Description: This is a postcard of, most likely, a dormitory. There is handwriting on the back which says: "Mt. Vernon Academy, District#6, Knox Co.", though it is unclear if this is correct. More information needed. Mount Vernon Academy was opened by the Seventh-Day Adventists in 1893 with a missionary cause. It was enlarged and converted to a college in 1905. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F02_016_1
Subjects: Religion in Ohio; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Education; Universities and colleges; Church colleges
Places: Mount Vernon (Ohio); Knox County (Ohio)
 

Description: Sketch of Wittenberg College drawn by Henry Howe, ca. 1847. The college was funded by the Lutheran Church in Springfield, Ohio, in 1845. It reflected the growing number of German immigrants to the region. The school was named after the original Wittenberg University in Germany. This image is taken from Historical Collections of Ohio by Henry Howe, 1847. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04058
Subjects: Wittenberg University; Cultural Ohio--Education; Universities and colleges; Lutheran Church--Education--History--United States
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1935-1940, this photograph shows Rudolf Library at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. The building was built between 1913 and 1915 to serve as the Rudolf Library. When the Blackmore Library was built in 1978, however, it became the Kerns Religious Life Center. It houses religion classrooms and faculty offices, and hosts worship services every Sunday morning and chapel services every Wednesday morning. Founded in 1830, Capital is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. 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_B05F04_003_1
Subjects: Capital University; Evangelical Lutheran Church; Universities and colleges; Education; College campuses
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait drawing of Benjamin Tucker Tanner (1835-1923), known as a pastor, author, bishop and educator. Tanner (1835-1923) had a long career in the African Methodist Episcopal Church as a minister, school principal, bishop, and editor of the Christian Recorder and A.M.E. Church Review. In 1867, he published "An Apology for African Methodism," which traces the history of the denomination and defends both its split from the Methodist Church and its theology. In 1901, he became dean of Payne Theological Seminary at Wilberforce University. Wilberforce was established in 1856 in Greene County under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church and 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. Payne Theological Seminary was named for Daniel A. Payne, who in 1863 became first African American president of Wilberforce University. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1277_781234_125
Subjects: African American Ohioans; Religion in Ohio; Universities and colleges; Education; Wilberforce University; African Methodist Episcopal Church;
Places: Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)