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_B02F328_10
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Eva Walker, the wife of Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker, 10th president of Wilberforce University and 66th Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Eva and Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker were the parents of Yvonne Walker-Taylor who became one of the first female African American college president in the United States when she was named president of Wilberforce in 1984. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B05F06_I_2
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Howard University; Wilberforce University; African American Educators; African American women
 

Description: This image is of a cookie sheet. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8253
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Cooking tools and equipment
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photographic reproduction shows the railroad bridge across the Tuscarawas River and the Ohio and Erie Canal near Zoar, Ohio, ca. 1880-1900. The railroad connected Zoar to near by cities, such as Akron, Canton and Cleveland, Ohio. Led by Joseph Bimeler (sometimes spelled Bäumeler) in 1817, a group of Lutheran separatists left the area of Germany known as Wurttemberg and eventually established the small community of Zoar in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. The community of Zoar was not originally organized as a commune, but its residents had a difficult time surviving in 1818 and early 1819. As a result, on April 19, 1819, the group formed the Society of Separatists of Zoar. Each person donated his or her property to the community as a whole, and in exchange for their work, the society would provide for them. Additional modifications to the society's organization were made in 1824 and a constitution established in 1833. In the decades following the establishment of the Zoar commune, the Separatists experienced economic prosperity. The community was almost entirely self-sufficient and sold any surpluses to the outside world. In addition to agriculture, Zoar residents also worked in a number of industries, including flour mills, textiles, a tin shop, copper, wagon maker, two iron foundries, and several stores. The society also made money by contracting to build a seven-mile stretch of the Ohio and Erie Canal. The canal crossed over Zoar's property, and the society owned several canal boats. The canal traffic also brought other people into the community, who bought Zoar residents' goods. By the second half of the nineteenth century, the community was quite prosperous. After Bimeler's death in 1853, the unity of the village declined, and by 1898 the Zoarites disbanded the society. The remaining residents divided the property, and the community continued to prosper in Zoar. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00844
Subjects: Zoar (Tuscarawas County, Ohio); Society of Separatists of Zoar; Bridges; Transportation; Railroads
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This handmade poplar pattern was used to make backboards. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H73263
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Tools
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Roswell Garst and Nikita Khrushchev surrounded by members of the media during Khrushchev's visit to Garst's Iowa farm, 1959. Khrushchev, who led the USSR from 1953 until 1964, visited the Garst Farm during his 1959 tour of the United States to look at Garst's new hybrid corn. The trip was viewed as a great help to US-Soviet relations in the midst of Cold War tensions. 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_B05_F04_1090_15_33
Subjects: Joe Munroe; ; Cold War; Agricultural technologies; Garst & Thomas Hybrid Corn Company; Nikita Khrushchev;
Places: Coon Rapids (Iowa);
 

Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the Miami and Erie Canal through Lucas County, between stations 895 and 1181. The Maumee River is pictured, and bridges, properties, railroads, stations, locks, and other landmarks along the route are noted. The map was created under the direction of the members of the Canal Commission of the state of Ohio and approved by the Chief Engineer of the Department of Public Works (variously referred to as the Board of Public Works and the Division of Public Works). Construction on the Miami and Erie Canal took place between 1825 and 1845, and the finished route connected Cincinnati and Toledo, as well as the Ohio River with Lake Erie. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: BV4923_006
Subjects: Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio; Rivers--Ohio; Bridges
Places: Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Ohio Governor C. William O'Neill with President Dwight D. Eisenhower, ca. 1957. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03588
Subjects: Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969; Ohio History--State and Local Government
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a back view of the wedding dress and poke hat worn by Anne Catherine Spurck on July 4, 1817, in Chillicothe, Ohio. Made of oyster white-colored silk and taffeta, the dress features an empire waist with a drawstring at the back and a paneled bodice on the front. A cream silk figured poke hat with ribbons accompanies the dress. Anne Catherine Spurck (1798-1879) married Peter Dittoe (1793-1868), and the couple is buried at Holy Trinity Cemetery in Somerset, Ohio. This dress was featured in an exhibition titled Fashion on the Ohio Frontier 1790-1840 at the Kent State University Museum in Kent, Ohio View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05020
Subjects: Wedding costume; Women; Clothing and dress; Hats; Dresses
Places: Chillicothe (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: A draughting room at the Cincinnati University, likely used by students of architecture, from "The Cincinnatian," the Cincinnati University Yearbook, 1897. The University of Cincinnati originated in 1819 with the founding of Cincinnati College, but survived only six years before financial difficulties forced it to close. In 1835, Daniel Drake re-established the institution, which eventually joined with the Cincinnati Law School. Cincinnati College continued to operate until 1918, when it formally merged with the University of Cincinnati. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04224
Subjects: Education; Architecture; Universities and colleges
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: The interior of Zint Candy Kitchen, Wapakoneta, Ohio, ca. 1905. The store was located on the east side of Blackhoof Street, across the alley from the Western Ohio Electric Station. Catherine F. Schmidt Zint, wife of proprietor and local businessman Jacob Zint, stands at the far left. Also visible are two men, one wearing a white apron and long jacket and the other clad in a suit and hat. The display counters and bins are full of items for sale. Jacob Zint also owned a saloon and a shoe store. The children of Jacob and Catherine Zint formed the Zint Family Orchestra; the eldest child, Frederick, went on to have a career in music and vaudeville. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05896
Subjects: Wapakoneta (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business; Small business--Ohio; Popular culture
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: This print of an engraving depicts a popular image of a soldier during the American Revolution. He is wearing a plumed tri-cornered hat and loading a musket from a powder horn. The engraving by A. Bobbett (Albert Bobbett, approximately 1824-1888 or 1889) is that of a drawing by Felix Octavius Carr Darley (1822-1888), one of early America's most esteemed and productive illustrators and painters. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06945
Subjects: Ohio History--Military Ohio; American Revolutionary War, 1775-1783; Darley, Felix Octavius Carr, 1822-1888; Bobbett, Albert, approximately 1824-1888 or 1889; Military uniforms