Description: The reverse side of this photo has three pieces of paper attached. They read: "District #3 Monroe County July--1939 Monroe county's handsomest rural school building is that serving Wayne Township, which was completed last year as a WPA project. This photo was taken after it had seen service during one school year." "Ident. - B-4 to Illinois Natioinal Picture Book 1/9/41 Location - Monroe County, Ohio Credit - Information Unit WPA in Ohio Caption - Rural School Built by WPA" "Ohio State Guide Education or The Schools Rural School built by the WPA, Monroe County Photograph by courtesy of Work Projects Administration" This school still stands. It seems to be in use, although this could not be confirmed. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F07_005_001
Subjects: Schools--Ohio; School buildings--Ohio; United States. Works Progress Administration of Ohio
Places: Wayne Township (Ohio); Monroe County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Clark County, Springfield, Ohio, Oct. 14, 1936. Bronze tablet on Wittenberg Ave. Underpass Bridge installed by Springfield Conservancy District, in commemoration of WPA Labor used on the bridge." The plaque reads: "Erected A.D. 1936. W.P.A. Project Sponsored By The Springfield Conservancy District. Directors Paul A. Montanus, Armin L. Kelly, Ernest C. Janson." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F06_03_01
Subjects: Streets--Ohio; Bridges--Ohio; United States. Works Progress Administration of Ohio
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Clark County, Springfield, Ohio, Oct. 17, 1936. Wittenberg Ave. Underpass Bridge, upper view." The WPA plaque can be seen on the right side of the bridge. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F06_10_01
Subjects: Streets--Ohio; Bridges--Ohio; United States. Works Progress Administration of Ohio
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Clark County, Springfield, Ohio, Oct. 14, 1936. Bronze tablet donated by Springfield Conservancy Dist. in commemoration of WPA Labor used on Wittenberg Ave. Underpass Bridge." The plaque reads: "Erected A.D. 1936. W.P.A. Project Sponsored by The Springfield Conservancy District. Directors Paul A. Montanus, Armin L. Kelly, Ernest C. Janson." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F06_21_01
Subjects: Streets--Ohio; Bridges--Ohio; United States. Works Progress Administration of Ohio
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Clark County, Springfield, Ohio, Oct. 14, 1936. Wittenberg Ave. underpass bridge, recently completed." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F06_22_01
Subjects: Streets--Ohio; Bridges--Ohio; United States. Works Progress Administration of Ohio
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Clark County, Springfield, Ohio, Oct. 17, 1936. Wittenberg Ave. Underpass Bridge." The bronze plaque placed the the Springfield Conservancy District in honor of WPA Labor is visible on the right. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F06_23_01
Subjects: Streets--Ohio; Bridges--Ohio; United States. Works Progress Administration of Ohio
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Project W.P. #5748. Clermont County Courthouse, Batavia, Ohio. Common Pleas Court Room. Photo by Federal Writers' Photographer. Jan. 14, 1937." This photograph is an interior view of an empty courtroom at the Clermont County Courthouse. The current courthouse is located at 270 Main Street in Batavia, Ohio and was completed in 1936, having been designed by the architectural firm of Hunt & Allan in the Neoclassical style for $100,000. The building has a rectangular footprint and is two stories high. The facade of the building is lined with red brick and limestone trimwork. The building's main entrance is accessed by a flight of stairs and is framed by four large Tuscan piers supporting an entablature above. A window is located to each side of the central door with a window directly in line on the second floor. The wings to either side of the entrance projection contains three windows on each floor. The flat roof is hidden behind a solid balustrade. An addition was finished in 1998 and is located to the rear of the old courthouse. The design was approved by the commissioners and was submitted by Steinkamp, Steinkamp & Hampton. The building was designed in Greek Revival style and contains a central pediment supported by Tuscan columns with brick bases. The pediment contains an elliptical window. A drum rises from the roofline and is topped by a clock tower capped by a dome. It was constructed under the Works Progress Administration of the 1930s and unfortunately an elaborate courthouse was not feasible due to the Great Depression. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F07_02_01
Subjects: Courthouses--Ohio--History. Ohio; United States. Works Progress Administration of Ohio
Places: Batavia (Ohio); Clermont County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Project W.P. #5748. Vestibule, Clermont County Courthouse, Batavia, Ohio. Photo by Federal Writers' Photographer. January 14, 1937." Clermont County Courthouse is located at 270 Main Street in Batavia, Ohio and was completed in 1936, having been designed by the architectural firm of Hunt & Allan in the Neoclassical style for $100,000. The building has a rectangular footprint and is two stories high. The facade of the building is lined with red brick and limestone trimwork. The building's main entrance is accessed by a flight of stairs and is framed by four large Tuscan piers supporting an entablature above. A window is located to each side of the central door with a window directly in line on the second floor. The wings to either side of the entrance projection contains three windows on each floor. The flat roof is hidden behind a solid balustrade. An addition was finished in 1998 and is located to the rear of the old courthouse. The design was approved by the commissioners and was submitted by Steinkamp, Steinkamp & Hampton. The building was designed in Greek Revival style and contains a central pediment supported by Tuscan columns with brick bases. The pediment contains an elliptical window. A drum rises from the roofline and is topped by a clock tower capped by a dome. It was constructed under the Works Progress Administration of the 1930s and unfortunately an elaborate courthouse was not feasible due to the Great Depression. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F07_03_01
Subjects: Courthouses--Ohio--History. Ohio; United States. Works Progress Administration of Ohio
Places: Batavia (Ohio); Clermont County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "C. H. Clary, Instructor in Vocational training and Agriculture, watches a class of boys test milk in the new agriculture laboratory, a part of the new school addition built by WPA workers at Versailles." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F07_039_1
Subjects: Schools--Ohio; United States. Works Progress Administration of Ohio
Places: Versailles (Ohio); Darke County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated April 15, 1936, this photograph shows teachers for the Butler County Emergency School, a Works Progress Administration program, at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The photograph's caption reads "Emergency School Teachers-April 15, 1936, meeting at Y.W.C.A. H.R. Reade, County Supervisor. Mr. Reade in gray suit in front row." 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_011_1
Subjects: Teachers; Education; Schools--Ohio; United States. Works Progress Administration of Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Hamilton (Ohio); Butler County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated September 19, 1936, this photograph shows women and children, members of the parent education program at Butler County Emergency School, posing for a portrait outside. Butler County Emergency School was a Works Progress Administration program at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The photograph's caption reads "Butler County, R.R. #I, Middletown, O. at Rolling Mill Park. Parent Education, child study, and good citizenship. Miss Helen Matson, Teacher. Butler Co. Emer. Schls." 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_010_1
Subjects: Teachers; Education; Schools--Ohio; United States. Works Progress Administration of Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Middletown (Ohio); Butler County (Oho)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1935-1940, this photograph shows ladies sewing as part of the Butler County Emergency School sewing project. Butler County Emergency School was a Works Progress Administration program at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The photograph's caption reads "Middletown, O.. Sewing Project (white) R.R.I. [Rural Route #I], Middletown, Rolling Mill Park. Teacher, Miss Helen Matson. The main objective in this group is Parent Education, Child Study, and Good Citizenship. This is brought about in a tactful manner after interesting the group in crafts and sewing. All Southern people." 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_015_1
Subjects: Quilts; Crocheting; Schools--Ohio; United States. Works Progress Administration of Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Middletown (Ohio); Butler County (Ohio)