Description: Reverse reads "Elyria mill?" This interior photograph shows a mill most likely located in Elyria, Ohio. Two workers are pictured in the foreground of the image. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F09_009_1
Subjects: Factories; Manufacturing industries--Ohio; Labor--Ohio; Factory workers
Places: Elyria (Ohio); Lorain 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: 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: 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)
 

Description: Photomechanical reproduction of a stereograph depicting two workers building a rubber tire for an automobile at a factory in Akron, Ohio. The original stereograph was published by the Keystone View Company, and the reproduction was made by Stereo Classic Studios. Numerous rubber companies operated in or near Akron during the late 19th Century, leading the city to be known as the "Rubber Capital of the World." Among the large-scale rubber producers to have factories in the area were the B.F. Goodrich Company, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, and the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company. The advent of the bicycle and the automobile led to great success for companies in the rubber industry. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02736
Subjects: Rubber industry workers--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business; Ohio Economy--Economy--Labor; Manufacturing industries--Ohio
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Quaker Oats Bldg. Akron, O. District 6 files." In 1891 the Schumacher interests, which had suffered a $1 million dollar fire in 1886 but had recovered by means of a merger, incorporated as the American Cereal Company, absorbed other units, including the Quaker Oats Mills in Ravenna, and adopted 'Quaker Oats' as a trade mark. The Quaker Oats Company Plant was located at the southwest corner of Mill and Howard Streets. A second plant, housed in a 10-story brick building at Mill Street and South Broadway, receives the grain, which was washed and then whisked through underground tubes beneath three downtown streets to the Howard Street plant, where it was processed and packed. The company's expansion program, under way in 1939, included the construction of an elevator with a capacity of 400, 000 bushels. The Howard Street plant stood on the site of the Old Stone Mill, completed in 1833 and operated by power from a race that brought water from the Little Cuyahoga River. Quaker Oats built 36 grain silos in 1932. Each silo was 120 feet tall and 24 feet in diameter, and together they housed 1, 500, 000 bushels of grain. Quaker Oats terminated production in Akron in 1970. The facility was repurposed in March 1973, and reopened 1 April 1975 with four shops and an ice cream parlor. The entire complex is listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The silos were converted into a Hilton Hotel which opened in 1980. Later it became a Crowne Plaza hotel. The hotel is built into the suite of silos and is famed for its 196 completely round rooms. In mid-June 2007 the University of Akron bought the complex for $22, 679, 000 with plans to convert it into student housing and office space. The university planned to house more than 400 students in the converted hotel starting with the 2008 spring semester. As of January 2008, the university has begun to use the upper floors of the hotel as a residence hall. Under contract with UA, RDA Management of Fairlawn will operate 95 hotel rooms on the four bottom floors of the silos for the next two years. The university agreed to keep those rooms available to the public for that period to give the city an opportunity to secure more hotel space for downtown visitors and tourists. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F03_002_001
Subjects: Business and Labor; Factories; Industries--Ohio--Akron; Quaker Oats Company; National Register of Historic Places
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: Building project of the Works Progress Administration. More information needed. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F05_028_001
Subjects: Industries; Labor; New Deal; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Works Progress Administration; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Building project of the Works Progress Administration. More information needed. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F05_036_001
Subjects: Industries; Labor; New Deal; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Works Progress Administration; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Ohio