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Title	Greek Cultural Garden Photographs
Subject	Immigration and Ethnic Heritage Arts and Entertainment Geography and Natural Resources Gardens Columns Trees Greek Americans
Place	Cleveland (Ohio) Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
Description	These two photographs show the Greek Cultural Garden in Cleveland, Ohio. The first photograph, taken shortly after the garden's dedication in 1940, shows the two Doric columns that stand at the entrance of the garden. The second photograph was taken in 1950. The Greek garden is a sunken garden in the style of the Greek cross (all arms are of equal length). The photographs measure 6.5" x 8.5" (16.51 x 21.59 cm). The largest wave of Greek immigrants came to the United States between 1890 and 1925, mostly due to the difficult economic conditions in Greece. In Cleveland, many Greeks lived in the community around Bradley Court off Bolivar Road between Erie (East 9th) Street and Ontario Street, known as "Greek Town." Because of their lack of skills and limited knowledge of English, Greeks were initially forced to accept menial work in industries, despite their predominant agrarian background. World War II marked a major turning point in Greek acceptance by other Americans due to Greece's resistance effort. The Cleveland Cultural Gardens, located along East Boulevard and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, are landscaped gardens with statuary honoring Cleveland's ethnic groups. During the dedication of the Shakespeare Garden in 1916, it was decided that similar sites should be prepared for each of the city's ethnic communities. The first of these gardens, the Hebrew garden, was established in 1926. On May 9, 1927 the city set aside areas of Rockefeller Park for future gardens. The Italian, German, Lithuanian, Slovak, and Ukrainian gardens were established in 1930; the Polish, Hungarian, Czech, and Yugoslav gardens in 1934; and the American, Russian, Irish, Greek, and Syrian gardens in 1938. Romanian, Estonian, Afro-American, Chinese, Finnish, and Indian gardens have since been created. Planning and fundraising for each garden was undertaken within the ethnic communities, while the Cleveland Cultural Garden Federation (established in 1925) oversaw planning and coordinated various joint programs.
Creator	Cleveland News
Date of Original	1940; 1950
Collection	Cleveland Parks Rockefeller Cultural Gardens Photograph Collection
Source	Audiovisual material
Submitting Institution	Cleveland Public Library, Photograph Collection
Type	StillImage
Format	picture

Title	Om2014_2775164_006
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om2014_2775164_006.tif
Image Height	3831
Image Width	4885
File Size	3133.616 KB

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