Online Books
The following books are titles for which the library holds copyright, titles for which the Library has been granted permission to digitize, or titles which are in the public domain.
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Digitized Books
| Title | |
|---|---|
| Akron Negro Directory |  |
| The Akron, Ohio Ku Klux Klan, 1921-1928 | |
| Akron, The City of Opportunity | |
| Akron’s Library: Commemorating Twenty-five Years on Main Street | |
| The Architecture of Education: Akron Public Schools, 1890-1920 | |
| Articulation:The Art of the Akron Summit County Public Library | |
| A Century of Adjustment: A History of the Akron Jewish Community, 1865-1975 | |
| Charles Cook Bronson's History of Tallmadge and the Western Reserve 1804-1886 (Ten Volumes) | |
| Volume 1 | |
| Volume 2 | |
| Volume 3 | |
| Volume 4 | |
| Volume 5 | |
| Volume 6 | |
| Volume 7 | |
| Volume 8 | |
| Volume 9 | |
| Volume 10 | |
| The Contribution of Blacks in Akron 1825-1975 | |
| Division Reports - Ohio Canal | |
| Elizabeth Parke Firestone: Her Couture Collection and her Role as a Woman of Influence | |
| Golden Age of Summit County Restaurants | |
| A History of the Establishment of the Municipal University of Akron | |
| A History of Tallmadge Coal: A Tale of Woodchucks, Welshmen, and a Canal | |
| Imagining Akron: The Report of Imagine Akron 2025 | |
| The Jewish Criterion | |
| Life of Mrs. Ellen Stewart | |
| Lost Soul, Get Right With God: The Akron Gospel Tabernacle and the Plight of Urban Revivalism. 1924-1934 | |
| Red Guidon | |
| The Report of The Akron Commission on Civil Disorders | |
| Roy G. Firestone Scrapbook - Volume 1 | |
| Roy G. Firestone Scrapbook - Volume 2 | |
| Properties featured in the scrapbooks may be located using the owners’ names in: | |
| Alphabetical Index | |
| Street Index | |
| A Selection of Photographs illustrating the work of Good & Wagner | |
| A Sketch of the Settlement and Progress of the Township of Tallmadge | |
| A Spin on the Past: The Origin Story of the Modern American Toy Industry, as it Occurred in Akron, Ohio, Including the Story of S.C. Dyke and the First Mass-Produced Toy--Clay marbles | |
| Views of Akron, Ohio and Environs | |
| Werner and His Empire: The Rise and Fall of a Gilded Age Printer | |
| West Hill Sketchbook | |
| Women and China Painting at the Turn of the 20th Century | |
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