Description: The handwritten caption on the reverse is unclear, but it seems to read, "Home Economics Mengo Hi School." This is a photograph of several teen girls cooking in a home economics class at an unknown Ohio school. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F07_028_001
Subjects: Home economics; Education; Students; Cooking; High Schools--Ohio; Classrooms -- Ohio;
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Reverse reads: "W.P.A. Emergency School- Armleder Bldg., Cincinnati Ohio 1936." This is a photograph of several students in an W.P.A. emergency school in Cincinnati, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F06_029_001
Subjects: Education; Schools--Ohio; Classrooms; School buildings--Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "W.P.A. Emergency Schools. Negro children at West End Center, Cincinnati, Ohio. Photo by W.P.A. Photographer, Federal Project No. 1. (Writers')." This photograph shows about 20 children and 5 adults in a classroom, sitting a desks and tables eating lunch. Signs around the room indicate the students were learning subjects such as sewing, knitting and how to rescue the drowning (Row, Throw, Go, and Tow). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F10_023_1
Subjects: Children; Education; Schools--Ohio; Classrooms; School buildings--Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated September 19, 1936, this photograph shows children playing at Butler County Emergency School, a Works Progress Administration program, at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The photograph's caption reads "Butler County Emergency Schools. Cor. Elm & Withrow, Oxford, Ohio. Gwendolyn Bolden, Head Teacher, 26 children enrolled." 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_004_1
Subjects: Children; Education; African Americans; Schools--Ohio; Classrooms
Places: Oxford (Ohio); Butler County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated September 19, 1936, this photograph shows children playing at Butler County Emergency School, a Works Progress Administration program, at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The photograph's caption reads "Butler County Emergency Schools. Cor. Elm & Withrow, Oxford, Ohio. Gwendolyn Bolden, Head Teacher. 26 children enrolled." 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_005_1
Subjects: Children; Education; Schools--Ohio; Classrooms; African Americans
Places: Oxford (Ohio); Butler County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of an industrial arts class in an unknown high school in Ohio. More information needed. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F03_020_01
Subjects: Industrial arts; Art Education; Industrial arts--Course of study--High school; Classrooms; Education; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Reverse reads:" PORTSMOUTH - Home Economies room at Sciotoville School. (Used in The Ohio Guide) Ident. - B-11 to Illinois; National Picture Book; 1/9/41; Location- Portsmouth, Ohio; Credit - Information Unit WPA in Ohio; Caption - Home Economics Class, Sciotoville School. This photo must be returned to Ohio Writers' Project, 8 E. Chestnut St., Columbus, O." This is a photograph of girls learning how to sew dresses in a home economics class at Sciotoville High School in Portsmouth, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F06_011_001
Subjects: High schools--Ohio; Home economics; Sewing; Sewing machines; Classrooms; Girls--Study and teaching; Sciotoville (Portsmouth, Ohio); Students; Education; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Portsmouth (Ohio); Scioto County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Citizens of several European nations mingle on the friendliest of terms in this WPA literacy class at Patrick Henry School, Cleveland, Ohio." This photo depicts a Works Progress Administration literacy class at Patrick Henry School in Cleveland, Ohio. The class appears to be mostly Europeans. The WPA created literacy and arts programs, such as the Federal Writers' Project, that helped the unemployed learn new and valuable skills. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F10_001_001
Subjects: Literacy programs--Ohio--Cleveland; Classrooms; Students; Naturalization--United States; Literacy; Reading; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: The handwritten note on the back reads: "Trumbull Co. Brookfield Leap[?] School." This is a photo of a home economics class most likely in Brookfield Township School in Trumbull County, Ohio. There are several girls standing around tables in aprons preparing recipes for class. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F07_031_001
Subjects: Hershey Chocolate Company; Home economics--Ohio--1930-1940; Education; Trumbull County (Ohio)--History; Girls--Study and teaching; Classrooms; Students; Cooking; High Schools--Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Social Studies Class, South High School, Lima. Photograph by courtesy of South High School" This is a photo of a social studies class at Lima South High School in Lima, Ohio. There is a teacher at the head of classroom the room and several students working on classwork. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F07_003_001
Subjects: High schools; Social studies; Classrooms; Lima (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works; Maps; Students; Teachers; Education; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Lima (Ohio); Allen County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph, from a yearbook dated from 1940, shows students of Brilliant High School sit in the physics class of George T. McKinstry. The student in the white shirt and in the front row has been identified as Charles Campbell. The student near the left side of the photograph appears to be reading an article from the newspaper about baseball titled: "Greetings to Rosy Rowswell, from the home town Tarentum [Pennsylvania]." Brilliant High School was located at 2nd Street in Brilliant, Ohio, in Jefferson County, Ohio. In 1952, a new building was opened at 1004 3rd Street. In 1972, Brilliant High School merged with Smithfield High School, to become Buckeye North High School. Finally, in 1990, the three schools in the district merged together to form the Buckeye Local High School in Rayland, Ohio. 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_B08F06_025_001
Subjects: High school; Classrooms -- Ohio; Students; Science and Technology
Places: Brilliant (Ohio); Steubenville (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "PORTSMOUTH - Manual Training Room in the remodeled and modernized basement of Sciotoville School." This is a photo of a carpentry class at Sciotoville High School in Portsmouth, Ohio. There are several students working on various projects throughout the classroom. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F07_029_001
Subjects: Carpentry; Classrooms; High schools; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Sciotoville (Ohio); Scioto County (Ohio); Portsmouth (Ohio)