Additional materials are available on this subject by request.

Contact special.collections@csuohio.edu for more information.

Recommended Reading

• Encyclopedia of Cleveland History entry
• Books in Special Collections (includes any e-books)
  • Morris, Jeff. Haymarket to the Heights: The Movement of Cleveland's Orthodox Synagogues From Their Initial Meeting Places to the Heights
  • A Ghetto Takes Shape: Black Cleveland, 1870-1930 / Kenneth L. Kusmer

Photographs

• Cleveland Memory Project photos of Central/Big Italy

Maps & Data

• ESRI's historic maps showing Big Italy and Central (note layers, by date)
• Historical Locations in the Central Neighborhood
• Cleveland City Planning Commission:
  • Neighborhood Data Book: Central and Industrial Valley (1984)
  • Connect Cleveland 2020 Plan: District 3: Big Italy was in today's Central and  Industrial Valley districts*
• Cleveland City Neighborhood Maps Before 2012
• Neighborhood Link: Central District Fact Sheet

* "Districts" as used here are clusters of Statistical Planning Areas (SPA), which incorporate different historic neighborhoods, but borders vary.

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ALSO: See tabs on different types of resources (maps, newspapers, etc.) on the Local History Guide.

Additional Special Collections materials (contact us at special.collections@csuohio.edu to schedule an appointment)

• Ed Miggins Collection - Includes research and other materials on immigrant history and Cleveland neighborhoods .

Special Collections Librarian Bill Barrow, who created this guide, has retired as of mid-August 2021.

Please use this form or contact us at special.collections@csuohio.edu for questions about local history resources
or to schedule a visit or a consultation.