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Digitized Books
| Title | Size | |
|---|---|---|
| Akron Negro Directory | (3.5 MB) | |
| The Akron, Ohio Ku Klux Klan, 1921-1928 | (6.5 MB) | |
| Akron, The City of Opportunity | (9.6 MB) | |
| Akron’s Library: Commemorating Twenty-five Years on Main Street | (9.5 MB) | |
| The Architecture of Education: Akron Public Schools, 1890-1920 | (0.74 MB) | |
| Articulation: The Art of the Akron Summit County Public Library | ||
| A Century of Adjustment: A History of the Akron Jewish Community, 1865-1975 | (9.2 MB) | |
| Biggs Rotary Boilers | (32.5 MB) | |
| Charles Cook Bronson's History of Tallmadge and the Western Reserve 1804-1886 (Ten Volumes) | ||
| Volume 1 | (41.9 MB) | |
| Volume 2 | (44.4 MB) | |
| Volume 3 | (44.1 MB) | |
| Volume 4 | (53.0 MB) | |
| Volume 5 | (31.6 MB) | |
| Volume 6 | (43.9 MB) | |
| Volume 7 | (54.6 MB) | |
| Volume 8 | (58.3 MB) | |
| Volume 9 | (53.0 MB) | |
| Volume 10 | (34.2 MB) | |
| City Plan for Akron | (22.8 MB) | |
| The Contributions of Blacks in Akron 1825-1975 | (10.1MB) | |
| Division Reports - Ohio Canal | (83.0 MB) | |
| Elizabeth Parke Firestone: Her Couture Collection and her Role as a Woman of Influence | (5.0 MB) | |
| A History of the Establishment of the Municipal University of Akron | (10.1 MB) | |
| A History of Tallmadge Coal: A Tale of Woodchucks, Welshmen, and a Canal | (2.6 MB) | |
| Imagining Akron: The Report of Imagine Akron 2025 | (17.2 MB) | |
| The Jewish Criterion | (59.2 MB) | |
| Life of Mrs. Ellen Stewart | (75.4 MB) | |
| Lost Soul, Get Right With God: The Akron Gospel Tabernacle and the Plight of Urban Revivalism. 1924-1934 | (0.87 MB) | |
| Red Guidon | (33.2 MB) | |
| The Report of The Akron Commission on Civil Disorders | (16.2 MB) | |
| Residential Architecture of Roy Firestone: Summit County, Ohio - Volume 1 | (34.1 MB) | |
| Residential Architecture of Roy Firestone: Summit County, Ohio - Volume 2 | (36.8 MB) | |
| Properties featured in the scrapbooks may be located using the owners’ names in: | ||
| Alphabetical Index | (0.22 MB) | |
| Street Index | (0.21 MB) | |
| A Selection of Photographs illustrating the works of Good & Wagner | (21.4 MB) | |
| A Sketch of the Settlement and Progress of the Township of Tallmadge | (1.0 MB) | |
| 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 |
(14.6 MB) | |
| Views of Akron, Ohio and Environs | (6.8 MB) | |
| Werner and His Empire: The Rise and Fall of a Gilded Age Printer | (2.8 MB) | |
| West Hill Sketchbook | (14.4 MB) | |
| Women and China Painting at the Turn of the 20th Century | (2.4 MB) |
Many copyright-free historical and genealogical titles relating to Summit County may be viewed and downloaded in several online locations:
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