Description: Mixer-type hot metal car built for US Steel Homestead Works by the William B. Pollock Company of Youngstown, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0031_B03F102_001
Subjects: Slag; Steel industry; Hot metal
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio); Homestead (Pennsylvania)
 

Description: This photograph depicts a flame blowing through a Bessemer converter. It was taken outdoors, during the day. The photograph is stamped "Proof" 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_007
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Bessemer furnace; Steel industry
 

Description: This photograph is an interior view of a blooming mill plant. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B02F32_023
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry; Blooming mills
 

Description: Schertzer identification photograph from the files of the Republic Steel Corporation, Central Alloy District. The Central Alloy District consisted of two plants: one in Canton, Ohio, and one in Massillon, Ohio. Identification photographs were taken over a period of time and logged into the files as one batch on June 3, 1942. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: YHC_MSS192_B01F082_05
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Republic Steel Corporation -- Employees
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Illustration by G. E. Parine commemorating the attack on Fort Sumter by Confederate troops on April 12th, 1861. ALTERNATE TEXT: A scene framed within stained and yellowed paper. The image is of Fort Sumter, which is surrounded by water at the front of the scene. The sky is dark and filled with smoke and fire from the attack. Artillery rains in from above the fort, both making contact with the fort and with the surrounding water. The fort itself is also shooting from cannons in the upper windows. The roof of the fort is in ruins due to the attack, with rubble laying around. There is a large American flag flying from the roof the fort despite the chaos of the scene. There is one barrel seen in the water, with artillery landing around it as well. In the distance to the left of the fort, there is a town visible with white buildings. To the right looks to be another fort in the distance, complete with an American flag as well. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_SC09
Subjects: African American soldiers; Confederate States of America; United States of America; Civil War 1861-1865
Places: Charleston (South Carolina)
 

Description: This cup is made of tin by hand and has a handle. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H9384
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Cups
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This round document tube was made from tin. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H9400
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Rev. John Rankin was an Underground Railroad operator in Ripley, Brown County, Ohio. His home, shown in this photograph, sat on top of a hill across the Ohio River from slave territory. It was used to harbor fugitive slaves fleeing to freedom in Canada. The image was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03190
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Ohio; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights
Places: Ripley (Ohio); Brown County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of the furniture department at The F. & R. Lazarus Company, February 28, 1957. Between 1851 and 1965, the F & R Lazarus Company retail store dominated the trade and physical landscape of Columbus. The company rose from its early years as a men's clothier in a 20 x 40 foot room downtown, to its position by 1965 as a member of the largest department store chain, Federated Department Stores. Lazarus' growth reflects that of the capital city; from small beginnings through a "golden age" of downtown development, and eventually branching out into the surrounding countryside. In 2003, the Lazarus Company was incorporated with Macy's, a member of the Federated Department stores, and is no longer in existence. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04428
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio); Lazarus Department Store; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a portrait of William Leon Dawson (1873-1928), from "The Condor," (March/April 1913). Dawson was born in Iowa but lived in Ohio for part of his childhood, going on to attend Oberlin College and later Oberlin Theological Seminary. He was a famous American ornithologist and was well-known for his 1903 work "Birds of Ohio." The portrait seen here appears in "The Condor," an international journal on ornithology that has been in publication since 1899. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02780
Subjects: Ornithologists; Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; Scientists
 

Description: This photograph from the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus is of 58-year-old Anthony Treat of Hamilton County. His formal attire suggests that the photograph was taken during his trial or sentencing. Treat confessed to murdering 10-year-old Helen Sellers on Christmas Day in Cincinnati, Ohio. The caption at the bottom reads: "No. 236, Anthony Treat of Hamilton County, Legally Electrocuted June 30th, 1943, for the Murder of Helen Sellers." In 1885 the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio, became the location for all executions, which previously took place in the various county seats. In 1896 the Ohio General Assembly mandated that electrocution replace hanging as the form of capital punishment. The Ohio Penitentiary regularly offered tours as well as souvenir photographs and postcards of the building and prisoners on death row. A total of 315 prisoners, both men and women, were executed in the electric chair known as “Old Sparky” between 1897 and 1963. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08290
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Capital punishment--Ohio--History; Death row; Electrocution; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections; Ohio Penitentiary (Columbus, Ohio); Prisons--Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Theodore Burton was born in Jefferson, Ohio, in 1851. He went on to have an active career in politics as a member of the Republican Party. He served as a US senator from 1909 to 1915; and in the House of Representatives from 1921 until the end of 1928. When he died in 1929, he was serving in the US Senate as the appointed replacement for Frank B. Willis. Burton was born in Jefferson, Ashtabula County, Ohio on December 20, 1851. He died on October 28, 1929 in Washington, D. C. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07063
Subjects: United States. Congress. Senate; Republican Party; Ashtabula County (Ohio)