Description: Dated September 9, 1937, this photograph shows four farmers from Carroll County, Ohio, discussing soil conservation techniques practiced at Camp Carroll. 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_B12F11_039_001
Subjects: Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); Soil conservation; Farmers; Agriculture
Places: Carrollton (Ohio); Carroll County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows farmers at the Pickaway Livestock Cooperative Association in Pickaway County, Ohio. A farmers cooperative represents the business interests of agriculture. They assist the farmers with processing and handling almost every type of commodity, furnishing farm supplies and provide credit and financial services. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F05_001_1
Subjects: Agriculture--Ohio--History--20th century.; Farmers' cooperatives
Places: Pickaway County (Ohio)
 

Description: Four farmers stand in a field in Illinois, photographed by Joe Munroe ca. 1940. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05904
Subjects: Farmers; Agriculture; Agricultural laborers; Rural life
Places: Nebraska
 

Description: This photograph is an advertisement for The City Bank Farmers Trust Company Building in New York City, New York. Holadbird & Root and Gilbert Hall designed the building. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B03F43_005
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Construction; Steel industry and trade--New York (State)--New York; City Bank Farmers Trust Company Building (New York, N.Y.); Holabird & Root (1928-1945)
Places: New York City (New York)
 

Description: This photograph depicts the interior The City Bank Farmers Trust Company Building in New York City, New York. Youngstown "copperoid" sheets were used in the ventilation system. On the photograph is written: "CITY BANK-FARMERS TRUST BLDG. NEW YORK CITY YOUNGSTOWN "COPPEROID" SHEETS IN VENTILATING SYSTEM" View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B03F43_006
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Construction; Steel industry and trade--New York (State)--New York; City Bank Farmers Trust Company Building (New York, N.Y.)
Places: New York City (New York)
 

Description: This photograph depicts the interior The City Bank Farmers Trust Company Building in New York City, New York. Youngstown "copperoid" sheets were used in the ventilation system. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B03F43_007
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Construction; Steel industry and trade--New York (State)--New York; City Bank Farmers Trust Company Building (New York, N.Y.)
Places: New York City (New York)
 

Description: This is a photograph from the Ohio Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration. It is a farmers market with some produce being imported from Florida and California. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F03_043_001
Subjects: Works Progress Administration; Ohio Federal Writers' Project; Farmers' markets.
Places: Ohio
 

Description: The Mound Cemetery in Washington County. Bathsheba Rouse Greene and her husband are buried in the Cemetery. Bathsheba, the daughter of John Rouse and Rebecca Barker, is a Mayflower descendant. She was the first school teacher in Ohio and the Northwest Territory Her block house school was in Farmers' Castle, Belpre Ohio. She was married to Richard Greene and taught school both before and after her marriage. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06889
Subjects: Farmers' Castle; Marietta (Ohio); Washington County (Ohio); Northwest Territory--History
Places: Belpre (Ohio); Washington County (Ohio); Marietta (Ohio); Washington County (Ohio)
 

Description: A farmer sitting on a large tractor takes a break from plowing his fields, along Route 23 south of Columbus, Ohio. The High Street Photograph Collection is comprised of over 400 photographs of High Street in Columbus, Ohio, taken in the early 1970s. These photographs were taken primarily at street level and document people and the built environment from the Pontifical College Josephinum on North High Street in Worthington through Clintonville, the University District and Short North, Downtown and South Columbus. The photographs were used in a television photo documentary that aired on WOSU called "High Street." Photographers that were involved in this project were Alfred Clarke, Carol Hibbs Kight, Darrell Muething, Clayton K. Lowe, and Julius Foris, Jr. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV254_B02F036_01
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Street photography; Farmers; Tractors; Farm life -- Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of blind Mormon farmer James Jepson of Utah. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05905
Subjects: Farmers; Rural life; Portrait photography
Places: Utah
 

Description: Women on a farm in upper Michigan help to harvest the hay, photographed by Joe Munroe, 1947. Working on a farm was hard work and required a lot of manpower, often necessitating the work of both men and women. Joe Munroe's career began in 1939 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He served in the Air Force during World War II and then joined Cincinnati-based Farm Quarterly magazine. Though raised in Detroit, agriculture became an important subject of Joe's photographs. He moved to California in 1955 and free-lanced, taking magazine assignments and selling his own work. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P400_B12_F08_002
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Farming; Farm life; Women farmers
Places: Marquette (Michigan)
 

Description: Using a corn harvester, a farmer gathers his corn crop. The corn harvester is a machine designed for picking corn and preparing it for storage by removing the husks and chopping up the leaves and stalks. The High Street Photograph Collection is comprised of over 400 photographs of High Street in Columbus, Ohio, taken in the early 1970s. These photographs were taken primarily at street level and document people and the built environment from the Pontifical College Josephinum on North High Street in Worthington through Clintonville, the University District and Short North, Downtown and South Columbus. The photographs were used in a television photo documentary that aired on WOSU called "High Street." Photographers that were involved in this project were Alfred Clarke, Carol Hibbs Kight, Darrell Muething, Clayton K. Lowe, and Julius Foris, Jr. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV254_B02F028_01
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Street photography; Farmers; Harvesting; Corn; Crops
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)