Description: The photograph shows the playground at Snyder Park, in Springfield, Ohio. The playground is by an open field, and there are also trees which provide shade. The playground features many swings, as well as some slides. Snyder Park is located within walking distance from downtown Springfield. It was created in 1895 as a gift from local businessmen, John and David Snyder, and it was designed by landscape architect, Herman Haerlin. The park offers lagoons, walking paths and a public bandstand. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F05_037_001
Subjects: Parks--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Playgrounds; Swings
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: Plaque nearby reads, "Erected June 1904 by the people of Springfield to the memory of John and David L. Snyder who gave and amply endowed Snyder Park." The Ohio Guide describes Snyder Park as "a 225-acre wooded park with trails, drives, streams and lagoons for boating, facilities for tennis, golf, and horseshoe pitching, and a playground. Band concerts are presented in the park during the summer months." Photographed by the Works Progress Administration in 1940. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F01_003
Subjects: Works Progress Administration; Recreation; Playgrounds; Parks
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Sack race- Eiler playground, Toledo, Ohio." This is a photograph of four girls competing in a potato sack race at Eiler Park in Toledo, Ohio. There are several children watching from all sides and what might be a recreational building in the background. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F11_017_001
Subjects: Sack racing; Playgrounds; Children; Recreation; Toledo (Ohio)--Social life and customs--Pictorial works; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project.
Places: Toledo (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows two children sitting on a swing set in their backyard in Oberlin, Ohio, and is titled "Ohio Playground." The image was submitted by photographer John G. Kenney of Elyria, Ohio, in the Professional category of the Spirit of Ohio Bicentennial Photo Contest. In August 1976, the Ohio American Revolution Bicentennial Advisory Committee (OARBAC) began the Spirit of Ohio Bicentennial Photo Contest as part of a larger effort in Ohio to celebrate the 1976 American Bicentennial. The contest was meant to document "the spirit and character of the people and places which represent Ohio during [the] bicentennial year," and to create a permanent photographic archive of the year's festivity for use by future researchers. Both professional and amateur photographers submitted over 500 photographs for consideration, all taken within the state between January 1 and December 31, 1976. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA2734AV_B03F06_04_01
Subjects: American Revolution Bicentennial (1976); Playgrounds;
Places: Oberlin (Ohio); Lorain County (Ohio);
 

Description: Photograph of two children playing around a swing set in Oberlin, Ohio, and titled "Spring Day." The image was submitted by photographer John G. Kenney of Elyria, Ohio, in the Professional category of the Spirit of Ohio Bicentennial Photo Contest. In August 1976, the Ohio American Revolution Bicentennial Advisory Committee (OARBAC) began the Spirit of Ohio Bicentennial Photo Contest as part of a larger effort in Ohio to celebrate the 1976 American Bicentennial. The contest was meant to document "the spirit and character of the people and places which represent Ohio during [the] bicentennial year," and to create a permanent photographic archive of the year's festivity for use by future researchers. Both professional and amateur photographers submitted over 500 photographs for consideration, all taken within the state between January 1 and December 31, 1976. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA2734AV_B03F06_03_01
Subjects: American Revolution Bicentennial (1976); Playgrounds;
Places: Oberlin (Ohio); Lorain County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "Playground at Northridge School, Aug. 27th, 1936. This will probably be partly sodded about Sept. 15th." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F05_040_001
Subjects: Schools--Ohio--Northridge; Playgrounds
Places: Northridge (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows children on a playground in Akron, Ohio. Akron was originally laid out in 1825 and in 1841 became the seat of Summit County. The name comes from a Greek word meaning "an elevation" or "point." Originally, the community was located slightly south of its present location, in modern South Akron. Many of the town's earliest residents were Irish migrants employed to build the nearby Ohio and Erie Canal. Akron has been home to many famous companies including B.F. Goodrich and Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. 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_B01F02_026_001
Subjects: Playgrounds; Children; Recreation; Games; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: Children playing on the playground of Lakeview Terrace, a federal housing project in Cleveland, Ohio, ca. 1940. This photograph was to be included in the Cleveland Guide, one of several guides on selected American cities to be published by the Federal Writers Project. The Federal Writers Program was a depression-era program created to employ writers. Most of the work for the Cleveland Guide was complete when the program was abolished in 1943. The Cleveland Guide was not published. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03610
Subjects: Public housing; Federal Writers' Project--1930-1950; Great Depression and the New Deal; Children; Playgrounds
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Children playing on slides and swings at an elementary school playground, Canal Winchester, Ohio, March 14, 1946. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03642
Subjects: Baker Art Gallery; Children--Ohio; Playgrounds; Education--Ohio
Places: Canal Winchester (Ohio); Fairfield County (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "Preble County, Eaton, Ohio, Sept. 11, 1936. Playground." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F01_018_001
Subjects: Playgrounds--Ohio--Eaton; Parks--Ohio--Eaton
Places: Eaton (Ohio); Preble County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "Preble County, Eaton, Ohio, Sept. 11, 1936. Playground." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F01_021_001
Subjects: Playgrounds--Ohio--Eaton; Parks--Ohio--Eaton; Children--Ohio
Places: Eaton (Ohio); Preble County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "Preble County, Eaton, Ohio, Sept. 11, 1936. Playground." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F01_023_001
Subjects: Playgrounds--Ohio--Eaton; Parks--Ohio--Eaton; Children--Ohio
Places: Eaton (Ohio); Preble County (Ohio)