News from CSU Special Collections

We are preparing a new exhibit, to go up December, on ethnic newspapers published in Cleveland. At this writing, we are planning representation from the city's African-American, German, Hispanic, Indian, Italian, Jewish, Lithuanian, Middle Eastern, Polish, Russian, and Slovenian communities.

Bill's Blog: "What's Cleveland Memory all about?"
At the recent Ohio Historical Society "Building Connections" conference, I was a co-presenter with representatives of the Greater Cincinnati Memory Project and the Worthington Memory Project, and argued that memory projects are more than just computer infrastructures for passing historic pictures and text around the world. Rather, the memory projects we're building are simply a new type of platform for doing timeless things: building relationships with people. We build these computer connections in order to build relationships with patrons, students, teachers, donors, researchers, business people, media professionals, government officials, friends, colleagues, and the general public. more...

News from Around the Region

On November 8th, Painesville's Morley Library celebrated Opening Day for its splendid new building. It is a great place to research local history and genealogy in Lake County, so go check out the new digs!

The newly-named "Greater Cleveland History Digital Library" consortium continues to meet in committees, identifying content on local history that should be up on the web and developing the technologies, funding and inter-institutional coordination necessary to accomplish it. For more information, contact Bill Barrow.

Did You Know?

We were pleasantly surprised to learn of the existence of the Society for Commercial Archeology, "the oldest national organization devoted to the buildings, artifacts, structures, signs, and symbols of the 20th-century commercial landscape." A patron had written us, trying to locate a old sign painted on a downtown building -- a "ghost sign," we later learned these are called -- and in researching her question, we discovered the SCA.

Now, on a related note, if we could only locate information and images (a video would be wonderful) about the old electric dairy sign along the Shoreway, that once poured milk from a bottle into a glass. Does anyone remember that?

Recent Books, etc. (gift ideas!)

Here are some new books for your collection or as holiday presents. For more selections, view our previous issues and visit the publishers' websites.

	Toman, James A., and Daniel J. Cook. Cleveland's Towering Treasure: A Landmark Turns 75. Cleveland Landmark Press. 2004. A new book on the Terminal Tower and the Cleveland Union Terminal.
Tidyman, John H. Cleveland Cops: The Real Stories They Tell Each Other. Gray & Co., Publishers. 2004. Some of these stories go back decades.
	Hoskins, Patience Cameron. Cleveland On Foot: 50 Walks & Hikes in Greater Cleveland (4th edition). Gray & Co., Publishers. 2004. Includes historic landmarks.
Cormack, George. Memories of a Lifetime, Volume III. Instant Concepts. 2004. "Over 650 photographs from the Cleveland Press Collection." (available in bookstores)

VIDEO:
The Cleveland Heights Historical Society has new video of a recent presentation about the historic Euclid Golf Allotment, which will be running on Channel 23 on Sundays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays at 10 a.m., 4 p.m. and 10 p.m. for the indefinite future. The presentation was by the authors of the recent Euclid Golf book from Arcadia Press.

WEB:
By now, most of you have heard of the new beta of Google Scholar, which provides access to many academic articles previously accessible only through commercial databases on the "Deep Web." The actual article texts in many cases are still only available through academic libraries, but finding the citations via Google is a big step forward and students are bound to flock to it. Given the influence of Internet search engines, this could impact academic publishing, making far more content available once digital rights management and fee-for-use issues are resolved.

This Month in History

1814 - Village of Cleveland incorporated, (12/23).[190th anniversary]

1876 - Ashtabula Train Disaster kills nearly 100 people when trestle collapses in a winter storm, (12/29). more works

1932 - The Lorain Carnegie Bridge (aka the Hope Memorial Bridge) is opened, (12/2).

1954 - Dr. Sam Sheppard, convicted by jury in the murder of his wife, Marilyn (12/21). [50th anniversary]

1964 - Cleveland Browns defeat the Baltimore Colts for the NFL title and the last major sports championship for our city (12/27). [40th anniversary] -- Note that they'd won the NFL championship on December 24, 1950, their first year in the league, beating the Los Angeles Rams (who'd moved there from Cleveland!) on a late Lou Groza field goal.

1978 - Cleveland becomes first major U.S. city in financial default, (12/15).

1982 - Groundbreaking for the new SOHIO (now BP) Building, on Public Square, (12/14). (images)

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December Calendar

First three weekends in December (3rd-5th, 10th-12th & 17th-19th), Noon to 6:00 p.m.

The historic Cleveland Trust Rotunda will be opened to the public during the upcoming holiday season to host a major new exhibit by the Richard Jacobs Group. "At the Corner of Main & Main" is a photographic retrospective of the storied Cleveland crossroads of Euclid Avenue and East 9th Street. more...

Sunday, December 5th, 1:00 to 3:00 p.m.
Steve Gordon, Survey/National Register Manager at the Ohio Historical Society's Ohio Historic Preservation Office, will discuss the process of obtaining landmark status for historic industrial properties. This is the annual meeting of the Northern Ohio Chapter of the Society for Industrial Archeology and will be held in Special Collections, at the Cleveland State University Library. For more information and to join the NOCSIA, contact Nancy Hachtel. Non-members may attend.

Tuesday, December 14th, 9:30 p.m. Channel 45/49
Storytellers Media Group's new video on the mysterious 1951 disappearance of Beverly Potts, will be aired on Channel 45/49 and will be available for sale sometime subsequently. This video is based upon James Jessen Badal's new book, "The Twilight of Innocence," which will be published by Kent State University Press this coming spring.

December 17th - 23rd, evenings
Holiday Lantern Tours at Hale Farm & Village Advance ticket purchase required.

All month

Cleveland artist, Chris Pekoc, is the subject of a one-man show at the Bonfoey Gallery, Euclid and East 17th Street, on Playhouse Square. His huge "Erie" piece (right) was fashioned, in part, from copies of historic log books in the Steamship William G. Mather Museum's archives, held here in Special Collections.

click here for detail

All month
Penitentiary Glen's "Woodland Halle's Days" isn't exactly formal history, but it keeps the traditions of Halle's Christmas themes alive, so who's arguing, this time of year?

 

IF YOU HAVE CALENDAR OR NEWS ITEMS FOR JANUARY, PLEASE LET US KNOW

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Endnotes

For those of us old enough to remember, the Sterling Lindner Davis department store always had huge, magnificent Christmas trees on display each year. And, before you ask (everyone does, this time of year), the lyrics to the Mr. Jingeling song are: Mr. Jingeling How you ting-a-ling Keeper of the keys On Halle's seventh floor We'll be waiting for You to turn the keys.

(from the Cleveland Press Collection)

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