Description: A mural in a radio room by Louis Grabenah. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F09_006_001
Subjects: Ohio; Mural painting and decoration--United States.
Places: Ohio
 

Description: This mural shows a man in a bowler hat standing in front of Cleveland city buildings. You can see factories, office buildings and a bridge, with the Terminal Tower in the distance. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F09_023_001
Subjects: Ohio; Mural painting and decoration--United States.
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: caption reads: "Mural painted by a W.P.A artist at CIO Headquarters, Columbus, OH. Dist. 6 Franklin County" The CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) was a union that organized industrial workers from 1935 till 1955, at which time they merged with the American Federation of Labor. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F04_009_1
Subjects: Arts and Entertainment; Mural painting and decoration--United States.
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: The caption reads: "Portage Hotel - Akron. Photograph of rubber mural in "Rubber room" representing the transfer of seedlings from Brazil to the East Indies. At left, a cotton plantation in center and Charles Goodyear's experiment in vulcanization at right. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F09_008_001
Subjects: Akron (Ohio); Mural painting and decoration--United States.
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: Charles Sallee was the artist of the Outhwaite Homes Mural Cartoon. He was born in Oberlin, Ohio in 1911, the eldest of fourteen children. All his life, he only wanted to be an artist. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F09_024_001
Subjects: Ohio; Mural painting and decoration--United States.
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Caption reads: "Leo Murphy, Cincinnati WPA artist is shown here at work on a mural in the Greenhills Community Building". The community building is a 8 Enfield Lane, Cincinnati, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F09_036_001
Subjects: Ohio; Mural painting and decoration--United States.
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Paul Briesach WPA artist, painting Mural - Naval armory" This is a photo of a mural painted by a WPA artist named Paul Briesach. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F03_33_001
Subjects: Works Progress Administration of Ohio (U.S.); Mural painting and decoration--United States.
Places: Ohio
 

Description: This is a photograph of a mural titled "Working Cartoon." The plaque under the mural reads: "One Half Size WORKING CARTOON. Mural to be installed in the Woodhill Homes by the Ohio WPA Art Program for the Cleveland Housing Authority. Artist Leroy Flint The mural depicts working men and women at home, working at factories, and farming. Leroy Flint was born in 1909 in Ashtubula, Ohio and died in Akron, Ohio in 1991. He was educated at the Cleveland School of Art and was known for abstract genre, figures and printmaking. Posing in the photograph is artist Louis Grebenak. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F09_007_001
Subjects: Mural painting and decoration--Ohio--Cleveland; Federal Art Project; Mural painting and decoration--United States; Murals--1930-1950; Cartoons; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: A mural of a train station in the center of a town photographed for the Ohio WPA Art Program. The artist is unknown. The Federal Art Project (FAP) was the visual arts arm of the Great Depression-era Works Progress Administration. On April 8, 1935, the United States Congress passed the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act, part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, which was hoped would allow Americans to cope with the Great Depression. Creation of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was the most important accomplishment of this Act. This government office hired unemployed Americans to work on various government projects. During its existence, the WPA constructed more than 600,000 miles of roads and built or repaired more than 124,000 bridges, 125,000 public buildings, 8,000 parks, and 850 airport runways. The WPA also included programs to support education and the arts, providing employment opportunities for out of work educators and artists of all varieties. Although the United States Congress reduced funding for the program in 1939, the WPA remained in operation until June 30, 1943. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F09_009_001
Subjects: Murals--1930-1950; Mural painting and decoration--Ohio; War propaganda--United States; Federal Art Project; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Ohio
 

Description: This is a photograph of the cartoon mural at Dover High School in Dover, Ohio. This mural was painted by artist Joseph Erseh. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F09_003_001
Subjects: Mural painting and decoration--United States; Dover (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works; Murals--1930-1950; Federal Art Project; Cartoons; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Dover (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: A photograph of the mural painted by William Krusoe for Lincoln Junior High School in Cleveland, Ohio. The mural was titled "Spirit of Education" and was painted in 1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F09_005_001
Subjects: Education; Lincoln High School (Cleveland, Ohio); Mural painting and decoration--United States.; Murals--1930-1950; Cleveland (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1930-1939, this photograph shows an Art Deco mural, painted by an unknown artist, in the "Rubber Room" at the Portage Hotel in Akron, Ohio. The mural depicts the manufacture of mechanical goods. The photograph's caption reads "... All lighting of murals is indirect from light troughs overhead which adds to the striking effect of the picture." 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_B12F09_011_001
Subjects: Mural painting and decoration--Ohio--Akron; Hotels--Ohio--Akron--Decoration; Art deco--United States--History--20th century.; Rubber industry
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)