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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is a beautiful book; I even liked the writeups on the endflaps of the jacket: "Cleveland is an American city quintessentially founded upon change...." It comes to us by way of Turner Publishing in Nashville. What struck both Gloria and me when we first opened it was that it featured the Breuer Tower and a picture of Marcel Breuer right in the beginning, opposite the Acknowledgments. This gesture of architectural advocacy did not go unnoticed and will not go unappreciated in our circles.The authors, Ronald Burdick and Margaret Baughman, have done a great job of compiling a photographic history of my hometown, where both sides of my family came from Germany, Bohemia, and Ireland to find new opportunities between the Civil War and the First World War. The book spans the period 1850 to 1979, and I would imagine that the editorial assumption here is that anything from 1980 onwards qualifies as current events. What was especially useful to me was defining the eras: Village to City, Cleveland's "Golden Era," Economic Growth/The Great Depression/World War II, and The City [as it] Deals with Adversity.
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Historic Photos of Cleveland - Ronald L. Burdick
HISTORIC PHOTOS OF
CLEVELAND
TEXT AND CAPTIONS BY RONALD L. BURDICK AND MARGARET L. BAUGHMAN
A three-masted schooner rests moored on the Cuyahoga River in the year 1900. The early machinery in view was used for unloading ore, transported across the Great Lakes to Cleveland from Upper Michigan.
HISTORIC PHOTOS OF
CLEVELAND
Turner Publishing Company
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Nashville, Tennessee 37219
(615) 255-2665
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Historic Photos of Cleveland
Copyright © 2007 Turner Publishing Company
All rights reserved.
This book or any part thereof may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Library of Congress Control Number: 2006937087
ISBN: 1-59652-331-X
ISBN-13: 978-1-59652-331-9
Printed in China
09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16—0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PREFACE
VILLAGE TO CITY (1850–1869)
CLEVELAND’S GOLDEN ERA
(1870–1929)
ECONOMIC GROWTH, THE GREAT DEPRESSION, AND WORLD WAR II (1930–1949)
THE CITY DEALS WITH ADVERSITY (1950–1979)
NOTES ON THE PHOTOGRAPHS
Architect Marcel Breuer stands in front of Cleveland Trust Tower, the addition he designed to accommodate the Cleveland Trust Co. offices. The future of this building is uncertain.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This volume, Historic Photos of Cleveland, is the result of the cooperation and efforts of many individuals, organizations, and corporations. It is with great thanks that we acknowledge in particular the valuable contribution of the following for their generous support:
The Cleveland Public Library
The Library of Congress
The authors would like to thank the following individuals at Cleveland Public Library for their valuable contribution and assistance in making this work possible:
Colleagues
Jean M. Collins, Librarian, Literature Department
Amy E. Dawson, Librarian, Catalog Department
Maureen T. Mullin, Librarian, Head, Business, Economics, and Labor
Photograph Collection Staff
Venechor Boyd
Neletha Chambers
Elmer F. Turner III
PREFACE
Cleveland has thousands of historic photographs that reside in archives, both locally and nationally. This book began with the observation that, while those photographs are of great interest to many, they are not easily accessible. During a time when Cleveland is looking ahead and evaluating its future course, many people are asking, How do we treat the past? These decisions affect every aspect of the city—architecture, public spaces, commerce, infrastructure—and these, in turn, affect the way that people live their lives. This book seeks to provide easy access to a valuable, objective look into the history of Cleveland.
The power of photographs is that they are less subjective than words in their treatment of history. Although the photographer can make decisions regarding subject matter and how to capture and present it, photographs do not provide the breadth of interpretation that text does. For this reason, they offer an original, untainted perspective that allows the viewer to interpret and observe.
This project represents countless hours of review and research. The researchers and writers have reviewed thousands of photographs in numerous archives. We greatly appreciate the generous assistance of the individuals and organizations listed in the acknowledgments of this work, without whom this project could not have been completed.
The goal in publishing this work is to provide broader access to this set of extraordinary photographs that seek to inspire, provide perspective, and evoke insight that might assist people who are responsible for determining Cleveland’s future. In addition, the book seeks to preserve the past with adequate respect and reverence.
With the exception of touching up imperfections caused by the damage of time and cropping where necessary, no other changes have been made. The focus and clarity of many images is limited to the technology and the ability of the photographer at the time they were taken.
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