Winter 2019

From the Museum

The chill of Winter is here, but there are plenty of activities and programs at the museum to keep everyone warm!

Upcoming Events for 2020

January

We are welcoming Congressman Tim Ryan to the museum on Sunday the 12th when he will speak on “The Future of Work.”
The Way We Worked exhibition will close on Saturday, January 18.
Outreach to Crossroads Assisted Living with our Sparking Memories program designed for people living with memory loss.

February

African American Heritage Month
History Across the Humanities Conference. This two day conference attracts students from the tristate area who present papers and work on a variety of humanities-based topics. (Reservations and fee)

March

Women’s History Month

Carol Lasser will speak at the museum on Thursday, March 26 at 4pm on Bending to the Color Line: The Fight For Women’s Suffrage in Ohio. This talk is sponsored by the Department of Women's Studies, the Ohio Humanities Council and the YHCIL. This event is free and open to the public

The Way We Worked, Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Still Available For A Limited Time!

The Smithsonian Institution’s traveling exhibit, The Way We Worked , has attracted many new visitors to the museum. This 600 square foot exhibit utilizes photographs from the National Archives, videos, and interactive components to help tell the story of work in America. The work of men, women, children, immigrants, people of color and the military are placed in historic context and help us understand the many contributions made over the last century. If you haven’t stopped by yet, you still have time. The exhibit will remain in our Senator Harry Meshel Classroom until January 18, 2020. Admission to this exhibit is free.

New Exhibit: "The Hands of Time: Wooden Works Clocks in Early Trumbull County"

Students from Dr. Leary’s Spring 2019 Practicum Class at YSU erected a display in the museum’s lobby “The Hands of Time: Wooden Works Clocks in Early Trumbull County.” The exhibit contains a variety of historic clocks, images, and a digital display, showcasing many of the prized clocks and clock faces from Chris Klingemier’s collection.

Outreach & Activities

We hosted several speakers this season in conjunction with The Way We Worked exhibition. November brought Andrew Richmond, president and CEO of Wipiak Consulting and Appraisals in Marietta, Ohio to the museum where he spoke to an audience on "Buy Local or By River: Furnishing Early Ohio" which was co-sponsored by the Friends of YHCIL.

New York Times labor columnist Steven Greenhouse spoke about his most recent book, Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor, sponsored by the City Club of the Mahoning Valley and the Center for Working Class Studies.

School Tours

We have been quite busy with student tours this quarter! Students particularly enjoyed new educational programming that accompanies the themes of labor, work, manufacturing, economics and local history. School tours are approximatley an hour to two hours in length depending on the age of the group, with an interactive tour and programming available to compliment in-class curriculum. Interested in booking a tour for your school-age group? We can accomodate groups up to 60 at a time, and have programing available for grades 3 through 12. Fees are $3 a student and chaperones are free!

Contact Dr. Marcelle Wilson by phone or email : 330-941-1314 mrwilson@ysu.edu

From the Archives

Photo: This is from Pennsylvanian women's suffrage event and is one example of the many glass plate negative photos we are processing as part of a larger collection.

The Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor had received a collection of glass plate negatives, a camera, and pictures in frames this past spring, 2019, from Chris Klingemier. Communication between museum professors, archivist, and interns, provided a strategy to research, catalog, learn proper preservation, and digitization for the glass negatives.

The negatives are from the early 1900s of Sharpsville, Pennsylvania. They consist of images of everyday living, such as, townspeople by groups and individual, graduations ceremonies, Christmas, canoeing and wading in the river, minstrel shows, poker games, and a gentleman in uniform, funerals, parades, residential homes, industrial buildings and blast furnaces, and the men who worked in the steel mills.

The camera is a Kodak No. 2c Autographic Junior, created by George Eastman of Rochester, New York. This particular camera is said to have been sold starting in 1916; therefore, may not have been the camera of use because the glass negatives are dated as early as 1910.

The pictures that came in black frames are mostly of industrial workers and only a couple of townspeople. The images are unique because they illustrate the process of forming pig iron from sand.

Rentals

Did you know that you can rent the museum for your next function?

Rental charges: Not-for-profit groups $75 per hour and for-profit groups $125 per hour. What do you get? Meshel Classroom, hire a caterer, bring in your food, or order pizza. We provide the tables, chairs, black table clothes (if desired or you can rent other colors), and a free guided tour of the museum. ½ hour set up and ½ hour clean up added to cost of rental (that means you need to pay for an extra hour to allow for set up and clean up). Easy access, free parking and on-street parking, handi-capped accessible.

A Year in Review:

Some Quick Numbers:

18% -The increase in guest attendance in 2019 over 2018.

4 - The number of archival and collections projects happening this year at the museum.

17% - The increase in the amount of outreach programs the museum held and participated in 2019 over 2018.

2 - The number of new educational programs for school age guests and intergenerational groups.

4 - The number of graduate students working at the museum.

21% - The increase in school age groups for 2019 over 2018.

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Adult Membership is only $20

Students and Seniors Memberships are $15

Family Memberships are $35

Send your check to:

Friends of YHCIL

P.O. Box 986

Canfield, Ohio 44406

Friends of YHCIL Mission Statement: The Friends of the YHCIL supports the operation of the institute by facilitating fund development and promoting community awareness of its programs, activities and exhibits.

Friends of YHCIL Vision Statement: The Friends of YHCIL will provide support for its financial security and raise national and international awareness of the institution’s unique role in preserving and interpreting the Mahoning Valley’s contribution to our nation’s industrial heritage.

2020 Friends YHCIL Meetings: