Description: This photograph depicts a large vessel pouring molten steel in an indoor setting. 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_B01F10_020
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry
 

Description: This photograph depicts a stream of molten iron at the base of a blast furnace on its way to transport ladles. A pile of slag is visible to the left of the molten iron. Blast furnaces burn alternating layers of iron ore and coke (as fuel) by forcing in large amounts of air, forming pig iron. This is the first step of the steelmaking process. This photograph belongs to the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company Audiovisual Archives, so it likely depicts a Youngstown company plant. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B01F19_012
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry; Blast furnaces; Iron casting; Slag
 

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_B02F240_05
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: This is an image of a rocking chair with stencil decorations. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8027
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Furniture
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This pillow tick is made of white linen that has been hand-sewn. It has "W M" sewn onto the linen. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H9613
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Bedding
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Fugitive slaves were hidden in the warehouse shown on the left before leaving Ashtabula Harbor to escape across Lake Erie to freedom in Canada. The image was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03153
Subjects: Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Underground Railroad--Ohio; Antislavery movements--Ohio--History--19th century
Places: Fairport (Ohio); Lake County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photomechanical reproduction of a portrait depicting Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1831-1917), ca. 1900. He was involved in the Underground Railroad in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. The image was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad as a way to interest his students in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03060
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Massachusetts; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Sanborn, F. B. (Franklin Benjamin), 1831-1917
Places: Middlesex County (Massachusetts)
 

Description: Photograph of employees of the C. W. Bryant Company constructing a temporary bridge across the Scioto River on Broad Street in Columbus, Ohio, after the 1913 flood. The temporary bridge was used until October 1921. Building this bridge was one of the first major construction jobs undertaken by the C. W. Bryant Company in Columbus. Charles William Bryant Jr. was born in Dayton in 1882, and from his start as a farmhand with a 3rd grade education would go on to become a prominent African American businessman, self-taught engineer, and owner of one of Columbus’ largest construction firms. The C. W. Bryant Rigging & Moving Co. was involved in major projects throughout Columbus, including the construction of a temporary Broad Street bridge following the 1913 flood, the removal of lighting arcs from High Street, and dismantling Hanford Village in 1962 for the construction of I-71. Bryant faced racial discrimination in his personal and professional life, including the refusal of local steelworkers’ unions to admit Bryant’s black employees, which forced Bryant Co. out of steel construction in the 1950s. He nonetheless expanded into other areas, including ownership of Bryco gas stations, a coal and oil company, the Litchford and Macon hotels, and the Ohio Malt Beverage Co.-the first African American distributor in Columbus. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04473
Subjects: African Americans; Bryant, Charles William, Jr. (1882-1964); Business and labor; Construction industry; Floods; Natural disasters--United States
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: People standing on the stepping stones near Upper Sandusky, Ohio, ca. 1930, on the Sandusky River. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's department store, and later as a travelling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). He was also an avid lifelong photographer, and the bulk of the Harry Kinley Collection is comprised of glass plate negatives documenting the Kinley family, the city of Upper Sandusky and Wyandot County and surrounding areas. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05399
Subjects: Rivers--Ohio; Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; Families
Places: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Ohio State University Agricultural Experiment Station in Wooster, Ohio. This property would later become Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute. The aims of this organization are to find ways to produce better crops to provide for the needs of an ever-growing world population. They also want to keep Ohio competitive in the field of agriculture through their work, finding ways to create more efficient crops that are also better for consumers. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06543
Subjects: Agriculture; Wayne County (Ohio); Education
Places: Wooster (Ohio); Wayne County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph from the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus is of 32-year-old Morzell Eakins of Cincinnati. His formal attire suggests that the photograph was taken during his trial or sentencing. Eakins was the 283rd individual to be executed via the electric chair in Ohio. The caption at the bottom reads: “No. 283 -- Morzell Eakins of Hamilton County, Legally Electrocuted April 27, 1951, for the Murder of Margaret Jordan.” In 1885 the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio, became the location for all executions, which previously took place in the various county seats. In 1896 the Ohio General Assembly mandated that electrocution replace hanging as the form of capital punishment. The Ohio Penitentiary regularly offered tours as well as souvenir photographs and postcards of the building and prisoners on death row. A total of 315 prisoners, both men and women, were executed in the electric chair known as “Old Sparky” between 1897 and 1963. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08335
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Capital punishment; Death row; Electrocution; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections; Ohio Penitentiary (Columbus, Ohio); Prisons--Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing telephone lines located along an unpaved street. The description located on the back of the photograph reads: "National Road (U. S. Route 40) ca., 1913 Mt. Sterling in distance looking west." Beginning construction in 1806, the National Road (also known as the Cumberland Road) was the first federally-funded interstate highway. Crossing six states from Cumberland, Maryland, to Vandalia, Illinois, over 220 miles of the 600-mile road pass through Ohio. During the nineteenth century it was an important commercial artery for Midwestern merchants and farmers, and in the twentieth century, it continued to be a major east/west route for automobile travel. The National Road has been named both an "All-American Road" and a "National Scenic Byway" by the U.S. Department of Transportation. General road scenes also included in this collection illustrate driving conditions before and after the National Road was paved. Prior to paving, photographs show that the National Road could be very rutted and muddy. There are also photographs of road construction, mile markers, photographic reproductions of maps, a sign that lists rates of toll, a tollbooth on the National Road, and a worker on the National Road. Other states represented in the collection include West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Illinois. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV119_B01_F10_07
Subjects: Roads; Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development; Travel; Streets--Ohio; National Road;
Places: Mount Sterling (Ohio); Madison County (Ohio);