http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/search?docsPerPage%3D100;f23-subject%3DItalian%20Americans%20--%20Ohio%20--%20Cleveland. Results for your query: docsPerPage=100;f23-subject=Italian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5315.xml Giuseppe (Joseph) Carabelli (1850-1911) founded The Carabelli Company in the late 1880s under the name Lake View Granite & Monumental Works. It was located at 12317 Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, directly across from The Lake View Cemetery. The Carabelli Company operated under successive generations of the Carabelli family until the early 1970s when it was sold to the Johns (Iacobucci) family of Mayfair Memorials. The Lake View Cemetery contains a large number of monuments created by The Carabelli Company. Among its most recognized works at Lake View are the Wade Memorial Chapel and the Brush, John Hay, Rockefeller, and Steinbrenner monuments. The company also contributed to the creation of the Cuyahoga County Soldiers' & Sailors' Monument, and similar monuments in Elyria and Willougbhy, Ohio, and Muskegon, Michigan. The collection consists of agreements, birth records, blue prints, brochures, catalogs, certificates, a constitution, contracts, correspondence, court documents, deeds, di... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5315.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3890.xml James Fitch Millard was the co-founder of J.F. Millard and Son, a family funeral business in Cleveland, Ohio. It was patronized by many of the Italian Americans from the University Circle area of Cleveland. It underwent several name changes over the years. It was Millard and Betts from 1884-1887, J.F. Millard and Son from 1887-1917, and Millard, Son, and Raper Co. after 1917. William C. Millard was a founding member of the Fairmount Club, a gentlemen's social club. The collection consists of correspondence, financial and legal records, and a certificate relating to James F. and Catherine Catlin Bradford; correspondence, financial and legal records, certificates, news clippings, publications, blueprints and miscellany relating to James, William and Ralph Millard and their wives; minutes, treasurer's reports and certificates of incorporation of the Fairmount Club; and funeral records, ledgers, an index to unpaid accounts, bank books and miscellany from the Millard funeral business. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3890.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3401.xml Alta House was established in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1895 as a day care nursery for working mothers in Cleveland's "Little Italy" neighborhood. It quickly grew into a full service community center, offering recreational and social activities as well as social services. The Rockefeller family were major contributors and advisors to Alta House. The collection consists of minutes, reports, financial records, and correspondence. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3401.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3536.xml Fiore D'Isidoro was a Presbyterian minister who served Second Presbyterian Church in Hazelton, Pennsylvania, Olivet Presbyterian Church in Newark, New Jersey, and St. John's Beckwith Memorial Presbyterian Church and Forestdale Presbyterian Church in Cleveland, Ohio. St. John's served Italian Protestants in Cleveland's "Little Italy" neighborhood. The collection consists of sermons delivered and publications gathered by Rev. D'Isidoro, including early records of St. John's Beckwith Memorial Presbyterian Church and a 1959 survey of neighborhood use of the church. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3536.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4086.xml Alta House was established in 1895 as a day care nursery for working mothers in the "Little Italy" neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio. It quickly grew into a full service community center, offering recreational and social activities as well as social services. The collection consists of board minutes, correspondence, financial records, papers relating to the centers' programs, and records of the Little Italy Development Corporation and the Little Italy Redevelopment Project. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4086.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4771.xml The Freedom Civic Association, also known as Societa Gildonese of Cleveland, Ohio, was founded on May 15, 1917. Guiseppe Perrotti and others established the Society as a fraternal, social, and patriotic association for the benefit of fellow immigrants from the town of Gildone, Italy. The organization offered the Gildone immigrants health and death benefits, taught them English, and helped with employment. Originally meeting at Alta House in Cleveland's "Little Italy", the organization later moved to the Collinwood area. In recent years, the Society met at the Allegro Club until it disbanded in 1992. The collection consists of bound ledger books which record membership lists, minutes, financial information, and secretary's books. The remainder consists of loose materials including bylaws, constitutions, correspondence, membership lists, and financial information. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4771.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3808.xml Philip Smead Bird (1886-1948) was a Presbyterian minister who served the Church of the Covenant, First Presbyterian, in Cleveland, Ohio. He was active in many social, educational and social welfare organizations including the Consumers' League of Ohio, The Cleveland Peace Committee, the Cleveland Emergency Peace Campaign, and the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, New York. The collection consists of correspondence, sermons, addresses, personal papers, tax records, passports, diaries, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, miscellaneous papers, and papers relating to the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, New York. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3808.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3884.xml Anthony J. Celebrezze (1910-1998) was the son of Italian immigrants to Cleveland, Ohio, who had a long career in law and government, serving as an Ohio state senator, Mayor of Cleveland, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and a federal judge. The collection consists of correspondence, reports, minutes, legal briefs and opinions, financial documents, speeches, ordinances, resolutions, lists, charts, maps and miscellaneous printed matter relating to the administration of Cleveland's municipal government during Celebrezze's five terms as Mayor (1953-1962). http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3884.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5027.xml Rosanna Cardamone Costanzo (1857-1947) was born in and spent most of her life in Soveria Mannelli, Italy. She married and had three children. In 1931, Rosanna immigrated to the United States and settled with her daughter Maria Francesca and her husband, Michele Chiodo. Maria Francesca Cardamone and Michele Chiodo were married in Calabria, Italy, in 1902. By 1908 the Chiodo family had immigrated to the United States and resided at 1438 East 76th Street, in Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of fourteen letters, one tax bill, newspaper clippings, a funeral card, photocopies of photographs, and typed transcriptions of Italian documents. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5027.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5170.xml The Italian American Cultural Foundation was founded in 1972 in Cleveland, Ohio, to foster and promote Italian and Italian American culture and heritage in the communities of northern Ohio. The collection consists of essay contest entries, membership information, and business records. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5170.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5080.xml Alexander L. "Sonny" DeMaioribus (1898-1968) was born in the Little Italy neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio, and lived there on Coltman Rd. until the late 1930s. He was a bachelor who had four sisters and one brother. DeMaioribus attended Murray Hill School and East High School in Cleveland. In 1917, he became a messenger for the Cleveland Home Brewing Company. By the time the company closed in 1953, he had become its president and chief owner. DeMaioribus' interest in politics prompted him to run for city council in 1925. Despite a loss in that election, support from his fellow Italians in the 19th Ward (Little Italy), got him elected as their councilman in 1927. This made DeMaioribus the first Italian American elected to serve on the city council. DeMaioribus held many positions throughout his career in politics, including Ward Leader (1932-1960), Council President (1934-1942), Chairman of the National Committee (1945), and County Chairman of the Board of Elections (1960). He was a major leader in the Republi... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5080.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3319.xml Hiram House is a pioneer Cleveland, Ohio, social settlement founded in 1896 by a group of Hiram College students led by George Bellamy, who later became Commissioner of Recreation for the city of Cleveland. During the height of its growth the settlement offered a full range of social, educational and recreational activities, but since 1948 it has concentrated its resources on Hiram House Camp in the suburb of Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Before 1948 its primary service area was centered in a neighborhood populated primarily by Jews, Italians and African Americans. The collection consists of minutes, resolutions, financial statements, ledger books, legal papers, correspondence, and employment and administrative policy materials of Hiram House, correspondence and legal and financial papers of George Bellamy, and correspondence from Samuel Mather and other supporters of the settlement. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3319.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4046.xml Anthony J. Celebrezze (1910-1998) was an Ohio state senator (1950-1953), mayor of Cleveland (1953-1962), Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (1962-1965), and federal judge for the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals (1965-1980). The collection consists of correspondence, clippings, honorary certificates and resolutions, publications, speeches, and scrapbooks, covering Celebrezze's political and judicial career, and relating to Cleveland's budgetary, city planning, civil defense, public transportation and urban renewal issues during the 1950s and 1960s, and to the anti-poverty, civil rights, education, and health insurance programs of Presidents Kennedy & Johnson. Includes correspondence of John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Frank Lausche, Stephen M. Young, Michael DiSalle, Thomas Burke, Jack P. Russell, and Ralph Locher. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4046.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4719.xml Carmela Cafarelli was an Italian-American opera star, founder of an opera company, and accomplished harpist from Cleveland, Ohio. Her father, Rocco Cafarelli, was a renowned Italian harpist who had immigrated to Cleveland in the 1880s, and was his daughter's earliest teacher. At the age of eight, she began study with master harpist Henry B. Fabiani in Cleveland. As a harpist, she toured the United States and abroad. She also became a solo harpist for the Cleveland Orchestra. Cafarelli studied voice with William Saal in Cleveland, and later attended the Conservatorie Santa Lucia and the Reale Accademia Filarmonica Romana in Italy, earning diplomas in both voice and harp. After her return to the United States in 1924, she undertook additional musical studies with Benjamino Gigli and Pietro Audisio of the New York Metropolitan Opera. In 1929, she returned to Cleveland, and in 1934, founded the Cafarelli Opera Company. This group toured throughout the United States and put on many charitable performances in North... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4719.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5175.xml The Greater Cleveland Ethnographic Museum was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1975 to prepare exhibits for the American Revolution Bicentennial celebration in Cleveland. The exhibits were to depict contributions from Cleveland's ethnic groups to the multicultural society of the area. Following the 1976 Bicentennial celebration, the museum established a permanent office and exhibit gallery in the Old Arcade in downtown Cleveland. Although the museum closed in 1981, it was able to document the experiences of immigrants through oral histories, photographs, and other collected material. The collection consists of audio recordings, video recordings, interview transcripts, ledgers, financial documents, membership lists, board meeting minutes, correspondence, presentation materials, notes, catalog cards, exhibit materials, and museum holdings. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5175.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT