Description: Edward H. Jones identification photograph from the files of the Republic Steel Corporation, Central Alloy District. The Central Alloy District consisted of two plants: one in Canton, Ohio, and one in Massillon, Ohio. Identification photographs were taken over a period of time and logged into the files as one batch on June 3, 1942. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: YHC_MSS192_B01F076_13
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Republic Steel Corporation -- Employees
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_B05F0994_006
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: Section of a blast furnace at US Steel Ohio Works Youngstown, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0009_B07F06_009.tif;AC2_YHCIL_MSS0009_B07F06_009
Subjects: Blast furnaces--Equipment and supplies; Blast furnaces--Design and construction; Steel industry and trade--Youngstown (Ohio); Blast furnaces--United States; Blast Furnace--Ohio; United States Steel Corporation
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph depicts a brick building at the coke plant that provided coke for the blast furnaces at the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company's South Chicago Works. A sign in the background reads, "SAFETY FIRST". Coke plants burn coal in order to remove impurities; the resulting fuel, coke, is then layered into a blast furnace with iron ore in order to produce pig iron in the first step of the steelmaking process. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B04F71_005
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry and trade--Illinois--Chicago; Coke plants
Places: Chicago (Illinois)
 

Description: A photograph of a completed footbridge. Design and estimate of costs for two timber footbridges near the shelter building were approved for construction on September 14, 1934. Work on the project started a few days later. Stone and timber were obtained within a mile from the site. Abutment stones were laid in cement mortar. Timber was treated with weather beaten brown creosote stain. Both bridges were completed October 31, 1934. This photo was the frontispiece of F.E. Whitehouse's (camp superintendent) completion report for Fort Hill State Park, December 1934. This photo was included as Project No. 47a, Bridges - Foot. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: 3076_89_15_f47a_07
Subjects: Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); New Deal, 1933-1939; Fort Hill State Memorial (Ohio); Footbridges
Places: Hillsboro (Ohio); Highland County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Yvonne Walker-Taylor with a man identified as Mr. Charlie at the riding stables. Walker-Taylor was the daughter of Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker, the 66th Bishop of the the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the 10th president of Wilberforce University in the 1940s. Walker-Taylor later went on to follow in his footsteps, and became one of the first female African American college president in the United States when she was named president of Wilberforce in 1984. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B05F07_D_9
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; African American women; Wilberforce University; African American Educators
 

Description: This black iron auger bit was used to drill holes into wood. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H73315
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Tools
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is an image of a maroon, felt coin purse with beaded decoration. The beading on the front reads "FROM NIAGARA FALLS". View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8310
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Clothing & dress
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows Erwin .C. Zepp, Director of the Ohio State Museum, examining a pottery horn, one of the many objects included in the museum exhibition of Zoar arts and crafts. A pottery churn and woven basket rest on the table. Zepp was a professor in the Department of Fine Arts at The Ohio State University in the 1930s and worked closely with the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society (now called the Ohio History Connection). He began at the Ohio Historical Society (now the Ohio History Connection) as Assistant Curator of State Memorials in 1933 and served as director 1947-1964. Zoar Village is one of the historic sites acquired by the Ohio Historical Society under his tenure. Led by Joseph Bimeler (sometimes spelled Bäumeler) in 1817, a group of Lutheran separatists left the area of Germany known as Wurttemberg and eventually established the small community of Zoar in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. The community of Zoar was not originally organized as a commune, but its residents had a difficult time surviving in 1818 and early 1819. As a result, on April 19, 1819, the group formed the Society of Separatists of Zoar. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P365_B14F03_01
Subjects: Zoar (Tuscarawas County, Ohio); Society of Separatists of Zoar; Museum exhibits; Museums
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the Miami and Erie Canal through Auglaize County, between stations 5887 and 5912. Roads, properties, and other landmarks along the route are noted, including the St. Marys 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: BV23162_010
Subjects: Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio; Rivers--Ohio
Places: Auglaize County (Ohio);
 

Description: This headshot portrait phtoograph is of Reverend John W. Norris. He was born in 1842, death date unknown. Norris was a minister in the Philadelphia and Baltimore conferences of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (A.M.E. Church). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_aaeo_allen_003
Subjects: African Americans; Clergy; African Methodist Episcopal Church;
 

Description: Woodcut portrait of William Cratty (1805-1897), a noted Underground Railroad conductor from Delaware County, Ohio. This illustration accompanied an article in the Chicago Evening Post dated July 18. 1893, and collected by Wilbur H. Siebert as part of his Underground Railroad research. According to the article, Cratty claims to have aided 3,000 fugitive slaves in their flight to Canada between the 1830s and 1850s. During this period, a reward was offered for his capture by slave owners and slave hunters from the South. He was an avowed opponent of the Fugitive Slave Act, passed in 1850, and worked closely with his wife, Candis Bennett, members of his community and local Quaker contacts to provide save passage for those seeking their freedom. In the 1880s, he settled in Marysville, Ohio, and died in nearby Ostrander at the age of 92. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P116_B54_V0l4_Cratty
Subjects: Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Underground Railroad--Ohio; Antislavery movements--Ohio--History--19th century; Abolitionists;
Places: Delaware (Ohio); Delaware County (Ohio)