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CHAPTER 7: The Boom Busts

For most of 1929, Toledo seemed poised for a bright, prosperous future as its economy continued to grow.  Toledo ranked twenty-sixth nationally in 1928 for industrial production, and its per capita income was also among the highest in the state.  Many new taxpayer-funded construction projects were underway, including a new campus for The University of Toledo on Bancroft Street. [chapter summary]

FEATURED COLLECTIONS

• Acklin Stamping Company Records
  Finding Aid (MSS-139)
  Virtual Exhibit (2000)
• William M. Booker Scrapbooks
  Finding Aid (MSS-070)
  Digital collection
• Dana Corporation Records (the finding aid and digital collections will become available after this collection is processed completely)
• Images in Time, Toledo-Lucas Public Library
  Digital Collection
• Libbey-Owens-Ford Co. Records
  Finding Aid (MSS-066)
  Digital Collection
  Virtual Exhibit (2007)
• University of Toledo, Department of History, Labor History Archive Records, UR86/75
• Digital Collection