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African Americans (Graphic)

Several scenes of African Americans at work and in everyday life. Includes a group portrait of several hundred men and women at the Cleveland Association of the Colored Men’s Charity Ball in 1914, women workers at the Xenia Machine Works, Black Forest neighborhood club assisting at a mobile x-ray unit, and others.

African Americans in Cleveland

Books and documents on the history of Cleveland and greater Cleveland, including pictorial works of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, general and specialized histories, guides to street name changes and early volumes of the weekly publication Cleveland Town Topics.

Agora Cleveland Records and Photographs

Henry “Hank” LoConti, started the Agora in 1966 and it operated primarily as a dance club for a number of years. The organization grew and evolved over the 1970s and 1980s to focus more on concerts and it became a prominent player in the world of professional music, booking acts that revitalized the rock’n’roll genre and created the core for…

Alexander Martin Family Photographs 

The Alexander Martin family was a prominent African-American family in Cleveland, Ohio. Alexander H. Martin Sr. graduated with a law degree from Western Reserve University in 1897, one of the first African Americans to do so. Martin had a long career as an attorney and was active in Cleveland city politics. His wife, Mary Brown Martin, was a teacher and…

Allen E. Cole Photographs 

This collection of Cleveland images represents photographs dating from the late nineteenth century through the 1960s. Included are historic views of Cleveland neighborhoods, downtown, and industrial areas. Of special interest are 1930s industrial scenes by Arthur Gray, and 1950s photos of African-American life in the Scovill neighborhood by award-winning photographer Jasper Wood. A series of photographs of the Hough neighborhood…

Bertha Blue Family Photographs 

Bertha Blue (ca. 1877-1963) was a member of a well-known African-American family in Cleveland, Ohio. She was a teacher at the Murray Hill Elementary School located in Little Italy, an Italian immigrant neighborhood on Cleveland’s East side, from 1903 to 1947. The collection consists of individual and group portraits of Bertha Blue, her daughter Jane Darr, Welcome T. Blue, Sr.,…

Birth of Modern Cleveland Photographs 

The collection consists of copy photographs for illustrations used in the book The Birth of Modern Cleveland, 1865-1930, edited by Thomas F. Campbell and Edward M. Miggins and published by the Western Reserve Historical Society in 1988. Portraits include Garrett Morgan, Charles Brush, Alexander Winton, Tom L. Johnson, Joseph Edwards, Nellie Santo Lanese, and Frederick Kohler. Subjects and views include…

Black Folk Art in Cleveland Photographs 

The Black Folk Art in Cleveland exhibition was presented in 1984 by the Mather Gallery of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. The exhibit was the result of a search for Cleveland’s African-American folk artists and the works created by them. It featured folk artists Peggy Davenport, Reverend Albert Wagner, Ruby Hall, Helen Dobbins, Jim Moss, Mickey Towns, Benjamin Collins,…