Description: Side section of a cinder car built by the William B. Pollock Company of Youngstown, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0031_B12F125_004
Subjects: Slag; Steel industry; Hot metal
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: In this image, a worker named Berkenbush stands next to a Bessemer converter. Bessemer converters release oxygen gas through molten iron, which reacts with carbon and and other impurities to increase the quality of the steel, as well as producing a large flame. This photograph belongs to the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Audiovisual Archives, so its subject is likely located at a Youngstown plant. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B01F10_016
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Bessemer furnace; Steel industry
 

Description: This photograph depicts a hallway of Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company's main office building. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B03F41_005
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry; Construction
 

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_B03F508_020
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: Confederate currency produced in Augusta, Georgia during the Civil War in the amount of twenty-five 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_7
Subjects: Confederate States of America; Currency; Civil War 1861-1865
Places: Augusta (Georgia)
 

Description: This hollow punch is made of iron and marked with "Pexto 1 3/4". View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H72301
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Tools and equipment
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This water glass is etched with "ZOAR OHIO" and leaf decoration. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H9467
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Glassware
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Samaria I. Clark (1818-1905) helped with the Underground Railroad at Emerson (now Mt. Pleasant) in Jefferson County, Ohio, with her husband George. 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: AL03141
Subjects: Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Underground Railroad--Ohio; Antislavery movements--Ohio--History--19th century; Ohio women; Abolitionists;
Places: Mount Pleasant (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: John Brown (1800-1859) was an ardent proponent of abolition. He aided many fugitive slaves to freedom along the Lane Trail while he lived in Kansas. This photograph was taken in September 1856. 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: AL03037
Subjects: Underground Railroad -- Kansas; Abolition; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) History; John Brown's Raid, 1859;
Places: Bourbon County (Kansas)
 

Description: Postcard of the bird cage on the balcony of The F. & R. Lazarus Company, 1909. 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: AL04455
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio); Lazarus Department Store; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business; Animals
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Senator and Mrs. Ben Espy at a Lambda Boule special event, ca. 1980. A lawyer by training, Espy is a former Columbus city council member who unsuccessfully ran for mayor in 1991 against Greg Lashutka. He served as an Ohio state senator for the 15th district, representing Columbus, and was the Senate minority leader. Throughout his years of service to Columbus, Espy has focused on youth education, community redevelopment and job creation. Lambda Boule is the Columbus, Ohio, chapter of Sigma Pi Phi, a fraternity of college- and university-educated professional men dedicated to providing local and national social action programs for the African American community. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06105
Subjects: Greek letter societies--Ohio; Ohio History--State and Local Government; Societies and clubs
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows the monument to the Wright Brothers in Dayton, Ohio. Wilbur and Orville attended the local public schools in Dayton, but neither graduated from high school or attended college. Nevertheless, they grew up in an environment that encouraged creative and intellectual development. Their household included a large family library from which the brothers read extensively. While not necessarily well schooled, the brothers were well educated. The Wright brothers were continually looking for new challenges. As young men, the two brothers went into business together. In 1889, they opened a print shop and published a local newspaper using a printing press they designed and built. In 1892, they opened their own bicycle shop. By 1896, they were manufacturing their own bicycles called Wright Flyers. It was their interest in flight, however, that led to their fame as adults and reshaped the world. On December 14, 1903, the Wright brothers were ready to test the aircraft they had built. With Wilbur at the controls, the experiment failed and the plane sustained minor damage. After repairing the aircraft, they tried again on December 17. This time, with Orville piloting, the plane stayed in the air for 12 seconds and covered 120 feet. The length and duration of the flight were not much by today's standards, but the Wright brothers had demonstrated that sustained flight in a heavier-than-air craft was possible. The brothers tested their aircraft three more times that day with increasing levels of success. The final flight of the day carried Wilbur 852 feet in 59 seconds. The brothers are buried in the family plot at Woodland Cemetery in Dayton. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06525
Subjects: Inventors--Ohio; Aviation; Wright, Orville, 1871-1948; Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)