Description: Caption reads: "Middleport Volunteer Fire Department." Six men from the Middleport Volunteer Fire Department are pictured with a fire engine. Middleport is located in southeastern Ohio, along the Ohio River. The Middleport Volunteer Fire Department was founded in the mid 1800s. It is believed that the first all volunteer emergency squad in the state of Ohio was founded in 1937 in Middleport. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F20_012_1
Subjects: Fire departments--Ohio; Fire engines; Volunteers
Places: Middleport (Ohio); Meigs County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1935-1940, this is a photograph of a framed clipping that reads "Champaign Fire Company! The members of the Champaign Fire Company will meet at the Court House, this Monday evening July 24 at 7 o'clock, for the purpose of organizing the Company. A full attendance is desirable. Urbana, July 2 [?], 1833." 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_B14F04_008_001
Subjects: Champaign County (Ohio); Fire departments--Ohio; Meetings
Places: Urbana (Ohio); Champaign County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Meigs County." Two members of the Middleport Volunteer Fire Department are pictured in a rescue boat. Middleport is located in southeastern Ohio, along the Ohio River. The Middleport Volunteer Fire Department was founded in the mid 1800s. It is believed that the first all volunteer emergency squad in the state of Ohio was established in 1937, in Middleport, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F20_011_1
Subjects: Fire departments--Ohio; Volunteers; Boats and boating
Places: Middleport (Ohio); Meigs County (Ohio)