Description: The first caption on the back of the photograph reads: "Polishing Glass, Rossford (Toledo) Photograph by courtesy of Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company." The second caption explains the action in the photograph: "The rough "blanks" of plate glass are ground and polished on continuous tables more than a city block long. Here men are shown placing plaster of Paris on the various "blanks" to hold them in place. Man in foreground is spreading out the setting plaster. In the background a suction-cup lifter is lowering a "blank" upon the production line for grinding and polishing in a a [sic] Toledo plant of the Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co., Toledo." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F07_009_1
Subjects: Glass grinding and polishing; Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Company; Factories; Industries--Ohio--Toledo
Places: Toledo (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio); Rossford (Ohio); Wood County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "The Rearing Ponds at The Fish Hatchery at Fairmont Park, Dayton Ohio. Now being greatly enlarged by W.P.A." This is one of the five fish hatcheries in Ohio that W.P.A. workers improved. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F09_015_1
Subjects: Geography and Natural Resources; Parks--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Business and Labor; Fishing industry
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Laboratory tests of the water at the Cincinnati Water Works plant at California, Ohio View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F05_11_01
Subjects: Cincinnati Water Works
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "SCHOOLS; 1940 Graduating class, St. Nicholas School, Zanesville Johnson Photo." This is a photograph of several graduates standing in front of St. Nicholas School in Zanesville, Ohio. Today, St Nicholas is a grade school, but these students appear to be high school students. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F07_015_001
Subjects: Graduation (School); Catholic high schools; Catholic schools--United States--History--20th century; Catholic Church; Religion in Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Zanesville (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows an ice gorge on the Ohio River at Half Moon Bend, near Steubenville, Ohio. Just north of Steubenville, the Ohio River makes a sharp bend around the Half Moon Farm in West Virginia. On the Ohio Side was an amusement "trolley park." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F10_001_001
Subjects: Ohio River: Steubenville (Ohio)
Places: Steubenville (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows a man in front of a machine holding many spools of, what is probably spun-glass. An empty spindle near the top left corner has the words "Fiberglas" and "Owens-Illinois Glass Company." It was group together with other photographs from Owens-Corning. The Owens-Corning Fiberglas Company Plant, located at 400 Case Avenue near Shields Street in Newark, occupies what was formerly the abandoned works of the largest bottle manufactory. Then called Owens-Illinois, the factory was purchased in 1933, to provide spun-glass and glass fiber research facilities. Corning Glass had been experimenting with such fibers for years, and the two companies decided to work jointly on development. By 1938, the two companies had merged to become Owens-Corning. During the 1930s and 1940s, the company manufactured 'glass wool' insulation for battleships, refrigerators, and houses, and spinning glass into delicate silk-like fibers to be woven into glass cloth, and fabrics for insulating electric wires View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F09_029
Subjects: Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation; Newark (Ohio)--History; Fiberglass
Places: Newark (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph was taken after the November 24, 1893, fire that destroyed the Henrietta and Park Theaters and Chittenden Hotel and Auditorium. The fire originated in the Henrietta Theater and wind blew the fire east toward the other buildings. Only one person died. The Chittenden Hotel was the residence of Governor McKinley, who was out of town at the time. The fire caused over $1 million in damages. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F04C_010_1
Subjects: Arts and Entertainment; Business and Labor; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Theaters; Hotels; Fires; Disasters
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows Ohio homes devastated by the 1937 Ohio River flood, also referred to as the Great Flood. In January and February of 1937, weeks of heavy rainfall caused the Ohio River to flood parts of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Kentucky, causing $500 million in property damages, and displacing and killing hundreds. By the end of January, the Ohio River measured 80 feet deep in Cincinnati, one of the areas most affected. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dispatched thousands of relief workers from the Works Progress Administration to rescue flood victims and restore affected cities. This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F05_043_001
Subjects: Floods; Natural disasters; Ohio River; Houses; Works Progress Administration
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Photograph of a portrait of Charles Foster (1828-1904) who served as Ohio's governor from 1880-1884. Foster chose to run as the Republican candidate for Ohio governor in 1879. He campaigned on the issue of sound money, which would require the government to back paper money with gold. Foster won the election and focused his administration on reforming the state government so that it was more efficient. In addition, Foster supported the temperance movement by favoring higher liquor taxes. Ultimately, his support of this tax, known as the Pond Law, contributed to his defeat in the election of 1883. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: R_405_Foster
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government; Ohio--Governors--Portraits
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of a Columbus Town Meeting flag dating from the 1950s or 1960s. The blue, white and purple silk flag bears an image of a man holding a bell. There is white fringe on the rectangular flag. The dimensions are 89 cm by 150 cm. Jean Ann Weaver donated this flag to the Ohio Historical Society in 1976. Weaver was the entertainment editor of the Booster, a Columbus newspaper. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H65565_001
Subjects: City flags; Textile--silk
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: These are the national colors of the 43rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The text on flag reads: 43rd Reg't. O.[V.I.]. The flag has deteriorated and some of the words are missing. This flag has not been cataloged in this collection. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01957
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Civil War 1861-1865
Places: 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_B02F333_08
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)