These materials are in the Shaker Library Local History Collection.
Inventories and (occasionally) links to full access are provided when possible.
For access to materials not available online, please Contact the Local History Librarian.
What’s in the Local History Collection
Local History Archives
- Local History Archives content table, last exported from Microsoft Access 3-29-2023
- Local History Scrapbooks and Albums content table, last exported from Microsoft Access 3-29-2023
- Featured Subjects in the Local History Archives
- Shaker Library’s Local History Archives include materials on:
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- Architecture of Shaker Heights
- Business in Shaker Heights
- City of Shaker Heights
- Clark-Lee Freeway fight
- Community Associations
- Elections
- History of Shaker Heights
- Integration
- People of Shaker Heights
- School reform groups
- Shaker Heights League of Women Voters
- Box List of recent acquisitions
- Shaker Heights Public Library
- Shaker Heights Schools
- Shaker Heights Schools — reform movements/parent groups
- Shaker Life magazine
- Shaker Rapid Transit
- Shaker Square
- Shakers of North Union Colony
- Traffic Barricades
- The Village Garden Club
- Folder list of the Village Garden Club Collection
- Warrensville West Cemetery
Audio-Visual Collection
Audiobooks and music on CDs — spoken word and music recordings by Shaker Authors
- Documentaries on Shaker Heights
- Dramatic works by Shaker Authors
- Fair Housing Review board-donated documentary collection
- Filmed programs and events
- Shaker Heights High School commencements
- Shaker Schools promotional materials
U-Matic Collection — “Shaker Life” cable television program, 1978-2000.
Blueprints and House Plans
- Shaker Heights buildings, 1945-, on microfilm
- Shaker Heights buildings, 1995-, on paper (incomplete)
- See Shaker Heights Blueprints for more information
Cataloged Books
- Search catalog to view the Local History collection that includes:
- Published works on the history of Shaker Heights and Cleveland
- Published works by Shaker Authors
- Fiction set in Shaker Heights
- Books written or edited by Shaker Librarians
- Books about Shaker Heights People
Maps
- Paper map and atlases of Shaker Heights
- Digitized Shaker Heights maps at Cleveland Memory
Photographs
- Local History Photographs content table, last exported from Microsoft Access 3-29-2023
- Local History Stereoscopic content table, last exported from Microsoft Access 3-29-2023
- Shaker Heights photographs in Cleveland Memory including Cleveland Press Collection and Shaker Heights Collection
- Shaker Library Local History Permission to Reproduce Images
Serials from Shaker Heights, by Shaker Heights residents, or about Shaker Heights:
Magazines
Journals
Newsletters and Bulletins
- Municipal
- Court Courier — Shaker Heights Municipal Court
- Schools
- The High School Oval — a collaborative effort between Shaker Heights High School and the Shaker Heights High School PTO
- Shaker School Review — Shaker Heights Board of Education
- Community
- Shaker Heights church bulletins
- Shaker Heights Voter — League of Women Voters
- This Week in Shaker — edited by Jane Wood
- Welcoming Words — Eastside Welcome Club/Welcome Wagon
Newspapers
- Cleveland Press — on microfilm, Jan 1976-April 1981
- The Connection/The SHAD Connection — Shaker Square Area Development Corporation
- Shaker Heights Junior High School newspapers (all incomplete)
- The Shaker Scroll — Shaker Junior High / Woodbury Junior High, 1932-1985
- The Shaker Scroll — Shaker Middle School, December 1985
- The Scrawl — Woodbury English Department, 1953-1955
- The Shaker B — Byron Junior High, 1957-1982
- The Shakerite — Shaker Heights High School (incomplete), 1929-present
- The Shakerite digitized issues on the Internet Archive (Senior Project of Liam MacGilvray (SHHS 2025)
- “Black & White or Shades of Gray,” Shakerite Vol. 67 No. 5, February 28, 1997
- Sun Press/Heights Press (incomplete) — on microfilm, 1936-2010
Other Serials
- City of Shaker Heights operating budgets and CAFRs
- Shaker Heights Municipal Court Annual Reports
Shaker Authors Collection
- Here is the most updated list of Shaker Authors in the Local History Collection.
- Published works by current and former residents of Shaker Heights are housed in the Moreland Local History Room in the Shaker Heights Main Library.
- These copies do not circulate, but may be viewed in the library. Additional copies may be available in our circulating collections. Ask for help at the Information Desk or Contact the Local History Librarian.
- Are you a Shaker Author or do you know one that is not yet represented in our collection? Please let us know!
- See our current Shaker Authors collection in our LibraryThing catalog.
Yearbooks
High School Yearbooks
High School Yearbooks can be viewed any time the library is open. Ask for help at the Information Desk, and leave your ID with the librarian while you use the yearbooks in the building. Duplicate copies are available in the Friends of Shaker Library’s Never-Ending Sale corner for $5 each.
- Shaker Heights High School Gristmill, 1922-, complete
- Hathaway Brown School Specularia, 1898-, incomplete
- Laurel School Laurel Leaves, 1939-, incomplete
- University School Mabian, 1926-, incomplete
- Some of these yearbooks have been commercially digitized with limited online access
Other Shaker School Yearbooks
Shaker Elementary, Middle School and Junior High school yearbooks are filed in the Local History archives. Refer to the list below for specific volumes in the collection.
**We are always accepting donations of yearbooks we don’t yet have!**
Last updated June 2025. We have a few duplicates of these non-high school yearbooks; contact Local History if you are interested in obtaining one.
Additional Resources
Genealogy Resources: see our suggested links and subscription databases.
Search Local History Archives to see descriptions of our entire archival collection, and Connect to Local History to access these resources.
Other repositories of Shaker Heights history sources:
- Case Western Reserve University’s Special Collections & Archives
- Cleveland Public Library’s Center for Local and Global History, Map Collection, Photo Collection, and Special Collections
- Cleveland Restoration Society’s 40th anniversary project, The African American Experience in Cleveland
- Cleveland State University’s Special Collections
- Cuyahoga County Archives
- Digital Public Library of America
- Shaker Historical Society Museum & Library
- Teaching Cleveland: Shaker Heights
- Western Reserve Historical Society
- Find more in Cleveland Digital History’s Local History Links and Subject Links.
