Description: Interior of tube mill ca. 1916, Republic Steel Youngstown, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0012_B04F41_001
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel Industry; Tube mills
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_12
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph depicts two electric motors at the works office. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B05F90_009
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry
 

Description: Photograph of Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers filling sandbags to be used for flood control purposes. The caption reads, "As busy as beavers were WPA workers who were hastily summoned from their other projects to strengthen the Portsmouth flood wall. This photo, taken a few hours before the flood was scheduled to pour over the walls Thursday afternoon, shows the workers filling sand bags to be placed along the levies." The photo is from the "Portsmouth, Ohio, flood of 1937", SC 381. This collection contains 37 photographic black and white prints, 21 x 26cm or smaller; and 4 postcards in black in white, 9 x 14 cm. Photographs document the flood damage in Portsmouth, including sandbagging, floodwall construction, and WPA rescue efforts. In 1937, southern Ohio faced one of the worst floods in its history, known today as the "Great Flood of 1937." The Ohio River flood of 1937 took place in late January and February. In Cincinnati, the flood was particularly difficult for the city, where flood levels reached its crest of 79.99 feet on Tuesday, January 26, 1937. Communities along the Ohio River in Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois also faced serious problems. Many people lost their homes as a result of the flood. The Ohio River Flood of 1937 caused more than twenty million dollars in damages. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: sc381_34_01
Subjects: Floods--Ohio River; Portsmouth (Ohio)--Flood, 1937
Places: Portsmouth (Ohio); Scioto County (Ohio)
 

Description: This handmade wooden peg rack has a decorative planed edge. It is brown in color. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H73801
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This round willow basket features a bail handle. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8693
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Baskets (containers)
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the Miami and Erie Canal in Shelby County, between stations 7505 and 7542. Roads, properties and other landmarks along the route are noted, including areas 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_023
Subjects: Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio
Places: Shelby County (Ohio)
 

Description: Harry Pepon (right) and an unidentified member of his crew in Italy, 1944. Pepon was born in Hilliard, Ohio, and served as a bombardier on a B-17 crew stationed in Italy during World War II. His plane was hit by enemy fire on its first mission to bomb a German refinery. The plane went missing and the crew was presumed dead. After the war, debris from the plane was found in Yugoslavia. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07528
Subjects: Soldiers--Ohio; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Aircraft; Air pilots; Military uniforms; World War, 1939-1945 - Ohio
Places: Italy
 

Description: Illustration of the Union army entering Richmond, Virginia on April 3, 1865, as published in "The American Soldier in the Civil War" by Frank Leslie. Caption reads; "The Federal Army Entering Richmond, VA, April 3, 1865. - Reception of the Troops in Main Street. - From a Sketch by Joseph Becker." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04609
Subjects: Soldiers; American Civil War, 1861-1865; United States of America; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Places: Richmond (Virginia)
 

Description: This photograph, an exterior view of the Plum Street Temple in Cincinnati Ohio, was taken September 1937. Located at 720 Plum Street, the Temple, now called Isaac M. Wise Temple, was built by the members of the Lodge Street Synagogue and dedicated on Friday, August 24, 1866. It is one of the oldest synagogues still standing the United States. In 1972 it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Rabbi Isaac M. Wise (1819-1900), a leader of American Reform Judaism, came to Cincinnati in 1854. He led the effort to build the Plum Street Temple, which was designed by architect James Keys Wilson in the Moorish Revival style. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06188
Subjects: Plum Street Temple (Cincinnati, Ohio); Wise, Isaac Mayer, 1819-1900; Rabbis; Synagogues; Synagogue architecture; Moorish Revival
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Harry Bland, of Meigs county, was electrocuted March 1, 1922, for the Murder of George W. Beegle. He was a white male, age twenty-seven and his occupation is unknown. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08124
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Prisons--Ohio; Death row; Capital punishment; Portrait photography
Places: Meigs County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of the Parker Covered Bridge, located in Wyandot County, Ohio. The bridge was built in 1873 over the Sandusky River. It spans 182 feet across, and thanks to its crossed "X" design has withstood the area's normal rural traffic for over 100 years. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's department store, and later as a travelling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). He was also an avid lifelong photographer, and the bulk of the Harry Kinley Collection is comprised of glass plate negatives documenting the Kinley family, the city of Upper Sandusky and Wyandot County and surrounding areas. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07766
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Architecture and Engineering; Covered bridges; Sandusky River; Photographers--Ohio; Wyandot County (Ohio)
Places: Wyandot County (Ohio)