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Here the works in the Cleveland Digital Library's Digital Collection are arranged by the format of publication. Click on any of these headings to jump down to that format, or simply scroll down the list to browse the offerings.

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.

ARTICLES
BOOKS
COLUMNS & REVIEWS
GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS & DATA
MANUSCRIPT & ARCHIVAL
MAPS
MULTIMEDIA
ON-LINE CATALOGS
THESES & DISSERTATIONS
 
VIRTUAL/WEB
 
CONTENTS
1 - Articles in journals and magazines (including e-journals)

 

CSU

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

 

CSU

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

 

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.  

 

CSU

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

 

CSU

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

 

CSU

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

 

CSU

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

 

CSU

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

 

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.  

 

CCA

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

 

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.

 

SIA

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

 

CSU

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

 

CSU

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

 

CSU

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

 

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.  

 

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

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

 

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.  

 

NPS

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

 

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.
2 - Books

 

2.1 - General Histories of Cleveland

 

CWRU

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

 

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."

 

CWRU

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

 

CWRU

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

 

2.2 - Special topics

 

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)

 

CSU

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

 

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.  

 

CSUL

Cleveland Union Terminal Dedication Book  

 

CCF

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

 

CSU

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

 

CSU

Ellis, William Donohue. The Cuyahoga. 2000.

 

CSU

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

 

CSU

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

 

Lehigh

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

 

CSU

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

 

CSU

Morris, Jeffery. Beechwood: The Book

 

BRHS

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

 

CWRU

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

 

CSU

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

 

CSU

The Pennsylvania Railroad's Cleveland Docks. 1946.

 

CSU

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

 

CSU

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

 

CSU

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

 

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. Bridges of Metropolitan Cleveland. 1981.

 

CSU

Wells, Della Wagner. "Calhoun, King & Spalding: The Railroad Years." 1985.
3 - Columns & Reviews
4 - Government Documents & Data

 

LC

The Historic American Engineering Record: "Cleveland."
5 - Manuscript & Archival Collections

 

CSU

The Cleveland Press Collection.

 

CSU

The Cleveland Union Terminal Collection.

 

UAkron

The Erie Lackawanna Railroad Collection.  

 

BGSU

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

 

UAkron

The John S. Knight Collection.  

 

CSU

The Newburgh & South Shore Collection.

 

CSU

The Watson Bridge Book Collection.
6 - Maps

 

CSU

Cleveland Cartography. - All about the mapping of Cleveland, Ohio, past and present.
7 - Multimedia (Audio & Visual)

 

7.1 - Audio/Sound Files

 

History
Channel

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

 

7.2 - Cartoons & Drawings

 

CSU

Ray Osrin Editorial Cartoons.

 

CSU

Louis Rosenberg Drawings. - The Cleveland Union Terminal.

 

7.3 - Photographs

 

WRHS

Cleveland Steel: Selections from the LTV Collection.  

 

CSU

Construction Photographs in the Cleveland Union Terminal Collection.  

 

Syracuse

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

 

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

Naef & Joslin Company Photographs of Conneaut, Ohio.

 

CSU

The Nickel Plate Road Grade Elimination Project Photographs.

 

BRHS

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

 

CSU

Stereoscopic Images of Cleveland in 3D.

 

CSU

Yesterday's Lakewood.

 

7.4 - Postcards

 

CSU

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

 

7.5 - Video Files

 

CSUL

Neil Bluhm video. - The Cleveland Union Terminal. (Quicktime)  
8 - On-line Catalogs & Searchable Databases

 

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.  

 

LC

Library of Congress. The American Memory Home Page.  

 

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.  

 

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.  

 

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.  
9 - Theses and Dissertations

 

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.

 

CSU

Lackritz, Marc E. The Hough Riots of 1966. 1968. (PDF version)
10 - Virtual Web Sites (original digital features)

 

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

Cleveland Sacred Landmarks 1830-1930: A Pilgrimage.  

 

CWD

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

 

CSU

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

 

CSU

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

 

CSU

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

 

EOG

Electronic Oberlin Group. Oberlin Through History.  

 

CSU

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

 

CSU

THE GREAT LAKES INDUSTRIAL HISTORY CENTER.

 

CHUH

Historic Euclid Golf Allotment  

 

JCF

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

 

CSU

Hulett Ore Unloaders Web Site.

 

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.  

 

Other

Steamer, William G. Mather Museum.  

 

FOGAS

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

 

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