"Tracking" the Collinwood Railroaders

Collinwood High School student Andrew Palzes, who lived at 1378 Ansel Road, helps outfit his classmate in a dress he designed. Plazes was the only boy in the school's dress designing and dressmaking class. He made over 40 dresses during his time at Collinwood, and planned to attend fashion school in New York City after serving in the armed forces during World War II.

This past August, a research team, led by Gail Greenberg, the school’s media specialist, Michael Rotman, technical consultant and Nadine Grimm, project coordinator at the Educational Service Center of Cuyahoga County, began the ambitious task of bringing Collinwood’s rich history to life.

      For more images, newspaper articles and other artifacts of this work in progress, check out our history website at https://collinwood.omeka.net/.