Description: This handmade two-wheeled cart used for sharpening knives and scissors was made in Chicago, Illinois, around 1910. The wooden frame is painted green and sits on two red wheels. Two handles at one end have a striped cloth seat between them. The top of the machine has several grinding stones on a metal rod. Wrapped around the rod is a belt attached to a large wheel in the center of the cart, which is operated by several foot pedals at the base. The cart was originally owned by Vincenzo Fabrizio, an Italian immigrant in Chicago. Fabrizio arranged for his nephew, Florindo DiPinto, to immigrate to the United States in 1913 when DiPinto was 17 years old. DiPinto learned the sharpening and grinding craft from his uncle on this cart. With this grinding cart, DiPinto sharpened such things as razors, knives, scissors, swords, saws, hedge trimmers and lawnmower blades. After a year, DiPinto purchased this cart from his uncle. In 1917, DiPinto moved to Youngstown from Chicago with this sharpening machine and pursued his trade there. In 1927, DiPinto moved to Cleveland with this machine and stayed active with it until his retirement in 1961. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H43618_01
Subjects: Multicultural Ohio--Ethnic Communities; Immigrants--Ohio; Tools; Immigration and Ethnic Heritage;
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio); Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: View of blast furnace stoves at the American Steel and Wire Company Cleveland, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0031_B12F126_003
Subjects: Blast furnaces--Equipment and supplies; Blast furnaces--Design and construction; Steel industry and trade--Youngstown (Ohio); Blast furnaces--United States; Blast Furnace--Ohio
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio); Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Cuyahoga Co., Republic Steel Corp." This photograph shows an exterior view of one of the Republic Steel Corporation buildings. 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_B08F02_009_001
Subjects: Industries--Ohio; Steel-works--Ohio--Pictorial works; Republic Steel Corporation; Republic Iron & Steel Company
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Cleveland (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: View of a blast furnace in Cleveland, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0012_B04F02_001
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel Industry; Blast furnaces--Equipment and supplies; Blast furnaces--Design and construction; Steel industry and trade--Youngstown (Ohio); Blast furnaces--United States;
Places: Warren (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio); Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio) Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: View of a blast furnace and ore bridge in Cleveland, Ohio 1907. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0012_B04F03_001
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel Industry; Blast furnaces--Equipment and supplies; Blast furnaces--Design and construction; Steel industry and trade--Youngstown (Ohio); Blast furnaces--United States;
Places: Warren (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio); Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio) Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: View of 'D' furnace central furnaces at American steel and Wire Company Cleveland, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0031_B12F125_026
Subjects: Blast furnaces--Equipment and supplies; Blast furnaces--Design and construction; Steel industry and trade--Youngstown (Ohio); Blast furnaces--United States; Blast Furnace--Ohio; William B. Pollock Company
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio); Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Depicted here is a blast furnace with view of the skip hoist. Location is unidentified. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0031_B12F125_028
Subjects: Blast furnaces--Equipment and supplies; Blast furnaces--Design and construction; Steel industry and trade--Youngstown (Ohio); Blast furnaces--United States; Blast Furnace--Ohio; William B. Pollock Company
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio); Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: View of 'D' Furnace of the Central Furnaces, American Steel and Wire Company Cleveland. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0031_B12F125_033
Subjects: Blast furnaces--Equipment and supplies; Blast furnaces--Design and construction; Steel industry and trade--Youngstown (Ohio); Blast furnaces--United States; Blast Furnace--Ohio; William B. Pollock Company; Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. Campbell Works
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio); Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: View of 'D' furnace at the American Steel and Wire Company of Cleveland, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0031_B12F126_001
Subjects: Blast furnaces--Equipment and supplies; Blast furnaces--Design and construction; Steel industry and trade--Youngstown (Ohio); Blast furnaces--United States; Blast Furnace--Ohio; William B. Pollock Company; American Steel and Wire Company
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio); Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: View of 'D' furnace central furnaces at the American Steel and Wire Company Cleveland, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0031_B12F126_002
Subjects: Blast furnaces--Equipment and supplies; Blast furnaces--Design and construction; Steel industry and trade--Youngstown (Ohio); Blast furnaces--United States; Blast Furnace--Ohio; William B. Pollock Company; American Steel and Wire Company
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio); Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: View of the top of a blast furnace at the American Steel and Wire Company Cleveland, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0031_B12F126_004
Subjects: Blast furnaces--Equipment and supplies; Blast furnaces--Design and construction; Steel industry and trade--Youngstown (Ohio); Blast furnaces--United States; Blast Furnace--Ohio; William B. Pollock Company; American Steel and Wire Company
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio); Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: View of 'D' Furnace at the American steel and wire Company Cleveland, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0031_B12F126_005
Subjects: Blast furnaces--Equipment and supplies; Blast furnaces--Design and construction; Steel industry and trade--Youngstown (Ohio); Blast furnaces--United States; Blast Furnace--Ohio; William B. Pollock Company; American Steel and Wire Company
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio); Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)