Description: This photograph depicts stairs running along a blast furnace skip hoist. A skip hoist is a system of buckets mounted to transport materials up an incline. A blast furnace skip hoist transported coke, pig iron, and crushed limestone. 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_B02F28_011
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry; Blast furnaces--Equipment and supplies
 

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_01
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: This rectangular trinket box was made by hand of cardboard and glass. It is decorated with purple, green, and brown stickers and mirrors. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H81762
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Knickknacks
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This pillow tick is made of white linen that has been hand-sewn. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H9607
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Bedding
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dr. Henry Harris (b. 1805) kept a station on the Underground Railroad at Ashtabula, Ohio. After gaining the attention of pro-slavery individuals, Harris was sued by slave-owners in U.S. Circuit Court for aiding and abetting the escape of slaves. Eventually the suit was dismissed. This cabinet card is from Blakeslee and Co. at 97 1/2 Main Street, Ashtabula, 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: AL03104
Subjects: Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Underground Railroad--Ohio; Antislavery movements--Ohio--History--19th century; Abolitionists;
Places: Ashtabula (Ohio); Ashtabula County (Ohio)
 

Description: This home, in Newbury, Massachusetts, was built by Tristram Coffin Jr. in 1650. Joshua Coffin concealed fugitive slaves escaping to Canada on the Underground Railroad here. 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: AL03056
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Massachusetts; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Coffin, Joshua, 1792-1864
Places: Newbury (Massachusetts)
 

Description: Photograph of trucks used by the Ohio Malt Beverage Distributing Company based in Columbus, Ohio, 1950, with the A.I.U. Citadel, or LeVeque Tower, in the background . The company was owned by C. W. Bryant. 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: AL04469
Subjects: African Americans; Bryant, Charles William, Jr. (1882-1964); Business and labor;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Print depicting William Henry Harrison standing before a log cabin with the caption "General Harrison, the true friend of the people." Harrison was the Whig candidate for President in 1840 and his running mate was John Tyler. Their campaign slogan "Old Tippecanoe and Tyler Too" referred to Harrison's defeat of the Shawnee chief, Tecumseh, at Tippecanoe Creek in 1811. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06240
Subjects: Presidents--Election; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Presidential campaigns; Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841
Places: North Bend (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Charles F. Tschanen as Santa Claus with a horse-drawn sleigh outside the Wyandot County Courthouse in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. The Wyandot County Courthouse is one of the best-preserved examples of classical architecture from the turn of the century, built in 1899 on the site of a cemetery for soldiers who died in battle in the War of 1812. The County Municipal Courtroom served as the setting for courtroom scenes in the film “The Shawshank Redemption.” 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: AL05394
Subjects: Christmas trees; Holidays; Ohio History--State and Local Government; Photographers--Ohio; Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Historic buildings--Ohio;
Places: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Brumback Library, in Van Wert, was dedicated in 1901. The Brumback Library was built with funds bequeathed to Van Wert County residents by John Sanford Brumback, a former resident of Van Wert, for the purpose of building a free public library. Mr. Brumback's will directed that a sufficient sum from his estate be devoted to the erection and furnishings of a library building as a free gift to Van Wert County, if the County would provide for its equipment of books and maintenance. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06539
Subjects: Libraries; Education; Monuments & memorials;
Places: Van Wert (Ohio); Van Wert County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph from the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus is of Delbert Spencer, a 52-year-old coal miner. His formal attire suggests that the photograph was taken during his trial or sentencing. Spencer, convicted of murdering a woman near Glouster, was the 279th individual to be executed via the electric chair in Ohio. The caption at the bottom reads: “No. 279 -- Delbert L. Spencer of Athens County, Legally Electrocuted July 21, 1950, for the Murder of Pauline Bailey." 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: AL08331
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; Portrait photography
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Glouster (Ohio); Athens County (Ohio)
 

Description: This portrait photograph shows an unidentified Ohio soldier in military uniform, possibly dating to World War I. He wears a wool jacket with pins at the neck showing the initials "U.S." and the crossed sabres of a United States Army Cavalry Unit, and what appears to be an officer's cap. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P332_B3F1_059
Subjects: Military Ohio; Military uniforms; Soldiers -- Ohio -- Photographs;