Description: This mine fan was made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio. These belt-driven fans were used to force fresh air into mines for miners to breathe and to dissipate any poisonous gasses. This photograph was taken at the Jeffrey factory, 1907. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01250
Subjects: Mining machinery; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "These three homes on Plummer Hill are being undermined by the 54-year-old New Straitsville Mine Fire. The barrier built by the WPA wokers runs under the road in the foreground. The house at the left is occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Willard Andrews and their son, Clyde. The middle house was recently vacated by Mrs. Elizabeth Green when poisonous gases from the fire threatened her life. The house at the right is occupied by Mr. and Mrs. David Rush and their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Rush. This scene is about one mile southwest of New Straitsville." The mine fires are said to have started November 13, 1884, when striking miners pushed burning cars into a mine, during a strike over wages between the New Straitsville Mining Company's management and mine workers. A small group of union members decided to sabotage the mines. Cars filled with oil-soaked timber were set on fire and were pushed into a mine owned by the New Straitsville Mining Company. The fire quickly spread to the coal seam underground. Reportedly, the coal seam was fourteen feet across and extended an undetermined distance into the Earth. It took several days for the fire to be discovered. By that point, it was too late to stop the fire's spread. As a result of the fire, the mine closed. The New Straitsville mine fire has raged ever since 1884. In 1936, the WPA began work to stop the spread of the fire by building barriers across burning veins of coal. In 1938, nearly 350 men were employed on the project, which then was estimated to cost less than $1, 000, 000. Under the direction of James R. Cavanaugh, a veteran mine fire fighter, tunnels were driven through veins in the path of the fire, and were filled with a clay-water mixture or similar non-burning material. The mine fire effected coal deposits in Hocking and Perry Counties in southeastern Ohio. It was estimated that by 1938 the coal destroyed, more than two hundred square miles, was worth fifty million dollars. In 2003, smoke began to emerge from the soil of the Wayne National Forest, 119 years after the fire began. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F12_029_1
Subjects: New Straitsville (Ohio)--Photographs; Mine fires--Ohio; Coal mines and mining--Ohio; United States. Works Progress Administration
Places: New Straitsville (Ohio); Perry County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Superior Body Company was started in 1925 in Lima, Ohio. The company aquired a new 20,000 sq. ft. plant on the edge of town. The company introduced a line of funeral cars and ambulances due to the emerging need. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F03_001_001
Subjects: Business and Labor; Factories
Places: Lima (Ohio); Allen County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of the Middletown Building and Deposit Association nearby State Routes 4 and 73, in Middletown, Butler County, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F03_008
Subjects: Building and loan associations; Banks and banking
Places: Middletown (Ohio); Butler County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads "Cinci., O., Sept. 1937. Eden Park view" Eden Park Located between Gilbert Avenue and Columbia Parkway (U.S.) and comprised of about 185 acres in the Mount Adams community of Cincinnati, Ohio, Eden Park was assembled by a series of purchases beginning in 1859. The name came, naturally, from the Garden of Eden and was given by Nicholas Longworth who owned a large tract which constitutes the main portion of the park. Eden Park is the home of the Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati Art Academy, the Navigation Monument, the Capitoline Wolf Statue, and the Irwin M. Krohn (Eden Park) Conservatory. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F08_003_1
Subjects: Parks--Ohio--Cincinnati; Parks--Cincinnati (Ohio)
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph collected by the Ohio Federal Writers' Project shows Herrman & McLean, a grocery store located 621-619 Lorain Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio. Employees pose outside the two-story brick building. Signs on the building read: Canned Goods, Garden & Field Seeds, Our Specialty the Standard Flour, Finest Teas Coffees and Spices, Foreign & Domestic Fruits and Vegetables. Directory listing for the grocery reads as follows: "Herrman-McLean Co., The. D. E. McLean, Pres. and Treas.; Chas. O. Hirsching, Sec.; Grocers, 619-621 Lorain and 1817 Pearl, also Flour and Feed, 608 to 612 Lorain and 837 to 841 Pearl." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F08_13_01
Subjects: Cleveland (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Grocers United States; Grocery stores
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Interlake Iron Corporation." The Interlake Iron Corporation Plant, on Front Street in Toledo, Ohio was built in 1902 by Pickands Mather of the Toledo Furnace Company and was designed to be the most modern pig iron plant in the world. This plant was purchased from Toledo Furnace Company in 1929 by the By Products Corporation, and, the company having acquired several other properties as well, decide to rename itself Interlake Iron Corporation. Though successful for quite awhile, by 1978 Interlake decided to take a write-off for closing the plant in Toledo, as it had exhausted its useful life. By 1986, most of the plant had been dismantled or demolished, and by 1997 it had been completely torn down. The city of Toledo purchased the land and around 2005 extensively excavated and cleaned the site and surrounding area to make way for improvements along Front Street. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F01_011_001
Subjects: Pig-iron; Iron foundries--United States; Industries--Ohio--Toledo
Places: Toledo (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Herbrand Corp." Herbrand was established in Fremont, Ohio in 1881 Charles Thompson. Patent records suggest that Jacob Herbrand of Fremont, Ohio may have been one of the company's founders. The company began as a maker of vehicle springs and suspension systems, as a number of such patents were assigned to the company between 1881 and 1900. In 1919, "Van-Chrome" was used as a trademark for Herbrand alloy steel tools, which was a popular form of toolmaking at this time. As the popularity of the automobile emerged in the early 20th century, Herbrand expanded production of drop-forged tools for automobile tool kits to high-volume retailers such as Western Auto Supply and Montgomery Ward. By the 1930s, the shift of focus to the higher end professional market broadened the Herbrand tool line as it included a larger range of automotive service tools, including drive tools, sockets, and gear pullers. Throughout the 1940’s, Herbrand continued as a full-service independent tool company. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F07_006_1
Subjects: Industries--Ohio; Drop-forging; Hand tools; Kelsey-Hayes Company
Places: Fremont (Ohio); Sandusky County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "West entrance to Statehouse." This photograph shows the Doric columns that surround the Ohio Statehouse and the Doughboy Ohio World War Memorial statue. The Doughboy Ohio World War Memorial stands at the west entrance of the Ohio Statehouse, on Capitol Square. Erected in 1930, the statue was the work of Arthur Ivone, and stands as a tribute to those from Ohio who participated in World War I. Several possible explanations exist as to the origin of the nickname; the obvious being related to doughnuts, the other being the soldiers’ dumpling shaped buttons. The West entry into the Statehouse is symbolically guarded by two of these statues honoring Ohioans who served their country in two defining conflicts at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. The inscription on the base at the front reads: “To Justice in War And Lasting Peace After Victory. 1917 – 1918. Dedicated June 23, 1928”, which was a reference to former President Woodrow Wilson’s “Peace Without Victory” argument to keep American out of the war. The Ohio State Capitol, located at 1 Capitol Square, is a 2 acre building which stands in a 10-acre park bounded by High, Broad, State, and Third Streets, in downtown Columbus. Also known as the Ohio Statehouse, Columbus residents would often take advantage of the wide green lawns by allowing their cows and horses to graze there during the night. Legislative action ended the use of the building for a stable in 1878, but newspaper reports show that they remained through the 1880's. The beauty of the massive limestone structure depends principally upon simplicity and strength, emphasized by a row of Doric columns at each of its four entrances. The dome is the result of a compromise. The original design called for a dome surrounded by a colonnade that would harmonize with the general architecture, but the plan never was carried out because of bickering by legislators over cost and details of construction. The cornerstone was laid in 1839, and although the building was occupied by some State departments in 1857, it was not completed until 1861, 22 years after it was begun. When Henry Walter of Cincinnati was appointed supervising architect in 1839, numerous plans for the building were considered and the one finally adopted was a composite. Both convict and private labor were used, and limestone was hauled from a quarry northwest of Columbus, purchased by the State to ensure enough material, on a railroad especially constructed for that purpose. Delays in securing State appropriations, a severe cholera epidemic, and labor difficulties retarded construction work, which at one time ceased for six years. Before the building was completed, five architects had served during the administrations of 12 governors. It is considered one of the country’s outstanding examples of the Greek Revival style and at the time, it was the second largest building, behind only the United States Capitol building. The total cost of the capitol approximated $1,650,000. An annex, directly east of the capitol and connected with it by a stone terrace, was completed in 1901 at a cost of $450,000. The capitol proper is 504 feet long and 184 feet wide, with 12 – 15 inches thick foundation walls. The annex, 220 feet long and 100 feet wide, conforms architecturally with the main building. A flight of 12 steps from each of the four entrances to the capitol leads to a central rotunda. Offices of the governor and other State officials flank the four marble-floored foyers. Elaborately carved woods, marbles from many lands, and paintings and sculpture by noted American artists adorn the interior. In the center of the inlaid marble floor of the rotunda are 13 blocks, each representing one of the thirteen original States, surrounded by three circles and a sunburst of 32 points, one for each State at the time the marble was laid. One circle represents the unorganized territory at the time the Union was formed; another, the Louisiana Purchase; and the third, the territory acquired in the war with Mexico. A fourth circle, enclosing the sunburst, symbolizes the Constitution. Battle flags of Ohio – many of them shell-torn and bearing other service scars – are displayed in cabinets. Large historical murals by William Mark Young adorn the rotunda and the walls flanking the four main stairways. The rich decorations ascending the dome culminate in an illuminated reproduction, in art glass, of the Great Seal of Ohio. Tablets at the entrances to the rotunda pay tribute to Andrews’ Raiders of the Civil War; to Major General Benson Hough, Ohio soldier and jurist; to soldiers and sailors of the Civil War; and to 51 women leaders in the feminist movement, including several Ohioans. Other tablets commemorate the sesquicentennial (1937) of the Northwest Territory and the founding of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States (1899) in Columbus. Stairways lead from the floor of the rotunda to the Hall of Representatives and the Senate Chamber. At the head of the stairway on the north side stands the Lincoln Memorial, a bust of Lincoln executed by T.D. Jones. Directly to the east is a wall panel showing in relief a group of Union and Confederate officers who participated in the battle of Vicksburg. Outstanding among the capitol’s works of art is a large painting in the east foyer, Battle of Lake Erie, by William H. Powell. A copy of this paining is displayed in the nation’s Capitol. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F04B_007_1
Subjects: Capitol buildings; Memorials--Ohio; War memorials Ohio; Capitol Square District (Columbus, Ohio); Governors--Ohio; Ohio. House of Representatives; Ohio. Senate; Walter, Henry
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: National colors of the 26th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. This flag is largely deteriorated. It has not been cataloged in this collection. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01911
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Painting of national colors of the 176th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Rectangular flag measures 171 cm high by 201 cm wide. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02587
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
 

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_B04F693_006
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)