Description: Railroad tracks and unknown building at Republic steel Youngstown, Ohio ca. 1920. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0012_B04F39_001
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel Industry
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning 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_B01F110_07
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph depicts a blast furnace tapping machine. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B02F30_003
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry; Blast furnaces
 

Description: This illustration, published in Harper's Weekly on April 2, 1864, depicts African American civilians and soldiers assisting General Sherman's rear-guard. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_OVS25A-D_002
Subjects: African American soldiers; Civil War 1861-1865; Newspapers
 

Description: This handmade wooden crate is painted brown and red and features handholds. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H73712
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This invalid chair is made from poplar and painted red. It has a decorative lyre back. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8683
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Furniture; Older Men; Older Women
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the Miami and Erie Canal in Shelby County, between stations 7330 and 7367. Roads, properties and other landmarks along the route are noted, including a large adjacent basin of "wide water." 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: BV23170_019
Subjects: Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio
Places: Shelby County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Samuel Medary, ca. 1860-1864. Medary was born February 25, 1801 in Montgomery Square, Pennsylvania. He served in the Ohio House of Representatives in 1834 and the Ohio Senate in 1836. He published the "Ohio Statesman" from 1832-1857, which he used to endorse the Democratic Party's candidates and to build support for its policies. Medary was also Governor of the Minnesota Territory from 1857-1858 and the Kansas Territory from 1858-1860. He returned to Columbus in 1860 and began publishing "The Crisis," a newspaper whose purpose was to stop the Civil War. He died November 7, 1864 in Columbus, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02903
Subjects: Medary, S. (Samuel), 1801-1864; Ohio--Politics and government--1787-1865
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Campaign button from the 1944 U.S. presidential elections. Franklin Roosevelt was running for his fourth term as President of the United States, and Frank Lausche was running for his first term as Ohio Governor. Both were members of the Democratic Party. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05315
Subjects: Political parties; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Presidential campaigns; Presidential elections; Governors
Places: Chicago (Illinois)
 

Description: Illustration of Civil War encampments published in "Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War" by Alfred H. Guernsey. Caption reads: "Union and Confederate Works Southwest of Petersburg. From Signal Station." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04606
Subjects: United States of America; Confederate States of America; American Civil War, 1861-1865
Places: Petersburg (Virginia)
 

Description: This photograph is an exterior view of the Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio. The museum was built around 1820 as a Greek Revival villa for Martin Baum. Successive owners included Nicholas Longworth, David Sinton, his daughter Anna Sinton and her husband, Charles Phelps Taft. Charles Taft was the half brother of William Howard Taft, who accepted the nomination for the U.S. presidency under the portico of this house. In 1927 Anna and Charles Taft donated the house and its collection of art to the people of Cincinnati with the statement "We desire to devote our collection of pictures, porcelains and other works of art to the people of Cincinnati in such a manor that they may be readily available for all." The house opened as the Taft Museum of Art in 1932. It is a National Historic Landmark. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06185
Subjects: Art museums; Taft Museum of Art; Greek revival (Architecture); Taft, Anna Sinton, -1931; Taft, Charles Phelps, 1843-1929
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Andy Davy, of Franklin County, was electrocuted September 20, 1921, for the Murder of his wife, Grace. He was a white male, thirty-eight years old and his occupation was was unknown. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08121
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)