Description: This image depicts the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company's Hubbard works and blast furnaces. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B02F23_001
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. Hubbard works; Steel industry; Blast furnaces; Steel workers
Places: Hubbard (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph was taken while First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was on a tour of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company's Campbell Plant in November 1939. Shown are (from left to right) Sam Carbon, J.S. Stanier, J.C. Argetsinger, Mrs. Roosevelt, C.A. Davis, and J.H. Krehl. In her "My Day" column, printed in newspapers through the country, she noted that the cost of production in Youngstown was higher than in places that have access to water transportation. She suggested that unless a canal was built, providing access to the Great Lakes, it might be impossible for Youngstown to remain competitive. The photograph was used in a story that appeared in the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Bulletin on November 20, 1939. It measures 8"" by 10"" (20.32 by 25.4 cm). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1637_1911234_003
Subjects: Presidents and Politics; Transportation; Business and Labor; Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry; Canals; Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962; First ladies
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning 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_B02F327_10
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Eva Walker with two unidentified individuals. Eva was the wife of Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker, 10th president of Wilberforce University and 66th Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Eva and Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker were the parents of Yvonne Walker-Taylor who 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_B05F06_D_1
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Howard University; Wilberforce University; African American Educators; African American women
 

Description: This is an image of a grain bin. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8239
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Vessels (containers)
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photographic reproduction shows an exterior view of the Zoar Hotel. The older portion of the hotel, constructed in 1833, is in the background. The addition to the hotel, constructed in 1892, is in the foreground. The addition was necessitated by the increase in visitors to Zoar that resulted from the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad coming to town in the mid 1880s. 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. Each person donated his or her property to the community as a whole, and in exchange for their work, the society would provide for them. Additional modifications to the society's organization were made in 1824 and a constitution established in 1833. In the decades following the establishment of the Zoar commune, the Separatists experienced economic prosperity. The community was almost entirely self-sufficient and sold any surpluses to the outside world. In addition to agriculture, Zoar residents also worked in a number of industries, including flour mills, textiles, a tin shop, copper, wagon maker, two iron foundries, and several stores. The society also made money by contracting to build a seven-mile stretch of the Ohio and Erie Canal. The canal crossed over Zoar's property, and the society owned several canal boats. The canal traffic also brought other people into the community, who bought Zoar residents' goods. By the second half of the nineteenth century, the community was quite prosperous. After Bimeler's death in 1853, the unity of the village declined, and by 1898 the Zoarites disbanded the society. The remaining residents divided the property, and the community continued to prosper in Zoar. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00855
Subjects: Zoar (Tuscarawas County, Ohio); Society of Separatists of Zoar; Communal societies; Hotels
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This broom machine was made by hand of wood and has "Shibert Zoar" marked on it. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H73242
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Tools and equipment
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Virginia Munroe is photographed by her husband as she prepares paper for her monotype prints. Monotyping is an artform that requires the user to cover a metal or plastic plate with ink, then, using a press, apply the ink-covered plate to the print medium (i.e. paper, silk, fabric, etc.). Joe Munroe's career began in 1939 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He served in the Air Force during World War II and then joined Cincinnati-based Farm Quarterly magazine. Though raised in Detroit, agriculture became an important subject of Joe's photographs. He moved to California in 1955 and free-lanced, taking magazine assignments and selling his own work. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P400_B34_F2485_JPG335
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Monotype; Portrait photography; Freelance photography; Prints and printmaking; Artists
Places: California
 

Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the Hocking Canal through Hocking County, passing by the small community of Enterprise, between stations 1203 and 1295. The Hocking River is pictured, and railroads, stations, locks, and other landmarks along the route are also noted. 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 began on the Hocking Canal in 1831 and was completed in 1843, connecting Athens and Carroll and running roughly parallel in sections to the Hocking River. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: BV4921_011
Subjects: Hocking Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio; Rivers--Ohio
Places: Hocking County (Ohio)
 

Description: This poster was produced during World War II with the slogan, "Shoot to Kill! Protect Your Victory Garden". During the war people were encouraged to plant their own gardens to increase the country's food supply. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02633
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945--Women; Ohio Economy--Agriculture
 

Description: This is a left profile view of the wedding dress and poke bonnet worn by Sarah Pearson in 1823 in Miami County, Ohio. Made of muslin and linen, the dress features an empire waist with a drawstring that ties in the back and a reinforced yoke lined with linen, with long and full sleeves. Sarah married her second cousin, Moses Pearson, and they had eight children, Rhoda, Mahalah, Timothy, Anna, Joshua, Abram, Nathan and Serepta. Sarah Pearson was a Quaker and member of the Mill Creek Friends Meeting House in Miami County. In 1837, Moses and Sarah were sent by the Indiana Yearly Missionaries to the Shawnee Indians who had recently been removed from Ohio to the present-day Kansas City, Missouri. Sarah died on February 7, 1844, and was buried in Union Joint Cemetery in Ludlow Falls, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04996
Subjects: Weddings; Wedding costume; Clothing and dress; Hats; Women--Ohio
Places: Miami County (Ohio)
 

Description: Don Carlos Buell was a military officer from Ohio who fought in the Seminole War, the Mexican War, and the Civil War. He was born on March 23, 1818, near Marietta, Ohio. After Buell graduated from West Point in 1841, he embarked upon a military career. During the Civil War, he succeeded William T. Sherman as commander of the Department of the Ohio and participated in the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, and Perryville. After the war was over, he worked in the iron and coal industry and as a government pension agent. Don Carlos Buell died on November 19, 1898, in Rockport, Kentucky. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04213
Subjects: Generals--United States; West Point (Military academy); Mexican War, 1846-1848; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio History--Military Ohio
Places: Marietta (Ohio); Washington County (Ohio)