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Title
Ohio
State
School
for the
Blind
model
Subject
Models
Schools--Ohio
Students
Ohio State School for the Blind
Blind--Education--Ohio--Columbus
Ohio--History--Pictorial works
Federal Writers' Project
Time Period
1930s
1940s
Place
Columbus (Ohio)
Franklin County (Ohio)
Description
The
Ohio
State
School
for the
Blind
utilized
models
,
like
this
one
, to
allow
its
students
to
perceive
the
shape
of
large
buildings
they would
otherwise
be
unable
to
experience
.
Models
of
stagecoaches
and
covered
wagons
are
seen
being
constructed
in this
photo
.
Attached
document
reads
: In the
time
before
railroad
trains
and
automobiles
were
invented
people
traveled
from
one
town
to
another
in
such
a
public
conveyance
as this
coach
. This
particular
type
of
coach
was
used
as the
trains
are
used
today
, a
set
rate
was
paid
for
every
miles
traveled
.
It
was this
coach
that
carried
the
early
gold
hunters
across
the
great
western
prairies
from
Dodge
City
,
Kansas
, to
San
Francisco
. These
coaches
all
belonged
to the
Wells
Fargo
company
who
also
owned
and
operated
the
Pony
Express
.
One
the
inside
of the
coach
six
people
could
sit
. This was
considered
the
safest
and
most
comfortable
place
to
ride
and was
usually
occupied
by the
women
. On
top
, of
course
, was the
driver
who
had the
responsibility
of the
team
of
four
or
sometimes
six
horses
.
Usually
there was at
least
one
guard
who
rode
with the
driver
,
whose
responsibility
it
was to
see
that
bandits
,
both
Indian
and
White
did
not
molest
the
coach
and its
valuable
cargo
. The
coaches
were not as
comfortable
as they
could
have been. The
seats
were
upholstered
in
leather
, as a
general
rule
, but the
springs
were
made
either
of
leather
straps
or
very
crude
hand
forged
iron
.
It
was
difficult
to
turn
the
coach
sharply
or
guide
it
very
carefully
since
the
body
set
on the
axels
and was not
provided
with
wheel
wells
. These
wheel
wells
were
indentations
in the
body
of
such
a
cab
which
could
have
allow-
ed
the
wheels
to
turn
either
to
right
or
left
much
more
freely
.
However
, they were not to
come
for a
considerable
time
as
yet
.
So
instead
of
having
these
wells
, the
axles
were
made
very
wide
to
enable
the
coach
to
turn
more
quickly
. The
passenger's
belongings
and
freight
were
stowed
in the
little
pen
which
is
located
on
top
of the
cab
.
Additional
freight
could
be
fastened
to a
platform
in the
back
of
some
of the
coaches
underneath
the
driver's
seat
. Of
course
,
travel
by this
method
was
both
dangerous
and
slow
. The
coach
traveled
only
during
the
daytime
,
staying
at
wayside
inns
at
night
. The
roads
were
poor
,
often
only
a
patch
across
the
plains
.
It
was not
particularly
unusual
to have a
stage
come
into the
town
, the
horses
in
full
gallop
,
foam
flecked
and
red
eyed
with
fright
.
Often
too
they
wrought
the
driver
or
guard
or
perhaps
a
passenger
wounded
or
killed
in an
encounter
with
robbers
or
Indians
. The
passengers
all
went
armed
, as a
matter
of
course
, and
often
a
running
fight
would
take
place
with the
lawless
men
of the
plains
. The
days
of
Buffalo
Bill
Cody
and the
Wells
Fargo
Express
were
days
of
quick
fortunes
and
quicker
poverty
, of a
vast
empire
of
gold
and
silver
and
rolling
Oregon
farms
, a
day
which
changed
but
did
not
entirely
die
with the
coming
of the
Iron
Horse
.
COVERED
WAGON
To
understand
the
background
and
use
of this
wagon
it
will be
necessary
to
go
back
to the
days
of
immediately
following
the
Revolutionary
War
.
When
General
Washington
dismissed
his
army
and the
war
was
truly
over
, the
country
was
faced
with a
depression
such
as
we
have
just
witness
in the
last
few
years
. This
depression
was
caused
by
two
things
. In the
first
place
the
young
country
had
no
stable
currency
and the
paper
money
which
Congress
issued
rapidly
became
practically
worthless
. This
fact
added
to the
dumping
of
hundreds
of
soldiers
backs
onto the
country
means
of
supporting
themselves
.
General
Washington
was
actively
concerned
with the
welfare
of these
men
who
had
given
so
long
and
so
loyally
that the
nation
might
be
free
. In the
case
where
the
men
had
ever
owned
anything
in the
way
of
homes
, or
farms
, these had
either
been
confiscated
or
ruined
by the
long
years
of
neglect
. What was to be
done
with these
men
and their
families
?
After
the
purchase
of the
Louisiana
Territory
it
was
obvious
that there was an
enormous
tract
of
very
fertile
and
beautiful
land
waiting
beyond
the
mountains
for
settlers
. These
settlers
were not
hard
to
find
. They
gathered
their
belongings
and
families
and
departed
to
new
hope
and a
new
life
,
after
the
horrors
of the
war
, in a
new
home
. The
old
soldiers
remembered
the
wagons
which
had
done
such
service
in
transporting
ammunition
during
the
war
. They
recalled
that the
conventional
wagon
of the
day
---
four
wheels
with
removable
bed
resting
on the
axels
---
had been
converted
into an
ammunition
conveyance
by
fastening
hoopes
of
willow
to the
side
of the
bed
so
as to
form
a
support
for the
canvas
which
made
the
roof
. What
could
be
more
natural
than that these
men
should
adopt
this
same
kind
of
wagon
to
carry
their
household
effects
and
families
over
the
mountains
to their
new
homes
.
Countless
stories
could
be
told
of the
adventurers
of the
type
of
wagon
which
got
its
start
then.
Many
times
settlers
in
bands
were
attacked
by
Indians
and
all
the
members
killed
.
Other
times
death
met
them in the
form
of
disease
or
lack
of
food
or
water
, but for
every
one
who
died
many
(the
number
is
of
course
not
known)
lived
to
reach
new
homes
, at
first
in
Ohio
, then
choice
sports
further
and
further
west
,
until
the
Pacific
was
reached
. This
wagon
was the
accepted
means
of
conveyance
for any
who
hoped
to
take
his
household
with him. the
method
of
locomotion
varied
with the
person
who
drove
and with the
kind
of
territory
through
which
the
people
were to
travel
.
Sometimes
mules
were
used
, but
more
often
oxen
or
horses
did
the
heavy
work
of
moving
the
cumberson
and
heavy
wagons
. The
people
who
traveled
in this
uncomfortable
conveyance
were not, as
may
be
suspected
, the
poorest
and
crudest
in the
country
. There
rests
in the
museum
in
Denver
today
definite
proof
of this. There
is
a
tiny
spinet
(the
ancestor
of the
modern
day
piano)
which
is
built
of
beautiful
rosewood
,
obviously
expensive
and
probably
imported
from
England
. The
story
of this
lovely
piano
is
simple
.
It
was
found
on a
prairie
not
far
from
Denver
by a
band
of
settlers
in the
smoldering
debris
of what had
once
been a
caravan
of
settlers
. The
people
who
had
driven
the
oxen
were
all
kead
,
killed
by
Indians
, but the
following
band
of
settlers
had been
so
close
behind
that they were
able
to
come
up
before
the
fire
had
destroyed
the
wreckage
of the
wagons
.
Who
owned
that
spinet
and
where
they were
going
,
no
one
knows
.
Wave
upon
wave
of
settlers
continued
to
come
despite
the
hardships
and
dangers
and they
came
in their
time
proven
covered
wagons
.
Creator
Ohio
Federal
Writers
'
Project
Collection
Ohio
Guide
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Source
State
Archives
Series
1039
AV
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