Description: Reverse reads: "Butler Co., Hamilton, O. Tennis Court at North End Park. Pine St. at Ford reservoir, Aug. 10, 1936." This photograph shows several people playing on tennis courts at North End Park in Hamilton, Ohio. There are bleachers to the left and what looks like a factory plant in the distance. This park was most likely built as part of the Works Progress Administration project. Today, the park has transformed into the North End Athletic Field with softball and baseball fields, playgrounds and a pool. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F02_020_001
Subjects: Tennis; Tennis courts; Parks--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Recreation; Hamilton (Ohio)--Social life and customs; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project.
Places: Hamilton (Ohio); Butler County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Tennis Courts at Goldman park. Highland St. near Grand Ave." Goldman Park is a 23.5 acre park located at Highland and Roosevelt Blvd. This park features playground equipment, picnic shelter, picnic tables, softball diamonds, and double tennis courts. Middletown is located in Butler County, which is in Ohio's southwestern corner and borders Indiana on its western border. Butler County was established by the State of Ohio on March 24, 1803. Originally a part of Hamilton County, Butler County was named in honor of Richard Butler, who was killed in St. Clair’s Defeat in 1791. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F03_013_1
Subjects: Middletown (Ohio)--Social life and customs--Pictorial works; Tennis courts; Butler County (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works.
Places: Middletown (Ohio); Butler County (Oho)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Miami Tennis court. Miami St., at Fleming road." Miami Park is 3.35 acre park located off Miami and Reinartz Blvd. This park features playground equipment, picnic tables, tennis court, and basketball court. Middletown is located in Butler County, which is in Ohio's southwestern corner and borders Indiana on its western border. Butler County was established by the State of Ohio on March 24, 1803. Originally a part of Hamilton County, Butler County was named in honor of Richard Butler, who was killed in St. Clair’s Defeat in 1791. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F03_012_1
Subjects: Middletown (Ohio)--Social life and customs--Pictorial works; Tennis courts; Butler County (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works.
Places: Middletown (Ohio); Butler County (Oho)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Tennis courts at Douglas park. Minnestoa Ave., south of 18th avenue." Middletown is located in Butler County, which is in Ohio's southwestern corner and borders Indiana on its western border. Butler County was established by the State of Ohio on March 24, 1803. Originally a part of Hamilton County, Butler County was named in honor of Richard Butler, who was killed in St. Clair’s Defeat in 1791. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F03_007_1
Subjects: Tennis courts; Middletown (Ohio)--Social life and customs--Pictorial works.
Places: Middletown (Ohio); Butler County (Oho)
 

Description: The photograph shows a series of six tennis courts inside of a chain link fence at Snyder Park in Springfield, Ohio. They have a hard court surface and lighting on high poles around the perimeter. Snyder Park is located within walking distance from downtown Springfield. It was created in 1895 as a gift from local businessmen, John and David Snyder, and it was designed by landscape architect, Herman Haerlin. The park offers lagoons, walking paths and a public bandstand. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F05_030_001
Subjects: Parks--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Tennis courts
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of C. Walder Parke on a tennis court with other Army Air Forces members, either before or after playing a game. Charles Walder Parke was born on July 28, 1924, and grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio. He enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces in 1942 intending to be a pilot during WWII, but spent most of his military career as a navigator on B-17 Flying Fortresses in the 94th Bombardment Group. Parke earned two Bronze Stars, an Air Medal with several Oak Leaf Clusters, and the Distinguished Flying Cross for his successful bombing missions, including some over Berlin. He is best known for being on board a B-17 which was shot down over France by German planes on June 25, 1944, during a non-combat mission. The crew managed to make an emergency landing, and everyone inside survived. After the war, Parke founded the Cleveland-based Laurel Industries Inc., which became a prominent supplier of antimony oxide to the plastics industry. He died of Lou-Gehrig’s Disease on September 15, 1996, at the age of 72. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1510_B03F02_004
Subjects: Tennis; Airmen; Parke, Charles Walder, 1924-1996; United States Air Force; Air pilots, Military
 

Description: Photograph titled "The old Canoe Club," showing two men playing tennis on a dirt court at Olentangy Park while several seated onlookers watch. Olentangy Park was an amusement park which operated from the 1890s until 1938, located between North High Street and the Olentangy River in Columbus, Ohio. This image was included in a "Memory Book" compiled by Mrs. H. V. Cottrell, historian for the Clinton League (sometimes called the Clinton Welfare League) from 1938-1943. The book shows the development of the Clintonville neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio, and records the history of the League. The Clinton League was a women's group founded in 1912 to promote child welfare and later general welfare in Columbus, but which was based in and primarily focused on the area of Clintonville. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P285_MB1_054
Subjects: Clintonville (Ohio); Clinton League; Women--Charities; Amusement parks; Tennis; Sports and leisure
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "Girls' Table Tennis Tournament, WPA Recreation Project, Dayton, Ohio. 1937." On April 8, 1935, the United States Congress passed the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act, part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, which was hoped would allow Americans to cope with the Great Depression. Creation of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was the most important accomplishment of this Act. This government office hired unemployed Americans to work on various government projects. During its existence, the WPA constructed more than 600,000 miles of roads and built or repaired more than 124,000 bridges, 125,000 public buildings, 8,000 parks, and 850 airport runways. Although the United States Congress reduced funding for the program in 1939, the WPA remained in operation until June 30, 1943. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F08_031_001
Subjects: United States. Works Progress Administration; Table tennis--Ohio
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Greene County - Wilberforce University, Oct. 20, 1936. Tennis Court. State 14-29-1004. WPA 10,700. Also show a portion of gymnasium on left and Mitchell Hall on right. Near Xenia, Ohio." Wilberforce University is located on US 42, three miles from Xenia, Ohio on land that at one time occupied the Tawawa Springs summer resort. In 1856, the Methodist Episcopal Church established Wilberforce University near Xenia, Ohio, to provide African American access to a college education. The university was the first private black college in the United States. Its founders named the institution after William Wilberforce, a prominent eighteenth-century abolitionist. A number of African-American Ohioans attended the school during its early years. During the American Civil War, attendance declined as many students enlisted in the Union army. Wilberforce University closed in 1862. In 1863, the African Methodist Episcopal Church acquired ownership of the university. Under the direction of Daniel Payne, a bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, John Mitchell, the principal of a school in Cincinnati, and James Shorter, an African Methodist Episcopal pastor from Zanesville, Ohio, Wilberforce reopened its doors. The institution operated as a private university serving the African-American community for the next twenty-four years. In 1887, the State of Ohio began to provide Wilberforce with funds to help finance the institution, brought to an end the university's exclusively private status. The state also helped the university create a Normal and Industrial Department that eventually evolved into Central State University. Wilberforce University has experienced steady growth throughout the twentieth century. During the last decades of the twentieth century, the institution built a new residence hall, a student health center, a recreation and sports facility, and an administrative center. The university offers more than twenty degree programs and has exchange programs with universities around the world. In 2003, enrollment was more than 1,200 students. Arson fire damaged some of the buildings in 1865 and tornado in destroyed much of the campus 1974. Below is a partial list of buildings that have been or are on campus: Galloway Hall - Built in 1905, as an impressive administration building and auditorium. It was destroyed by a tornado in 1974 and was rebuilt as part of the Central State University campus. The new building name is Galloway Alumni Tower. Bundy Hall (recitation building) – built 1917 Arnett Hall (girls dormitory and classrooms) - built 1901 Kenzia Emery Hall (girls dormitory) - built 1913 Shorter Hall (boys dormitory, classrooms and administration) – built 1867 (fire caused remodeling 1922) – survived 1974 tornado - demolished 1999 Carnegie Library - built 1907 (1909?) – survived 1974 tornado - National Register of Historic Places 2004 J.G. Mitchell Hall (boys dormitory and classrooms) - built 1891 S.T. Mitchell Hall (girls dormitory – Model home for senior girls) - built 1912 - Samuel T. Mitchell, President 1884-1900. Mitchell Hall, which once stood where Central State University's Hallie Q. Brown Library and Education Building stands today, was named for President Mitchell. O’Neill Hall (boys dormitory and classrooms – first of the state funded buildings) - built 1890 Model School - built 1889 Howell’s Hall - built 1900 Light, Heat and Power Plant – built 1904 Poindexter Hall (built for the printing and drawing departments) - built 1904 Mechanic Arts (built to house carpentry, blacksmithing and machine shops) – built 1914 Tawawa Hospital – built 1916 Beacom Gymnasium – built 1918 Charles Leander Hill Gymnasium – built 1958 - survived 1974 tornado Margaret Ireland Hall (girls dormitory) – built 1963 – destroyed 1974 Central State University In 1887, the Ohio General Assembly established a separate institution to be housed on the Wilberforce campus known as the Combined Normal and Industrial Department. The state-supported school was to focus on training blacks for work in industrial trades and as school teachers. Although the Combined Normal and Industrial Department imposed no restrictions on the race or sex of its students, it was understood that the Department was intended primarily to serve Ohio's African American community. For six decades the Department was administered as part of Wilberforce University. It was set apart, however, by having its own board of trustees which was responsible for administering the state funding of its activities. In 1941, the Department became the College of Education and established a four year program. In 1947 it was declared legally separate from Wilberforce. Although still sharing its campus with Wilberforce, the institution was now the College of Education and Industrial Arts at Wilberforce. In 1951 the Ohio State Legislature added a liberal arts program and renamed the institution Central State College. Former Wilberforce president Charles H. Wesley served as the first president of Central State from 1947 until 1965. Central State became a university in 1965. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F02_028_1
Subjects: Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Education; Universities and colleges; Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio; Central State University (Wilberforce, Ohio); Sports; Court tennis
Places: Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of C. Walder Parke playing tennis. Charles Walder Parke was born on July 28, 1924, and grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio. He enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces in 1942 intending to be a pilot during WWII, but spent most of his military career as a navigator on B-17 Flying Fortresses in the 94th Bombardment Group. Parke earned two Bronze Stars, an Air Medal with several Oak Leaf Clusters, and the Distinguished Flying Cross for his successful bombing missions, including some over Berlin. He is best known for being on board a B-17 which was shot down over France by German planes on June 25, 1944, during a non-combat mission. The crew managed to make an emergency landing, and everyone inside survived. After the war, Parke founded the Cleveland-based Laurel Industries Inc., which became a prominent supplier of antimony oxide to the plastics industry. He died of Lou-Gehrig’s Disease on September 15, 1996, at the age of 72. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1510_B03F02_003
Subjects: Tennis; Parke, Charles Walder, 1924-1996; United States Air Force; Military uniforms; Air pilots, Military