Municipal Building in Akron   Save
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Description: Caption reads: District #5, 902 City Bldg., Akron, Ohio, Ashland Co. It is not certain that the structure pictured is the 'City Building' of Akron also, Akron is in Summit County. After the infamous riot of 1900, Akron's City Building, which contained the prison, was rebuilt. The Works Progress Administration in Ohio as part of the Federal Writers Project used this address as a base of operation for the area. In the 1950s the address served as Headquarters of Civil Defense of Summit County. Photo taken in 1937 by the Works Progress Administration. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F10_001_001
Subjects: Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)