Name/Title
Population Shifts in a Polyethnic AreaEntry/Object ID
R2021.38.02aScope and Content
Population Shifts in a Polyethnic Area in South Lorain, Ohio 1930-1955
Language demographics documenting areas of South Lorain where different languages were spoken and using maps compares changes in where languages were spoken between 1930 and 1955. Languages include:
English (White, American)
Slavic (Czecho-Slovakian)
German
Italian
Slavic (Macedonian-Bulgarian)
Greek
Hungarian
Romance (Mexican)
Slavic (Polish)
Romance (Roumanian [Romanian])
Slavic (Russian)
Romance (Spanish)
Slavic (Ukrainian)
Slavic (Yugo-Slavian [Yugoslavia])
Puerto Rican (1955 only)
Also includes, Distribution of Population in South Lorain by ethnic-nationality groups between 1930 and 1955:
Hungarians
Puerto Ricans
American, White
Yugo-Slavs
Czecho-Slavs
Mexicans
German-Austrian
American, Negro [Black, African-American}
Polish
Italian
Ukrainian
Russian
Macedonian-Bulgarian
Greek
Roumanian [Romanian]
English
Spanish
Irish
Scotch
Welsh
Lituanian
Dutch
Syrian
French
Canadian
Albanian
Danish
Swedish
"Others" (Cuban, Finnish, Swiss, Dominican Republic, Belgians, and Latvian)Context
"When Tom Johnson selected the southern section of Lorain, Ohio for his five million dollar steel plant in 1894, there began a process of in-migration of foreign-born and native workers which has resulted in one of the most diverse polyethnic areas in the United States."
"In 1928 the Lorain Industrial Survey made an estimate of the various nationality groups for the entire city; this still left considerable doubt as to the distribution of the various ethnic groups in the 80 block area which then constituted South Lorain. IN 1930 with the help of 27 students from Oberlin College and under the joint sponsorship of my faculty committee...and the Neighborhood House Association of Lorain.., the writer made a census of nationality distribution and employment.Collection
Latino Lorain History ProjectAcquisition
Accession
2021.38Source or Donor
Tober, BethanyAcquisition Method
Collected by StaffCredit Line
Latino Lorain History ProjectArchive Details
Creator
O'Brien, Robert WDate(s) of Creation
1955Archive Notes
Ohio Wesleyan University; Pacific Books