| Web Site Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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Toledo's Attic: A Virtual Museum of Toledo, Ohio <http://www.attic.utoledo.edu/>. A program of the Lucas County-Maumee Valley Historical Society; directed by Timothy Messer-Kruse. Launched Sept. 2, 1997. Reviewed Sept. 2002.

This site is aptly named. In an attic, boxes accumulate without logic except for their association with the history of something--in this case, Toledo. Each box reflects the interests of the individual who assembled it. It is fun to look around, but it is labor-intensive to draw connections between different containers. Like an attic, the site is not strong in aesthetics. Despite some original and attractive features, unadorned lists and bullet points abound. There are many small and illegible images and broken links. Given those limitations, one finds innovative public history. Let us open a few boxes. 1

The 1900-1970 timeline is a good place to begin for those who are unfamiliar with Todelo's history. The entries are bare-boned but spark productive juxtapositions. One wonders how two 1934 events coincided--the election of a socialist mayor and a strike sparking "mass civic rebellion." In another vein: by 1970, urban renewal had cleared a breathtaking one-fifth of the city's land area. Here the site's strengths in the built form, industry, labor, politics, and historic preservation are evident. . . .

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