CSU’s Cleveland Memory Project Offers Massive Online Local History Collection

If you want to immerse yourself in Cleveland’s past, there’s no better place to do so than at the Cleveland Memory Project, housed at Cleveland State University’s Michael Schwarz Library, which as founded in 2002.

And no, you don’t have to physically go there to browse your favorite local topic whether it’s crime, churches, immigrants, architecture, politics, labor or old amusement parks such as Luna Park, pictured above, which existed from 1905-1929, and given its short lifespan, is much less known than Euclid Beach Park.

Its free searchable online collection includes photos, videos, sound recordings, oral histories, old articles and documents of various types. There’s a collection of 8,000 old postcards donated by a former CSU art professor who collected them, as well as independent investigative journalist Roldo Bartimole’s Point of View newsletters, documenting corruption in high places in Cleveland in the 70s, 80s and 90s, all of which you can check out online.

The Cleveland Memory Project also includes the photo archives of the former Cleveland Press, which folded in 1982, a collection of more than 500,000 photos, and the Cleveland Union Terminal Collection, documenting the construction of Terminal Tower in the 1920s, with more than 6,000 photos.

Log on and search for your own personal memory, whether it’s that childhood trek to Euclid Beach Park right before it closed in 1969 or your Christmas visit downtown to look at the magical department store windows. Or learn what happened before you were born, when the Indians played at League Park, Eliot Ness was trying to solve the Torso Murders, and Cleveland Heights was nothing but dairy farms. It’s hours of absorbing fun! Go here to get started.

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2121 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44115

2121 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44115

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One Response to “CSU’s Cleveland Memory Project Offers Massive Online Local History Collection”

  1. Brenda Latham

    Love anything about Cleveland

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