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Winter view looking east from an elevation near the intersection of West Market Street and North Main Street. Photo shows frost covered trees in the park, the tall steeple of the Methodist Episcopal (Central Methodist) Church and, across East Market…

Portrait of John Sherman taken in 1892 when he was serving a term as U.S. Senator from Ohio.

Dr. Mary Jordan Finley was born November 26, 1849, in Pennslyvania to Agustus Finley and Amanda Jane Irwin/Erwin. She practiced medicine in Mansfield, Ohio between 1881 and 1900 after graduating from the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. She…

Cal Rogers made Mansfield a stop on the first North American trans-Atlantic flight in 1911. The plane, the Vin Fiz (A a popular brand of grape soda), landed on a field north of Mansfield, near the sight of Mansfield-Lahm Airport.

Workers in a large workroom inspecting newly made tires. None of the men are identified.

A complete machine shop – Boring Mills, Lathes, Milling Machines, Presses, everything needed for making repairs – keeps up the equipment to keep the factory running night and day.

A huge machine for mixing and kneading rubber compounds. Toothed rolls inside the big cylinder stir and mix the “batch.” Used principally for black stocks to keep the light, blick pigment enclosed while mixing.

A view of the Mansfield Tire Co. warehouse. Circa 1920

George W. Stephens – Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Mansfield Tire and Rubber.

Charles Hoffman – Later President of the plumbing and heating firm which bore his name, and one of the founders of The Mansfield Tire and Rubber Company.