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_B02F331_04
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Yvonne Walker-Taylor, Roses, and Herbert Jeffrey, aka Herb Jefferies, the first African American singing cowboy. His first film was "Harlem on the Prairie" which was considered the first black western following the inauguration of the talkies. Herbert Jefferies sang his own songs in "The Bronze Buckaroo" and "Harlem Rides the Range." Following his movie career, Jefferies returned to singing and recorded "The Flamingo" with Duke Ellington. Walker-Taylor was the daughter of Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker, the 66th Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and president of Wilberforce University in the 1940s. Walker-Taylor later went on to follow in his footsteps, and 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_B05F04_09_1_3
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Howard University; Wilberforce University; African American Educators; Musicians; Music; Actors; African American men; African American women
 

Description: This is an image of a one-quart tin dipper with a long handle. The item was made in the tin shop at Zoar Village, Tuscarawas County, Ohio. The Society of Separatists of Zoar was a group of German religious dissenters who immigrated to Ohio in 1817. Finding it difficult to make ends meet on their own, they formed a communal society in 1819 in which all members shared equally. After a few hard years, the group became solvent by helping build seven miles of the Ohio and Erie Canal, which passed through their lands. The canal enabled them to get their produce to market and allowed them to be financially successful. The Zoarites manufactured much of what they needed themselves. The village of Zoar, named for the Biblical city that Lot fled to from Sodom and Gomorrah, included grist mills, a wool factory, iron furnaces, a tannery, a foundry, garden, and store. The community disbanded in 1898. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8289
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Dippers (serving utensils); Kitchen utensils--United States--History
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This woodworking auger has a manufactured iron blade and a homemade wooden handle. The Ohio Historical Society received this auger from Grace M. Bareis of Canal Winchester, Franklin County, Ohio, in 1934. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H73294
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 St. Marys in Auglaize County, between stations 5964 and 5998. Railroads, streets, properties, and landmarks in the town of St. Marys are noted, including ice ponds for St. Marys Bottling Works and the Moerline Brewing Company. 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: BV23162_014
Subjects: Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio; Rivers--Ohio; Railroads;
Places: St. Marys (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio);
 

Description: This headshot portrait photograph is of Hightower Theodore "H.T." Kealing (1859-1918). He was a teacher and school principal in Austin, Texas, and served as University President of Paul Quinn College in Dallas, Texas. He was appointed as editor of the A.M.E. Church Review in 1896 and worked as editor until 1912. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_aaeo_allen_002
Subjects: African Americans; Educators; Newspaper editors; African Methodist Episcopal Church;
 

Description: Photograph of a car driving on a road near Ash Cave in Hocking County, Ohio, ca. 1940. Ash Cave is in Hocking Hills State Park in Hocking County, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02672
Subjects: Hocking County (Ohio); Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio
Places: Hocking County (Ohio)
 

Description: Side view of men's straw hat, ca. 1830-1850. This natural-colored hat has a brown leather hatband and is lined with pink and white silk that is marked "J & M Saunders, 21 N. Fourth St. Philadelphia." It is housed in a leather hat box and was worn by Israel Woodruff (1786-1851). The hat was donated by Israel Woodruff's daughter-in-law, Catherine E. Woodruff, in 1937. Israel Woodruff died in 1851. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05050
Subjects: Hats; Popular culture; Clothing and dress; Men
 

Description: Illustrated portrait of Lucy Webb Hayes, from "Women and Temperance" by Frances E. Willard, 1884. An Ohio native, Webb Hayes was the wife of U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes. She was a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University (then known as Wesleyan Women's College)--the first presidential spouse to graduate from university. A strong supporter of the temperance movement, she earned the nickname "Lemonade Lucy" because she refused to serve alcohol in the White House. She was also known as an advocate for the abolition of slavery, education and the rights of women. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04249
Subjects: Hayes, Lucy Webb, 1831-1889; Other--Social Welfare; Temperance--History; First ladies; Presidents' spouses--United States
Places: Chillicothe (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: "Acme Laundry in Cincinnati," an oil-on-canvas work painted by Caroline Augusta Lord (1860-1927) in 1911. It is one of Lord's series of three paintings depicting Acme Laundry. This image depicts a large group of women working in a large laundry. They are wearing aprons over long dresses or skirts and blouses. The figures in the foreground have their backs to the viewer. Acme Laundry, established in 1907, was located at 911 Vine St. in Cincinnati. Caroline Augusta Lord (1860-1927) was a native of Cincinnati who studied at the Cincinnati Art Academy, the Art Students League in New York City, and in Paris. She exhibited paintings at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago (1893). She returned to Cincinnati, where she continued in her profession and also taught at the Cincinnati Art Academy. Her frequent subjects were the struggles of the common laborer, women, and children. This painting is part of the Ohio Historical Society's fine art collection. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05926
Subjects: Paintings; Artists; Laundry workers--Ohio; Women--Employment--Ohio--Cincinnati; Women artists
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: The color image on this postcard shows the water filtering plant in California, Ohio, a neighborhood within Cincinnati. This plant was part of Cincinnati Water Works' state-of-the-art water treatment system that opened in 1907. The image shows a beige-colored rectangular structure situated next to two reservoirs or settling basins. Two men and a horse-drawn wagon are standing on road leading up to the building. The rapid sand filtration system was second such system in the nation. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06967
Subjects: Waterworks; Water--Purification; Hamilton County (Ohio); Water--Purification;
Places: California (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Three Korean "boy-sans" who worked on the First Marine Aircraft Wing Base (K-3), Pohang Dong, Korea, where PFC Michael Petrucci was stationed from 1953-1954. 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: AL07489
Subjects: Ohio History--Military Ohio; Military life; United States Marine Corps; Korean War (1950-1953)
Places: Pohang Dong (Korea)