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| | Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2161 | Title: | Helen Newell Garfield Papers
| | | | Creator: | Garfield, Helen Newell | | | | Dates: | 1882-1930 | | | | Abstract: | Helen Newell Garfield was the daughter of John Newell, president of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, and Julia Poore Hills. She married James Rudolph Garfield, son of President James A. Garfield, in 1890, and had four sons; John N., James A., Rudolph H., and Newell. Helen was an advocate for the education and treatment of deaf children. She herself had become deaf around 1918. She ran the Lake Erie School of Speech Reading, and was an officer of the Cleveland Association for the Hard of Hearing and the American Federation of Organizations for the Hard of Hearing. Helen Newell Garfield died in 1930. The collection consists of speeches, notebooks, reprints, programs, newspaper clippings, memorabilia, and scrapbooks. One of the scrapbooks was compiled by Helen Newell Garfield on her father, John Newell, detailing his career as president of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad and containing many family photographs. The other scrapbook provides a picture of the social life of Helen Newell Garfield as an upper class Chicago, Illinois school girl and debutante. Also included is material detailing her work with the American Federation of Organizations for Hard of Hearing, and her personal notebook on speech lessons. | | | | Call #: | MS 4572 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Garfield, Helen Newell, 1866-1930. | Garfield, James Rudolph, 1865-1950. | Newell, John. | Garfield family. | Newell family. | American Hearing Society. | Lake Erie School of Speech Reading. | Cleveland Association for the Hard of Hearing. | Hearing impaired -- United States. | Hearing impaired -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Hearing impaired children -- United States. | Hearing impaired children -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Deaf -- Means of communication. | Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2162 | Title: | James Rudolph Garfield Papers
| | | | Creator: | Garfield, James Rudolph | | | | Dates: | 1879-1909 | | | | Abstract: | James Rudolph Garfield was the son of United States President James A. Garfield and Lucretia Rudolph Garfield. He graduated from Williams College and Columbia Law School, and practiced law in Cleveland, Ohio, with his brother, Harry Augustus Garfield. James married Helen Newell in 1890. They had four sons; John N., James A., Rudolph, and Newell. He served in the Ohio Senate 1896-1900, and was appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt to the U.S. Civil Service Commission in 1902, and to the Department of Commerce and Labor, as the first commissioner of Corporations, 1903-1907. He then served as Roosevelt's Secretary of the Interior from 1907-1909. He backed Roosevelt's New Progressive Party in 1912, and was defeated as the reform candidate for Ohio governor in 1914. He resumed his Cleveland law practice, became prominent in local Republican politics, and was a member of several civic organizations, including the Chamber of Commerce, the Western Reserve Historical Society, the Cleveland Association for the Hard of Hearing, and the Cleveland Foundation. The collection consists of three scrapbooks of photographs, mementos, invitations, programs, reprints, family history, correspondence, newspaper clippings, political cartoons, and cards from his college years, early married life, and life in Washington. The scrapbooks also cover the career of Garfield's father-in-law, John Newell, president of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, and contain reprints, memorials, and photographs of Poore, Hills, Garfield, Rudolph, and Ballou family members, and of Lawnfield, the Garfield family home in Mentor, Ohio. The scrapbooks provide a picture of Garfield's college life and early career, and of Washington social life during the administration of President Theodore Roosevelt, as well as cartoon and newspaper commentary of Garfield's activities. | | | | Call #: | MS 4573 | | | | Extent: | 0.60 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Garfield, James Rudolph, 1865-1950. | Garfield, Helen Newell, 1866-1930. | Newell, John. | Garfield family. | Newell family. | Poor family. | Hill family. | Rudolph family. | Ballou family. | Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919. | James A. Garfield National Historic Site (Mentor, Ohio) | United States. Dept. of the Interior. | Cabinet officers -- United States.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2163 | Title: | Lawnfield Farm Records
| | | | Creator: | Lawnfield Farm | | | | Dates: | 1880-1931 | | | | Abstract: | Lawnfield Farm, in Mentor, Ohio, was purchased by James A. Garfield in 1876, and was his family's home, as well as his headquarters for the 1880 presidential campaign. His widow, Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, lived there until her death in 1918. Her brother, Joseph Rudolph, and his wife Elizabeth joined her there, and he managed the farm. The house was modified in 1885, and the library furnished as a memorial to the late president and as a repository for his papers. It was a working farm until 1939, when the heirs donated the farm, homestead, buildings, and remaining property to the Western Reserve Historical Society. The property, now known as the James A. Garfield National Historic Site, is owned by the National Park Service. The collection consists of farm accounts, cash books, journals, receipts, planting inventory, and check stubs, 1880-1911 for Lawnfield Farm, as well as check stubs and bank statements for the Hollycroft Transportation Company, 1929-1931. | | | | Call #: | MS 4574 | | | | Extent: | 0.80 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881. | Garfield family. | Garfield, Lucretia Rudolph, 1832-1918. | Rudolph, Elizabeth. | Rudolph, Joseph. | James A. Garfield National Historic Site (Mentor, Ohio) | Western Reserve Historical Society | Presidents -- Dwellings -- Ohio -- Mentor. | National parks and reserves -- Ohio. | Mentor (Ohio) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2164 | Title: | James A. Garfield Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Garfield, James A. Family | | | | Dates: | 1849-1938 | | | | Abstract: | James Abram Garfield was the twentieth president of the United States. He grew up in Orange, Ohio, graduated from Williams College in 1856, became president of Hiram College in Portage County, Ohio, and was a lay minister of the Disciples of Christ Church. He was elected to the Ohio Senate, and in 1858, married Lucretia Rudolph. Garfield served in the Civil War, as a lieutenant-colonel of the 42nd Ohio regiment. He was a major general when he resigned in 1863 to take a seat in the United States House of Representatives, where he served for 17 years. Nominated in 1880 as a compromise Republican presidential candidate, his campaign was conducted from Lawnfield, his Mentor, Ohio, home. Garfield was shot on July 2, 1881, and died September 19. He was survived by his widow, Lucretia Garfield, and by his children; Mary, who married his former secretary, Joseph Stanley-Brown, Irvin McDowell, Harry Augustus, who became president of Williams College, James Rudolph, a Cleveland attorney, Republican politician and member of Theodore Roosevelt's cabinet, and Abram, a Cleveland architect. The collection consists of correspondence, diaries, deeds, herbariums, receipts, architectural plans, and probate documents. The correspondence represents Garfield's Civil War and political careers, and commentary by Garfield and other family members on politics, the Republican Party, Garfield's assassination, as well as family relationships and management of Lawnfield as a family property. Lucretia R. Garfield's letters and papers cover travel and include details of farm life, remodeling, and management at Lawnfield. Joseph Rudolph, brother of Lucretia, managed the farm at Lawnfield, and also administered the estate of James A. Garfield. Some estate documents are included. Rev. Mark Hopkins, president of Williams College, received almost daily telegrams on the President's medical condition during the weeks after the assassination, which are included in the collection. The diaries of the president's mother, Eliza Ballou Garfield, are also included, and cover such topics as travels, household details, life in the White House, births, deaths, and illness, as well as the war and Garfield's political career. Correspondence and other documents written by Garfield's sons; James Rudolph, Harry Augustus and Irvin Garfield, and by his daughter and son-in-law, Joseph and Mary Garfield Stanley-Brown, are included. Other correspondents include Salmon P. Chase, Sara Williams Garfield, L.W. Whitney, John Newell, Rutherford B. Hayes, W. S. Rosecrans, Carl Schurz, and A. H. Smith. | | | | Call #: | MS 4575 | | | | Extent: | 0.60 linear feet (2 containers and 2 rolls of microfilm) | | | | Subjects: | Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881. | Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881 -- Assassination. | Garfield family. | Garfield, Lucretia Rudolph, 1832-1918. | Garfield, Eliza Ballou, 1801-1887. | Garfield, James Rudolph, 1865-1950. | Garfield, Harry Augustus, 1863-1942. | Garfield, Irvin McDowell. | Stanley-Brown, Joseph, 1858-1941. | Stanley-Brown, Mary Garfield, 1867-1947. | James A. Garfield National Historic Site (Mentor, Ohio) | Presidents -- United States -- Family.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2165 | Title: | Nancie Swan Folkett Papers
| | | | Creator: | Foskett, Nancie Swan | | | | Dates: | 1818-1869 | | | | Abstract: | Nancie Swan Foskett(1838-?) of Medina County, Ohio, was a schoolteacher (1861-1865) in various schools in Medina County. During 1861-1862, she and her father lived in LeSeuer, Minnesota with her brothers and their families, returning to Medina County in the spring of 1862. In 1865, Nancie Swan married Captain Porter Foskett of Brunswick, Ohio. They made their home in the city of Medina, where Porter Foskett became a successful businessman. The collection consists of eleven diaries of Nancie Swan Foskett, 1855-1869, and one account book of N.A. Goodwin, 1818-1834. The diaries detail her life as a teacher in various schools in Medina County, Ohio, her trip to Minnesota, civilian life during the American Civil War, and family events during the period. | | | | Call #: | MS 4576 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Foskett, Nancie Swan. | Foskett, Nancie Swan -- Diaries. | Foskett, Porter. | Swan family. | Goodwin, N. A. | Women -- Ohio -- Medina County. | Women -- Ohio -- Medina County -- Diaries. | Teachers -- Ohio -- Medina County. | Education -- Ohio -- Medina County. | Diaries. | Account books -- Ohio -- Medina County. | Medina County (Ohio) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women. | Ohio -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. | Ohio -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2166 | Title: | R. Henry Norweb Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Norweb, R. Henry Family | | | | Dates: | 1880-1989 | | | | Abstract: | Raymond Henry Norweb was born in England and moved to Elyria, Ohio, with his family in 1907. He became a diplomat with posts in various countries, including France, Japan, the Netherlands, the Dutch East Indies, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Portugal, Peru, and Bolivia. His last assignment was as ambassador to Cuba, 1945-1948. His wife, Emery May Holden Norweb, was the daughter of Albert and Katharine Davis Holden and granddaughter of Liberty Holden, owner of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Emery Holden graduated from the Westover School in Connecticut in 1916, and then did hospital work with the American Ambulance Corps in France until her marriage to Henry Norweb in 1917. Dring their world travels, she collected Pre-columbian and Oriental art, which became the basis of collections at the Cleveland Museum of Art, where she served as a benefactor, officer, and trustee. Despite Norweb's worldwide assignments, the family maintained a home in Bratenahl, Ohio. Their children were Jeanne, Albert, and R. Henry Jr. Henry and Emery Norweb were both noted experts on world and U.S. coins, and the Norweb collection is one of the finest ever collected. The collection consists of scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, correspondence, manuscripts, travel memoirs, diaries, scripts, lectures, and notebooks. Emery May Norweb wrote diaries, memoirs, and articles on the many countries they visited, including an unpublished travel guide to the Netherlands. In addition, the collection contains family correspondence, including letters from Horace, Henry, and Emery May Norweb while living in Europe during World War I. The correspondence also includes copies of some State Department letters; correspondence on the purchase of coins for the Norweb collection; and letters from Albert and Katharine Holden to their daughters. Several scrapbooks contain photographs and clippings of Norweb's assignment as ambassador to Cuba 1945-1948. One scrapbook covers the courtship and married life of Albert and Katharine Holden. Emery May Holden's diary, 1916-1918, covers her life in Paris before and after her marriage to Henry Norweb. | | | | Call #: | MS 4577 | | | | Extent: | 3.40 linear feet (4 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Norweb, Raymond Henry, 1894-1983. | Norweb family. | Holden family. | Norweb, Emery May. | Holden, Albert Fairchild, 1866-1913. | Holden, Katharine Davis. | United States. Dept. of State. | Coins -- Collectors and collecting. | Diplomatic and consular service, American -- Cuba. | Ambassadors -- United States. | Ambassadors' spouses -- United States. | Diplomats -- United States. | World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives. | Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cuba -- Foreign relations -- United States. | Europe -- Description and travel.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2167 | Title: | James A. Garfield Family Papers, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Garfield, James A. Family | | | | Dates: | 1871-1937 | | | | Abstract: | James Abram Garfield was the twentieth president of the United States. He grew up in Orange, Ohio, graduated from Williams College in 1856, became president of Hiram College in Portage County, Ohio, and was a lay minister of the Disciples of Christ Church. He was elected to the Ohio Senate, and in 1858, married Lucretia Rudolph. Garfield served in the Civil War, as a lieutenant-colonel of the 42nd Ohio regiment. He was a major general when he resigned in 1863 to take a seat in the United States House of Representatives, where he served for 17 years. Nominated in 1880 as a compromise Republican presidential candidate, his campaign was conducted from Lawnfield, his Mentor, Ohio, home. Garfield was shot on July 2, 1881, and died September 19. He was survived by his widow, Lucretia Garfield, and by his children; Mary, who married his former secretary, Joseph Stanley-Brown, Irvin McDowell, Harry Augustus, who became president of Williams College, James Rudolph, a Cleveland attorney, Republican politician and member of Theodore Roosevelt's cabinet, and Abram, a Cleveland architect. The collection consists of correspondence, a quit claim deed, memoirs, certificates of appointments, stock certificates, and genealogical charts. The collection is of interest to students of the Garfield, Rudolph, and Newell families. Certificates of appointment of James Rudolph Garfield signed by Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover are included. Helen Newell Garfield, daughter of John and Julia Poore Hills Newell and wife of James Rudolph Garfield, compiled her family's genealogy. Her mother's recollections of the Chicago Fire of 1871 are also included. An unsigned copy of a 1937 quit claim deed transferring Lawnfield to the Western Reserve Historical Society is included. Of interest is a tally sheet made at the telephone of "Uncle Joe" Davidson's general store, Burlington, Ohio, during the 1880 Republican National Convention. Other correspondents include Phillip Holland and W.H. Clapp. A letter of recommendation for Joseph Rudolph, brother-in-law of President Garfield, for service in the Spanish-American War is included, as is a letter signed in 1880 by President Garfield regarding a life insurance policy. | | | | Call #: | MS 4579 | | | | Extent: | 0.21 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881. | Garfield, Lucretia Rudolph, 1832-1918. | Garfield, Helen Newell, 1866-1930. | Garfield family. | Newell family. | Rudolph family. | Garfield, James Rudolph, 1865-1950. | Rudolph, Joseph. | James A. Garfield National Historic Site (Mentor, Ohio) | Western Reserve Historical Society | Presidents -- United States -- Family.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2168 | Title: | James A. Garfield II Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Garfield, James A. II | | | | Dates: | 1869-1965 | | | | Abstract: | James A. Garfield II was the son of James Rudolph and Helen Newell Garfield, and grandson of United States President James A. Garfield. He was raised with his brothers at Hollycroft, the family home in Mentor, Ohio, next to Lawnfield, residence of Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, the president's widow. He graduated from Williams College in 1916 and served in World War I. He married Edwina Forbes Glenn in 1917. They lived in Cleveland and Mentor, Ohio, while James pursued various business ventures. Edwina moved to Florida with her daughters, Helen Louise and Elizabeth, after the couple divorced in the 1930s. The collection consists of correspondence, an autograph book, scrapbooks, speech reading lessons, drawings, newspaper clippings, and notebooks of President James A. Garfield, James Rudolph and Helen Newell Garfield, and James A. and Edwina Glenn Garfield. The papers relating to President Garfield include a scrapbook compiled in 1874 containing documents which refute charges regarding improprieties in military contract awards, a political tract annotated by President Garfield, and a collection of Garfield "Maxims," as well as commemorative publications and a scrapbook of condolences sent to the family after his death. The collection also contains correspondence and other documents related to James Rudolph and Helen Newell Garfield, including teaching materials for speech reading used by Helen Newell Garfield, and letters of Edwina Glenn Garfield to her husband James A. Garfield II discussing concerns of a young, upper class wife of the 1920s. | | | | Call #: | MS 4580 | | | | Extent: | 1.80 linear feet (6 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Garfield, James A. (James Abram), II, 1894- | Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881. | Garfield, Edwina Glenn, 1895- | Garfield family. | Garfield, James Rudolph, 1865-1950. | Garfield, Helen Newell, 1866-1930. | Cleveland Hearing and Speech Center. | Presidents -- United States -- Family. | Hearing impaired -- United States. | Hearing impaired -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Deaf -- Means of communication. | Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2169 | Title: | Jacob Sapirstein Papers
| | | | Creator: | Sapirstein, Jacob | | | | Dates: | 1913-1987 | | | | Abstract: | Jacob Sapirstein was the founder and president of American Greetings Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio, and a noted Jewish philanthropist. He emigrated from Poland to the United States in 1905, and settled in Cleveland in 1906. Starting out as a seller of Cleveland picture postcard scenes, he expanded the business to include greeting cards. By 1932, the Sapirstein Card Company began designing and manufacturing its own cards. In 1938, the company changed its name to American Greetings Publishers, and in 1952 to American Greetings Corporation. Jacob Sapirstein remained president of the company until 1960, when his son, Irving Stone, succeeded him. The collection consists of correspondence relating to business operations, philanthropic relationships with various Jewish communal institutions, and family. Information concerning various Orthodox Jewish communal institutions Sapirstein was involved with include the Hebrew Academy of Cleveland, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, and the Telshe Yeshiva in Wickliffe, Ohio. | | | | Call #: | MS 4581 | | | | Extent: | 0.60 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Sapirstein, Jacob, 1884-1987. | Sapirstein family. | American Greetings Corporation. | Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America. | Hebrew Academy (Cleveland, Ohio) | Yeshivat Ṭelz (Wickliffe, Ohio). | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish businesspeople -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2171 | Title: | Jack Girick Papers
| | | | Creator: | Girick, Jack | | | | Dates: | 1930-1949 | | | | Abstract: | Jack Girick was a resident of the Jewish Orphan Asylum in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1902-1912. While a resident, he served as a monitor, assisted the superintendent in conducting Sabbath religious services, and was elected president of the Literary Union and the Athletic Association of the Home. Girick was sent to Central High School, and then to Hebrew Union College to train for the rabbinate. In 1917 he left the College and returned to the Jewish Orphan Asylum, where he became governor of the Home from 1917-1922, and then assistant superintendent, 1922-1938. The collection consists of memoirs and fictionalized accounts of life at the Jewish Orphan Asylum, Cleveland, Ohio, later known as Bellefaire. | | | | Call #: | MS 4583 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Girick, Jack, 1896-1988. | Jewish Orphan Asylum (Cleveland, Ohio). | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish orphanages -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish orphans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Orphanages -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Orphans -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2172 | Title: | Glenville Health Association Records
| | | | Creator: | Glenville Health Association | | | | Dates: | 1975-1986 | | | | Abstract: | The Glenville Health Association was a private health care center that provided service to the poor in the Glenville area of Cleveland, Ohio. It began in 1970, and was located at 10640 St. Clair Avenue. It ceased services in 1989. The Cleveland Health Care Alternatives, Inc. was founded in 1985 and was made up of health care providers in the University Circle, area, including the Glenville Health Association. The collection consists of board of trustees minutes, brochures, newspaper clippings, and advertisements of the Glenville Health Association. Also included are minutes, 1985-1986, for the Operating Committee of the Cleveland Health Care Alternatives, Inc., an association of health care providers in the University Circle area of Cleveland offering services to persons on medical assistance. | | | | Call #: | MS 4584 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Glenville Health Association (Cleveland, Ohio). | Cleveland Health Care Alternatives, Inc. | Health facilities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Charities, Medical -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Medical care -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Poor -- Medical care -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Afro-Americans -- Medical care -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Glenville (Cleveland, Ohio)
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2173 | Title: | Donald McBride Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | McBride, Donald Family | | | | Dates: | 1857-1989 | | | | Abstract: | Donald McBride was a lawyer and businessman and son of John Harris McBride, owner of Root & McBride Company, a leading wholesale dry goods establishment in Cleveland, Ohio. Donald's brothers, Malcolm and Herbert, were officers in Root & McBride Company. His sister Grace was married to Dr. George Crile, and his sister Edith was married to Henry S. Sherman, chairman of Society for Savings, 1903-1936. Donald's wife, Mary Helen Harman McBride, was daughter of industrialist Ralph A. Harman, who ran Cleveland Forge and Iron Company, was a founder of Cleveland Trust Company, and a director of Cleveland Electric Railway Company. Mary Helen's sister Grace was married to Samuel Livingston Mather, and her sister Sue was married to diplomat John Pelenyi. Her great aunt, Grace Harman Wade, was married to Jeptha H. Wade. The collection consists of Harman and McBride family correspondence, genealogies, coats of arms, reminiscences, memorials, school reports, scrapbooks, ledgers, journals, diaries, newspaper clippings, obituaries, reprints, autograph book, receipts, verses, blueprints, speeches and photographs. Included are personal papers for Ralph A. Harman, Sue Wade Harman and John Pelenyi, Susan Fleming Wade, Donald McBride and Mary Helen McBride, as well as business records, recollections and scrapbooks of Ralph A. Harman relating to the early business, industrial and social history of Cleveland. | | | | Call #: | MS 4585 | | | | Extent: | 10.80 linear feet (10 containers, 14 oversize volumes, and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | McBride, Donald, 1884-1927. | McBride family. | Harmon family. | Kenyon family. | Fleming family. | Wade family -- Periodicals. | Root & McBride Company. | Cleveland Tool and Forge Company. | Cleveland City Forge and Iron Company. | University of Free Europe in Exile. | Cleveland Trust Company. | Cleveland-Akron Bag Company. | Winous Point Shooting Club. | Beech Brook, Inc. (Pepper Pike, Ohio). | Businessmen -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Street-railroads -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Strikes and lockouts -- Street-railroads -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Banks and banking -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Shipping -- Great Lakes. | World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives. | Europe -- Description and travel. | Shipbuilding industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Diplomatic and consular service, Hungarian. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Economic conditions. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. | Hungary -- History.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2174 | Title: | National Council of Jewish Women, Cleveland Section Records, Series II
| | | | Creator: | National Council of Jewish Women, Cleveland Section | | | | Dates: | 1939-1977 | | | | Abstract: | The National Council of Jewish Women, Cleveland Section, is a women's service organization in Cleveland, Ohio, concerned with local, national, and international issues and projects. The collection consists of correspondence, minutes of Board of Trustees and committees, annual reports, newsletters, financial records, materials on community service projects, and scrapbooks. | | | | Call #: | MS 4586 | | | | Extent: | 3.20 linear feet (4 containers) | | | | Subjects: | National Council of Jewish Women. Cleveland Section. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities. | Jewish women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. | Women in charitable work -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women volunteers in social service -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2175 | Title: | Nancy Coe Wixom Papers
| | | | Creator: | Wixom, Nancy Coe | | | | Dates: | 1968-1974 | | | | Abstract: | Nancy Coe Wixom, a Bratenahl, Ohio, resident, was a member of the Cleveland Landmarks Commission from its organization in 1971 until 1974. The Cleveland Landmarks Commission was created by the City Council of Cleveland, Ohio, to preserve and protect historical areas, buildings, structures, and works of art and other objects relating to the city's cultural heritage. The collection consists of records of meetings of the Cleveland Landmarks Commission, including a statement of purpose, ordinance records, minutes, budget reports, correspondence, area landmark surveys, and federal, state, and local information on protecting and preserving cultural landmarks. | | | | Call #: | MS 4587 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Wixom, Nancy Coe. | Cleveland Landmarks Commission (Cleveland, Ohio) | Historic buildings -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Historic sites -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Historic preservation -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Architecture -- Conservation and restoration -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Cultural policy.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2176 | Title: | James K. Miller Papers
| | | | Creator: | Miller, James K. | | | | Dates: | 1960-1991 | | | | Abstract: | James K. Miller was born in Tacoma, Washington, in 1946. In 1968, he received a bachelor's degree form Occidental College. Refusing to serve in the Vietnam conflict, Miller performed service as a conscientious objector from 1980-1972 at University Hospitals, Cleveland, Ohio. In 1992, he was a probation officer for the Cleveland Heights Municipal Court. Miller has been active in many socialist and political organizations since the late 1960s. He traveled to countries in Asia; including China, North Vietnam, and Laos; and to Nicaragua. The collection consists of personal correspondence, organizational correspondence, memoranda, flyers, position papers, newsletters, books, pamphlets, and magazines. | | | | Call #: | MS 4588 | | | | Extent: | 13.22 linear feet (14 containers and 2 oversize folders) | | | | Subjects: | Miller, James Knute, 1946- | Kucinich, Dennis J., 1946- | Reagan, Ronald. | Prentiss, C.J. | Greater Cleveland Community Shares. | Black Panther Party. | Cleveland Discussion Group. | Cleveland Women Working (Organization). | Commonworks (Cleveland, Ohio). | Cleveland Public Power (System). | Campaign for a Democratic Foreign Policy. | Ohio Public Interest Campaign. | Cleveland Central American Solidarity Committee. | Democratic Socialists of America (Cleveland, Ohio). | Democratic Socialists of America. | New American Movement (Organization). | Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (U.S.). | Cleveland Tenants Organization. | Segregation -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Default (Finance) -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Peace movements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements. | Tax remission -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Neighborhood -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Black power -- United States. | African Americans -- Civil rights. | Disarmament. | New Left. | Socialism. | Conservatism. | Student movements -- United States. | Feminism -- United States. | Socialists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. | Central America -- Politics and government -- 1979- | United States -- Economic conditions -- 1981- | United States -- Economic conditions -- 1971-1981. | Ohio -- Politics and government.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2177 | Title: | Avery L. Sterner Papers
| | | | Creator: | Sterner, Avery L. | | | | Dates: | 1914-1938 | | | | Abstract: | Avery L. Sterner purchased acreage in lot #421, on the east side of Cleveland, Ohio, from the Group Development Company in 1929. On this land, he built a house at 12321 Fairmount Boulevard. Construction began in 1930 and continued through 1934. The collection consists of bids, agreements, and affidavits between contractors and Sterner, invoices from builders and decorators, correspondence related to the construction, progress and payment of invoices, and City of Cleveland publications related to real estate, population growth, and planning and zoning laws. | | | | Call #: | MS 4589 | | | | Extent: | 0.21 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Sterner, Avery L., 1880-1967 -- Homes and haunts. | Fairmount Road Group Development Company. | House construction -- Specifications -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Housing development -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Real estate development -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Dwellings -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | City planning and redevelopment law -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2178 | Title: | Pickands, Mather and Company Records
| | | | Creator: | Pickands, Mather and Company | | | | Dates: | 1889-1969 | | | | Abstract: | Pickands, Mather and Company was a Cleveland, Ohio-based mining and shipping firm; a major supplier of iron ore and coal to the steel industry, with one of the largest fleets of freight carriers on the Great Lakes. It originated with founders Samuel Mather, Jay Morse, and James S. Pickands in 1883. To meet its ore transport demands, the firm formed the Interlake Steamship Company in 1913, which became the second largest fleet on the Great Lakes. By the 1920s, the company was the one of the largest producers of iron ore in the U.S. In 1929 a subsidiary, the Interlake Iron Corporation, was formed. Pickands, Mather also had heavy investments in the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company. In 1973, Pickands, Mather and Company became part of Moore McCormack Resources, Inc. Moore McCormack sold its Pickands, Mather stock to Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. in 1986. The collection consists of bound annual statements, annual statements of the mining department, individual cost statements, and a bound commemorative book which was presented to Samuel Mather, one of the founders. | | | | Call #: | MS 4590 | | | | Extent: | 17.30 linear feet (21 containers and 72 oversize volumes) | | | | Subjects: | Mather, Samuel, 1851-1931. | Pickands, James S., 1839-1896. | Morse, Jay. | Pickands, Mather and Company. | Interlake Steamship Company. | Ashtabula & Buffalo Dock Company. | Erie Mining Company. | Wabush Mines. | Syracuse Mining Company. | Ontario Iron Company. | Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. | Interlake Iron Corporation. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Iron mines and mining -- United States. | Iron industry and trade -- United States. | Iron industry and trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Coal mines and mining -- United States. | Shipping -- Great Lakes.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2179 | Title: | Abel G. Warshawsky Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Warshawsky, Abel G. Family | | | | Dates: | 1913-1986 | | | | Abstract: | The Abel G. Warshawsky family included the artistically accomplished brothers Abel, Alexander, and Samuel, three of the nine children of Ezekiel and Ida Warshawsky, Orthodox Jewish immigrants from Poland. The family eventually settled in Cleveland, Ohio. Abel G. Warshawsky was an Impressionist painter who studied at the Cleveland School of Art and at the Art Students League and National Academy of Design in New York City before moving to Paris in 1908, living there until 1939. In 1939, he moved to Monterey, California. His brother, Alexander, was also a well-known painter and studied at the Cleveland School of Art and then at the National Academy of Design in New York City. In 1916, he moved to Paris, and spent the last twelve years of his life in California. Samuel Jesse Warshawsky was a playwright and fiction writer as well as an advertising executive and publicity director with various motion picture firms. The collection consists of articles and reviews, exhibit catalogues, and a pre-publication typescript of Abel G. Warshawsky's autobiography, The Memories of an American Impressionist. In addition, there are newspaper and magazine articles pertaining to Alexander Warshawsky; and play scripts, short stories, and articles regarding Samuel Jesse Warshawsky and his works. | | | | Call #: | MS 4591 | | | | Extent: | 0.70 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Warshawsky, A. G., 1883-1962. | Warshawsky, Alexander, 1887-1945. | Warshawsky, Samuel Jesse. | Warshawsky family. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish artists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish authors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Artists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Painters -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Impressionism (Art) -- United States. | Dramatists, American -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Authors, American -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2180 | Title: | Jeremiah B. and Elizabeth Taggart Mansfield Papers
| | | | Creator: | Mansfield, Jeremiah B. and Elizabeth Taggart | | | | Dates: | 1810-1898 | | | | Abstract: | Jeremiah Browning Mansfield, the son of Samuel and Elizabeth Mansfield, was born in 1841 in Ohio, and raised on his father's farm in Wayne Township, Jefferson County, Ohio. He and his older brother Oliver served in the 52nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the American Civil War. Jeremiah Mansfield participated in the Battles of Chickamauga and the Battle of Perrysville, and then served at Camp Sheridan in Nashville, Tennessee until the end of the war. He and Elizabeth Taggart Mansfield were married in Harrison County, Ohio in 1869. She was born in 1845 in Harrison County, Ohio, and received a teaching certificate in 1863. Her brother, Milton, attended Oberlin College and Michigan Law School. By 1880, Jeremiah and Elizabeth Mansfield had settled in Wells Township, Jefferson County, Ohio, where they farmed and raised five children. The collection consists of correspondence, essays, and miscellany relating to the Mansfield and Taggart families; Jefferson and Harrison counties, Ohio; the Civil War; and Oberlin College and Michigan Law School. The papers include letters written over a twenty-year period to James Carrick, an early settler of Harrison County, Ohio and ancestor of the Mansfield/Taggart family. | | | | Call #: | MS 4592 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Mansfield, Jeremiah Browning. | Mansfield, Elizabeth Taggart. | Mansfield family. | Taggart family. | Carrick, James. | United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 52nd (1862-1865). | Oberlin College. | University of Michigan. Law School. | Antislavery movements -- United States. | Farmers -- Ohio -- Jefferson County. | Women -- Ohio -- Harrison County. | Women -- Ohio -- Jefferson County. | College students -- Ohio -- Correspondence. | Soldiers -- Ohio -- Correspondence. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. | Jefferson County (Ohio) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. | Harrison County (Ohio) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
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