Great Lakes Industrial History Center
The Great Lakes Industrial History Center provides a resource where the public can gain an appreciation for the efforts and accomplishments of business and industry which led to the opening of the Great Lakes and the industrial development of adjacent regions and where visitors are inspired to continue the pursuit of inventiveness, ingenuity, and excellence.

The collections available through the Great Lakes Industrial History Center include personal and company records, diaries and other keepsakes of the visionaries and leaders who took enormous risks to create industrial development in the Great Lakes region. They fostered a rich, diverse quality of life that contributed to the global industrial strength of North America.

These collections provide insight not to be found elsewhere. The lessons in these previously private, closely held manuscripts are particularly important in studies of the human qualities of leadership in business, industry, government and cultural organizations.

The Center strives, in addition, to make clear the ongoing significance of the Great Lakes themselves by documenting their discovery by French explorers, their attraction and development as a vital transportation network, and their continuing importance in the production and shipping of much of North America's industrial output.

The collections of the Great Lakes Industrial History Center are open to the public at the library of Cleveland State University, a comprehensive, state-assisted institution in Cleveland, Ohio. The Great Lakes Industrial History Center is also linked electronically to other institutions, museums, societies and organizations that note the historical and industrial contributions of the visionaries and the industries of the Great Lakes region.

Sites Created and/or Maintained by The Great Lakes Industrial History Center

• Bibliography of Great Lakes Industry Sources (Part of the Cleveland Digital Library)

• The Great Lakes Industrial History Collection Home Page

• Hulett Automatic Ore Unloader Home Page

• 1910 History Of The Iron Ore Trade

• Photographs from the Cleveland Press Collection used by the Great Lakes Industrial History Center

• Ports and Harbors Along Ohio's North Coast

• 3-D and Stereoview Images of Industrial Activity on the Great Lakes

  Other Sites of Great Lakes Interest on the WWW

• Association for Great Lakes Maritime History

• Charts of the Great Lakes

• GLIMR: Great Lakes Information Management Resource (Canada)

• Historical Collections of the Great Lakes

• Lake Erie Water Level

• The Steamship William G. Mather Museum

• Stereoscopic Images of Cleveland in 3-D