Description: Photomechanical reproduction of a stereograph depicting two workers building a rubber tire for an automobile at a factory in Akron, Ohio. The original stereograph was published by the Keystone View Company, and the reproduction was made by Stereo Classic Studios. Numerous rubber companies operated in or near Akron during the late 19th Century, leading the city to be known as the "Rubber Capital of the World." Among the large-scale rubber producers to have factories in the area were the B.F. Goodrich Company, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, and the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company. The advent of the bicycle and the automobile led to great success for companies in the rubber industry. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02736
Subjects: Rubber industry workers--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business; Ohio Economy--Economy--Labor; Manufacturing industries--Ohio
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of a monument shop, ca. 1860-1869. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03731
Subjects: Small business; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business; Cemeteries
 

Description: Grand Opening of a Standard Oil Company's Sohio service station. Standard Oil of Ohio was the original Standard Oil company founded in 1911 by John D. Rockefeller as a result of Standard Oil Company and Trust breakup. Standard Oil Company and Trust was an American company and corporate trust that from 1870 to 1911 was controlling almost all oil production, processing, marketing, and transportation in the United States. Standard Oil Company stations in Ohio operated under the brand name "Sohio." The company was acquired by British Petroleum, now BP, in 1968. Following the terms of the acquisition, BP took majority ownership of the company in 1978. In 1987 BP bought out 45% of Sohio, assuming control, and in 1991 started rebranding all the Sohio stations to 'BP.' Although Sohio gas stations have ceased to exist, a few gas stations on Lake Erie and the Ohio River still bear the Sohio name. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07668
Subjects: Standard Oil Company; Oil industry; Business enterprises--Ohio--Cleveland; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business; Transportation--Ohio--History
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: A view of Sandusky Avenue, Bucyrus, Ohio, ca. 1905. This photograph of a busy thoroughfare shows passersby strolling along the sidewalk. Streetcar tracks on the paved street (bricks or stones) cut a diagonal line through the image. Sandusky Avenue is shared by a streetcar, automobiles, and horse-drawn buggies and wagons. Riderless bicycles are propped against a curb and a railing. Rows of telephone and telegraph wires cross overhead. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06035
Subjects: Bucyrus (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works; Street-railroads --Ohio; Small business--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Bucyrus (Ohio); Crawford County (Ohio)
 

Description: Employee of the East Ohio Gas Company, now Dominion East Ohio, reading the gas meter at a private home, 1961. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00686
Subjects: Gas industry--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: Employees of the East Ohio Gas Company, now Dominion East Ohio, posed with the company's Youngstown fleet of Ford trucks, 1927. The East Ohio Gas Company warehouse and garage in Youngstown, Ohio were located at 1134-1148 W. Rayen Avenue at the Thurman Street intersection. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00689
Subjects: Trucks; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: Employees of the East Ohio Gas Company, now Dominion East Ohio, installing Transmission Pipeline #12, 1955. This 112 mile pipeline carried natural gas from Maumee, Ohio to the Cleveland area. This photograph appeared in the September/October 1955 edition of the East Ohio News, a magazine for employees. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00690
Subjects: Gas industry--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
 

Description: Engraved portrait of Thomas H. White who was president of the White Sewing Machine Company located in Cleveland, Ohio, ca. 1875-1900. In 1858 White began manufacturing sewing machines in Templeton, Massachusetts. He relocated the company to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1866. It was incorporated as the White Sewing Machine Corporation in 1876. The company grew during the twentieth century and continues to manufacture sewing machines today. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03311
Subjects: Manufacturing industries--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business; Industrialists--Ohio; White Sewing Machine Company; White Sewing Machine Corporation
Places: Ohio
 

Description: This is an engraved portrait of Ferdinand Schumacher, a manufacturer from Akron, Ohio, ca. 1875-1900. Schumacher was the first to mill oatmeal in the United States and founded American Oatmeal Company. That company became the General Mills American Oatmeal Company, while still under the ownership of Schumacher. That company was one of several that merged to form the Quaker Oatmeal Company. In addition to his industrial pursuits, Schumacher was active in the temperance movement. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03325
Subjects: Manufacturing industries--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business; Industrialists--Ohio; Temperance--History; Oatmeal
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph gives a birds-eye view of the east bank of the Scioto River in downtown Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1960. Visible in the left side of the photograph are the Broad Street and Town Street bridges over the Scioto River. The tallest building is the LaVeque Tower, formerly the American Insurance Union Citadel. It was dedicated on September 21, 1927. The 47-story tall skyscraper, located at 50 West Broad Street, was designed by architect C. Howard Crane in the Art Deco style. Due to the Great Depression, the American Insurance Union went bankrupt and sold the building. The tower was purchased by John Lincoln and Leslie L. LeVeque in 1945. It remained the highest tower in Columbus until 1973. The light-colored building to the south of Leveque Tower was originally The Ohio State Office Building. Constructed during 1930-1933, the 14-story building was designed by Cincinnati architect Harry Hake and serves as a classic example of the Art Moderne style. The building was later known as the Ohio Judicial Center until 2011, when the state Supreme Court named the center in honor of the late Chief Justice Thomas J. Moyer, who was the second-longest-serving chief justice in state history at the time of his death in April 2010. The Ohio Statehouse is visible in the center of the photograph (toward the right edge). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05692
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Economy--Business; Architecture--Ohio; Aerial views; Columbus (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows a view of South High Street Columbus, Ohio, looking north. A streetcar and autos share the road; parked cars line both sides of the street. The sidewalks are crowded with pedestrians. The top of the LeVeque Tower is seen in the far background. Columbus's famed Neil House hotel is situated in the middle of the block. The hotel was erected in the 1820s as a tavern. Proprietor William built a hotel on the site in 1839; this structure burned down on Nov. 6, 1860 and was replaced in 1862 by new building. In turn, that hotel was replaced in 1924 by the structure seen in the photo. This 600-room hotel was torn down in the 1980s to make room for the expanded Huntington Bank Building. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05698
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Economy--Business; Architecture--Ohio; Automobiles; Hotels--Ohio--Columbus--History; Columbus (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of a street scene in Bucyrus, Ohio, ca. 1894-1900. A group of men is gathered on the sidewalk outside of the storefront for Pfleiderer's Bakery. Next door to the bakery is a store selling "Boots & Shoes," and two men in the foreground lean on either side of a monument whose base reads "P Schaeffer." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03341
Subjects: Stores, Retail; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business; Bucyrus (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works; Cities and towns--Ohio
Places: Bucyrus (Ohio); Crawford County (Ohio)