Featured Item
Picketers outside of Lake Erie Pollution Enforcement Conference in Cleveland, June 1968
Caption: "' Pollution Picketed' - Citizens For Clean Air and Water picketed in front of the Pick-Carter Hotel where the Lake Erie Pollution…
Featured Collection
Western Reserve Historical Society collections
Items in this collection were generously shared by the Western Reserve Historical Society for use in the Constructing, Consuming, and Conserving America project, a Teaching American History workshop series. All items were processed and cataloged by graduate students from the CSU Department of History and public school teachers from throughout Northeast Ohio.
Featured Exhibit
Great Lakes Exposition 1936-1937
The Great Depression of 1929 left many with a need to reinvent and reinvestin their communities using the resources available to them. Cleveland jumped on the bandwagon to uplift itself both economically and emotionally with the development of the Great Lakes Exposition in 1936. What was once the city dump located next to the Municipal Stadium on the lakefront became a part of the impressive, 135 acre exhibit that stretched from Public Square to the Stadium and continuedas far as East 22nd
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