Description: Group photograph of members of a boys' and girls' garden club in Prince Georges County, Maryland, ca. 1920-1921. The photograph shows children holding spades, shovels and other gardening implements, and is from the Albert Belmont Graham Collection. Based on his experiences as a school superintendent in rural Ohio, Graham advocated for the consolidation of rural schools and promoted agricultural education. He is best known as the founder of the Boys and Girls Agricultural Clubs which became the 4-H organization. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05421
Subjects: Agricultural education; Cultural Ohio--Education; Societies and clubs; Garden tools; Gardening
Places: Prince Georges County (Maryland); Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
 

Description: These children are preparing a garden path at Rosedale School, Cleveland, Ohio, ca. 1906-1912. This public elementary school was located at East 115th Street & Moulton Avenue. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02618
Subjects: Agricultural education; Cultural Ohio--Education; Schools--Ohio; Children
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph taken by Albert B. Graham ca. 1910. Caption on back reads "An agricultural extension school being held in an Ohio county court room but can't locate. These schools were held for 5 days in most counties from 1909 to 1915." Based on his experiences as a school superintendent in rural Ohio, Graham advocated for the consolidation of rural schools and promoted agricultural education. He is best known as the founder of the Boys and Girls Agricultural Clubs which became the organization known as 4-H. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS194AV_B08F02_852_001
Subjects: Agricultural education; Cultural Ohio--Education; Societies and clubs;
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Students who were members of the first class in agriculture at Ohio Northern University, Ada, Ohio, ca. 1908. In 1871, Henry Solomon Lehr established Ohio Northern University in Ada as the Northwestern Ohio Normal School. Originally, the school was to just train teachers, but it soon began offering other majors designed to meet the needs of its students. To reflect this expanded curriculum, the school was renamed the Ohio Normal University in 1885. From its beginnings, the institution was coeducational. In 1903, Ohio Normal University became Ohio Northern University. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01109
Subjects: Agricultural education; Cultural Ohio--Education; Ohio Northern University
Places: Ada (Ohio); Hardin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photographic reproduction of a drawing by Henry Howe depicting Ohio University at Athens, Ohio in 1846. Ohio University, founded in 1804, was the first institution of higher education established west of the Allegheny Mountains. This photographic reproduction of Howe's drawing dates ca. 1970-1979. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00219
Subjects: Athens County (Ohio); Cultural Ohio--Education; Ohio University; Cultural Ohio--Education; Universities and colleges; Education, Higher
Places: Athens (Ohio); Athens County (Ohio)
 

Description: Print showing campus buildings at Marietta College, from "Historical Collections of Ohio" by Henry Howe, 1847. Marietta College was established by Ohio's Congregationalists in 1835 and is one of Ohio's oldest continually-operating institutions of higher education. It was originally known as the Marietta Collegiate Institute and Western Teachers' Seminary, View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03999
Subjects: Education--Ohio; Cultural Ohio--Education; Art, American--Ohio; Universities and colleges--Pictorial works
Places: Marietta (Ohio); Washington County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Medical College of Ohio was founded by Daniel Drake in 1819 in Cincinnati. In 1920, the college changed its name to the College of Medicine of the University of Cincinnati. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04006
Subjects: Education--Ohio; Cultural Ohio--Education; Art, American--Ohio
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: In 1837, the Presbyterian Church founded Muskingum College at New Concord, Ohio. One of the first coeducational institutions of higher education in the United States, the college has a current enrollment of approximately 1,550 students. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04013
Subjects: Education--Ohio; Cultural Ohio--Education; Art, American--Ohio
Places: New Concord (Ohio); Muskingum County (Ohio)
 

Description: William Oxley Thompson was the fifth president of The Ohio State University, serving from 1899 to 1925. Prior to working for The Ohio State University he served as the president of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. During his presidency at The Ohio State University, the College of Education was added, enrollment grew by four thousand, and the original Ohio Stadium was built on the banks of the Olentangy River. The library at the University is named in his honor. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04075
Subjects: Education--Ohio; Cultural Ohio--Education; History of the Ohio State University; Ohio State University. Libraries; Ohio State University Football History;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Postcard of the Main Building of Heidelberg College, Tiffin, Ohio. Heidelberg College was founded in 1850 by the German Reformed Church. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03458
Subjects: Education--Ohio; Cultural Ohio--Education; College buildings; Universities and colleges
Places: Tiffin (Ohio); Seneca County (Ohio)
 

Description: Exterior view of the Ohio State University library, Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1935-1943. In construction for two years, it was finally completed on December 18, 1912 and was opened to the students on January 6, 1913. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03497
Subjects: Education--Ohio; Cultural Ohio--Education; Ohio State University; College buildings; Libraries
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Stereograph of Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1887. The Willoughby Medical College in Lake County, Ohio, was reorganized and moved to Columbus, Ohio, in 1849. At that time it was renamed Starling Medical College in honor of Columbus benefactor Lyne Starling. The building was located at State Street and 6th Street, now the site of Grant Medical Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03666
Subjects: Education--Ohio; Cultural Ohio--Education; Universities and Colleges; Medicine--History; Grant Medical Center (Columbus, Ohio)
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)