Description: The Portiuncula Chapel on the grounds of the Order of the Sisters of St. Francis in Sylvania, Ohio. The organization dates back to around 1930, and formed for the betterment of the community as a whole. The organization has played an active role in providing education among other forms of community building. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06783
Subjects: Multicultural Ohio--Religion in Ohio; Ohio--Religion; Churches--Ohio
Places: Sylvania (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: A crucifix on the grounds of the Order of the Sisters of St. Francis in Sylvania, Ohio. The organization dates back to around 1930, and formed for the betterment of the community as a whole. The organization has played an active role in providing education among other forms of community building. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06784
Subjects: Multicultural Ohio--Religion in Ohio; Ohio--Religion; Churches--Ohio
Places: Sylvania (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: The main chapel on the grounds of the Order of the Sisters of St. Francis in Sylvania, Ohio. The organization dates back to around 1930, and formed for the betterment of the community as a whole. The organization has played an active role in providing education among other forms of community building. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06785
Subjects: Multicultural Ohio--Religion in Ohio; Ohio--Religion; Churches--Ohio
Places: Sylvania (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Nuns on the grounds of the Order of the Sisters of St. Francis in Sylvania, Ohio. The organization dates back to around 1930, and formed for the betterment of the community as a whole. The organization has played an active role in providing education among other forms of community building. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06786
Subjects: Multicultural Ohio--Religion in Ohio; Ohio--Religion; Churches--Ohio
Places: Sylvania (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: Girls' Volley Ball Lucas Co. Track Meet Sylvania View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F12_014_001
Subjects: Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project--Works Progress Administration in Ohio--recreation-
Places: Sylvania (Ohio); Lucas County
 

Description: Reverse reads: "New York Relay- County Tract Meet- Sylvania." This photograph shows several girls competing in the New York relay during the Lucas County track meet in Sylvania, Ohio. There are girls catching the ball on one side of the net and a line of girls waiting on the other side. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F03_0019_001
Subjects: Sports for girls; Track and field; Recreation; Sports; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project.
Places: Sylvania (Ohio); Toledo (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of "Tribolites" a plaster relief by Melik Finkle, 1940.The plaster relief is located at a post office in Sylvania, Ohio in Lucas County. Photographed by Connie Girard in 1988. The photo is from the Ohio Post Office Artwork Collection, AV 48. The collection represents thirty murals or plaster reliefs installed in twenty-five Ohio post offices between 1937 and 1943. In 1988, Connie Girard photographed the artwork. Photos were published in the article “Not By Bread Alone, Post Office Art of the New Deal.” Timeline. June-July 1989, p. 2-19 by Gerald Markowitz and Marlene Park. In 1932, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected President he promised Americans a "New Deal" and created public works programs to provide jobs for the millions of unemployed people, including artists. Ten thousand unknown and established artists were commissioned by the government to create murals, paintings, photographs, posters, prints and sculpture. The goal was not only to employ artists, but also to bring fine art into the daily lives of all people. The Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) was funded for six months in 1933 – 1934. The PWAP was succeeded by the Treasury Department’s Section of Painting and Sculpture. Organized in 1934 the Section of Painting and Sculpture operated until 1943. Under the auspices of this organization sixty-six new Ohio post offices received artwork. The majority of the post offices were located in small towns. Post offices were chosen as a location for artwork because, particularly in small towns, they were centers of community activity. Most of the painted murals or murals in plaster relief created are realistic images reflecting the history, common activities or major industries of the communities in which the post offices are located. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: av48_b2_f23_01
Subjects: Post office stations and branches--Ohio--Photographs; Public art--Ohio--Photographs; Public Works of Art Project (United States); New Deal art
Places: Sylvania (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: caption: Relay Race Lucas Co. Track Meet Sylvania View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F12_015_001
Subjects: Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project.
Places: Sylvania (Ohio); Lucas County(Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1935-1940, this photograph shows a young man competing in the long jump, or broad jump, at a track meet in Sylvania, Ohio, in Lucas County. The crowd watches the jumper, in addition to a mascot in the background on the left. 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_B13F04_006_001
Subjects: Broad jump; Track and field; Recreation; Sports; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Sylvania (Ohio); Toledo (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph from the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus is of Bernard Schreiber, a 19-year-old high school student. His formal attire suggests that the photograph was taken during his trial or sentencing. Schreiber, who confessed to murdering a 17-year-old female from Sylvania, was the 297th individual to be executed via the electric chair in Ohio. The caption at the bottom reads: “No. 297 Bernard Schreiber Lucas County, Ohio, Legally Electrocuted March 15, 1956 for the Murder of Mary Julene Freiss.” In 1885 the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio, became the location for all executions, which previously took place in the various county seats. In 1896 the Ohio General Assembly mandated that electrocution replace hanging as the form of capital punishment. The Ohio Penitentiary regularly offered tours as well as souvenir photographs and postcards of the building and prisoners on death row. A total of 315 prisoners, both men and women, were executed in the electric chair known as “Old Sparky” between 1897 and 1963. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08349
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Capital punishment--Ohio--History; Death row; Electrocution; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections; Ohio Penitentiary (Columbus, Ohio); Prisons--Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Toledo (Ohio); Sylvania (Ohio); Lucas County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Ohio Valley Hospital in Steubenville, Ohio was begun in 1912 with the help of Mr. Dohrman J. Sinclair and a team of people, who started a campaign to raise $100,000 for a municipal hospital. The need for a public hospital in Steubenville was great, and once the money had been raised, it was decided that the former Lacy Hotel would suffice until a proper building could be built. Patients were admitted and treatments began immediately, while also starting the “Training School for Women Nurses”, a 3 year program for women between the ages of 21 and 33. While the hospital itself was thriving, plans for the permanent building were facing difficulties. The first of these problems was in finding an acceptable site, of which there was no shortage to choose from. April 17, 1913, trustees purchased 11 acres of land from Sarah Wells and her sister, for $15,000 and Mr. Sinclair bought an additional 5 acres which were adjacent and donated them to the hospital, in May of 1914. The next problem was in drafting plans for the building. Eventually, Sinclair himself drew a sketch of his idea, and Meyer J. Sturm of Chicago turned this idea into reality. The result was a 4-story administration building with a 3-story wing made of brick, with stone and terracotta trimming, designed in such a way that additional wings could be added easily in the future. Work began in 1914 with Floto Brothers completing the foundation and Guy Johnston handling the rest of construction. Due to money shortages and accidents and other problems, the building was not actually completed and ready to be opened until June 1917. The nursing program was also thriving and in 1943 the school/hospital, now called the Ohio Valley Hospital School of Nursing, was admitted in the United States Cadet Nurse Program. From 1954 to 1969 the School was affiliated with Bethany College for science courses. In 1969, a cooperative relationship was established with Ohio University for the instruction of all non-nursing courses and college credit. From 1974 to1986, the School was in affiliation with the University of Steubenville. The School was affiliated with Jefferson Community College for instruction of all non-nursing courses from 1986 through 2009. Trinity Health System School of Nursing was established in 1996 as a result of an affiliation between Ohio Valley Hospital and St. John Medical Center. Trinity Health System and Trinity Health System School of Nursing are member facilities of the Franciscan Services Corporation, a Catholic organization associated with the Sisters of St. Francis, Sylvania, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F06_038_001
Subjects: Hospitals--History--Ohio, Public--United States; Nursing schools--United States; Hospitals--Ohio; Ohio Valley Hospital; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Steubenville (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Ohio Valley Hospital in Steubenville, Ohio was begun in 1912 with the help of Mr. Dohrman J. Sinclair and a team of people, who started a campaign to raise $100,000 for a municipal hospital. The need for a public hospital in Steubenville was great, and once the money had been raised, it was decided that the former Lacy Hotel would suffice until a proper building could be built. Patients were admitted and treatments began immediately, while also starting the “Training School for Women Nurses”, a 3 year program for women between the ages of 21 and 33. While the hospital itself was thriving, plans for the permanent building were facing difficulties. The first of these problems was in finding an acceptable site, of which there was no shortage to choose from. April 17, 1913, trustees purchased 11 acres of land from Sarah Wells and her sister, for $15,000 and Mr. Sinclair bought an additional 5 acres which were adjacent and donated them to the hospital, in May of 1914. The next problem was in drafting plans for the building. Eventually, Sinclair himself drew a sketch of his idea, and Meyer J. Sturm of Chicago turned this idea into reality. The result was a 4-story administration building with a 3-story wing made of brick, with stone and terracotta trimming, designed in such a way that additional wings could be added easily in the future. Work began in 1914 with Floto Brothers completing the foundation and Guy Johnston handling the rest of construction. Due to money shortages and accidents and other problems, the building was not actually completed and ready to be opened until June 1917. The nursing program was also thriving and in 1943 the school/hospital, now called the Ohio Valley Hospital School of Nursing, was admitted in the United States Cadet Nurse Program. From 1954 to 1969 the School was affiliated with Bethany College for science courses. In 1969, a cooperative relationship was established with Ohio University for the instruction of all non-nursing courses and college credit. From 1974 to1986, the School was in affiliation with the University of Steubenville. The School was affiliated with Jefferson Community College for instruction of all non-nursing courses from 1986 through 2009. Trinity Health System School of Nursing was established in 1996 as a result of an affiliation between Ohio Valley Hospital and St. John Medical Center. Trinity Health System and Trinity Health System School of Nursing are member facilities of the Franciscan Services Corporation, a Catholic organization associated with the Sisters of St. Francis, Sylvania, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F06_043_001
Subjects: Hospitals--History--Ohio, Public--United States; Nursing schools--United States; Hospitals--Ohio; Ohio Valley Hospital; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Steubenville (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)