Description: Two students headed to school in southern Michigan, photographed by Joe Munroe, 1947. One-room schools were common even into the 1950s, providing the backbone for the education of local farm children. Eventually their districts would be combined with larger districts and the buildings fell by the wayside. Joe Munroe's career began in 1939 at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He served in the Air Force during World War II and then joined Cincinnati-based Farm Quarterly magazine. Though raised in Detroit, agriculture became an important subject of Joe's photographs. He moved to California in 1955 and free-lanced, taking magazine assignments and selling his own work. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P400_B12_F01_001
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Farm life; One-room schools; Education; Children
Places: Williamston (Michigan)
 

Description: Illustration of the Woodward School, a public school in Cincinnati, from "Pathways of Progress, A Short History of Ohio," by David Bowman, 1943. Originally known as the Woodward Free Grammar School when it opened in 1831, this was the first free public school in the city of Cincinnati. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04031
Subjects: Education--Ohio; Cincinnati (Ohio)--History; One-room schools
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio);
 

Description: This is a photograph of four children and a dog having lunch outside a one-room schoolhouse in Ohio. This school was mostly likely built as part of the Works Progress Administration project, a government office that hired unemployed Americans to work on various government projects from April 8, 1935, to June 30, 1943. In the first six months that the WPA existed, more than 173,000 Ohioans, including both men and women, found employment through this program. More than 1,500 unemployed teachers in Ohio found work through the WPA teaching illiterate adults how to read. In twelve separate counties, primarily in southeastern Ohio, more than twenty-five percent of families had at least one member working for the WPA during the late 1930s. By the end of 1938, these various workers had built or improved 12, 300 miles of roads and streets and constructed 636 public buildings, several hundred bridges, hundreds of athletic fields, and five fish hatcheries. WPA employees made improvements to thousands of more buildings, roads, and parks within Ohio. WPA artists also painted a number of murals in Ohio post offices. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F04_002_1
Subjects: One-room schools; School buildings--Ohio; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works; Education; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project; School children
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing on November 17, 1902, this photograph shows the students at Borland School in Pleasants County, West Virginia, ranging from elementary to middle school ages, including a set of twin girls. The female teacher stands in the back row on the right side. 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 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_b12_f681
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); One-room schools; School children; School photography
Places: Borland (West Virginia)
 

Description: Taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing on November 17, 1902, this photograph shows the students of Borland School, ranging from elementary to middle school ages, including a set of twin girls. The female teacher stands in the back row on the right side. 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 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_b12_f684
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); One-room schools; School children; School photography
Places: Borland (West Virginia)
 

Description: The photograph shows 35 children and teenagers from the Gilliand School (possibly Gilliland School) posed with their teacher for a school photograph. The young children in the front hold up an American flag. 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 store, and later as a traveling salesman for the Marion Paper & Supply Company (1934-1962). Kinley 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_B01F09_89
Subjects: One-room schools; Students--Ohio; Portrait photography; Education--Ohio; School photography
Places: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio);