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_09
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: This round gray mold was pressed from tin. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H73830
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Kitchen utensils--United States--History
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This round, black iron kettle has a bail handle. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8734
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Kitchen utensils--United States--History
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated 1920, this photograph shows Warren G. Harding posing for a photograph with his former competitor for the Republican presidential nomination, General Leonard Wood, near the Harding home in Marion, Ohio. Additional men in uniform can be seen in the background. 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_P34_02_F72
Subjects: Presidential campaigns; Presidential candidates; Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923--Photographs; Wood, Leonard, 1860-1927
Places: Marion (Ohio); Marion County (Ohio)
 

Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the Miami and Erie Canal through Auglaize County, between stations 5656 and 5816. Roads, properties, bridges, locks and other landmarks along the route are noted, including adjacent ponds and the St. Mary's River. 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_009
Subjects: Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio
Places: Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reproduction of a portrait of Colonel William Crawford at age forty. Crawford served in the French and Indian War, Lord Dunmore's War and the Revolutionary War. In 1782, he led an attack on the Seneca-Cayuga and Delaware tribes along the Sandusky River. Crawford's troops fought off the Native Americans and their British allies at the Battle of the Olentangy on June 6, but on June 7, Crawford was captured. The Native Americans burned Crawford at the stake in revenge for the Gnadenhutten massacre. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02924
Subjects: Ohio--History, Military--18th century; Warfare; American Indian history and society;
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Members of the Women's Music Club of Columbus, Ohio, with string instruments, ca. 1930. Founded in 1881, the Women's Music Club is now known as "Women in Music – Columbus," and is the second oldest arts organization in Central Ohio. The group worked to bring leading musical performances to Columbus, and to allow a performance outlet for its own members. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05331
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio); Women--Societies and clubs--Ohio; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Music; Musical instruments; Musicians
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: The opening parade down the racetrack at the All-American Soap Box Derby, 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: AL07621
Subjects: Soap box derbies--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Architecture and Engineering; Soap box derbies--Ohio; Parades
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows an outdoor market in Cincinnati, Ohio, ca. 1935-1943. Vendors are selling produce at stands shielded from the elements by a tent awning (possibly made of canvas). The adjoining walkway is crowded with shoppers and passersby. The produced stands and bushel baskets are overflowing with produce. One vendor is a young boy who is busy waiting on a customer. Behind a wrought-iron fence in the lower-right foreground a woman is sitting on an overturned basket. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06199
Subjects: Markets--Ohio; Businesses; Photography--Ohio
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Ludie C. Shelton, of Hamilton County, was electrocuted January 26, 1923, for the Murder of Policeman William H. Dieters. He was a black male, age twenty-four and he was an escaped convict. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08135
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Prisons--Ohio
Places: Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Grandstand and race track at the Wyandot County Fair, with a crowd waiting in anticipation. 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: AL07778
Subjects: Popular Culture; Fairgrounds; Fairs; Photographers--Ohio; Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Art and Artists
Places: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Arthur St. Clair (1734-1818). St. Clair served as governor of the Northwest Territory from 1788 to 1802. As Ohio moved towards statehood, St. Clair actively opposed Ohio's admittance to the United States. He hoped that what is now Ohio would not become a single state but rather two states. Thomas Worthington, Nathaniel Massie, Michael Baldwin, and several others urged President Thomas Jefferson, the founder of the Democratic-Republican Party, to make Ohio a state. Jefferson and the Democratic-Republican-controlled United States Congress responded by issuing the Enabling Act of 1802. This act called on the people of Ohio to form a constitutional convention and to fulfill the other requirements of the Northwest Ordinance to become a state. St. Clair denounced the Enabling Act. Jefferson responded by removing St. Clair as governor. Ohio became the seventeenth state of the United States on February 19, 1803. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC4029_001
Subjects: Governors; Northwest Territory--Politics and government; Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood; St. Clair, Arthur, 1734-1818;
Places: Northwest Territory; Ohio