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1	Title:	Carabelli Company Records and Photographs
	Creator:	Carabelli Company
	Dates:	1850-1999
	Abstract:	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, directories, estimates, financial records, forms, indices, inventories, leases, legislation, lists, memoranda, newsletters, newspaper clippings, notebooks, obituaries, order books, patterns, programs, published books and guides, real estate documents, reports, sketches, tax records, templates, time books, tracings, and wills. The records also contain 685 black and white photographs, 24 color photographs, 70 negatives, 131 slides, and six audio tapes, and 13 cassette tapes.
	Call #:	MS 5315
	Extent:	14.20 linear feet (16 containers and 1 oversize volume)
	Subjects:	Sepulchral monuments industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Italian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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2	Title:	James Fitch Millard Family Papers
	Creator:	Millard, James Fitch Family
	Dates:	1827-1963
	Abstract:	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.
	Call #:	MS 3890
	Extent:	6.61 linear feet (6 containers, 6 oversize volumes, and 1 oversize folder)
	Subjects:	Millard family. \| Undertakers and undertaking -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Italian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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3	Title:	Alta House Records
	Creator:	Alta House
	Dates:	1895-1971
	Abstract:	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.
	Call #:	MS 3401
	Extent:	2.60 linear feet (6 containers and 1 oversize volume)
	Subjects:	Alta House (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Italian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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4	Title:	Fiore D'Isidoro Papers
	Creator:	D'Isidoro, Fiore
	Dates:	1906-1970
	Abstract:	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.
	Call #:	MS 3536
	Extent:	2.40 linear feet (7 containers)
	Subjects:	D'Isidoro, Fiore. \| Italian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Sermons, American. \| Presbyterian Church -- Sermons. \| Churches, Presbyterian -- United States.
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5	Title:	Alta House Records, Series II
	Creator:	Alta House
	Dates:	1963-1974
	Abstract:	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.
	Call #:	MS 4086
	Extent:	0.90 linear feet (3 containers)
	Subjects:	Alta House (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland \| Italian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Social group work
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6	Title:	Freedom Civic Association Records
	Creator:	Freedom Civic Association
	Dates:	1917-1992
	Abstract:	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.
	Call #:	MS 4771
	Extent:	1.95 linear feet (4 containers)
	Subjects:	Freedom Civic Association. \| Italian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Friendly societies -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Insurance, Fraternal -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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7	Title:	Philip Smead Bird Papers
	Creator:	Bird, Philip Smead
	Dates:	1873-1950
	Abstract:	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.
	Call #:	MS 3808
	Extent:	14.80 linear feet (16 containers and 2 oversize volumes)
	Subjects:	Bird, Philip Smead, 1886-1948. \| Clergy -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Presbyterian Church -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Clergy \| Sermons, American. \| Italian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Peace -- Religious aspects.
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8	Title:	Anthony J. Celebrezze Papers
	Creator:	Celebrezze, Anthony J.
	Dates:	1944-1962
	Abstract:	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).
	Call #:	MS 3884
	Extent:	3.40 linear feet (4 containers)
	Subjects:	Celebrezze, Anthony J. (Anthony Joseph), 1910-1998 \| Italian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Public relations -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Municipal government. \| Port districts -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Civil defense. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Public buildings. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Public works. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government.
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9	Title:	Rosanna Costanzo Papers
	Creator:	Costanzo, Rosanna
	Dates:	1880-1979
	Abstract:	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.
	Call #:	MS 5027
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Cardamone Costanzo, Rosanna, 1857-1947. \| Chiodo Cardamone, Maria Francesca, 1882-1942. \| Chiodo, Michele, 1877-1959. \| Chiodo family. \| Italian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Italy -- Emigration and immigration. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Emigration and immigration.
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10	Title:	Italian American Cultural Foundation Records
	Creator:	Italian American Cultural Foundation
	Dates:	1972-2011
	Abstract:	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.
	Call #:	MS 5170
	Extent:	2.40 linear feet (6 containers)
	Subjects:	Italian American Cultural Foundation (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Italian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History. \| Italian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Social life and customs. \| Italian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. \| Italian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Italians -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. \| Italians -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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11	Title:	Alexander L. "Sonny" DeMaioribus Papers
	Creator:	DeMaioribus, Alexander L.
	Dates:	1939-1949
	Abstract:	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 Republican Party, serving as a delegate to the Republican National Convention and chairman of the local GOP executive committee. DeMaioribus worked to honor and emphasize Italian culture in the city of Cleveland through a number of different organizations and initiatives. One of his initiatives included the establishment and dedication of the Italian Cultural Garden. The Italian Cultural Garden was established in 1930, but was not completed. In 1939, DeMaioribus became president of the Italian Cultural Garden Association and the Italian Cultural Garden Sponsors Committee. He initiated fundraising campaigns for the garden as well as directed and oversaw its construction. His efforts came to fruition with the formal dedication of the garden on September 14, 1941. The collection consists of materials related to Alexander L. "Sonny" DeMaioribus' work with the Italian Cultural Garden Association, including correspondence, contracts, newspaper clippings, financial statements, purchase orders, reports, blueprints, speeches, member lists, histories, and invoices.
	Call #:	MS 5080
	Extent:	0.21 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder)
	Subjects:	DeMaioribus, Alexander L., 1898-1968. \| Italian Cultural Garden Association. \| Italian Cultural Garden Committee. \| Italian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Gardens -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Gardens -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Design. \| Parks -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Cleveland Cultural Gardens (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Italian Cultural Garden (Cleveland, Ohio)
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12	Title:	Hiram House Social Settlement Records
	Creator:	Hiram House Social Settlement
	Dates:	1893-1972
	Abstract:	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.
	Call #:	MS 3319
	Extent:	38.00 linear feet (78 containers and 17 oversize volumes)
	Subjects:	Hiram House Social Settlement (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Recreation centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| School facilities -- Extended use -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Camps -- Ohio -- Chagrin Falls. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Italian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions.
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13	Title:	Anthony J. Celebrezze Papers, Series II
	Creator:	Celebrezze, Anthony J.
	Dates:	1929-1977
	Abstract:	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.
	Call #:	MS 4046
	Extent:	24.51 linear feet (22 containers, 23 oversize volumes, and 1 oversize folder)
	Subjects:	Celebrezze, Anthony J. (Anthony Joseph), 1910-1998 \| Cleveland (Ohio). Mayor. \| Italian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Urban renewal -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Political campaigns -- Ohio. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Appropriations and expenditures. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Civil defense. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Officials and employees. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Public works. \| Streets -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Transit systems. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. \| Ohio -- Politics and government. \| United States -- Social policy.
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14	Title:	Carmela Caferelli Papers
	Creator:	Cafarelli, Carmela
	Dates:	1912-1976
	Abstract:	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 Northeast Ohio. Cafarelli stopped performing in 1945, but continued to head her opera company and became a leading philanthropist and promoter of the arts in Cleveland. The collection consists of memoirs; family histories; notes; musical scores and manuscripts of compositions; an address book; correspondence; catalogues; student notebooks; poetry; scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings, reviews of performances, and articles; programs; and a travel journal. Included are musical compositions by Carmela Cafarelli; her father, Rocco Cafarelli; and her teacher, Henry B. Fabiani.
	Call #:	MS 4719
	Extent:	0.80 linear feet (3 containers)
	Subjects:	Cafarelli, Carmela. \| Cafarelli, Rocco. \| Fabiani, Henry B. \| Cafarelli Opera Company. \| Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Women musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Opera companies -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Opera -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Harpists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Singers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Italian American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Italian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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15	Title:	Greater Cleveland Ethnographic Museum Records
	Creator:	Greater Cleveland Ethnographic Museum
	Dates:	1971-1990
	Abstract:	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.
	Call #:	MS 5175
	Extent:	19.42 linear feet (21 containers, 1 oversize folder, and 1 film canister)
	Subjects:	African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| American Revolution Bicentennial, 1776-1976 -- Exhibitions. \| Chinese Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Emigration and immigration \| Croatian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Greater Cleveland Ethnographic Museum \| Greeks -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Hungarian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland \| Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Interviews. \| Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland \| Indians of North America -- Ohio -- Cleveland \| Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Italian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland \| Lithuanians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Macedonian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland \| Oral histories. \| Russians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Serbian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Slovenian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland \| Syrian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Ukrainian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland
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