Description: The Ohio Bell Telephone Company was established as a result of the 1921 incorporation of Cleveland Telephone. Despite the Great Depression, the company continued to upgrade services and expand operations and was the 8th largest of Bell Companies by 1940. Ohio Bell's parent company is AT&T. The company is now known as Ameritech Ohio because it became a subsidiary of Ameritech Corporation in 1984. This building was built in 1925, after the Ohio Bell Telephone Company consolidated with the Toledo phone system in 1924. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F04B_019_1
Subjects: Business and Labor; Ohio Bell Telephone Company; Telephone industry
Places: Toledo (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph depicts the Ohio Bell Telephone Building in Cleveland, Ohio. Youngstown-Buckeye conduit was used in the building. On the photo is written: "OHIO BELL TELEPHONE BLDG. CLEVELAND YOUNGSTOWN BUCKEYE CONDUIT" View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B03F47_005
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Construction; Steel industry; Cleveland (Ohio); Ohio Bell Telephone Company
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated February 1938, this photograph shows the Bell Telephone Building in Dayton, Ohio, in Montgomery County. The Bell Telephone Building is called the AT&T Building today. It can be found at 201-217 West 2nd Street in downtown Dayton. The building has 11 floors and was completed in 1930. 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_B09F07_021_001
Subjects: Dayton (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Bell Telephone Company; Industries--Ohio; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)