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| | Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1501 | Title: | Richard Howe Survey Book
| | | | Creator: | Howe, Richard | | | | Dates: | 1829-1833 | | | | Abstract: | Richard Howe (1799-1872) was an engineer for the Ohio & Erie Canal, 1824-1850. The collection consists of a survey book which records a survey of May 24, 1829, of the northern part of the Ohio and Erie Canal (the 39 miles from Cleveland to Summit Lake in Akron). It contains bearings, distances between stations, mile markers, and notes. A note dated July, 1833 states that iron in the locks may cause errors in measurements. | | | | Call #: | MS 3909 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Howe, Richard, 1799-1872. | Ohio and Erie Canal (Ohio) | Canals -- Ohio. | Ohio -- Surveys.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1503 | Title: | Maison Francaise de Cleveland Records
| | | | Creator: | Maison Francaise de Cleveland | | | | Dates: | 1926-1980 | | | | Abstract: | Maison Francaise de Cleveland was founded in 1918 by Emile B. De Sauze in Cleveland, Ohio. The organization sought to promote cultural relations between Cleveland and France by encouraging the study of French culture, language, art and literature, by publishing information regarding these studies, and by assisting professors, teachers and students in their activities. The collection consists of correspondence, membership lists, newsletters, a scrapbook, programs, and information concerning the group's organization and bylaws. | | | | Call #: | MS 3911 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Maison Francaise de Cleveland -- Archives. | French language -- Study and teaching -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | France -- Civilization -- Study and teaching -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. | Clubs -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1504 | Title: | Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company Records
| | | | Creator: | Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company | | | | Dates: | 1849-1909 | | | | Abstract: | The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company was formed in 1869 by the merger of four railroads, the Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana, the Cleveland and Toledo, the Cleveland, Painesville and Ashtabula, and the Buffalo and Erie. In 1914 it was merged into the New York Central system. The collection consists of financial records of predecessor or subsidiary railroads which formed the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern system. | | | | Call #: | MS 3912 | | | | Extent: | 1.00 linear feet (64 reels of microfilm) | | | | Subjects: | Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company. | Railroads -- United States -- Finance.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1505 | Title: | Cyrus S. Eaton Papers
| | | | Creator: | Eaton, Cyrus S. | | | | Dates: | 1901-1978 | | | | Abstract: | Cyrus Stephen Eaton (1883-1979) was a prominent Canadian-American capitalist and financier. He was an outspoken critic of other businessmen, supporter of labor, promoter of better U.S.-Soviet relations, and organizer of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. The collection consists of correspondence, pamphlets, annual reports, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, notes, office memoranda, speeches, writings, appointment diaries and calendars, scrapbooks, documents, publications, cartoons, honorary degrees, certificates, maps, and surveys, relating to Eaton's business, political, and personal affairs. | | | | Call #: | MS 3913 | | | | Extent: | 422.50 linear feet (424 containers and 4 oversize folders) | | | | Subjects: | Eaton, Cyrus Stephen, 1883-1979. | Eaton family. | United Nations. | United States. Securities and Exchange Commission. | Banks and banking -- United States. | East-West trade (1945- ). | Industrial relations -- United States. | Railroads -- United States. | Nuclear disarmament. | International relations. | Industry and state -- United States. | Iron mines and mining -- United States. | United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union. | Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1506 | Title: | Cleveland Music School Settlement Records
| | | | Creator: | Cleveland Music School Settlement | | | | Dates: | 1912-1974 | | | | Abstract: | The Cleveland Music School Settlement was founded in 1912 to provide music lessons to children of Cleveland, Ohio, of limited means. In 1920 the Settlement became a member of the Welfare Federation of Cleveland. In 1988 it included an Extension Program with several branches. Programs included Music Therapy, Special Education, a nursery, an advisory committee to aid other institutions, and a consortium with area universities. The collection consists of articles of incorporation, regulations, by-laws, Trustee and Executive Committee minutes, annual reports, Faculty and Finance Committee reports, studies of settlement programs, correspondence, bulletins and catalogs. | | | | Call #: | MS 3914 | | | | Extent: | 1.40 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Cleveland Music School Settlement. | Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Music -- Instruction and study -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Music -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Endowments.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1507 | Title: | Cleveland State Hospital, Music Therapy Advisory Committee Records
| | | | Creator: | Cleveland State Hospital, Music Therapy Advisory Committee | | | | Dates: | 1949-1975 | | | | Abstract: | The Music Therapy Advisory Committee of the Cleveland State Hospital was founded in 1952 to help the Junior League of Cleveland, Ohio, develop a music therapy program which would serve the patients of Cleveland State Hospital. The group assisted in selecting personnel and promoting an accredited training program. The collection consists of articles of incorporation, histories, list of members, minutes, reports, correspondence, articles on music therapy, treasurer's reports, material on benefit recitals, and material relating to a film on music therapy. | | | | Call #: | MS 3915 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Cleveland State Hospital. Music Therapy Advisory Committee -- Archives. | Music therapy -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Music therapy.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1509 | Title: | Cleveland City Hospital Society Records
| | | | Creator: | Cleveland City Hospital Society | | | | Dates: | 1868-1873 | | | | Abstract: | The Cleveland City Hospital Society was established in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1863 by the Ladies' Society of the Old Stone Church, and called the Home for the Friendless. It offered care and assistance to victims of the American Civil War, many of whom were homeless Southern refugees. It was incorporated in 1866 as the Cleveland City Hospital Society, with the aim of founding a hospital. A house on Wilson Street was rented in 1866 and called the Wilson Street Hospital. The Society changed its name to the Wilson Street Hospital Association. Wilson Street Hospital was later renamed Cleveland City Hospital. In 1888 it was renamed Lakeside Hospital. In 1925 Lakeside Hospital joined University Hospitals of Cleveland (now known as University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center. The collection consists of minutes of the Boards of Trustees of Cleveland City Hospital (1868-1869) and the Wilson Street Hospital Association (1870-1873). Attached to the minute book are several newspaper clippings about the Hospital, ca. 1871. | | | | Call #: | MS 3917 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Cleveland City Hospital Society. | Cleveland City Hospital. | Wilson Street Hospital (Cleveland, Ohio) | Hospitals -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women in charitable work.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1510 | Title: | Travel Journal
| | | | Creator: | Anonymous | | | | Dates: | 1829 | | | | Abstract: | The collection consists of a travel journal detailing a trip made by an anonymous young man from Boston, Massachusetts, to Zanesville, Ohio, September 1-29, 1829. The traveler stopped for commencement at Brown University, then proceeded through New York state, visiting prisons at Sing Sing and Auburn, staying with Cyrus Howard, a farmer in Morrisville, New York, and visiting Niagra Falls. He continued on to visit Cleveland, Canton, Zoar and Zanesville, Ohio, providing a detailed description of the communal settlement at Zoar. | | | | Call #: | MS 3918 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Society of Separatists of Zoar. | Prisons -- New York (State) | New York (State) -- Description and travel. | Ohio -- Description and travel.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1511 | Title: | William Davis Saunders Sermons
| | | | Creator: | Saunders, William Davis | | | | Dates: | 1853-1854 | | | | Abstract: | William Davis Saunders (1821-1897) was the pastor of the First Congregational Church in Ravenna, Ohio, and an 1851 graduate of Western Reserve Theological Seminary. He later moved to Jacksonville, Illinois where he taught at Illinois College, 1854, founded the Young Ladies Athenaeum in 1864, and the Illinois Conservatory of Music in 1872. The collection consists of a bound volume containing two anti-slavery sermons delivered by Rev. Saunders in Ravenna, Ohio, in 1853 and 1854. The first, entitled "Slavery", illustrates the wave of anti-slavery feeling prevalent in northeastern Ohio in 1853. The second, "Freedom for Nebraska and Kansas", denounces the Kansas-Nebraska Bill as a satanic plot to extend slavery to the western territories. | | | | Call #: | MS 3919 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Saunders, William Davis, 1821-1897. | Slavery -- United States -- Sermons. | Slavery -- United States -- Extension to the territories. | Slavery and the church -- Ohio -- Ravenna.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1512 | Title: | Family Service Association of Cleveland Records
| | | | Creator: | Family Service Association of Cleveland | | | | Dates: | 1867-1977 | | | | Abstract: | The Family Service Association of Cleveland was founded in 1867 as the Cleveland Bethel Union in Cleveland, Ohio. It extended its services to all the city's poor, transients and unemployed in 1873 and renamed itself the Bethel Relief Association. It merged in 1884 with the Charity Organization Society (founded 1881) and was renamed Bethel Associated Charities, with the added function of investigation and registration of all cases. In 1900 it changed its name to Cleveland Associated Charities and began an era of modern social casework. In 1945 it adopted a new name, Family Service Association, and changed its focus from relief to professional casework services. It merged in 1976 with the Travelers Aid Society and various day care centers to form the Center for Human Services. The collection consists of minutes, budgets, correspondence, financial statements, case books, reports, letters to staff, statistical reports, annual reports, newsletters, pamphlets, agency operational manuals, payroll records, membership lists, speech notes, and scrapbooks relating to the association's history and operation and to James F. Jackson's leadership. | | | | Call #: | MS 3920 | | | | Extent: | 18.20 linear feet (18 containers and 3 oversize volumes) | | | | Subjects: | Family Service Association of Cleveland. | Social service -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Food relief -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Relief stations for the poor -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Community welfare councils -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Community organization -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social service exchanges -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social work administration -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1513 | Title: | Charles Edward Bostwick Papers
| | | | Creator: | Bostwick, Charles Edward | | | | Dates: | 1844-1877 | | | | Abstract: | Charles Edward Bostwick (1815-1877) was an Ohio farmer, mason, builder, and proprietor of a manufacturing and tin shop, who supported the antislavery campaign and colonization movement. The collection consists of a journal, photographer's formula book, and two incomplete, undated versions of a speech given before the local auxiliary of the American Colonization Society. | | | | Call #: | MS 3921 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Bostwick, Charles Edward, 1815-1877. | Antislavery movements -- United States. | African Americans -- Colonization. | Photography -- Formulae, tables, etc.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1514 | Title: | Children's Aid Society Records
| | | | Creator: | Children's Aid Society | | | | Dates: | 1858-1977 | | | | Abstract: | The Children's Aid Society was the first organization in Cleveland, Ohio, dedicated to the care and education of poor children. Established in 1854, the society initially operated three industrial schools and worked to find homes for orphans. By 1876, efforts were concentrated toward a school and farm on Detroit Road donated by Eliza Jennings, and under the presidency of Truman Handy and later Daniel Eells, the society became an orphanage. In the 1920s, the society turned its attention to becoming a mental health center for retarded, neurotic, and psychopathic children. The society developed into a fully accredited, residential treatment center for emotionally disturbed children by the 1960s. The collection consists of administrative records (including constitutions, charters, histories, annual reports, executive, membership and staff lists, brochures, reports, studies and policy statements, minutes, correspondence, property records and other records of the Executive Board and other committees), financial and legal records, children's registration and daily records, journals, and miscellany. The collection highlights the early institutional care of needy, orphaned and emotionally ill children, as well as the daily operation of one of Cleveland's oldest child welfare agencies. Included are some psychiatric studies relating to disturbed children. The collection also provides a significant glimpse at Cleveland's 19th century philanthropists who served as founders, leaders and donors of the society, including Truman P. Handy, Daniel P. Eells, Samuel Mather, Amasa Stone, Eliza Jennings, John D. Rockefeller, Leonard Case, Jr., and others. | | | | Call #: | MS 3923 | | | | Extent: | 5.60 linear feet (9 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Children's Aid Society (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Archives. | Eliza Jennings Home -- History. | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Child welfare -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. | Mentally ill children -- Care -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Orphanages -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Children -- Institutional care -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Trade schools -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Child psychotherapy -- Residential treatment -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Child psychiatry -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1515 | Title: | Leon Wiesenfeld Papers
| | | | Creator: | Wiesenfeld, Leon | | | | Dates: | 1911-1971 | | | | Abstract: | Leon Wiesenfeld (1885-1971) was a Polish Jew and journalist who emigrated to the United States with his wife, Esther Amsterdam. They settled in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1925 and Leon became a publisher and editor of several Jewish publications, as well as the Anglo-Jewish magazine, the Jewish Voice Pictorial. His wife's niece, Sandra Amsterdam, came to live with them in 1938. She married Walter Lowy during World War II. Her father, Adolf Amsterdam, who had been a Soviet prisoner, and her brother, Josef, were the only members of her family to survive the Holocaust. Walter Lowy's cousin, Alice Fluss, corresponded first from Germany and later from Israel, where she immigrated after the war. The collection consists of correspondence, legal documents, three works of fiction by Wiesenfeld, memorabilia, newspaper clippings, and a scrapbook of clippings. Correspondents include Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, Adolf Amsterdam, Josef Amsterdam, other members of the Amsterdam family, and Alice Fluss. | | | | Call #: | MS 3924 | | | | Extent: | 0.80 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Wiesenfeld, Leon, 1885-1971. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish journalists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland. | Holocaust surviviors -- Poland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1516 | Title: | Jewish Library Association of Cleveland Records
| | | | Creator: | Jewish Library Association of Cleveland | | | | Dates: | 1955-1979 | | | | Abstract: | The Jewish Library Association of Cleveland was founded in 1955 by librarians from eight Cleveland Jewish institutions and called Librarians of Jewish Institutions of Cleveland, Ohio. Its aim was to promote and improve library services in Cleveland's Jewish community. The name was changed to Jewish Library Association in 1962. The Jewish Library Association of Cleveland was a main organizer of the national Association of Jewish Libraries. The collection consists of constitutions, minutes, correspondence, membership lists, financial reports, yearly program agendas, newspaper clippings and brochures. A major topic of the correspondence is the Association of Jewish Libraries' second national convention, held in Cleveland in 1964. | | | | Call #: | MS 3925 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Jewish Library Association of Cleveland. | Jewish libraries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Library associations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Librarians, Jewish -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1517 | Title: | Beth Israel - The West Temple Records
| | | | Creator: | Beth Israel - The West Temple | | | | Dates: | 1923-1981 | | | | Abstract: | Beth Israel - The West Temple was organized in 1954 to serve Reform Jews on the west side of Cleveland, Ohio. The West Side Jewish Center was organized as Bعnai Israel in 1910. It incorporated as the West Side Jewish Center in 1940. Originally an Orthodox congregation, it joined the Conservative movement in 1953. The two congregations merged as a Reform congregation in 1957 and occupy the building they financed together on Triskett Avenue. The collection consists of correspondence, minutes, constitutions, by-laws, articles of incorporation, the agreement for consolidation, financial records, membership lists, bulletins, directories, legal documents, brochures, programs, newspaper clippings, building records, cemetery records and miscellany relating to Beth Israel - The West Temple and to the West Side Jewish Center. | | | | Call #: | MS 3926 | | | | Extent: | 2.00 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Beth Israel - The West Temple (Cleveland, Ohio) | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Synagogues -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Organization and administration. | Reform Judaism -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Registers of births, etc. -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1518 | Title: | Orrel A. Parker Papers
| | | | Creator: | Parker, Orrel A. | | | | Dates: | 1899-1941 | | | | Abstract: | Orrel A. Parker (1873-1965) was the President of the Parker Wheel Company in Cleveland, Ohio, who also served as an Aeronautical Mechanical Engineer in charge of technical records for the Air Service during World War I. He was largely responsible for the War Department's investigation of irregularities between the Lubrication Department and the Air Division of the Signal Corps. The collection consists of fiscal material, memoranda, official reports, technical material and correspondence relating to Parker's involvement in the wheel industry and air service. | | | | Call #: | MS 3927 | | | | Extent: | 3.81 linear feet (4 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Parker, Orrel A., 1873-1965. | Wheels. | Automobiles -- Wheels. | Aeronautics, Military -- United States. | Airplanes -- Lubrication.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1519 | Title: | Ayduth Lachayim = Witness to Life : Holocaust Survivors in the Cleveland Jewish Community Records
| | | | Creator: | Holocaust Education and Commemoration Committee | | | | Dates: | 1981 | | | | Abstract: | Ayduth Lachayim (Witness to Life) is a manuscript documenting the experiences of 178 Holocaust survivors who resided in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1981. The project was coordinated by the Holocaust Education and Commemoration Committee. A copy of the manuscript was presented to the archives of the Yad Vashem Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority in Jerusalem, Israel, by a delegation of more than 100 survivors from Cleveland, during the World Gathering of Holocaust Survivors in June, 1981. The collection consists of the original transcript, a handwritten draft, drafts of the introduction, correspondence from Yad Vashem acknowledging the receipt of a copy of the manuscript, and a statement by Jacob Henenberg to the Jewish Community Federation concerning the World Gathering of Holocaust Survivors. | | | | Call #: | MS 3928 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Holocaust survivors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1520 | Title: | American Zionist Federation of Cleveland Records
| | | | Creator: | American Zionist Federation of Cleveland | | | | Dates: | 1969-1980 | | | | Abstract: | The American Zionist Federation of Cleveland, Ohio, was established in 1970 as a regional office of the American Zionist Federation, a coordinating organization for existing Zionist groups. The Cleveland office was originally called the Cleveland Zionist Federation, but the name was changed to the American Zionist Federation of Cleveland in 1976. It ceased operations in 1980. The collection consists of minutes, correspondence, Board lists and nominations, annual meeting information and reports, treasurer's reports and budgets, reports and information concerning the biennial national convention, general membership files, memoranda, directives, brochures, circulars, reports, program files, advertisements, flyers, press releases and newspaper clippings. | | | | Call #: | MS 3929 | | | | Extent: | 3.30 linear feet (4 containers) | | | | Subjects: | American Zionist Federation of Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Zionism -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Zionism -- United States.
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