Description: Dated ca. 1930-1939, this aerial photograph shows the American Steel and Wire Company plant in the foreground, and the urban sprawl of Cleveland, the Terminal Tower and downtown Cleveland, and Lake Erie in the background. American Steel & Wire Company was founded around 1899 by Elbert Henry Gary, who purchased several competing barbed wire companies in order to limit competition and drive up prices. In 1901, American Steel and Wire became a subsidiary of the U.S. Steel Company. Their main Cleveland facilities were American Works, Central Furnaces and Dock and Newburgh Works. In 1924, the division’s national headquarters moved to the Rockefeller Building in Cleveland. Starting in the 1940s, renovations begun to modernized the old building, which dated to 1857 with the founding of Jones & Company in Newburgh Township, a suburb south of Cleveland. The American Steel & Wire division of U.S. Steel dissolved in 1964 and the Cleveland offices moved to Pittsburgh. In 1986, American Steel & Wire Corporation purchased the Cuyahoga Works (same location, but a consolidated version of the aforementioned facilities). This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F02_007_001
Subjects: American Steel & Wire Co.; American Steel and Wire Company; United States Steel Corporation. American Steel & Wire Division; U.S. Steel Corporation
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1930-1939, this photograph shows an American Steel & Wire Company worker preparing for the fence-wrapping machine. American Steel & Wire Company was founded around 1899 by Elbert Henry Gary, who purchased several competing barbed wire companies in order to limit competition and drive up prices. In 1901, American Steel and Wire became a subsidiary of the U.S. Steel Company. Their main Cleveland facilities were American Works, Central Furnaces and Dock and Newburgh Works. In 1924, the division’s national headquarters moved to the Rockefeller Building in Cleveland, Ohio. Starting in the 1940s, renovations began to modernized the old building, which dated to 1857 with the founding of Jones & Company in Newburgh Township, a suburb south of Cleveland. The American Steel & Wire division of U.S. Steel dissolved in 1964 and the Cleveland offices moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1986, the American Steel & Wire Corporation purchased the Cuyahoga Works (same location, but a consolidated version of the aforementioned facilities). This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F01_025_001
Subjects: American Steel and Wire Company; U.S. Steel Corporation; Steel-works--Ohio; Employees
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of the Wheeling Steel Corporation interior machinery in Steubenville, Ohio on September 13, 1926. Construction was being done at the time by The Koppers Construction Company. The Wheeling Steel Corporation, founded in 1920, was located at 227 South Third Street at Bates Street and was one of the largest plants of its kind in the Ohio Valley. Covering an area a mile long and a quarter of a mile wide, the plant produced raw steel, coils, bars and sheet pipe. In December 1968, Pittsburgh Steel Company was merged into Wheeling Steel Corporation to form the Wheeling-Pitt. Esmark, Inc. engaged in a successful proxy takeover battle for Wheeling-Pitt in 2005 and formally took over the steelmaker in November 2007. In August 2008, Severstal acquired Esmark's Wheeling-Pitt steel holdings for $1.25 billion. The plant was closed, supposedly temporarily, on April 3, 2009. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F12_010_1
Subjects: Industries--Ohio; Steel-works--Ohio--Pictorial works; Wheeling Steel Corporation; Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation; Steubenville (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works; Construction--1920-1930; Works Progress Administration of Ohio (U.S.)
Places: Steubenville (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: This black and white photograph taken July 14, 1937 shows Captain Backer's Hatchet Gang from Niles, Ohio. The picture was taken during the course of the violent and deadly 'Little Steel' strike of 1937 in Youngstown, Niles and Warren, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0017_F01_001
Subjects: Steel strike, 1937; Steel Workers Organizing Committee (U.S.); Steel industry; Republic Steel Corporation; Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Campbell (Ohio); Warren (Ohio); Niles (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: This black and white photo taken June 17, 1937 depicts a CIO effigy hung outside of the Republic Steel Company's Warren, Ohio, Hot Strip Mill Gate 1. The picture was taken during the course of the violent and deadly 'Little Steel' strike of 1937 in Youngstown, Niles and Warren, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0017_F01_002
Subjects: Steel strike, 1937; Steel Workers Organizing Committee (U.S.); Steel industry; Republic Steel Corporation; Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Campbell (Ohio); Warren (Ohio); Niles (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: This black and white photograph taken June 20, 1937 depicts an encampment of Republic Steel employees who remained inside the Warren, Ohio mill during the 1937 strike. The picture was taken during the course of the violent and deadly 'Little Steel' strike of 1937 in Youngstown, Niles and Warren, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0017_F01_003
Subjects: Steel strike, 1937; Steel Workers Organizing Committee (U.S.); Steel industry; Republic Steel Corporation; Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Campbell (Ohio); Warren (Ohio); Niles (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: This black and white photo taken July 8, 1937 shows two picketers, Charles and Shea, standing next to a telephone pole in the vicinity of Republic's Warren mill. The picture was taken during the course of the violent and deadly 'Little Steel' strike of 1937 in Youngstown, Niles and Warren, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0017_F01_004
Subjects: Steel strike, 1937; Steel Workers Organizing Committee (U.S.); Steel industry; Republic Steel Corporation; Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Campbell (Ohio); Warren (Ohio); Niles (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: This black and white photograph taken June 23, 1937 depicts the Second Drag Entering the B.O. Gate at Republic Steel's Warren mill.The picture was taken during the course of the violent and deadly 'Little Steel' strike of 1937 in Youngstown, Niles and Warren, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0017_F01_005
Subjects: Steel strike, 1937; Steel Workers Organizing Committee (U.S.); Steel industry; Republic Steel Corporation; Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Campbell (Ohio); Warren (Ohio); Niles (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: This black and white photograph taken June 17, 1937 shows a picketer at a picket station opposite the Republic Coke Plant on South Main street in Warren, Ohio. Behind the picket station is the smoke stacks from the soaking pits of Republic Steel's blooming and billet mills. The picture was taken during the course of the violent and deadly 'Little Steel' strike of 1937 in Youngstown, Niles and Warren, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0017_F01_006
Subjects: Steel strike, 1937; Steel Workers Organizing Committee (U.S.); Steel industry; Republic Steel Corporation; Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Campbell (Ohio); Warren (Ohio); Niles (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: This black and white photograph depicts patrons at a bar. Both the bar and the patrons are unknown. The picture was taken during the course of the violent and deadly 'Little Steel' strike of 1937 in Youngstown, Niles and Warren, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0017_F01_007
Subjects: Steel strike, 1937; Steel Workers Organizing Committee (U.S.); Steel industry; Republic Steel Corporation; Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Campbell (Ohio); Warren (Ohio); Niles (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: This black and white photograph taken June 25, 1937 shows National Guard troops manning a machine gun position. The troops in this picture were located on the lawn of the Republic Steel office in Warren, Ohio. National Guard troops were sent into the strike on June 24, 1937. The picture was taken during the course of the violent and deadly 'Little Steel' strike of 1937 in Youngstown, Niles and Warren, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0017_F01_008
Subjects: Steel strike, 1937; Steel Workers Organizing Committee (U.S.); Steel industry; Republic Steel Corporation; Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Campbell (Ohio); Warren (Ohio); Niles (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: This black and white photograph taken July 8, 1937 shows picketers walking in the vicinity of the Republic Steel mill in Warren, Ohio. The picture was taken during the course of the violent and deadly 'Little Steel' strike of 1937 in Youngstown, Niles and Warren, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0017_F01_009
Subjects: Steel strike, 1937; Steel Workers Organizing Committee (U.S.); Steel industry; Republic Steel Corporation; Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Campbell (Ohio); Warren (Ohio); Niles (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)