Subject | • | Ashtabula & Buffalo Dock Company. |
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| | • | Banks and banking -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Beech Brook, Inc. (Pepper Pike, Ohio). |
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| | • | Bradley Realty Company. |
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| | • | Bradley Transportation Company. |
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| | • | Bradley family. |
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| | • | Bradley, Alva, 1814-1885. |
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| | • | Bradley, Alva, 1884-1953. |
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| | • | Bradley, M.A. (Morris A.), 1860-1926. |
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| | • | Businessmen -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Economic conditions. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. |
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| | • | Cleveland Block Company. |
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| | • | Cleveland City Forge and Iron Company. |
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| | • | Cleveland Tool and Forge Company. |
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| | • | Cleveland Trust Company. |
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| | • | Cleveland Van Operators and Warehouse Association. |
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| | • | Cleveland-Akron Bag Company. |
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| | • | Coal mines and mining -- United States. |
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| | • | Congress (Whaling ship). |
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| | • | Diplomatic and consular service, Hungarian. |
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| | • | Erie Mining Company. |
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| | • | Europe -- Description and travel. |
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| | • | Fleming family. |
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| | • | Gilchrist Transportation Company (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | Harmon family. |
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| | • | Hungary -- History. |
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| | • | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History -- Sources. |
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| | • | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Inland water transportation -- Great Lakes. |
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| | • | Inland waterway vessels -- Great Lakes. |
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| | • | Interlake Iron Corporation. |
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| | • | Interlake Steamship Company. |
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| | • | Iron industry and trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Iron industry and trade -- United States. |
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| | • | Iron mines and mining -- United States. |
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| | • | Kenyon family. |
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| | • | Lake steamers -- Great Lakes. |
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| | • | Logbooks. |
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| | • | Mather, Samuel, 1851-1931. |
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| | • | McBride family. |
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| | • | McBride, Donald, 1884-1927. |
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| | • | Merchant mariners -- Great Lakes. |
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| | • | Merchant ships -- Ohio -- Huron. |
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| | • | Morse, Jay. |
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| | • | Ontario Iron Company. |
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| | • | Palestine (Schooner). |
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| | • | Pempin family. |
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| | • | Pempin, Harry A., 1853-1918. |
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| | • | Pickands, James S., 1839-1896. |
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| | • | Pickands, Mather and Company. |
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| | • | Real estate business -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Real estate investment -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Real property -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Root & McBride Company. |
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| | • | Seafaring life. |
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| | • | Shipbuilding -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Shipbuilding industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Shipping -- Great Lakes. | [X] | | • | Smith, Edith J. |
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| | • | Street-railroads -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Strikes and lockouts -- Street-railroads -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Syracuse Mining Company. |
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| | • | University of Free Europe in Exile. |
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| | • | Wabush Mines. |
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| | • | Wade family -- Periodicals. |
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| | • | Whaling ships -- Connecticut -- Mystic. |
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| | • | Whaling. |
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| | • | Wilde, Grace. |
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| | • | Wilson Marine Transit Company. |
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| | • | Wilson, Thomas, 1848-1900. |
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| | • | Winous Point Shooting Club. |
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| | • | Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives. |
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| | • | Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. |
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| | Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | Harry A. Pempin Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Pempin, Harry A. Family | | | | Dates: | 1879-1953 | | | | Abstract: | The Harry A. Pempin family of Euclid, Ohio, descends from Henry and Fannie Pempin, Swiss immigrants. By 1880, they had settled in Euclid, where they farmed. Their son, Harry A. Pempin, worked as a steward and lived in Corry, Pennsylvania for a while. The collection consists of a sailors' payroll book, an autograph book, two marriage announcements, a memo to the members of the Cleveland Van Operators and Warehouse Association, one letter written to Pempin's niece, Grace Wilde, and an inventory of the estate of Edith J. Smith of Washington, D.C. The sailors' payroll book was owned by Carl F. Mingenback, a friend of Harry Pempin. | | | | Call #: | MS 4559 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Pempin, Harry A., 1853-1918. | Pempin family. | Wilde, Grace. | Smith, Edith J. | Cleveland Van Operators and Warehouse Association. | Merchant mariners -- Great Lakes. | Shipping -- Great Lakes. | Autograph albums.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 3 | Title: | Thomas Wilson Papers
| | | | Creator: | Wilson, Thomas | | | | Dates: | 1866-1889 | | | | Abstract: | Thomas Wilson emigrated to the United States from Scotland in 1854. He began his career in shipping as a ship boy at the age of sixteen, and by the age of twenty was a captain. He left New York City in 1867 for the Great Lakes, where he invested in the shipping industry and eventually owned and operated the Wilson Marine Transit Company, based in Cleveland, Ohio. The company specialized in bulk cargo shipping on the Great Lakes. By the time of Wilson's death in 1900, the company's fleet included 17 steamers, two sailing ships, and a barge. The collection consists of correspondence, publications, and legal documents relating to Wilson's career in the shipping industry. Included are articles of co-partnership of the Cleveland Block Company, articles of agreement between Thomas Wilson and his wife Mary (from whom he borrowed money to build his first ship), and a pamphlet published by the Wilson Marine Transit Company. | | | | Call #: | MS 4612 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Wilson, Thomas, 1848-1900. | Wilson Marine Transit Company. | Cleveland Block Company. | Inland water transportation -- Great Lakes. | Shipping -- Great Lakes. | Shipbuilding -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 4 | Title: | Congress and Palestine Logbook
| | | | Creator: | Congress and Palestine | | | | Dates: | 1844-1848 | | | | Abstract: | The Congress was a whaling bark out of Mystic, Connecticut, owned by L. and W.P. Randall and commanded by Captain Austin M. Lester. The Palestine was a Great Lakes schooner, sailing out of Huron, Ohio, under the command of Captain Wilcox. The collection consists of a single volume containing the logbooks of the Congress and the Palestine. It includes details of the Congress' whaling voyage to India and the Pacific, 1844-1847, and the Palestine's trip from Huron, Ohio to the upper Great Lakes and then to Buffalo, carrying wheat and flour. Included are details of life on board a whaling ship, travel and adventure in the Pacific Ocean, colored drawings of a sailing ship, inked stamps of various whales, sailing terminology, and entries relating to Great Lakes shipping and life on a lake schooner. Both logs were kept by John B. Wilber. The volume also includes markings made by A. Emertson, a young relative of Captain N. Emertson of Huron, Ohio, who used it as a composition book. | | | | Call #: | MS 4556 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Congress (Whaling ship). | Palestine (Schooner). | Whaling. | Whaling ships -- Connecticut -- Mystic. | Logbooks. | Seafaring life. | Shipping -- Great Lakes. | Merchant ships -- Ohio -- Huron. | Merchant mariners -- Great Lakes.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 5 | Title: | Alva Bradley Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Bradley, Alva Family | | | | Dates: | 1871-1950 | | | | Abstract: | The Alva Bradley Family was a prominent Cleveland, Ohio, family active in shipbuilding and the real estate business. Alva Bradley was a partner in the shipbuilding company of Bradley & Cobb, which eventually became Bradley Transportation Company, a prominent member of the Lake Carriers' Association. Alva's son, M.A. (Morris A.) and grandson Alva were part of the company. In 1910, they started the Bradley Realty Company which became the largest holder of real estate in downtown Cleveland. The collection consists of accounting journals, ledgers, letter copy books, and other volumes documenting the financial interests of the Bradley family and their business concerns, especially the Bradley Realty Company. | | | | Call #: | MS 4496 | | | | Extent: | 5.00 linear feet (1 container and 23 oversize volumes) | | | | Subjects: | Bradley family. | Bradley, Alva, 1814-1885. | Bradley, M.A. (Morris A.), 1860-1926. | Bradley, Alva, 1884-1953. | Bradley Realty Company. | Bradley Transportation Company. | Shipping -- Great Lakes. | Shipbuilding industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Real estate business -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Real estate investment -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Real property -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History -- Sources.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 6 | Title: | Pickands, Mather and Company Records
| | | | Creator: | Pickands, Mather and Company | | | | Dates: | 1889-1969 | | | | Abstract: | Pickands, Mather and Company was a Cleveland, Ohio-based mining and shipping firm; a major supplier of iron ore and coal to the steel industry, with one of the largest fleets of freight carriers on the Great Lakes. It originated with founders Samuel Mather, Jay Morse, and James S. Pickands in 1883. To meet its ore transport demands, the firm formed the Interlake Steamship Company in 1913, which became the second largest fleet on the Great Lakes. By the 1920s, the company was the one of the largest producers of iron ore in the U.S. In 1929 a subsidiary, the Interlake Iron Corporation, was formed. Pickands, Mather also had heavy investments in the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company. In 1973, Pickands, Mather and Company became part of Moore McCormack Resources, Inc. Moore McCormack sold its Pickands, Mather stock to Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. in 1986. The collection consists of bound annual statements, annual statements of the mining department, individual cost statements, and a bound commemorative book which was presented to Samuel Mather, one of the founders. | | | | Call #: | MS 4590 | | | | Extent: | 17.30 linear feet (21 containers and 72 oversize volumes) | | | | Subjects: | Mather, Samuel, 1851-1931. | Pickands, James S., 1839-1896. | Morse, Jay. | Pickands, Mather and Company. | Interlake Steamship Company. | Ashtabula & Buffalo Dock Company. | Erie Mining Company. | Wabush Mines. | Syracuse Mining Company. | Ontario Iron Company. | Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. | Interlake Iron Corporation. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Iron mines and mining -- United States. | Iron industry and trade -- United States. | Iron industry and trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Coal mines and mining -- United States. | Shipping -- Great Lakes.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 7 | Title: | Donald McBride Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | McBride, Donald Family | | | | Dates: | 1857-1989 | | | | Abstract: | Donald McBride was a lawyer and businessman and son of John Harris McBride, owner of Root & McBride Company, a leading wholesale dry goods establishment in Cleveland, Ohio. Donald's brothers, Malcolm and Herbert, were officers in Root & McBride Company. His sister Grace was married to Dr. George Crile, and his sister Edith was married to Henry S. Sherman, chairman of Society for Savings, 1903-1936. Donald's wife, Mary Helen Harman McBride, was daughter of industrialist Ralph A. Harman, who ran Cleveland Forge and Iron Company, was a founder of Cleveland Trust Company, and a director of Cleveland Electric Railway Company. Mary Helen's sister Grace was married to Samuel Livingston Mather, and her sister Sue was married to diplomat John Pelenyi. Her great aunt, Grace Harman Wade, was married to Jeptha H. Wade. The collection consists of Harman and McBride family correspondence, genealogies, coats of arms, reminiscences, memorials, school reports, scrapbooks, ledgers, journals, diaries, newspaper clippings, obituaries, reprints, autograph book, receipts, verses, blueprints, speeches and photographs. Included are personal papers for Ralph A. Harman, Sue Wade Harman and John Pelenyi, Susan Fleming Wade, Donald McBride and Mary Helen McBride, as well as business records, recollections and scrapbooks of Ralph A. Harman relating to the early business, industrial and social history of Cleveland. | | | | Call #: | MS 4585 | | | | Extent: | 10.80 linear feet (10 containers, 14 oversize volumes, and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | McBride, Donald, 1884-1927. | McBride family. | Harmon family. | Kenyon family. | Fleming family. | Wade family -- Periodicals. | Root & McBride Company. | Cleveland Tool and Forge Company. | Cleveland City Forge and Iron Company. | University of Free Europe in Exile. | Cleveland Trust Company. | Cleveland-Akron Bag Company. | Winous Point Shooting Club. | Beech Brook, Inc. (Pepper Pike, Ohio). | Businessmen -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Street-railroads -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Strikes and lockouts -- Street-railroads -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Banks and banking -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Shipping -- Great Lakes. | World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives. | Europe -- Description and travel. | Shipbuilding industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Diplomatic and consular service, Hungarian. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Economic conditions. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. | Hungary -- History.
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