Description: Original description reads: "General view, Nela Park (National Electric Lamp Association of the General Electric Co.) Taylor Rd. south of Euclid Ave., East Cleveland, Ohio." Nela Park was established in 1911 when General Electric bought an abandoned vineyard seven miles from Cleveland in what was then the rural countryside. The facility is named for the Cleveland company (National Electric Lamp Company) that was acquired by GE in 1900 in an effort to standardize the size of light bulb bases. Nela Park was designated a National Historic Place in 1975. Presently, Nela Park is the world headquarters for General Electric's Lighting Division, one of the company's seven divisions. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F04_024_001
Subjects: Electric industries--Ohio--Cleveland; General Electric Company; Cleveland (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.;
Places: East Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows the cargo ships used to transport primarily iron ore and coal across Lake Erie, to the port of Cleveland. The ship further back is having its cargo unloaded by a specialized unloader developed for unloading ores at docks (the Hulett iron-ore unloader). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F11_41_01
Subjects: Ores--Transportation; Cargo ships; Industries--Ohio; Cargo Ships; Cleveland (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Ford Motor" The building in this photograph is most likely the Ford Motor Company Cleveland Plant, located at 11610 Euclid Avenue, though it looks slightly different. It was the only plant in Ohio, however, which produced the Ford Model T, as seen in the photograph. This building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. In 1981, The Cleveland Institute of Art (founded in 1882) purchased the building and renovated it, renaming it the Joseph McCullough Center for the Visual Arts. The Ford Motor Company, usually associated with Detroit, Michigan, opened an automobile plant in Cleveland to manufacture Model T's during the 1910s. During the 1930s, the company opened several other plants in northeastern Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F02_004_001
Subjects: Industries--Ohio--Cleveland; Cleveland (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Ford Motor Company; Ford Motor Company--Products--1890-1960; Ford Model T automobile; National Register of Historic Places
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: 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: 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)