Description: The immediate growth of the potential metropolis was slow with a mere seven people living in the settlement in 1800. In 1804, Lorenzo Carter launched the first boat, the 30 ton Zephyr, an impressive craft for an inexperienced builder to launch, but a small prophecy of the hug freighters and passenger steamers that one day would enter Cleveland harbor. In 1818 there arrived in the harbor from Buffalo the first steamboat on Lake Erie, the 'Walk-in-the-Water'. By 1830 little more than 1000 people called themselves Cleavelanders. The city altered the spelling of its name by a casual quirk. On July 1, 1832, the compositor of a freshly launched newspaper, The Cleveland Gazette and Commercial Register, had to drop on letter from his masthead to fit his space, and he chose the first 'a' in Cleveland, simplifying it for posterity. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F08_02_01
Subjects: Cleveland (Ohio)--Harbor; Harbors--Ohio--Cleveland; Cleveland (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works; Aerial Photography; Business and Labor; Industries--Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "Cleveland's Lakefront. Lakefront from Terminal Tower looking west." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F11_34_01
Subjects: Shipping--Erie, Lake; Cleveland (Ohio)--Harbor; Harbors--Ohio--Cleveland; Cleveland (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works; Aerial Photography; Business and Labor; Industries--Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "Freighter coming in Cleveland Harbor. Taken from Terminal Tower. Note 2 freighters on the right at ore dock, one coming into the river near breakwater, and one in the river." The bridge in this photograph is the Main Avenue (Harold H. Burton Memorial) Bridge, completed in 1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F11_35_01
Subjects: Shipping--Erie, Lake; Cleveland (Ohio)--Harbor; Harbors--Ohio--Cleveland; Cleveland (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works; Aerial Photography; Business and Labor; Industries--Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "Lake Traffic. Waterfront from Terminal Tower. Note freighter near breakwater, freighter coming in at right, freighter at coal dock on extreme right, freighter entering river, and freighter tied up in river partly under bridge." The bridge in this photograph is the Main Avenue (Harold H. Burton Memorial) Bridge, completed in 1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F11_39_01
Subjects: Shipping--Erie, Lake; Cleveland (Ohio)--Harbor; Harbors--Ohio--Cleveland; Cleveland (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works; Aerial Photography; Business and Labor; Industries--Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "Lake Shipping. Lakefront from Terminal Tower. Note 4 freighters and new Coast Guard station." The bridge shown in this photograph is the Main Avenue (Harold H. Burton Memorial) Bridge, finished in 1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F11_40_01
Subjects: Shipping--Erie, Lake; Cleveland (Ohio)--Harbor; Harbors--Ohio--Cleveland; Cleveland (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works; Aerial Photography; Business and Labor; Industries--Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: During the late nineteenth century, Cleveland became an important industrial city. Located along numerous transportation routes as well as near large deposits of coal and iron ore, the city prospered. John D. Rockefeller and his partners began the Standard Oil Company in Cleveland during the 1860s. At the same time, Samuel Mather began steel production and enhanced Cleveland's economic importance. In 1880, twenty-eight percent of Cleveland's workforce found work in the steel mills. Cleveland emerged as an important industrial center, but its citizens sometimes suffered. During the Great Depression, both the steel and oil companies endured difficult financial times. To stay afloat, many businesses laid off workers. By 1933, roughly one-third of Cleveland's workers were unemployed during the third full year of the Great Depression. Reverse reads: "Cleveland Lakefront. Taken from Terminal Tower. Notice coal dock near freighter and railroad freight cars drawn up around it. Project photographer Frank Jaffa, 1940." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F10_35_01
Subjects: Shipping--Erie, Lake; Cleveland (Ohio)--Harbor; Harbors--Ohio--Cleveland; Cleveland (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works; Aerial Photography; Business and Labor; Industries--Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: In 1928 Cleveland voters approved a $2.5 million bond for the construction of Cleveland Municipal Stadium; widely believed to have been part of an attempt to secure the 1932 Olympics, however Los Angeles was chosen as the host in 1923. The Stadium was the largest of its kind at the time, seating over 78,000 people. Together with the Mall and Public Square, the Stadium hosted the 1936 great Lakes Exposition. From 1947 to 1994 it housed the Cleveland Browns and Cleveland Indians. Municipal Stadium was demolished in 1996 to erect the present Cleveland Browns Stadium. Conceived in the 1903 Group Plan as a civic center in the City Beautiful style, a long park flanked by neoclassical government buildings, the Mall was to have been capped at its north end by the Union Terminal train station. The station's intended location shifted south and west; a rail approach from the southeast, along Ontario Avenue, was excavated and bridged in 1929. The Mall was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 (#75001360). View of lakefront, Cleveland Municipal Stadium at left, Mall at right. Reverse reads: "Section of Cleveland's lake front, including Cleveland Stadium and part of the Mall, seen from Forty-Fourth floor of Terminal Tower Building. Cleveland, Ohio." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F10_44_01
Subjects: Shipping--Erie, Lake; Cleveland (Ohio)--Harbor; Harbors--Ohio--Cleveland; Cleveland (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works; Aerial Photography; Business and Labor; Industries--Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)