Description: Regimental colors of the 331st Infantry Regiment, 83rd Infantry Division. Rectangular flag measures 131 cm high by 166 cm wide. Text on flag reads: 331st U.S. Infantry. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02277
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; World War, 1914-1918
 

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_B05F0862_001
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: This art deco style illustration for “Canton” was used in The Ohio Guide. It depicts the McKinley Monument. This illustration is a photographic reproduction of a drawing. It is one of a series produced as possible chapter headings for The Ohio Guide. A signature of the artist “A. Koerbling” can also be seen. From 1935 to 1942, the Works Progress Administration (WPA), through its Federal Writers' Project created The American Guide Series, which included forty-eight state guides, as well as supplemental guides for large cities, etc. The state guides are divided into three sections. In the first section are general essays about the state on things such as agriculture, culture, history, industry, religion, etc. The second section contains an overview of the various cities and towns around the state, as well as enumerating various points of interest. The last section is dedicated to various tours around the state. The tourist is taken from city to city, with turn by turn directions, and descriptions of what can be seen along the way. While much of the country has grown and changed since the guides were written, it is surprising how much remains, and sometimes more surprising what has been lost. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F16_064
Subjects: Books Chapter-headings; United States. Works Progress Administration of Ohio; Federal Writers' Project. Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Places: Canton (Ohio); Stark County (Ohio)
 

Description: Display of the National Colors of the 17th Ohio Veteran's Volunteer Infantry with Civil War-era weapons, ca. 1870 to 1890. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03581
Subjects: Flags; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Civil War
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: A postcard from the “Comique Series” sent from “Kikik” Young to her little cousins Nibbs, Mary and Samy. Kikik’s father, Colonel Charles Young was the first African American to reach the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army. In 1918, after being forced into retirement, due to health concerns, he rode on horseback from Wilberforce, Ohio to Washington D.C. to prove his physical fitness for duty. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Page1
Subjects: African American soldiers; African American men; African American women; Horses; Young, Charles, 1864-1922.
 

Description: Photograph of the ladies' latrine at Fort Ancient, Project No. 24 - B. Two brick public latrines veneered with chestnut oak were constructed. Project started August 15, 1934 and completed January 15, 1935. Fort Ancient features 18,000 feet of earthen walls built 2,000 years ago by American Indians who used the shoulder blades of deer, split elk antler, clam shell hoes and digging sticks to dig the dirt. They then carried the soil in baskets holding 35 to 40 pounds. Portions of the walls were used in conjunction with the sun and moon to provide a calendar system for the peoples. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: 3076_89_23_apr35_07
Subjects: Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); New Deal, 1933-1939; Fort Ancient State Memorial (Ohio); Outhouses
Places: Fort Ancient (Ohio); Warren County (Ohio)
 

Description: Ladles made at William B. Pollock Company seen here being loaded onto a barge for transport. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0031_B03F78_002
Subjects: Ladles, Foundry; Ladle; Steel industry
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Warren - Trumbull Co. Republic Steel Corp. Distric 6 files." Republic Steel Corporation was founded in 1899 in Youngstown, Ohio. The firm was originally known as Republic Iron and Steel Company. For the company's first three decades of existence, it prospered, as Ohio was one of the leading industrialist states of the period. In 1927, Cyrus Eaton purchased a majority of the stock in the Republic Steel Company. At the same time, Eaton also purchased stock in other companies. He hoped to unite these companies together to compete with the U.S. Steel Company—the largest steel manufacturer in the United States. Under Eaton's leadership, the Republic Steel Company expanded its manufacturing holdings to include plants in Massillon, Elyria, Canton, Cleveland, and Warren, Ohio. Thanks to Eaton's efforts, the Republic Steel Company emerged as the third largest steel producer in the United States. The Republic Steel Company, like many other businesses, faced an economic downturn during the Great Depression. The firm, unlikely many others, remained in operation and actually expanded its holdings by purchasing smaller steel companies as they went bankrupt. Tom Girdler now headed the company, and under his leadership, the firm's corporate headquarters moved to Cleveland. During the 1930s, the Republic Steel Company, as well as many other steel mills, faced tensions as its steel workers, wanting to unionize, started a strike over low wages and poor working conditions. While Republic Steel proved successful in the “Little Steel Strike of 1937,” with the outbreak of World War II, the firm quickly permitted unions in its mills so that the firm could acquire lucrative government contracts. The company prospered throughout the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, but competition from foreign steel, higher wages, and new environmental codes began to hurt the firm. The situation continued to worsen for the Republic Steel Company during the 1980s, and in 1984, the company merged with Jones and Laughlin to create LTV Steel. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F03_007_001
Subjects: Industries--Ohio; Steel-works--Ohio--Pictorial works; Republic Steel Corporation; Republic Iron & Steel Company
Places: Warren (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio)
 

Description: Group portrait of Socialist Party members gathered for the Socialist Convention and Eugene V. Debs Picnic held in Canton, Ohio, on June 16, 1918. On this visit to Canton in conjunction with the state's Socialist Party convention, in the midst of World War I, Debs gave a speech in the city's Nimisila Park criticizing the war and its capitalist aims. He described how wealthy American businessmen were profiting from the war while the working class suffered, and encouraged listeners to resist the military draft. Two weeks after his impassioned speech, the U.S. government charged him with violating the Espionage Act, which prohibited Americans from interfering with military service or otherwise obstructing the United States' war effort. Debs was found guilty and sentenced to ten years in prison, although President Warren G. Harding commuted his sentence on December 25, 1921. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Debs was a leading advocate for socialism in the United States of America, and ran as the party's candidate for president in five elections. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05167
Subjects: Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926; Socialist Party of the United States of America--History; Socialism; Political culture--Ohio--History;
Places: Canton (Ohio); Stark County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads "Portion of sidewalk being built in Urbana." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F09_001_1
Subjects: Urbana (Ohio); Cities and towns; Construction
Places: Urbana (Ohio); Champaign County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Choral group, photographed at Lytle Park, Cincinnati, Ohio - 1936" The photograph shows a six women and eight men singing on the steps of the bandstand in Lytle Park, with a women directing the group. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F11_026_1
Subjects: Parks--Ohio--Cincinnati; Choirs (Music)
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph depicts a type of checkered brick used for the interior lining of a blast furnace. The brick lining is refractory, meaning it can withstand incredibly high temperatures. 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. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B02F26_010
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry; Blast furnaces--Linings; Brickwork