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| | Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1482 | 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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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1483 | Title: | John Henry Mathews Papers
| | | | Creator: | Mathews, John Henry | | | | Dates: | 1807-1861 | | | | Abstract: | John Henry Mathews (1785-1862) was the first doctor in Painesville, Ohio. He married Martha Devotion Huntington, the daughter of Ohio's third governor. Dr. Mathews had a pharmaceutical company with Jedediah Hills and a medical practice with his half-brother, Dr David Mathews. He was also an abolitionist and suspected member of the Undrground Railroad. The collection consists of correspondence of John H. Mathews, Jedediah Hills and Charles B. Storrs, miscellaneous papers of Alfred, Rodney and Samuel Mathews, Wills of John and Martha Mathews, contracts, legal notices, transcripts, partnership papers, accounts, orders, bills, receipts, appraisals, financial notes, tax statements and receipts, daybooks, indices, ledgers, invoice and account books, and material relating to Dr. David Mathews. | | | | Call #: | MS 3891 | | | | Extent: | 1.80 linear feet (4 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Mathews, John Henry, 1785-1862. | Mathews family. | Physicians -- Ohio -- Painesville. | Abolitionists -- Ohio.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1484 | Title: | United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, Local 427 Records
| | | | Creator: | United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, Local 427 | | | | Dates: | 1937-1979 | | | | Abstract: | Local 427 of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union was chartered in 1933 in Cleveland, Ohio, as District 427 of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America. It merged with the Retail Clerks International Association in 1979 to form the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. District 427 established the Community Health Foundation in 1964, with the cooperation of the Retail Clerks Local 880. The Foundation merged with Kaiser in 1969. The collection consists of minutes, newsletters, correspondence, convention proceedings, reports, contracts, clippings, financial and membership records, subject files, papers of presidents Sam Pollock and Frank Cimino, and records of or material pertaining to affiliated locals and unions, including Amalgamated Meat Cutters Local 500, Cleveland Fur Workers Local 86, The Canton Federation of Labor and the Cleveland AFL-CIO. | | | | Call #: | MS 3892 | | | | Extent: | 63.60 linear feet (65 containers) | | | | Subjects: | United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. Local 427 (Cleveland, Ohio) | Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clerks (Retail trade) -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Butchers -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Food industry and trade -- Employees -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements. | Civil rights -- United States. | Health maintenance organizations -- United States.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1485 | Title: | Hudson Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Hudson Family | | | | Dates: | 1799-1836 | | | | Abstract: | David Hudson, Sr. (1761-1836) was the founder of Hudson, Ohio and a member of the party which came from Litchfield, Connecticut to survey and organize Hudson in 1799. He returned in 1800 with a colonizing party which included his family. David Jr. and Anner Mary were two of his children. The collection consists of David Hudson, Sr.'s journal and account book (1799-1801), which describes the surveying party's trip from Connecticut to Hudson, Ohio and Hudson's return trip; ten of David Hudson, Jr.'s journals (1820-1836) describing farm life in early Hudson, Ohio; and Anner Mary Hudson Baldwin's recipe book (1830). | | | | Call #: | MS 3893 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Hudson family. | Hudson, David, 1761-1836. | Baldwin, Anner Mary Hudson, 1800-1892. | Farm life -- Ohio -- Hudson. | Frontier and pioneer life -- Ohio. | Pioneers -- Ohio -- Hudson -- Diaries. | Farmers -- Ohio -- Hudson -- Diaries. | Cookery, American. | Hudson (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. | Hudson (Ohio) -- Genealogy. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. | Ohio -- Description and travel. | United States -- Description and travel -- 1783-1848.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1486 | Title: | Ignatius M. Jarzynski Papers
| | | | Creator: | Jarzynski, Ignatius M. | | | | Dates: | 1904-1942 | | | | Abstract: | Ignatius M. Jarzynski (1888-1942) was a physician prominent in the Polish-American community of Cleveland, Ohio. He was a founding member of the Medical and Dental Arts Club, president of the League of Polish Organizations, and a trustee of the Musical Arts Association. His wife, Helen Conrad Jarzynski, was also active in Polish organizations, as well as serving on the Women's Committee of the Cleveland Orchestra. The collection consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, publications, and certificates relating to Dr. Jarzynski's career, and, in part, to that of his wife. The correspondence, 1917-1942, includes letters from Ohio Attorney General John W. Bricker regarding draft board examinations during World War I, and an acknowledgment of condolences from Ignace Jan Paderewski. In addition, the collection contains the minutes, 1916-1922, of the Medical and Dental Arts Club, handwritten in Polish, mimeographed minutes, 1934-1939, of the annual meetings of the Musical Arts Association, and miscellaneous materials relating to the League of Polish Organizations. | | | | Call #: | MS 3894 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Jarzynski, Ignatius M., 1888-1942. | Jarzynski, Helen Conrad. | Medical and Dental Arts Club (Ohio) | Musical Arts Association (Cleveland, Ohio) | League of Polish Organizations (Cleveland, Ohio) | Cleveland Orchestra. | Polish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Polish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. | Music -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. | Medicine -- Ohio -- Societies, etc. | Clubs -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1488 | Title: | Jan Amos Komensky Hall Records
| | | | Creator: | Jan Amos Komensky Hall | | | | Dates: | 1920-1976 | | | | Abstract: | The Jan Amos Komensky Hall was a meeting hall located at 3613 East 131st Street, in Cleveland, Ohio. It was built in 1915 to provide meeting facilities for the Czech population of the Corlett Avenue area of Cleveland, and was named after the Bohemian educator, Jan Amos Komensky. It was sold in 1976. The collection consists of minutes (1966-1976), ledgers (1921-1976), and anniversary correspondence (1965) of the Hall's Patronat (representative governing board); bylaws (1921 and 1928), minutes (1927-1941 and 1956-1968), and ledgers (1921-1962) of the Czech Freethinkers' School Association, or Sdruzeni Ceskych Svobodomyslnych Skol; and miscellaneous records (1941-1952) of the Freethinker School Parents Association, or Rodicovskeho Sdruzeni Skoly Jan Amos Komensky. | | | | Call #: | MS 3896 | | | | Extent: | 1.00 linear feet (2 containers and 2 oversize volumes) | | | | Subjects: | Sdruzeni Ceskych Svobodomyslnych Skol v Clevelandu, Ohio -- Archives. | Rodicovskeho Sdruzeni Skoly Jan Amos Komensky -- Archives. | Jan Amos Komensky Hall (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Archives. | Halls -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Czech Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Rationalists -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. | Ethnic schools -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1490 | Title: | Freethinkers' Association, Vaclav Snadjr Branch, Minutebook
| | | | Creator: | Freethinkers' Association, Vaclav Snadjr Branch | | | | Dates: | 1930-1957 | | | | Abstract: | The Vaclav Snadjr Branch was the Cleveland, Ohio, branch of the Freethinkers Association. It was named in honor of Vaclav Snajdr, a Cleveland journalist, publisher, and leader among the Freethinker faction of Czech Americans. The branch dissolved in 1957. The collection consists of one minute book. | | | | Call #: | MS 3898 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Sdruzeni Svobodomyslnych. Svaz Vaclav Snajdr (Cleveland, Ohio) | Czech Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. | Rationalists -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. | Clubs -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1492 | Title: | University Circle, Incorporated, Records
| | | | Creator: | University Circle, Incorporated | | | | Dates: | 1952-1979 | | | | Abstract: | University Circle, Incorporated was created in 1957 as the University Circle Development Foundation to oversee and coordinate development of the University Circle area of Cleveland, Ohio. Becoming University Circle, Incorporated in 1970, it operated under a 20-year master development plan to preserve the physical environment and reinforce the commitment of members to the area. UCI, Inc. serves as a "land bank" for its members, purchasing, leasing and maintaining properties, and reselling land to members to further their development and promote common purposes. UCI, Inc. also acts as a land use and development consultant, initiating and overseeing construction and assisting environmental and historic preservation projects. It maintains parking facilities, a bus service, and a private security service for the area. It has also entered into urban revitalization projects and cultural, educational, and medical programs in order to strengthen and stimulate relationships with the surrounding communities, particularly the Hough and Fairfax areas. Neil J. Carothers served as UCI's first president, followed by Joseph Pigott, Oliver Brooks, Murray Davidson, and others. The collection consists of articles of incorporation; records of the board of trustees and the executive committee (consisting of members' files, correspondence, minutes, operating policies and plans); officers' records (consisting of presidents', vice-presidents', and executive vice-presidents' files, files of the Circle development director, and correspondence); organizational records (consisting of affiliated and member institution files, correspondence, reports and proposals, property files, UCI police dept. files, and miscellany); special project records (consisting of Community Circle Inc. records, Cleveland New-Town-in-Town project records, housing files, general files, including correspondence, reports, blueprints, speeches and purchase orders, University Circle files, architectural and design review consultants' files, and Euclid-Mayfield Triangle Development Project files); and miscellany. Various document types are present, including news bulletins and brochures, newspaper clippings, and photographs. | | | | Call #: | MS 3900 | | | | Extent: | 50.00 linear feet (50 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Carothers, Neil J. | Davidson, Murray M. | University Circle, Incorporated. | University Circle, Incorporated -- Archives. | University Circle Development Foundation -- Archives. | Community Circle, Incorporated -- Archives. | Case Western Reserve University. | Western Reserve University. | University Hospitals of Cleveland (Ohio) | Fairfax Foundation. | Community development, Urban -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | City planning -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Urban renewal -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Land use, Urban -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Associations, institutions, etc. -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Real estate development -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Planned unit developments -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Police, Private -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cultural parks -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | University Circle (Cleveland, Ohio) | Hough (Cleveland, Ohio) | Fairfax (Cleveland, Ohio)
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1494 | Title: | Cuyahoga County Tombstone Inscriptions
| | | | Creator: | Cuyahoga County Cemeteries | | | | Dates: | 1920-1930 | | | | Abstract: | The collection consists of tombstone inscriptions from early Cuyahoga County, Ohio cemeteries, mostly located in Cleveland, including: Broadview Road; Denison Avenue and West 25th Street; Hillside (Valley View); Monroe Street; Old Berea; Old Rockside (Harper family) ; Old Rockport Township (Wagar family) at Saint Charles Street and Detroit Road; Saint Mary's Catholic Church (Berea); and Scranton Road. | | | | Call #: | MS 3902 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Broadview Road Cemetery (Cleveland, Ohio). | Denison Avenue Cemetery (Cleveland, Ohio). | Hillside Cemetery (Valley View, Ohio). | Monroe Street Cemetery (Cleveland, Ohio). | Old Berea Cemetery (Berea, Ohio). | Old Rockside Cemetery (Valley View, Ohio). | Old Rockport Township Cemetery (Lakewood, Ohio). | St. Mary's Catholic Church Cemetery (Berea, Ohio). | Scranton Road Cemetery (Cleveland, Ohio). | Inscriptions -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. | Inscriptions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cemeteries -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. | Cemeteries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cuyahoga County (Ohio) -- Genealogy. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1496 | Title: | Mary P. Parker Album of Poetry
| | | | Creator: | Parker, Mary P. | | | | Dates: | 1855-1860 | | | | Abstract: | Mary P. Parker was probably a student at the Claremont Lyceum, Mount Hygiene, Ohio. The collection consists of a bound volume of poetry, ca. 1855-1860, belonging to Miss Parker, and two enclosed poems, one by "Daisy", the other by "Felicity", 1860. | | | | Call #: | MS 3904 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Poetry.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1497 | Title: | C.A. Hawley Papers
| | | | Creator: | Hawley, C. A. | | | | Dates: | 1820-1840 | | | | Abstract: | C. A. Hawley was a resident of Monroe, Connecticut. The collection consists of a copybook containing poems (some initialed C. A. Hawley), remedies, recipes, the constitution and bylaws of the Dover Debating Society, and the ancestry of the Hawley family by a child (probably a daughter) of Elisha Hawley (b. 1768) and Nancy Blackman Hawley (b. 1772). | | | | Call #: | MS 3905 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Hawley, C. A. | Hawley family. | Debates and debating -- Connecticut -- Monroe -- Societies, etc. | Cookery, American. | Formulas, recipes, etc.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1499 | Title: | Eleanor B. Rainey Memorial Institute Records
| | | | Creator: | Eleanor B. Rainey Memorial Institute | | | | Dates: | 1923-1970 | | | | Abstract: | The Eleanor B. Rainey Memorial Institute is one of the oldest settlement houses in Cleveland, Ohio, first organized by Anna Edwards as a reading and lunch room for boys and workmen in Cleveland's East 55th Street and Superior Avenue area. The institute was named for Eleanor Rainey, whose financial support helped found the settlement in 1904. Following the death of Anna Edwards in 1923, her sister Flora served as director until 1949. The institute joined the Neighborhood Settlement Association in 1959. Since 1967, the institute has attempted to achieve its goals through music, doing so in cooperation with the Cleveland Music School Settlement. The collection consists of materials outlining the history and the 60th anniversary celebration in 1964; trustee, director, and board correspondence, 1938-1966; records detailing the institute's involvement in the Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers Association; building upkeep and renovation records; financial statements; general activities material; and a eulogy for Anna Edwards. | | | | Call #: | MS 3907 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Edwards, Anna, d. 1923. | Eleanor B. Rainey Memorial Institute -- Archives. | Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History -- Sources. | Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History -- Sources. | Hough (Cleveland, Ohio)
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1500 | Title: | Harvey Family Correspondence
| | | | Creator: | Harvey Family | | | | Dates: | 1825-1860 | | | | Abstract: | Jonathan Harvey (1780-1859) was a United States Representative from New Hampshire. In 1833, his second cousin, Moses Harvey, moved with his family from New London, New Hampshire to a farm in Concord Township, Lake County, Ohio (near Painesville), where he served as a county probate judge (1863-1870). Moses' son, Thomas W. Harvey (1794-1870) was a leading Ohio educator and author of grammar books and readers. The collection consists of eight letters (1826-1838) from Jonathan Harvey to Moses Harvey, concerning United States politics and John C. Calhoun; one letter (1833) from Jacob Harvey to Moses Harvey; one letter (1860) from Thomas W. Harvey to Mr. & Mrs. Moses Harvey; and one letter (1825) from Moses Harvey to his wife, Sarah, mentioning a visit from General Lafayette. | | | | Call #: | MS 3908 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850. | Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, 1757-1834. | Harvey family. | Legislators -- United States -- Correspondence. | United States -- Politics and government -- 1815-1861.
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