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Lykes-Youngstown Corporation Audiovisual Archives

MSS 0134 -- (1940-1978) -- (13.5 cubic feet)

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Scope and Content

The Lykes-Youngstown Corporation Audiovisual Archives dates from 1940 to 1978 and consists of thirteen and one-half cubic feet of material. The collection includes photographs, negatives and transparencies, slides (mounted transparencies), and audio recordings. The collection consists of approximately half of the audiovisual material acquired in 1981 from Jones & Laughlin Steel, Inc., successor to the Lykes-Youngstown Corporations. The remaining material is found in the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Audiovisual Archives dating from ca. 1910 to ca. 1950 and consisting of approximately 1,600 glass plate negatives, 2,300 safety negatives, 6,000 additional safety negatives reproduced from the original nitrate negatives, and reference prints of these negatives (prints produced by the Ohio Historical Society). The Lykes-Youngstown collection, however contains over 12,000 photographs, produced from 1940s through the 1970s. Researchers wanting comprehensive visual documentation of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company should consult both collections. Lykes-Youngstown staff photographer Perc Kelty produced most of the material in this collection. Other items possibly were produced by Ed Salt, editor of the house organ, the Youngstown Bulletin, or by other corporations.

Photograph Subseries List

Photographs comprise the majority of the Lykes-Youngstown Audiovisual Archives. These photographs are various sizes, black and white or color, and arranged into five subseries. The first subseries documents the steel making operations of the Lykes-Youngstown corporation and the second subseries portrays the operations of subsidiary companies. The third subseries consists of portraits and group shots while the fourth subseries documents employee activities. The fifth subseries is a miscellaneous alphabetical subject file.

The first subseries of photographs, company operations , contains scenes primarily dealing with the steel making operations of the Lykes-Youngstown Corporation. Since most of the photographs are unidentified, they are arranged alphabetically by the general name of their location in the plant. In addition, under general headings such as blast furnaces, photographs further are divided by activity portrayed (casting, construction, etc.) or locale (Hubbard, Indiana Harbor, Youngstown, unknown). Scenes of the butt-weld pipe mill, continuous weld pipe mill, electric weld pipe mill, and seamless pipe mills are filed together under the general heading of pipe. Unidentified plant scenes are filed under plant scenes-exteriors or plant scenes-interiors. Other plant scenes are among photographs used for the 1922, 1930, 1931, 1963, and 1966 company calendars. Close-up photographs of unidentified machinery are filed under machinery. Other prints of machinery are found under plant scenes or under their respective part of the plant (hot strip mill, bar mill, etc.). Other interesting scenes are of employees at work (at an office desk or in the plant), aerial views of the Youngstown and Chicago districts, the Boardman office building and technical center, and Great Lakes ore ships. Photographs of the Loveland Hill housing development, 1917-1918, constructed for Youngstown employees by the Buckeye Land Company, also appear.

The second subseries portrays the operations of subsidiary companies wholly or partly owned by the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company. Photographs depict scenes of the Erie Mining Company (Minnesota taconite); the Iron Ore Company of Canada (Labrador mines); The Olga Coal Company (West Virginia); Nemacolin, Pennsylvania (a coal mining town); and the Youngstown Mines Corporation (Dehue Mine, West Virginia). Unidentified mining scenes are filed under either mining-coal or mining-iron ore. Scenes of oil derricks using Youngstown pipe and other products of a Youngstown subsidiary, the Emsco-Continental Supply Company, are filed under oil drilling and then differentiated by photographer. Photographs of the Fibercast Corporations, a manufacturer of fiberglass pipe, and the Youngstown Metal Products Company, a manufacturer of metal appliances, also are included in this subseries.

The third subseries contains portraits and group shots of employees and others arranged alphabetically by job description or organizational name. Group shots of the Board of Directors, executives, office staff, medical staff, and other employees as well as group shots of the Directors of the American Iron and Steel Institute and the Traffic Club of Pittsburgh are included. Portraits of Youngstown Sheet and Tube executives are filed under executives and then alphabetically by name. Portraits of other employees are found under steel workers and then alphabetically by name. Researchers should note that a number of unidentified portraits of both executives and steel workers are a part of this subseries.

The fourth subseries deals with employee activities. Photographs of employees during award presentations, banquets, on the golf course, and at parties and picnics are included. Also included are scenes of the Lykes-Youngstown Corporation exhibits at trade and industry shows which often show Youngstown salesmen explaining products. Photographs of groups touring Youngstown plants (listed as tour groups) are in this subseries since Youngstown personnel often led these tours. Photographs of the 1937 strike show some picket line activity and caches of weapons gathered from strikers. Scenes of Perc Kelty's photographic studio and examples of some of his prize winning photographs are found under the heading: industrial photography.

The fifth subseries is an alphabetical subject file of miscellaneous photographs which include some of Perc Kelty's commercial and artistic photography. Most of the photographs in this subseries have little to do with the steel industry. There are, nonetheless, photographs from companies that used Youngstown products such as the Blaw-Knox Company, the Boyertown Auto Body Works, and the Caterpillar Tractor Company. Miscellaneous construction scenes and pipeline construction scenes also are included in this subseries. Scenes of assembly lines, buildings using Youngstown steel or pipe, a panorama of Duluth, Minnesota, ca. 1950, and scenes of the East Liverpool, Ohio, survey marker dedication, ca. 1961, are also of interest.

 

Provenance

The Ohio Historical Society acquired the Lykes-Youngstown Corporation Audiovisual Archives as a gift of Jones & Laughlin Steel Incorporated, successor in interests of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company, in December 1981. Richard W. Arpi processed the collection in January 1985. The collection was transferred to the Archives/Library of the Youngstown Historical Center of Industry & Labor in March of 1996. The finding aid was updated at that time.

Property Rights
The Ohio Historical Society owns the property rights to this collection.

Copyrights
Jones & Laughlin Steel Incorporated has dedicated such copyrights it possesses in this collection to the public. Consideration of all other copyrights is the responsibility of the author and publisher.

Researchers are requested to cite collection name, collection number, the Ohio Historical Society and the Youngstown Historical Center of Industry & Labor in all footnote and bibliographic references.

Access
The photograph portion of this collection is open under the rules and regulations of the Ohio Historical Society and the Youngstown Historical Center of Industry & Labor. The negatives, transparencies, slides, audio recordings, and motion picture films are restricted and require staff assistance to use. Twenty-four hour advance notice is requested.

Container List

Series 1: Photographs

Subseries 1: Company Operations

Box 1

Folder
Title
No. of Items
1-a
Aerial views: Indiana Harbor

43
1-b
Aerial views: Indiana Harbor
28
2
Aerial views: Youngstown
93
3
Aerial views
12
4
Barge dock, Indiana Harbor
5
5
Basic oxygen furnace
39
6
BOF forge, Milwaukee
74
7
Bessemer converter
27
8
Billet mills & peelers
11
9
Blast furnace: casting
17
10
Blast furnace: construction
23
11
Blast furnaces: Hubbard
21
12
Blast furnaces: Indiana Harbor
38
13
Blast furnaces: general: Youngstown and unknown locations
105
14
Blast furnace: skip hoist repair by helicopter
36

Box 2

Folder Title No. of Items
15 Blooming mills, #1 and #2, Indiana Harbor 10
16 Blooming mill, unknown locations 89
17 Boardman office and technical center, exteriors 57
18 Boardman office, interiors 39
19 Boiler house, Indiana Harbor 6
20 Campbell plant, south entrance 15
21 Coke ovens, construction 31
22 Coke plant, Indiana Harbor 36
23 Coke battery #4, Indiana Harbor 20
24 Cold reduced sheet mill, Indiana Harbor, press conference; landfill construction 61
25 Cold reduced sheet mill, Indiana Harbor, construction; 1963-1965 53
26 Cold reduced sheet mill, Indiana Harbor, aerial views, b&w 41
27 Cold reduced sheet mill, Indiana Harbor, aerial views, color 53
28 Cold reduced sheet mill, Indiana Harbor, interior views 42

Box 3

Folder Title No. of Items
29 Control panels and meters 27
30 Data processing 34
31a Hot strip mill 31
31b Hot strip mill 31
32 Hot strip mill; Mesta Machine Company 12
33 Hot strip, pulpit 38
34a Machinery 50
34b Machinery 60
35 Machinery, continuous seamless tube 21
36a Men at work in plant 41
36b Men at work in plant 57
37 Men at work in office 36
38 Merchant (bar) mill, Indiana Harbor 6
39 Merchant mill, magnaflux inspection unit 20
40 Open hearth furnace, bottle car; charging furnace; construction 42
41 Open hearth furnace, ingots 68

Box 4

Folder Title No. of Items
1 Ore piles 9
2 Precipitator 45
3 Pipe, continuous weld steel pipe mill 38
4a Pipe, electric weld pipe mill 66
4b Pipe, electric weld pipe mill 34
5 Pipe, electric weld pipe on train 36
6 Pipe, loading and hauling, Panther Run Yard (Struthers) 31
7 Pipe, loading and hauling 46
8 Pipe, manufacturing (plant) scenes 46
9 Pipe, seamless tube mill 79
10 Pipe, seamless tube mill, quench and temper finish line 16
11 Pipe, seamless tube mill, upset plant 51
12a Pipe, general shots 49
12b Pipe, general shots 43

Box 5

Folder Title No. of Items
13 Pipe, general shots 58
14a Plant scenes, interiors 44
14b Plant scenes, interiors 51
15a Plant scenes, ineriors 55
15b Plant scenes, interiors 90
16 Plant scenes, exteriors 62
17a Plant scenes, exteriors 30
17b Plant scenes, exteriors 57
18 (Buckeye) Research Lab 24
19 Research Lab 45
20a Research Lab 52
20b Research Lab 51
21 Research Lab 58

Box 6

Folder Title No. of Items
22 Rods 41
23 Scarfing 14
24 Scrap yards 12
25 Shipping scenes, Great Lakes ore ships 93
26 Skelp mill 8
27 Store room / stock room 39
28 Tin mill, Indiana Harbor, construction 46
29 Tin mill 88
30a Tin mill 51
30b Tin mill 55
31 Tin mill 26
32 Tin mill, rolled steel coils 90

Box 7

Folder Title No. of Items
1 Wire, manufacturing 6
2 Wire, spooless core rope wire 13
3 Wire, spring 20
4 Wire, general 32

Subseries 2: Subsidiary Operations (Box 7 continued)

Folder Title No. of Items
5 Emsco-Continental Supply Company 39
6 Erie Mining Company 50
7 Fibercast Company 137
8 Fibercast Company 86
9 Fibercast Company 94
10 Fibercast Company 33
11 Great Western Steel Company 19
12 Iron Ore Company of Canada-Labrador tour, 1965 95

Box 8

Folder Title No. of Items
13 Iron Ore Company of Canada 85
14 Iron Ore Company of Canada 26
15 Mining, coal 72
16 Mining, coal 120
17 Mining, iron ore 82
18 Nemacolin, Pennsylvania 16
19 Oil drilling: Houston 29
20 Oil drilling: Gulf of Mexico site 12
21 Oil drilling 63
22 Oil drilling: oil field tours 52

Box 9

Folder Title No. of Items
23 Oil drilling: Coastal Drilling Company 62
24 Oil drilling: oil county tubular goods 71
25 Oil drilling 64
26 Oil drilling 55
27 Olga Coal Company 118
28 Van Huffel Tube Corporation 2
29 Youngstown Metal Products Company 21
30 Youngstown Metal Products Company 39
31 Youngstown Metal Products Company 24
32 Youngstown Metal Products Company 102
33 Youngstown Mines Corporation, Dehue Mine 14

Box 10

Subseries 3: Portraits and Group Shots

Folder Title No. of Items
2 American Iron and Steel Institute, directors, 1942, 1946, n.d. 5
3 Board of Directors, group shots 52
4 Clerical office staff 74
5 Executives, group shots 37
6 Executives, group shots 27
7 Executives, group shots 48
8 Executives, individual portraits 69
9 Executives, individual portraits 102
10 Executives, unidentified 38
11 Executives, unidentified 46

Box 11

Folder Title No. of Items
12 Executives, unidentified 140
13 Executives, unidentified 182
14 Executives, unidentified 197
15 Families, group shots 48
16 Medical personnel 47
17 Mid-Continent Supply Company, group shots of directors 9
18 Steel workers, goup shots 72
19 Steel workers, group shots (sports teams) 35
20 Steel workers, individual portraits (A-D) 105
21 Steel workers, individual portraits (E-J) 103

Box 12

Folder Title No. of Items
22 Steel workers, individual portraits (K-R) 151
23 Steel workers, individual portraits (S-Z) 125
24 Steel workers, unidentified men 243
25 Steel workers, unidentified men (hard hats) 64
26 Steel workers, unidentified men (hard hats) 69
27 Steel workers, unidentified women 63
28 Steel workers, unidentified women 51

Box 13

Folder
Title
No. of Items
1
Miscellaneous group shots/people
84

Subseries 4: Employee Activities (Box 13 continued)

Folder Title No. of Items
2 Award presentations 120
3 Banquet scenes: football 22
4 Banquet scenes: Purnell-Lausche 25
5 Banquet scenes: general 145
6 Bargaining sessions 20
7 Bicentennial celebration, 1976 69
8 Exhibits: "Steelability: The Curiosity of the Cats," 1965 53
9 Exhibits: "The Steelability Store," 1966, 1967 81
10 Exhibits: "Steelability Blossoms," 1967 68
11 Exhibits: "Ultra Quality" 28
12 Exhibits: coal show 8

Box 14

Folder Title No. of Items
1 Exhibits, general 126
2 Field Museum, Chicago (trip to) 27
3 Fire Brigade, 1974 14
4 Golfing foursomes 62
5 Industrial photographers 36
6 Models of steel plants 43
7 National Management Association receptions 25
8 Open House, Chicago Office 35
9 Supervisors' picnic, 1972 32
10 Press picnic, 1973 50
11 Indiana Harbor, 50th Anniversary Party, 1973 31
12 Parties & picnics 9
13 Miscellaneous picnics 25
14 Party at home 24
15 Retirement parties 53
16 Formal parties 55
17 Pros 46
18 Sales in progress 27
19 Sales meeting, 1958 19

Box 15

Folder Title No. of Items
1 Sales meetings, 1959-1964 91
2 Sales meetings 126
3 Sculpture dedication 25
4 Ship christening, "S.S. Doctor Lykes," 1971 21
5 Ship christening, "Almena Lykes," ca. 1973 34
6 Singers and musicians 23
7 Snack machines 10
8 Strike, 1937 18
9 Tour groups, Indian engineers 7
10 Tour groups, in plant 89
11 Tour group shots 45
12 Tour groups 125

Box 16

Folder Title No. of Items
1 Tour groups 128
2 Tour groups 106
3 Walking home 13
4 Work simplification program 12

Subseries 5: Miscellaneous (Box 16 continued)

Folder Title No. of Items
5 Accident scenes, airplane, 1956; accident scenes, truck; n.d. 22
6 ACF filter, R.P. Adams Company, Inc.; 1957 4
7 Airplanes 27
8 Animals (cats, birds, dogs) 14
9 Art 25
10 Assembly lines 34
11 Atomic energy diagrams 9
12 Automobiles 32
13 Bar Jar Company 5
14 Ballet dancers 7
15 Barrell manufacturing plant 21
16 Blaw-Knox Company 7
17 Boise Cascade Company, Composite Can Division plant 24
18 Bovertown Auto Body Works 16
19 Boy Scouts 23
20 Buildings (using YS&T steel) 49

Box 17

Title No. of Items
Aerial views, other locations; pipeyard 1
Bar mill 3
Basic oxygen furnace (forge), Milwaukee 3
Bessemer converters 5
Blast furnaces, casting 5
Blast furnaces, Youngstown, unknown locations 6
Boardman office building, exterior 1
Buckeye Land Company, Loveland Hill development, 1917-1918 13
Calendars (1922, 1930, 1931, 1963, 1966) 11
Campbell Plant, general views 15
Bar mill, taconite plant 1
Advertising posters 7
Assembly line 1
Automobiles on train 1
Buildings 2

Box 18

Folder
Title
No. of Items
1
Coke ovens, Campbell Plant
2
Coke ovens, construction
37
Coke ovens, South Chicago
2
Clerical office staff
2
City scenes, Chicago skyline
1
2
Cold reduced sheet mill, Indiana Harbor, construction
1
Cold reduced sheet mill, Indiana Harbor, interior views
3
Evanston Works, forging blanks for "Mark" unions
2
Emsco-Continental Supply Company
3
Fibercast Company
2
Exhibits: "The Trading Post"
1
Construction scenes, snow melters
4
3
Hot strip mill
4
Hot strip mill pulpit
2
Homes exteriors
3
4
Indiana Harbor, general views
12
5
Machinery
2
Maintenance Department chart, safety board, 1952
1
Merchant mill, Indiana Harbor
7
Junior Achievement award
1
Locomotive #661
1
6
Mining, coal, Buckeye Mine, Nemacolin, PA
2
Mining, coal, Newport Mine, Woodbury shaft
2
Mining, coal, unidentified site
1
Mining, iron ore, Mesabi Range, open pits
12
Mining, iron ore, Mesabi Range, Utica mine shaft
1
City scenes, Duluth, Minnesota skyline, ca. 1950
1
Monorail
1
7
Oil drilling, general
29

Box 19

Folder
Title
No. of Items
1
Open hearth furnace, teeming steel
1
Open hearth furnace, miscellaneous
4
Shipping scenes, Great Lakes ore ships
17
Ore piles
3
2
Conduit mill, electrogalvanizing department, Campbell Works
1
Parking lot
1
Pipe, butt weld mill
3
Pipe, continuous weld steel pipe mill
3
Pipe, electric weld pipe
7
Pipe, loading and hauling, unknown locations
2
Pipe, manufacturing scenes, unknown locations
9
Pipe, seamless tube mill
6
Pipe, seamless tube mill, upset plant
1
Pipe, general shots
9
Pipelines, general
5
3
Pipe, lap weld mill, Campbell plant
2
Pipe, seamless tube mill, pilger mill
11
Plant scenes, exteriors, unknown locations
1
Plant scenes, interiors, unknown locations
11

Box 20

Title
No. of items
Research laboratory
13
Sheet mill, Brier Hill
10
Sheet mill, Warren, Ohio, 1925
1
Sintering plant, Indiana Harbor
1
Skelp mill
2
Soaking pit, ingots
2
Struthers mill, general view
1
Tin mill
11
Tin mill, rolled steel
9
Tin and steel products
13
Wire, products
11
Tailings dump, taconite
1
Vinegar Hill Zinc Mine, Platteville, Wisconsin
1
School bus
1
School scene, man at blackboard
1
Water filtration system
1
Youngstown city map
1

Box 21

Title
No. of Items
American Iron and Steel Institute Directors (1952, 1953, 1955, 1958)
4
Board of Directors, group shot (ca. 1925)
1
Board of Directors, group shot (ca. 1942)
1
Board of Directors, group shot (ca. 1969)
2
Executives, group shots
9
Newell C. Bolton
1
James A. Campbell
1
Glenn Christopher
1
Fred Colling
1
Jerry D'Nunzio
1
"Hookey" Fitch
1
James Gilhuly (August 7, 1915)
1
Alfred S. Glossbrenner
1
W. E. Manning
1
George McCuskey
1
W. J. Morris
1
Frank A. Nemec
9
Henry Nichols
6
H. Ed. Richardson
2
E. Rooney, 1924
1
Walter Watson
2
Robert E. Williams
1
Unidentified
6
Traffic Club of Pittsburgh, President's table, group shot (1952)
1
Singers, glee club, group shot
1
Singers and musicians, man playing organ
1
Art, "The Master and the Student"
1
Easter scene, "A Real Easter Bunny"
1
School class, (ca. 1910)
1

Box 22

Folder
Title
No. of Items
21
Buildings (using YS&T steel)
66
22
Caterpillar Tractor Company
16
23
Christmas scenes
31
24
City scenes: Chicago, Cleveland, New York, others
42
25
Classroom scenes
46
26
Columbia Iron and Metal Company, crane
9
27
Construction scenes, Adelphia College, Long Island
59
28
Construction scenes, bridges, highways, ships
49
29
Construction scenes, use of conduit
43
30
Construction scenes, use of conduit
74
31
Construction scenes, First Presbyterian Church, Youngstown
19
32
Construction scenes, men at work, welding
30
33
Construction scenes, snow melters
39

Box 23

Folder
Title
No. of Items
34
Construction scenes, exteriors
117
35
Construction scenes
61
36
Conveyor belts
7
37
Credit union office
9
38
East Liverpool survey marker dedication
10
39
Easter scenes (1965-1967)
20
40
Fairmount Tool and Forge Company
7
41
Flood scenes
5
42
Freedom Train (ca. 1947)
8
43
Handicapped children
12
44
Homes, exteriors
20
45
Homes, interiors
12
46
Homes, kitchens
20
47
International Nickel Company
4
48
Junior Achievement
18
49
Morton Manufacturing Company
8
50
Muffler manufacturing plant
25
51
New York Stock Exchange
6
52
Pennsylvania mine rescue
10
53
Pipeline construction, Great Lakes pipeline
70
54
Pipeline construction, Great Lakes pipeline
81

Box 24

Folder Title No. of Items
1 Pipeline construction, New York State Natural Gas Line 12
2 Pipeline construction, Northern Natural Gas Company 12
3 Pipeline construction, Oil and Natural Gas Magazine 33
4 Pipeline construction, service pipeline 12
5 Pipeline construction, South Chicago Gas Line 11
6 Pipeline construction, Harold Wolff photographer 13
7 Pipelines, general 65
8 Pipelines, general 59
9 Pipelines, general 55
10 Pollution control 64
11 Porto-Rak, Inc. 8
12 Press conference 10
13 Products, advertising 30
14 Products, household and office 70

Box 25

Folder Title No. of Items
15 Products, metal 98
16 Railroad cars 56
17 Rocks and gems 7
18 Safety 43
19 Saint Lawrence Seaway 12
20 Signs 35
21 Skating rink 22
22 Steel Arch, St. Louis 9
23 Subway scenes 32
24 Swimming scenes 5
25 Trademarks 7
26 Trucks 70
27 United States Navy 5
28 Welding tanks 17

Box 26

Folder Title No. of Items
29 Winter scenes 50
30 Youngstown city scenes 36
31 Youngstown Symphony Center, Powers Auditorium 46
32 Miscellaneous 34

 

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