Ohio Federal Writers' Project

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This photograph shows Science Hall at Antioch College in Greene County, Ohio, in Yellow Springs. The caption for this photograph reads "Science Hall, the gift of Mr. C.F. Kettering, contains over a hundred classrooms, laboratories, and offices. It also provides a home for several industrial research projects and for the Photosythesis Research Foundation. All Antioch students take courses in physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, and geology, in order to have a basic understanding of all the general fields of knowledge." Antioch College was founded in 1852 as the first nonsectarian, co-educational institution in the nation to offer the same educational opportunities to both men and women. It was also among the first to offer equal educational opportunities to African Americans. Antioch Hall, completed in 1853, served as the main building for the college and included a chapel, lecture hall, recitation rooms, laboratory, and library. 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...

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Ohio History Connection

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