Description: Photograph showing an exterior view of a cooperage (or barrel factory), believed to be taken in the area of Chillicothe, Ohio. A cooperage produced barrels, casks, and similar products constructed of wooden staves. 20 men, likely employees, are seen posed outside of the factory, along with several young boys. The employees are posed with barrels in various stages of completion, and one man is seated at a piece of equipment called a shaving horse used for making staves. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC801_02
Subjects: Manufacturing industries--Ohio; Laborers; Factories;
Places: Chillicothe (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: A photograph of the vine-covered building which housed the Christy Company in Fremont, Ohio. This company is a well-known manufacturer of knives. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F07_012_1
Subjects: Manufacturing industries--Ohio; Factories; Knives
Places: Fremont (Ohio); Sandusky County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows two laborers using a portable bag stacker built by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, Columbus, Ohio. They are working at the Etna Portland Cement Company in Cleveland, Ohio. The photograph was taken July 13, 1928. The Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, also known as the Jeffrey Mining Corporate Center, was established in 1876 as the Lechner Mining Machine Company in Columbus, Ohio by Joseph Jeffrey and Francis Lechner. The company was the number one manufacturer of coal mining machinery worldwide until the mid-twentieth century. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00925
Subjects: African Americans -- Employment; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business; Coal mining; Coal mines and mining -- Ohio; Inventions; Coal-mining machinery; Manufacturing industries--Ohio
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a mold conveyor manufactured by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio. It was used to move metal casting molds in a foundry owned by the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company in Cleveland, Ohio. The Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, also known as the Jeffrey Mining Corporate Center, was established in 1876 as the Lechner Mining Machine Company in Columbus, Ohio, by Joseph Jeffrey and Francis Lechner. The company was the number one manufacturer of coal mining machinery worldwide until the mid-twentieth century. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01528
Subjects: Coal mines and mining -- Ohio; Inventions; Coal-mining machinery; Manufacturing industries--Ohio; Inventors -- Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Labor
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio); Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph depicts a mold conveyor produced by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio, in use at the Ferro Machine and Foundry Company in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1935. The Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, also known as the Jeffrey Mining Corporate Center, was established in 1876 as the Lechner Mining Machine Company in Columbus, Ohio, by Joseph Jeffrey and Francis Lechner. The company was the number one manufacturer of coal mining machinery worldwide until the mid-twentieth century. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01562
Subjects: Machinery industry--Ohio; Coal mines and mining -- Ohio; Inventions; Coal-mining machinery; Manufacturing industries--Ohio; Inventors -- Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Labor
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio); Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Towers of grindstones produced in Southeastern Ohio. Washington county." Grindstones are pieces of sandstone shaped like a wheel. Especially during the 1800s and the early 1900s, individuals and businesses used grindstones to sharpen tools and other implements. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F07_031_1
Subjects: Construction industry--Ohio; Grinding wheels; Manufacturing industries--Ohio
Places: Washington County (Ohio)
 

Description: An exterior photograph of towers and catwalks at an unidentified factory in Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F08_024_1
Subjects: Construction industry--Ohio; Factories; Manufacturing industries--Ohio
Places: Ohio
 

Description: This photograph depicts a 229-A portable hydraulic scraper loader made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio, being used to load coal into a truck owned by Citizens Coal Company, also of Columbus. This loader could move over one ton of material per minute. The skyline of downtown Columbus can be seen in the background. The Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, also known as the Jeffrey Mining Corporate Center, was established in 1876 as the Lechner Mining Machine Company in Columbus, Ohio, by Joseph Jeffrey and Francis Lechner. The company was the number one manufacturer of coal mining machinery worldwide until the mid-twentieth century. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01575
Subjects: Trucks; Coal mines and mining -- Ohio; Inventions; Coal-mining machinery; Manufacturing industries--Ohio; Inventors -- Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Labor
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph depicts a 209-B portable loader produced by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio, is shown loading coal to the tender of a steam locomotive at the Nickel Plate Railroad in Michigan City, Indiana. The Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, also known as the Jeffrey Mining Corporate Center, was established in 1876 as the Lechner Mining Machine Company in Columbus, Ohio by Joseph Jeffrey and Francis Lechner. The company was the number one manufacturer of coal mining machinery worldwide until the mid-twentieth century. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01583
Subjects: Railroads; Coal mining; Coal mines and mining -- Ohio; Inventions; Coal-mining machinery; Manufacturing industries--Ohio; Inventors -- Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Labor
Places: Michigan City (Indiana); Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph depicts a pivoted bucket conveyor manufactured by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio, in use at the Hinde and Dausch Paper Company in Sandusky, Ohio. It conveyed coal from a bunker to a coal-fired boiler room above. The Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, also known as the Jeffrey Mining Corporate Center, was established in 1876 as the Lechner Mining Machine Company in Columbus, Ohio, by Joseph Jeffrey and Francis Lechner. The company was the number one manufacturer of coal mining machinery worldwide until the mid-twentieth century. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01310
Subjects: Erie County (Ohio); Coal mines and mining -- Ohio; Inventions; Coal-mining machinery; Manufacturing industries--Ohio; Inventors -- Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Labor
Places: Sandusky (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio); Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: View of the interior of the machine shop in the Ripley Foundry in Ripley, Ohio, founded by John Parker (1827-1900). Parker resided in Virginia, where he was born, until the age of 8, when he was sent to Alabama after being purchased by a physician. Unlike most slaves, John Parker was literate despite the fact that it was illegal for slaves to be taught to read. The reasons for the strict illegality of teaching slaves was that their white owners feared that the more they knew, the more likely they would be to escape and flee to the safety of the north. The belief that these African Americans kept in servitude would be unable to learn was pervasive. Parker, of course, proved this to be entirely wrong as he would not only become literate but would go on to become a successful business owner. It was when he was still a slave that he first learned a trade that would become his career: iron working. Parker saved his earnings from the foundry, and eventually he was able to pull himself out of slavery. Parker would start a foundry of his own after he decided to leave the South and had already run his own shop for a period of a few years before moving to Ripley where the foundry would be built. Being a former slave himself and understanding their plight, Parker often brought slaves northwards so that they would be able to live freely. Parker spent the remainder of his life as a business owner until his death in 1900. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06717
Subjects: Iron and steel workers--Ohio; Iron industry; Manufacturing industries--Ohio; Ohio Economy; Former slaves
Places: Ripley (Ohio); Brown County (Ohio)
 

Description: Map graphic of Ohio showing manufacturing in the state, depicted by drawings of different products produced throughout the areas of Ohio. It was created by the Ohio Writers' Program of the Work Progress Administration in 1936. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F02_047
Subjects: Books; Chapter headings; Works Progress Administration; Ohio Federal Writers' Project; Manufacturing industries--Ohio;
Places: Ohio