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- Annals of Cleveland: A Depression-Era Project of the WPA
An online finding aid to the Annals of Cleveland, a WPA project dedicated to the indexing and summarization of Cleveland's early newspapers.
- BRIDGES OF NORTHEASTERN OHIO
A pathfinder to our extensive collections having to do with bridges and Civil Engineering. Includes links to images and eTexts as well as to:
- A Brief History of Cleveland State University
A one-page history of CSU, tracing its beginnings as a free YMCA program in the 1870s, through accreditation as Fenn College in 1929, the incorporation of the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, to its current standing as "a student-centered institution of academic excellence."
- Clay Herrick Slide Collection
This archival collection, donated by Clay Herrick, author of "Cleveland Landmarks", consists of 100 pamphlets, brochures, books, and photographs. The most important element is some 6,000 slides; one-of-a-kind shots of various buildings in Cleveland, which are showcased here.
- Cleveland Cultural Gardens Collection
The Cleveland Cultural Gardens, extending along East Blvd. & Martin Luther King Blvd. in Cleveland's University Circle area, is a unique collection of landscaped, themed gardens each representing a different ethnic group/organization in Cleveland. The gardens represent many of the cultural backgrounds of Cleveland's diverse population.
- The Cleveland Group Plan of 1903
This plan for the Mall and surrounding buildings is the earliest and the most fully realized plan for a major city outside of Washington, D.C.
- Cleveland Illustrated
All 135 images from this lavish viewbook and brief history of Cleveland published in 1889.
- The Cleveland Metroparks
Over 100 images
representing nine of the sixteen reservations comprising Ohio's oldest park district.
- Cleveland: Pioneer in Cardiac Care
This website takes a closer look at those who contributed to Cleveland's distinctive history as a “Mecca” for heart care.
- Cleveland Press Collection
Clippings and photographs from the former editorial library, or "morgue," of the Cleveland Press.
- The Cleveland Union Terminal Online
A collection of resources documenting the construction of Cleveland's signature building
complex including:
- CLEVELAND'S ETHNIC HERITAGE
A pathfinder to our extensive collections on Cleveland's rich cultural heritage including:
- Cleveland's First Infrastructure: The Ohio & Erie Canal
Historic photographs and other images, maps, and period advertisements offer a glimpse into canal era life in Ohio.
- Cleveland's Forgotten Freeways
Route location studies, including proposed routes, for planned freeways that were never built in the Greater Cleveland area.
- Cleveland's Golden Age of Downtown Shopping
Revisit Cleveland's Downtown Department Stores. Remember the Silver Grille? Mr. Jingeling? The Sterling Lindner Davis trees? Take a nostalgic trip back with these images from the Cleveland Press Collection of the golden age of downtown shopping in Cleveland.
- Crime Scene, Cleveland
See images from some of our city's more sensationalized murder cases.
- Cuyahoga County Engineer's Photography Collection
Over 1,200 images from the Cuyahoga County Engineer's Office, documenting Engineer's Office projects to install and maintain the civil infrastructure.
- The Cuyahoga County Fair Collection
120 photographs taken over a 60 year span depicting fair activities and fairgoers; a 1970 documentary film County Fair, U.S.A.; photos and audio recollections from the "Memories of Cleveland" exhibit at the 2006 county fair.
- d.a. levy Collection
d.a. levy was a major literary and underground figure in Cleveland's emerging poetry and small and alternative press scene from the early 1960s through his untimely death in 1968. A poet, artist, and publisher, levy's work documenting his love-hate relationship with the city and its politics offers a unique political & social perspective of Cleveland during the 1960s. This growing collection includes reprints and original works of his textual and visual art, along with photographs and newspaper clippings - a digital initiative in keeping with levy's vision of free thought and speech and his desire to create and distribute his work freely.
- Disasters in Cleveland History
Images of the fires, explosions, floods, and other calamities that have left their mark on the city over the years.
- The Dobama Collection
Digital reproductions of playbills, publicity stills, sound recordings as well as a chronoligical listing of Dobama Theatre's productions through July 2007.
- Each in Their Own Voice: African American Artists in Cleveland 1970-2005
Artwork and interviews with the artists featured in the above exhibition that ran from Jan. 23 - March 7 2009 at the Art Gallery at Cleveland State University.
- The Early History of The Cleveland Play House (1915-1984)
Follow the "nation's oldest continuously running resident theater company" from its modest beginnings to its rise as one of the largest regional theaters in the United States.
- Eliot Ness in Cleveland: Ness, best known for bringing down Al Capone as leader of the Chicago "Untouchables", also spent time as Cleveland's safety director and later ran for mayor of the city. Part of Crime Scene, Cleveland.
- Euclid Beach Park & the Humphrey Glass Negative Collection
Revisit Euclid Beach Park (1895-1969), one of Cleveland's more successful and longer-lived amusement parks and get to know the Humphrey Family, owners and operators of the park from 1901 until 1969. The gates are open and you are welcome to enter.
- Feeding Cleveland: Urban Agriculture
Dedicated to the urban gardeners and farmers of Cleveland, Urban Agriculture is a joyous look at those who "toil in the soil" — from the relief workers during the Great Depression, citizens in their victory gardens during WWII and children in school-sponsored horticulture programs, to the modern-day enthusiasts and entrepreneurs in community and market gardens.
- Fenn College On-Line
Rediscover or learn for the first time what it was like to attend Fenn College, Cleveland State University's predecessor, in the 1960's. This site also features:
- The Glenville Shootout (July, 23, 1968)
Images and eTexts documenting one of Cleveland's more violent and controversial chapters in history.
- Great Lakes Industrial History Center
Images and eTexts highlighting the history and development of the Great Lakes. The site includes:
- Hanna Theater Curtain
The Hanna Theater Curtain is a unique part of Cleveland's theater history. It was common practice for traveling companies to leave their mark backstage on theater curtains -- anything which proclaimed "we were here!" Over the years, the Hanna Theater Curtain accumulated hundreds of such mementoes, becoming a unique, unsurpassed collage of theater memorabilia.
- Industrial Rayon Corporation: Celebrating a Special Workplace
A collection of nearly 100 photographs and other materials about Cleveland's Industrial Rayon Corporation, which manufactured rayon yarn, the world’s first synthetic fiber, used in items ranging from undergarments to tires.
- League Park: Cleveland's Original Ballpark
Built in the 1890s, League Park was the site of several important moments in baseball history and saw the likes of many baseball greats, including Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Satchel Paige, and Lou Gehrig. See photos and more. Also included here:
- LEGAL LANDMARKS IN CLEVELAND HISTORY
Original case documents and more providing insight into some of Greater Cleveland's groundbreaking court cases.
- The Lewis Turco Collection
Using digital content from Lewis Turco's donated letters and materials as well as other documentation, this website provides a valuable resource for scholars and poets alike interested in tracing the roots of Cleveland's poetry scene.
- Messing About in Boats: The Amazing Adventure of Robert Manry
On June 1, 1965 Robert Manry, a copy editor for the Plain Dealer and a Willowick, Ohio resident, left Falmouth, Massachusetts aboard his 13.5-foot sailboat, Tinkerbelle, to begin his voyage across the Atlantic Ocean. He arrived in Falmouth, England seventy-eight days later on August 17, 1965. At the time of the crossing Tinkerbelle was the smallest boat to have ever crossed the Atlantic.
- Mystery Photo Album from the 1890s
This is a small photo album that was acquired from a dealer. We know nothing about it, except what it discloses about itself: namely that it covers territory south of Cleveland, Ohio -- in the Kent/Akron area along the Cuyhoga River, Ohio & Erie Canal and nearby towns -- and that the photos were shot around 1897.
- OUR TOWN
Photo collections showcasing cities throughout Ohio. Many of these collections are the result of partnerships between Cleveland Memory and the libraries, schools, and historical organizations from the towns featured.
- The Photograph Albums of Glenallen
A collection of 116 professional photographs by photographer Cifford Norton featuring Glenallen, the Cleveland Heights estate of
Elisabeth Severance Allen Prentiss.
- Photographs from the Berea Children's Home
100 photographs from the Berea Children's Home and Berea Historical Society documenting the home's first 100 years of caring for neglected, dependent and abandoned children.
- Playhouse Square
Photos and
documents that comprise the history of Playhouse Square, the largest performing arts center in the U.S. outside of New York City.
- Postcards of Cleveland
Digital representations of over half of the postcards in Dr. Walter C. Leedy's extensive collection, documenting many aspects of Cleveland history and life from as early as 1898.
- Praying Grounds: African American Faith Communities
An ongoing documentary and oral history project which will ultimately offer audio and video recordings of oral histories and musical performances, as well as photographs, newspaper articles, anniversary programs and other printed materials, along with an extensive bibliography. A fascinating collection gathered from African American churches and faith communities throughout greater Cleveland.
- RAILROAD HISTORY HOLDINGS
A pathfinder to our railroad history collections and digital resources, including:
- Roldo Bartimole - Point of View
Whether you consider him to be Cleveland's conscience or "Cleveland's curmudgeon", iconoclastic journalist, Roldo Bartimole, rocked Cleveland's political boat with his biweekly newsletter, Point of View from 1968 to 2000.
- The Roy Grove Cartoon Collection
Roy Grove was a cartoonist for the Newspaper Enterprise Association from 1917 through the mid-1920's. This collection contains some of Grove's World War I cartoons as well as some of his sports cartoons.
- Stereoscopic Images of Cleveland in 3D
Stereoscopic scenes taken from historic stereoview cards showing Cleveland and the wider Great Lakes industrial region.
- Tony Mastroianni Review Collection
A growing collection of 20 years' worth of local reviews of theater, film, and music, as well as interviews with celebrities passing through Cleveland.
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