During the New Deal Era, workers of Annals of Cleveland staff summarized and indexed material from early Cleveland newspapers, beginning with the inaugural issue of the city’s first paper, the July 31, 1818 Cleaveland Gazette and Commercial Register. The project provided jobs for unemployed white-collar workers during the Depression of the 1930s and created an important record of early life and thought in the city of Cleveland.
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Yearly Digests of Cleveland Papers 1818-1877
- Volume 1: 1818-1820
- Volumes 2-5: 1821-1822
- Volumes 6-8: 1823-1825
- Volumes 9-11: 1826-1828
- Volumes 12-14: 1829-1831
- Volumes 15-17: 1832-1834
- Volumes 18-19: 1835 & 1836
- Volume 20: 1837
- Volume 21: 1838
- Volume 22: 1839
- Volume 23: 1840
- Volume 24: 1841
- Volume 25: 1842
- Volumes 26-27: 1843 & 1844
- Volume 28: 1845
- Volume 29: 1846
- Volume 30: 1847
- Volume 31: 1848
- Volume 32: 1849
- Volume 33: 1850
- Volume 34: 1851
- Volume 35: 1852
- Volume 36: 1853
- Volume 37: 1854
- Volume 38: 1855
- Volume 39: 1856
- Volume 40: 1857
- Volume 41: 1858
- Volume 42: 1859
- Volume 43: 1860
- Volume 44: 1861
- Volume 45: 1862
- Volume 46: 1863
- Volume 47: 1864
- Volume 48: 1865
- Volume 49: 1866
- Volume 50: 1867
- Volume 51: 1868
- Volume 52: 1869
- Volume 53: 1870
- Volume 54: 1871
- Volume 55: 1872
- Volume 56: 1873
- Volume 57: 1874
- Volume 58: 1875
- Volume 59, part 1 number 1: 1876
- Volume 59, part 1 number 2: 1876
Foreign Language Newspaper Series:
- Volume 1: Slovak, Carpatho-Russian, Romanian, Czech; 1938
- Volume 2: Italian, German; 1938
- Volume 3: Lithuanian, Jewish; 1938
- Volume 4: Hungarian, Polish; 1891-1892
- Volume 5: Slovenian; 1937
Cleveland Court Record Series, 1837-1877:
- Volume 1-2: 1837-57
- Volume 3-4: 1858-66
- Volume 5-6: 1867-69
- Volume 7-8: 1870-72
- Volume 9-10: 1873-77