Description: This image depicts the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company's Hubbard works. Pennsylvania & Lake Erie Railroad cars are pictured. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B02F23_011
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. Hubbard works; Steel industry; Blast furnaces; Railroad cars; P&LE
Places: Hubbard (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_B02F328_05
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Yvonne Walker-Taylor as a young child standing in the yard of her family's home in Chelsea Massachusetts. Walker-Taylor was the daughter of Reverend Dougal Ormonde Beaconfield Walker, president of Wilberforce University in the 1940s. Walker-Taylor later went on to follow in his footsteps, and became one of the first female African American college president in the United States when she was named the 16th president of Wilberforce University in 1984. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P2_B05F06_E_3
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Howard University; Wilberforce University; African American Educators; African American women; African American children
 

Description: This walnut kitchen table was made in the United States. The removable three-plank top of the table has cleats at each end. There are three utility drawers that are dovetailed and have wood knob pulls. The tapered, thick square legs have molded stiles. An inch or so has been removed from each leg and a caster has been added to each. The Ohio Historical Society purchased this table from T. F. Thornton of Milan, Ohio, in 1966. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8247
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Furniture
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photographic reproduction shows an exterior view of the tailor shop and general store in Zoar, Ohio, ca. 1890-1909. The Society of Separatists of Zoar originally established the general store to sell excess goods they produced to Zoar visitors. Led by Joseph Bimeler (sometimes spelled Bäumeler) in 1817, a group of Lutheran separatists left the area of Germany known as Wurttemberg and eventually established the small community of Zoar in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. The community of Zoar was not originally organized as a commune, but its residents had a difficult time surviving in 1818 and early 1819. As a result, on April 19, 1819, the group formed the Society of Separatists of Zoar. Each person donated his or her property to the community as a whole, and in exchange for their work, the society would provide for them. Additional modifications to the society's organization were made in 1824 and a constitution established in 1833. In the decades following the establishment of the Zoar commune, the Separatists experienced economic prosperity. The community was almost entirely self-sufficient and sold any surpluses to the outside world. In addition to agriculture, Zoar residents also worked in a number of industries, including flour mills, textiles, a tin shop, copper, wagon maker, two iron foundries, and several stores. The society also made money by contracting to build a seven-mile stretch of the Ohio and Erie Canal. The canal crossed over Zoar's property, and the society owned several canal boats. The canal traffic also brought other people into the community, who bought Zoar residents' goods. By the second half of the nineteenth century, the community was quite prosperous. After Bimeler's death in 1853, the unity of the village declined, and by 1898 the Zoarites disbanded the society. The remaining residents divided the property, and the community continued to prosper in Zoar. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00827
Subjects: Zoar (Tuscarawas County, Ohio); Society of Separatists of Zoar; Stores and shops; Ohio Economy--Business
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This wood screw clamp was handmade. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H73256
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Tools and equipment
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Joe Munroe, photographed in 1976 by John Blaustein. Blaustein was a photographer best known for his work on the Grand Canyon. He co-authored (with Edward Abbey) ""The Hidden Canyon,"" a book about the Grand Canyon. 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_B34_F2420_JPG260
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Portrait photography; Freelance photography; Blaustein, John, 1947-;
Places: California
 

Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the Hocking Canal through Fairfield County, between stations 649 and 773. The Hocking River and Pleasant Run are pictured, and railroads, stations, locks, and other landmarks along the route are also noted. The map was created under the direction of the members of the Canal Commission of the state of Ohio and approved by the Chief Engineer of the Department of Public Works (variously referred to as the Board of Public Works and the Division of Public Works). Construction began on the Hocking Canal in 1831 and was completed in 1843, connecting Athens and Carroll and running roughly parallel in sections to the Hocking River. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: BV4921_006
Subjects: Hocking Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio; Rivers--Ohio
Places: Fairfield County (Ohio)
 

Description: This headshot portrait photograph is of Reverend Henry Blanton Parks (1859-1936). Parks had pastorates at Sugar Hill, Georgia; New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Greenville and Vicksburg, Mississippi; Topeka, Kansas; Omaha, Nebraska; and Kansas City, Kansas. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_aaeo_allen_004
Subjects: African Americans; Clergy; African Methodist Episcopal Church;
 

Description: This is a reproduction of a photograph depicting John Klassen, his wife and five children, ca. 1923. The Klassen family immigrated from the Ukraine and settled in Bluffton, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02638
Subjects: Immigrants--Ohio; Multicultural Ohio--Ethnic Communities
 

Description: This is a right profile view of the wedding dress and poke hat worn by Anne Catherine Spurck on July 4, 1817, in Chillicothe, Ohio. Made of oyster white-colored silk and taffeta, the dress features an empire waist with a drawstring at the back and a paneled bodice on the front. A cream silk figured poke hat with ribbons accompanies the dress. Anne Catherine Spurck (1798-1879) married Peter Dittoe (1793-1868), and the couple is buried at Holy Trinity Cemetery in Somerset, Ohio. This dress was featured in an exhibition titled Fashion on the Ohio Frontier 1790-1840 at the Kent State University Museum in Kent, Ohio View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05013
Subjects: Wedding costume; Women; Clothing and dress; Hats; Dresses
Places: Chillicothe (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: Salmon Portland Chase was a prominent attorney and politician during the nineteenth century. He was born on January 13, 1808, in Cornish, New Hampshire. In 1829, he passed the bar exam and moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, to establish his own law practice. An ardent abolitionist, Chase represented many fugitive slaves trying to win their freedom. He held many political offices, including United States Senator, Governor of Ohio, Secretary of the Treasury, and Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Chase died in New York City on May 7, 1873. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04218
Subjects: Chase, Salmon P., 1808-1873; Governors--Ohio; Abolitionists; Lawyers--Ohio; Ohio History--State and Local Government; Activists
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)