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_B02F299_03
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: The caption reads: "MAY FESTIVAL AT ST. XAVIER STADIUM. The Shoo Fly song, some 3,000 school children participated. Photo by W.P.A Photographer, Federal Project No. 1. (Writers') Cincinnati, Ohio. District # 16. 5-15-36." This is a photograph of over 3,000 children performing the "Shoo Fly Song" as part of the May Day festivities at St. Xavier stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio. May Day, celebrated on May 1, is a traditional spring holiday for many cultures around the world. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F04_027_001
Subjects: May Day--United States--History; Universities and colleges; Xavier University (Cincinnati, Ohio); College campuses; Music and dance; Children--Ohio; Festivals and holidays; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton 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_B03F370_016.tiff
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel industry; Youngstown (Ohio)
 

Description: This image is a general scene of steel workers inside a cold rolling sheet mill at Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company's Brier Hill works. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B03F39_001
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. Brier Hill works; Steel industry; Steel workers
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "A view of Ohio River bridges at Cincinnati, Ohio." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F12_007_001
Subjects: Ohio River; Bridges--Ohio
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: A sign for the birthplace of Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) in Kinsman. Darrow came to prominence as a lawyer originally working for business owners, eventually deciding to work for workers instead. He became famous, and possibly infamous, for his defense of the head of the American Railway Union, and his clients victory in the case. Darrow changed his focus again, this time deciding to defend criminals, often men facing the death penalty for their crimes. He was the defense attorney in the infamous Leopold and Loeb case, where the two defendants had committed a grisly murder and faced a likely death sentence. Despite the gruesome nature of the crime, the two men avoided a death sentence after pleading guilty and were put away for life. Incredibly, he successfully defended almost every one of his clients charged with a crime. Darrow also participated as the defense attorney in the sensational Scopes Monkey Trial. The state of Tennessee banned the teaching of evolution in schools entirely, and soon after one man famously broke that law. Darrow was immediately recruited to defend him, while William Jennings Bryan would became Darrow's adversary in the case. Although he lost the case, since there was an obvious breaking of state law, he made a strong argument against literal interpretation of the Bible. He put Bryan himself on the stand, and brilliantly made a spectacle of Bryan. He questioned Bryan on the Bible and publicly embarrassed him by showing that Bryan wasn't able to give a satisfactory answer to many of his questions about the Bible. The story was soon told all around the country and the reporters of the day clamored that Darrow had torn down the idea that the Bible could be interpreted as fact. The case would be his last sensational victory, afterwards Darrow rarely practiced law and lived quietly until his death in 1938. Darrow is still held in high regard for his skill as an attorney. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06729
Subjects: Lawyers--Ohio; Education and state;
Places: Kinsman (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio)
 

Description: A group of girls holding baby dolls. Glass plate negatives of various Trumbull County and northeastern Ohio scenes, places, people and events taken by John E. Pickering and Edward D. Pickering from the 1880s to the 1910s. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08496
Subjects: Photography--Ohio; Children; Dolls
 

Description: Homecoming parade held for astronaut Neil Armstrong in 1969. More than 80,000 supporters greeted Armstrong upon his return to Wapakoneta, Ohio on September 6, 1969. Bob Hope served as marshal for the event, and guests included "Tonight Show" sidekick Ed McMahon, and Dr. Albert Sabin, inventor of the polio vaccine. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV_203B2F5_027
Subjects: Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012; Wapakoneta (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: The image is a black and white print of a portrait of Abraham Lincoln. The print is framed around a close-up of Lincoln’s face. The print is based from a photograph taken of Lincoln by Alexander Gardner. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV83_B01F07_023
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Pictorial works; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Portraits
 

Description: This scene depicts an accident at Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company's Campbell works boiler shop involving a plate shears case. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B01F02_002
Subjects: Steel industry--1930-1940; Steel industry and trade--Accidents; Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. Campbell works; Steel Industry-- Youngstown (Ohio)
Places: Campbell (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: Laboratory tests at the Cincinnati Water Works in California, Ohio View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F05_14_01
Subjects: Cincinnati Water Works; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of James Edwin Campbell taken in April 1922. Born in Middletown, Ohio, in 1843, Cambell served one term as governor of Ohio from 1890 to 1892. He died in Columbus on December 17, 1924, and is buried in Green Lawn Cemetery. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03894
Subjects: Governors; Ohio--Politics and government; Campbell, James Edwin, 1843-1924
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)