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| | Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2201 | Title: | Samuel Livingston Mather Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Mather, Samuel Livingston Family | | | | Dates: | 1850-1860 | | | | Abstract: | The Samuel Livingston Mather family of Cleveland, Ohio, descends from Samuel Mather (1745-1809), a shareholder and member of the first board of directors of the Connecticut Land Company. His son, also named Samuel Mather (1771-1854), was also a shareholder of the Connecticut Land Company. One of his sons, Samuel Livingston Mather (1817-1890), settled in Cleveland in 1843. In 1847, he was one of the founders of the Cleveland Iron Mining Company (later the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company). His youngest son, William Gwinn Mather (1857-1951) later became president of the company. Samuel Livingston Mather's oldest son, Samuel Mather (1851-1931) helped found a rival iron ore firm, Pickands, Mather, and Company. He married Flora Stone, by whom he had four children, the oldest of which was Samuel Livingston Mather (1882-1960). Named for his grandfather, he graduated from Yale University in 1905, and began working for Cleveland-Cliffs. He also served on the boards of the Otis Steel Company, Cleveland Trust Company, the Bessemer Limestone and Cement Company, and the Lamson and Sessions Company. He was an active philanthropist, particularly interested in his alma mater, Yale, and the Holden Arboretum in Geauga County, Ohio. He oversaw the operation of his farm located near Mentor, Ohio, known as Mountain Glen Farm. He was first married to Grace Harman, and secondly to Alice Keith. He had two daughters, Flora Stone (husband Robert C. Hosmer Jr.) and Elizabeth (husband S. Sterling McMillan). The collection consists of financial records, business records, records of farm operations, records of contracts with Yale University and Holden Arboretum, estate records, genealogical notes, and ledgers. The collection pertains primarily to the business activities of Samuel Livingston Mather and the operations of his farm in Geauga County. Also included are estate records of his father, Samuel Mather, and other relatives. Some of the material illuminates the early history of the iron ore industry in Cleveland, Ohio. Other business files reflect upon smaller, Geauga and Lake County enterprises, including the Mentro Harbor Yacht Club, the Mentor Harbor Company, the Mentor Marsh Company, and the Mentone Company. Also included are materials concerning Samuel Livingston Mather's philanthropic activities, particularly for Yale University and the Holden Arboretum. | | | | Call #: | MS 4613 | | | | Extent: | 8.01 linear feet (8 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Mather, Samuel Livingston, 1882-1960. | Mather family. | Hosmer, Flora Stone Mather. | McMillan, Elizabeth Mather. | Mather, Flora Stone, 1852-1909. | Mather, Samuel, 1771-1854. | Mather, Samuel, 1851-1931. | Mather, Samuel Livingston, 1817-1890. | Mather, William Gwinn, 1857-1951. | Bessemer Limestone and Cement Company. | Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company. | Cleveland Trust Company. | Lake Erie Bolt and Nut Company. | Lake Shore Realty Company. | Lamson and Sessions Company. | Mentone Company. | Mentor Harbor Company. | Mentor Harbor Yacht Club Company. | Mentor Marsh Company. | Munising Paper Company. | Thompson Products, inc. | Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. | Mountain Glen Farm. | Yale University. | Holden Arboretum. | Iron industry and trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Farms -- Ohio -- Lake County. | Family farms -- Ohio -- Lake County. | Philanthropists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Businessmen -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2202 | Title: | Gay Educational Awareness Resources Foundation Records
| | | | Creator: | Gay Educational Awareness Resources Foundation | | | | Dates: | 1973-1984 | | | | Abstract: | The Gay Educational Awareness Resource Foundation (Gear Foundation) was created in 1974 in Cleveland, Ohio, to serve the Lesbian and Gay community through social, political, and cultural events, counseling and support groups, and to empower and raise the community's level of visibility. The Foundation incorporated as a non-profit organization in 1975, and was given tax exempt status in 1978. Early activities included a Gay Hotline-Switchboard and the publication of High Gear, a monthly newspaper covering news and events of interest in the Gay community. The Gear Foundation served as an umbrella organization for other groups and activities, including a Rap Group and a Speaker's Bureau. In 1977, the Foundation opened the Lesbian-Gay Community Services Center, to serve as a base of operations for its activities. Throughout the 1980s, the Foundation continued to increase its visibility and help form a cohesive Lesbian-Gay community in northeast Ohio. A stronger feminist element was nurtured in the organization with committees such as Lesbians in Gear Hanging Together (LIGHT). The Foundation also became more involved in political activism and lobbying, legal issues, job discrimination, and anti-Gay violence. The Foundation also was active in fundraising, social, and educational services in the fight against AIDS, including an AIDS Hotline. Other AIDS-related work included involvement with the medical community, the Health Issues Task Force, the National Gay Task Force, and the NAMES Project. In 1988, the Gear Foundation officially changed its name to the Lesbian-Gay Community Service Center of Greater Cleveland, which has continued many of the Foundation's activities. The collection consists of articles of incorporation, bylaws, board minutes, financial records, correspondence, memoranda, grants and funding files of the Foundation, and newsletters and other materials pertaining to general events and issues within the Lesbian-Gay community of northeast Ohio. | | | | Call #: | MS 4614 | | | | Extent: | 1.60 linear feet (5 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Gay Educational Awareness Resource Foundation. | Lesbian-Gay Community Service Center of Greater Cleveland (Ohio). | Gays -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Lesbians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Gay activists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Gay press publications -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Gay liberation movement -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Gay rights -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Gay communities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Gays -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Social life and customs.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2204 | Title: | Frances Payne Bolton Oral History Interviews
| | | | Creator: | Bolton, Frances Payne | | | | Dates: | 1989 | | | | Abstract: | Frances Payne Bingham Bolton was a Republican congresswoman from Ohio's 22nd congressional district. Bolton served on the committees of Indian Affairs (1940) and Foreign Affairs (1941-1968), participating in foreign aid hearings and conducting study trips abroad, including a trip to the Middle East in 1947 and one to Africa in 1955. She served as a congressional delegate to the United Nations Eighth General Assembly, and was involved with the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association and helped organize the Accokee Foundation to protect the Potomac shoreline across from Mount Vernon. Mrs. Bolton had a long-time interest in nursing and nursing education and provided funds to establish the nursing school at Western Reserve University, as well as founding the Payne Fund to assist a variety of educational and other charitable programs. The collection consists of transcripts of 16 interviews conducted with individuals who had known and worked with Frances Payne Bolton in her capacity as United States Representative from Ohio's 22nd District (1940-1968), as a member of the Republican Party, in her family and personal interests, or in her many philanthropic and advocacy endeavors. The interviews were conducted in 1989 by Leslie Anne Solotko as part of the project conducted at the Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio, to process the papers of Congresswoman Frances Payne Bolton (MS 3943). Questions focused on Mrs. Bolton's personality and career; and her political, family, business, and personal interests. Interviewees included Viola Anderson, David K. Ford, Zelma George, Donald W. Gropp, Alice Hansen, Robert E. Hughes, Theodore F. Owen, H. Chapman Rose, Rozella M. Schlotfeldt, John Burns Simpson, Margaret Chase Smith, Robert Ware Strauss, Charles A. Vanik, Helen Wallace, Paul W. Walter, and Fred White. | | | | Call #: | MS 4616 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Bolton, Frances Payne Bingham, 1885-1977. | Bolton family. | United States. Congress. House. | Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) | Accokeek Foundation. | Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union. | Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing. | Republican Party (Ohio) | Women legislators -- United States. | Legislators -- United States. | Nursing -- United States. | Women in politics -- United States. | Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2205 | Title: | John N. Stockwell, Jr. Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Stockwell, John N. Jr. Family | | | | Dates: | 1902-1916 | | | | Abstract: | John N. Stockwell Jr. was a lawyer and politician in Cleveland, Ohio. He was a municipal lawyer with the city of Cleveland and served as city law director under Mayor Newton D. Baker. Stockwell was a graduate of Western Reserve College and Cornell University School of Law. He was elected to the Ohio State Legislature in 1906 and to the Ohio State Senate in 1911, and was instrumental in creating the state public utilites commission. Stockwell was also active in rewriting the Cleveland city charter. His wife, Cornelia Ranney Stockwell, and her three daughters; Alice, Katherine, and Jane, were involved in the local Cleveland suffrage movement. The collection consists of personal family and business correspondence, Ohio Supreme Court published briefs, scrapbooks, and newspaper clippings. | | | | Call #: | MS 4617 | | | | Extent: | 0.80 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Stockwell, John N. Jr. | Stockwell, Cornelia Ranney. | Stockwell family. | Lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Suffragists -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2206 | Title: | Cowan Pottery Studio Collection
| | | | Creator: | Cowan Pottery Studio | | | | Dates: | 1929-1978 | | | | Abstract: | The Cowan Pottery Studio was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1912 by R. Guy Cowan, an artist and craftsman from a family of East Liverpool, Ohio, potters. Cowan began his own ceramic production business, in which he designed his own factories and invented production hardware. In the early 1920s, Cowan moved his studio first to Lakewood, Ohio, and then to Rocky River, Ohio, a suburb to the west of Cleveland. Obtaining the financial backing of prominent Clevelanders, Cowan hired artists such as Viktor Schreckengost, Richard D. Hummel, Edward and Thelma Winter, and Paul Bogatay, and his company began producing pottery for sale in a national market. In the early 1930s, production slowed and then stopped in the depressed economy. The company went bankrupt in 1932. The collection consists of a written history, catalogue, sales brochure, catalogs of Waylande Gregory, an artist who worked in the Cowan Pottery Studio, and newspaper clippings. | | | | Call #: | MS 4618 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Cowan, R. Guy b. 1884. | Cowan Pottery Studio. | Pottery -- Ohio -- Rocky River. | Potters -- Ohio -- Rocky River. | Pottery industry -- Ohio -- Rocky River. | Artists' studios -- Ohio -- Rocky River.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2207 | Title: | Park Congregational Church Records
| | | | Creator: | Park Congregational Church | | | | Dates: | 1902 | | | | Abstract: | Park Congregational Church was organized in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1886 through a union Sunday school held by Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Roberts. After several years of meeting in a union church on the corner of Doan Street and Crawford Road, the church was adopted by the Euclid Avenue Congregational Church in 1888 and was then known as the "North Branch." By 1890 the North Branch was recognized as an independent church and a new, more centrally-located church was built on the corner of Crawford Road and Cullison Street. The collection consists of a written history of the church, a list of church officials and donors, and a manual, including a history of the church, printed in 1902. | | | | Call #: | MS 4619 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Park Congregational Church (Cleveland, Ohio). | Euclid Avenue Congregational Church (Cleveland, Ohio). | Churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Congregational churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Church records and registers -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2208 | Title: | Cleveland Hebrew Schools Records
| | | | Creator: | Cleveland Hebrew Schools | | | | Dates: | 1908-1975 | | | | Abstract: | The Cleveland Hebrew Schools evolved from the Montefiore Free Hebrew School (later called the Talmud Torah) established in Cleveland, Ohio, ca. 1885. In 1905, another communal Hebrew school was founded by Joshua Flock and Aaron Garber. In 1907, the two schools combined, the name remaining the Talmud Torah. In 1913, the Talmud Torah received an Ohio charter and changed its name to the Cleveland Hebrew School and Institute, enrolling students in grades one through eight. Abraham Hayyim Friedland, an internationally known educator, headed the school from 1921-1939. In 1926, a high school was added, and a Parent Council was organized in 1930. Bernard Levitin served as superintendent from 1944-1970, a period of movement of Cleveland's Jewish population to the suburbs. A reorganization of the Cleveland Hebrew Schools took place during this period, with some Cleveland branches closing and new suburban schools opening. As the number of Jewish day schools and congregational classes grew, the Cleveland Hebrew Schools enrollment dropped and branches were further consolidated. In 1955, the Parent Council organized Camp Oneg, a Hebrew summer day camp, and Ganon Gil Nursery, a Hebrew school for preschool children. In 1967 Cleveland Hebrew High School merged into Akiva High School. The collection consists of staff, enrollment, and financial records, correspondence, board of trustees minutes, legal documents, newspaper clippings, monthly and annual reports, school publications, posters, and scrapbooks. | | | | Call #: | MS 4620 | | | | Extent: | 6.30 linear feet (8 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Cleveland Hebrew Schools. | Jews -- Education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish educators -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Schools -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2209 | Title: | Cleveland Jewish History Sources
| | | | Creator: | Cleveland Jewish History Sources | | | | Dates: | 1819-1956 | | | | Abstract: | The Cleveland Jewish History Sources Collection is a card file assembled between 1954-1956 by the American Jewish History Center of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, to support a planned volume on the history of Cleveland, Ohio, Jewry. This intention was realized with the publication of History of the Jews of Cleveland by Lloyd P. Gartner in 1978. Source material for this card file, which covers the span from the early nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, includes both the national Anglo-Jewish press and local Cleveland sources, including the general press, the Anglo-Jewish press, and Jewish communal records. Rabbi Jack J. Herman and Judah Rubinstein were the local Cleveland researchers for the project. The collection consists of 16,000 index cards containing information about Cleveland's Jewish community that was obtained primarily from newspapers. These cards have been arranged into fourteen broad categories: Arts; Charities; Clubs and Societies, Various; Community Services; Economic Life; Education; Political Affairs; Population; Sermons and Lectures; Social Life; Synagogues; Synagogue Related; Umbrella Organizations, and Zionism. Within these categories, primary and sometimes secondary sub-headings are arranged alphabetically and then chronologically. As prescribed by the AJHC, each research finding was typed on 4x6, un-ruled index cards and described in the following top-down order: top left, the city and chronological period; top right, topical classification; single line description of the finding; excerpt(s) from the finding. In many instances, the researchers stapled to the card photocopies of pertinent portions of the source material. The collection, however, contains exceptions to this general procedure: a number of 3x5 cards with handwritten entries (evidently, unprocessed research findings) and a number of 4x6 cards with attached paper negative photocopy, i.e., white-on-black and mirror-image text. | | | | Call #: | MS 4621 | | | | Extent: | 7.50 linear feet (15 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Kalisch, Isidor, 1816-1886. | Hahn, Aaron. | Mayer, Jacob. | Gries, Moses J., 1868-1918. | Machol, Michael, 1846-1914. | Jewish Theological Seminary of America. American Jewish History Center. | B'nai B'rith. | Jewish Orphan Asylum (Cleveland, Ohio ) -- History. | National Council of Jewish Women. Cleveland Section. | Council Educational Alliance (Cleveland, Ohio) | Council Religious Schools (Cleveland, Ohio). | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Genealogy. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. | Jewish women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Social life and customs. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Politics and government. | Synagogues -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Zionism -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2210 | Title: | David Rothenberg Papers
| | | | Creator: | Rothenberg, David | | | | Dates: | 1917-1988 | | | | Abstract: | David Rotherberg was raised in the Collinwood neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, and collected and wrote materials relating to the history of the Jewish community of Collinwood. The collection consists of materials relating to the history of the Jewish community in Collinwood, a neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, written or compiled by David Rothenberg. It includes an essay; Collinwood Jewish population data for 1929; a list of Collinwood Jewish residents, including their occupations and addresses; congregational announcements from the Jewish Independent for Adath Jeshurun congregation, and its successor, Lake Shore Jewish Center; profiles of the lives of several Jews raised in Collinwood; a copy of the Articles of Incorporation of Adath Jeshurun Congregation; and photographs of Lake Shore Jewish Center and former Collinwood Jewish residents. | | | | Call #: | MS 4622 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Rothenberg, David, 1921- | Adath Jeshurun (Cleveland, Ohio). | Lake Shore Jewish Center (Cleveland, Ohio). | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Biography. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Genealogy. | Collinwood (Cleveland, Ohio) -- History. | Collinwood (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Biography.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2211 | Title: | Max Ratner Papers
| | | | Creator: | Ratner, Max | | | | Dates: | 1959-1985 | | | | Abstract: | Max Ratner was a Cleveland, Ohio, businessman, philanthropist, and Zionist. He was born Meyer Ratowczer in Bialystok, Belarus, Russia, and immigrated with his family to the United States, arriving in Cleveland in 1921. The family changed its name to Ratner. After graduation from Glenville High School in 1925, he went to work at the family-owned business, Forest City Materials Company, a supplier of lumber and building materials. He became president of Forest City Materials in 1928, and in 1929, directed its merger with Buckeye Material. By the 1950s, Forest City profited from the suburban building boom, and by the end of that decade was one of Ohio's largest retail building materials companies. In 1960, Forest City Materials became Forest City Enterprises, Inc. and began concentrating on real estate development, ending its retail operations in 1987. Since the 1970s it has been involved in large urban developments such as Tower City Center in Cleveland. Max Ratner was active in Zionist activities, was a founder of the American-Israel Chamber of Commerce, served as president of Park Synagogue, and along with other family members, supported the Ratner Montessori Schools. The collection consists of photostatic copies from business publications and newspapers, an annual report of Forest City Enterprises, art catalogues, a publication by and about former residents of Bialystok, Russia, and a Ratner Schools brochure. | | | | Call #: | MS 4623 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Ratner, Max, 1907-1995. | Ratner family. | Forest City Enterprises, Inc. | Ratner Schools. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish businesspeople -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Philanthropists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews, Russian -- History.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2213 | Title: | James Patterson Henderson Family Papers, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Henderson, James Patterson | | | | Dates: | 1773-1899 | | | | Abstract: | James Patterson Henderson was a physician who lived most of his professional life in Richland County, Ohio. He attended Jefferson College (now Washington and Jefferson) in Washington, Pennsylvania, graduating in 1825. He then studied under a physician in Cookstown, Pennsylvania before settling in Newville, Ohio, where he set up a medical practice. He served as a surgeon in the Ohio militia ca. 1830s-1850s, and was a member of various state medical societies and literary clubs. At his death, he gave a substantial sum of money and his library to Muskingum College. The collection consists of correspondence, membership material, land documents, legal records, and receipts belonging to James P. Henderson and his family. | | | | Call #: | MS 4625 | | | | Extent: | 0.80 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Henderson, James Patterson. | Henderson family. | Physicians -- Ohio -- Newville. | Deeds -- Ohio -- Richland County. | Deeds -- Pennsylvania -- Westmoreland County. | College students -- Pennsylvania -- Correspondence. | Newville (Ohio) -- History. | Richland County (Ohio) -- History. | Ohio -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2214 | Title: | Norman Norris Diary
| | | | Creator: | Norris, Norman | | | | Dates: | 1862 | | | | Abstract: | Norman L. Norris joined the Seventh Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry in 1861 during the American Civil War. The Seventh was organized at Cleveland, Ohio, and Camp Dennison, Ohio. Norris achieved the rank of corporal. He and the Seventh participated in the battles of Cross Lanes, West Virginia; and in the battles of Winchester, Port Republic, and Cedar Mountain, Virginia. At Cedar Mountain, Norris sustained a shoulder wound and was sent to the Washington Street Hospital in Alexandria, where he died on September 4, 1862. The collection consists of an electrostatic copy of a transcript of the journal kept by Norman Norris during his service in the Seventh Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War. There is also a pedigree chart of the Lemuel Norris family and their descendents to the fifth generation. | | | | Call #: | MS 4626 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Norris, Norman L., 1838-1862. | Norris family. | United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 7th (1861-1864) | Soldiers -- Ohio -- Diaries. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2216 | Title: | United Jewish Religious Schools Records
| | | | Creator: | United Jewish Religious Schools | | | | Dates: | 1899-1970 | | | | Abstract: | The United Jewish Religious Schools (Cleveland, Ohio) trace their origins to the Council Religious School, organized by the Cleveland Council of Jewish Women in 1894 to provide a Sabbath school for immigrant children. In 1901, several congregations joined the Council of Jewish Women in funding the school, and in 1918 high school classes were established. In 1928, the Jewish Welfare Federation of Cleveland included the Council Schools in its budget. In 1947, the Council Schools, along with 6 branches, were renamed the United Jewish Religious Schools and became affiliated with the Bureau of Jewish Education. As the Jewish population moved to the suburbs, the Schools closed branches and established new ones. In 1970, three branches remained. The collection consists of board of trustee minutes, reports, budgets, and correspondence; and subject files including bulletins, correspondence, studies, reports, enrollment lists, financial records, histories, teaching materials, and staff lists. | | | | Call #: | MS 4628 | | | | Extent: | 1.10 linear feet (4 containers) | | | | Subjects: | United Jewish Religious Schools (Cleveland, Ohio) | Jewish religious schools -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish religious education of children -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Religious education -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2217 | Title: | Jewish Vocational Service Records, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Jewish Vocational Service | | | | Dates: | 1927-1992 | | | | Abstract: | The Jewish Vocational Service (Cleveland, Ohio) was founded in 1939 as the result of a joint recommendation of the Jewish Social Service Bureau and the Council Educational Alliance for an agency which would provide vocational guidance and employment service to Cleveland's Jewish community. Particular attention was given to providing services for recently arrived refugees from Nazi Germany. During and after World War II, the agency assisted veterans and other refugees to locate employment. As a result of the civil rights movement of the 1950s-1960s and anti-discrimination legislation, the need for job placement shrank, and the agency then focused attention on programs in career counseling, job seeking, and the needs of recently arrived Jewish immigrants from what was then the Soviet Union. The collection consists of board of trustees minutes, agency statistical reports and summaries, descriptive profiles of the agency, files concerning programs sponsored by the agency, and papers present by staff. | | | | Call #: | MS 4629 | | | | Extent: | 1.80 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Jewish Vocational Service (Cleveland, Ohio) | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Employment -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Vocational guidance -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Employment agencies -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Refugees, Jewish -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2218 | Title: | Bertha Blue Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Blue, Bertha Family | | | | Dates: | 1908-1989 | | | | Abstract: | Bertha Blue was a member of a well known African American family in Cleveland, Ohio. She was a teacher at the Murray Hill Elementary School located in Little Italy, an Italian immigrant neighborhood on Cleveland's East side, from 1903 to 1947. The collection consists of Bertha Blue's art course notebook, correspondence, newspaper clippings, St. John African Methodist Episcopal newsletters, scrapbooks, and Jane Lee Darr's resume and writings. The collection also contains newspaper clippings on Blue's friend, Noble Sissle. | | | | Call #: | MS 4630 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Blue, Bertha, ca. 1877-1963. | Darr, Jane Lee. | Sissle, Noble, 1889- | St. John African Methodist Episcopal Church (Cleveland, Ohio). | Murray Hill Elementary School (Cleveland, Ohio). | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American women teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2219 | Title: | Western Reserve Child Welfare Council Records
| | | | Creator: | Western Reserve Child Welfare Council | | | | Dates: | 1910-1917 | | | | Abstract: | The Western Reserve Child Welfare Council was founded in 1911, following the first Western Reserve Conference on the Care of Neglected and Dependent Children, held in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1910. The organizers of this conference recommended a permanent organization be formed to promote cooperation between both public and private child welfare agencies in the Western Reserve. Membership in the Council consisted of two appointed representatives from each agency. The Council produced reports addressing such issues as child labor, infant care, education, institutional care, and dependent mothers. The Council also served as a watchdog organization that could recommend action to the City of Cleveland on child advocacy issues. Leading members included James R. Garfield, Chester C. Bolton, Gilbert P. Jennings, and Dr. Richard Bolt. In 1914, the Western Reserve Child Welfare Council changed its name to the Cleveland Welfare Council. In 1917, it joined with the Cleveland Federation for Charity and Philanthropy in a single organization named the Welfare Federation of Cleveland. The collection consists of a constitution, minutes, budget statements, correspondence, and reports. | | | | Call #: | MS 4632 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Western Reserve Child Welfare Council. | Child welfare -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Public welfare -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Children -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2220 | Title: | Operation Black Unity Records
| | | | Creator: | Operation Black Unity | | | | Dates: | 1969-1976 | | | | Abstract: | Operation Black Unity was a coalition of groups and people, founded in 1969, interested in the progress of the African American population of Cleveland, Ohio. Membership consisted of churches, black nationalists, and civil rights groups. The organization was co-chaired by Reverend Donald S. Jacobs, Reverend Jonathan Ealy, and William O. Walker. One of its main projects was securing African American ownership of McDonald's restaurants in the city of Cleveland. The collection consists of minutes, reports, speech texts, correspondence, pamphlets, brochures, press releases, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous memorabilia. | | | | Call #: | MS 4633 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Operation Black Unity. | McDonald's Corporation. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Minority business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Franchises (Retail trade) -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Fast food restaurants -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations.
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