Description: This photograph depicts an early stage in the construction of a billet mill. Billet mills are rolling mills that use steel ingots to produce steel billets, which are round or square and relatively small in cross section. 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_B01F11_012
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Billet mill; Steel industry
 

Description: Caption reads: "Refrigerator Assembly Line, Moraine City (Dayton). Photograph courtesy of General Motors Corporation, Frigidaire Division." This photograph shows refrigerators nearing their completion of assembly. The General Motors Corporation Frigidaire Division Plant No. 1, was located at 300 Taylor St., in Dayton, Ohio and together with the assembling plant at Moraine, south of Dayton, was the world's largest producer of electric refrigeration equipment and was Dayton's biggest single industry. GM spent $1.2 billion to convert the refrigerator plant to a truck-building plant, re-employing hundreds who had lost their jobs when GM sold the Frigidaire division in 1979 and it was closed. The GM plant announced the closure of the plant in 2008. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F02_024_001
Subjects: Industries--Ohio--Dayton; Assembly lines; Factories--United States; General Motors Corporation. Frigidaire Division, Dayton, Ohio
Places: Moraine (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Crazy quilt made of velvet and ribbons. Some of the ribbons on the quilt are: Buell Relief Corps. No. 70, Marietta Ohio, 15th District Convention Department of Ohio W. R. C. Delegate, New Philadelphia, Ohio 1901, 15th District W. R. C. Convention, Marietta, Ohio, 1896, Washington County 12th Convention Sunday School Association, Marietta, Ohio, 1900, Washington County Sunday School Association, Watertown, 1899, In Memoriam William McKinley died Sept. 14, 1901. Mottos embroidered in script also decorate the quilt. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06834
Subjects: Quilts; Needlework
Places: Ohio
 

Description: John W. Bullach Sr. identification photograph from the files of the Republic Steel Corporation, Central Alloy District. The Central Alloy District consisted of two plants: one in Canton, Ohio, and one in Massillon, Ohio. Identification photographs were taken over a period of time and logged into the files as one batch on June 3, 1942. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: YHC_MSS192_B01F069_06
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Republic Steel Corporation -- Employees
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Photograph of General Robert E. Lee, his son Major General George Washington Lee (right) and Colonel Walter Taylor (left), taken in August of 1862. General Lee was the leader of the armed forces of the Confederate States of America who surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, Virginia in April of 1865. Colonel Taylor was appointed a Staff Officer under General Lee during the Civil War and named one of his sons after him. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04549
Subjects: American Civil War, 1861-1865; Soldiers; Confederate States of America; Military officers
 

Description: Photograph of Richard Brandriff (1803-1887), who was involved with the Underground Railroad in Troy, Miami County, Ohio. 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: AL03161
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Ohio; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights
Places: Troy (Ohio); Miami County (Ohio)
 

Description: Back view of men's straw hat, ca. 1830-1850. This natural-colored hat has a brown leather hatband and is lined with pink and white silk that is marked "J & M Saunders, 21 N. Fourth St. Philadelphia." It is housed in a leather hat box and was worn by Israel Woodruff (1786-1851), father of Dr. Lafayette Woodruff. The hat was donated by Israel Woodruff's daughter-in-law, Catherine E. Woodruff, in 1937. Israel Woodruff died in 1851. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05049
Subjects: Hats; Popular culture; Clothing and dress; Men
 

Description: This photograph depicts a clamshell bucket loading or unloading raw material into or from rail cars. It may be transporting coke to support the operation of a blast furnace. 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_B01F20_001
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry; Blast furnaces; Clamshell bucket
 

Description: Dated October 20, 1936, this photograph shows an athletic field at Wilberforce University in Greene County, Ohio. This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F09_003_1
Subjects: Xenia (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio); Wilberforce University; Athletic fields
Places: Xenia (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of the pond and fountain in Cleveland Square (now called Public Square) with the caption, "Fountain and Boat s.w. cor. of Square--1876," from the collection of Louis Baus. Baus, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, was born in 1875. He began his career as a professional photographer doing studio work before becoming a staff photographer for the Cleveland Advocate in 1911. Baus worked for the paper, which was later purchased by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, for thirty-eight years until his death in 1949. He was also an avid collector of historic photographs. The Louis Baus Collection consists of over one thousand photographs mounted in eleven albums, showing historic Cleveland, the village of Zoar and Ohio covered bridges and mills. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P223_B01_A01_048
Subjects: Cities and towns; Sculptures; Parks; squares (open spaces);
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows an unidentified lathe operator at the National Cash Register Company in Dayton, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F08_029_1
Subjects: Industries--Ohio--Dayton; Business and Labor; Factories; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; National Cash Register Company; Lathes
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Cinder Car with Pot built by the William B. Pollock Company of Youngstown, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0031_B02F38_004
Subjects: Slag; Cinder Car; Steel Industry
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)