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A frontal view of the Public Library, taken in 1929, displays its granduer. Notably also, it stands as a monument obliterating--in its architecture and in its design--any evidence of the old Town Hall, as well as the livery and cigar stores and homes…

Voting booths line Superior Avenue, in this 1890 photo. But importantly also, in the backround, is The Spegerian Business College, which is noted as well in the 1894 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map

This is a map taken from a walking tour booklet that the Riverside Cemetery front office hands out. It has numbered points of interest that are found throughout the cemetery. Courtesy of Riverside Cemetery Association.

The aftermath of the fire that took down Coventry yard. Plain Dealer clipping 2-6-1978.

The William G. Mather Steamship unloads ore in Detroit, Michigan.

The William G. Mather being unloaded of iron ore. Look closely and you can see the operator inside the shovel window.

The reading room of The Cleveland Public Library in 1932 was crowded, and populated, in this picture, mainly by men.

Dr. J.P. Stevensman, League of Nations Librarian, and Cleveland Public Library Libraian, Linda Eastmen, visiting after his tour of the library. He was quoted as saying he believed the Cleveland Public Library as "the most significant of any visited."…

Women,front and center, in the reading room of the Cleveland Public library in 1957.