Description: Original description reads: "Dayton Public Museum-Feb. 4, 1937. Group cleaning cases etc." The Dayton Museum of Natural History began in 1893 as a part of the Dayton Public Library and Museum. In 1952, the Dayton Society of Natural History was formed, which assumed responsibility for the collections and transformed them into the Dayton Museum of Natural History. Now known as the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery, the current institution resulted in a merging of the Dayton Society of Natural History and Children's Museum Board. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F09_010_1
Subjects: Museums--Ohio--Dayton
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1930-1939, this photograph shows part of the exterior facade of the Dayton Art Institute, featuring a sculpture of a nude women atop a fountain and two arched niches in the stone staircase. Founded in a downtown mansion in 1919 as the Dayton Museum of Fine Arts, the museum moved to a newly designed Edward B. Green building in 1930. The Dayton Art Institute was modeled after the Casino in the gardens of the Villa Farnese at Caprarola, and the front hillside stairway after the Italian Renaissance garden stairs at the Villa d'Este, near Rome, Italy. 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_042_001
Subjects: Dayton Art Institute; Arts--Ohio; Art museums--United States--History--20th century; Dayton (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Art museum at Dayton, Ohio." This is a photograph of a fountain and arched niches alongside the staircase on the exterior of the Dayton Art Institute in Dayton, Ohio. Founded in a downtown mansion in 1919 as the Dayton Museum of Fine Arts, the museum moved to a newly designed Edward B. Green building in 1930. The DAI was modeled after the Casino in the gardens of the Villa Farnese at Caprarola, and the front hillside stairway after the Italian Renaissance garden stairs at the Villa d'Este, near Rome, and Italy. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F09_043_001
Subjects: Dayton Art Institute; Arts--Ohio; Art museums--United States--History--20th century; Dayton (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "The tallest building is the Mutual Home Building. To the reader's left of it, is the Ohio Bell Telephone Bldg. Across the river in the distance are the Masonic Temple and the Art Institute. The Dayton Masonic Temple, completed and dedicated in 1928." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F08_041_1
Subjects: Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Cityscapes; National Register of Historic Places; Museums; Dayton (Ohio); Aerial views
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)