Description: Following announcements that the Youngstown steel mills would shut down, the United Steelworkers Association Local 1462, Brier Hill Works of Youngstown Sheet and Tube, fought to keep them open. These two 8.5" by 11" (21.59 by 27.8 cm) photographs document a March 17, 1979 rally to save steel jobs. Gerald Dickey, recording secretary of the Local 1462 can be seen on the left, standing at the podium in both images. The rally took place on Federal Plaza in downtown Youngstown. It was one of many community activities to raise awareness and prevent closings. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1623_1909831_005
Subjects: Business and Labor; Steel industry; Labor unions; Demonstrations; Laborers; United Steelworkers of America; Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: John C. Wolf 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_06
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Republic Steel Corporation -- Employees
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Playbill for a final showing of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in the United States on December 11, 1893. Uncle Tom's Cabin was often presented on stage. Multiple Uncle Tom's Cabin Companies, like the one advertised here, traveled the country performing the story. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_SC08_B01F08
Subjects: Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896; African American women; African American authors; Slavery; Plays--African American authors
 

Description: This oval bread tray is made of tin painted red and decorated with flowers. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H9385
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Cooking tools and equipment
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This black and gold tray was made from tin and features decorative paint flowers. It was used to hold candles and extinguish them when they got low. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H9404
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Lighting--Architectural and decorative
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Fugitive slaves used these caves in Salem Township, Washington County, Ohio, to hide as they fled to freedom in Canada on the Underground Railroad. 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: AL03184
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Ohio; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights
Places: Salem Township (Ohio); Washington County (Ohio)
 

Description: Employees at work in The F. & R. Lazarus Company receiving room, ca. 1930. 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: AL04429
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio); Lazarus Department Store; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows the Administration building on the campus of Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio. Originally named Baldwin College, this institution of higher learning was founded in 1845 by John Baldwin. Baldwin-Wallace is associated with the Methodist Church, and was one of the first colleges in Ohio to admit women and African Americans. In 1913, Baldwin College merged with nearby Wallace College, uniting the two schools' resources. The college has always emphasized a liberal arts education. Today, Baldwin-Wallace College's motto is "Quality Education with a Personal Touch." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06502
Subjects: Baldwin-Wallace College; College campuses; Universities and colleges
Places: Berea (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph from the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus is of 19-year-old Ervin Griffin of Franklin County, Ohio. His formal attire suggests that the photograph was taken during his trial or sentencing. Griffin was convicted of murdering railroad engineer William Conkle, and was the 237th individual to be executed via the electric chair in Ohio. The caption at the bottom reads: "No. 237, Ervin Griffin of Franklin County, Legally Electrocuted September 15th, 1943, for the Murder of William Conkle." 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: AL08291
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Capital punishment; Death row; Electrocution; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections; Ohio Penitentiary (Columbus, Ohio); Prisons--Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Charles Dick was born in Akron, Ohio. He had an active legal and political career, and served as U. S. Senator for Ohio from 1904 to 1911. He was born on November 3, 1858 and died on March 13, 1945 in Akron, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07065
Subjects: United States. Congress. Senate; Republican Party; Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: The photograph shows a group of nine young people sitting on the ground and looking through the slats of a fence. More fences, a telephone pole, and farm fields lie behind them. The location is identified as "Halm's," possibly the farm of T. Francis Halm of Crane, Wyandot County, Ohio. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's store, and later as a traveling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). Kinley 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: AV30_B02F03_72
Subjects: Portrait photography; Farms; Rural life
Places: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio);
 

Description: This photograph showing a barn and sheep on the farm of R. A. Hayne, just outside of Adena, Ohio, is a part of a series of photographs taken by the Ohio Department of Agriculture documenting farms in Ohio. Spanning 130 acres, Hayne grew crops on his farmland and raised 200 sheep and a number of horses. Here a man tends to Merino sheep and a chicken. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA726AV_B01F03_003_1
Subjects: Agriculture; Rural Life; Livestock; Sheep;
Places: Jefferson County (Ohio); Adena (Ohio);