EXHIBITIONS

FORGOTTEN CLEVELAND

Maps are great for showing where buildings were located and the geographic relationships between elements of the built environment, but don't do a good job of showing what the elements actually looked like. Photos are powerful tools for show what things looked like, but aren't very good at explaining their geographic relationships.

This exhibition, "Forgotten Cleveland" attempts to combine the best of both media, linking the CUT's demolition photos, of the structures later pulled down, with it's wrecking maps of these cleared areas. As an example, one block of land behind present-day West Side Market is used to demonstrate how maps and photographs can work together to increase our understanding of the past and virtually reconstruct a vanished streetscape.

C.U.T. CONSTRUCTION PROJECT

These are the first of over 6,000 images used to document the original conditions of land purchased for the Union Terminal project and the construction of the different buildings.

THE ROSENBERG DRAWINGS

These were commissioned by the Van Sweringen brothers to help publicize their union terminal development and drawn by California artist Louis C. Rosenberg from construction photographs furnished by the brothers. Here one of the 22 drawings is paired with such a construction photograph to demonstrate how this was accomplished. Here again two different materials are juxtaposed to help create a better understanding of the C.U.T. project, the C.U.T. Collection, and the C.S.U. Library's Special Collections.

MAPS IN THE C.U.T. COLLECTION

They exist in a variety of formats and were used for a variety of construction-related purposes. Here is a sampling of some of the maps to be found.

POSTCARD GALLERY

Here are some postcard images of the Cleveland UnionTerminal and Terminal Tower. For seventy years the Terminal Tower has been the symbol of Cleveland and its resident's means of locating downtown. The images are from a private collection.

NEIL BLUHM'S VIDEO

This is a video of the C.U.T., taken in the 1940s, showing C.U.T. electric engines and Shaker Rapid cars underway along the right-of-way between Collinwood and Linndale. There are four short segement available here in Apple QuickTime format (.mov).