Description: This photograph shows a dramatic view of the State Office Building and Scioto River retaining wall seen from the Broad Street bridge, Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1935. The Ohio State Office Building was constructed during 1930-1933. The 14-story building was designed by Cincinnati architect Harry Hake and serves as a classic example of the Art Moderne style. The building was later known as the Ohio Judicial Center until 2011, when the state Supreme Court named the center in honor of the late Chief Justice Thomas Moyer, who was the second-longest-serving chief justice in state history at the time of his death in April 2010. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05709
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government; Rivers--Ohio; Architecture--Ohio--Columbus--History--20th century; Columbus (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Architecture--Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: St. Joseph's School, Wapakoneta, Ohio, ca. 1900. According to the caption at the bottom of the photo, the school was dedicated June 10, 1900. The school is Richardsonian Romanesque in style, with Queen Anne turrets. It was likely designed by the architectural firm Yost & Packard because it closely resembles the firm's 1896 design for Emerson School (Westerville High School) in Westerville, Ohio. St. Joseph's School and St. Joseph's Church were placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05898
Subjects: Wapakoneta (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works; Church buildings--Ohio; Architecture--Ohio; National Register of Historic Places; Cultural Ohio--Education
Places: Wapakoneta (Ohio); Auglaize County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "PORTSMOUTH - Sciotoville School, constructed by WPA." This is a photo of Sciotoville School in Portsmouth, Ohio. The building, which was constructed by the WPA in 1936-37, is still used today. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F07_002_001
Subjects: High schools--Ohio; Art deco; School building--Ohio; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works; Sciotoville (Portsmouth, Ohio); Students; Education; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Portsmouth (Ohio); Scioto County (Ohio)
 

Description: A photograph of the city of Fremont, Ohio, showing the church spires. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F07_019_1
Subjects: Fremont (Ohio); Sandusky County (Ohio); Church buildings--Ohio; Architecture--Ohio
Places: Fremont (Ohio); Sandusky County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Main Street in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, looking north from Johnson Street. Thebuilding to the right is the Thurman House Hotel, also known as the Hotel Thurman, a 3-story hotel with 35 rooms built in 1888. The hotel was located at 137 South Sandusky Avenue. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's department store, and later as a travelling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). He was also an avid lifelong photographer, and the bulk of the Harry Kinley Collection is comprised of glass plate negatives documenting the Kinley family, the city of Upper Sandusky and Wyandot County and surrounding areas. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07782
Subjects: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Historic buildings--Ohio; Architecture--Ohio; Hotels; Cities and towns--Ohio
Places: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "BOOK PROJECT IN HEYWOOD SCHOOL, May 28, 1937- Miami Co. Troy, Ohio." This is a photograph of Heywood Elementary in Troy, Ohio. The building in this photo is still in use. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F07_025_001
Subjects: Elementary schools; Schools--1930-1940; Schools--Ohio; School buildings--Ohio; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Troy (Ohio); Miami County (Ohio)
 

Description: Black and white oversize photograph of the Columbus State Hospital for the Insane, located on West Broad Street in Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1877. Situated in a large wooded area, the hospital campus consisted of a central facility with many interconnected wings and several outbuildings. The Columbus State Hospital, a facility for the care and treatment of mentally ill people, admitted its first patient in 1877. This facility replaced the Ohio Lunatic Asylum, which the Ohio General Assembly established in 1835. Built with a capacity for 150 patients, the Ohio Lunatic Asylum soon became overcrowded, and part of the hospital was destroyed by fire in November 1868. In April 1869 the legislature laid plans for a new structure to accommodate 500 patients. This new hospital, built on the "Kirkbride Plan," was under construction from 1870 to 1877, and represented the largest single public capital investment by the State of Ohio up to that time, with the exception of the Statehouse. The main building contained over 800 rooms and was said to be the largest building under one roof until the Pentagon was constructed in Washington, D.C. In 1996, after years of neglect, the Administration Building was demolished. Over the decades, these two facilities operated under various names including the Ohio Lunatic Asylum, Central Ohio Lunatic Asylum, Central Ohio Hospital for the Insane, Columbus Hospital for the Insane, and Columbus State Hospital. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS2872
Subjects: Columbus State Hospital (Ohio); Mental illness--Treatment--Ohio; Architecture--Ohio; Psychiatric hospitals--Ohio;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Sciotoville Bridge in Portsmouth, Ohio, designed and built by two famous American Civil Engineers, Gustav Lindenthal, D.Sc. (1850-1935), the Consulting Engineer (and) David Barnard Steinman, D.Sc. (1887-1960), the designer and stress analyst in 1917. A double track railroad bridge of twin spans each 775 feet long, it remained until 1935 the longest continuous truss bridge in the world and stands today as the prototype for continuous structures. Its construction marked a major advance in the art of bridge engineering and was a pioneer achievement in continuous truss analysis. In beauty of design, size and erection techniques it stands as a landmark of progress in man's mastery of his environment. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06800
Subjects: Bridges--Ohio; Architecture--Ohio; Transportation--Ohio
Places: Portsmouth (Ohio); Scioto County (Ohio); Ohio
 

Description: The Sciotoville Bridge in Portsmouth, Ohio, designed and built by two famous American Civil Engineers, Gustav Lindenthal, D.Sc. (1850-1935), the Consulting Engineer (and) David Barnard Steinman, D.Sc. (1887-1960), the designer and stress analyst in 1917. A double track railroad bridge of twin spans each 775 feet long, it remained until 1935 the longest continuous truss bridge in the world and stands today as the prototype for continuous structures. Its construction marked a major advance in the art of bridge engineering and was a pioneer achievement in continuous truss analysis. In beauty of design, size and erection techniques it stands as a landmark of progress in man's mastery of his environment. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06801
Subjects: Bridges--Ohio; Architecture--Ohio; Transportation--Ohio
Places: Portsmouth (Ohio); Scioto County (Ohio); Ohio
 

Description: Dated ca. 1935-1940, this photograph shows Central High School, located on the west bank of the Scioto River in downtown Columbus, Ohio. The photograph was taken from South Civic Center Drive on the east side of the Scioto River. Columbus Public Schools sold the building in the 1990s and soon after the Center of Science and Industry (COSI) bought the building and remodeled it for the new site of COSI. Most of the front of the school remains facing the river. The new addition sits on what was the football field of the school. This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F05_15_001
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Center of Science and Industry (Columbus, Ohio); High schools--Ohio; School buildings--Ohio; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: The main building for the Fairfield School for Boys near Lancaster, Ohio. Quoted from the historic marker outside the site, "As the nation's first and largest minimum security correctional facility, the Fairfield School for Boys (1857-1979) served over 100,000 Ohio juvenile offenders. The school was converted to an adult facility in 1980." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07037
Subjects: Prisons--Ohio; Schools--Ohio; Architecture--Ohio; Lancaster (Ohio)
Places: Lancaster (Ohio); Fairfield County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of four children and a dog having lunch outside a one-room schoolhouse in Ohio. This school was mostly likely built as part of the Works Progress Administration project, a government office that hired unemployed Americans to work on various government projects from April 8, 1935, to June 30, 1943. In the first six months that the WPA existed, more than 173,000 Ohioans, including both men and women, found employment through this program. More than 1,500 unemployed teachers in Ohio found work through the WPA teaching illiterate adults how to read. In twelve separate counties, primarily in southeastern Ohio, more than twenty-five percent of families had at least one member working for the WPA during the late 1930s. By the end of 1938, these various workers had built or improved 12, 300 miles of roads and streets and constructed 636 public buildings, several hundred bridges, hundreds of athletic fields, and five fish hatcheries. WPA employees made improvements to thousands of more buildings, roads, and parks within Ohio. WPA artists also painted a number of murals in Ohio post offices. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F04_002_1
Subjects: One-room schools; School buildings--Ohio; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works; Education; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project; School children
Places: Ohio