Description: The Mountaineer is a stripping shovel built by the Marion Power Shovel Company, based in Marion, Ohio, ca. 1955. Stripping shovels remove overburden, which is dirt lying above a seam of coal; this allows the coal to be mined. The Mountaineer was operated near Cadiz in Harrison County, Ohio, from 1956 to 1979. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03324
Subjects: Marion (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Economy--Business; Marion Power Shovel Company--History; Strip mining
Places: Marion (Ohio); Marion County (Ohio); Cadiz (Ohio); Harrison County (Ohio)
 

Description: This car dump was made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio. Car dumps quickly and easily unloaded railroad cars filled with coal. This photograph was taken in the Jeffrey yard, 1911. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01290
Subjects: Mining machinery; Ohio Economy--Economy--Labor
Places: Columbus (Ohio)
 

Description: This Type 303 Rock Buster was built by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, Columbus, Ohio. The rock buster was used to crush large rocks into smaller sizes. The smaller rock was used in various construction projects, such as railroad beds and highways. The photograph was taken in the Jeffrey factory in 1952. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00929
Subjects: Crushing machinery; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company water tower in Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1960 - 1970. It was located on the grounds of the factory on North Fourth Street, just north of downtown. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00947
Subjects: Franklin County (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This coal tipple conveyor was made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio. The men in the photograph are removing shale and other unwanted debris from the coal as it is conveyed to sizing screens and then on to railroad coal cars below the tipple. This conveyor was used by the Pocohontas Consolidated Collery Company, Mora, West Virginia, 1911. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01305
Subjects: Coal miners; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Mora (West Virginia)
 

Description: Portrait of labor leader Jacob S. Coxey as a young man, ca. 1894. Coxey was known as "General Coxey" and received national recognition when he led an "Industrial Army" of unemployed workers to Washington, D. C. to protest the federal government's response to the economic depression of the 1890s. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01140
Subjects: Social reformers; Ohio Economy--Economy--Labor
 

Description: This is a photograph of the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1895. The name "Jeffrey" is spelled out on the roof tiles on the left building. A coal-fired stationary steam engine powered the plant. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01218
Subjects: Manufacturing industries--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Columbus (Ohio)
 

Description: This photo shows U.S. Senator Robert Taft, Sr., at the Columbus (Ohio) Chamber of Commerce, in 1953. A smiling Taft is seated at a table. Behind him is an unidentified woman. Robert Alphonso Taft, Sr., was a prominent United States senator from Ohio in the mid-twentieth century. Taft was born on September 8, 1889, in Cincinnati, Ohio. His father was William Howard Taft, a president of the United States. Robert Taft attended public schools in Cincinnati, as well as schools in Manila, Philippines, where his father was governor general, and the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut. In 1910, he graduated from Yale University and then earned a law degree at Harvard University in 1913. Upon graduating from Harvard, Taft practiced law in Cincinnati. He served as an assistant counsel to the United States Food Administration from 1917 to 1918. A member of the Republican Party, Taft won election to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1920. He held this office from 1921 to 1926 and eventually rose to the rank of speaker and majority leader. During 1931 and 1932, he served in the Ohio Senate. In 1938, Taft won election to the United States Senate. He served until 1953, winning reelection in 1944 and 1950. His greatest contribution in the Senate was his co-sponsorship of the Taft-Hartley Act, which limited the power of unions by banning "unfair" union practices, outlawed closed union shops, and permitted the federal government to seek federal court injunctions against unions if a strike threatened the national interest. Believing that they were socialistic, Taft also sought to end many of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs. In 1940, 1948, and 1952, Taft sought the Republican Party's presidential nomination, but was unsuccessful each time. His firm support of Republican issues led him to be nicknamed "Mr. Republican." On January 3, 1953, he became majority leader of the Senate. Taft died on July 31, 1953, during his third Senate term. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05866
Subjects: Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Taft, Robert A. (Robert Alphonso), 1889-1953; United States. Labor Management Relations Act, 1947; United States. Congress. Senate; Politicians
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: The immediate growth of the potential metropolis was slow with a mere seven people living in the settlement in 1800. In 1804, Lorenzo Carter launched the first boat, the 30 ton Zephyr, an impressive craft for an inexperienced builder to launch, but a small prophecy of the hug freighters and passenger steamers that one day would enter Cleveland harbor. In 1818 there arrived in the harbor from Buffalo the first steamboat on Lake Erie, the 'Walk-in-the-Water'. By 1830 little more than 1000 people called themselves Cleavelanders. The city altered the spelling of its name by a casual quirk. On July 1, 1832, the compositor of a freshly launched newspaper, The Cleveland Gazette and Commercial Register, had to drop on letter from his masthead to fit his space, and he chose the first 'a' in Cleveland, simplifying it for posterity. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F08_02_01
Subjects: Cleveland (Ohio)--Harbor; Harbors--Ohio--Cleveland; Cleveland (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works; Aerial Photography; Business and Labor; Industries--Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio, built this wooden coal tipple at the Tom's Creeks Coal and Coke Company, Coeburn, Virginia, 1895. A man is standing on a stationary steam engine at the bottom center of the picture while other men are found throughout the structure. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01210
Subjects: Tipples; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Coeburn (Virginia)
 

Description: Cliffs Furnace Company in Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio, ca. 1940-1949. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00413
Subjects: Manufacturing industries--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Warren (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio)
 

Description: This 30-inch Malleable bucket elevator, made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio, was used by the Springfield Coal and Ice Company in Osborn, Ohio, 1911. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01292
Subjects: Greene County (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Osborn (Ohio)