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: 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: 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: "Dead End in Cleveland. The River front along the Cuyahoga River. (This is a detail enlarged from a more general view.)" Cleveland was the first settlement founded in the Connecticut Western Reserve by the Connecticut Land Company. It was named after General Moses Cleaveland, an investor in the company who led the survey of its land within the Western Reserve. The town was located along the eastern bank of the Cuyahoga River. During the late nineteenth century, Cleveland became an important industrial city, since it was located along numerous transportation routes as well as near large deposits of coal and iron ore. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F18_024_001
Subjects: Cuyahoga River (Ohio); Waterfronts.
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)
 

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: Original description reads: "Along the Cuyahoga. The Cuyahoga River near Lake Erie. White buildings in center background are new Coast Guard Station. Note freighter coming up the river. Taken from Superior Avenue Bridge." The bridge in the photograph is the Main Avenue (Harold H. Burton Memorial) Bridge, completed in 1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F11_47_01
Subjects: Cuyahoga River (Ohio); Bridges--Ohio--Cleveland
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "The Voage Ends at Cleveland Ore Dock. Cleveland Cliffs Co. S. S. Marquette being warped up to dock to unload cargo of ore in Cuyahoga River dock. Project Photographer: Frank Jaffa, 1940. District #4, Cleveland. File Negative #215. Ore carrier being warped up to Cleveland on dock." The Cleveland Cliffs Company began in November of 1847. The company was started when fifteen men from Cleveland were interested in exploring the vast iron ore deposits on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. They created the Cleveland Iron Mining Co., which was founded in Michigan in 1850 and later reorganized in Ohio after 3 years. Samuel Livingston Mather was the leading force for the business in its first 50 years. It was in 1855 that the company sent the first cargo of ore through the Sault Ste. Marie canal in 1855. The company built railroads and docks in that area and, in 1869, started its own fleet of ore carriers, which were shipping 200,000 tons of ore annually by 1880. As surface mining was depleted in the 1880s, the company developed an underground mining system. Samuel L. Mather wanted merge Cleveland Iron with its competitor, the Iron Cliffs Co., but died before the deal was completed in 1891. It was after Mather’s died that his youngest son, WM. G. Mather, became president of the newly formed Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F11_18_01
Subjects: Cuyahoga River (Ohio); Steamboats; Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company; Cargo Ships; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Nets Along the Cuyahoga. Fish nets reeled along the dock. Taken from Superior High Level Bridge, Cleveland. District #4, Cleveland, Ohio. Photograph by: John Steinke, 1940." Fishing nets are pictured reeled along the dock of the Cuyahoga River. Photograph is taken looking down from the Superior High Level Bridge. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F11_20_01
Subjects: Cuyahoga River (Ohio); Fishing nets
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Plebeians of the River. Taken from the High Level Bridge. Barges and tugs on the Cuyahoga River, Cleveland. District #4, Cleveland. Photographer: John Steinko, 1940." This photograph shows a Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. boat hauling cargo long the Cuyahoga River. Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company is an American company providing construction services in dredging and land reclamation, currently the largest such provider in the United States. GLD&D operates primarily in the United States but conducts one-quarter of its business overseas. It is currently based in Oak Brook, Illinois. The company was founded in 1890 as the partnership of William A. Lydon & Fred C. Drews and was named Lydon & Drews dredging company. Early projects included the shoreline structures for the Chicago's Columbian Exposition. The company soon had satellite operations throughout the Great Lakes. It was renamed the Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company (GLD&D) in 1905. Between 1900 and 1950, GLD&D undertook major projects such as the Sabin Lock, straightening of the Chicago River west of the Chicago Loop, the Michigan Avenue Bridge, foundation landfill and reclamation of the area where the Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, Soldier Field, Meigs Field and Field Museum of Natural History stand today in Chicago and harbor work for the Naval Station Great Lakes. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F08_15_01
Subjects: Cuyahoga River (Ohio); Boats and boating--Ohio; Cargo ships; Transportation--Ohio--History.; Rivers; Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
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)