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_B02F279_01
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: A photo of a completed shelter as taken from the creek. This photo was taken as part of Project No. 119, Shelters-Other. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: 3076_89_11_apr35_b35_71
Subjects: Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); New Deal, 1933-1939; Fort Hill State Memorial (Ohio); Picnic grounds
Places: Hillsboro (Ohio); Highland County (Ohio)
 

Description: A proclamation recognizing May 17, 2014 as Colonel Charles Young Day in the state of Illinois. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS2009_B01F04_E
Subjects: African Americans; African American soldiers; Young, Charles, 1864-1922.; Buffalo Soldiers; National Minority Military Museum Foundation (NMMMF); Certificates
Places: Illinois
 

Description: Illustration of a newly freed slave from "The Black Phalanx: A History of the Negro Soldiers of the United States in the Wars of 1775-1812, 1861-'65" by Joseph T. Wilson. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: blackphalanx_46
Subjects: Slavery; African American men; Emancipation of slaves
 

Description: Taken by photographer Louis Baus, this photographic reproduction shows a young man identified as Aug. Burkhardt standing next to a blanket on a loom at a wool mill in Zoar, Ohio, in 1898. Led by Joseph Bimeler 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. They would become known as the Society of Separatists of Zoar in 1819. 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. Louis Baus was a prominent photographer in Cleveland, Ohio, who began his career with studio work, but in 1911 became a staff writer for the "Cleveland Advocate, " a local newspaper that was later purchased by the "Cleveland Plain Dealer." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P223_B04_Series2Album2_088
Subjects: Zoar (Tuscarawas County, Ohio); Society of Separatists of Zoar; Communal Societies; Wool industry; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This wooden cabinet has four doors and six drawers with a keyhole on the top door. The cabinet is handmade and painted blue. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H79310
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Furniture
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This round, medicine bottle is made of clear glass and a "5" on the bottom. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H72247
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Vessels (containers)
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated 1920, this photograph shows a Warren G. Harding presidential campaign rally outside the Harding home in Marion, Ohio. Supporters are singing, holding "Harding" pennants, and wearing ribbons on the left side of their jackets. Some ribbons read "Franklin County." This photograph is part of a photograph album in the Warren G. Harding Photograph Collection (P146). Warren G. Harding, the 29th President of the United States (1921-1923), was born in Blooming Grove, Ohio, in 1865. At age 14, Harding attended Ohio Central College in Iberia, Ohio, where he edited the campus newspaper and became an accomplished public speaker. He married Florence Kling de Wolfe in 1891, and embarked on his political career in 1900 by winning a seat in the Ohio legislature. After serving two terms as an Ohio Senator, Harding served as Lieutenant Governor in 1904 for two years before returning to the newspaper business. Although he lost the 1910 gubernatorial race, Harding was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1914. Political insider Harry Daugherty promoted Harding for the Republican presidential nomination in 1920. His front porch campaign was centered on speeches given from his home in Marion, Ohio, pledging to return the country to “normalcy” in this post World War I era. Harding easily won the election, gaining 61 percent of the popular vote. On August 2, 1923, Harding unexpectedly died from a massive heart attack while touring the western United States, and is entombed in the Marion Cemetery. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P146_B20P04_002
Subjects: Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923; Campaign Banners; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Presidential campaigns; Presidential candidates
Places: Marion (Ohio); Marion County (Ohio)
 

Description: Farming is a difficult task and requires a lot of manpower. On this farm in Marquette, Michigan, a wife helps her husband cut firewood in the days before the chainsaw. Photographed by Joe Munroe, 1947. Munroe's career began in 1939 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He served in the Air Force during World War II and then joined Cincinnati-based Farm Quarterly magazine. Though raised in Detroit, agriculture became an important subject of Joe's photographs. He moved to California in 1955 and free-lanced, taking magazine assignments and selling his own work. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P400_B12_F08_006
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Farm life; Family farms
Places: Marquette (Michigan)
 

Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the route of the Ohio and Erie Canal in Pike and Scioto Counties between stations 1670 and 1793. The Scioto River, Camp Creek, bridges, aqueducts, and other landmarks along the route are also 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). The Ohio and Erie Canal was constructed between 1825 and 1832, eventually connecting Cleveland and Lake Erie with Portsmouth and the Ohio River. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: BV4919_002
Subjects: Transportation; Canals -- Ohio; Ohio and Erie Canal (Ohio);
Places: Pike County (Ohio); Scioto County (Ohio);
 

Description: Regimental colors of the 17th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01902
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio History--Military Ohio
 

Description: Photograph of Colonel Henry A. Axline and some of his staff officers on horseback with Camp Colors, Camp Meade, Pennsylvania, ca. 1898. Axline commanded the 10th Ohio Infantry United States Volunteers Regiment. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03351
Subjects: Spanish-American War, 1898; Ohio History--Military Ohio
Places: Middletown (Pennsylvania)