Description: This photograph shows the Andrews Institute in Willoughby, Ohio. The Andrews School for Girls was founded by Margaret St. John Andrews and her husband Wallace C. Andrews to provide girls with the opportunity for an affordable secondary vocational education. It first opened in 1910 at the home of Dr. O.S. St. John, but later moved to its present location with the Willoughby School of Fine Arts in 1923. 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_B05F02_003_1
Subjects: Architecture; Education; Education, Secondary; Girls' schools; Andrews School for Girls (Willoughby, Ohio)
Places: Willoughby (Ohio); Lake County (Ohio)
 

Description: The photograph shows six girls sitting on the grass by a house. They range in age from infancy to nearing teenage years. They are all dressed in white dresses, with three girls in hats and the baby in a bonnet. One girl holds a kitten on her lap, and there is a plate of food in front of them. Photograph by Harry Evan Kinley (1882-1969), a native of Upper Sandusky, Ohio. Kinley was active in local events and organizations, and spent his professional career as a clerk at his father's department store, and later as a traveling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). He was also an avid lifelong photographer, and the bulk of the Harry Kinley Collection is comprised of glass plate negatives documenting the Kinley family, the city of Upper Sandusky and Wyandot County and surrounding areas. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV30_B01F01_43
Subjects: Families--Ohio; Daily Life; Girls; Photographers--Ohio
Places: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows Form I (first grade) class at the Columbus School for Girls, December 1, 1957. Columbus School for Girls was established in 1898 by Mary Bole Scott and Florence Kelley, a school whose curriculum was specifically designed to prepare young women for college. The original campus was located at 662 East Town Street, but the current campus is located at 65 South Drexel Avenue. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00108
Subjects: Columbus School for Girls (Columbus, Ohio); Education; Classrooms; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Girls' Athletic Assc. Mingo Jct., O. HiSchool. Miller and Son, 436 Market St., Steubenville, Ohio." This is a photograph of the Mingo Junction High School Girls' Athletic Association in Mingo Junction, Ohio. They have a baseball ball and bat, ping pong paddles, basketball, volleyball, badminton shuttlecock and racquets photographed with them. Mingo Junction High School was dedicated in 1930. The 3-story brick building replaced the Central High School which was destroyed by fire in 1917. A new gymnasium was added in 1957. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F01_053_001
Subjects: Schools--Ohio--Mingo Junction--History; Badminton (Game); Basketball for girls; Volleyball; Sports for women--United States; Athletic clubs--United States; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project.
Places: Mingo Junction (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows a Columbus School for Girls graduation ceremony, June 1937. Columbus School for Girls was established in 1898 by Mary Bole Scott and Florence Kelley, a school whose curriculum was specifically designed to prepare young women for college. The original campus was located at 662 East Town Street, but the current campus is located at 65 South Drexel Avenue. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00176
Subjects: Columbus School for Girls (Columbus, Ohio); Education; Commencement ceremonies; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "New York Relay- County Tract Meet- Sylvania." This photograph shows several girls competing in the New York relay during the Lucas County track meet in Sylvania, Ohio. There are girls catching the ball on one side of the net and a line of girls waiting on the other side. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F03_0019_001
Subjects: Sports for girls; Track and field; Recreation; Sports; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project.
Places: Sylvania (Ohio); Toledo (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated 1920, this photograph shows Florence Kling Harding, wife of Warren G. Harding, and two young girls holding a basket of flowers on her porch in Marion, Ohio. This photograph is part of a photograph album in the Warren G. Harding Photograph Collection (P146). Warren G. Harding, the 29th President of the United States (1921-1923), was born in Blooming Grove, Ohio, in 1865. At age 14, Harding attended Ohio Central College in Iberia, Ohio, where he edited the campus newspaper and became an accomplished public speaker. He married Florence Kling de Wolfe in 1891, and embarked on his political career in 1900 by winning a seat in the Ohio legislature. After serving two terms as an Ohio Senator, Harding served as Lieutenant Governor in 1904 for two years before returning to the newspaper business. Although he lost the 1910 gubernatorial race, Harding was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1914. Political insider Harry Daugherty promoted Harding for the Republican presidential nomination in 1920. His front porch campaign was centered on speeches given from his home in Marion, Ohio, pledging to return the country to “normalcy” in this post World War I era. Harding easily won the election, gaining 61 percent of the popular vote. On August 2, 1923, Harding unexpectedly died from a massive heart attack while touring the western United States, and is entombed in the Marion Cemetery. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P146_B20P15_003
Subjects: Harding, Florence Kling, 1860-1924; First ladies (United States); Ohio women; Girls
Places: Marion (Ohio); Marion County (Ohio)
 

Description: Taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912, this photograph shows two older girls, one sitting in a wicker rocking chair, the other standing behind her, against a hanging backdrop. There are illegible notes etched on the bottom and left side of the glass plate negative. Like most of Ewing's work, it was likely taken in southeastern Ohio or central West Virginia. Born in 1870 in Washington County, Ohio, near Marietta, Ewing most likely began his photography career in the 1890s. The 1910 US Census and a 1912-1913 directory list him as a photographer. A negative signed "Ewing Brothers" and a picture with his younger brother, Frank, indicate that Frank may have joined the business. After 1916, directories list Albert as a salesman. He died in 1934. The Ewing Collection consists of 5,055 glass plate negatives, each individually housed and numbered. Additionally, the collection includes approximately 450 modern contact prints made from the glass plate negatives. Subjects include infants and young children, elderly people, families, school and religious groups, animals and rural scenes. In 1982, the Ohio Historical Society (now the Ohio History Connection) received the collection, still housed in the original dry plate negative boxes purchased by Albert J. Ewing. A selection of the original glass plate negatives were exhibited for the first time in 2013 at the Ohio Historical Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV71_B16_F983
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States--History; Girls
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: This photograph shows a young woman standing behind two young girls seated in chairs, posing in front of a fence covered in leafy vines. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08524
Subjects: Portrait photography; Girls; Summer
 

Description: Taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912, this photograph shows three girls posing in front of a hanging backdrop. Like most of Ewing's work, it was likely taken in southeastern Ohio or central West Virginia. Born in 1870 in Washington County, Ohio, near Marietta, Ewing most likely began his photography career in the 1890s. The 1910 US Census and a 1912-1913 directory list him as a photographer. A negative signed "Ewing Brothers" and a picture with his younger brother, Frank, indicate that Frank may have joined the business. After 1916, directories list Albert as a salesman. He died in 1934. The Ewing Collection consists of 5,055 glass plate negatives, each individually housed and numbered. Additionally, the collection includes approximately 450 modern contact prints made from the glass plate negatives. Subjects include infants and young children, elderly people, families, school and religious groups, animals and rural scenes. In 1982, the Ohio Historical Society (now the Ohio History Connection) received the collection, still housed in the original dry plate negative boxes purchased by Albert J. Ewing. A selection of the original glass plate negatives were exhibited for the first time in 2013 at the Ohio Historical Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV71_B16_F993
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States--History; Girls
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: Taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912, this photograph shows three girls posing in front of a hanging backdrop. Like most of Ewing's work, it was likely taken in southeastern Ohio or central West Virginia. Born in 1870 in Washington County, Ohio, near Marietta, Ewing most likely began his photography career in the 1890s. The 1910 US Census and a 1912-1913 directory list him as a photographer. A negative signed "Ewing Brothers" and a picture with his younger brother, Frank, indicate that Frank may have joined the business. After 1916, directories list Albert as a salesman. He died in 1934. The Ewing Collection consists of 5,055 glass plate negatives, each individually housed and numbered. Additionally, the collection includes approximately 450 modern contact prints made from the glass plate negatives. Subjects include infants and young children, elderly people, families, school and religious groups, animals and rural scenes. In 1982, the Ohio Historical Society (now the Ohio History Connection) received the collection, still housed in the original dry plate negative boxes purchased by Albert J. Ewing. A selection of the original glass plate negatives were exhibited for the first time in 2013 at the Ohio Historical Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV71_B16_F994
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States--History; Girls
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: Taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912, this photograph shows two young girls wearing white dresses posing for a portrait in front of a hanging backdrop. Like most of Ewing's work, it was likely taken in southeastern Ohio or central West Virginia. Born in 1870 in Washington County, Ohio, near Marietta, Ewing most likely began his photography career in the 1890s. The 1910 US Census and a 1912-1913 directory list him as a photographer. A negative signed "Ewing Brothers" and a picture with his younger brother, Frank, indicate that Frank may have joined the business. After 1916, directories list Albert as a salesman. He died in 1934. The Ewing Collection consists of 5,055 glass plate negatives, each individually housed and numbered. Additionally, the collection includes approximately 450 modern contact prints made from the glass plate negatives. Subjects include infants and young children, elderly people, families, school and religious groups, animals and rural scenes. In 1982, the Ohio Historical Society (now the Ohio History Connection) received the collection, still housed in the original dry plate negative boxes purchased by Albert J. Ewing. A selection of the original glass plate negatives were exhibited for the first time in 2013 at the Ohio Historical Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV71_B16_F1000
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States--History; Girls
Places: Ohio; West Virginia