Description: This is a photograph of two models of maps of portions of the United States. They were made for the Ohio State School for the Blind as a teaching tool. The map on the left is of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky. On the right is Virginia, West Virginia, North and South Carolina Georgia and Florida. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F02_070_001
Subjects: Models; Maps; Schools--Ohio; Ohio State School for the Blind; Blind--Education--Ohio--Columbus; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of a model extension ladder built for the Ohio State School for the Blind as a teaching tool. An extension ladder is divided into two or more lengths for easier storage. It slides apart for maximum length. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F02_067_001
Subjects: Models; Ladders; Schools--Ohio; Ohio State School for the Blind; Blind--Education--Ohio--Columbus; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of maps made for the Ohio State School for the Blind of portions of the United States. They were used as teaching tools for the students. The map on the left is New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The map on the right is Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F02_071_001
Subjects: Models; Maps; Schools--Ohio; Ohio State School for the Blind; Blind--Education--Ohio--Columbus; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph is of models of maps of a portion of the United States. They were made for the Ohio State School for the Blind as teaching tools. The map on the left is Washington, Oregon and California. The map on the right is Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F02_072_001
Subjects: Models; Maps; Schools--Ohio; Ohio State School for the Blind; Blind--Education--Ohio--Columbus; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of a model of the United States Capitol Building. It was built for the Ohio State School for the Blind as a teaching tool. The dimensions are: length 43 1/2" x width 64 1/2" x height 25 1/2" The plan for the Capitol Building was selected by President George Washington and Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson in 1793. President Washington presided over the laying of the cornerstone that year, and by the following year a part of the building was in use. The British burned the building during the War of 1812 and the restoration work was not completed until 1819. The Capitol Building is about 750 feet long and 375 feet wide. It rises 285 feet above the eastern plaza. A 20-foot statue entitle "Freedom" tops the building. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F02_061_001
Subjects: Models; United States--Capital and capitol--Designs and plans; Ohio State School for the Blind; Blind--Education--Ohio--Columbus; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated 1930-1943, this photograph shows a teacher at the Ohio State School for the Blind guiding a boy as he explores the interior of a model of a blockhouse. A note on the photograph's reverse reads “Block House - Looking at a trap door used to pull ladder through.” 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_B11F04_16_001
Subjects: Ohio State School for the Blind; Blockhouses; Education; Models and modelmaking; Teachers
Places: Ohio
 

Description: A photograph of a model used at the Ohio State School for the Blind to teach erosion control. The model shows five different ways to treat deep gullies to close them up to try to control further erosion. There are a series of dams or terraces of earth, logs fastened together to form a dam, boulders piled up into a dam, a ground cover of vegetation and posts bound with wire or wire fencing are all in the model. Any of these methods may be used as the first aid for erosion control. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F02_023_001
Subjects: Ohio State School for the Blind; Erosion control, Soil
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "The four animals - the horse, cow, hog and the sheep are made in high relief but scaled down in size. Each animal is made in the proper proportion to the other. The rooster and hen are scaled together." This is a tool to teach children what farm animals look like. The names of the animals appear in braille below the models. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F03_24_001
Subjects: Models; Schools--Ohio; Braille; Ohio State School for the Blind; Blind--Education--Ohio--Columbus; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: A blind student uses touch to explore models of what farm animals look like. Reverse reads: “Domestic Animals – The four animals – the horse, cow, hog and the sheep are made in high relief but scaled down in size. Each animal is made in the proper proportion to the other. The rooster and hen are scaled together.” View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F04_20_001
Subjects: Models; Schools--Ohio; Braille; Students; Ohio State School for the Blind; Blind--Education--Ohio--Columbus; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: A statue of a man with his dog used as a teaching tool at the school for the blind. The Ohio State Institution for the Education of the Blind was established in April of 1837 and by July of 1837 began instruction in rented rooms. The first school building was built in 1839, and could accommodate sixty students. This photograph, ca. 1935-1943 shows the four story sandstone structure in the Second Roman style of architeture with a Mansard roof. It is located on the corner of Parsons Avenue, and East Main Street in Columbus, Ohio and first opened it's doors on May 21, 1874. Early in the 20th century, the Ohio Department of Education assumed control and the name of the school was changed to the Ohio School for the Blind. In 1953, the school moved to it's current location on North High Street near Morse Road. The building has undergone several renovations, and once had a central tower reached an additional three stories, and pointed spires on the north and south ends. It has since been occupied by the Ohio Highway Patrol and then by Columbus Environmental Health. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F02_035_001
Subjects: Statues; Schools--Ohio; Blind--Ohio; Ohio State School for the Blind; Blind--Education--Ohio--Columbus; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph is a relief map of a portion of the city of Columbus. It is used as a teaching tool for the blind students at the Ohio School for the Blind. As of 1941, it would take 81 models of this size to portray the whole city. This model is exact with the arrangement of the buildings, the street names and arrangements of blocks, it is considered a pictorial diagram rather than a to scale model. The buildings are labeled in Braille and in one corner is a wire arrow lettered to denote the directions, East, West, North and South. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F02_048_001
Subjects: Relief maps; Models; Schools--Ohio; Ohio State School for the Blind; Blind--Education--Ohio--Columbus; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photo features a student at the Ohio State School using her hands to explore a scaled model of a log cabin to build a mental image of the building. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F04_17_001
Subjects: Models; Schools--Ohio; Students; Log Cabins; Ohio State School for the Blind; Blind--Education--Ohio--Columbus; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)