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_B02F280_03
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: This "Burma Shave" sign, photographed by Joe Munroe after a sleet storm in 1947, represents a forgotten and slower time in America. The sign, along with its five companions, made up one complete advertisement for Burma Shave. The signs in order read ""Does your husband/Misbehave/Grunt and Grumble/Rant and Rave/Shoot the brute/Some Burma Shave."" Joe Munroe was able to capture this moment in time, before postwar freeway reconstruction eliminated this clever type of sign. 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_B11_F05_001
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Advertisements; Signs
Places: Indiana
 

Description: Caption reads: "District #2. A scene in the early workshop of the National Cash Register Company. Dayton, Ohio. Montgomery County. See card #112. The birth of the Cash Register Industry." This is a photograph of a photo collage depicting an early workshop at the National Cash Register Company. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F08_037_1
Subjects: Industries--Ohio--Dayton; Business and Labor; Factories; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; National Cash Register Company
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Home of Captain William B. Miller, graduate of Grand River Institute and captain, owner and pilot of Mississippi River packets for 30 years. Carried supplies for the Union in Civil War; house was a station on Underground Railroad. Son of Gen. Travis Ayres Miller". View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F06_005_001
Subjects: Ashtabula (Ohio); Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Architecture, Domestic--Ohio--Pictorial works.
Places: Austinburg (Ohio); Ashtabula County (Ohio)
 

Description: Perry's Victory, painted by William Henry Powell of Cincinnati in 1865, illustrates Oliver Hazard Perry's decisive victory over the British fleet in the Battle of Lake Erie (Sept. 10, 1813). This victory ensured American control of the Great Lakes. The painting is currently hanging in the rotunda of the Ohio Statehouse. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00195
Subjects: Battle of Lake Erie, 1813; Ohio History--Military Ohio
Places: Lake Erie
 

Description: Photograph of a monument shop, ca. 1860-1869. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03731
Subjects: Small business; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business; Cemeteries
 

Description: Detail of the front façade of cabin where Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio. The photo was taken on February 7, 1936, at the Ohio State Fairgrounds, Columbus. Visible in the photograph are wooden exterior siding, a window, eaves, a partial view of a door frame, and the tiled ceiling of the cottage structure that enclosed the entire Grant Cabin. In 1888 the cabin had been removed from its foundation in Point Pleasant and placed aboard a boat for exhibition in Cincinnati. In August 1888, Henry T. Chittenden bought it in Cincinnati and had it moved to the state fairgrounds in Columbus for the Ohio Centennial Exposition of Sept. 4-Oct. 19, 1888, which commemorated the centennial of the Northwest Territory. After the exposition, the cabin remained on the state fairgrounds and in 1896 was moved into a structure purposely built to shelter and display it. It remained there until 1936. The cabin, in poor condition, was dismantled in February 1936. It since has been restored with period furniture and opened to public tours. Grant Birthplace is located at 1551 State Rt 232, in Point Pleasant (Clermont County), just off of U.S. Route 52, about five miles east of New Richmond. Ulysses Simpson Grant was an American military leader during the Civil War and the eighteenth president of the United States. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05810
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885; Historic preservation; Historic sites; Point Pleasant (Ohio); Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Birthplaces
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a picture of City Hall in Lebanon, Ohio. The City Hall is located on South Broadway and East Main, east of The Golden Lamb. Cars can be seen parked in front of City Hall and a truck can be seen passing by. "Wilson" is written on the side of the truck, and the phrase, "Milk Producers Union" can be seen above the roof of the cab. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B14F07_008_001
Subjects: Warren County (Ohio)--Pictorial works; Lebanon (Warren County, Ohio : Civil jurisdiction)--Pictorial works; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Antique and classic cars
Places: Lebanon (Ohio); Warren County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of an unknown house in Lebanon, Ohio. The building is an example of Federalist-style architecture. In the lower right window, advertising for a grocery store can be seen. Next to the house, an old Shell gas station is visible with an antique car parked in front of it.. The picture was taken from across the street, from a building with wrought ironwork on the porch. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F03_010_1
Subjects: Lebanon (Warren County, Ohio : Civil jurisdiction)--Pictorial works; Warren County (Ohio)--Pictorial works; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Antique and classic cars
Places: Lebanon (Ohio); Warren County (Ohio)
 

Description: This park sits on the corner of West Market Street and Mahoning Avenue and can be seen from the Trumbull County courthouse. It includes a reconstructed log cabin built on the site of the town’s first schoolhouse and memorials that honor the military service of local citizens. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F06_462
Subjects: War memorials--Ohio; Parks; Monuments--Ohio; Ohio History--Military Ohio
Places: Warren (Ohio); Trumbull 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_B04F794_016
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: Regimental colors of the 96th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Text on flag reads: Victory. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02076
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865