Main Library
60 South High Street, Akron, OH 44326
(330) 643-9030
Local History Collections
Our local history collection includes a variety of materials pertaining to all aspects of Akron and Summit County history. To learn more, click on the links below or search our local history database. If you have items that you would like to contribute to our collection, read about Donating Your Papers or Records to the Library.
To learn more about our resources and services, click here
Books about Akron and Summit County.
Vertical Files.
- Newspaper and magazine clippings about local people, places and events.
Akron Beacon Journal indexes:
- 1841-1939 (microfilm and print)
- 1985-present (online database)
Akron (and vicinity) Telephone Directories and City Directories:
- Telephone Directories from 1914-present (early years incomplete)
- Akron City Directories from 1870s to the present, including the areas of Barberton and Cuyahoga Falls. Many of these directories (1871-1968) are available online, in books, and on microfilm.
- Haines Akron City and Suburban Criss-Cross Directories from 1943 to the present.
- See complete Special Collections Microform Holdings
Local author and creative artist collection.
Oral histories:
- Memories of Downtown
- Neighborhood History Project
Photographs:
- Original nineteenth century photos of Akron taken for Samuel Lane’s Fifty Years and Over of Akron and Summit County
- Ohio and Erie Canal
- World Series of Golf
- Soap Box Derby
- Lighter-Than-Air
- Early trucking industry in Akron
- Ohio Ballet
Individual Collections include:
|
