Description: Reverse reads: "Findlay High School Located on W. Main Cross St, N. Side. 1131 W of Main. Findlay High School (Page 30) Hancock Co." This is a photograph of Findlay High School in Findlay, Ohio. The school was built in 1940 and is now Central Middle School. It is scheduled to close in 2013. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F06_012_001
Subjects: Findlay (Ohio)--History; High schools--Ohio; Schools--1930-1940; Schools--Ohio; School buildings--Ohio; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Findlay (Ohio); Hancock County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Montg. Co. Dayton, O. April 23, 1937 Main St. Bridge from N." The large building seen across the river is Steele High School. The school, which was built in 1984 served as Dayton’s only high school until 1906. Because of high maintenance costs, it closed in the late 1930s, and the building was demolished in the late 1940s. The Main St. Bridge, which crosses the Great Miami River, is on the right of this photo. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F05_014_001
Subjects: Great Miami River (Ohio); Dayton (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; High schools--Ohio; Schools--1930-1940; Schools--Ohio; School buildings--Ohio; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery 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: Handwritten on reverse: "High School, Mingo Jct., O. Miller and Son, 436 Market St., Steubenville, Ohio." Mingo Junction High School was dedicated in 1930. The 3-story brick building replaced the Central High School, which was destroyed by fire in 1917. A new gymnasium was added in 1957. The Mingo Indian tribe (now referred to as the Seneca-Cayuga tribe) once had a settlement at the location of the present-day village, which is the source of its name. Originally known as Mingo Bottom, it was the starting point for the ill-fated Crawford expedition against hostile Indians in 1782, during the American Revolutionary War. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F06_047_001
Subjects: High schools--Ohio; School buildings--Ohio; Schools--Ohio--Mingo Junction--History; Jefferson County (Ohio)--History; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works; Education; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Mingo Junction (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated September 19, 1936, this photograph shows young ladies who are students of the Butler County Emergency School's homemaking class. Butler County Emergency School was a Works Progress Administration program, at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The photograph's caption reads "Butler County Emergency Schools. Elm St., Oxford, Ohio, Mrs. Viola Smith, Teacher. Class in Homemaking- Cooking, Food Values, Meal Planning, Sewing, Quilting, Basketry. This class wrote a play and dramatized it in Stewart High School. From the proceeds they purchased materials to make aprons and dresses so they might learn more about sewing, designing and finishing garments." The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was 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. 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_B02F04_006_1
Subjects: African Americans; Home economics--Ohio; Schools--Ohio; Works Progress Administration; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Oxford (Ohio); Butler County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption on front reads "Photo by Cornish. Madisonville School in 1820". Caption on reverse reads "Cinci., O., Mar.1938, copy." Madisonville is community in Cincinnati located eight miles northeast of downtown. It was founded in 1809 under the name of Madison, but in 1926, the name was changed to Madisonville to avoid confusion with another Madison, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F01_017_001
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Education; School buildings--Ohio; Schools--Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Log structures; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption on front reads "Photo by Cornish. Madisonville School in 1820." Caption on reverse reads "Cinci., O., Mar.1938, copy." Madisonville is community in Cincinnati located eight miles northeast of downtown. It was founded in 1809 under the name of Madison, but in 1926, the name was changed to Madisonville to avoid confusion with another Madison, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F05_026_001
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Education; School buildings--Ohio; Schools--Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Log structures; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton 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; Lancaster (Ohio)
Places: Lancaster (Ohio); Fairfield County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing boys eating at 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: AL07038
Subjects: Prisons--Ohio; Schools--Ohio; Lancaster (Ohio)
Places: Lancaster (Ohio); Fairfield 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: Reverse reads: "Ohio Military Institute, College Hill, Cincinnati Ohio." Site of a succession of short-lived schools built by the families of College Hill, Ohio Military Institute was founded in 1890 on the remnants of Belmont College, itself built on Freeman Grant Cary's Farmers' College. As a school for boys, covering primary through college preparatory levels, it functioned until 1958. Bishop Mound, burial site of Robert Hamilton Bishop, one of the first teachers at Farmers' College, is some 200 feet behind the school's gymnasium. 5553 Belmont Ave. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F13_014_1
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Military academies; Schools--Ohio; Preparatory schools; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1930-1939, this photograph shows Athens High School in Athens County, Ohio. Athens High School graduated its first senior class in 1859 and the current building opened in 1968 in The Plains, which now consists of a merger of The Plains High School, Chauncey-Dover High School, and Athens High 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_B01F14_002_001
Subjects: High schools--Ohio; Education; School buildings--Ohio; Schools; Athens (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works
Places: Athens (Ohio); Athens County (Ohio)