Description: This photograph depicts a crane runway at a steel mill. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B05F84_005
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry
 

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_B02F229_01
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: Confederate currency produced in Savannah, Georgia on January 1, 1862 in the amount of fifty cents. Confederate currency was originally produced in the capital of Montgomery, Alabama. After Virginia seceded from the Union the capital was moved to Richmond in May 1861, where currency was then printed. Toward the end of the Civil War, the currency significantly lost value and many of the notes in existence were destroyed. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_VFM_28_6
Subjects: Confederate States of America; Currency; Civil War 1861-1865
Places: Savannah (Georgia)
 

Description: This burring machine is made of iron. The machine is marked with "Peck, Stow & Wi". View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H72269
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Tools and equipment
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This cup and saucer is made of molded, glazed China of white, gold, and red. It is made in the Friendship style. Decoration: Remember Me ? View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H9464
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Cups
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photomechanical reproduction of portrait depicting Mavor Brigham (1806-1897), who was an operator of the Underground Railroad in Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio. The image was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03158
Subjects: Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Underground Railroad--Ohio; Antislavery movements--Ohio--History--19th century; Abolitionists;
Places: Toledo (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This home stands on the site of the residence of J.J. Jordan, where Jordan once entertained John Brown and his men. It is located a few miles west of Des Moines, Iowa. The image was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03033
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Iowa; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights
Places: Des Moines (Iowa)
 

Description: Photographic postcard of employees Louis Kline, Charles Hillis, and William Youel of The F. & R. Lazarus Company with the first foot-powered pin ticket machine in Columbus, spring 1904. 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: AL04453
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio); Lazarus Department Store; Employees; Ohio Economy--Science and Technology
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of the cabin in Point Pleasant, Ohio, in which Civil War general and United States President Ulysses S. Grant was born in 1822. This view shows the cabin submerged in water up to its eaves during a flood in 1937. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06099
Subjects: Presidents--Dwellings--Ohio; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Natural disasters--United States; Floods; Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
Places: Point Pleasant (Ohio); Clermont County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows a replica of the First Cash Register as made by Charles F. Kettering in Dayton, Ohio. Kettering graduated from The Ohio State University in 1904 with a degree in engineering. After obtaining his diploma, Kettering moved to Dayton, where he obtained a job at the National Cash Register Company. There, he helped to develop the first electric cash register. Kettering was hired as the head of General Motors's new research division and became a vice president in the company in 1920. Kettering continued to develop new technology for automobiles throughout his life, including spark plugs, leaded gasoline, the automatic transmission, and four-wheel brakes. Under his leadership, General Motors also developed diesel engines, safety glass, and the refrigerant Freon. In 1945, he and General Motors president Alfred Sloan established the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, which was located in New York City. Kettering received numerous honors for his contributions to technological research. He was awarded dozens of honorary doctorates and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Kettering died in November 1958. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06523
Subjects: Kettering, Charles, 1876-1958; Automobile industry; National Cash Register Company
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph from the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus is of 23-year-old Harold Beach, a garage worker and gas station filling attendant. His formal attire suggests that the photograph was taken during his trial or sentencing. Beach confessed to killing 8-year-old Sheila Tuley, and was the 263rd individual to be executed via the electric chair in Ohio. The caption at the bottom reads: “No. 263, Harold Alfred Beach of Cuyahoga County, Legally Electrocuted February 2, 1949 for the Murder of Shiela [sic] Ann Tuley.” 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: AL08315
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: This tintype portrait of Julius Birney Work, 18, was made on the day that he enlisted in the Union Army. He was born August 22, 1844. Work served in the 52nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AP1880_01
Subjects: United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 52nd (1862-1865); Soldiers--Ohio--Photographs