Photos: The Work of Jasper Wood, Who Captured Everyday Cleveland in the Late 1940s

When he first picked up a camera, Jasper Wood captured the Cleveland he saw in his Scovill Ave. neighborhood beginning in 1946.

“The moments he was capturing were very everyday, something that maybe the regular passerby may not notice as they were moving through the city,” Adam Jaenke of the Cleveland Public Library, where Wood's collection was donated, told Cleveland Magazine. “He used his camera and his vision to find these lost moments and connect with the subject in certain ways.”

The activist and artist shot photos for about a decade before giving it up completely. But his work over those ten years remains a vital snapshot into the mind of the artist and post-war Cleveland.