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_B05F0831B2_012
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: 16-wheeled mixer-type hot metal car built for US Steel Corporation Duquesne Works. Car was built by the William B. Pollock Company of Youngstown, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0031_B03F102_003
Subjects: Slag; Steel industry; Hot metal
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio); Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania)
 

Description: This photograph depicts a flame blowing through a Bessemer converter located in Indiana Harbor, Indiana. Bessemer converters release oxygen gas through molten iron, which reacts with carbon and and other impurities to increase the quality of the steel, as well as producing a large flame. This photograph belongs to the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Audiovisual Archives, so its subject is likely located at a Youngstown plant. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B01F09_009
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. Indiana Harbor; Bessemer furnace; Steel industry
Places: East Chicago (Indiana); Lake County (Indiana)
 

Description: This photograph depicts a switchboard at a boilerhouse. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B05F90_016
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry
 

Description: Murice R. Long 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_07
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Republic Steel Corporation -- Employees
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Illustration depicting the entrance of the 55th Massachusetts into Charleston, South Carolina. This regiment, along with the 54th Massachusetts, was one of the first African American Union regiments formed during the Civil War. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_SC10
Subjects: African American soldiers; African American men; United States. Colored Troops; Civil War 1861-1865;
Places: Charleston (South Carolina)
 

Description: This oval bread tray is made of tin painted green and decorated with flowers. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H9386
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: H9405
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Lighting--Architectural and decorative
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of two male employees in the mechanized receiving room, The F. & R. Lazarus Company, ca. 1951. 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: AL04430
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio); Lazarus Department Store; Employees; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image depicts a statue of General Moses Cleaveland in Cleveland, Ohio. The engraving reads "Gen. Moses Cleaveland/ Founder of the City/ 1796." The statue was erected in 1888. Following the Revolutionary War, the newly-created federal government encouraged states to give up their claims within the Northwest Territory. Connecticut was one of the states with land claims in Ohio. The state, however, maintained its ownership of the northeastern corner of the territory. This area became known as the Connecticut Western Reserve. In 1796, the company sent one of its major investors, General Moses Cleaveland, to Ohio to lead the survey of company lands within the Western Reserve. Cleaveland's surveying party of fifty-two people included two women. The surveyors laid out a town along the eastern bank of the Cuyahoga River and named it "Cleaveland," which later changed to its modern day spelling "Cleveland." Another surveying team went back to the Western Reserve the next spring, but Moses Cleaveland was not a part of it. Cleaveland never returned to Ohio. He spent the rest of his life with his legal practice and business interests in Connecticut. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06503
Subjects: Monuments & memorials
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph from the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus is of 32-year-old Edward J. Ralph of Cuyahoga County. His formal attire suggests that the photograph was taken during his trial or sentencing. Ralph was convicted in the kidnapping and murder of 5-year-old Mary Jane Brady in Cleveland, Ohio. The caption at the bottom reads: “No. 238, Edward J. Ralph of Cuyahoga County, Legally Electrocuted October 4th, 1943, for the Murder of Mary Jane Brady.” 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: AL08292
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); Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Map of the Ohio Companys Purchase. The purchase contract was for approximately 1,500,000 acres along the Ohio River in south eastern Ohio. One section was to be set aside for public schools, one section for religious purposes and two townships were to be used for a university. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07516
Subjects: Ohio Company (1786-1795); Maps--Ohio; Land settlement--Ohio
Places: Ohio