Location Facet of the Cleveland Digital Library

Finding things by

LOCATION

In the Digital Collection
of the Cleveland Digital Library

Here the works in the Cleveland Digital Library's Digital Collection are arranged by geographic location. Click on any of these headings to jump down to the entries relating to that place in northeastern Ohio, or simply scroll down the list to browse the topics.

Web pages hosted by the Cleveland State University Library are identified by a green CSU to the left of the listing and outside pages being linked to are identified with the host's name, or as Other in brown. Any listings that also are cataloged in the C.S.U. Library's "Scholar" system are given a link with the icon . "BIBLIO" refers to a corresponding section in the master bibliography.

The "Location" facet arranges entries by the geographical area referenced by the entry.

NORTHEASTERN OHIO
Entire Region (Great Lakes, Western Reserve, N.E. Ohio)

COUNTIES
Ashtabula	Cuyahoga	Geauga
Lake	Lorain	Medina
Portage	Stark	Summit
	Trumbull

CLEVELAND & ITS NEIGHBORHOODS
Greater Cleveland Metropolitan Area
Downtown	Eastside & University Circle	West Side

SUBURBS OF CLEVELAND
Beachwood	Cleveland Heights	Lakewood

CONTENTS

1 - Entire Region (Great Lakes, Western Reserve, N.E. Ohio)

CSU

Barker, Samuel J. "Original Surveys of Cleveland." 1884. - Including the surveys of the Western Reserve.

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.

CSU

Cleveland Cartography. - All about the mapping of Cleveland, Ohio, past and present.

CSU

The Cleveland Memory Project. -- Gateway to all the digital images and text hosted by the Cleveland State University Library.

CSU

The Cleveland Press Collection.

CSU

Crooked River: Exploring Social and Urban History -- the CSU History Department's "Social History and the City" e-journal.

CSU

Cuyahoga River On-line Exhibition. Images, documents and maps about the recent history of a great river.

CSU

Ellis, William Donohue. The Cuyahoga. 2000.

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."

UAkron

The Erie Lackawanna Railroad Collection.

Syracuse

Erie Railroad Stations and Other Activities. [photos ca. 1909].

CSU

THE GREAT LAKES INDUSTRIAL HISTORY CENTER.

BGSU

Great Lakes Vessels Online Image Database. [1830-1980's]

CSU

"History of the Iron Ore Industry." 1910.

CSU

Hulett Ore Unloaders Web Site.

Library of Congress. The American Memory Home Page.

CWRU

Men of Ohio. -- Cleveland News, Cleveland, Ohio 1914. Illustrated Biographical dictionary with gray scale illustrations.

CSU

Morris, Joe Alex. "The Noisy Newsboy of Cleveland". Saturday Evening Post. 1954.

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

OHS

Ohio Historical Society. Online Collection Catalog..

OHS

Ohio Memory: An Online Scrapbook of Ohio History.

CSU

"Ore Unloading Machines for Use at Receiving Docks." 1905.

RailroadExtra

Paxton, Frederic L. The Railroads of the "Old Northwest" Before the Civil War. 1912.

CSU

Stereoscopic Images of Cleveland in 3D. - Includes views from all around the Great Lakes region

CSU

The Watson Bridge Book Collection.

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.

CWRU

Western Reserve Studies Symposium. - "Advancing the exploration of the distinctive aspects of Ohio's Western Reserve".

2 - Ashtabula County

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.

CSU

Naef & Joslin Company Photographs of Conneaut, Ohio.

3 - Cuyahoga County

Greater Cleveland Metropolitan Area Generally

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.

CSU

Barker, Samuel J. "Original Surveys of Cleveland." 1884.

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

CSU/CWRU

Bridges of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County. 1918. -- Digital versions by
- Cleveland State University. (HTML)
- Case Western Reserve University. (PDF)

CSU

Callahan, Nelson J. and William F. Hickey. Irish Americans and Their Communities of Cleveland. 1978.

KSU

Ceruti, Joseph. "Reflections on Architects and Architecture in Cleveland, Ohio." 1993.

CWRU

A Chronicle of Cleveland: With Comment Upon Odd Diversities Throughout the Nation, 1828-1940. 1940.

CSU

Cleveland's First Infrastructure: The Ohio & Erie Canal, from George Washington to Alfred Kelley.

CPL

Cleveland Necrology File -- New on-line searchable database of information from local death notices, obituaries and cemetery records.

CSU

Cleveland Sacred Landmarks 1830-1930: A Pilgrimage.

WRHS

Cleveland Steel: Selections from the LTV Collection.

CWD

Cleveland Water History -- historic reports and photos of the history of Cleveland's water system.

CSU

Earnest, G. Brooks. "Cleveland Regional Geodetic Survey Provides Control for 450-Square Mile Area," Civil Engineering, December, 1948.

CSU

Grabowski, Zielinski-Zak, Boberg, & Wroblewski. Polish Americans and Their Communities of Cleveland. 1976.

The Historic American Engineering Record: "Cleveland."

JCF

The History of Jewish Life in Cleveland. Jewish Cleveland On-Line.

CSU

Hoffmann, Robert. "Railway Grade Crossing Elimination in Cleveland." Journal of the Cleveland Engineering Society, III:2. December 1910. 7-29.

CCA

Journal of the Cuyahoga County Archives -- two articles on their map holdings:

CSU

Macron, Mary Haddad. Arab Americans and Their Communities of Cleveland. 1981.

SIA

Miller, Carol Poh. "Cleveland, City of Bridges, Basks in a New Light." 1998. (click on "Cleveland Bridges")

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.

CSU

The Newburgh & South Shore Collection.

CSU

The Nickel Plate Road Grade Elimination Project Photographs.

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.

CSU

Papp, Susan M. Hungarian Americans and Their Communities of Cleveland. 1981.

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..

CSU

Porter, Philip W. Cleveland: Confused City on a Seesaw. 1976.

CSU

Postcards of Cleveland. A growing database of images from Walter Leedy's huge collection of Cleveland postcards.

CSU

Ray Osrin Editorial Cartoons.

CSU

Seltzer, Louis B. The Years Were Good. 1956.

CSU

Stokes, Carl B. Promises of Power: A Political Autobiography.

History
Channel

Stokes, Carl B. Speech on his efforts to aid the city's African Americans.

CSU

Tamburro, Samuel J. "Ohio & Erie Canal in Cleveland."

FOGAS

Ward, Dr. Robert E. "From Germantown to Cleveland in Historical Perspective."

CSU

Watson, Sara Ruth., and John R. Wolfs. Bridges of Metropolitan Cleveland. 1981.

3.1 - Downtown Cleveland

Cornell

Brunner, Arnold. "Cleveland's Group Plan." 1916.

CSU

"Cleveland Public Square Passenger Terminal Authorized." Engineering News Record, 87:25. December 22, 1921.

CSU

The Cleveland Union Terminal Collection.

CSUL

Cleveland Union Terminal Dedication Book

CSU

Construction Photographs in the Cleveland Union Terminal Collection.

CSU

"The Cuyahoga Valley Viaduct of the 'Nickel Plate' Railroad." Transactions, The Cleveland Engineering Society, No. 2, October 13, 1908. 1-15.

CSU

D'Alessandro, Edward. The Ginney Block: Reminiscences of an Italian-American Dead-end Street Kid 1988.

CSU

Fenn College On-Line - The "new" 1962-63 academic year catalog for Cleveland State University's predecessor college.

CSU

DeCrane, Ray. "Five Decades at The Press." 1998.

CSU

Feagler, Dick. "Stop the presses (for the very last time)" Cleveland Magazine, August, 1982.

CSU

French, Collins. History of the Cleveland Viaduct. 1878.

CSU

King Iron Bridge & Manufacturing Company -- Home page for Cleveland State Univeristy's holdings about the company.

Sloan
Family

King Bridge Company Home Page. - Early Cleveland bridge manufacturing company.

KSU

Leedy, Walter D., Jr. "Henry Vaughan's Cleveland Commission: A Study of Patronage, Context, and Civic Responsibility." 1994.

CSU

Leedy, Walter D., Jr., Ph.D. "Cleveland's Terminal Tower: the Van Sweringens' Afterthought." The Gamut Winter, 1983.

CSU

Louis Rosenberg Drawings. - The Cleveland Union Terminal.

CSUL

Neil Bluhm video. - The Cleveland Union Terminal. (Quicktime)

Other

Steamer, William G. Mather Museum.

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.

CSU

Watson, Sara Ruth and John R. Wolfs. "Movable Bridges on the Cuyahoga, The Gamut, Spring/Summer 1981.

CSU

Watson, Wilbur J. "Lorain-Carnegie Bridge in Cleveland: Cantilever Trusses Construction of Copper Bearing Silicon Steel." Civil Engineering. November, 1932.

3.2 - Eastside & University Circle (also see Cleveland Heights)

CSU

"Building the Baldwin Reservoir, Cleveland Water-Works." Engineering News-Record, 89:22 November 30, 1922. 916-22.

CCF

Clough, John B., editor. ...to act as a unit: The Story of the Cleveland Clinic. 1996.

CSU

Felgate, A.M."Modern Bridge in Parkway System of Cleveland, Ohio." Engineering News-Record, 97:22 November 25, 1926. 874-76.

CSU

Lackritz, Marc E. The Hough Riots of 1966. 1968. (PDF version)

CWRU

The Official Directory of Collinwood for 1899. -- Published by C.W.Shephard, Collinwood, Ohio, Press of the Collinwood News..

3.3 - West Side (Ohio City, Tremont, Whiskey Island, etc.)

CSU

Borchert, James & Susan. "The Bird's Nest: Making of an Ethnic Urban Village." The Gamut, 1987

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.

CSU

Miller, Carol Poh. "Cleveland's Huletts Still Standing Tall." 1997.

CSU

The Pennsylvania Railroad's Cleveland Docks. 1946.

CSU

Scott, Harry E. "Ore-Handling Machinery at the N. Y. P. & O. Dock in Cleveland, Ohio." 1909.

3.4 - Beachwood

CSU

Morris, Jeffery. Beechwood: The Book

3.5 - Cleveland Heights

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.

CHUH

Historic Euclid Golf Allotment

CSU

Wells, Della Wagner. "Calhoun, King & Spalding: The Railroad Years." 1985.

3.6 - Lakewood

CSU

Yesterday's Lakewood.

4 - Geauga County

5 - Lake County

6 - Lorain County

EOG

Electronic Oberlin Group. Oberlin Through History.

BRHS

Nichols, J.B. A History of Lorain. (1924) .

CSU

"Magnetic Switch Controllers on Electrically-operated Automatic Ore Unloaders at Lorain, O." 1905.

BRHS

Photo Archives, Black River Historical Society. (Lorain) -- note link to search page, at bottom.

7 - Medina County

8 - Portage County

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.

9 - Stark County

Lehigh

Illustrated Pamphlet of Wrought Iron Bridges. The Wrought Iron Bridge Company. Canton, Ohio. 1884.

10 - Summit County

CSU

Cleveland's First Infrastructure: The Ohio & Erie Canal, from George Washington to Alfred Kelley.

UAkron

The John S. Knight Collection.

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.

NPS

Watson, Wilbur J. "Avaiation: From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms: Goodyear Airdock."

11 - Trumbull County

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