Description: This photograph depicts an acetylene cutting machine, used to cut round shapes out of plate steel. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B04F63_001
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry
 

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_B02F268_09
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: A Liberian man and American man standing for a photograph outside, in front of grass-roof huts around other Liberians. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_P3_B02F07_J
Subjects: People; Men; Women; Photography
Places: Liberia (Africa)
 

Description: Illustration 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. Caption reads: "Phalanx soldiers taking the oath of allegiance to the United States." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: blackphalanx_08
Subjects: African American soldiers; Civil War 1861-1865
 

Description: Confederate currency produced in Richmond, Virginia in the amount of one dollar. Confederate currency was originally produced in the capital of Montgomery, Alabama. After Virginia seceded from the Union the capital was moved to Richmond in May 1861, where currency was then printed. Toward the end of the Civil War, the currency significantly lost value and many of the notes in existence were destroyed. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_VFM28_1
Subjects: Confederate States of America; Currency; Civil War 1861-1865
Places: Richmond (Virginia)
 

Description: This rectangular kitchen table has turned legs and is made of vanished wood. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H79219
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Furniture
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This soldering iron is made of copper and iron. It is a two pound soldering iron. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H72201
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Tools and equipment
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated 1920, this photograph shows Florence Kling Harding, wife of Warren G. Harding, sitting at a table writing, with a man sitting across from her. Warren G. Harding and another man stand in the background. 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_B20F56_002
Subjects: Harding, Florence Kling, 1860-1924; First ladies (United States); Ohio women; Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics
Places: Marion (Ohio); Marion County (Ohio)
 

Description: Author-conservationist Louis Bromfield writing a book to finance agricultural and social activities at Malabar Farm, Richland County, Ohio, August 1948. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00638
Subjects: Agricultural conservation; Cultural Ohio -- Literary Ohio
Places: Lucas (Ohio); Richland County (Ohio)
 

Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the route of the Miami and Erie Canal in Miami County between stations 8311 and 8432, including the feeder canal. The Miami River, bridges, railroads, ponds, lakes, 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 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: BV4927_007
Subjects: Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio; Rivers--Ohio
Places: Miami County (Ohio);
 

Description: Display of the National Colors of the 59th Ohio Veteran's Volunteer Infantry with Civil War era weapons, ca. 1870 to 1890. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03300
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Flags; Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry, 59th (1861-1865)
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: "Air Raid--Know the rules," a World War II Office of Civil Defense poster promoting defense of the United States within its borders, ca. 1940-1945. Civilians were encouraged to understand the actions to take in case of an air raid siren warning. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04771
Subjects: World War II; World War, 1939-1945--War work; Ohio History--Military Ohio; War posters--Ohio