Description: Reverse reads: "INDUSTRIAL PREPAREDNESS--Modern methods of processes are employed in the special classes being trained in Norwood's Vocational Program designed especially for ambitious youths who seeks to fit themselves for places connected with the nation's defense. The course is of the co-operative type, offering sustained periods in the shop alternating with regular periods of class in academic topics." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F08_020_001
Subjects: Vocational education--Ohio--Cincinnati; Norwood (Ohio). Norwood High School; Schools--Ohio; School buildings--Ohio; Vocational education; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Norwood (Ohio); Hamilton (Ohio)
 

Description: The Combined Normal and Industrial Department was established by the state of Ohio to provide teacher training and other vocational skills through Wilberforce University. It had a separate 9 member board of trustees, pictured in this 1893 photograph. Wilberforce University was established in 1856 in Greene County under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church. It was named for William Wilberforce (1759-1833), an English abolitionist. The African Methodist Episcopal Church purchased the university in 1863, making it the first to be owned and run by African Americans. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1277_780190_126
Subjects: African American Ohioans; Education; Universities and colleges; Teachers--Training of; Vocational education
Places: Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of the Combined Normal and Industrial Board at Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio, 1913. The Combined Normal and Industrial Department was established by the state of Ohio to provide teacher training and other vocational skills through Wilberforce University. It had a separate board of trustees, pictured in this photograph. Some of the men are identified on the reverse of the matted photograph. They are: 1. Unidentified; 2. President William S. Scarborough, PhD.; 3. Dr. Galloway, M.D.; 4. Bishop J. H. Jones, D.D.; 5. Unidentified; 6. Reverend Charles Bundy, D.D.; 7. Superintendent W. A. Joiner; 8. Dr. Johnson, M.D.; 9. Unidentified; 10. Major W. T. Anderson. Wilberforce University was established in 1856 in Greene County under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church. It was named for William Wilberforce (1759-1833), an English abolitionist. The African Methodist Episcopal Church purchased the university in 1863, making it the first to be owned and run by African Americans. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC1489_01
Subjects: African American Ohioans; Education; Universities and colleges; Teachers--Training of; Vocational education
Places: Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Timken Vocational High School, Canton- Photograph by courtesy of Canton Public Schools; This photo must be returned to OHIO WRITERS' PROJECT, 8 E. Chestnut St., Columbus, O." This is a photograph of Timken Vocational High School in Canton, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F06_026_001
Subjects: Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Schools--Ohio; School buildings--Ohio; Vocational education; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Canton (Ohio); Stark County (Ohio)
 

Description: A woman locks the door of the Career Academy in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Located at 71 South High Street, across from the Ohio Statehouse, the academy offered vocational classes in radio broadcasting, medical assisting, and nursing. The United Technical Institute was a division of the Career Academy. The High Street Photograph Collection is comprised of over 400 photographs of High Street in Columbus, Ohio, taken in the early 1970s. These photographs were taken primarily at street level and document people and the built environment from the Pontifical College Josephinum on North High Street in Worthington through Clintonville, the University District and Short North, Downtown and South Columbus. The photographs were used in a television photo documentary that aired on WOSU called "High Street." Photographers that were involved in this project were Alfred Clarke, Carol Hibbs Kight, Darrell Muething, Clayton K. Lowe, and Julius Foris, Jr. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV254_B05F127_01
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Street photography; Downtowns; Vocational education;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Ms. [?] Murray, Ruth Holmes and Irene Bennett, students at the Mount Carmel School of Nursing in Columbus, Ohio, 1918. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00148
Subjects: Nurses; Women--Employment; Vocational education; Medical care
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Mary Swisher and Ruth Holmes, students at the Mount Carmel School of Nursing in Columbus, Ohio, 1918. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00149
Subjects: Nurses; Women--Employment; Vocational education; Medical care
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Three students at the Mount Carmel School of Nursing taking a bucket of gauze to the laundry. They are identified on the back of the photograph as "Dressing Room Girls Henderson, Holmes, Newell." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00150
Subjects: Nurses; Women--Employment; Vocational education; Medical care
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Several cosmetology students stand on the sidewalk in front of the Ohio State School of Cosmetology, formerly located at 197 South High Street in downtown Columbus, Ohio. The Ohio State School of Cosmetology currently has several locations in Central Ohio, including Canal Winchester, Columbus, and Westerville. Founded in 1958, the Ohio State Barber College teaches students the theory and techniques of professional barbering, including hairstyling, shaving, and facial services. Now known as the Ohio State College of Barber Styling, the school is currently located at 4614 East Broad Street. The High Street Photograph Collection is comprised of over 400 photographs of High Street in Columbus, Ohio, taken in the early 1970s. These photographs were taken primarily at street level and document people and the built environment from the Pontifical College Josephinum on North High Street in Worthington through Clintonville, the University District and Short North, Downtown and South Columbus. The photographs were used in a television photo documentary that aired on WOSU called "High Street." Photographers that were involved in this project were Alfred Clarke, Carol Hibbs Kight, Darrell Muething, Clayton K. Lowe, and Julius Foris, Jr. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV254_B07F187_01
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Street photography; Downtowns; Cosmetology schools; Vocational education
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Girls' Industrial School inmates in industrial arts class, ca. 1910-1919. The purpose of the school was "the reformation of exposed, helpless, evil disposed, and vicious girls." In 1878, the term "incorrigible" was added. A five-member board of trustees purchased a piece of property known as the Ohio White Sulphur Springs Resort, eighteen miles north of Columbus. The first six girls were admitted to the school in October 1869. The inmates spent their mornings performing domestic chores. They also learned various vocational trades, including basket-making, music, sewing, and stenography. In the afternoons, the girls attended school, where they studied, reading, writing, spelling, arithmetic, geography, literature, and United States history among other topics. The girls remained at the school until they reached seventeen years of age or completed their sentence. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00215
Subjects: Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Delaware (Ohio); Women--Education - Ohio; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections; Vocational education
Places: Delaware (Ohio); Delaware County (Ohio)
 

Description: Handwritten caption reads: "Vocational Training. Norwood High School, 1941. Project photo." Typed caption reads: "Production Equipment, exactly like that used in the big machine shops gives today's apprentice the confidence needed to elicit his full co-operation in the industrial preparedness program. This student in the machine shop course of Norwood's Vocational Program is operating a costly, up to date machine tool on practical work and his rate of advancement is just twice as fast as that of any student in such work a generation ago." This photograph shows a young man standing a large machine that has the name "Cincinnati Planer Co. Cincinnati, Ohio" embossed on it. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F10_024_1
Subjects: Schools--Ohio; School buildings--Ohio; Vocational education; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads "For State Picture Book 4/24/41; Ident-; Location- Ohio; Credit- Akron Board of Education; Caption- Making patterns, Hower Vocational High School, Akron; This photo must be returned to Ohio Writers' Project SE. Chestnut St. ,Columbus, O." This is a photo of two unidentified men making wood patterns at the Hower Vocational High School in Akron, Ohio. One man appears to be the teacher while the other is clearly an apprentice or student. The Hower Vocational High School was founded 1927 by Blanche Hower, a widow of industrialist M. Otis Hower. She wanted to establish a vocational school where men could learn a trade. The original classes were mechanics and woodworking. The school’s popularity grew with the end of the Great Depression when need for trade schools greatly increased. The school added programs focusing on printing, sheet metal, plumbing, drafting and then commercial art, auto collision repair, aviation carpentry and welding. In 1941, the school welcomed female students and offered programs in costume design, sewing, retail selling and cosmetology. In 1971 Hower Vocational High School was combined with Akron’s Central High School and was renamed Central-Hower High School. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F09_011_1
Subjects: Vocational school students; Woodwork; Trade schools--United States; Akron (Ohio). Board of Education; United States. Work Projects Administration (Ohio)
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)