Description: Daguerreotype family portrait of John and Persis Parker and children, ca. 1840-1845. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03681
Subjects: Families; Other--Family History; Portrait photography
 

Description: The Republic Steel Corporation Collection (MSS 192) consists of 13,000 black and white photographic negatives, 2,000 color photographic negatives, and many 35 mm slides which document Republic Steel Corporation’s main production facilities and its subsidiaries, 1941-1975. This collection also includes images of social events such as company picnics, award banquets, and dances. Founded in 1899, Republic Iron and Steel Company was a steel production company based in Youngstown, Ohio, and the result of a consolidation of 34 steel mills across the United States including the Mahoning Valley’s Brown Bonnell Iron Company, Andrews Brothers and Company, and Mahoning Iron Company. From 1927-1937, Republic Iron and Steel Company expanded its reach by acquiring a number of other companies such as Trumbull Steel Company in Warren, Ohio, and Central Alloy Steel Corporation in Canton, Ohio. With its expansion, Republic Iron and Steel Company became the third largest steel producer in the United States behind United States Steel Corporation and Bethlehem Steel Company, and changed its name to Republic Steel Corporation to reflect its new status. After the outbreak of World War II in 1941, the Corporation’s production increased by 33%. This increased production continued into the 1950s and 1960s as the company continued to be one of the leading developers of steel production technology. Due to a myriad of factors including decreased demand for steel from automobile manufacturers and imported foreign steel, steel sales declined and in 1984 the Republic Steel Corporation was purchased by LTV Corporation, which led to the closure of the Youngstown plant. LTV filed for bankruptcy in December 2000. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: YHC_MSS192_B02F312_01
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing Communist Party leader Charles Emil Ruthenberg propped upright in his casket, surrounded by saluting children, 1927. Ruthenberg was the son of German immigrants and a native of Cleveland, Ohio. In 1909 he joined the Socialist Party and quickly became an active organizer. When the United States entered World War I in 1917, Ruthenberg's political activities became increasingly radical. He was arrested for speaking out against the war and began to identify with Russian Communists. Eventually he became Secretary General of the Worker's (Communist) Party of America. When he passed away in 1927, his ashes were interred at the Kremlin in Moscow. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05165
Subjects: Workers (Communist) Party of America; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Ruthenberg, Charles Emil, 1882-1927; Postmortem photography; Funeral rites and ceremonies
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio);
 

Description: Joe Munroe photographs Ellen Bromfield, daughter of author Louis Bromfield, as she collect maple syrup in preparation for sugaring on Malabar Farm in Lucas, Ohio, 1947, This type of farm work coincided well with Broomfield's efforts at self-reliant farming with a low environmental impact, for which he was well known. Joe Munroe's career began in 1939 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He served in the Air Force during World War II and then joined Cincinnati-based Farm Quarterly magazine. Though raised in Detroit, agriculture became an important subject of Joe's photographs. He moved to California in 1955 and free-lanced, taking magazine assignments and selling his own work. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P400_B27_F555_JPG155
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Bromfield, Louis, 1896-1956; Farming and rural systems economics; Farm life; Malabar Farm
Places: Lucas (Ohio); Richland County (Ohio)
 

Description: Harriet Beecher Stowe was an abolitionist and author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Born in Litchfield, Connecticut, she later moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where she met her future husband, Calvin Stowe, a professor at Lane Theological Seminary. In 1852, she published "Uncle Tom's Cabin," an anti-slavery novel which depicted the harsh realities of slavery and helped fuel the abolitionist cause in the United States. This illustration appears in "Howe's Historical Collections of Ohio," published in 1907. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04185
Subjects: Authors; Abolitionists; Slavery; Lane Theological Seminary; Activists
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing several men working with a steam-powered sorghum reaper attached to a water tower, used in producing molasses at an unidentified farm in Ohio, ca. 1910. The Circle Family Glass Plate Negative Collection came in with the records of John Circle, who served as Franklin County Surveyor between 1981 and 2000. The plates are thought to be part of the family history but have no identification. The images are agricultural but have no other known history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV82_002
Subjects: Agriculture; Agricultural machinery; Farms; Food production
Places: Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph depicts construction at a mill in Chicago, Illinois. A New York Central Lines railroad car is also pictured. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B04F60_011
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry and trade--Illinois--Chicago
Places: Chicago (Illinois)
 

Description: Parade down Auglaize Street celebrating Neil Armstrong coming back to his hometown Wapakoneta, Ohio after NASA mission Gemini 8. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV_203B2F1_060
Subjects: Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012; Wapakoneta (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: This illustration shows Major General James B. Steedman in dress uniform. His formal frock coat has epaulettes at the shoulders, with two stars denoting his rank of Major General. Steedman was a newspaper publisher in Napoleon, Ohio, before his appointment as Public Printer of the United States by President James Buchanan. Steedman served in the Union Army during the Civil War, commanding the 14th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was also involved in Reconstruction efforts in the South after the war. The original image appeared in Henry Howe's "Historical Collections of Ohio," 1907. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04298
Subjects: Newspaper publishing; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Military officers; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Places: Napoleon (Ohio); Henry County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Republic Steel Corporation Collection (MSS 192) consists of 13,000 black and white photographic negatives, 2,000 color photographic negatives, and many 35 mm slides which document Republic Steel Corporation’s main production facilities and its subsidiaries, 1941-1975. This collection also includes images of social events such as company picnics, award banquets, and dances. Founded in 1899, Republic Iron and Steel Company was a steel production company based in Youngstown, Ohio, and the result of a consolidation of 34 steel mills across the United States including the Mahoning Valley’s Brown Bonnell Iron Company, Andrews Brothers and Company, and Mahoning Iron Company. From 1927-1937, Republic Iron and Steel Company expanded its reach by acquiring a number of other companies such as Trumbull Steel Company in Warren, Ohio, and Central Alloy Steel Corporation in Canton, Ohio. With its expansion, Republic Iron and Steel Company became the third largest steel producer in the United States behind United States Steel Corporation and Bethlehem Steel Company, and changed its name to Republic Steel Corporation to reflect its new status. After the outbreak of World War II in 1941, the Corporation’s production increased by 33%. This increased production continued into the 1950s and 1960s as the company continued to be one of the leading developers of steel production technology. Due to a myriad of factors including decreased demand for steel from automobile manufacturers and imported foreign steel, steel sales declined and in 1984 the Republic Steel Corporation was purchased by LTV Corporation, which led to the closure of the Youngstown plant. LTV filed for bankruptcy in December 2000. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: YHC_MSS192_B04F639_005
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: Carte de visite photograph of General Andrew Jackson Smith, from the William T. Sherman Photograph Album, ca. 1865-1880. Andrew Jackson Smith was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania on April 28, 1815. He served in the Mexican-American War, the Indian Wars and the American Civil war for the Union. In April 1866, he resigned and became postmaster in St Louis, Missouri. He died in St Louis on January 30, 1897. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04354
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio History--Military Ohio
 

Description: This photograph shows S.T. Mitchell Hall, C. N. & I. Wilberforce University, a structure designed by Frank Packard and erected in 1912. (C.N.&I. refers to "Combined Normal and Industrial" department.) As seen in this photo, Mitchell Hall is a three-story building situated on an expanse of lawn with a few young trees. The building was used as a residence hall for 75 girls, an office, a kitchen and dining room, and a small laundry. Six employees lived on the premises. This image is part of the data gathered from an inventory of physical properties owned by the state, ca. 1931. The inventory was conducted by the Ohio Department of Finance in 1931. In 1856, the Methodist Episcopal Church established Wilberforce University near Xenia, Ohio, to provide African American access to a college education. The university was the first private black college in the United States. Its founders named the institution after William Wilberforce, a prominent eighteenth-century abolitionist. A number of African-American Ohioans attended the school during its early years. During the American Civil War, attendance declined as many students enlisted in the Union army. Wilberforce University closed in 1862. In 1863, the African Methodist Episcopal Church acquired ownership of the university. Under the direction of Daniel Payne, a bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, John Mitchell, the principal of a school in Cincinnati, and James Shorter, an African Methodist Episcopal pastor from Zanesville, Ohio, Wilberforce reopened its doors. The institution operated as a private university serving the African-American community for the next twenty-four years. In 1887, the State of Ohio began to provide Wilberforce with funds to help finance the institution, brought to an end the university's exclusively private status. The state also helped the university create a Normal and Industrial Department that eventually evolved into Central State University. Wilberforce University has experienced steady growth throughout the twentieth century. During the last decades of the twentieth century, the institution built a new residence hall, a student health center, a recreation and sports facility, and an administrative center. The university offers more than twenty degree programs and has exchange programs with universities around the world. In 2003, enrollment was more than 1,200 students. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05851
Subjects: Wilberforce University; Historically Black Colleges and Universities; Education, Higher; Historic buildings; Xenia (Ohio)
Places: Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)