Description: This photograph depicts a steelworker operating the No. 10 Crane. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B05F84_001
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry; Steel workers
 

Description: Paul B. White 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_B01F082_18
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Republic Steel Corporation -- Employees
Places: Ohio
 

Description: This oval soap dish is made of tin and pierced. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H9415
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Soap
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This oval-shaped tin tray was pressed together. It has a scalloped pattern. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H9428
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Kitchen utensils--United States--History
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Joseph C. Brand (1810-1897), who was an agent of the Underground Railroad in Urbana, Champaign County, Ohio. Brand was born to a slave-holding family in Kentucky. After migrating to Ohio, he developed strong anti-slavery sentiments. Brand delivered the warning message to the Mechanicsburg community that federal marshals were on their way to capture Addison White, who had escaped slavery in Kentucky. This photograph was taken in 1889 and 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: AL03114
Subjects: Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Underground Railroad--Ohio; Antislavery movements--Ohio--History--19th century; Abolitionists;
Places: Urbana (Ohio); Champaign County (Ohio)
 

Description: John M. Comly (1773-1850) lived in the house pictured here during the days of the Underground Railroad. The image, taken in 1930, 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: AL03203
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Pennsylvania; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights
Places: Upper Dublin Township (Pennsylvania); Montgomery County (Pennsylvania)
 

Description: Collegienne blouse shop, on the third floor of The F. & R. Lazarus Company, ca. 1950-1959. 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: AL04442
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Economy--Business; Lazarus Department Store
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing Ruth Weinman Herndon with the Weinman family's Franklin roadster. Ruth Weinman (1907-2002) was a life-long resident of Columbus, Ohio. Born September 6, 1907, she was the daughter of Henrietta Heinmiller Weinman (1869-1957) and William Nelson Weinman (1868-1950), owner of the Weinman Pump Manufacturing Company. The Weinmans were a prominent German-American family in central Ohio throughout the 20th century. Ruth lived with her parents at 380 King Avenue in Columbus until 1914, when her parents hired Columbus architect Frank Packard to build a home at 1445 Roxbury Road in Marble Cliff. After graduating from Columbus School for Girls in 1925, Ruth studied sociology at Ohio State University, graduating in 1929. She married L. Kermit Herndon. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06053
Subjects: Automobiles; Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development; Children; German Americans
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Exterior view of the home of Henry C. Shetrone, archaeologist and former director of the Ohio Archeological and Historical Society, in Columbus, Ohio. Shetrone's most important work, "The Mound-Builders," published in 1930, was a comprehensive synthesis of Ohio's mound-building cultures in relation to what was then known about the archaeology of eastern North America. As director of the Ohio Historical Society, he focused his efforts on preserving archaeological sites and promoting public education about Ohio's Native American heritage. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02863
Subjects: Dwellings; Other--Ohio Historical Society
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows the Oldest Concrete Street in America in Bellefontaine, Ohio. In 1891, Bellefontaine city engineer J.C. Wonders decided to pave the street surrounding the courthouse square with Portland cement concrete. As a result of this innovation, Wonders became known as the father of concrete paving. Concrete was a smooth surface that was very durable. An automobile ride on concrete was much less bumpy than previous rides on dirt roads or even on brick. Wonders' idea led the state of Ohio to appoint him as State Highway Commissioner in 1907. He was only the second commissioner in Ohio's history. In the years that followed, the state began to pave a number of its roads. It would still be a long time before the majority of roads were paved, as the process took time and was expensive. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06512
Subjects: Roads--United States--History; Ohio State Highway Patrol; Transportation--Canal--Railroad--Roads
Places: Bellefontaine (Ohio); Logan County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph from the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus is of 23-year-old Navy veteran Russell Eugene Koons of Springfield, Ohio. His formal attire suggests that the photograph was taken during his trial or sentencing. Koons was convicted of murdering his mother, Margaret, with a hatchet, and became the 250th individual to be executed via the electric chair in Ohio. The caption at the bottom reads: “No. 250, Russell Eugene Koons of Clark County, Legally Electrocuted April 2, 1947, for the Murder of Mrs. Margaret Allen Koons.” 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: AL08304
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
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of a broadside announcing the last grand rally of the Republican Party at Eaton, Ohio. It is to take place on Monday evening, October 11, 1880. One of the prominent speakers is the Hon. W. M. Bateman. there will also be a torchlight procession. All the Glee Clubs in the county are invited to participate. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS2230_01
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government; Republican Party; Broadsides
Places: Eaton (Ohio); Preble County (Ohio)