Description: Original description reads: "Federal Music Project. Negro Dance Orchestra performing on the terrace in front of Union Station, Cincinnati, Ohio." The Federal Music Project (FMP), part of the Federal government of the United States New Deal program Federal Project No. 1, employed musicians, conductors and composers during the Great Depression. People in the music world had been particularly hard-hit by the era's economic downturn. In addition to performing thousands of concerts, offering music classes, organizing the Composers Forum Laboratory, hosting music festivals and creating 34 new orchestras, employees of the FMP researched American traditional music and folk songs, a practice now called ethnomusicology. In the latter domain the Federal Music Project did notable studies on cowboy, Creole and "Negro" music. The FMP's director—for the majority of its brief life—was Nikolai Sokoloff. During the Great Depression, many people visited these symphonies to forget about the economic hardship of the time. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F11_003_1
Subjects: Music--Performance; African Americans--Music; Dance orchestras; Federal Music Project (U.S.); Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Stage Scene (Reprint) Pike's Opera House Cincinnati, Ohio. 1936" View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F12_020_001
Subjects: Pike's Opera House; Opera-houses; Orchestras
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Attached caption reads: District #16 Federal Theater Project No. 1. Finale of Act I "H. M. S. Pinafore" presented by the combined Federal Theater and Music Projects at Burnet Woods Lake, Cincinnati, Ohio. Photo by W.P.A. Photographer, Federal Project No.1. (Writers') 9/13/36." This is a production of HMS Pinafore at Burnet Woods, near the University of Cincinnati. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F12_023_001
Subjects: Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900. HMS Pinafore; Orchestras
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Attached caption reads: "Federal Theater Project No. 1. Act I of "H. M. S. Pinafore" presented nightly at Burnet Woods, Cincinnati, Ohio. Photo by W.P.A. Photographer, Federal Project No. 1. (Writers') 9-12-36. District #16." This is a Federal Theater Project production of W. S. Gilbert's HMS Pinafore. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F12_025_001
Subjects: Federal Theater Project (U.S.); Plays; Orchestras; Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900. H.M.S. Pinafore
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Federal Theater Project Burnet Woods Lake Cincinnati Ohio - 1936" This is a photo of a Federal Theater Project production of W. S. Gilbert's HMS Pinafore. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F12_026_001
Subjects: Federal Theater Project (U.S.); Plays; Orchestras; Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900. H.M.S. Pinafore
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Handwritten on reverse: "Steubenville High School Orchestra. Miller and Son 436 Market St. Steubenville, Ohio." The photograph shows about 50 students which comprise the Steubenville High School orchestra. They stand on the steps of what is presumably the Steubenville High School and the address on the door is 408. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F06_044_001
Subjects: High schools--Ohio; Orchestras; Steubenville (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works; Instruments; Musicians--Ohio; Students; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Steubenville (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: This appears to be a photo of a photo showing a Federal Theater production of a play. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F12_001_001
Subjects: Federal Theater Project (U.S.); Plays; Orchestras
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Attached caption reads: "Federal Theater Project No. 1. Act I of "H. M. S. Pinafore" presented every night at Burnet Woods Lake, from September 13 to September 26, 1936. Chorus at end of first act. Photo by W.P.A. Photographer, Federal Project No. 1. (Writers') 9-12-36. District #16." This production was held outside in front of the lake at Burnet Woods. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F12_005_001
Subjects: Federal Theater Project (U.S.); Plays; Orchestras; Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900. H.M.S. Pinafore
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "W.P.A. Concert Band at Lytle Park 1936 Cincinnati Ohio" This is a photo of the W.P.A. Concert Band performing at Lytle Park. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F06_039_001
Subjects: Parks--Ohio--Cincinnati; Orchestras
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)