Forging Ahead: Youngstown Museum
The Youngstown Historical Center of Industry & Labor was established in 1986 with Ohio state funding of $3 million.
The building was designed by architect Michael Graves to look like a steel mill complete with smoke stacks.
A quote from a steel worker
Early heat gear for a steel worker at the museum. John Rennison, Hamilton Spectator
Safety gear for steel workers
A bronze steelworker
Workers used to suspend their lunches and other goods in baskets to keep rats out of them
A model showing a steel town
A model of a blast furnace and community
A model of a mini mill.
Steel spikes were a major steel product as the country grew with the railway.
A control room for a blast furnace
A control room for a blast furnace
A control room for a blast furnace
An Ohio National Guardsman watched by workers after the guard was called in when striking Youngstown Sheet and Tube workers burned East Youngstown down following a six hour riot.
Workers are seen in a photo outside Stop 14 during the 1956 strike at Youngstown Sheet and Tube.
A mannequin dressed as a steel worker
Workers used baskets suspended by chains to store their lunches and keep out vermin
Depiction of a worker’s home
Dr. Donna DeBlasio sits in a locker room display. She is a professor of history at Youngstown State University and serves as advisor and volunteer at the museum.
A shower room scene
The three components of steel
The Youngstown Historical Center of Industry & Labor celebrates the steel history of the area.
Cutouts of workers watch the demolition of the US Steel blast furnace in 1985.
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