Description: People posing in front of a steam threshing machine and a water wagon. Based on the photograph description the machine belonged to "The Leader" line of steam machines. Leader equipment was produced by The Marion Manufacturing Company, one of the two early steam engine companies based in Marion, Ohio, in the 1880s. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's department store, and later as a travelling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). He was also an avid lifelong photographer, and the bulk of the Harry Kinley Collection is comprised of glass plate negatives documenting the Kinley family, the city of Upper Sandusky and Wyandot County and surrounding areas. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07787
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Agriculture; Ohio Economy--Science and Technology; Machinery industry--Ohio; Marion (Ohio); Farm equipment; Farming;
Places: Wyandot County (Ohio)
 

Description: Interior view of the new Ohio Malleable Iron Company foundry, Columbus, Ohio, 1916. Ohio Malleable was a subsidiary of the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus. Buckets for Jeffrey bucket elevators were made here. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01363
Subjects: Machinery industry--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio)
 

Description: This group photograph shows the female employees of the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company in Columbus, Ohio, 1915. Established in 1877 by Joseph Andrew Jeffrey to produce the first power-driven coal cutter used in America, the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company was for many years one of the largest and oldest industrial companies in Columbus. Over the years, the company diversified: while coal industry machinery remained its focus, it also supplied equipment for a wide range of industries. The Jeffrey Manufacturing Company established their main office and plant north of downtown Columbus on South 3rd Street. With success came expansion, and eventually, the factory and warehouses would encompass over 50 acres. At its height, the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company employed 4,500 workers and contributed millions of dollars to the Columbus economy. After almost 100 years of ownership by the Jeffrey family, Dresser Industries acquired the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company on May 31st, 1974. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1527AV_B11F03_01
Subjects: Jeffrey Manufacturing Company (Columbus, Ohio); Machinery industry--Ohio; Manufacturing industries--Ohio; Women -- Employment;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: A photograph of women assembling electric motors in the Small Motor Division of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company factory. Located in Lima, Ohio, the factory was built in 1935. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F07_001_1
Subjects: Assembly lines; Factories; Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company; Women--Employment; Machinery industry -- Ohio; Manufacturing processes
Places: Lima (Ohio); Allen County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph depicts a mold conveyor produced by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio, in use at the Ferro Machine and Foundry Company in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1935. The Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, also known as the Jeffrey Mining Corporate Center, was established in 1876 as the Lechner Mining Machine Company in Columbus, Ohio, by Joseph Jeffrey and Francis Lechner. The company was the number one manufacturer of coal mining machinery worldwide until the mid-twentieth century. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01562
Subjects: Machinery industry--Ohio; Coal mines and mining -- Ohio; Inventions; Coal-mining machinery; Manufacturing industries--Ohio; Inventors -- Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Labor
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio); Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Machinery made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio on exhibit at the American Mining Congress in Cleveland, Ohio, 1949. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01594
Subjects: Machinery industry--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Cleveland (Ohio)
 

Description: A woman is taking dictation from a man in the office of the Wirthlin & Mann Company in Cincinnati in this photo, which dates to December 16, 1915. Two other employees work in the background. Wirthlin & Mann was a machinery and factory supply company. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00118
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Economy--Business; Offices; Machinery industry--Ohio; Women--Employment; Employees
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Taken by photographer Louis Baus in 1930, this photograph shows a southwest view of the idle woolen mill and machine shop Zoar, Ohio. The mill was operated by the Society of Separatists of Zoar before the dissolution of their communal economic system in 1898. Led by Joseph Bimeler (sometimes spelled Bäumeler) in 1817, a group of Lutheran separatists left the area of Germany known as Wurttemberg and eventually established the small community of Zoar in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. The community of Zoar was not originally organized as a commune, but its residents had a difficult time surviving in 1818 and early 1819. As a result, on April 19, 1819, the group formed the Society of Separatists of Zoar. Each person donated his or her property to the community as a whole, and in exchange for their work, the society would provide for them. Additional modifications to the society's organization were made in 1824 and a constitution established in 1833. In the decades following the establishment of the Zoar commune, the Separatists experienced economic prosperity. The community was almost entirely self-sufficient and sold any surpluses to the outside world. In addition to agriculture, Zoar residents also worked in a number of industries, including flour mills, textiles, a tin shop, copper, wagon maker, two iron foundries, and several stores. The society also made money by contracting to build a seven-mile stretch of the Ohio and Erie Canal. The canal crossed over Zoar's property, and the society owned several canal boats. The canal traffic also brought other people into the community, who bought Zoar residents' goods. By the second half of the nineteenth century, the community was quite prosperous. After Bimeler's death in 1853, the unity of the village declined, and by 1898 the Zoarites disbanded the society. The remaining residents divided the property, and the community continued to prosper in Zoar. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00913
Subjects: Zoar (Tuscarawas County, Ohio); Society of Separatists of Zoar; Mills; Machinery industry -- Ohio; Small towns
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Illustration of an 1862 model Leffel "Double Turbine Water Wheel," from an a pamphlet produced by the J. Leffel & Co., 1870. James Leffel & Co. was founded in the early 1860s in Springfield, Ohio. They designed and manufactured hydropower equipment like the turbine seen here, which Leffel patented. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08499
Subjects: Machinery industry--Ohio; Mills and mill-work--Ohio; Manufacturing industries--Ohio
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a 1899 photograph of a double octagon revolving screen made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio. Revolving screens tumbled and separated material such as coal or crushed stone into various sizes for different uses. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01203
Subjects: Machinery industry--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio)
 

Description: Exhibit of products made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio, 1912. On the right are examples of the many types of chain made by Jeffrey. The location of this exhibit is unknown. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01312
Subjects: Machinery industry--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
 

Description: The man in the photograph is cutting a sprocket at the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, Columbus, Ohio, 1930. He is using a device to remotely control the direction of an oxygen-fed cutting torch. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01529
Subjects: Machinery industry--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio)