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A huge fire struck the Eberhard Manufacturing Company, located at 2734 Tennyson Avenue, on April 5, 1956. The fire caused almost $500,000 damage and destroyed a one story factory building that housed heat-treating equipment. As a result of the…

Ward 16 Councilman Jack P. Russell, a Hungarian-American from the Buckeye Road area, gets a musical send-off at Cleveland Hopkins Airport from Hungarian violinsts as he prepares to fly to Budapest, the capital of Hungary, in 1962.

Photograph shows Ward 16 Councilman Jack P. Russell, who at the time in 1962 was also City Council President, handing out literature in support of a levy to some of his constituents. Note that his constituents included both White and…

Photograph of Jack P. Russell, then Councilman from Ward 16, shoveling snow in the winter of 1954 in front of his business and political headquarters down the street from St. Elizabeth of Hungary Church at 8916 Buckeye Road.

National Malleable & Castings Company Workers on strike in 1942. Note that many of the workers on strike are White females and African-Americans. This was one of the many workers' strikes occurring in the Buckeye Road area during World War II.

In 1964, the National Castings Company, the successor to the National Malleable and Castings Company, closed its foundry at 10600 Quincy Avenue, causing almost 900 Cleveland workers to enter the ranks of the unemployed. Here, several of those…

Two African-American employees of National Malleable and Steel Castings Company, working in the foundry at 10600 Quincy in 1943.

Sketch of the factory at the National Malleable Castings Company, located at East 79th Street and Platt Avenue, showing how it looked in the late 19th century. The company moved its factory and offices to a larger site at the corner of Woodhill and…

Portion of the City of Cleveland 1991 Proposed Land Use Plan, showing the City's plan for the Lower Buckeye Road area. Much like the 1949 City Plan, the City plans for industrial development in this area of the City. Notable is that, in 1991, there…

This portion of the City of Cleveland's General City Plan of 1949 shows the City's desire to see industrial development only in the Lower Buckeye Road area within the triangle formed by the Nickel Plate and Short Line Railroads to the west and east…