Writers' Project Picnic in Dayton   Save
Ohio Guide Photographs
Description: Reverse reads: "Writers' Project Picnic, June 6, 1936, Eastwood Park, Dayton, Ohio. Montgomery County, Preble County, Warren County, Butler County." This is a photo of a picnic held for the Federal Writers' Project in Ohio employees from Montgomery, Preble, Warren and Butler Counties. Under the umbrella of the Federal Arts Project as part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal and the Works Progress Administration, the Federal Writers' Project hired authors to compile histories of communities across the United States. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F08_010_001
Subjects: Picnics; Works Progress Administration of Ohio (U.S.); Writers
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)