Description: Photograph showing an aqueduct, which can be one of two kinds of structures: a structure used to transport water from location to location (e.g. a pipe), or a waterwork used to help ships cross over areas by means of a water channel. The caption beneath the photograph reads: "Aqueduct North of Delphos, O.| July, 1916." The attached description located on the back of the page reads: "PHOTOGRAPHS No's 31 & 32.| DELPHOS AQUEDUCT.| Present structure is a box flume built for temporary use only. The structure is leaking badly and is liable to collapse at any time. This flume conveys the waters from Grand Reservoir northerly to the City of Delphos." This photograph is part of a series taken by the Board of the Ohio Department of Public Works to document the disrepair of the infrastructure of the Ohio and Erie Canal and Miami-Erie Canal systems in 1916, showing the physical condition of each structure. The Ohio Department of Public Works is one of the oldest departments of state government in continuous existence. Among its other duties, this department was charged with maintenance and administration of the Ohio & Erie and Miami-Erie Canals. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA936AV_B01_035
Subjects: Waterworks; Rivers; Lakes & ponds; Canals; Dams; Bridges; Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development
Places: New Knoxville (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: Handwritten on reverse: "Jeff. Co.. New Jefferson Union High School. Between Knoxville, Ohio + Richmond, O. Miller and Son 436 Market St., Steubenville, Ohio." This photograph was taken shortly after completion of the building. The area in front of the school has recently been prepared for grass seed. Jefferson Union High School is located about 2 miles north of Richmond, Ohio in the 9890 State Route 152 North (Lisben Street), just south of County Road 56. The Art Deco style, 3-story, light-colored brick building was built in 1938. Due to the economy, the public schools districts have consolidated, and JUHS became Edison South High School for a time, then Edison High School. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F06_030_001
Subjects: High schools--Ohio; School buildings--Ohio; Jefferson County (Ohio)--History; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works; Education; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Jefferson (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: Glass plate negative showing Walter Black (1895- ), a Youngstown, Ohio, steelworker, in 1920. Walter Black was born in 1895 in Knoxville, Tennessee. During World War I, Black moved to Youngstown, and like many other African Americans, he sought employment in the steel industry. In 1915, Black found a job at Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company's Hubbard blast furnaces. African Americans had largely been excluded from jobs in the iron and steel industry prior to the First World War. During the war, however, a severe labor shortage led many steel companies to actively recruit African Americans for employment; as a result, thousands of African Americans migrated from the South to take new jobs in the industrial North. Starting as a common laborer, Black worked his way up to cinder snapper, scrap man, stove tender, and assistant blower. Eventually, Black became a blast furnace foreman--one of the first African Americans to be promoted to foreman in the Youngstown District. On August 16, 1920, a worked named A.S. Morris was overcome by poisonous gas while working at the top of the #2 Hubbard blast furnace. Black climbed to the top of the furnace and carried Morris to ground level. Morris, who had stopped breathing, was revived when Black applied mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. This photograph was taken shortly after he saved Morris's life. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02994
Subjects: African Americans -- Employment; Blast furnaces -- Ohio; Ohio Economy -- Economy -- Labor; Steel industry and trade--Ohio--Youngstown--History;
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio)