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Ohio Guide Photographs
Description: This is a photograph of a map of the State of Ohio showing the "Distribution of Population by Counties. It was created by the Ohio Writers' Program of the Work Progress Administration in 1936. However, the data that is presented in the map is from the 1930 census. It shows the proportion of the Negro population as of 1930. The total population at the time was 6.6 million, with 309,000 African Americans living in the state. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F02_041
Subjects: Ohio Federal Writers' Project; Works Progress Administration; Ohio--Population--Statistics; African Americans--Ohio;
Places: Ohio