The Shaker Heights Collection
BROWSE SHAKER HEIGHTS CLEVELAND PRESS COLLECTION IMAGES
BROWSE SHAKER HEIGHTS COLLECTION
Francis and Donald Elliott on bikes at the Shaker Festival, 1936.
Caring for plants in the greenhouse on the roof of Shaker Heights High, 1956.
Children in Shaker costumes, 1956.
View of Horseshoe Lake in Shaker Heights, 1957.
Librarian Mary Lee Scriven at Circulation Desk, Shaker Heights Public Library, circa 1938.
Sailing on the Shaker Lakes, 1964.
Founded in 1912, Shaker Heights (see Google map) is situated on the eastern side of Cleveland, Ohio. Famous for its planned garden-city design, neo- traditional architecture,and green spaces, the city of Shaker Heights preserves many of the traditional ideals of its primary builders, the brothers Oris Paxton and Mantis James Van Sweringen.
In the 1950s, Shaker Heights neighborhood associations resisted white flight and fought to preserve their racially integrated communities, a commitment that continues to this day. Such values echo those espoused by the North Union Shakers, who from 1822 to 1889 occupied the land on which the village of Shaker Heights was later constructed and for whom it was named.
Now a city of just under 30,000 residents, Shaker Heights remains a community dedicated to its schools, its natural spaces, its people, and its history.
About the Collections
The Shaker Heights Collection and the Shaker Heights Cleveland Press Collection together represent only a small portion of the archival materials available for patron use in the Local History Collection at the Shaker Heights Public Library and the Elizabeth Nord Library Collection at the Shaker Historical Society.
The photos in the Shaker Heights Cleveland Press Collection were donated to the Shaker Public Library by Pulitzer Prize winning Cleveland Press reporter David Dietz, who acquired them when the paper stopped its presses for good in 1982.
For Further Study:
- Stories about Shaker Heights from Cleveland Historical
Essential reading on Shaker-related topics including early settlers, architecture, urban planning, race & ethnicity, transportation, neighborhoods, and of course all things Van Sweringen. - Shaker Heights - from the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
- Shaker Heights Public Library
- Shaker Historical Society
- The Van Sweringen Developments in Cleveland: A Senior Thesis on the Van Sweringens - by Joseph G. Blake.
This eBook examines the Van Sweringen Developments in Cleveland, Shaker Heights, and the Cleveland Terminal development.
