About The Cover
The cover of this book includes the following images:
- Cleveland Press columnist and television personality Dick Feagler with singer Eric Carmen in 1981. Cleveland Public Library Photograph Collection.
- The Plain Dealer presses in 1954. Cleveland Public Library Photograph Collection.
- Plain Dealer television critic and columnist George Condon in 1954. Cleveland Public Library Photograph Collection.
- Journalist Terence Sheridan at the Sarajevo airport in 1993. Photograph by Elizabeth Sullivan.
- Cleveland City Council President George Forbes tosses journalist Roldo Bartimole out of special council meeting in March 1981. Special Collections, Cleveland State University Library.
- Plain Dealer journalists, from left, Jack Hagan, Don Bean, and Robert McAuley. Courtesy of Robert McAuley.
- Louis B. Seltzer reads an issue of The Press in the city room in 1960. Special Collections, Cleveland State University Library.
- Actress Jayne Mansfield poses with Plain Dealer photographers. Back row, from left, Bill Ashbolt, Dudley Brumbach, Marvin Greene, Bill Wynne. Front row, from left, Karl J. Rauschkolb, Mansfield, Ray Matjasic. Special Collections, Cleveland State University Library.
- A “Save the PD” rally in 2013 in front of the PD offices at E. 18th Street and Superior Avenue. Photograph courtesy of Harlan Spector.
- Robert McGruder, The Plain Dealer’s first black reporter, pictured in 1969. McGruder rose to become the PD’s managing editor before leaving for the Detroit Free Press, where he became executive editor. Cleveland Public Library Photograph Collection.
- Reporter Harlan Spector with deskmate John Petkovic in The Plain Dealer newsroom in the 1990s. Courtesy of Harlan Spector.
- Dennis Kucinich stopped by The Plain Dealer on Nov. 8, 1977, the evening he was elected Cleveland mayor. Kucinich, once a Plain Dealer copy aide, sent the story of his election up the pneumatic tube to the composing room. Plain Dealer photograph by William “Bill” Wynne. Special Collections, Cleveland State University Library.
- Plain Dealer copy editor Robert Manry entering the harbor in Falmouth England, Aug. 17, 1965. Manry was completing a 78-day trip across the Atlantic in Tinkerbelle, a 13 ½-foot sailboat. Special Collections, Cleveland State University Library.
- The Plain Dealer city room in 1947. The PD’s daily circulation stood at 220,618 two years earlier, ranking it second highest behind The Press. Cleveland Public Library Photograph Collection.
- Plain Dealer photographer William “Bill” Wynne. Special Collections, Cleveland State University Library.
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Cover Image:
Dave Davis and Joan Mazzolini
Cover Image Infographic:
Justin Grogan-Myers and Donna Stewart
Systems Division, Michael Schwartz Library, Cleveland State University