Title	Butler County home
Subject	Homes Schools Hamilton (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works Works Progress Administration of Ohio (U.S.) School building--Ohio Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works Students Education Ohio--History--Pictorial works Federal Writers' Project
Time Period	1930s 1940s
Place	Hamilton (Ohio) Butler County (Ohio)
Description	Reverse reads: "Type of Butler County Homes benefited by the Emergency School Program (Copied from Kodak print) Hamilton Ohio, Butler co. 1936. Public Welfare This is a photograph of the Butler County Emergency School in Hamilton, Ohio. The Butler County Emergency School was part of the Works Progress Administration program. The WPA was a government office that hired unemployed Americans to work on various government projects from April 8, 1935 to June 30, 1943. In the first six months that the WPA existed, more than 173, 000 Ohioans, including both men and women, found employment through this program. More than 1, 500 unemployed teachers in Ohio found work through the WPA teaching illiterate adults how to read. In twelve separate counties, primarily in southeastern Ohio, more than twenty-five percent of families had at least one member working for the WPA during the late 1930s. By the end of 1938, these various workers had built or improved 12, 300 miles of roads and streets and constructed 636 public buildings, several hundred bridges, hundreds of athletic fields, and five fish hatcheries. WPA employees made improvements to thousands of more buildings, roads, and parks within Ohio. WPA artists also painted a number of murals in Ohio post offices.
Creator	Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Date of Original	1936
Collection	Ohio Guide Photographs
Source	State Archives Series 1039 AV
Submitting Institution	Ohio Historical Society
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type	StillImage
File Name	SA1039AV_B11F06_032_001.tif
Image Height	4879
Image Width	5988
File Size	87663636 Bytes
Display File Type	image/jp2
Format	picture
Date created	2010-04-20
Date modified	2011-06-28

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