield, Ohio." This is a photograph of the interior stock room at Crowell Publishing Company in Springfield, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F05_020_001
Subjects: Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project; Industries--Ohio--Springfield; Publishers and publishing--Ohio--History; Crowell Publishing Company; P.F. Collier & Son Company; Crowell-Collier Publishing Company. P.F. Collier & Son Corporation; Crowell-Collier Publishing Company; Crowell-C
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated October 6, 1936, this photograph shows students inside Antioch Hall at Antioch College, with a caption which reads "Inside of Main B[ui]ld[in]g. (erected in 1852-53). The girl at the switchboard is a student who is working her cooperative job. Antioch students have cooperative jobs in twenty different states." Antioch College was founded in 1852 as the first nonsectarian, co-educational institution in the nation to offer the same educational opportunities to both men and women. It was also among the first to offer equal educational opportunities to African Americans. This photograph 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_B05F02_012_1
Subjects: Education; Universities and colleges; Antioch College; College campuses; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Yellow Springs (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_B02F246_03
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1933-1939, this photograph shows two trucks on a construction site managed by Civilian Conservation Corps (C.C.C.) workers from Camp Stony Creek, a Civilian Conservation Corps camp in Chillicothe in Ross County, Ohio. The land on which Camp Stony Creek was built was purchased in 1922. It is now Scioto Trail State Park. 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_B12F11_011_001
Subjects: Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); Federal Writers' Project; New Deal; Construction; Trucks
Places: Chillicothe (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: This automobile assembly line used chain made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, Columbus, Ohio. This photograph depicts an automobile assembly plant owned by the Chevrolet Motor Car Company, Buffalo, New York, 1928. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01507
Subjects: Automobiles; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Buffalo (New York)
 

Description: Photograph of Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker and Bishop Reverdy C. Ransom with unidentified others after commencement at Wilberforce University. Walker was the 66th Bishop of the the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the 10th President of Wilberforce University. Ransom was the 28th Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. A graduate of Wilberforce University, he also served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Wilberforce University and was a delegate to the World Methodist Conference in Massachusetts in 1947. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B05F07_Q_1
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Wilberforce University; African American men; African American Educators; Religion in Ohio
Places: Wilberforce (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_B04F612_006
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Preble County Fairgrounds at Eaton,Ohio #1 & #2 Horse Barns July 13,1936" These barns were at the Preble County Fairgrounds. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F01_031_001
Subjects: County fairs; Horses; Barns
Places: Eaton (Ohio); Preble County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of the Ohio State University football stadium and its reflection in the Olentangy River, in Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1935-1943. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02825
Subjects: Stadiums; Ohio State University Football History;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Ohio Stadium was built in 1922 and was designed by Howard Dwight Smith. The total cost of construction was around $1.3 million. Ohio State played Ohio Wesleyan in the very first game in Ohio Stadium, which took place October 7, 1922. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F04D_015_1
Subjects: Sports; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Education; Universities and colleges; Stadiums; Football; National Register of Historic Places
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Letter confirming the sale of an enslaved man called Matthew for five hundred one dollars and seventy five cents ($501.75) to a man named John Anderson on November 12, 1822. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_VFM31_B03F10_001
Subjects: African American men; Slavery