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1	Title:	Newton D. Baker Papers
	Creator:	Baker, Newton D.
	Dates:	1917-1932
	Abstract:	Newton D. Baker (1871-1937) was a West Virginia native who became City Solicitor and Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, and United States Secretary of War during World War I. The collection consists of a petition to enlist Baker as Chairman of the All Nations Guild Sponsoring Committee, an article written to Baker by a dissatisfied reservist, minutes of the Joint Meeting of the Council of National Defense and the Advisory Board, minutes of the Federal Power Commission, and a list of candidates for the position of chairman of the War Industries Board.
	Call #:	MS 3845
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937. \| Politicians -- United States. \| Cabinet officers -- United States.
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2	Title:	Newton D. Baker Papers, Series II
	Creator:	Baker, Newton D.
	Dates:	1896-1917
	Abstract:	Newton D. Baker (1871-1937) was the Cleveland, Ohio, city solicitor (1903-1911) and Mayor of Cleveland (1912-1916), and United States Secretary of War (1916-1921). The collection consists of private and public letters.
	Call #:	MS 3867
	Extent:	10.00 linear feet (12 containers)
	Subjects:	Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937. \| League of Nations. \| World War, 1914-1918 -- Sources. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. \| United States -- Politics and government -- 1901-1953.
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3	Title:	Newton D. Baker Letters
	Creator:	Baker, Newton Diehl
	Dates:	1891-1937
	Abstract:	Newton Diehl Baker (1871-1937) was a Cleveland, Ohio, city solicitor (1903-1911) and Mayor (1912-1916), and United States Secretary of War (1916-1921). The collection consists of letters and typescript copies of letters from Newton D. Baker to his relatives and political associates, including 211 letters to his wife Elizabeth Baker (1902-1937), 44 letters to his brother, Frank Baker, and sister-in-law, Harriet Baker (1915-1936), three bound volumes of typescript copies of letters to his children, Elizabeth, Margaret, and Newton III (1918-1937), and 32 letters from notable political figures.
	Call #:	MS 3491
	Extent:	1.00 linear feet (3 containers)
	Subjects:	Johnson, Tom Loftin, 1854-1911. \| Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937. \| Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924. \| Baker family. \| World War, 1914-1918. \| United States -- Politics and government -- 1901-1953.
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4	Title:	Ralph Hayes Papers
	Creator:	Hayes, Ralph
	Dates:	1911-1974
	Abstract:	Ralph Hayes (1894-1977) was a businessman and philanthropist who served as secretary of the City Club of Cleveland, Ohio, assistant to Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, Executive Director of the New York Community Trust, and Vice President of Transamerica Corporation and Coca-Cola Company. He established the Common Wealth Trust in his will. The collection consists of address books, correspondence, diaries, financial and legal records, newspaper clippings, publications, scrapbooks, speeches, and university degrees and awards.
	Call #:	MS 4000
	Extent:	17.00 linear feet (17 containers)
	Subjects:	Hayes, Ralph, 1894-1977. \| Hayes family. \| Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937. \| New York Community Trust. \| Presidential candidates -- United States. \| Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1932. \| Endowments -- United States. \| New York (State) -- Charities. \| United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century. \| United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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5	Title:	Newton D. Baker Papers, Series III
	Creator:	Baker, Newton D.
	Dates:	1892-1961
	Abstract:	Newton D. Baker was the Cleveland, Ohio, city solicitor (1903-1911) and Mayor (1912-1916), and United States Secretary of War (1916-1921). The collection consists of letters written by Baker to his daughters and other acquaintances as well as a copy of a speech given at Waterloo, Iowa, and various materials related to the Clarence H. Cramer biography of Baker.
	Call #:	MS 4564
	Extent:	1.01 linear feet (3 containers and 1 oversize folder)
	Subjects:	Baker family. \| Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937. \| Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924. \| Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945. \| Baker family (Newton D. Baker). \| Cramer, C. H. (Clarence Henley), 1905- Newton D. Baker, a Biography. \| League of Nations. \| Statesmen -- United States. \| World War, 1914-1918 -- United States.
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6	Title:	William J. Murphy Family Scrapbook
	Creator:	Murphy, William J. Family
	Dates:	1898-1967
	Abstract:	William Joseph Murphy (1876-1942) served as postmaster of Cleveland, Ohio, from 1914-1922 where he initiated the area's first airmail service. He served as secretary to Cleveland mayor Newton D. Baker from 1912-1914 Cleveland city manager William R. Hopkins from 1924-1930. From 1930-1942, Murphy was a vice president for Central United National Bank. He served as president of Catholic Charities Corporation of Cleveland from 1938-1939. The collection consists of a scrapbook maintained by Murphy's daughter Florence Murphy Lackamp that includes funeral cards, greeting cards, invitations, letters, newspaper clippings, ordination cards, photographs, prayer cards, and programs.
	Call #:	MS 5222
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937. \| Catholic Charities Corporation of Cleveland. \| Catholic Church -- Education -- Ohio -- Cleveland \| Catholics -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities -- 20th century. \| Catholics -- Ohio -- Cleveland \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government -- 20th century. \| Hopkins, William Rowland, 1869-1961. \| Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Murphy family \| Murphy, William Joseph, 1876-1942
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7	Title:	Frank A. Scott Papers
	Creator:	Scott, Frank Augustus
	Dates:	1848-1935
	Abstract:	Frank Augustus Scott (1873-1949) was a businessman, of Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of correspondence, speeches, magazine articles, newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks, relating to Scott's activities in Cleveland's business, civic, cultural, charitable, and educational institutions, especially Western Reserve University, Case Institute of Technology, University Hospitals, and the Municipal Traction Company. Subjects include the iron and steel industry, business and industrial management, industry in Cleveland, the machine tool industry, economic matters, and federal legislation. Correspondents include Theodore E. Burton.
	Call #:	MS 3284
	Extent:	2.60 linear feet (8 containers)
	Subjects:	Scott, Frank Augustus, 1873-1949. \| Scott family. \| Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937. \| Cleveland Railway Company. \| Municipal Traction Company. \| Machine-tool industry -- United States. \| Metal trade -- United States. \| Iron industry and trade -- United States. \| Steel industry and trade -- United States. \| Legislation -- United States. \| Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Europe -- Description and travel -- 1919-1944.
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8	Title:	Carl D. Friebolin Papers
	Creator:	Friebolin, Carl D.
	Dates:	1890-1967
	Abstract:	Carl D. Friebolin (1878-1967) was a United States bankruptcy referee, 1916-1967, and one of the leading civic leaders of Cleveland, Ohio. A supporter of the reforms of the progressive era, Friebolin served as state representative (1911-1913) and senator (1913-1914), and as judge of Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court. Friebolin was president of the City Club of Cleveland, the City Club Forum Foundation, and the Cleveland Law Library, as well as a trustee of Western Reserve University, where he taught bankruptcy law from 1934-1959. He was perhaps best known in Cleveland as the author of the Anvil Revue, a satiric look at the Cleveland scene put on yearly by the City Club of Cleveland. The collection consists of personal and official correspondence; speeches re: bankruptcy, citizenship, politics, education, political and civic leaders (e.g. Newton D. Baker); docketed bankruptcy decisions and orders, including related decisions, affidavits, evidence, expert opinions, debtor's petitions, and related bankruptcy laws; papers re: the administration, rules and procedures of the bankruptcy laws, including relations between Friebolin's office and the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts; material re: meetings of, and the drafting of proposed bankruptcy legislation by, the National Bankruptcy Conference; material re: the City Club of Cleveland and its Anvil Revue (1916-66), including complete scripts, songs, programs and newspaper reviews; material re: the law club Court of Nisi Prius; articles written by Friebolin re: bankruptcy law; personal files (i.e. awards, programs, photos, plaques, day books, bank books); miscellaneous re: the Cleveland Law Library Association; papers re: Brookes Friebolin; programs of the conferences of the National Association of Referees in Bankruptcy; and scrapbooks.
	Call #:	MS 3309
	Extent:	20.90 linear feet (55 containers and 1 oversize volume)
	Subjects:	Friebolin, Carl D. (Carl David), 1878-1967 -- Archives. \| Friebolin, Brookes, 1910-1947. \| Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937. \| United States. Bankruptcy Court (Ohio : Northern District) \| United States. Administrative Office of the United States Courts. Bankruptcy Division. \| City Club of Cleveland. \| National Bankruptcy Conference -- Congresses. \| Anvil Revue. \| Referees -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Archives. \| Bankruptcy -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Cases. \| Bankruptcy -- United States. \| Business failures -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Assignments for benefit of creditors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Priorities of claims and liens -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Revues -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Political satire, American -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Amateur theatricals -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Societies, etc.
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9	Title:	William Ganson Rose Papers
	Creator:	Rose, William Ganson
	Dates:	1862-1955
	Abstract:	William Ganson Rose (1878-1957) was a noted Cleveland, Ohio, author, historian, lecturer, advertising executive, and civic promoter. In 1915, Rose formed Wm. G. Rose, Inc., his own advertising and public relations firm. He managed numerous fairs and expositions, including the first Cleveland Electrical Exposition (1914), the Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race and Aerial Carnival (1930), the Great Lakes Exposition (1936-1937), and the Cleveland Sesquicentennial (1946). In 1916-1917, Rose chaired the group which promoted and ultimately secured passage of a bond issue financing the construction of the Cleveland Public Auditorium. He served on the board of Hiram House, a Cleveland social settlement founded by George Bellamy in 1896, and belonged to the American Press Humorists and the Cleveland Athletic Club. Rose authored several books and numerous articles for newspapers and magazines, as well as a comprehensive history of Cleveland entitled Cleveland, the making of a city, published in 1950. Rose died in 1957. The collection consists of newspaper clippings, promotional material, correspondence, biographical material, photographs, reports, and historical material pertaining to the history of Cleveland, Ohio and many of its prominent citizens, but also including material on national and international events and personages. Individuals, organizations and events that figure most prominently include: the American Press Humorists, Newton D. Baker, George Bellamy and Hiram House, Charles F. Brush, the Cleveland Sesquicentennial of 1946, the visit to Cleveland of Emile Coue, Thomas A. Edison, the Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race and Aerial Carnival of 1930, Abraham Lincoln, the Cleveland Public Auditorium, John D. Rockefeller, the Cleveland War Service Center, the Cleveland Grays, and the writings of Whiting Williams. Also included is a significant amount of biographical material on numerous women in Cleveland's history, material pertaining to sports, particularly baseball, and material relating to the theater in Cleveland, with newspaper reviews of performances.
	Call #:	MS 3365
	Extent:	4.80 linear feet (6 containers and 4 oversize volumes)
	Subjects:	Rose, William Ganson, b. 1878 -- Archives. \| Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937. \| Bellamy, George Albert, 1872-1960. \| Brush, Charles Francis, 1849-1929. \| Coue, Emile, 1857-1926. \| Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931. \| Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. \| Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison), 1839-1937. \| Hiram House Social Settlement (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Cleveland Public Auditorium (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Cleveland Grays (Military unit) \| War Service Center (Cleveland, Ohio) \| American Press Humorists. \| Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race and Aerial Carnival (1930 : c Cleveland, Ohio) \| Cleveland Sesquicentennial (1946 : Cleveland, Ohio) \| Public buildings -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Baseball -- United States -- History. \| Baseball -- United States -- Biography. \| Mental suggestion. \| Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Biography. \| Theater -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Reviews. \| Buildings -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Fairs -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Biography.
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