Iconic Images of Ottawa, KS in the 1930s

Franklin County Cattle Fair, 1935

 

 

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp, northeast of Ottawa. The CCC camp was founded in 1936.

 

Marais des Cygnes River flood, June 1935.

 

 

Ransom Memorial Hospital. The hospital opened in 1931.

 

 

Virgil Sealey, Charles Young, Clarence Heckroot, Jack Richardson and Coach Orlis Cox. This Ottawa High School team won their Interscholastic Track and Field Meet relay in 1933 against a team featuring Jesse Owens, Cleveland thinclad phenom who would win four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

 

 

800 Block of Poplar Street.

 

All photos courtesy of the Franklin County Historical Society.

Interested in taking your own iconic images of Ottawa? Click here for more information about the Iconic Images: Then and Now photography workshop for high school students on May 23 and 30, 2009.

Kansas - Nebraska Chautauqua explores the lives, hopes, dreams, and history of the Chautaqua Movement from the 1930's, also examining the lives and contributions of several important historical figures.