Description: This photograph depicts steelworkers grinding dies for couplings. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B05F81_014
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry; Steel workers; Couplings
 

Description: Photograph of "The Wright Brothers in Ohio" painted by Henry Simon in 1941. The painting is located in a post office in Fairborn, Ohio in Greene County. Photographed by Connie Girard in 1988. The photo is from the Ohio Post Office Artwork Collection, AV 48. The collection represents thirty murals or plaster reliefs installed in twenty-five Ohio post offices between 1937 and 1943. In 1988, Connie Girard photographed the artwork. Photos were published in the article “Not By Bread Alone, Post Office Art of the New Deal.” Timeline. June-July 1989, p. 2-19 by Gerald Markowitz and Marlene Park. In 1932, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected President he promised Americans a "New Deal" and created public works programs to provide jobs for the millions of unemployed people, including artists. Ten thousand unknown and established artists were commissioned by the government to create murals, paintings, photographs, posters, prints and sculpture. The goal was not only to employ artists, but also to bring fine art into the daily lives of all people. The Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) was funded for six months in 1933 – 1934. The PWAP was succeeded by the Treasury Department’s Section of Painting and Sculpture. Organized in 1934 the Section of Painting and Sculpture operated until 1943. Under the auspices of this organization sixty-six new Ohio post offices received artwork. The majority of the post offices were located in small towns. Post offices were chosen as a location for artwork because, particularly in small towns, they were centers of community activity. Most of the painted murals or murals in plaster relief created are realistic images reflecting the history, common activities or major industries of the communities in which the post offices are located. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: av48_b2_f17_01
Subjects: Post office stations and branches--Ohio--Photographs; Public art--Ohio--Photographs; Public Works of Art Project (United States); New Deal art
Places: Fairborn (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
 

Description: This black "t"-shaped stake was manufactured from iron. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H73501
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This round rug is made of braided cornhusk. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8619
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Furniture
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the Miami and Erie Canal through Allen and Auglaize Counties, between stations 5338 and 5370. Roads, properties, locks, rail lines 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: BV23169_017
Subjects: Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio
Places: Allen County (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photographic reproduction of a portrait depicting Rhoda Hadley (1805-1892), ca. 1850-1875. She kept a station on the Underground Railroad with her husband, Alfred Hadley, in Bloomingdale, Parke County, Indiana. The image 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: AL03005
Subjects: Siebert, Wilbur Henry, 1866-1961; Underground Railroad--Indiana; Abolitionists; Activists
Places: Bloomingdale (Indiana); Parke County (Indiana)
 

Description: Photograph of women at a blood drive sponsored by the B'Nai B'Rith Hillel Foundation, Ohio State University, February 3, 1944. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03776
Subjects: Multicultural Ohio--Religion in Ohio; World War II
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Modern contact print made from a glass plate negative depicting Jay Cooke III and Edward Lewis rolling the lawn in preparation to play tennis, on Gibraltar Island, Ottawa County, Ohio, ca. 1889. Reverend Henry Cooke looks on from under the tree. Henry Cooke was the son of prominent businessman Jay Cooke. For many years, Gibraltar was the summer home of the Jay Cooke family. Today, the island is owned by The Ohio State University, who maintains the Stone Laboratory, a freshwater research and teaching facility. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05440
Subjects: Ottawa County (Ohio); Other--Family History; Gibraltar Island (Ohio); Games; Lawns
Places: Gibraltar Island (Ohio); Ottawa County (Ohio)
 

Description: Illustration published in "A Personal History of Ulysses S. Grant" by Albert Deane Richardson in 1885. Ulysses S. Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Point Pleasant, Ohio. During the U. S. Civil War, Grant was promoted to the rank of General and granted command of the Union army by President Abraham Lincoln. After the victory of the Union over the Confederacy, Grant's popularity led to his election as the 18th President of the United States in 1868. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04575
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S., 1822-1885; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio--History, Military; Presidents--United States
 

Description: This photograph shows police clashing with strikers at the Goodyear Tire and Rubber strike in Akron, Ohio, in late May 1938. Two police officers are holding raised batons as they and other police advance toward a group of workers. The activity is taking place along a brick and iron fence. A car with a driver at the wheel is visible to the right of the workers and police. One hundred people were injured during this strike. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, factory workers faced poor working conditions, low wages, and almost no benefits. This was true for the workers employed by rubber manufacturers in Akron, Ohio, such the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, B.F. Goodrich, and Firestone. In an attempt to alleviate their conditions, workers went on strike and left the factory to join picket lines. Company owners often hired “scab” laborers to cross the picket lines and continue production. This practice made it difficult for striking workers to obtain their demands. In 1935, rubber workers in Akron, Ohio, tried a new approach to strikes, the sit-down strike, in which workers stopped working but still occupied their places within the factory. This process meant that the factory owners could not send in additional workers to continue the job. In addition, factory management was more reluctant to use private security forces or other strike breakers to intimidate the striking workers, as that approach threatened destruction to plant property. In 1935, the rubber workers organized a union, the United Rubber Workers (URW). In its first year the URW created thirty-nine local chapters. This union’s goals were to improve wages and working conditions for its members, and it soon had its first opportunity. The URW organized its first strike against Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company the following year. This sit-down strike began as a protest against a plan created by Goodyear to reduce wages and increase the pace of production. In addition to the sit-down strike, the rubber workers also organized long picket lines in protest. Akron’s mayor, Lee D. Schroy, attempted to send in the police to put down the strike, but the police officers refused to do so when they faced the thousands of organized workers. After the violent strike in May 1938, three more years of cooperation between the new URW and Goodyear elapsed before the first formal contract was signed in 1941. In the long term, Goodyear was forced to recognize URW and negotiate better contracts with workers. Legislation passed during the New Deal required industries to recognize unions and legitimized collective bargaining, increasing the URW's popularity and success even further. By the end of World War II, membership had grown to almost 200,000. After World War II, the URW continued to work to improve laborers conditions. The union began negotiating industry-wide agreements rather than focusing on one factory. The union also became more inclusive, working to reduce gender and racial discrimination both within the union itself and in the workplace. The URW also negotiated pension plans and insurance plans with employers. In the 1990s, the URW merged with the United Steelworkers to form an even stronger union. This union still strives to improve its members' working conditions, wages, and benefits. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06154
Subjects: Strikes; Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company; United Rubber Workers of America; Labor unions--Ohio; Labor movement--United States--History--20th century; Strikes and lockouts--Rubber industry; Business and labor;
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: Rocco Klawetch, of Erie County. Electrocuted November 15, 1912, for the robbery and Murder of three Italians. Klawetch was 46 years old and was a quarry worker. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08092
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Capital punishment
Places: Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: Edward Drummond Libbey was born on April 17, 1854, in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Attracted by the promotion of a civic group, as well as abundant fuel, Libbey relocated his glass operation, the Libbey Glass Company, from Massachusetts to Toledo in 1888. His company was renowned as a producer of fine art glass. Libbey was the founder and first president of the Toledo Museum of Art. He died in 1925. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07685
Subjects: Libbey, Edward Drummond, 1854-1925; Glass industry; Toledo Museum of Art