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_B01F111_08
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: This fluting iron was cast from iron and is black in color. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H73825
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Kitchen utensils--United States--History
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This round willow basket features a bail handle. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8733
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Baskets (containers)
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated 1920, this photograph shows men marching down a street holding a Warren G. Harding presidential campaign sign. This photograph is part of the Warren G. Harding Photograph Collection. Warren G. Harding, the 29th President of the United States from 1921-1923, was born near Marion, Ohio, in 1865. At age 14, Harding attended Ohio Central College, 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 1898 by winning a seat in the Ohio legislature for two terms. Harding became Lieutenant Governor in 1903 for two years before returning to the newspaper business. While unsuccessful in a run for Governor in 1910, Harding won election to the U.S. Senate in 1914. Political insider Harry Daugherty began promoting Harding for the Republican presidential nomination in 1920. His campaign, known as “The Front Porch Campaign,” was centered on low-key speeches given from his home in Marion, Ohio, pledging to return the country to “normalcy.” Harding easily won the election, gaining 61 percent of the popular vote. On August 2, 1923, Harding died from a massive heart attack and is entombed in the Marion Cemetery. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P146_B20_P39_02_G39
Subjects: Presidential campaigns; Presidential candidates; Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923--Photographs; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics
Places: Marion (Ohio); Marion County (Ohio)
 

Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the Miami and Erie Canal through the village of Spencerville in Allen County, between stations 5186 and 5336. Roads, properties, bridges, locks, rail lines and other landmarks along the route are 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). Construction on the Miami and Erie Canal took place between 1825 and 1845, and the finished route connected Cincinnati and Toledo, as well as the Ohio River with Lake Erie. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: BV4925_006
Subjects: Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio; Railroads
Places: Spencerville (Ohio); Allen County (Ohio)
 

Description: Section of a panorama painted by Albert Ruger in the 1880's depicting an event known as the "Great Locomotive Chase" or "Andrews Raid." In 1862, Secret Service Agent James J. Andrews lead volunteer Union soldiers, mostly Ohioans, on a mission to steal a Confederate locomotive and drive from the south to the north, destroying the rail lines along the way. The mission failed shortly after it was begun, and several of the captured men were hung while others were later exchanged and some escaped. This scene in the panorama depicts William J. Knight, a private in the 21st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company E, who participated in the raid, taken before a Confederate colonel in Bridgeport, Alabama. Knight escaped, and in 1878 he began touring and giving lectures describing the raid. Ruger's panorama accompanied him for more than eighteen years. The panorama is now part of the museum collections of the Ohio Historical Society. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02923
Subjects: Chattanooga Railroad Expedition, 1862; Ohio--History, Military--19th century; Ruger, A.; Chattanooga Railroad Expedition (1862)
 

Description: Advertisement for the Born & Co. Brewery, originally published in the "Railroad, County and Township Map of Ohio and Business Directory of the Representative Business Houses" (1894). The brewery was located at 565-579 South Front Street in downtown Columbus, in an area that is still known as the Brewery District. Born & Co., founded in 1859, operated until Prohibition was enacted in 1919, and around the turn of the century had an annual capacity of 100,000 barrels of beer. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05330
Subjects: Breweries; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Race cars neck and neck coming to the finish line at the All-American Soap Box Derby in Akron, Ohio, 1962. The first All-American Soap Box Derby race was held in Dayton, Ohio, in 1934. The race was moved to Akron in 1935, when leaders in the Akron community saw the need for the race to have a permanent location. The Works Progress Administration began construction of Derby Downs in 1936. The national competition has been held there each August ever since. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07620
Subjects: Coaster cars; Ohio Economy--Architecture and Engineering; Soap box derbies--Ohio
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: Illustration of the Union army in Vicksburg as published in "The American Soldier in the Civil War" by Frank Leslie. Caption reads: "The Federal Army, Under General Grant, Taking Formal Possession of Vicksburg, July 4, 1863, After the Surrender - From a Sketch by F. B. Schell." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04619
Subjects: Soldiers; American Civil War, 1861-1865; United States of America; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Grant, Ulysses S., 1822-1885; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio--History, Military; Presidents--United States; Generals
Places: Vicksburg (Mississippi)
 

Description: This photograph shows a display of 14 bars of Ivory soap, a leading product made by Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati, Ohio. Procter & Gamble is a multinational consumer goods company with corporate headquarters in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. An English candle maker, William Procter, and an Irish soap maker, James Gamble, established the company on October 31, 1837. In the beginning, Procter & Gamble’s manufacturing operations were located downtown on Central Avenue, near the Ohio River. The company prospered during the nineteenth century. In 1859, sales reached one million dollars. During the Civil War the company won contracts to supply the Union army with soap and candles. In addition to the increasing the company’s profits experienced during the war, the military contracts introduced soldiers from all over the country to Procter & Gamble’s products. After the men returned home from the war, they continued to purchase the company’s products. In the 1880s, Procter & Gamble began to market a new product, an inexpensive yet high-quality soap with the brand name "Ivory." Demand for the floating white bar soared. In January 1884 a fire destroyed most of the buildings at P&G’s manufacturing center downtown. The company seized the opportunity to reconfigure its manufacturing operations to mass production. That decision led to the creation of the 11-acre Ivorydale campus in 1886. It was located on Spring Grove Avenue between Mill Creek and Township Avenue in the Cincinnati suburb of St. Bernard, Ohio. The giant complex would eventually cover 243 acres with 120 buildings, including the 43-acre food plant built in 1911. During the 1930s the complex was described as being a maze of utilitarian gray stone buildings interspersed with hugged outdoor retorts and tanks, smokestacks, and railroad tracks. The campus included its own fire station, dining rooms, and recreational facilities. Over time, Procter & Gamble increasingly focused on producing soap and eventually stopped manufacturing candles in 1920. In the early twentieth century Procter & Gamble built factories in other locations in the United States. During the second half of the twentieth century, it acquired a number of other companies that diversified its product line and increased profits significantly. Procter & Gamble’s headquarters remain in Cincinnati. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06198
Subjects: Procter & Gamble Company; Soap; Manufacturing industries--Ohio; Businesses; Industries--Ohio--Cincinnati
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of Steve Myeski of Mahoning County, Ohio. He was electrocuted June 23, 1922, for the murder of Stella Korn. He was a white male, age twenty-two and his occupation is unknown. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08134
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Prisons--Ohio
Places: Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: People sitting and standing at the entrance to an airplane exhibit, under a banner that reads: "Bonney-Fisher Monoplane Exhibit." The same banner can be seen on the tent. A monoplane is a fixed-wing airplane with one set of wings, as opposed to a biplane or triplane. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's department store, and later as a travelling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). He 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: AL07777
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Science and Technology; Aviation; Airplanes; Photographers--Ohio; Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Art and Artists
Places: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio)