![Searching...](https://ohiopix.org/wp-content/plugins/contentdm-search/images/spinner.gif)
Finishing board of education poster Save
![](https://ohiomemory.org/digital/iiif/p267401coll34/7687/full/600,600/0/default.jpg)
Description: Reverse reads: "Montgomery County,Dayton,O. Mar. 3,1937
PUBLIC FORUM, B of E BLDG.
Finishing a Poster 4x5 F.L.Neg.
I-8x10 print for Publicity"
This is a photo of an artist finishing a poster to promote a public forum for the Dayton Board of Education. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F09_027_001
Subjects: Boards of education; Posters
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F09_027_001
Subjects: Boards of education; Posters
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
Horace Mann Memorial photograph Save
![](https://ohiomemory.org/digital/iiif/p267401coll34/393/full/600,600/0/default.jpg)
Description: Dated April 26, 1937, this photograph shows the Horace Mann Memorial at Glen Helen Nature Preserve in Yellow Springs, Ohio, in Greene County, with a caption which reads "Greene Co., Yellow Springs, O. April 26, 1937. Horace Mann Memorial." Horace Mann was the first president of Antioch College and held the office until his death in 1859. Antioch College was founded in 1852 as the first nonsectarian, co-educational institution in the nation to offer the same educational opportunities to both men and women. It was also among the first to offer equal educational opportunities to African Americans. The memorial reads "Horace Mann. 1796 - 1859. First President and Founder of Antioch College. This memorial is erected to perpetuate the memory of an able lawyer, a great statesman and a pioneer in education. May his life and example ever inspire and exalt the students of Antioch College. Hugh Taylor Birch, Donor - 1936." 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_B05F02_007_1
Subjects: Education; Universities and colleges; Statues; Mann, Horace, 1796-1859; College campuses; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Yellow Springs (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F02_007_1
Subjects: Education; Universities and colleges; Statues; Mann, Horace, 1796-1859; College campuses; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Yellow Springs (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
William Holmes McGuffey portrait Save
![](https://ohiomemory.org/digital/iiif/p267401coll32/10765/full/,600/0/default.jpg)
Description: This is a photographic reproduction of an engraved portrait depicting William Holmes McGuffey. McGuffey, who was from Tuscarawas County, Ohio, was a professor at Miami University from 1826 to 1836. Between 1836 and 1845 he served as president of three Ohio institutions: Cincinnati College, Ohio University and Woodward College in Cincinnati. In 1845 McGuffey became a professor at the University of Virginia, where he taught until his death in 1873. He is best known as the author of the popular series of children's textbooks called McGuffey Readers. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03317
Subjects: Authors, American--Ohio; Education, Higher--Ohio--History; McGuffey readers; University presidents
Places: Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
Image ID: AL03317
Subjects: Authors, American--Ohio; Education, Higher--Ohio--History; McGuffey readers; University presidents
Places: Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
Miami University print Save
![](https://ohiomemory.org/digital/iiif/p267401coll32/13070/full/600,600/0/default.jpg)
Description: Founded in 1809, Miami University is one of the oldest and best-known universities in the State of Ohio. Located in Oxford, Ohio, it was named after the Miami Indians who once resided in the state. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04010
Subjects: Miami University; Cultural Ohio--Education; Art, American--Ohio; Education, Higher--Ohio--History; Universities and colleges--Pictorial works
Places: Oxford (Ohio); Butler County (Ohio)
Image ID: AL04010
Subjects: Miami University; Cultural Ohio--Education; Art, American--Ohio; Education, Higher--Ohio--History; Universities and colleges--Pictorial works
Places: Oxford (Ohio); Butler County (Ohio)
Ohio University Save
![](https://ohiomemory.org/digital/iiif/p267401coll32/8464/full/600,600/0/default.jpg)
Description: Aerial view of Ohio University, founded 1804 in Athens, Athens County, Ohio, ca. 1940-1949. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00313
Subjects: Ohio University; Cultural Ohio--Education; Universities and colleges; Education, Higher
Places: Athens (Ohio); Athens County (Ohio)
Image ID: AL00313
Subjects: Ohio University; Cultural Ohio--Education; Universities and colleges; Education, Higher
Places: Athens (Ohio); Athens County (Ohio)
Historic Hopedale Save
![](https://ohiomemory.org/digital/iiif/p267401coll32/14609/full/600,600/0/default.jpg)
Description: This image shows a road leading into the town of Hopedale. Hopedale is mostly known for it's connection with the Underground Railroad and Clark Gable, who lived in Hopedale for a number of years during his youth.
The town was founded by Cyrus McNeely in 1849 where he opened a school. It was in existence from 1849 to 1902. One of it's graduates was George Armstrong Custer, who graduated in 1856. It was the first co-educational college for teachers in Eastern Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06747
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Ohio; Harrison County (Ohio); Education, Higher--Ohio--History
Places: Hopedale (Ohio); Harrison County (Ohio)
Image ID: AL06747
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Ohio; Harrison County (Ohio); Education, Higher--Ohio--History
Places: Hopedale (Ohio); Harrison County (Ohio)
Wilberforce University - new Power House photograph Save
![](https://ohiomemory.org/digital/iiif/p267401coll34/396/full/600,600/0/default.jpg)
Description: Caption reads: "Greene County - Wilberforce University, Oct. 20, 1936. New Power house (also showing gymnasium on right). Near Xenia, Ohio."
Wilberforce University is located on US 42, three miles from Xenia, Ohio on land that at one time occupied the Tawawa Springs summer resort. 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 eighteenth-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. 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 African Methodist Episcopal Church, John Mitchell, the principal of a school in Cincinnati, and James Shorter, an African Methodist Episcopal pastor from Zanesville, Ohio, Wilberforce reopened its doors. The institution operated as a private university serving the African-American community for the next twenty-four years. In 1887, the State of Ohio began to provide Wilberforce with funds to help finance the institution, 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.
Wilberforce University has experienced steady growth throughout the twentieth century. During the last decades of the twentieth century, the institution built a new residence hall, a student health center, a recreation and sports facility, and an administrative center. The university offers more than twenty degree programs and has exchange programs with universities around the world. In 2003, enrollment was more than 1,200 students.
Arson fire damaged some of the buildings in 1865 and tornado in destroyed much of the campus 1974. Below is a partial list of buildings that have been or are on campus:
Galloway Hall - Built in 1905, as an impressive administration building and auditorium. It was destroyed by a tornado in 1974 and was rebuilt as part of the Central State University campus. The new building name is Galloway Alumni Tower.
Bundy Hall (recitation building) – built 1917
Arnett Hall (girls dormitory and classrooms) - built 1901
Kenzia Emery Hall (girls dormitory) - built 1913
Shorter Hall (boys dormitory, classrooms and administration) – built 1867 (fire caused remodeling 1922) – survived 1974 tornado - demolished 1999
Carnegie Library - built 1907 (1909?) – survived 1974 tornado - National Register of Historic Places 2004
J.G. Mitchell Hall (boys dormitory and classrooms) - built 1891
S.T. Mitchell Hall (girls dormitory – Model home for senior girls) - built 1912 - Samuel T. Mitchell, President 1884-1900. Mitchell Hall, which once stood where Central State University's Hallie Q. Brown Library and Education Building stands today, was named for President Mitchell.
O’Neill Hall (boys dormitory and classrooms – first of the state funded buildings) - built 1890
Model School - built 1889
Howell’s Hall - built 1900
Light, Heat and Power Plant – built 1904
Poindexter Hall (built for the printing and drawing departments) - built 1904
Mechanic Arts (built to house carpentry, blacksmithing and machine shops) – built 1914
Tawawa Hospital – built 1916
Beacom Gymnasium – built 1918
Charles Leander Hill Gymnasium – built 1958 - survived 1974 tornado
Margaret Ireland Hall (girls dormitory) – built 1963 – destroyed 1974
Central State University
In 1887, the Ohio General Assembly established a separate institution to be housed on the Wilberforce campus known as the Combined Normal and Industrial Department. The state-supported school was to focus on training blacks for work in industrial trades and as school teachers. Although the Combined Normal and Industrial Department imposed no restrictions on the race or sex of its students, it was understood that the Department was intended primarily to serve Ohio's African American community.
For six decades the Department was administered as part of Wilberforce University. It was set apart, however, by having its own board of trustees which was responsible for administering the state funding of its activities. In 1941, the Department became the College of Education and established a four year program. In 1947 it was declared legally separate from Wilberforce. Although still sharing its campus with Wilberforce, the institution was now the College of Education and Industrial Arts at Wilberforce. In 1951 the Ohio State Legislature added a liberal arts program and renamed the institution Central State College. Former Wilberforce president Charles H. Wesley served as the first president of Central State from 1947 until 1965. Central State became a university in 1965.
View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F02_023_1
Subjects: Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Education; Universities and colleges; Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio; Central State University (Wilberforce, Ohio); Power-plants United States
Places: Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F02_023_1
Subjects: Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Education; Universities and colleges; Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio; Central State University (Wilberforce, Ohio); Power-plants United States
Places: Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
Ohio State University, University Hall photograph Save
![](https://ohiomemory.org/digital/iiif/p267401coll32/15762/full/,600/0/default.jpg)
Description: University Hall as seen from the west bank of the Olentangy River looking northwest.
The Ohio State University was established in 1870 as the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, a land-grant university.
University Hall opened in September 1873 and it was the first building on the campus. In addition to being the first classroom building, it also housed the library, administrative offices, apartments for faculty, dormitory rooms for male students as well as a chapel. In 1968, due to lack of structural integrity, the building was deemed unsafe and everything was moved out of it. It was torn down in 1971. The new University Hall that was completed in 1976 stands in almost the same spot and was designed to look exactly like the original building on the outside. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07745
Subjects: Education, Higher--Ohio--History; History of the Ohio State University; Ohio State University. Libraries; Architecture--Ohio--Columbus; Historic buildings--Ohio--Columbus
Places: Columbus (Ohio)
Image ID: AL07745
Subjects: Education, Higher--Ohio--History; History of the Ohio State University; Ohio State University. Libraries; Architecture--Ohio--Columbus; Historic buildings--Ohio--Columbus
Places: Columbus (Ohio)
Hebrew Union College photograph Save
![](https://ohiomemory.org/digital/iiif/p267401coll32/14230/full/600,600/0/default.jpg)
Description: This photograph shows the exterior of Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, Ohio, in September 1937. The view of the campus includes three buildings and a driveway.
The school was established in 1875 by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, the founder of American Reform Judaism. It is the oldest extant Jewish seminary in the United States. It is a training seminary for rabbis, cantors, educators, and communal workers in Reform Judaism. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06177
Subjects: Hebrew Union College; Jews--United States; Education, Higher--Ohio--History; Cincinnati (Ohio)
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
Image ID: AL06177
Subjects: Hebrew Union College; Jews--United States; Education, Higher--Ohio--History; Cincinnati (Ohio)
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
Pioneer Sunday School illustration Save
![](https://ohiomemory.org/digital/iiif/p267401coll32/13087/full/600,600/0/default.jpg)
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
Image ID: AL04028
Subjects: Ohio--Religion; Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood; Religious education; Children
Places: Ohio
Wilberforce University - Gymnasium photograph Save
![](https://ohiomemory.org/digital/iiif/p267401coll34/411/full/600,600/0/default.jpg)
Description: Caption reads: "Greene County - Wilberforce University, Oct. 20, 1936. Gymnasium. Near Xenia, Ohio. Also shows a portion of tennis court."
Wilberforce University is located on US 42, three miles from Xenia, Ohio on land that at one time occupied the Tawawa Springs summer resort. 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 eighteenth-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. 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 African Methodist Episcopal Church, John Mitchell, the principal of a school in Cincinnati, and James Shorter, an African Methodist Episcopal pastor from Zanesville, Ohio, Wilberforce reopened its doors. The institution operated as a private university serving the African-American community for the next twenty-four years. In 1887, the State of Ohio began to provide Wilberforce with funds to help finance the institution, 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.
Wilberforce University has experienced steady growth throughout the twentieth century. During the last decades of the twentieth century, the institution built a new residence hall, a student health center, a recreation and sports facility, and an administrative center. The university offers more than twenty degree programs and has exchange programs with universities around the world. In 2003, enrollment was more than 1,200 students.
Arson fire damaged some of the buildings in 1865 and tornado in destroyed much of the campus 1974. Below is a partial list of buildings that have been or are on campus:
Galloway Hall - Built in 1905, as an impressive administration building and auditorium. It was destroyed by a tornado in 1974 and was rebuilt as part of the Central State University campus. The new building name is Galloway Alumni Tower.
Bundy Hall (recitation building) – built 1917
Arnett Hall (girls dormitory and classrooms) - built 1901
Kenzia Emery Hall (girls dormitory) - built 1913
Shorter Hall (boys dormitory, classrooms and administration) – built 1867 (fire caused remodeling 1922) – survived 1974 tornado - demolished 1999
Carnegie Library - built 1907 (1909?) – survived 1974 tornado - National Register of Historic Places 2004
J.G. Mitchell Hall (boys dormitory and classrooms) - built 1891
S.T. Mitchell Hall (girls dormitory – Model home for senior girls) - built 1912 - Samuel T. Mitchell, President 1884-1900. Mitchell Hall, which once stood where Central State University's Hallie Q. Brown Library and Education Building stands today, was named for President Mitchell.
O’Neill Hall (boys dormitory and classrooms – first of the state funded buildings) - built 1890
Model School - built 1889
Howell’s Hall - built 1900
Light, Heat and Power Plant – built 1904
Poindexter Hall (built for the printing and drawing departments) - built 1904
Mechanic Arts (built to house carpentry, blacksmithing and machine shops) – built 1914
Tawawa Hospital – built 1916
Beacom Gymnasium – built 1918
Charles Leander Hill Gymnasium – built 1958 - survived 1974 tornado
Margaret Ireland Hall (girls dormitory) – built 1963 – destroyed 1974
Central State University
In 1887, the Ohio General Assembly established a separate institution to be housed on the Wilberforce campus known as the Combined Normal and Industrial Department. The state-supported school was to focus on training blacks for work in industrial trades and as school teachers. Although the Combined Normal and Industrial Department imposed no restrictions on the race or sex of its students, it was understood that the Department was intended primarily to serve Ohio's African American community.
For six decades the Department was administered as part of Wilberforce University. It was set apart, however, by having its own board of trustees which was responsible for administering the state funding of its activities. In 1941, the Department became the College of Education and established a four year program. In 1947 it was declared legally separate from Wilberforce. Although still sharing its campus with Wilberforce, the institution was now the College of Education and Industrial Arts at Wilberforce. In 1951 the Ohio State Legislature added a liberal arts program and renamed the institution Central State College. Former Wilberforce president Charles H. Wesley served as the first president of Central State from 1947 until 1965. Central State became a university in 1965.
View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F02_020_1
Subjects: Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Education; Universities and colleges; Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio; Central State University (Wilberforce, Ohio); Gymnasiums--United States
Places: Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F02_020_1
Subjects: Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Education; Universities and colleges; Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio; Central State University (Wilberforce, Ohio); Gymnasiums--United States
Places: Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
Ohio Wesleyan University Save
![](https://ohiomemory.org/digital/iiif/p267401coll32/8490/full/,600/0/default.jpg)
Description: Ohio Wesleyan University, founded in 1842, is located in Delaware, Delaware County, Ohio. The photograph was taken ca.1940-1949. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00337
Subjects: Delaware County (Ohio); Ohio Wesleyan University; Cultural Ohio--Education; Universities and colleges; Education, Higher
Places: Delaware (Ohio); Delaware County (Ohio)
Image ID: AL00337
Subjects: Delaware County (Ohio); Ohio Wesleyan University; Cultural Ohio--Education; Universities and colleges; Education, Higher
Places: Delaware (Ohio); Delaware County (Ohio)