Description: This photograph depicts the construction of Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company's Campbell works blast furnace "D". View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B01F16_019
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. Campbell works; Blast furnaces--Design and construction; Steel industry
Places: Campbell (Ohio); Mahoning Country (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph depicts a mud gun, which covers the hole of a blast furnace after tapping. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B01F19_010
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry; Blast furnaces
 

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_B02F275_01
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: Drilling well at the shelter house. The well driller arrived at the site with equipment on September 6, 1934. Drilling started where designated and stopped on September 14, 1934 at noon, at a depth of seventy-three feet. The report states that good water was found, clear and free of sulfur. The photo was taken as part of Project No. 31c, Wells and Water Holes. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: 3076_89_11_sep34_b9_04
Subjects: Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); New Deal, 1933-1939; Fort Hill State Memorial (Ohio); Wells
Places: Hillsboro (Ohio); Highland County (Ohio)
 

Description: Bruce Rauner, Governor of the State of Illinois, proclaiming June 1, 2016 as a day of recognition honoring Colonel Charles Young and the Buffalo Soldiers in Illinois. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS2009_B01F05_G
Subjects: African Americans; African American soldiers; Young, Charles, 1864-1922.; Buffalo Soldiers; National Minority Military Museum Foundation (NMMMF); Certificates
Places: Springfield (Illinois)
 

Description: Illustration of Union soldiers who escaped Confederate imprisonment being aided by African Americans in the South from "The Black Phalanx: A History of the Negro Soldiers of the United States in the Wars of 1775-1812, 1861-'65" by Joseph T. Wilson. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: blackphalanx_36
Subjects: African American soldiers; Slavery; African American men; Civil War 1861-1865
 

Description: Hand-drawn map of the West African country of Liberia done by Charles Young while on assignment as United States Military Attaché. The map was completed as a part of his larger intelligence-gathering duties. Charles Young was the first African American to reach the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army and, at the time of his death in 1922, was the highest-ranking African American officer in the Army. He is known for having been forced into retirement due to health concerns before the start of World War I and later riding from Wilberforce, Ohio, to Washington, D.C. to prove his physical fitness for duty. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_OVS_3
Subjects: African American soldiers; African American men; Military officers; World War I, 1914-1918; Young, Charles, 1864-1922.
 

Description: This handmade tin funnel includes a wire mesh strainer at the top to strain out the liquid being poured. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H9412_closed
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Kitchen utensils--United States--History; Tools
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This round serving plate is made of molded, clear glass. It is decorated with a floral pattern and hook handle. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H79277
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Dishes (vessels)
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated 1920, this photograph shows a man speaking from Warren G. Harding's porch in Marion, Ohio. Four men stand behind the speaker with their hats removed. This photograph is part of a photograph album in the Warren G. Harding Photograph Collection (P146). Warren G. Harding, the 29th President of the United States (1921-1923), was born in Blooming Grove, Ohio, in 1865. At age 14, Harding attended Ohio Central College in Iberia, Ohio, where he edited the campus newspaper and became an accomplished public speaker. He married Florence Kling de Wolfe in 1891, and embarked on his political career in 1900 by winning a seat in the Ohio legislature. After serving two terms as an Ohio Senator, Harding served as Lieutenant Governor in 1904 for two years before returning to the newspaper business. Although he lost the 1910 gubernatorial race, Harding was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1914. Political insider Harry Daugherty promoted Harding for the Republican presidential nomination in 1920. His front porch campaign was centered on speeches given from his home in Marion, Ohio, pledging to return the country to “normalcy” in this post World War I era. Harding easily won the election, gaining 61 percent of the popular vote. On August 2, 1923, Harding unexpectedly died from a massive heart attack while touring the western United States, and is entombed in the Marion Cemetery. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P146_B20P27_001
Subjects: Presidential campaigns; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Historic houses; Front porch campaign
Places: Marion (Ohio); Marion County (Ohio)
 

Description: Noted author and farmer Louis Bromfield works on his farm in Lucas, Ohio, in this photograph taken by Joe Munroe, 1951. Bromfield was an early proponent of organic and self-sustaining gardening, and life on Malabar Farm reflected these beliefs. 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_B27a_001
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Farm life; Farming and rural systems economics; Malabar Farm; Louis Bromfield
Places: Lucas (Ohio); Richland County (Ohio)
 

Description: National colors of the 17th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Text on flag reads: 17th Regt. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01891
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio History--Military Ohio