1890s Cuyahoga Valley Mystery Album

This is a small photo album that Special Collections at the Michael Schwartz Library acquired from a dealer in the 1990s. Nothing is known about it, except what it discloses about itself: It namely it covers territory south of Cleveland, Ohio — in the Kent/Akron area along the Cuyahoga River, the Ohio & Erie Canal and nearby towns — and that the photos were taken around 1897. Where something had been penciled in next to any of the photos, it has been noted in quotations. The album contains 49 black and white images showing country scenes of farms, the Cuyahoga River, canal features, bridges and some unidentified people. If you know this area well, you might be able to help pinpoint the locations of the photos better and perhaps even solve the mystery of who the family is, shown in these photos. Any documented information given will be passed along to Special Collections at the Michael Schwartz Library.