Description: Reverse reads: "Fishing tugs at their dock, ft of Walnut St. Open bridge is Pennsylvania R.R. In far background are grain elevators and artificial gas storage tank." More information needed. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F08_05_01
Subjects: Transportation--Ohio--History.; Ships; Shipping industry; Harbors; Docks--Ohio--Cleveland; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows an airplane is taking off from Cleveland Municipal Airport, with a caption which reads "Modern Plane taking off, Cleveland Airport. Ohio Picture Book. Page: 39. Picture: 48 (lower). Credit: None." The Cleveland Airport was built in 1925 and is located 8 miles southwest of Public Square at Brookpark Road and Riverside Drive. The airport, originally known as Cleveland Municipal, was renamed Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport on July 26, 1951, to commemorate the 82nd birthday of William R. Hopkins who founded it. It was shortly after World War I, that Cleveland envisioned an airport. The airport did not become possible until the federal government was convinced that the city could provide an adequate facility for U.S. Air Mail planes to stop in Cleveland on their coast-to-coast flights. It was on July 1, 1925, that the U.S. Air Mail made the first flight at the airport. Its first terminal building was constructed in 1927 and featured the world's first airport control tower. In 1929, the National Air Races held in Cleveland for the first time as part of the ceremonies dedicating Cleveland's Municipal Airport. This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F11_46_01
Subjects: Cleveland (Ohio); Cleveland Municipal Airport; Transportation--Ohio--History.; Airports; Airplanes; Flight; Works Progress Administration; Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph depicts "Interesting Facts of the Growth of Cleveland." It is a progressive timeline from the founding of Cleveland in 1796 to 1936. It was a part of the public works project. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F03_011_1
Subjects: Cleveland (Ohio)--History--Chronology; Cleveland (Ohio)--History.
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Lakefront scene from river entrance Cleveland Ohio." Reverse reads: "Credit to Carl McDow; Return after using." Cleveland prospered in the late nineteenth century, profiting from nearby deposits of iron ore and coal, and built on major transportation routes such as the New York Central railway and the Ohio-Erie canal. The Great Depression decimated the city's oil and steel industries; by 1933, one-third of Cleveland's workforce was unemployed. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F10_41_01
Subjects: Cleveland (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Rivers; Lake Erie; Postcards--Ohio--Cleveland; Cargo Ships; Boats and Boating; Transportation--Ohio--History.; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Buildings at the south end of Cleveland Mall, looking east from Terminal Tower, include the Cleveland Public Library main branch and the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. 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). Reverse reads: "Along Lake Erie, east from Terminal Tower. Mall Group, Cleveland." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F10_29_01
Subjects: Cleveland (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Rivers; Lake Erie; Postcards--Ohio--Cleveland; Cargo Ships; Boats and Boating; Transportation--Ohio--History.; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)