The black-and-white print in the circular metal container that holds the oldest jumble of her family photos surprised Margo Bartlett. It was of the father she hardly knew and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt examining issues of The Vindicator at the Youngstown Public Library in 1939.
Bartlett, now of Delaware, Ohio, welcomes any information beyond what the caption states: “Mrs. Roosevelt and Laurence Bartlett, state supervisor, at the Youngstown Vindicator unit of the WPA Newspaper Index Project in the Youngstown Public Library, Oct. 27, 1939.”
“It’s news to me that my father was the state supervisor of the WPA Newspaper Index Project, though his master’s was in journalism,” said Bartlett, herself a columnist and writer with ThisWeek Community Newspapers in the Columbus area.