Description: Caption on a very similar photograph reads: "The Pioneer Goes Under. Freighter Pioneer going up the Cuyahoga River. Note tug ahead. District #4, Cleveland, Ohio. Project Photographer: Frank Jaffa, 1940. File Negative #210. Ident: 36-to Michigan -National 1/27/41 Picture Book. Location: Cleveland, Ohio. Capt: Freighter under Lift Bridge on the Cuyahoga River." This photograph shows cargo ship "Pioneer of Wilmington, Del." on the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio. Behind the boat is the Detroit - Superior High Level Bridge. The Detroit-Superior Bridge opened to traffic on Thanksgiving Day 1917. It was the city's first high-level bridge over the Cuyahoga River connecting Detroit and Superior avenues. Built at a cost of $5.284 million, the bridge took 5 years to complete. The bridge was renamed Veterans Memorial in Veterans Day ceremonies on November 11, 1989 and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F11_37_01
Subjects: Cuyahoga River (Ohio); Transportation--Cleveland (Ohio); Bridges--Ohio--Cleveland; Bridges--Cuyahoga River (Ohio); Ships--Cuyahoga River (Ohio); Veterans Memorial Bridge (Cleveland, Ohio); National Register of Historic Places
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "The Pioneer Goes Under. Freighter Pioneer going up the Cuyahoga River. Note tug ahead. District #4, Cleveland, Ohio. Project Photographer: Frank Jaffa, 1940. File Negative #210. Ident: 36-to Michigan -National 1/27/41 Picture Book. Location: Cleveland, Ohio. Capt: Freighter under Lift Bridge on the Cuyahoga River." View of a freighter and the Detroit-Superior bridge over the Cuyahoga River. The Detroit-Superior Bridge opened to traffic on Thanksgiving Day 1917. It was the city's first high-level bridge over the Cuyahoga River connecting Detroit and Superior avenues. Built at a cost of $5.284 million, the bridge took 5 years to complete. The bridge was renamed Veterans Memorial in Veterans Day ceremonies on November 11, 1989 and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F11_16_01
Subjects: Cuyahoga River (Ohio); Transportation--Cleveland (Ohio); Bridges--Ohio--Cleveland; Bridges--Cuyahoga River (Ohio); Ships--Cuyahoga River (Ohio); Veterans Memorial Bridge (Cleveland, Ohio); National Register of Historic Places
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "Detroit-Superior high level bridge." Opened to traffic on Thanksgiving Day 1917, the Detroit-Superior Bridge was the city's first high-level bridge over the Cuyahoga River connecting Detroit and Superior avenues. Built at a cost of $5.284 million, the bridge took 5 years to complete. The bridge was renamed Veterans Memorial in Veterans Day ceremonies on November 11, 1989 and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F09_16_01
Subjects: Cuyahoga River (Ohio); Transportation--Cleveland (Ohio); Bridges--Ohio--Cleveland; Bridges--Cuyahoga River (Ohio); Ships--Cuyahoga River (Ohio); Veterans Memorial Bridge (Cleveland, Ohio)
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of a freighter in the Cuyahoga, River in Cleveland, Ohio View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F11_12_01
Subjects: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga River (Ohio)
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Dead End in Cleveland. The River front along the Cuyahoga River. (This is a detail enlarged form a more general view.) District #4, Cleveland, Ohio. Project Photographer: Frank Jaffa, 1940. File Negative #133." Cuyahoga River and buildings along the river are pictured. Main Ave. Bridge is pictured in the background. The Main Ave. (Harold H. Burton Memorial) Bridge, in its current state, opened October 6, 1939. The 6 lane bridge is Ohio's longest elevated structure at 8,000ft. Earlier bridges of varying sophistication have connected the East and West shores of the Cuyahoga River in this location since the mid-1800s. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F11_08_01
Subjects: Cuyahoga River (Ohio); Bridges--Cuyahoga River (Ohio); Cleveland (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "River Traffic. View from Superior Ave. Bridge looking north." Tugboat pulling another ship along the Cuyahoga River. The bridge pictured in the photograph is the Main Avenue Bridge. The Main Ave. (Harold H. Burton Memorial) Bridge, in its current state, opened October 6, 1939. The 6 lane bridge is Ohio's longest elevated structure at 8,000ft. Earlier bridges of varying sophistication have connected the East and West shores of the Cuyahoga in this location since the mid-1800s. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F11_38_01
Subjects: Ships--Cuyahoga River (Ohio); Cuyahoga River (Ohio); Cargo Ships; Cleveland (Ohio)--Pictorial works; Bridges--Ohio--Cleveland; Bridges--Ohio; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads "The freighter Hydro leaving the Cuyahoga River and an ore boat pulling out of the breakwater. Apparently the ore boat was not in the river but rather at the west side Cleveland Cliff Iron Dock." This photograph was taken from the Main Avenue Bridge of the mouth of the Cuyahoga River. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F11_14_01
Subjects: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga River (Ohio)
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "River View of Terminal; The Terminal Tower group from the Cuyahoga River; District #4, Cleveland, Ohio; Credit Line: C. W. Ackerman". View of Terminal Tower from the Cuyahoga River. The Terminal Tower is located at 230 W. Huron Road in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. Built for $179 million by the Van Sweringen brothers, the tower was to serve as an office building atop the city's new rail station, Union Terminal. Originally planned to be 14 stories, the structure was expanded to 52-floors with a height of 708 ft and rests on 280 foot caissons. Designed by the firm of Graham, Anderson, Probst & White, the tower was modeled after the Beaux-Arts New York Municipal Building by McKim, Mead, and White. The Terminal Tower opened in 1928, two years before the entire Union Terminal complex was complete, and would remain the tallest building in the world outside of New York City until the completion of the main building of Moscow State University in Moscow in 1953. The Terminal Tower would continue as the tallest building in North America outside of New York City until the Prudential Center in Boston, Massachusetts was completed in 1964. A Nicholson Transit Co. ore boat is pictured in the Cuyahoga River. The Nicholson Transit Company was started by William Nicholson in 1928. The Great Lakes shipping company was one of a number of enterprises run by Nicholson and his family. Between the businesses owned by the Nicholson family, they handled cargo throughout the Great Lakes from the time of loading in one port, through transit to a second port, to unloading in the port of arrival. The Nicholson Transit Company was forced out of business in the 1960s as a result of the government subsidized railroad competition. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F11_17_01
Subjects: Terminal Tower Complex (Cleveland, Ohio); Cuyahoga River; Cleveland (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Steamships
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio);
 

Description: Caption reads: "River Traffic. Ore boat being towed up river from Superior Ave. bridge looking south. District #4, Cleveland, Ohio. Neg. File #215. Project Photographer: Frank Jaffa, 1940." Signs visible in this photograph include Huron Cement, Central National Bank (800 Superior Ave), Fries & Schuele, and Lederer Terminal. The CLEVELAND & BUFFALO TRANSIT CO. (C&B), a popular steamship line and later a trucking firm, was established by Morris A. Bradley in 1885 and incorporated in 1892, with Bradley as president. Passenger and freight service was initiated between Cleveland and Buffalo on the "State of Ohio" and the "State of New York," leaving Cleveland from the foot of St. Clair Ave, and in 1896, the "City of Buffalo" was added. The "City of Erie" replaced the "State of Ohio" in 1898, providing night service from Cleveland to Toledo. In 1914 Cedar Point and Put-in-Bay were added to the C&B route. As passenger service became increasingly popular, the luxurious "SEEANDBEE," a costly sidewheel passenger steamer, began regular trips between Cleveland and Buffalo in 1913. At that time, the C&B and the Detroit & Cleveland (D&C) line obtained a 50-year lease from Cleveland for property at the foot of 9th St. for $55,000. There the two companies built the E. 9th St. Pier and a new lake terminal, dedicated in 1915; in exchange, the city built a bridge over the E. 9th St. railroad tracks, paved the E. 9th St. approach, and provided a street railway to the pier.The destruction of the steamship "City of Buffalo" by fire in 1938, along with the Depression and increasing competition from trucks and railroads, caused the bankruptcy and liquidation of Cleveland & Buffalo Transit Co. in 1939. Their E. 9th St. Pier was transferred to the Lederer Terminal Warehouse Co., and both the "Goodtime" and the "City of Erie" steamers were sold for salvage. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F08_25_01
Subjects: Cleveland(Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Cuyahoga River (Ohio); Central National Bank; Steamships
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "Steel Mills along the Cuyahoga. Plant of American Steel and Wire Co. in Cleveland's flats." In 1899, numerous barbwire production companies merged together to form the American Steel and Wire Company. These businesses included ones in Texas, Illinois, Massachusetts, Ohio, and several other states. By amassing all of these firms into a single company, it was possible to limit barbwire's production. They could also drive competitors out of business by cutting the product's price. In 1901, the U.S. Steel Corporation purchased the American Steel and Wire Company and operated the company as one of its subsidiaries. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F08_18_01
Subjects: Steel-works--Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga River (Ohio)
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: The W.W. Holloway is a retired self unloading freighter pictured here at Dock 24, the Cleveland Coal Dock on the Cuyahoga River and West 9th Street. The W.W. Holloway was originally known as the Henry A. Hawgood. The Hawgood was originally launched in 1906 at Cleveland. The 535 foot boat was renamed C. Russell Hubbard in 1912 and then renamed W. W. Holloway (named after the President of The first National Bank) in 1935 when acquired by Columbia. W.W. Holloway The Holloway was converted to a self unloader at Sturgeon Bay in 1957, received a bow thruster at Toledo in 1962, and repowered at Lorain over the Winter of 1962-63. The W.W. Holloway regularly shipped coal to Lake Michigan ports After carrying 122 cargoes totaling 1,210,000 tons in 1981,she was laid up for the last time on 12/7 in Toledo. The Holloway was sold for scrap in 1985. She was towed out of Toledo on 8/20/86, towed down the Welland Canal on 8/26/86, departed Quebec in a double tow with the Philip D. Block on 9/1/86, and arrived at Recife, Brazil on 10/24/86 for scrapping. Lake freighters, or Lakers, are bulk carrier vessels that ply the Great Lakes. These vessels are traditionally called boats, even though they classify as ships. In the mid-20th century, 300 lakers worked the Lakes but by the early 21st century, there were fewer than 140 active lakers. In film, the W.W. Holloway (since scrapped) is famous for being the lake freighter that the Blues Brothers jump their 1974 Dodge over when Elwood jumps the open 95th Street Draw Bridge. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F11_25_01
Subjects: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga River (Ohio); Freight and freightage--Ohio; Lake Freighters; Blues Brothers (Motion picture)
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Original description reads: "South of the harbor along the Cuyahoga river." The Terminal Tower looms over downtown Cleveland in the background as cargo ships make use of the Cuyahoga River in the forefront. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F11_32_01
Subjects: Transportation--Cuyahoga River (Ohio); Cleveland (Ohio)--Buildings, structure, etc.
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)