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Subject | • | Automobile industry and trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | [X] | | • | Automobile industry and trade -- United States. |
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| | • | Automobiles, Steam. |
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| | • | White Motor Company. |
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| | • | White Sewing Machine Company. |
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| | • | White family. |
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| | • | White, Rollin Henry, 1872-1962. |
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| | • | White, Thomas Howard, 1836-1914. |
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| | • | White, Walter Charles, 1876-1929. |
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| | • | White, Windsor Thomas, 1866-1958. |
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| | • | Aluminum Company of America. |
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| | • | Aluminum industry and trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Aluminum industry and trade -- United States. |
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| | • | Asheton, Mabel White Hammer. |
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| | • | Automobile industry workers -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Automobiles -- Motors -- Pistons and piston rings. |
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| | • | Automobiles -- Motors -- Technological innovations. |
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| | • | Automobiles -- Parts -- Patents. |
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| | • | Automobiles -- Parts. |
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| | • | Automobiles -- Technological innovations. |
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| | • | General Motors Corporation Sit-Down Strike, 1936-1937. |
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| | • | General Motors Corporation. Fisher Body Division. Plant No. 1 (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Archives. |
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| | • | General Motors automobiles. |
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| | • | Hammer, Maud White. |
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| | • | Hammer, William J. |
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| | • | Harris, James Armstrong. |
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| | • | Harris, Mabel White. |
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| | • | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History -- Sources. |
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| | • | International Union, United Automobile, Aircraft, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America. Local 45 (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | Jardine, Frank, 1888-1963. |
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| | • | King, Betty, collector. |
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| | • | King, Elizabeth White. |
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| | • | Plant shutdowns -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Sewing-machine industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Strikes and lockouts -- Automobile industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Temperance -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | White, Katharine Elizabeth King. |
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| | Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1 | Title: | Peerless Motor Car Company Records
| | | | Creator: | Peerless Motor Car Company | | | | Dates: | 1911-1943 | | | | Abstract: | The Peerless Motor Car Company was founded as the Peerless Wringer and Manufacturing Company. in 1889 on the east side of Cleveland, Ohio. The company produced washing machine wringers into the late 1890's until it began bicycle production. In 1903, The Peerless Manufacturing Company. was renamed The Peerless Motor Car Company to reflect its new focus on automobile parts and construction. The company specialized in luxury car manufacturing and thrived for two decades. Peerless also profited from truck manufacture and sales, particularly during World War I. New marketing strategies, however, could not offset the economic decline of the Great Depression; the company dissolved in 1931 and its last president arranged to have the Carling Brewing Company use the factory to produce beer. The collection consists of appraisals, catalogs, correspondence, memoranda, and minutes. | | | | Call #: | MS 5333 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Automobile industry and trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Temperance -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2 | Title: | General Motors Corporation, Fisher Body Division, Plant No. 1 Records
| | | | Creator: | General Motors Corporation, Fisher Body Division, Plant No. 1 | | | | Dates: | 1920-1983 | | | | Abstract: | The Fisher Body Division, Plant No. 1, was a Cleveland, Ohio, automobile plant opened in 1921 as part of the Fisher Body Company, producing automobile bodies. In 1926 it became part of General Motors Corporation. During World War II the plant produced tank and gun parts and engine parts for airplanes, wartime employment totaling 14,000, including a large number of women. After the war the plant produced large stamping dies and upholstery and trim sets rather than auto bodies. GM closed the plant in 1983. The plant was involved in several bitter strikes during the 1930s, including the 1936-1937 sit-down strike to gain union recognition by GM, which began at the plant. The plant was also known as the Coit Road Plant. The collection consists of correspondence and notices, building permits and floor plans, in-house newspapers, union correspondence and notices, and union publications. There is also a large collection of newspaper clippings relating to General Motors products, labor activities, and the closing of the plant. | | | | Call #: | MS 4310 | | | | Extent: | 1.10 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | General Motors Corporation. Fisher Body Division. Plant No. 1 (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Archives. | International Union, United Automobile, Aircraft, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America. Local 45 (Cleveland, Ohio) | Automobile industry and trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Automobile industry and trade -- United States. | General Motors automobiles. | Automobile industry workers -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Strikes and lockouts -- Automobile industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Plant shutdowns -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | General Motors Corporation Sit-Down Strike, 1936-1937. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History -- Sources.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 3 | Title: | Rollin H. White and Walter C. White Papers
| | | | Creator: | White, Rollin H. and Walter C. | | | | Dates: | 1895-1980 | | | | Abstract: | Rollin H. White and Walter C. White were sons of Thomas H. White, founder of the White Sewing Machine Company of Cleveland, Ohio. Rollin and Walter White, along with their brother Windsor, were involved with the early design and manufacture of automobiles. In 1899, Rollin H. White developed a steam boiler useful for powering automobiles, and in 1900 the White Steamer automobile was introduced. In 1906 the White Company, a firm separate from their father's White Sewing Machine Company, was formed by the brothers to manufacture automobiles and other vehicles. It later became the White Motor Company. The collection consists of correspondence, engineering notes, test data, newspaper clippings, a patent, a memoriam booklet, obituaries, blueprints, and reports. | | | | Call #: | MS 4734 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | White, Rollin Henry, 1872-1962. | White, Walter Charles, 1876-1929. | White family. | White, Thomas Howard, 1836-1914. | White, Windsor Thomas, 1866-1958. | White Sewing Machine Company. | White Motor Company. | Automobiles, Steam. | Automobile industry and trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 4 | Title: | Frank Jardine Papers
| | | | Creator: | Jardine, Frank | | | | Dates: | 1921-1963 | | | | Abstract: | Frank Jardine was a pioneer in the development of aluminum as a material for automotive parts, especially the automobile piston. Jardine was manager of Alcoa's Cleveland Developmental Division, 1940-1953, and held numerous patents for automobile parts manufactured from aluminum. In the late 1920s, Jardine helped to develop the Peerless V-16, a luxury automobile made from aluminum components, but the car never went into production. The collection consists of testimonial letters upon Jardine's retirement in 1955, but also includes speeches, technical articles, and news clippings relating to Jardine's career, the aluminum industry and its role in automobile manufacturing, technological developments in the industry, and Cleveland's contributions to that industry. | | | | Call #: | MS 4510 | | | | Extent: | 0.21 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Jardine, Frank, 1888-1963. | Aluminum Company of America. | Aluminum industry and trade -- United States. | Aluminum industry and trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Automobile industry and trade -- United States. | Automobile industry and trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Automobiles -- Parts. | Automobiles -- Parts -- Patents. | Automobiles -- Technological innovations. | Automobiles -- Motors -- Pistons and piston rings. | Automobiles -- Motors -- Technological innovations.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 5 | Title: | Thomas H. White Family Papers Collected by Betty King
| | | | Creator: | White, Thomas H. Family | | | | Dates: | 1638-1992 | | | | Abstract: | Thomas Howard White (1836-1914) was the founder of the White Sewing Machine Company, the While Motor Company, and the Thomas H. White Foundation, all of Cleveland, Ohio. He was born in Massachusetts, part of the White family which had immigrated from England ca. 1638. He moved to Cleveland in 1867. In 1876 he, his half-brother Howard W. White, and Rollin C. White (no relation) incorporated the White Sewing Machine Company. In 1899, his son Rollin Henry White invented the White steam car, put into production by the White Sewing Machine Company in 1900. In 1906, The automobile division was separated from the Sewing Machine Company as the White Company, later the White Motor Company. He and his wife, Almira Greenleaf White, had eight children; Mabel Almira Harris (wife of James Armstrong Harris), Alice Maud Hammer (wife of William Joseph Hammer), Windsor Thomas White, Clarence Greenleaf White, Rollin Henry White, Walter Charles White, and Ella Almira Ford (wife of Horatio Ford). The collection consists of a copy of the publication, Descendants of Thomas White, Volume II , written for Elizabeth White King by Betty King and Alice Coyle Lunn. The documentation collected during research for this book makes up the rest of the collection. It includes copies of wills, deeds, and patents; original correspondence and transcripts of correspondence of members of the White family; travel scrapbooks and a baby scrapbook; diaries; unpublished manuscripts; book; newspaper clippings; drawings; maps; oral history transcripts and memoirs; reports of Dr. Lunn to Betty King concerning her genealogical and historic research; and genealogical questionnaires filled out by family members. | | | | Call #: | MS 4725 | | | | Extent: | 3.20 linear feet (6 containers) | | | | Subjects: | King, Betty, collector. | White family. | White, Thomas Howard, 1836-1914. | White, Rollin Henry, 1872-1962. | White, Walter Charles, 1876-1929. | White, Windsor Thomas, 1866-1958. | King, Elizabeth White. | Harris, Mabel White. | Harris, James Armstrong. | Hammer, William J. | Hammer, Maud White. | White, Katharine Elizabeth King. | Asheton, Mabel White Hammer. | White Sewing Machine Company. | White Motor Company. | Automobiles, Steam. | Automobile industry and trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Sewing-machine industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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