Description: This photograph shows a street on the Ohio University campus looking north, showing the city as it existed between 1909-1914. Athens is the county seat of Athens County, Ohio. Members of the Ohio Company of Associates sent the first settlers into the area in 1797, establishing the town of Athens in 1798. According to the federal government's requirements, the Ohio Company of Associates had to establish an institution of higher education within its land grant. The company leaders chose Athens as the site for the school that eventually became known as Ohio University. Ohio University was established in 1804, with the first classes offered in 1809. Although initially more equivalent to a high school level course of instruction due to lack of a skilled faculty, by 1822 Ohio University offered a traditional college program. Athens became the county seat in 1805, and by 1880, Athens was a thriving town with six churches, three newspapers, and two banking institutions. 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_B01F14_001_001
Subjects: Architecture; Buildings; Daily Life; Central business districts; Education; Universities and colleges; Ohio University; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Athens (Ohio); Athens County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph is an exterior view of Cutler Hall on the College Green at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, ca. 1950-1969. The hall was named for Manasseh Cutler, one of the University's co-founders. Ohio University, founded in 1804, was the first university established in the Northwest Territory. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05158
Subjects: Ohio University--History; College buildings; Universities and colleges--Pictorial works
Places: Athens (Ohio); Athens County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photographic reproduction of a drawing by Henry Howe depicting Ohio University at Athens, Ohio in 1846. Ohio University, founded in 1804, was the first institution of higher education established west of the Allegheny Mountains. This photographic reproduction of Howe's drawing dates ca. 1970-1979. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00219
Subjects: Cultural Ohio--Education; Ohio University; Cultural Ohio--Education; Universities and colleges; Education, Higher
Places: Athens (Ohio); Athens County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photography of the College Gate entrance to the College Green at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, ca. 1950-1969. Ohio University, founded in 1804, was the first university established in the Northwest Territory. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05160
Subjects: Ohio University--History; College buildings; Universities and colleges--Pictorial works
Places: Athens (Ohio); Athens County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows the facade of a building and trees at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Ohio University was founded in 1804 as a public research university. It is located on 1,850 acres in Athens, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06483
Subjects: Athens County (Ohio); Ohio University; Cultural Ohio--Education; Universities and colleges; Education, Higher
Places: Athens (Ohio); Athens County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image depicts one of the greens on the campus of Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Ohio University was founded as a public research university in 1804. It is located on 1,850 acres in Athens, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06487
Subjects: Athens County (Ohio); Ohio University; Cultural Ohio--Education; Universities and colleges; Education, Higher
Places: Athens (Ohio); Athens County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows the McGuffey Elms at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. The elms were planted by William Holmes McGuffey, the 4th President of Ohio University. They were planted during his tenure as President, between 1839 and 1842. Seven of the trees were removed in 1954, a victim of the Dutch elm disease. The parts that could be salvaged were made into plaques, gavels and other mementos. Some of the logs were made into benches which sat in the portico of the University Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06486
Subjects: Athens County (Ohio); Ohio University
Places: Athens (Ohio); Athens County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows an aerial view of the campus of Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Ohio University was founded as a public research university in 1804. It is located on 1,850 acres in Athens, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06485
Subjects: Athens County (Ohio); Ohio University; Cultural Ohio--Education; Universities and colleges; Education, Higher
Places: Athens (Ohio); Athens County (Ohio)
 

Description: An aerial view of the campus of Ohio University in Athens. The university is the first institution of higher learning in the Northwest Territory, second west of the Allegheny Mountains, and the first in the United States to be endowed with land by the government with proceeds used to pay for its operations-revenue from two townships was set aside to support the university. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06819
Subjects: Ohio University; Cultural Ohio--Education; Universities and colleges; Education, Higher; Northwest Territory--History
Places: Athens (Ohio); Athens County (Ohio); Ohio
 

Description: Aerial view of Ohio University, founded 1804 in Athens, Athens County, Ohio, ca. 1940-1949. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00313
Subjects: Ohio University; Cultural Ohio--Education; Universities and colleges; Education, Higher
Places: Athens (Ohio); Athens County (Ohio)
 

Description: The inscription above the gate reads: "So enter that daily thou mayest grow in knowledge wisdom and love." This gate is at the intersection of Court and Union Streets in Athens, Ohio. It is the Alumni Gift of the Class of 1915, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the first graduation class from Ohio University. This was also the first graduation of the old Northwest Territory. This quotation greeting those entering the campus was taken from a Latin inscription over the main portal of the University of Padua, Italy. The quotation for those departing the campus is "So depart that thou mayest better serve thy fellowmen thy country and thy God." It was also taken form the same source. This gate is where Ohio University and the City of Athens meet. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F09_009_001
Subjects: Ohio University--Alumni and alumnae--Exhibitions.; Athens (Ohio)
Places: Athens (Ohio); Athens County (Ohio)
 

Description: A late Federalist style building located on the campus of Ohio University, Cutler Hall was built between the summer of 1816, when the cornerstone was laid, and September 1819. Opening was delayed by a lightening strike in August 1818 to the east end of the building, resulting in fire damage that had to be repaired. In 1888 the building underwent significant renovations including the raising of the roof by three feet and the narrowing and lengthening the windows. The clock on the cupola was a gift of the Class of 1914. By 1945, the building was in decline, having been unused since 1936. Although demolishment was advised, University president John C. Baker had the building completely renovated and restored, returning the roof height and windows to their original size. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966, Cutler Hall is the oldest college building west of the Alleghenies and north of the Ohio River. Over the years, the building has acted as a dormitory, classroom building, laboratory, library, and museum, and currently houses offices of the president, the provost, and other senior administrative officers at Ohio University. Also called College Edifice or the Center Building, the structure was renamed Cutler Hall in 1914 after Manasseh Cutler, one of the founders of Ohio University. A jack-of-all trades, Cutler was a Yale graduate and preacher who was well respected in the scientific and medical community. Dr. Cutler was a director of the real estate company, the Ohio Company of Associates, negotiating the purchase of lands in the then unsettled area of southeast Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F14_008_001
Subjects: Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Buildings; Education; Universities and colleges; Ohio University
Places: Athens (Ohio); Athens County (Ohio)