Annals of Cleveland: A Depression-Era Project of the WPA
Annals of Cleveland staff summarized and indexed material in order to preserve and make readily accessible the detailed record of a city's life and culture as contained in its newspapers. The project provided jobs for unemployed white-collar workers during the Depression of the 1930s and created an important record of early life and thought in the city of Cleveland from 1818-1935.

Cleveland Press Collection
This archival collection includes hundreds of thousands of clippings and photographs from the former editorial library, or "morgue," of the Cleveland Press, which was donated to the Cleveland State University Library in 1984 by the newspaper's owner, Joseph E. Cole. The last of Cleveland's daily afternoon newspapers, The Cleveland Press was published from 1878 until 1982.

d.a. levy Collection
d.a. levy was a major literary and underground figure in Cleveland's emerging poetry and small and alternative press scene from the early 1960s through his untimely death in 1968. A poet, artist, and publisher, levy's work documenting his love-hate relationship with the city and its politics offers a unique political & social perspective of Cleveland during the 1960s. This growing collection includes reprints and original works of his textual and visual art, along with photographs and newspaper clippings - a digital initiative in keeping with levy's vision of free thought and speech and his desire to create and distribute his work freely.

Roldo Bartimole - Point of View
Cleveland Magazine called him "the poor man's Tom Paine". John Wicklein in the April 1, 1993 issue of Progressive referred to him as "Cleveland's Gadfly". Whether you consider him to be Cleveland's conscience or "Cleveland's curmudgeon", from 1968 to 2000 iconoclastic journalist, Roldo Bartimole, rocked Cleveland's political boat with his biweekly newsletter, Point of View.

Tony Mastroianni Review Collection
A growing collection of 20 years' worth of local reviews of theater, film, and music, as well as interviews with celebrities passing through Cleveland.