Aerial photograph of downtown Lorain, Ohio, c. 1930s.

1930 - 1935 / Downtown Lorain

An aerial photograph of downtown Lorain, Ohio. Broadway Avenue runs from south to north in the photograph, while Erie Avenue runs from east to west.

The Baltimore and Ohio/Nickel Plate railway tracks are seen running south to north behind Broadway at the left of the photograph. Prominent businesses in the photograph include The Wickens Company and Alten's Hardware. Date of the photograph is not known, but is likely from the early to mid-1930s.

~ Doane Collection of the Lorain Public Library System, “Aerial photograph of downtown Lorain, Ohio, c. 1930s.,” Lorain County Memory, accessed March 12, 2025, https://lorain.omeka.net/items/show/2194.

Dublin Core

Title

Aerial photograph of downtown Lorain, Ohio, c. 1930s.

Description

An aerial photograph of downtown Lorain, Ohio. Broadway Avenue runs from south to north in the photograph, while Erie Avenue runs from east to west.

The Baltimore and Ohio/Nickel Plate railway tracks are seen running south to north behind Broadway at the left of the photograph. Prominent businesses in the photograph include The Wickens Company and Alten's Hardware. Date of the photograph is not known, but is likely from the early to mid-1930s.

Publisher

Lorain Public Library System
Albert Doane

Date

1930 - 1935

Rights

These digitized collections are accessible for the purposes of education and research. We have indicated what we know about copyright and rights of privacy, publicity, or trademark. Due to the nature of archival collections, we are not always able to identify this information. We are eager to hear from any rights owners, so that we may obtain accurate information. Upon request, we'll remove material from public view while we address a rights issue.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Format

JPG

Language

English

Type

Photograph

Still Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

Photograph