Antioch Hall at Antioch College photograph   Save
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Description: Dated October 6, 1936, this photograph shows Antioch Hall at Antioch College, with a caption which reads "Antioch College- Main Building- built in 1852-53." Antioch Hall, completed in 1853, served as the main building for the college and included a chapel, lecture hall, recitation rooms, laboratory, and library. 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. 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 View on Ohio Memory.
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Subjects: Education; Architecture; Universities and colleges; College campuses; Antioch College;
Places: Yellow Springs (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)