Gerald E. Brookins Collection now at CSU
The Gerald E. Brookins Collection, containing thousands of images of streetcars, interurbans, railroads and everyday Cleveland area photographs, many from well-known transit authority Harry Christiansen, has been donated to Special Collections in CSU's Michael Schwartz Library by the Lake Shore Electric organization who put on the huge auction of streetcars on Dock 32 a few months ago. Mr. Brookins was the owner and creator of Trolleyville and the Brookins Collection contains historical material from Trolleyville as well as streetcar models crafted by Morris Stone. All in all, this is a very important collection and our thanks go out to the Brookins family and the LSE members for this donation. We will be gradually processing it and some of the material will be imaged and put up in the Cleveland Memory Project.
Labels: Cleveland history, Cleveland OH, Gerald E. Brookins, Harry Christiansen, interurbans, Lakeshore Electric, models, Morris Stone, photographs, streetcars, transit
posted by Bill Barrow @ 5:55:00 PM
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