Date or Chronology Facet of the Cleveland Digital Library

Finding things by

DATE

In the Digital Collection
of the Cleveland Digital Library

Here the works in the Cleveland Digital Library's Digital Collection are arranged chronologically, in date order. Click on any of the epochs of Cleveland's history ^* to jump down to the listings for that period, 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.

ALL/MULTIPLE PERIODS: 1796-1990^*
FOUNDING & SETTLEMENT: 1796-1824	CANALS & COMMERCE: 1824-1860
RISE OF INDUSTRY: 1861-1929	POST-INDUSTRIAL: 1930-1990

CONTENTS

1 - ALL/MULTIPLE PERIODS: between 1796-1990

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

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

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

CSU

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

CWRU

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

CSU

Cleveland Cartography. - All about the mapping of Cleveland, Ohio, past and present. [1795-]

CSU

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

CPL

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

CWD

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

CSU

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

EOG

Electronic Oberlin Group. Oberlin Through History.

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."

CSU

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

The Historic American Engineering Record: "Cleveland."

CCA

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

Library of Congress. The American Memory Home Page.

CSU

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

CWRU

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

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

BRHS

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

OHS

Ohio Historical Society. Online Collection Catalog..

OHS

Ohio Memory: An Online Scrapbook of Ohio History.

CSU

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

BRHS

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

CSU

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

CSU

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

FOGAS

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

CSU

The Watson Bridge Book Collection.

CSU

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

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 - FOUNDING & SETTLEMENT: 1796-1829

CSU

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

3 - CANALS & COMMERCE: 1824-1860

CSU

Cleveland's First Infrastructure: The Ohio & Erie Canal, from George Washington to Alfred Kelley. [Early 1800's]

BGSU

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

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.

SIA

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

RailroadExtra

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

CSU

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

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.

4 - RISE OF INDUSTRY: 1861-1929

LDS

1880 U.S. Census. - Search the Mormon's Family Search database for ancestors or local history figures.

CSU

Barrow, William C. "The Euclid Heights Allotment: A Palimpsest of the Nineteeth Century Search for Real Estate Value in Cleveland's East End." [1870-1920].

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/CWRU

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

Cornell

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

CSU

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

KSU

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

CSU

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

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

The Cleveland Press Collection. [1889-1982]

CSU

Cleveland Sacred Landmarks 1830-1930: A Pilgrimage.

WRHS

Cleveland Steel: Selections from the LTV Collection.

CSU

The Cleveland Union Terminal Collection. [1930]

CCF

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

CSU

Construction Photographs in the Cleveland Union Terminal Collection. [1926-1930]

CSU

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

Syracuse

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

CSU

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

CSU

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

CSU

THE GREAT LAKES INDUSTRIAL HISTORY CENTER. [1890-]

BGSU

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

CHUH

Historic Euclid Golf Allotment

CSU

"History of the Iron Ore Industry." 1910.

CSU

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

Lehigh

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

UAkron

The John S. Knight Collection. [1894-1981]

CSU

King Iron Bridge & Manufacturing Company -- Home page for Cleveland State Univeristy's holdings about the 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. [1890-1983]

CSU

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

SIA

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

CSU

Naef & Joslin Company Photographs of Conneaut, Ohio. [1900]

CSU

The Nickel Plate Road Grade Elimination Project Photographs.

CWRU

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

CSU

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

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

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

CSU

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

Other

Steamer, William G. Mather Museum. [1906-1988]

CSU

Stereoscopic Images of Cleveland in 3D. [1870-1920]

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.

NPS

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

CSU

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

CSU

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

5 - POST-INDUSTRIAL: 1930-1990

KSU

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

CSU

The Cleveland Press Collection. [1889-1982]

CSU