Description: Taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912, this photograph shows a group of school children, of a variety of ages, posing outside for a group portrait, with the teacher standing to the right. The small chalkboard in front of the students reads "Our School, March 17, 1908." Like most of Ewing's work, it was likely taken in southeastern Ohio or central West Virginia. Born in 1870 in Washington County, Ohio, near Marietta, Ewing most likely began his photography career in the 1890s. The 1910 US Census and a 1912-1913 directory list him as a photographer. A negative signed "Ewing Brothers" and a picture with his younger brother, Frank, indicate that Frank may have joined the business. After 1916, directories list Albert as a salesman. He died in 1934. The Ewing Collection consists of 5,055 glass plate negatives, each individually housed and numbered. Additionally, the collection includes approximately 450 modern contact prints made from the glass plate negatives. Subjects include infants and young children, elderly people, families, school and religious groups, animals and rural scenes. In 1982, the Ohio Historical Society (now the Ohio History Connection) received the collection, still housed in the original dry plate negative boxes purchased by Albert J. Ewing. A selection of the original glass plate negatives were exhibited for the first time in 2013 at the Ohio Historical Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV71_b15_f908
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Portrait photography--United States--History; Education; School children; School buildings
Places: Ohio; West Virginia
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Caption. Ulysses S. Grant Schoolhouse, Georgetown, Photograph by Gertrude Shockey. This photo must be returned to OHIO WRITERS' PROJECT #8 E. Chestnut St., Columbus, Ohio." The old Grant Schoolhouse at Georgetown O. as it looks today, having been erected in 1804 as nameplate verifies. Gen. and Pres. Grant once attended school in this building now [number crossed out] years old, and proudly commemorated to his memory. Photo by Gertrude Shockey Georgetown, O." Hiram Ulysses Grant was born in Point Pleasant in April 1822. In 1823, his parents moved twenty miles east to Georgetown, where his father opened his own tannery. Ulysses worked in his father's tannery and, from the ages of about six to thirteen, he attended classes in the little schoolhouse on Water Street. The building, built in 1829, consisted of only one room at that time. The teacher was John White, whom Grant mentioned in his memoirs. Later, he attended an academy in Maysville, Kentucky, for a year, and then John Rankin's academy at Ripley for a year. His father then succeeded in getting him appointed to West Point where, through a bureaucratic error, his name was listed as Ulysses Simpson Grant. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F06_001_001
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885--Childhood and youth; Schoolhouses; School buildings--Ohio; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Georgetown (Ohio); Brown County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "One of the classrooms in the annex of the Jackson-Milton School at North Jackson, Mahoning County, constructed by WPA workers. Attentive, Jackson-Milton, School, Mahoning County. This photo must be returned to OHIO WRITERS' PROJECT, 8 E. Chestnut St., Columbus, O." This is a photograph of a classroom full of students at Jackson-Milton School on Mahoning Avenue in North Jackson, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F06_010_001
Subjects: Elementary schools; Classrooms; Students; Children; Schools--1930-1940; Schools--Ohio; School buildings--Ohio; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: North Jackson (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing children around a May pole during May Day festivities at Clinton School, located at Clinton Heights Avenue and North High Street in Clintonville. 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_136
Subjects: Clintonville (Ohio); Clinton League; Women--Charities; School buildings; Education--Ohio; Celebrations; Holidays;
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

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: Reverse reads: "Findlay High School Located on W. Main Cross St, N. Side. 1131 W of Main. Findlay High School (Page 30) Hancock Co." This is a photograph of Findlay High School in Findlay, Ohio. The school was built in 1940 and is now Central Middle School. It is scheduled to close in 2013. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F06_012_001
Subjects: Findlay (Ohio)--History; High schools--Ohio; Schools--1930-1940; Schools--Ohio; School buildings--Ohio; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Findlay (Ohio); Hancock 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 class portrait of students at a one-room schoolhouse in Ellenboro, West Virginia, was taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, 1910. Like most of Ewing's work, it was taken in the region of southeastern Ohio and central West Virginia. Born in 1870 in Washington County, Ohio, near Marietta, Ewing most likely began his photography career in the 1890s. The 1910 US Census and a 1912-1913 directory list him as a photographer. A negative signed "Ewing Brothers" and a picture with his younger brother, Frank, indicate that Frank may have joined the business. After 1916, directories list Albert as a salesman. He died in 1934. The Ewing Collection consists of 5,055 glass plate negatives, each individually housed and numbered. Additionally, the collection includes approximately 450 modern contact prints made from the glass plate negatives. Subjects include infants and young children, elderly people, families, school and religious groups, animals and rural scenes. In 1982, the Ohio Historical Society (now the Ohio History Connection) received the collection, still housed in the original dry plate negative boxes purchased by Ewing. A selection of the original glass plate negatives were exhibited for the first time in 2013 at the Ohio History Center. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV71_B24_F2160
Subjects: Ewing, Albert J. (1870-1934); Photographers--Ohio; School photography; School buildings; Students;
Places: Ellenboro (West Virginia);
 

Description: Reverse reads: "St. Gerard's School Lima Allen Co" St. Gerard's School is a Catholic grade school in Lima. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F06_017_001
Subjects: Schools--Ohio; School buildings--Ohio
Places: Lima (Ohio); Allen County (Ohio)
 

Description: Taken by photographer Louis Baus, this photographic reproduction shows the class of 1897 at the schoolhouse in Zoar, Ohio, in Tuscarawas County. Levi Bimler, school principal, is in the upper right. Led by Joseph Bimeler in 1817, a group of Lutheran separatists left the area of Germany known as Wurttemberg and eventually established the small community of Zoar in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. They would become known as the Society of Separatists of Zoar in 1819. After Bimeler's death in 1853, the unity of the village declined, and by 1898 the Zoarites disbanded the society. The remaining residents divided the property, and the community continued to prosper in Zoar. Louis Baus was a prominent photographer in Cleveland, Ohio, who began his career with studio work, but in 1911 became a staff writer for the "Cleveland Advocate, " a local newspaper that was later purchased by the "Cleveland Plain Dealer." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P223_B04_Series2Album1_12
Subjects: Zoar (Tuscarawas County, Ohio); Society of Separatists of Zoar; School buildings; Education--Ohio
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "-Schools Darke County Aug. 15, 1938 Greenville Ohio FIRST BRICK SCHOOLHOUSE in Darke County Photo: Federal Writers' Project, Dayton, Ohio." This schoolhouse does not appear to still be standing. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F06_020_001
Subjects: Schools--Ohio; School buildings--Ohio
Places: Darke County (Ohio)