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| 1 - All Topics & Comprehensive Histories |
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CWRU |
A Chronicle of Cleveland: With Comment Upon Odd Diversities Throughout the Nation, 1828-1940. 1940. |
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CSU |
The Cleveland Memory Project. -- Gateway to all the digital images and text hosted by the Cleveland State University Library. |
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CPL |
Cleveland Necrology File -- New on-line searchable database of information from local death notices, obituaries and cemetery records. |
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CSU |
Crooked River: Exploring Social and Urban History -- the CSU History Department's "Social History and the City" e-journal. |
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EOG |
Electronic Oberlin Group. Oberlin Through History. |
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CWRU |
The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. - A marvelous on-line resource for the history of greater Cleveland that is continually being updated. A "Must Read." |
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OHS-OPLIN |
The Evolution of Ohio: The Connecticut Western Reserve -- Simple thematic maps about migration, economy, etc. |
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LC |
Library of Congress. The American Memory Home Page. The national digital library. Big and getting bigger.
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CWRU |
Men of Ohio. -- Cleveland News, Cleveland, Ohio 1914. Illustrated Biographical dictionary with gray scale illustrations. |
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NRHP |
National Register of Historic Places database of structures and districts. Enter "OH" for the state and whichever county you want and you'll find a complete listing, with links to digital photos in some cases. NRHP Home |
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OHS |
Ohio Historical Society. Online Collection Catalog.. |
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OHS |
Ohio Memory: An Online Scrapbook of Ohio History. |
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Morgan Library |
Ohio Names Database. -- Searchable database of 88,000 names appearing in Ohio publications published before 1850, including the first five city directories of Cleveland, from the Morgan Library of Ohio Imprints. |
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CSU |
Postcards of Cleveland. A growing database of images from Walter Leedy's huge collection of Cleveland postcards. |
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WRHS |
Western Reserve Historical Society. Collections Catalog. - Search the library and museum catalogs on-line for this, Cleveland's premier historical society. These are the records they've entered to date. |
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CWRU |
Western Reserve Studies Symposium. - "Advancing the exploration of the distinctive aspects of Ohio's Western Reserve". |
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| 2 - Architecture and Design |
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2.1 - Architecture |
BIBLIO |
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Cornell |
Brunner, Arnold. "Cleveland's Group Plan." 1916. |
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KSU |
Ceruti, Joseph. "Reflections on Architects and Architecture in Cleveland, Ohio." 1993. |
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CPL |
Cleveland Public Library Neighborhood Branches. 452 pictures of branch libraries in the CPL system. |
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CSU |
Cleveland Sacred Landmarks 1830-1930: A Pilgrimage. |
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CSU |
Keating, Dennis, Norman Krumholz, and Ann Marie Weiland, "A Century of Planning in Cleveland", Planning History, 1:1 (February, 2002) 79-93. |
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KSU |
Leedy, Walter D., Jr. "Henry Vaughan's Cleveland Commission: A Study of Patronage, Context, and Civic Responsibility." 1994. |
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CSU |
Leedy, Walter D., Jr., Ph.D. "Cleveland's Terminal Tower: the Van Sweringens' Afterthought." The Gamut Winter, 1983. |
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| 3 - Civil Engineering (see also Real Estate: Surveying) |
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3.1 - Infrastructure and Public Works, generally |
BIBLIO |
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CSU |
Build Up Greater Cleveland (BUGC). - The Greater Cleveland Growth Association's public/private infrastructure partnership. |
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CSU |
"Building the Baldwin Reservoir, Cleveland Water-Works." Engineering News-Record, 89:22 November 30, 1922. 916-22. |
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CWD |
Cleveland Water History -- historic reports and photos of the history of Cleveland's water system. |
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LC |
The Historic American Engineering Record: "Cleveland." |
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3.2 - Bridges |
BIBLIO |
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CSU/CWRU |
Bridges of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County. 1918. -- Digital versions by
- Cleveland State University. (HTML)
- Case Western Reserve University. (PDF) |
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CSU |
"The Cuyahoga Valley Viaduct of the 'Nickel Plate' Railroad." Transactions, The Cleveland Engineering Society, No. 2, October 13, 1908. 1-15. |
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CSU |
Felgate, A.M."Modern Bridge in Parkway System of Cleveland, Ohio." Engineering News-Record, 97:22 November 25, 1926. 874-76. |
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CSU |
French, Collins. History of the Cleveland Viaduct. 1878. |
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Lehigh |
Illustrated Pamphlet of Wrought Iron Bridges. The Wrought Iron Bridge Company. Canton, Ohio. 1884. |
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CSU |
King Iron Bridge & Manufacturing Company -- Home page for Cleveland State Univeristy's holdings about the company. |
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Sloan
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King Bridge Company Home Page. - Early Cleveland bridge manufacturing company. |
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SIA |
Miller, Carol Poh. "Cleveland, City of Bridges, Basks in a New Light." 1998. (click on "Cleveland Bridges") |
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CSU |
Terminal Subways for the Detroit-Superior Bridge. A Report of the Committee of Municipal Art and Architecture of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. 1915. |
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CSU |
The Watson Bridge Book Collection. |
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CSU |
Watson, Sara Ruth., and John R. Wolfs. Bridges of Metropolitan Cleveland. 1981. |
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CSU |
Watson, Sara Ruth and John R. Wolfs. "Movable Bridges on the Cuyahoga, The Gamut, Spring/Summer 1981. |
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CSU |
Watson, Wilbur J. "Lorain-Carnegie Bridge in Cleveland: Cantilever Trusses Construction of Copper Bearing Silicon Steel." Civil Engineering. November, 1932. |
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| 4 - Ethnicity, Immigration, Gender & Community |
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4.1 - All/Generally |
BIBLIO |
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CSU |
Callahan, Nelson J. and William F. Hickey. Irish Americans and Their Communities of Cleveland. 1978. |
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CSU |
Grabowski, Zielinski-Zak, Boberg, & Wroblewski. Polish Americans and Their Communities of Cleveland. 1976. |
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CSU |
Macron, Mary Haddad. Arab Americans and Their Communities of Cleveland. 1981. |
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JCF |
The History of Jewish Life in Cleveland. Jewish Cleveland On-Line. |
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CSU |
Papp, Susan M. Hungarian Americans and Their Communities of Cleveland. 1981. |
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FOGAS |
Ward, Dr. Robert E. "From Germantown to Cleveland in Historical Perspective." |
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4.2 - Specific Communities & Neighborhoods |
BIBLIO |
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CSU |
Borchert, James & Susan. "The Bird's Nest: Making of an Ethnic Urban Village." The Gamut, 1987 |
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CSU |
D'Alessandro, Edward. The Ginney Block: Reminiscences of an Italian-American Dead-end Street Kid 1988. |
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CSU |
Lackritz, Marc E. The Hough Riots of 1966. 1968. (PDF version) |
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CSU |
Morris, Jeffery. Beechwood: The Book |
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BRHS |
Nichols, J.B. A History of Lorain. (1924) . |
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CWRU |
The Official Directory of Collinwood for 1899. -- Published by C.W.Shephard, Collinwood, Ohio, Press of the Collinwood News.. |
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CSU |
Stokes, Carl B. Promises of Power: A Political Autobiography. |
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History
Channel |
Stokes, Carl B. Speech on his efforts to aid the city's African Americans. |
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| 5 - Industry & Commerce |
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5.1 - Industry - (see also: Railroads & Great Lakes Shipping) |
BIBLIO |
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WRHS |
Cleveland Steel: Selections from the LTV Collection. |
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HistEnt |
Dawson, Virginia P. Engines and Innovation: Lewis Laboratory and American Propulsion Technology. (NASA History Series. 1991) |
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CSU |
THE GREAT LAKES INDUSTRIAL HISTORY CENTER. |
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Harvard |
Harvard University's Open Collections Program. "Women Working, 1800-1930" - Search for copies of historic works pertaining to greater Cleveland. (PDF) |
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CSU |
"History of the Iron Ore Industry." 1910. |
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CSU |
"Magnetic Switch Controllers on Electrically-operated Automatic Ore Unloaders at Lorain, O." 1905. |
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CSU |
Miller, Carol Poh. "Cleveland's Huletts Still Standing Tall." 1997. |
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CSU |
"Ore Unloading Machines for Use at Receiving Docks." 1905. |
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5.2 - Commerce |
BIBLIO |
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CSU |
Wheeler, Robert A. "Pleasantly Situated..." - An economic history of Ohio City, reissued in digital form in the CSU History Department's on-line journal Crooked River. |
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| 6 - Journalism |
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6.1 - Newspapers |
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CSU |
The Annals of Cleveland. - A site about this newspaper-based resource on local history, which includes the abstracts about the Ohio & Erie Canal between 1818 & 1835. |
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CSU |
The Cleveland Press Collection. |
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CSU |
DeCrane, Ray. "Five Decades at The Press." 1998. |
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CSU |
Feagler, Dick. "Stop the presses (for the very last time)" Cleveland Magazine, August, 1982. |
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UAkron |
The John S. Knight Collection. |
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CSU |
Morris, Joe Alex. "The Noisy Newsboy of Cleveland". Saturday Evening Post. 1954. |
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CSU |
Porter, Philip W. Cleveland: Confused City on a Seesaw. 1976. |
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CSU |
Seltzer, Louis B. The Years Were Good. 1956. |
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| 7 - Real Estate |
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7.1 - Surveying & Subdividing Land |
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CSU |
Barker, Samuel J. "Original Surveys of Cleveland." 1884. |
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CSU |
Barrow, William C. "The Euclid Heights Allotment: A Palimpsest of the Nineteeth Century Search for Real Estate Value in Cleveland's East End." 1997. |
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CSU |
Earnest, G. Brooks. "Cleveland Regional Geodetic Survey Provides Control for 450-Square Mile Area," Civil Engineering, December, 1948. |
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CHUH |
Historic Euclid Golf Allotment |
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CCA |
Journal of the Cuyahoga County Archives -- two articles on their map holdings: |
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CSU |
Wells, Della Wagner. "Calhoun, King & Spalding: The Railroad Years." 1985. |
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| 8 - Transportation |
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8.1 - Canal & River Travel |
BIBLIO |
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CSU |
The Annals of Cleveland. - A site about this newspaper-based resource on local history, which includes the abstracts about the Ohio & Erie Canal between 1818 & 1835. |
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LC |
American Memory, the Library of Congress "Captain Pearl R. Nye: Life on the Ohio & Erie Canal." |
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CSU |
Cleveland's First Infrastructure: The Ohio & Erie Canal, from George Washington to Alfred Kelley. |
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CSU |
Cuyahoga River On-line Exhibition. Images, documents and maps about the recent history of a great river. |
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CSU |
Ellis, William Donohue. The Cuyahoga. 2000. |
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CSU |
Tamburro, Samuel J. "Ohio & Erie Canal in Cleveland." |
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8.2 - Railroads (see also: Industry) |
BIBLIO |
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Gray&Co |
Bellamy, John Stark II. "We're Going Down," Chapter 5 of The Corpse in the Cellar And Further Tales of Cleveland Woe. This being an account of the terrible 1876 train wreck in Ashtabula, Ohio. |
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CSU |
"Cleveland Public Square Passenger Terminal Authorized." Engineering News Record, 87:25. December 22, 1921. |
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CSU |
The Cleveland Union Terminal Collection. |
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CSUL |
Cleveland Union Terminal Dedication Book |
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CSU |
"The Cuyahoga Valley Viaduct of the 'Nickel Plate' Railroad." Transactions, The Cleveland Engineering Society, No. 2, October 13, 1908. 1-15. |
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UAkron |
The Erie Lackawanna Railroad Collection. |
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Syracuse |
Erie Railroad Glass Plate Negative Collection.. |
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CSU |
Hoffmann, Robert. "Railway Grade Crossing Elimination in Cleveland." Journal of the Cleveland Engineering Society, III:2. December 1910. 7-29. |
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CSUL |
Neil Bluhm video. - The Cleveland Union Terminal. (Quicktime) |
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CSU |
The Newburgh & South Shore Collection. |
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NKPH&TS |
Nickel Plate Road Historical & Technical Society. "A History of the Nickel Plate...." |
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CSU |
The Nickel Plate Road Grade Elimination Project Photographs. |
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RailroadExtra |
Paxton, Frederic L. The Railroads of the "Old Northwest" Before the Civil War. 1912. |
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CSU |
The Pennsylvania Railroad's Cleveland Docks. 1946. |
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CWRU |
Peters, Walter August. Street Names of Cleveland and Vicinity. -- Published as a Western Reserve University Bulletin, v.3, no.7, 1927. c1875 by J. B. Lippincott & CO., Philadelphia, PA. |
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8.3 - Great Lakes Shipping (see also: Industry) |
BIBLIO |
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CSU |
THE GREAT LAKES INDUSTRIAL HISTORY CENTER. |
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BGSU |
Great Lakes Vessels Online Image Database. [1830-1980's] |
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CSU |
Hulett Ore Unloaders Web Site. |
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CSU |
Naef & Joslin Company Photographs of Conneaut, Ohio. |
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CSU |
Scott, Harry E. "Ore-Handling Machinery at the N. Y. P. & O. Dock in Cleveland, Ohio." 1909. |
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CSU |
The Pennsylvania Railroad's Cleveland Docks. 1946. |
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Other |
Steamer, William G. Mather Museum. |
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8.4 - Automobiles, Trucks & Busses |
BIBLIO |
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8.5 - Aircraft & Aerospace Industry |
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NPS |
Watson, Wilbur J. "Avaiation: From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms: Goodyear Airdock" |
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| 9 - Views & Visual Arts |
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9.1 - Views |
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CSU |
Construction Photographs in the Cleveland Union Terminal Collection. |
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CSU |
Mystery Photo Album from the 1890s. - A collection of 49 images from an early private photo album, showing scenes along the Cuyahoga River and Ohio Canal. |
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BRHS |
Photo Archives, Black River Historical Society. (Lorain) -- note link to search page, at bottom. |
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Google |
Ryder, James F. Voigtlander and I: In Pursuit of Shadow Catching: A Story of Fifty-two Years' Companionship with a Camera. Ryder operated photo studios in Cleveland and around NE Ohio in the late 19th century. |
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CSU |
Stereoscopic Images of Cleveland in 3D. |
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CSU |
Yesterday's Lakewood. |
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9.2 - Visual Arts |
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CSU |
Cleveland Cartography. - All about the mapping of Cleveland, Ohio, past and present. |
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Syracuse |
Edward D. Kuekes Cartoons -- Kuekes was a Cleveland Plain Dealer editorial cartoonist. |
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CSU |
Louis Rosenberg Drawings. - The Cleveland Union Terminal. |
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CSU |
Ray Osrin Editorial Cartoons. |
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| 10 - Miscellaneous Topics |
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10.1 - Biographical |
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CWRU |
Cleave's Biographical Cyclopedia of the State of Ohio. -- Published c1875 by J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia, PA. An illustrated biographical dictionary with line art illustrations. |
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CSU |
D'Alessandro, Edward. The Ginney Block: Reminiscences of an Italian-American Dead-end Street Kid 1988. |
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CSU |
Seltzer, Louis B. The Years Were Good. 1956. |
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10.2 - Criminal Justice |
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CSU |
Bellamy, John Stark II. By The Neck Until Dead: A History Of Hangings In Cuyahoga County. 2000. -- A new electronic book, exclusive to the Cleveland Digital Library |
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10.3 - Medicine |
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CCF |
Clough, John B., editor. ...to act as a unit: The Story of the Cleveland Clinic. 1996. |
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10.4 - Schools & Education |
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CSU |
Fenn College On-Line - The "new" 1962-63 academic year catalog for Cleveland State University's predecessor college. |
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