Description: This milk pail is made of varnished tin. It has a wire and wood handle with an embossed lid. It is a 1 1/2 gallon pail and is marked with "25 Lb" Provenance: Bimeler, Levi View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H72498
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Vessels (containers)
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Charles A. Garlick was born a slave in 1827, with the name Abel Bogguess. He escaped from slavery into Pennsylvania and settled in Jefferson, Ashtabula County, Ohio, where he worked for Joshua R. Giddings. This photograph was taken in 1895. 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: AL03201
Subjects: Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; African Americans; Portrait photography
Places: Jefferson (Ohio); Ashtabula County (Ohio)
 

Description: Louisa Kenney of Cardington, Ohio, standing on porch stairs, ca. 1920-1929. The photograph comes from the collection of Evva Kenney Heath, the youngest of three siblings who were born to David and Louisa Kenney in Cardington, Ohio. Their father passed away when the children were young, and they were raised in Cardington by Louisa. All three attended and graduated from the predominantly white Cardington-Union Schools. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00114
Subjects: African American Ohioans; Women--Ohio; Families
Places: Cardington (Ohio); Morrow County (Ohio)
 

Description: A-2-11 wagon loader made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio. It is being demonstrated in the Jeffrey yard in Columbus, 1915. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01327
Subjects: Horse-drawn vehicles; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business; Jeffrey Manufacturing Company (Ohio)
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: 225 cubic foot electrically operated blast furnace cinder car built by the William B. Pollock Company of Youngstown, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0031_B02F40_001
Subjects: Slag; Steel industry; Hot metal
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: This art deco style illustration for “Labor” was not used in The Ohio Guide. It shows a man posed in front of a gear with smokestacks in the foreground to the left. This illustration is a photographic reproduction of a drawing. It is one of a series produced as possible chapter headings for The Ohio Guide. 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_037
Subjects: Books Chapter-headings; United States. Works Progress Administration of Ohio; Federal Writers' Project. Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Stock certificate for the Mahoning Coal Rail Road Company, ca. 1871-1900. The company, which was incorporated in 1871, extended from Youngstown, Ohio, to Andover, Ohio (a distance of about 38 miles). The certificate, numbered 972, has no information in its fields. An oval-shaped illustration includes images of a steamboat, locomotive and train cars, depot, and bystanders. Share price is $50. The company's predecessors were Mahoning and Shenango Valley; Shenango Valley; Stewart Railroad. Its successor was Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad, which in 1914 merged with New York Central and Hudson River Railroad to form New York Central Railroad. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05780
Subjects: Stock certificates--1890-1900; Railroads--Ohio; Mahoning County (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
 

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_B03F544_002
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: Gustav Herman Otto Labinski on the beach with his grandson Charles Gustav Willhelm Braun, Cleveland, Ohio, ca. 1915. Gustav Herman Otto Labinski immigrated to the United States with his wife, Anna Friedricka Albertina Pantermuhl, and daughters, Hilda and Dora Anna from Germany. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03753
Subjects: Beaches; Other--Family History; Families; Children
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of customers passing the "wall of air" at the F. & R. Lazarus Company entrance, 1960. Between 1851 and 1965, the F & R Lazarus Company retail store dominated the trade and physical landscape of Columbus. The company rose from its early years as a men's clothier in a 20 x 40 foot room downtown, to its position by 1965 as a member of the largest department store chain, Federated Department Stores. Lazarus' growth reflects that of the capital city; from small beginnings through a "golden age" of downtown development, and eventually branching out into the surrounding countryside. In 2003, the Lazarus Company was incorporated with Macy's, a member of the Federated Department stores, and is no longer in existence. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04418
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio); Lazarus Department Store; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Grace Lyttle, the cousin of Yvonne Walker-Taylor, after her graduation. Walker-Taylor was the daughter of Bishop Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker, the 66th Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and president of Wilberforce University in the 1940s. Walker-Taylor later went on to follow in his footsteps, and 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_B05F07_A_2
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Howard University; Wilberforce University; African American Educators; African American women
 

Description: This is a portrait of journalist and author William Dean Howells, ca. 1900. Howells was born on March 1, 1837, in Martinsville (now Martins Ferry), Ohio, but later moved with his family to Hamilton, Dayton, Xenia, Columbus, Ashtabula and finally Jefferson. By his early 20s, Howells had become a newspaper reporter; he also began to write poetry and published his first collection in 1859. The Atlantic Monthly also began to publish his literary work, and Howells' reputation grew quickly. In 1860, the Republican Party selected him to write a biography of their presidential candidate, Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln won the election of 1860 and rewarded Howells by appointing him the United States Consul to Venice. Howells remained in this position until 1865, when he returned to the United States and became an editor with The Atlantic Monthly, and later with Harper's and Cosmopolitan. Howells became a well-known novelist during the late 19th century, publishing his first novel, "Their Wedding Journey," in 1872. He authored 35 novels over the next fifty years, as well as numerous short stories, plays, and poems. Howells was the first president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died on May 11, 1920. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02671
Subjects: Authors; Journalism