Description: Portrait of Reverend W.B. Derrick, D.D., President of the Board of Directors of Payne Theological Seminary at Wilberforce University, ca. 1899. This photograph appears in the Annual Catalogue of Wilberforce University, 1899-1900, which was published in 1900. In 1856, the Methodist Episcopal Church established Wilberforce University near Xenia, Ohio, to provide African American access to a college education. The university was the first private black college in the United States. Its founders named the institution after William Wilberforce, a prominent 18th century abolitionist. A number of African-American Ohioans attended the school during its early years. During the American Civil War, attendance declined as many students enlisted in the Union army, and Wilberforce University closed in 1862. In 1863, the African Methodist Episcopal Church acquired ownership of the university. Under the direction of Daniel Payne, a bishop in the AME Church, John Mitchell, a school principal in Cincinnati, and James Shorter, an AME pastor from Zanesville, Wilberforce reopened its doors. The institution operated as a private university serving the African American community for the next 24years. In 1887, the State of Ohio began to provide Wilberforce with funds to help finance the institution, which brought to an end the university's exclusively private status. The state also helped the university create a Normal and Industrial Department that eventually evolved into Central State University. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: 378_771W641h_1899_Derrick
Subjects: Wilberforce University; Higher education; Historically Black Colleges and Universities; Religious education;
Places: Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
 

Description: Pioneer Sunday school illustration, from "Conquering the Wilderness; or, New Pictorial History of the Life and Times of the Pioneer Heroes and Heroines of America," by Colonel Frank Triplett, 1883. Sunday school is described by Triplett as "Another pioneer instrument in the field of education.... where morality and religion made a part of the curriculum, and where the Bible and the hymnal supplemented the text books of the district schools." (348) View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04028
Subjects: Ohio--Religion; Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood; Religious education; Children
Places: Ohio
 

Description: The photograph features a Catholic school building which is now Catholic Central Elementary School, at 1817 North Limestone Street, in Springfield, Ohio. It is adjacent to the Saint Teresa Catholic Church. The school has an arch covering its front entrance. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F01_009
Subjects: Springfield (Ohio); Religion in Ohio; Religious education; Roman Catholic Church; Churches--Ohio
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: Lane Seminary in Hamilton County, Ohio, from "Historical Collections of Ohio" by Henry Howe, 1847. Lane Theological Seminary was founded in 1829 to educate Presbyterians into the ministry. It was named for Ebeneezer and William Lane, who pledged $4,000 to the school. The first president of the seminary was Lyman Beecher, the father of Harriet Beecher Stowe. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04132
Subjects: Ohio--Religion; Lane Theological Seminary (Cincinnati, Ohio); Religious education;
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph from a distance showing buildings of the Pontifical College Josephinum, located along North High Street in the Worthington suburb of Columbus, Ohio. Father John Joseph Jessing founded the institution in 1888 for the training of young men for the priesthood, and in 1931 the Josephinum moved to the 100-acre campus seen here. The Pontifical College Josephinum the only pontifical seminary outside of Italy. The High Street Photograph Collection is comprised of over 400 photographs of High Street in Columbus, Ohio, taken in the early 1970s. These photographs were taken primarily at street level and document people and the built environment from the Pontifical College Josephinum on North High Street in Worthington through Clintonville, the University District and Short North, Downtown and South Columbus. The photographs were used in a television photo documentary that aired on WOSU called "High Street." Photographers that were involved in this project were Alfred Clarke, Carol Hibbs Kight, Darrell Muething, Clayton K. Lowe, and Julius Foris, Jr. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV254_B14F376_01
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Street photography; Religious education; College buildings;
Places: Worthington (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: The photograph shows a group of sixteen women and children sitting in front of a tree at a Sunday School picnic. Behind them, a woman and a boy stand at a table with their backs to the camera. 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_B01F01_56
Subjects: Churches--Ohio; Religious education; Daily Life; Picnics; Photographers--Ohio
Places: Upper Sandusky (Ohio); Wyandot County (Ohio);
 

Description: Photograph of Reverend George F. Woodson during his tenure as dean of Payne Theological Seminary in Wilberforce, Ohio. Between 1902 and 1937, he expanded the curriculum diversity. This photograph is part of the T.J. Askew Collection, which contains correspondence, photographs and other personal papers of Dr. Flora Isabel Askew and her parents Irene Askew and Reverend Tony J. (T.J.) Askew. Materials related to Rev. Askew’s work with the African Methodist Episcopal Church (A.M.E. Church) and Dr. Askew’s work as a teacher at the Wilberforce University High School. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS2017_B04_F05
Subjects: African Americans; Religion; Religious education; African Methodist Episcopal Church
Places: Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio);
 

Description: Lane Seminary, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, ca. 1840-1849. Lane Theological Seminary was founded in 1829 to educate Presbyterians into the ministry. It was named for Ebeneezer and William Lane, who pledged $4,000 to the school. The first president of the seminary was Lyman Beecher, the father of Harriet Beecher Stowe. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00619
Subjects: Lane Theological Seminary (Cincinnati, Ohio); Religious education; Antislavery movements--Ohio--History--19th century; Abolition
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)