Duluth steamship on Cuyahoga River photograph   Save
Louis Baus Collection
Description: 1896 photograph of the Duluth passenger steamship, one of two ships used to transport crowds from downtown Cleveland down the Cuyahoga River to Euclid Beach amusement park. The vessels could hold 800 passengers each at a price of 25 cents a round trip, which included admission to the park. This photograph belongs to the collection of Louis Baus. Baus, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, was born in 1875. He began his career as a professional photographer doing studio work before becoming a staff photographer for the Cleveland Advocate in 1911. Baus worked for the paper, which was later purchased by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, for thirty-eight years until his death in 1949. He was also an avid collector of historic photographs. The Louis Baus Collection consists of over one thousand photographs mounted in eleven albums, showing historic Cleveland, the village of Zoar and Ohio covered bridges and mills. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P223_B02_A06_538
Subjects: Cleveland (Ohio); Steamboats; Amusement parks--Ohio; Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture;
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)