Description: Caption reads: "Religious Festival in Little Italy, Cleveland." A crowd is seen gathered before the Church of the Holy Rosary, a Roman Catholic church at Mayfield Road and Coltman Avenue in Cleveland's "Little Italy" neighborhood, for the Feast of the Assumption procession. This procession occurs each year on August 15th, following a mass celebrating the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. A Virgin Mary statue is carried in the procession and one dollar bills are pinned to her robe by the faithful. The Feast of the Assumption celebration takes place in mid-August and is one of Cleveland's longest-running festivals. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F08_001_001
Subjects: Roman Catholic Church; Processions; Little Italy (Cleveland, Ohio); Religious festivals
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "'Religious Festival in Little Italy, Cleveland' A crowd is seen gathered before the Church of the Holy Rosary, a Roman Catholic church at Mayfield Road and Coltman Avenue in Cleveland's "Little Italy" neighborhood, for the Feast of the Assumption procession. This procession occurs each year on August 15th, following a mass celebrating the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. A Virgin Mary statue is carried in the procession and one dollar bills are pinned to her robe by the faithful. The Feast of the Assumption celebration takes place in mid-August and is one of Cleveland's longest-running festivals. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F10_022_001
Subjects: Roman Catholic Church; Processions; Little Italy (Cleveland, Ohio); Religious festivals
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Feast of Assumption procession held on Mayfield Road in Cleveland, Ohio. A crowd is seen gathered before the Church of the Holy Rosary, a Roman Catholic church at Mayfield Road and Coltman Avenue in Cleveland's "Little Italy" neighborhood, for the Feast of the Assumption procession. This procession occurs each year on August 15th, following a mass celebrating the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. A Virgin Mary statue is carried in the procession and one dollar bills are pinned to her robe by the faithful. The Feast of the Assumption celebration takes place in mid-August and is one of Cleveland's longest-running festivals. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F11_06_01
Subjects: Roman Catholic Church; Processions; Little Italy (Cleveland, Ohio); Religious festivals
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Feast of Assumption (5) (Italian Fiesta) Mayfield Road Cleveland Ohio A crowd is seen gathered before the Church of the Holy Rosary, a Roman Catholic church at Mayfield Road and Coltman Avenue in Cleveland's "Little Italy" neighborhood, for the Feast of the Assumption procession. This procession occurs each year on August 15th, following a mass celebrating the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. A Virgin Mary statue is carried in the procession and one dollar bills are pinned to her robe by the faithful. The Feast of the Assumption celebration takes place in mid-August and is one of Cleveland's longest-running festivals. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F08_003_001
Subjects: Cleveland (Ohio); Religious festivals; Roman Catholic Church; Processions; Little Italy (Cleveland, Ohio)
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Dated ca. 1935-1940, this photograph shows the Burying the Fiddle ceremony, a Hungarian custom observed at the beginning of Lent, in Cleveland, Ohio. 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_B11F08_007_001
Subjects: Cleveland (Ohio); Religious festivals; Social life and customs; Religion in Ohio
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)