Title	Abandoned coal mine
Creator	Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Subject	Abandoned buildings--Pictorial works Coal mines and mining--Ohio Coal miners Geography and Natural Resources Industries--Ohio Works Progress Administration of Ohio Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Time Period	1930s
Place	Ohio
Description	The photograph shows an unknown abandoned coal mine entrance in Ohio. 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.
Date of Original	ca. 1930-1939
Collection	Ohio Guide Photographs
Source	State Archives Series 1039 AV; Box 7, Folder 12
Submitting Institution	Ohio History Connection
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_B07F12_027_1.TIF
Image Height	4950
Image Width	6063
File Size	90051800 Bytes
Display File Type	image/jp2
Format	picture
Date created	2011-05-17
Date modified	2017-03-03

Abandoned coal mine

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