Post-World War II Ashtabula was a major Great Lakes port with a thriving downtown. Local photographer Richard E. Stoner began taking photographs of the growing city in 1938, and for the next 58 years, his lens captured Ashtabula’s businesses, industries, and citizens. His commercial accounts ranged from the harbor’s Pinney Dock and Transport Company, to Main Avenue’s locally-owned Carlisle-Allen Company department store, to Ashtabula’s major war industries. Dick Stoner’s earlier photographs capture the Ashtabula that once was, including the week-long Sesquicentennial Celebration of 1953. His later photos record the beginnings of fundamental change in our way of life. Also included in this volume are some pre-1930s photographs by Vinton N. Herron, whose work Stoner purchased when Herron retired. For Ashtabulans, this is a family album. For others, it is a look at a bygone time in Midwest America.
This book title, Ashtabula (People and Places), ISBN: 9780738534305, by Evelyn Schaeffer, published by Arcadia Publishing Inc. (October 19, 2005) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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