Description: Caption on reverse reads: "Cinci., O., Mar 1938. Copy. O.M.I. Parade Grd. College Hill." This photograph shows the Ohio Military Institute Parade grounds in on Belmont Avenue in College Hill near Cincinnati, Ohio. From the OMI alumni website: Ohio Military Institute was established in 1890, on the site the former Belmont College. Freeman Carey, a graduate of Miami University at Oxford (Ohio) had established Carey Academy in his home on the family farm in 1832. It was a success, and within a few years, Carey built a small brick school building, apparently on the site of what later became Carey Hall. Carey Academy was "the leading private school west of the Alleghenies." Dr. Robert H. Bishop, first president of Miami University, joined the faculty of Carey Academy during its final year in 1846. In 1847, the academy became Farmers' College, and it was at this time that Carey Hall was erected. This combination class-room building and dormitory would serve for the next 111 years. Dr. Bishop laid the cornerstone and stayed on to fill the chair of Philosophy and History in the faculty of the college. Shortly before his death in 1855, he ask that his body and that of his wife "might find a final resting place on the College grounds." [Old Boys will remember the Bishop burial mound, which was located at the edge of the woods directly behind Henshaw Hall. This gymnasium/drill hall was built in 1949. When the school closed in 1958, the remains of Dr. and Mrs. Bishop were dis-interned and reburied on the grounds of Miami University. There was, it turned out, no truth to the rumor that Dr. Bishop's horse had also been buried with him!] Farmers' College claimed that "its distinctive feature [was] the practical character of its course of instruction.... to qualify our youth for a higher position in any of the industrial pursuits." With the coming of the Civil War, fully two thirds of the student body rushed to enlist in the Union or Confederate forces. Farmers' College was forced to close, but not before it became a stop on the "underground railroad", assisting escaped slaves to migrate to the north. After the war the school re-opened as Belmont College, offering a curriculum more typical of the classical model of education. But Belmont debuted just as the land grant colleges were beginning to demonstrate that modern "vocational" education at the collegiate level was of more immediate utility in the dawning Industrial Age than was a classical education of philosophy, Greek, Latin, etc. With a shrinking student body, the school began to shift toward the education of younger men. In 1890, Belmont College closed, and the Ohio Military Institute opened on the same site in 1890. But the past was not completely abandoned: Portraits of Mr. Carey and Dr. Bishop hung on opposing walls of the main Study Room in Carey Hall until the buildings were torn down in 1958. Originally, the grounds comprised about ten acres of woodland, fronting on Belmont Avenue and extending westward to a deep ravine. To this was later added a large tract of virgin forest land, nearly sixty acres in extent, surrounding the original property on three sides. This land had originally been part of the Carey farm and was acquired by that family from John Symmes, who secured the grant from the U.S. Government at the close of the Revolutionary War. Harrison Hall (the old Daller House), which was used as a dormitory and recreation building for Lower School cadets, was acquired sometime in the late 1940's, and yet another four acres to the campus. The school buildings included Carey, Belmont, Bishop, Perry, Henshaw and Harrison Halls. Of these, only Henshaw Hall remains and it is apparently still used as a community center for basketball. The other school buildings were razed to make way for Aiken High School, which opened in 1961 View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F14_008_1
Subjects: Military academies; School Buildings--Ohio; Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works; Education; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: College Hill (Ohio); Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Cincinnati High Schools. Cinci.,O., Sept. 1937 #109. WESTERN HILLS SCHOOL" This is a photograph of the Western Hills High School building in Cincinnati, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F06_005_001
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; High school--Buildings; School buildings--Ohio; Western Hills High School (Cincinnati, Ohio); High schools--Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Western Hill High Schools" This building still serves as Western Hills High School. It is now called The Western Hills University High School. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F06_013_001
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; High school--Buildings; School buildings--Ohio; Western Hills High School (Cincinnati, Ohio); High schools--Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "John Hay High School, photograph taken 4/14/37, Cleveland, Ohio, Cuyahoga Co." John Milton Hay met Abraham Lincoln through his uncle, a Springfield, Illinois lawyer who worked next door to the future president. Hay served as Lincoln's personal secretary until 1864, and was present at the president's death. His diaries remain a chief primary source for historians of the Civil War. He married into Cleveland high society and lived there in celebrity and boredom from 1875 to 1886. Hay returned to Washington, completing a long career in government as Secretary of State to William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. Completed in 1929, George Hopkinson's neoclassical school on Stokes Boulevard in University Circle replaced a nearby school at 105th Street. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F10_33_01
Subjects: Cleveland (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; High schools--Ohio; Schools--Ohio; High school--Buildings; School buildings--Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "High school, Dillonvale, O." After the first high school burned down in 1923, this building was constructed to replace it in 1925. In 2009, the high school building was finally demolished after graduating its last class in 1971. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F06_006_001
Subjects: High school buildings--Ohio--Dillonvale; School buildings--Ohio; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works; High schools--Ohio--Dillonvale; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Dillonvale (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "Jackson High School, Jackson, O." This is a photograph of Jackson High School in Jackson, Ohio. More information needed. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F05_003_001
Subjects: High school buildings--Ohio--Jackson; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works; School buildings--Ohio; Schools--Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Jackson (Ohio); Jackson County (Ohio)
 

Description: Taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912, this photograph shows a large group of mostly children, probably a school group portrait, posing in front of a one-story frame building. Like most of Ewing's work, it was likely taken in southeastern Ohio or central West Virginia. Born in 1870 in Washington County, Ohio, near Marietta, Ewing most likely began his photography career in the 1890s. The 1910 US Census and a 1912-1913 directory list him as a photographer. A negative signed "Ewing Brothers" and a picture with his younger brother, Frank, indicate that Frank may have joined the business. After 1916, directories list Albert as a salesman. He died in 1934. The Ewing Collection consists of 5,055 glass plate negatives, each individually housed and numbered. Additionally, the collection includes approximately 450 modern contact prints made from the glass plate negatives. Subjects include infants and young children, elderly people, families, school and religious groups, animals and rural scenes. In 1982, the Ohio Historical Society received the collection, still housed in the original dry plate negative boxes purchased by Albert J. Ewing. A selection of the original glass plate negatives were exhibited for the first time in 2013 at the Ohio Historical Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV71_b12_f691
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States--History; Education; School buildings; School children United States
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: Taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing on December 6, 1901, this photograph shows a school group portrait. A small chalkboard resting in front of the first row reads "Our School, December 6, 1901, Mr. G. Kincheloe." Like most of Ewing's work, it was likely taken in southeastern Ohio or central West Virginia. Born in 1870 in Washington County, Ohio, near Marietta, Ewing most likely began his photography career in the 1890s. The 1910 US Census and a 1912-1913 directory list him as a photographer. A negative signed "Ewing Brothers" and a picture with his younger brother, Frank, indicate that Frank may have joined the business. After 1916, directories list Albert as a salesman. He died in 1934. The Ewing Collection consists of 5,055 glass plate negatives, each individually housed and numbered. Additionally, the collection includes approximately 450 modern contact prints made from the glass plate negatives. Subjects include infants and young children, elderly people, families, school and religious groups, animals and rural scenes. In 1982, the Ohio Historical Society received the collection, still housed in the original dry plate negative boxes purchased by Albert J. Ewing. A selection of the original glass plate negatives were exhibited for the first time in 2013 at the Ohio Historical Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV71_b12_f683
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States--History; Education; School buildings; School children United States
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: Taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing in 1901, this photograph shows a group of students, ranging from elementary to high school age, posing outside their one-room schoolhouse. Students in the front row hold a small chalkboard which reads "Our School, December 3, 1901, W. B. McPherson, Teacher." Like most of Ewing's work, it was likely taken in southeastern Ohio or central West Virginia. Born in 1870 in Washington County, Ohio, near Marietta, Ewing most likely began his photography career in the 1890s. The 1910 US Census and a 1912-1913 directory list him as a photographer. A negative signed "Ewing Brothers" and a picture with his younger brother, Frank, indicate that Frank may have joined the business. After 1916, directories list Albert as a salesman. He died in 1934. The Ewing Collection consists of 5,055 glass plate negatives, each individually housed and numbered. Additionally, the collection includes approximately 450 modern contact prints made from the glass plate negatives. Subjects include infants and young children, elderly people, families, school and religious groups, animals and rural scenes. In 1982, the Ohio Historical Society received the collection, still housed in the original dry plate negative boxes purchased by Albert J. Ewing. A selection of the original glass plate negatives were exhibited for the first time in 2013 at the Ohio Historical Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV71_b12_f682
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States--History; Education; School buildings; School children United States;
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: Taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912, this photograph shows a large group of what appear to be high school-aged students posing outside a building. Like most of Ewing's work, it was likely taken in southeastern Ohio or central West Virginia. Born in 1870 in Washington County, Ohio, near Marietta, Ewing most likely began his photography career in the 1890s. The 1910 US Census and a 1912-1913 directory list him as a photographer. A negative signed "Ewing Brothers" and a picture with his younger brother, Frank, indicate that Frank may have joined the business. After 1916, directories list Albert as a salesman. He died in 1934. The Ewing Collection consists of 5,055 glass plate negatives, each individually housed and numbered. Additionally, the collection includes approximately 450 modern contact prints made from the glass plate negatives. Subjects include infants and young children, elderly people, families, school and religious groups, animals and rural scenes. In 1982, the Ohio Historical Society (now the Ohio History Connection) received the collection, still housed in the original dry plate negative boxes purchased by Albert J. Ewing. A selection of the original glass plate negatives were exhibited for the first time in 2013 at the Ohio Historical Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV71_b15_f903
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States--History; School buildings; School photography
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: Group portrait of the 1909 class of East High School in Columbus, Ohio. Students are gathered on the front steps of the school building. Each student and teacher pictured is numbered and the photograph is accompanied by a key identifying them by name. East High School (which was also called Franklin Junior High School for a time) was constructed at 1390 Bryden Road in 1889. As enrollment continued to grow, East High was eventually replaced by the new East High School located on East Broad Street. The original building was later demolished. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS7309_1
Subjects: Education--Ohio; School buildings; School photography; Students--Ohio;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: School house in Carrothers, Seneca County, Ohio, ca. 1900-1909. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00484
Subjects: Carrothers (Ohio); Education; School buildings; School photography
Places: Carrothers (Ohio); Seneca County (Ohio)