Description: Photograph showing members of the Clintonville high school basketball team, taken from the school's paper, The Clintonian, ca. 1916. The boys are identified as (left to right): Isbell, Hollenback, Manager Jacobs, Captain Zuber, Shapter, Long, Spangler, Coach. This image was included in a "Memory Book" compiled by Mrs. H. V. Cottrell, historian for the Clinton League (sometimes called the Clinton Welfare League) from 1938-1943. The book shows the development of the Clintonville neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio, and records the history of the League. The Clinton League was a women's group founded in 1912 to promote child welfare and later general welfare in Columbus, but which was based in and primarily focused on the area of Clintonville. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P285_MB1_137
Subjects: Clintonville (Ohio); Clinton League; Women--Charities; School buildings; Education--Ohio; Basketball teams; Sports--Ohio--History;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1935-1940, this photograph shows a model of a canal boat built to carry passengers. The cabin extends almost the length of the boat and has windows so the passengers could view the canal towns and countryside along the way. The model features a cabin roof which would have been used as a sightseeing deck. The model measures 20 x 5 x 4 inches. 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_B11F02_030_001
Subjects: Ohio State School for the Blind; Models; Canal boats; Education; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of the Clintonville high school dramatic club, taken from the school's newspaper, The Clintonian, ca. 1916. Students are identified left to right as: (back row) Hull Herron, Ruth Santley, Madeline Lentz and Don Parsons; (middle row) Ruth Strait, Delphia Morton, Martha Cook, Ella Bryant, Ruth Wyatt and Lora Mutchler; (front row) Nelson Rundio, Mildred Horton, Frances Beall, Mlle. Begue, Miss Harrington, Thelma Legg, Maude Smith and Stuart Harrison. This image was included in a "Memory Book" compiled by Mrs. H. V. Cottrell, historian for the Clinton League (sometimes called the Clinton Welfare League) from 1938-1943. The book shows the development of the Clintonville neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio, and records the history of the League. The Clinton League was a women's group founded in 1912 to promote child welfare and later general welfare in Columbus, but which was based in and primarily focused on the area of Clintonville. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P285_MB1_138
Subjects: Clintonville (Ohio); Clinton League; Women--Charities; School buildings; Education--Ohio;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Zimmerman Library." This is a photograph of Zimmerman Library on the Wittenberg College campus in Springfield, Ohio. The building was constructed in 1891 as the university's main library. In 1957, when Weaver Chapel and Thomas Library were completed, Zimmerman was no longer needed as a library and was reconstructed to suit other disciplines. Today, Zimmerman Hall houses the department of psychology at Wittenberg College. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F06_024_001
Subjects: Springfield (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Education; Academic libraries; Wittenberg University--History; Universities and colleges; Wittenberg College--Buildings; Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project.
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photographic postcard of a public school building, Kirkersville, Ohio, ca. 1905-1915. Photographic postcards are photographs developed on postcard paper. Whedon S. Harriman, who operated a wholesale postcard business in Columbus between 1905 and 1915, produced this photographic postcard. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03761
Subjects: Licking County (Ohio); Cultural Ohio--Education; Schools
Places: Kirkersville (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Dayton, Ohio--513 W. First St. Household Workers Training Course. For Mrs. Wright - taken by direction of Mrs. Craven. Students ironing." As part of the New Deal programs, many women were trained for household work at newly established vocational schools. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F08_002_1
Subjects: Business and Labor; Education; Employees; Ohio Women
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Old Main, the first building on the Findlay College (now University of Findlay) campus. Findlay College opened in the College Building (known as "Old Main") with 70 students enrolled in 1886. The building was reputed to be the largest single college building west of the Appalachian Mountains, and according to advertisements of the time, the only one in the world heated with natural gas. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F02_054_1
Subjects: Education; Universities and colleges; Buildings; University of Findlay; College campuses; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Findlay (Ohio); Hancock County (Ohio)
 

Description: Elliott Hall is a residence hall at Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio. Construction on this building began in 1913 after a donation from Armita V. Thompson Elliott of Canton. The dormitory is for upperclass female students and is located near the campus lakes. In 1943, when the campus was used as a training facility for the Air Corps, some of the cadets stayed in Elliott Hall. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F02_033_1
Subjects: Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Education; Universities and colleges; Dormitories; Mount Union College
Places: Alliance (Ohio); Stark County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Donnell Junior High School (Page 23) Hancock Co." This is a photograph of Donnell Junior High School in Findlay, Ohio. This school was built in 1925 and will be closed in 2011. Demolition is pending. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F06_014_001
Subjects: Junior high schools--United States; Findlay (Ohio)--History; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works; Education; School buildings--Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Findlay (Ohio); Hancock County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "John Simpson Junior High School, Mansfield, O. Richland Co." This is a photograph of John Simpson Junior High School in Mansfield, Ohio. This school closed in 2007 as a result of budgetary restrictions. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F06_016_001
Subjects: Junior high schools--United States; Mansfield (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works; Education; School buildings--Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Mansfield (Ohio); Richland County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows Zane Grey after having successfully hunted a bear. The description on the back of the photograph reads: "Zane Grey with large bear shot in Hell Gate country, Tonto Basin, Arizona, probably 1919." The photograph belongs to the Zane Grey Photograph Collection. Zane Grey was a popular and widely read novelist of the American West. Grey was born in Zanesville, Ohio, on January 31, 1872. His parents were Lewis Grey and Alice Josephine Zane Grey. As a teenager, Grey was an excellent baseball player. He won a baseball scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied to become a dentist. Once he left school and began his dental practice in New York, Grey realized that he was not happy. He decided to leave dentistry behind and become a writer. Grey's first novel, "Betty Zane," drew inspiration from the stories he had heard about frontier Ohio when he was growing up. He wrote "Betty Zane" in 1904 but was not able to find a publisher at first. Refusing to give up, Grey traveled west and continued writing. In 1910, he had his first success when Harper's Magazine published "The Heritage of the Desert." Two years later, Harper's published "Riders of the Purple Sage." Grey died unexpectedly of a heart attack on October 23, 1939. By the time of his death, he had written almost ninety books. Most of his books were Westerns, but he also wrote nine books that had a fishing theme. Grey also published many short stories, a biography of George Washington as a young man, and several stories for children. Some of Grey's other popular Western novels included "Spirit of the Border," "Desert Gold," "The Last Trail," "The Call of the Canyon," and "The Thundering Herd." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P49_B02F07_003_001
Subjects: Authors; Books; Grey, Zane, 1872-1939; Education; National parks & reserves
Places: Arizona
 

Description: The children are cultivating hedge plants in their school garden, Cleveland, Ohio, 1908. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02619
Subjects: Students--Ohio; Cultural Ohio--Education
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)