Description: This photograph depicts the generator and pump room at Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company's Hubbard works. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B02F23_004
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. Hubbard works; Steel industry; Blast furnaces
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_07
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Yvonne Walker-Taylor and her husband Robert Harvey Taylor. 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_G
Subjects: Historical Black Colleges and Universities; Howard University; Wilberforce University; African American Educators; African American women; African American men
 

Description: This image is of a roasting pan. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8250
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Cooking tools and equipment
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows a group of Zoar villagers posed by the coal shed at the Bauer House, ca. 1890-1899. 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: AL00834
Subjects: Zoar (Tuscarawas County, Ohio); Society of Separatists of Zoar; Daily life; Small towns; Coal
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This leg-shaped wood pattern was made by hand of poplar View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H73260
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Tools and equipment; Woodworking tools
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Roswell Garst and his wife, Elizabeth, outside their home near Coon Rapids, Iowa, 1959. Nikita Khrushchev, who led the USSR from 1953 until 1964, visited the Garst Farm during his 1959 tour of the United States to look at Garst's new hybrid corn. The trip was viewed as a great help to US-Soviet relations in the midst of Cold War tensions. 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_B05_F02_1090_8_5
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Portrait photography; Cold War; Agricultural technologies; Garst & Thomas Hybrid Corn Company;
Places: Coon Rapids (Iowa);
 

Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the Miami and Erie Canal through Lucas County, between stations 421 and 645. Also pictured is the Maumee City Side-cut Canal between stations 0 and 30. Properties, railroads, stations, locks, and other landmarks along the route are 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 on the Miami and Erie Canal took place between 1825 and 1845, and the finished route connected Cincinnati and Toledo, as well as the Ohio River with Lake Erie. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: BV4923_004
Subjects: Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio;
Places: Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Audrey Wilcke Evans interviews Eleanor Roosevelt for WHIO Radio in Dayton, Ohio, ca. 1941. She was the station's first female radio personality. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02641
Subjects: Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women
Places: Dayton (Ohio)
 

Description: Cyanotype photograph of men posing amid converging railroad tracks, probably in south central Ohio, ca. 1880-1890. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03634
Subjects: Railroads; Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development
 

Description: Cincinnati Industrial Expositions were held between 1870 and 1888 to showcase the products of local business owners and to illustrate Cincinnati's important contributions to culture and technology during the late 1800s. This illustration, ca. 1875, shows a building known as the Music Hall. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04221
Subjects: Business; Ohio Economy--Architecture and Engineering;
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Zint Family Orchestra, ca. 1919. Pictured left to right are Lucille, Beulah, Frederick, Raymond, Kermit, and Arthur Zint. Members of the orchestra are the children of Jacob Christian Zint of Wapakoneta, Ohio, a local businessman who owned a saloon, shoe store, and candy store. Frederick, the eldest sibling, and his wife, Pearl Olsen Zent, performed with an opera company, vaudeville groups and tent and tableau shows until their first child was born in 1927. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05893
Subjects: Popular culture; Entertainers; Musicians; Wapakoneta (Ohio)--Biography--Pictorial works
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)