Description: This is a photograph of the Works Progress Administration Handicrafts Class exhibition at the Y.M.C.A. in Toledo, Ohio. The W.P.A. sponsored handicraft classes were created to help teach American citizens how build and create different tools, toys and objects. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F11_016_001
Subjects: Handicrafts; Boat models; Exhibitions--1930-1950; YMCA of the USA; United States. Works Progress Administration of Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project.
Places: Toledo (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of the Works Progress Administration Sewing Class exhibition in Toledo, Ohio. Pictured are handkerchiefs, quilted patterns and crocheted lace. Women made up around fifteen to twenty percent of WPA-participants and almost every single one of them was involved in a sewing project of some sort. Most women at that time were still sewing by hand, so they received training in using sewing machines. Once they became skilled enough with the machines, they made clothing, bedding and supplies for hospitals and orphanages. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F11_018_001
Subjects: Exhibitions--1930-1950; Sewing--United States--History--20th century; United States. Works Progress Administration of Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Toledo (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of a Works Progress Administration Sewing Class exhibition in Toledo, Ohio. Pictured are handkerchiefs, quilts and different pieces of clothing. Women made up around fifteen to twenty percent of WPA-participants and almost every single one of them was involved in a sewing project of some sort. Most women at that time were still sewing by hand, so they received training in using sewing machines. Once they became skilled enough with the machines, they made clothing, bedding and supplies for hospitals and orphanages. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F11_021_001
Subjects: Exhibitions--1930-1950; Sewing--United States--History--20th century; United States. Works Progress Administration of Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Toledo (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of the Works Progress Administration Sewing Class exhibition in Toledo, Ohio. Pictured are handkerchiefs, quilted patterns, crocheted lace and clothing. Women made up around fifteen to twenty percent of WPA-participants and almost every single one of them was involved in a sewing project of some sort. Most women at that time were still sewing by hand, so they received training in using sewing machines. Once they became skilled enough with the machines, they made clothing, bedding and supplies for hospitals and orphanages. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F11_025_001
Subjects: Quilts; Crocheting; Embroidery; Exhibitions--1930-1950; Sewing--United States--History--20th century; United States. Works Progress Administration of Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project.
Places: Toledo (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "State Fair 1937" The Federal Writers' Project (FWP) was a United States federal government project to fund written work and support writers during the Great Depression. It was part of the Works Progress Administration, a New Deal program. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F03_04_001
Subjects: Federal Writers' Project--Exhibitions & displays--1930-1950; Ohio State Fair
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "New Entrance Road to Schoenbrunn State Memorial From Route #250." The Shoenbrunn State Memorial park was completed as an NYA project during the 1930s and 1940s. The National Youth Administration (NYA) was created as one of the New Deal agencies, and created job opportunities for youth that were not in school. In 1772, David Zeisberger, a missionary of the Moravian Church, established the village of Schoenbrunn on the Tuscarawas River, near present-day New Philadelphia. The word Schoenbrunn means "beautiful spring" in German. The purpose of this community was to provide Moravian missionaries a place to teach Christianity to Native Americans residing in Ohio. At its greatest size, Schoenbrunn had a population of four hundred Christian natives, mostly Delaware Indians, and more than sixty buildings, including the first school and Christian church built in Ohio. During the American Revolution, facing harassment from both the English and the Americans , Zeisberger and h View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B14F02_003_001
Subjects: United States. National Youth Administration--Exhibitions & displays--1930-1950.; United States. National Youth Administration in Ohio
Places: Tuscarawas County (Ohio)