Today I continued to go through the Bruce Young collection, searching for anything that has to do with Akron. I started with railroads that ran through Akron, i.e. the B&O and Penn Lines. I found a couple of images of each but not a whole lot. I also found a few images that dealt with the old AB&O line. I searched in other categories to find information but these searches netted no results. The other topics I searched were; neighborhoods and suburbs.
Another search that I preformed was looking into streetcars in Akron. I saw that the Bruce Young collection had a large amount of pictures of streetcars so I first looked into what the streetcar company operated in Akron. The company went through many different names but finally in 1930 settled on Akron Transportation Company. I went to the file that was labeled “Streetcars A-CSS&CB”. The first file in the box was labeled Akron and it had many pictures of streetcars. Though streetcars had a relative short lifespan in Akron there were some good pictures showing O’Neil’s and the Mayflower Hotel. To me these pictures are more important in the story of Akron than the pictures of the streetcars.
Finally I went through a box labeled “Auto/Trucks, Airplanes, Blimps, Locomotives, Boats/Ships, and Misc. Streetcars”. The file that attracted me the most was the one labeled “Blimps”. This file had many different photos depicting the Goodyear Blimp, the Akron Air Dock, USS Macon, and the Graf Zeppelin. I did not expect to see this in the collection but it was a nice surprise. Between the Cleveland Press Collection and the Bruce Young Collection there are a lot of photos dealing with the aeronautics industry in Akron.
I realized that I have yet to provide the links to the docs that I have on Google Docs yet. They are as follows:
Search Terms:
https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1PtKJth3Is5jbF4I-wjA5s5dSRbhgP_yqdIYiVP2EQLw&hl=en
Search Term Findings, Cleveland Press Only:
https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1KpYNXrK7PjnCNPiNXKdiZM2vezmYxMW7kBuiSggX0fI&hl=en
Media List (Non Photos):
https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1ZsfstFTyfK4miFfj4xVNKCvDuFAICGjShECzhutHyDo&hl=en
Bruce Young Collection 1:
https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1WSKSLgW89O7pxJr-PMMa8Ju8lGpuTu7kz3aWuXlRoaA&hl=en
Bruce Young Collection 2:
https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1pPjI0F3_XBwcKhrFh0LBmH5ISoyniLO5MRXIs1AaxpM&hl=en
Interesting. Systematic. Good!
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