Description: Diagram of 600 ton mixer car with notes of differences in construction. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0031_B12F129_004
Subjects: Slag; Cinder Car; Steel Industry; Hot Metal Car; Mixer Car; William B. Pollock; Ladle; Open Hearth furnace
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph depicts the Packard Engineering Building at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Youngstown-Buckeye conduit was used in the building. On the photo is written: "PACKARD ENGINEERING BUILDING LEHIGH UNIVERSITY BETHLEHEM, PA. YOUNGSTOWN-BUCKEYE CONDUIT" View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B03F44_006
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Construction; Steel industry and trade--Pennsylvania--Bethlehem; Lehigh University
Places: Bethlehem (Pennsylvania); Northampton County (Pennsylvania)
 

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_B03F501_005
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph depicts men and women working behind their homes in Depression relief gardens, which were used to alleviate the Great Depression by providing citizens with food and work. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B05F87_003
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry; Great Depression
 

Description: Three photographs document vandalism at the Republic Steel Corporation's Warren Plant during the 1937 ""Little Steel"" Strike. The first photograph shows derailed train cars on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad tracks on June 15. In the second workers are seen replacing the derailed cars. The third shows railroad cars with opened pockets. These 4.5"" by 6.5"" (11.43 by 16.5 cm) photographs are part of a scrapbook maintained by the Republic Steel Corporation documenting events at its Warren Plant during the strike. The scrapbook is labeled Miscellaneous Communications, Posters and Pictures Relating to the C.I.O. Strike of the Warren Plant of the Republic Steel Corporation, Summer 1937, Vol. III. In June 1936 the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers and the Committee for Industrial Organization (C.I.O.) agreed to a joint effort to organize the steel industry. This led to the formation of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (S.W.O.C.). Soon after the first representatives from the S.W.O.C. arrived in the Mahoning Valley to begin their organizing efforts. On March 26, 1937 the organizing committee signed a contract with U.S. Steel, the nation's largest steel producer. Six weeks later the second largest steel company in the country, Jones & Laughlin, followed the example of U.S. Steel. Following these victories the S.W.O.C. increased its efforts at reaching agreements with the smaller companies known as the ""Little Steel"" companies: Republic Steel, Inland Steel, and Youngstown Sheet and Tube. Talks between the organizing committee and the steel companies broke down and on May 26, 1937 approximately 25,000 Mahoning Valley steelworkers walked off their jobs from Republic Steel and Youngstown Sheet and Tube. Most of the mills shut down with the start of the strike. However, Republic Steel kept their Warren and Niles plants open using non-striking steelworkers. This led to a number of violent confrontations outside the mills. With no end to the strike in sight, Youngstown Sheet and Tube and Republic Steel announced on June 21 that the mills will be re-opened for those workers wanted to return to work. Fearing the violence that would follow attempts to re-open the plants, Ohio Governor Martin Davey ordered National Guard troops to the Mahoning Valley and on June 22 nearly 2,000 National Guardsmen arrived in Youngstown and Warren. The arrival of the National Guard signaled the beginning of the end of the strike. On June 25 striking steelworkers began returning to work under the protection of the National Guard. The steel companies also began hiring new workers to replace those who remained on strike. Soon the mills were running at near full capacity and most of the striking steelworkers had returned to their jobs. On July 6 the National Guard reduced its presence in the Mahoning Valley and the strike was effectively over. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1619_2587090_056
Subjects: Transportation; Business and Labor; Strikes; Steel industry; Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.); Labor unions; Vandalism; Railroads
Places: Niles (Ohio); Warren (Ohio); Trumbull 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_B02F280_02
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: A photo of men working on the field office, tool and cement storage shed for shelter. This photo was taken as part of Project No. 23, Public Campground Buildings. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: 3076_89_11_aug34_b8_08
Subjects: Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); New Deal, 1933-1939; Fort Hill State Memorial (Ohio); Building
Places: Hillsboro (Ohio); Highland County (Ohio)
 

Description: C.J. McLin with Dr. Hassan Abdeen, State Minister for the Presidency, in Sudan. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS2013_B04F03_B_01
Subjects: African Americans; McLin, C. J. (Clarence Josef.) Jr., 1921-1988; Ohio House of Representatives; State Representative; Legislator; People; World leaders
Places: Sudan
 

Description: Illustration 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. Caption reads: "This negro being a good marksman was induced by the confederates to become a sharpshooter for them, and greatly annoyed the Union pickets before Yorktown by firing upon them from trees, in the branches of which he would perch himself at early morning and remain there through the day, shooting at such Union soldiers as happened come within his range. His hiding place was finally discovered however, and after refusing to surrender, thinking himself safe, he was brought down by a bullet through his head." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: blackphalanx_55
Subjects: African American soldiers; Civil War 1861-1865
 

Description: This fluted lampshade has a scalloped edge. It was molded from glass. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H79342
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Lighting--Architectural and decorative
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This pair of tin snips is made of iron. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H72265
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Tools and equipment; Cutting tools
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated 1920, this photograph shows President Warren G. Harding sitting with his Secretary of War, John W. Weeks (center), wife Florence Kling Harding (right), and an unidentified man and woman on the front porch of his home in Marion, Ohio. 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_B20P12_001
Subjects: Presidential candidates; Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923; Harding, Florence Kling, 1860-1924; Weeks, John W. (John Wingate), 1860-1926; First ladies (United States); Historic houses
Places: Marion (Ohio); Marion County (Ohio)