Description: This photograph depicts an ore bridge and a pile of raw material (likely limestone, coal, or ore) at the coke plant that provided coke for the blast furnaces at the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company's South Chicago Works. Coke plants burn coal in order to remove impurities; the resulting fuel, coke, is then layered into a blast furnace with iron ore in order to produce pig iron in the first step of the steelmaking process. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B04F71_003
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry and trade; Coke plants
Places: Chicago (Illinois)
 

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_B02F329_08
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Yvonne Walker-Taylor with friends Irene, Robert, Mr. Charlie and Margaret on horseback. Yvonne Walker-Taylor was the daughter of Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker, 10th president of Wilberforce University and 66th Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Walker-Taylor became one of the first female African American college president in the United States when she was named the 16th president of Wilberforce University in 1984. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B05F06_N
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Howard University; Wilberforce University; African American Educators; African American women
 

Description: This is an image of a perforated skimmer with a hook on the handle. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8271
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Cooking tools and equipment
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Taken by photographer Louis Baus, this photographic reproduction shows the Town Hall on Main Street in Zoar, Ohio, ca. 1920. The building was constructed in 1887 and the town council met on the second floor. 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: AL00898
Subjects: Zoar (Tuscarawas County, Ohio); Society of Separatists of Zoar; City and town halls
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This handmade poplar pattern has chalk marks on it. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H73272
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Tools
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the Miami and Erie Canal through Henry County, between stations 1784 and 1990. The Maumee River is pictured, and properties, bridges, 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_010
Subjects: Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio; Rivers--Ohio; Bridges
Places: Henry County (Ohio)
 

Description: This tree, known as the Upper Sandusky Sycamore, was located near Upper Sandusky in Wyandot County, Ohio, ca. 1885-1889. The tree had a circumference of 41 feet and was at one time said to be the largest tree east of the Rocky Mountains. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02654
Subjects: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; Trees
Places: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio)
 

Description: Undersides of hand-sewn tan leather and silk ladies' slippers decorated with rosettes and lace, ca. 1800. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05036
Subjects: Women--Ohio; Popular culture; Women's shoes; Clothing and dress;
 

Description: This color photograph shows key participants in the ceremonial unveiling of an Ohio Historical Marker in Elyria, Ohio, on May 23, 1969. The marker honors the Easter Seals Society and its founder, Ohio businessman Edgar H. Allen (1862-1937). In this photograph five people are standing next to the historical marker. Leon Chaterlain, president of the National Society for Crippled Children and Adults, is pulling the drape away from the marker. To his immediate right is Chauncey B. Smythe, president of the Elyria Memorial Hospital Board. The other individuals, including a dark-haired little girl wearing hat, are unidentified. A tragic event inspired Edgar Allen’s crusade to help children with disabilities. In 1907 his teenage son Homer died after sustaining injuries in a streetcar accident in Elyria. Eight other people died in the accident, and eighty were injured. The lack of local medical facilities prompted Allen to raise money to build the Elyria Memorial Hospital, which opened in 1908. His work with the hospital sparked his desire to help children with special needs. He led the successful effort to open a hospital in Elyria devoted solely to the care of children. The Gates Hospital for Crippled Children opened in 1915, the first of its kind in the nation. In 1919 he established the Ohio Society for Crippled Children. Three years later, Allen and leading Ohio Rotarians launched the National Society for Crippled Children, precursor to the Easter Seals Society and its affiliates. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06954
Subjects: Historical Marker; National Easter Seal Society (U.S.); Ohio Society for Crippled Children
Places: Elyria (Ohio); Lorain County (Ohio)
 

Description: PFC Michael Petrucci standing in front of his barracks in El Toro, California, awaiting shipment to Korea in the summer of 1953. El Toro was the home of a Marine Corp Air Station that was later decommissioned in 1999. Petrucci was born August 9, 1930, in Youngstown, Ohio, where he grew up and attended school. Petrucci enlisted in the Marine Corps in July of 1952, and began basic training at Cherry Point Marine Base in North Carolina in August 1953. He received orders for overseas duty in May 1953, but when the United States and North Korea ended hostilities in July 1953, his transfer to Korea was halted. Petrucci was eventually sent to Korea in September 1953 and stationed at the First Marine Aircraft Wing base in the town of Pohang Dong, where he served until July 1954. By September 1954, Petrucci had returned to civilian life in Youngstown, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07475
Subjects: Ohio History--Military Ohio; Military life; United States Marine Corps; Korean War (1950-1953)
Places: El Toro (California)
 

Description: Advertisement for "The Great Eisenbarth-Henderson Floating Theatre," touting its "two separate and distinct stages" and performances of vaudeville and a drama based on the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. General admission is advertised as 25 cents, with reserved seats at 35-50 cents. Ellsworth Eugene Eisenbarth was born October 22, 1864, in Ironton, Ohio. The family later moved to Wetzel County, West Virginia. By 1889, Eisenbarth was traveling the mid-Atlantic states in "The Oregon Indian Medicine Show," which featured such entertainment as real cowboys and “Indians.” He next bought a floating store, which he refitted as a showboat and christened "The Eisenbarth Wild West & Floating Opera." The endeavor lasted from 1891 to 1895. By the late 1890s, Eisenbarth and his wife Julia had founded "The Eisenbarth & Henderson Mammoth and Combined Uncle Tom’s Cabin Company," complete with calliope, band and orchestra, which also traveled throughout the middle states by rail. In February of 1900, E.E. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS930AV_B03F1_01_02
Subjects: Popular culture; Showboats; Ohio River; Traveling shows; Theater--Ohio; Posters; Advertisements;
Places: Ohio River; Marietta (Ohio); Washington County (Ohio)