Cleveland Square Sanitary Fair photograph   Save
Louis Baus Collection
Description: Photograph of Cleveland Square (now known as Public Square) during a Sanitary Fair held February 22, 1864, from the collection of Louis Baus. Sanitary Fairs were events held by branches of the U.S. Sanitary Commission to raise money for sick and wounded soldiers during the Civil War. Baus, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, was born in 1875. He began his career as a professional photographer doing studio work before becoming a staff photographer for the Cleveland Advocate in 1911. Baus worked for the paper, which was later purchased by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, for thirty-eight years until his death in 1949. He was also an avid collector of historic photographs. The Louis Baus Collection consists of over one thousand photographs mounted in eleven albums, showing historic Cleveland, the village of Zoar and Ohio covered bridges and mills. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P223_B01_A02_108
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Soldiers--Ohio; squares (open spaces);
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)