Description: Photograph of Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker and Bishop Reverdy C. Ransom with unidentified others after commencement at Wilberforce University. Walker was the 66th Bishop of the the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the 10th President of Wilberforce University. Ransom was the 28th Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. A graduate of Wilberforce University, he also served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Wilberforce University and was a delegate to the World Methodist Conference in Massachusetts in 1947. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B05F07_Q_1
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Wilberforce University; African American men; African American Educators; Religion in Ohio
Places: Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph depicts a type of checkered brick used for the interior lining of a blast furnace. The brick lining is refractory, meaning it can withstand incredibly high temperatures. Blast furnaces are used to smelt iron ore with coke to produce pig iron. This is the first step of steel production that occurs at mills. Air is forced into the bottom of the furnace, supporting the combustion, and giving the furnace its "blast" name. This photograph belongs to the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Audiovisual Archives, so its subject is likely located at a Youngstown company plant. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B02F26_010
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry; Blast furnaces--Linings; Brickwork
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Preble County Fairgrounds at Eaton,Ohio #1 & #2 Horse Barns July 13,1936" These barns were at the Preble County Fairgrounds. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F01_031_001
Subjects: County fairs; Horses; Barns
Places: Eaton (Ohio); Preble County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of the Ohio State University football stadium and its reflection in the Olentangy River, in Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1935-1943. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02825
Subjects: Stadiums; Ohio State University Football History;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Ohio Stadium was built in 1922 and was designed by Howard Dwight Smith. The total cost of construction was around $1.3 million. Ohio State played Ohio Wesleyan in the very first game in Ohio Stadium, which took place October 7, 1922. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F04D_015_1
Subjects: Sports; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Education; Universities and colleges; Stadiums; Football; National Register of Historic Places
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Regimental colors of the 331st Infantry Regiment, 83rd Infantry Division. Rectangular flag measures 131 cm high by 166 cm wide. Text on flag reads: 331st U.S. Infantry. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02277
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; World War, 1914-1918
 

Description: This photograph depicts an unidentified piece of coke plant machinery. Coke plants burn coal to remove its impurities and form it into coke, which is then used as a fuel in blast furnaces to make pig iron. This is the first step of the steelmaking process. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B04F69_009
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry; Coke plants
 

Description: This art deco style illustration for “Canton” was used in The Ohio Guide. It depicts the McKinley Monument. This illustration is a photographic reproduction of a drawing. It is one of a series produced as possible chapter headings for The Ohio Guide. A signature of the artist “A. Koerbling” can also be seen. From 1935 to 1942, the Works Progress Administration (WPA), through its Federal Writers' Project created The American Guide Series, which included forty-eight state guides, as well as supplemental guides for large cities, etc. The state guides are divided into three sections. In the first section are general essays about the state on things such as agriculture, culture, history, industry, religion, etc. The second section contains an overview of the various cities and towns around the state, as well as enumerating various points of interest. The last section is dedicated to various tours around the state. The tourist is taken from city to city, with turn by turn directions, and descriptions of what can be seen along the way. While much of the country has grown and changed since the guides were written, it is surprising how much remains, and sometimes more surprising what has been lost. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F16_064
Subjects: Books Chapter-headings; United States. Works Progress Administration of Ohio; Federal Writers' Project. Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Places: Canton (Ohio); Stark County (Ohio)
 

Description: Display of the National Colors of the 17th Ohio Veteran's Volunteer Infantry with Civil War-era weapons, ca. 1870 to 1890. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03581
Subjects: Flags; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Civil War
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of the ladies' latrine at Fort Ancient, Project No. 24 - B. Two brick public latrines veneered with chestnut oak were constructed. Project started August 15, 1934 and completed January 15, 1935. Fort Ancient features 18,000 feet of earthen walls built 2,000 years ago by American Indians who used the shoulder blades of deer, split elk antler, clam shell hoes and digging sticks to dig the dirt. They then carried the soil in baskets holding 35 to 40 pounds. Portions of the walls were used in conjunction with the sun and moon to provide a calendar system for the peoples. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: 3076_89_23_apr35_07
Subjects: Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); New Deal, 1933-1939; Fort Ancient State Memorial (Ohio); Outhouses
Places: Fort Ancient (Ohio); Warren County (Ohio)
 

Description: This oval basket was woven from straw and has added decorative clay flowers. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H47890
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Baskets (containers)
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Warren - Trumbull Co. Republic Steel Corp. Distric 6 files." Republic Steel Corporation was founded in 1899 in Youngstown, Ohio. The firm was originally known as Republic Iron and Steel Company. For the company's first three decades of existence, it prospered, as Ohio was one of the leading industrialist states of the period. In 1927, Cyrus Eaton purchased a majority of the stock in the Republic Steel Company. At the same time, Eaton also purchased stock in other companies. He hoped to unite these companies together to compete with the U.S. Steel Company—the largest steel manufacturer in the United States. Under Eaton's leadership, the Republic Steel Company expanded its manufacturing holdings to include plants in Massillon, Elyria, Canton, Cleveland, and Warren, Ohio. Thanks to Eaton's efforts, the Republic Steel Company emerged as the third largest steel producer in the United States. The Republic Steel Company, like many other businesses, faced an economic downturn during the Great Depression. The firm, unlikely many others, remained in operation and actually expanded its holdings by purchasing smaller steel companies as they went bankrupt. Tom Girdler now headed the company, and under his leadership, the firm's corporate headquarters moved to Cleveland. During the 1930s, the Republic Steel Company, as well as many other steel mills, faced tensions as its steel workers, wanting to unionize, started a strike over low wages and poor working conditions. While Republic Steel proved successful in the “Little Steel Strike of 1937,” with the outbreak of World War II, the firm quickly permitted unions in its mills so that the firm could acquire lucrative government contracts. The company prospered throughout the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, but competition from foreign steel, higher wages, and new environmental codes began to hurt the firm. The situation continued to worsen for the Republic Steel Company during the 1980s, and in 1984, the company merged with Jones and Laughlin to create LTV Steel. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F03_007_001
Subjects: Industries--Ohio; Steel-works--Ohio--Pictorial works; Republic Steel Corporation; Republic Iron & Steel Company
Places: Warren (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio)