Arab-Americans and their Communities of Cleveland
by Mary Haddad Macron
with an introduction by Danny Thomas
"We are hopeful...that during these difficult times we may be able to contribute to a better understanding of the Arab world, of their contributions to world civilizations, and their impact on the development of the American nation in general and Cleveland in particular."

Beechwood: The Book
by Jeffrey Morris
"The city fathers have been called visionaries. The city has been studied by architects, planners, engineers and the like from all over the country. What is it about Beachwood that has attracted so much attention? There is something magical that has taken place over the last 80 years in Beachwood and Jeffrey Morris has finally documented the historical blueprint from which we can study and learn."

Cleveland Cultural Gardens Collection
The Cleveland Cultural Gardens, extending along East Blvd. & Martin Luther King Blvd. in Cleveland's University Circle area, is a unique collection of landscaped, themed gardens each representing a different ethnic group/organization in Cleveland. The gardens represent many of the cultural backgrounds of Cleveland's diverse population.

Cleveland, Ohio Along the Nickel Plate Road
In 1926 the New York, Chicago, & St. Louis Railway (Nickel Plate or NKP) undertook a grade elimination project along its right-of-way in Cleveland. At the start of the project the NKP took a series of photographs that documented the conditions both along its right-of-way and the adjacent neighborhoods. In 1930 the NKP produced another series of photographs, this time along its right-of-way through Lakewood, Ohio, a western suburb of Cleveland. Each series of images form a rare photographic cross-section of a major American metropolitan area in the mid-1920's and early 1930's.

*Nickel Plate Road is a registered trademark of the Nickel Plate Road Historical & Technical Society, Inc.

Ethnic Women of Cleveland
In 1986, Dr. Jeanette Tuve of Cleveland State University conducted a series of interviews with 29 women of eastern European birth or heritage. Many of these conversations were with women who remembered World War II or the Great Depression. The project focused on their experiences building homes and communities in America while retaining their ethnic traditions.

German Americans of Cleveland
Over 140 images from our Special Collections and links to a variety of resources from other institutions.

One of a series of Cleveland Memory collections exploring the ethnic influences that helped shape the history and development of Cleveland.

The Ginney Block: Reminiscences of an Italian-American Dead-end Street Kid
by Edward D'Alessandro
Long before Jacobs Field, the area just south of downtown was the site of the Haymarket district, the Central Market and parts of the Big Italy neighborhood. Edward D'Alessandro lived in "the Ginney Block," an Italian immigrant apartment building, until the new Cleveland Union Terminal construction project demolished it in 1928.

The Greater Cleveland Ethnographic Museum
The Greater Cleveland Ethnographic Museum was established in 1975 to preserve the traditions and histories of Cleveland's ethnic communities. Although the museum closed in 1981, this digital collection seeks to highlight some of its artifacts, both created and collected through the efforts of the museum.

Hungarian Americans and Their Communities of Cleveland
by Susan M. Papp
with an Introduction by Joe Esterhas
Cleveland was at one time the city with the second largest population of Hungarians in the world (after Budapest). This history of the Cleveland Hungarian community outlines within a historical context how and why Cleveland became such a large Hungarian center and the nature of the ethnocultural community which existed and still exists. This study is the first comprehensive history of this community in Cleveland.

Hungarian Americans of Cleveland
Cleveland's Hungarian community is the second largest Hungarian group in the world, second only to Budapest, Hungary. Currently, there are over 130,000 Hungarian-Americans in the Cleveland area. This site collecting resources related to Hungarian-American history and culture is a tribute to all the struggles, sacrifices and accomplishments of Hungarian-Americans.

One of a series of Cleveland Memory collections exploring the ethnic influences that helped shape the history and development of Cleveland, this site is a link between the resources of the Cleveland State University Library and the collection of Cleveland Hungarian Heritage Museum, and is a collaboration between the two institutions..

Irish Americans and their Communities of Cleveland
by Nelson J. Callahan & William F. Hickey
with an Introduction by Andrew M. Greeley
The history of Cleveland is intimately connected with the settlement of the Irish immigrants. Their struggle for survival in the early days, their social, political and economic upward movement as well as their impact on the growth of Cleveland is vividly portrayed in this monograph by two distinguished Clevelanders.

Irish Americans of Cleveland
Over 200 images from our Special Collections, along with a sketch of Irish American life with excerpts from The Irish Americans and Their Communities of Cleveland by Nelson J. Callahan and William F. Hickey. Links to websites of contemporary Irish American organizations and culture will help acquaint you with Irish Americans today. And finally, to help you grab a piece of the past, we've selected artifacts found in an archaeological dig at the "Angle", or the old Irishtown Bend neighborhood.

First of a series of Cleveland Memory collections exploring the ethnic influences that helped shape the history and development of Cleveland.

Italian Americans and their Communities of Cleveland
by Gene P. Veronesi
The essays included in this monograph emphasize Italian contributions to the human scientific and artistic heritage, review the painful process of immigration and settlement, they give special attention to the Italian-American community of Cleveland: to its neighborhoods, social and cultural activities as well as to its contributions to the growth of the greater Cleveland area.

Notable Blacks of Cleveland
Photographs of hundreds of individuals who made a significant contribution beyond their own personal and family lives to the history and development of Cleveland. Some of these people are or were famous, but many more have touched the lives of many others in relative anonymity.

Photographs from the Berea Children's Home 100 photographs from the Berea Children's Home and Berea Historical Society documenting the home's first 100 years of caring for neglected, dependent and abandoned children.

Polish Americans and Their Communities of Cleveland
by John J. Grabowski, Judith Zielinski-Zak, Alice Boberg, & Ralph Wroblewski
with an Introduction by Dr. Jerzy J. Maciuszko
This 3-part monograph by four different authors covers Polish history and culture, immigration to America, and the Polish community of Cleveland.

Postcards of Cleveland
Dr. Walter C. Leedy, Jr. began his comprehensive collection of Cleveland postcards, now numbering nearly 8,000 in earnest in 1989. Leedy realized the unique value picture postcards could have to him as an architectural historian, permitting him to observe the changing urban environment, or to visually recreate what a neighborhood looked like. As Leedy puts it, "I don't really collect postcards-I collect images of life, moments in time. Nostalgia glues people to postcards. There is something intimate and direct about them. As an art historian, I think of postcards as a vehicle to introduce art to the millions-people aren't intimidated by postcards the way they might be by paintings or other "fine" art."

Yesterday's Lakewood
Situated between Cleveland to the east and the Rocky River on the west, Lakewood, Ohio occupies 5.6 square miles along the southern shore of Lake Erie. Named for its natural setting along the lake, Lakewood's development was closely tied with that of Cleveland. This site contains images dating between 1909 and the building of the Rocky River Bridge through the early 1980's.

Their Paths Are Peace
by Clara Lederer
"In Rockefeller Parkway, along the steep hillsides, between the upper and lower driveways of the East Boulevard, cling the Cleveland Cultural Gardens, with individual units or links, each emblazoning a distinct message of cultural aspiration each singing a song of the far away homeland of a people that is building anew and in that process of contributing of its own inner cultural and spiritual wealth."