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_B02F230_03
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: This hollow punch is made of iron and marked with "Pexto 2". View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H72302
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Tools and equipment
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This Eastlake bed is made of oak. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H9479
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Furniture; Beds
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: J.D. Hulbert (b.1809) was an Ohio abolitionist involved in the Underground Railroad. He used his warehouse, located on a dock in Ashtabula Harbor on the short of Lake Erie, to conceal fugitive slaves seeking their freedom. After supplying these freedom seekers with provisions and money, Hulbert would use his business contacts to procure passage on ships bound for Canada. 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: AL03105
Subjects: Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Underground Railroad--Ohio; Antislavery movements--Ohio--History--19th century; Abolitionists;
Places: Ashtabula (Ohio); Ashtabula County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photographic reproduction of a cabinet card portrait of Captain William Mitchell, who aided fugitive slaves in Wabaunsee, Kansas. The original photograph was taken by photographer J.D. Merrith in Washington, D.C., ca. 1880-1889. This photograph was sent to Wilbur H. Siebert by Captain Mitchell's son, H.R. Mitchell, for use in Siebert's Underground Railroad research. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03038
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Kansas; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Military Ohio
Places: Wabaunsee (Kansas); Waubansee County (Kansas)
 

Description: Photograph of the gown shop or costume room at The F. & R. Lazarus Company, 1909. This store section was the forerunner of Lazarus's Wedgewood Room of the 1970s. 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: AL04456
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio); Lazarus Department Store; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Mr. and Mrs. Grady L. Pettigrew, Jr. at a Lambda Boule special event, ca. 1980. 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. Pettigrew is a bankruptcy attorney and former bankruptcy judge in Columbus, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06106
Subjects: Greek letter societies--Ohio; Multicultural Ohio--African American Ohioans; 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: AL06526
Subjects: Inventors--Ohio; Aviation; Wright, Orville, 1871-1948; Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph from the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus is of 43-year-old Lester Nichols. His formal attire suggests that the photograph was taken during his trial or sentencing. Nichols was convicted of murdering his father-in-law, Rev. Lewis Whitaker, and wounding others in a home invasion. The caption at the bottom reads: “No. 266 Lester Nichols of Allen County, Legally Electrocuted March 4, 1949 for the Murder of Lewis Whitaker.” 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: AL08318
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; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections; Death row
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Allen County (Ohio)
 

Description: This could be a photograph of Augustus B Tanner who was born in New York on Jul 7, 1842. He married Harriet Ringle on April 22, 1866. Augustus joined the Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 66th Regiments, Company I as a private. He enlisted on Dec 6, 1861 and was mustered out on Jan 10, 1865 in Columbus Ohio for wounds received in action. Augustus died on March 26, 1923 in Seneca County, Ohio View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AP1434_01
Subjects: Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment, 66th (1861-1865)
 

Description: The photograph shows the four Kinley brothers and their sister Villa's husband, Joseph Neidhart. From left to right they are: Harry, Avery, Joseph (Joe) Neidhart, George, and Everet. Photograph from the collection of Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's store, and later as a traveling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). Kinley 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: AV30_B03F02_17
Subjects: Families; Portrait photography; Young men
Places: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio);
 

Description: This photograph is part of a series of photographs taken by the Ohio Department of Agriculture documenting farms in Ohio. This photograph shows the Hantz farm owned by J.M. Hantz near Alliance, Ohio. On 70 acres, Hantz grew peaches, oats, corn, wheat, soy beans, potatoes, and tomatoes among other crops. A college graduate, Hantz had special interest in the dairy industry and for several years served on the State Board of Agriculture. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA726AV_B01F09_001_1
Subjects: Agriculture; Barns; Rural Life
Places: Alliance (Ohio); Stark County (Ohio)