Building on the Western College for Women campus   Save
Ohio Guide Collection
Description: Dated 1936, this photograph shows a large building on the Western College for Women campus, with a note on the reverse which reads "Western College for Women at Oxford Ohio 1936 Butler County." The building appears to be made of sandstone, and has a hipped roof and round arch doorway. The building is three stories tall on one half and two stories tall on the other half; the side that is three stories tall has a front porch with ionic columns and round archways. Western College for Women was a women's college in Oxford, Ohio between 1855 and 1974. In 1974, Western College became part of Miami University. 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_B14F09_001_001
Subjects: Western College for Women; Universities and colleges; College campuses; Women--Education
Places: Oxford (Ohio); Butler County (Ohio)