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Title	Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company 1913 Flood Photographs
Subject	Business and Labor Climate and Weather Floods Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company Steel industry
Place	Youngstown (Ohio) Mahoning County (Ohio)
Description	Two 8" x 10" (20.32 by 25.40 cm) photographs show the effect of the 1913 flood of the Mahoning River. The images show the damage at the Youngstown Sheet & Tube mill, including railroad cars and mill buildings overtaken by flood waters. In late March 1913, an unusually heavy rainstorm moved into Ohio. It rained steadily for five days and the streams all over Ohio rose rapidly. By the third day of the downpour, levees were overtopped and many towns suffered disastrous flooding. Great fires that raged unchecked added to the destruction and the loss of life. When the flood waters receded, tons of mud and debris covered the streets, homes, businesses and factories. The death toll stood at 361. Property damages were well over $100,000,000 and 65,000 were forced to temporarily leave their homes. In November 1900, a group of 55 Youngstown citizens, led by James A. Campbell, raised $600,000 in capital to create the Youngstown Iron Sheet and Tube Company. Land was purchased along the Mahoning River approximately three miles east of downtown. In 1902, the mill opened for production. Spectacular growth marked the company's second decade, some of it spurred by the demand for steel caused by World War I. In 1923, YS&T purchased the Brier Hill Steel Company of Youngstown and the Steel and Tube Company of America of East Chicago. During the 1930s the company survived the Great Depression and the 1937 "Little Steel" strike to emerge as a leading steel producer. In the 1960s, YS&T began to experience a decline. The company merged with the Lykes Corporation in 1969 and LTV Corporation in 1979, at which time all Youngstown operations were phased out.
Creator	Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Date of Original	1913
Collection	Youngstown Sheet & Tube Audiovisual Archives
Source	Audiovisual material YHC MSS0140
Submitting Institution	Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor
Type	StillImage
Format	picture

Title	Om1628_1919882_001
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om1628_1919882_001.tif
Image Height	2378
Image Width	2899
File Size	470.595 KB

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