Description: Harvested grain at the Ohio State University, College of Agriculture. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F03_014_1
Subjects: Agriculture--Ohio--History--20th century.; Harvesting
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Photograph of "Tobacco Harvest" painted by Richard Zoellner in 1938. Painting located in the post office in Georgetown, Ohio in Brown County. Photographed by Connie Girard in 1988. The photo is from the Ohio Post Office Artwork Collection, AV 48. The collection represents thirty murals or plaster reliefs installed in twenty-five Ohio post offices between 1937 and 1943. In 1988, Connie Girard photographed the artwork. Photos were published in the article “Not By Bread Alone, Post Office Art of the New Deal.” Timeline. June-July 1989, p. 2-19 by Gerald Markowitz and Marlene Park. In 1932, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected President he promised Americans a "New Deal" and created public works programs to provide jobs for the millions of unemployed people, including artists. Ten thousand unknown and established artists were commissioned by the government to create murals, paintings, photographs, posters, prints and sculpture. The goal was not only to employ artists, but also to bring fine art into the daily lives of all people. The Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) was funded for six months in 1933 – 1934. The PWAP was succeeded by the Treasury Department’s Section of Painting and Sculpture. Organized in 1934 the Section of Painting and Sculpture operated until 1943. Under the auspices of this organization sixty-six new Ohio post offices received artwork. The majority of the post offices were located in small towns. Post offices were chosen as a location for artwork because, particularly in small towns, they were centers of community activity. Most of the painted murals or murals in plaster relief created are realistic images reflecting the history, common activities or major industries of the communities in which the post offices are located. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: av48_b2_f18_01
Subjects: Post office stations and branches--Ohio--Photographs; Public art--Ohio--Photographs; Public Works of Art Project (United States); New Deal art
Places: Georgetown (Ohio); Brown County (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_B05F1010_009
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of hikers in Conkles Hollow, Hocking County, Ohio, June 1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02685
Subjects: Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; Hocking Hills State Park (Ohio)
Places: Hocking County (Ohio)
 

Description: Picture of a man riding in a harness attached to a white horse. Man appears to be riding away from a horse stable that is depicted in the background. Harness racing is a form of horse racing in which the horses race at a specific gait (a trot or a pace). They usually pull two-wheeled carts called sulkies, although racing under saddle (trot monté in French) is also conducted in Europe. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B14F04_004_001
Subjects: Horse racing; Horse-drawn vehicles; Urbana (Ohio)
Places: Urbana (Ohio); Champaign County (Ohio)
 

Description: Open Hearth Plant at Republic Steel Youngstown, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0012_B04F31_001
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel Industry; Open-hearth furnaces; Ingots
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: Titled "Roustabouts Loading Driftwood," this photograph shows men loading wood on the Greene Line Steamer. Photo taken in 1938 by Paul Briol. The original Chris Greene was destroyed by fire in 1922 along with The Island Queen, the Morning Star, the Cincinnati, the Tacoma, and several wharf boats. The second Chris Greene, built 1925, serviced the Cincinnati-Pomeroy-Charleston run commanded by Captain Chris Greene. Beginning in 1934 Captain Volney E. White serviced the Cincinnati-Louisville run. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F09_004_001
Subjects: Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project--Works Progress Administration--Steamboat
Places: Ohio River
 

Description: This photograph depicts the base of a blast furnace during the process of plugging the tapping hole. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B01F19_019
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry; Blast furnaces
 

Description: Illustration of the Jewish Synagogue located at the corner of Plum Street and Eighth in Cincinnati, from "Cincinnati, from 1800 to 1875, a condensed history of Cincinnati," by E. H. Austerlitz. The cornerstone for the Plum Street Temple was laid on May 12, 1865, and the completed building was dedicated on August 24, 1866. Designed by James Keyes Wilson, it is constructed in the Byzantine-Moorish style--one of only two such synagogues in the United States. The longtime leader of the synagogue was Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, and Plum Street Temple is closely associated with the founding of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations in 1873, the Hebrew Union College in 1875, and the Central Conference of American Rabbis in 1889. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04254
Subjects: Jewish social life and customs; Multicultural Ohio--Ethnic Communities; Religious facilities; Synagogues--Ohio--Cincinnati; Judaism
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This Hitchcock chair is made of maple painted blue and yellow. There are stenciled decorations on the chair. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8648
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Furniture
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Getting ready for Christmas at the U.S. First Marine Aircraft Base (K-3) in Pohang Dong, Korea, 1953. PFC Michael Petrucci had gone on leave to Japan to buy a quantity of decorations for inside the G-1 Headquarters Personnel office on the base. Petrucci was born August 9, 1930, in Youngstown, Ohio, where he grew up and attended school. Petrucci enlisted in the Marine Corps in July of 1952, and began basic training at Cherry Point Marine Base in North Carolina in August 1953. He received orders for overseas duty in May 1953, but when the United States and North Korea ended hostilities in July 1953, his transfer to Korea was halted. Petrucci was eventually sent to Korea in September 1953 and stationed at the First Marine Aircraft Wing base in the town of Pohang Dong, where he served until July 1954. By September 1954, Petrucci had returned to civilian life in Youngstown, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07493
Subjects: Ohio History--Military Ohio; Military life; United States Marine Corps; Korean War (1950-1953); Christmas
Places: Pohang Dong (Korea)
 

Description: This fan-shaped wagon tongue was made from wood with iron hardware. The wagon tongue extends from the body of the wagon and is used to pull the wagon. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H73525
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Wagons
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)