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  • 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, including the major league debut of Cleveland Indians pitcher Bob Feller, the first and only unassisted triple play in a World Series game, and the first grand slam in World Series history. Many famous baseball players appeared at the park and played in games there, including Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Satchel Paige, and Lou Gehrig.
  • 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.
  • Lorain, Ohio: A Collection of Historic Snapshots of One of Cleveland’s Neighbors
    Linked geographically, the lakeside cities of Cleveland and Lorain share parallels in their development as industrial ports and centers of commerce. This site features historic photographs and a guide to further reading about our neighbor to the west.
  • 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.
  • Neighbors on the North Coast: Cleveland's Connection to the Mentor Shoreline
    Photographs, maps, blueprints, video clips and documents highlighting the development of the Lake Erie shoreline along Mentor.
  • 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.
  • Postcards of Cleveland
    Dr. Walter C. Leedy, Jr. began his comprehensive collection of Cleveland postcards, now numbering nearly 8,000 in earnest in 1989. Leedy realized the unique value picture postcards could have to him as an architectural historian, permitting him to observe the changing urban environment, or to visually recreate what a neighborhood looked like. As Leedy puts it, "I don't really collect postcards-I collect images of life, moments in time. Nostalgia glues people to postcards. There is something intimate and direct about them. As an art historian, I think of postcards as a vehicle to introduce art to the millions-people aren't intimidated by postcards the way they might be by paintings or other "fine" art."
  • 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:
  • Rocky River Ohio Photograph Collection
    Photos featuring Rocky River, a community of known for its beautiful homes and recreational opportunities located west of Cleveland at the mouth of the Rocky River.
  • 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.
  • The Shaker Heights Collection
    Founded in 1912, Shaker Heights is a community dedicated to its schools, its natural spaces, its people, and its history. The digital reproductions here are a small portion of the materials available for patron use in the Local History Collection at the Shaker Heights Public Library and the Elizabeth Nord Library Collection at the Shaker Historical Society.
  • 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.
  • Yesterday's Lakewood
    Images of Lakewood dating between 1909 and the building of the Rocky River Bridge through the early 1980's.

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