Description: 1974 photograph of an open pit copper mine in Utah, taken by Joe Munroe. Open pits require the removal of the top layers of the earth to get at the minerals, rather than tunneling into the earth as in traditional mining. It is extremely impact on the environment as it requires the removal of large volumes of earth, similar to the technique of strip mining. 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_B33_F2413_JPG185
Subjects: Joe Munroe; Mining; Open pit mining;
Places: Utah
 

Description: Attached caption reads: "FEDERAL RADIO WORKSHOP. Program "Art Appreciate." Station WLW - Tuesday 2:45 - 3:00 Left to right, Jan E. Pfandt, director of the cast, D. B. Wetmore, supervisor, Mary London, Jack Marks, Morton Bader, and Virginia Golden. Federal Writers' Photo March 30, 1937." 700 WLW is an AM radio station in Cincinnati. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F06_023_001
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio). Radio Station WLW; Cincinnati. Radio Station WLW; WLW (Radio Station : Cincinnati, Ohio)
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: 22265. Photo by Wilson. Ohio, Columbus. Photo shows blind students getting this story of the Nativity from their fingertips on a model which was made by EPA workers for the students at the Ohio State School for the Blind. The Ohio Institution for the Education of the Blind was established in 1837. In the 1900s the name was changed to the Ohio State School for the Blind. The Ohio Department of Education took control of the school at this time. In 1953, the school moved from its location on Main Street, Columbus to 5220 North High Street in Columbus. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F04_24_001
Subjects: Ohio State School for the Blind; Students; Education--Ohio; School--Ohio; Blind--Education--Ohio--Columbus; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "View near Dixie Highway near Franklin, O. May 1937." The Dixie Highway, constructed from 1915 to 1927, was a network of roads that connected the Midwest with the Southern part of the United States. In the early years, the Federal government played little role, but from the early 1920s on, it provided increasing funding, until 1927 when the Dixie Highway was taken over as part of the United States highway system. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F08_021_1
Subjects: Dixie Highway; Hydraulic structures--Ohio; Stone bridges
Places: Franklin (Ohio); Warren County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "Athletic field under construction at Northridge High School 193[?] North of Dayton, Ohio." This is a photograph of two unidentified men doing construction on Northridge High School's athletic field in Northridge, Ohio. This construction was a 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_B09F06_026_001
Subjects: High schools--Ohio--Northridge; Earthmoving machinery; Sports and recreation facilities; Education; Sports; Athletic fields; Schools--Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Northridge (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph is of the Dillonvale High School Band. Dillonvale is a village in Jefferson County, Ohio. It is located in Mt. Pleasant and Smithfield Townships. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F09_014_001
Subjects: High school music; Musical instruments; Students; School building--Ohio; High schools--Ohio--Dillonvale; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Dillonvale (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Sand Yard? School Swimming Pool." This is a photograph of several youth laying in the sand at a public pool in Ohio. More information needed. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F06_028_001
Subjects: Pools; Sunbathing; Recreation; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project.
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Caption reads: Owner and Workers Discussion (Sugar Bush near Chardon, Ohio) Photographer: E.P. Moody. March 1941. Maple syrup season begin in January, ending around April in Ohio and while trees are tapped all over the state, Geauga County has some of the state's best, and hosts the state's Maple Syrup Festival every spring. Traditionally, maple syrup was harvested by tapping a maple tree through the bark and into the wood, then letting the sap run into a bucket, which required daily collecting. Less labor-intensive methods, such as the use of continuous plastic pipelines, have since superseded this in all but cottage-scale production. It takes approximately 10 gal. of sap to be boiled down to1 quart of syrup, and a mature sugar maple produces about 10 gal. of sap during the 4- to 6-week sugaring season under gravity, but can produce 20 or more gallons under vacuum. Trees are not tapped until they have a diameter of 10 in. at chest-height and the tree is at least 40 years old. If the tree is more than 18 in., it can be tapped twice on opposite sides View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F17_006_1
Subjects: Maple Syrup Industry; Maple syrup--Pictorial works
Places: Chardon (Ohio); Geauga County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is most likely Perry's Lookout, located on the southern tip of Gibraltar Island (which is a small island just offshore, to the north, of South Bass Island in Put-in-Bay, Ohio). Gibraltar Island became a lookout point for Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry in the fight against the British during the War of 1812. Perry and his men defeated a fleet of British sailing vessels during the famous Battle of Lake Erie on September 10, 1813. Jay Cooke (1821-1905), the region’s most notable citizen, bought the island from Pierpont Edwards in 1864 and immediately began construction of a 15 room Victorian-Gothic mansion (now known as Cooke Castle). The eastern tip of Gibraltar Island is Lookout Point. A small cannon was placed here in 1866, reputed to have been used by the hero, by Cooke as a monument to Perry's victory, and which saluted the Cooke family upon their annual arrival to Gibraltar. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F09_022_1
Subjects: Memorials--Ohio; Cannons; Perry, Oliver Hazard, 1785-1819; Cooke, Jay, 1821-1905
Places: Put-in-Bay Township (Ohio); Ottawa County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads in print and script: "IDENTIFICATION Hill people of southern Ohio LOCATION Bell Hollow, Highland and Pike Counties CREDIT LINE By O. Turner DATE TAKEN 1938, spring of DATE PRINTED 1939, spring of SUGGESTED CAPTION Midwife of the Hollow" The photograph shows a woman in a long fur coat standing outside of a wooden building. She is wearing a winter hat and winter boots. A sawhorse and wooden logs are between the woman and the building. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F01_001_1
Subjects: Highland County (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works; Women & history;
Places: Highland County (Ohio); Pike County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows men walking into or out of their place of work. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F03_027_01
Subjects: Works Progress Administration; Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Dated 1938, this photographic reproduction shows the Carr Nursing Home in Lebanon, Ohio. Mrs. Hester Carr originally established the nursing home as East Orchard Nursing Home in 1932 for the elderly and a rehabilitation center for those recovering from illness or injury. 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_B14F07_037_001
Subjects: Health care; Nursing home care; Lebanon (Ohio); Architecture
Places: Lebanon (Ohio); Warren County (Ohio)