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Samuel Mather shown here in Cuba was one of two sons to Samuel Livingston Mather who was one of the founding members of the Cleveland Iron Mining Company. Samuel would would work for his father for a while then left to start the rival ming company…

One of the first steel hull ships in the Cleveland-Cliffs fleet the Pontiac.

This image of the 1936 Great Lakes Exposition grounds is from the official souvenir book. The expo ran for two seasons, 1936 and 1937, along the Lake Erie shoreline just north of downtown Cleveland.

A WPA Poster promoting Lakeview Terrace

Greenbelt, Maryland, was one of the three communities constructed by the Suburban Division of the Resettlement Administration during the 1930.

The Great Lakes Exposition was held in Cleveland from 1936 to 1937 and, among the many exhibitions, there was this display for the New Deal era Resettlement Administration. Among the accomplishments of this agency was the construction of three…

This diagram from "Garden Cities of To-morrow" by Ebenezer Howard, published in 1902, with its buildings centered around a central park and traffic kept to the periphery heavily influenced the greenbelt communities constructed by the federal…

"A busy street in Belgrade, Serbia's Capital" --photo verso.

"Belgrade: This modern skyscraper of Belgrade was damaged by bombing but is virtually intact" --photo verso.