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| | Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2301 | Title: | Musical Art Society Records
| | | | Creator: | Musical Art Society | | | | Dates: | 1912-1994 | | | | Abstract: | The Musical Art Society, a women's music club, was founded in 1912 in Cleveland, Ohio. Performance and audition standards were criteria for admission of members; and meetings, held at members' homes, included vocal and instrumental performances and presentation of papers on composers and musical topics. The Society also sponsored musical and cultural events for the public, and offered scholarships to promising young musicians and vocalists in the Cleveland area. The collection consists of constitutions and bylaws, minutes, correspondence, programs, seasonal yearbooks, and scrapbooks. | | | | Call #: | MS 4714 | | | | Extent: | 1.10 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Musical Art Society (Cleveland, Ohio). | Music -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Music -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. | Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. | Clubs -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2302 | Title: | Emily Newell Blair Family Papers, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Blair, Emily Newell Family | | | | Dates: | 1896-1951 | | | | Abstract: | Emily Newell Blair was a suffragist, feminist, Democratic Party official, mother and writer. During World War I she worked in the press department of the Missouri Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense, eventually becoming vice chair. Representing Missouri on the Democratic National Committee, Blair was chosen national vice chair responsible for organizing women voters and women's activities, and eventually rose to first vice president, organized 2,000 plus Democratic women's clubs, and helped found the Woman's National Democratic Club. In 1935, she was appointed to the Consumers' Advisory Board of the National Recovery Administration, and, in 1942, was appointed chief of the Women's Interest Section of the War Department's Public Relations Bureau. Her husband, Harry Wallace Blair, was U.S. Assistant Attorney General in the Land Division of the Justice Department in the 1930s and later served with the President's Loyalty Review Board. The collection consists of family correspondence. It includes letters (1896-1900) from Harry Wallace Blair, Jasper County (Missouri) court stenographer, to Emily Newell prior to their marriage in 1900, while she was a school teacher in Sarcoxie, Missouri. The collection also includes letters (1933, 1937-1940) from Emily and Harry Blair to their daughter Harriet Blair Forsythe, of Evanston and Kenilworth, Illinois. | | | | Call #: | MS 4715 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Blair, Emily Newell, b. 1877. | Blair, Harry W. (Harry Wallace), 1879- | Blair family. | Forsythe, Harriet Blair. | Women -- Missouri. | United States -- Social life and customs -- 1865-1918. | United States -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945. | Missouri -- Social life and customs -- 1865-1918.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2303 | Title: | Brandeis University National Women's Committee, Cleveland Chapter Records
| | | | Creator: | Brandeis University National Women's Committee, Cleveland Chapter | | | | Dates: | 1960-1992 | | | | Abstract: | The Brandeis University National Women's Committee, Cleveland Chapter, was established shortly after the founding of Brandeis University in 1948. The University's Women's Committee was comprised of over one hundred local chapters, whose mission was to maintain the University's libraries. The local Cleveland, Ohio, chapter raised funds through a variety of events, membership fees, and book fund contributions. Study groups within the Cleveland chapter emphasized members' continuing education through meetings with visiting Brandeis professors. The collection consists of scrapbooks, bulletins, programs, membership rosters, newspaper clippings, and photographs. | | | | Call #: | MS 4716 | | | | Extent: | 1.60 linear feet (1 container and 7 oversize volumes) | | | | Subjects: | Brandeis University. National Women's Committee. Cleveland Chapter. | Brandeis University. | Brandeis University. National Women's Committee. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. | Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2304 | Title: | Louis Rorimer Papers
| | | | Creator: | Rorimer, Louis | | | | Dates: | 1891-1938 | | | | Abstract: | Louis Rorimer was the son of Jacob and Minnie Rohrheimer, German immigrants who settled in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1849. He legally changed his name to Rorimer in 1917. After study in Europe, he returned to Cleveland in 1896, opened a studio, and taught design and interior decorating at the Cleveland School of Art. He merged with a competitor, Edward Brooks, to form the Rorimer-Brooks Studios, the largest American interior design firm west of New York City. The collection consists of photocopies of Rorimer's student sketch book, 1891, and of a Rorimer-Brooks sales book, 1929-1938, as well as a reprint of a biographical article. | | | | Call #: | MS 4718 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Rorimer, Louis, 1872-1939. | Rorimer-Brooks Studios. | Interior decorators -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Interior decoration firms -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Decorative arts -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2305 | Title: | Carmela Caferelli Papers
| | | | Creator: | Cafarelli, Carmela | | | | Dates: | 1912-1976 | | | | Abstract: | Carmela Cafarelli was an Italian-American opera star, founder of an opera company, and accomplished harpist from Cleveland, Ohio. Her father, Rocco Cafarelli, was a renowned Italian harpist who had immigrated to Cleveland in the 1880s, and was his daughter's earliest teacher. At the age of eight, she began study with master harpist Henry B. Fabiani in Cleveland. As a harpist, she toured the United States and abroad. She also became a solo harpist for the Cleveland Orchestra. Cafarelli studied voice with William Saal in Cleveland, and later attended the Conservatorie Santa Lucia and the Reale Accademia Filarmonica Romana in Italy, earning diplomas in both voice and harp. After her return to the United States in 1924, she undertook additional musical studies with Benjamino Gigli and Pietro Audisio of the New York Metropolitan Opera. In 1929, she returned to Cleveland, and in 1934, founded the Cafarelli Opera Company. This group toured throughout the United States and put on many charitable performances in Northeast Ohio. Cafarelli stopped performing in 1945, but continued to head her opera company and became a leading philanthropist and promoter of the arts in Cleveland. The collection consists of memoirs; family histories; notes; musical scores and manuscripts of compositions; an address book; correspondence; catalogues; student notebooks; poetry; scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings, reviews of performances, and articles; programs; and a travel journal. Included are musical compositions by Carmela Cafarelli; her father, Rocco Cafarelli; and her teacher, Henry B. Fabiani. | | | | Call #: | MS 4719 | | | | Extent: | 0.80 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Cafarelli, Carmela. | Cafarelli, Rocco. | Fabiani, Henry B. | Cafarelli Opera Company. | Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Opera companies -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Opera -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Harpists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Singers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Italian American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Italian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2306 | Title: | Greater Cleveland Project Records
| | | | Creator: | Greater Cleveland Project | | | | Dates: | 1976-1981 | | | | Abstract: | The Greater Cleveland Project was a non-profit organization whose purpose was to ease the implementation of court-ordered desegregation in the Cleveland (Ohio) Public Schools. The desegregation of the schools was ordered by federal judge Frank J. Battisti as part of his decision in the case of Reed v. Rhodes. The Greater Cleveland Project formally organized in May 1976, having grown from an ad-hoc committee within the Interchurch Council of Greater Cleveland. The project dispensed information about desegregation, held seminars, and gave lectures to citizens and educators to promote non-violent desegregation of the schools. Prominent in the leadership of the organization were Leonard Stevens, Daniel Elliot, Jordan Band, Stanley Tolliver, and Francis Hunter. In 1978, Judge Frank J. Battisti order the formation of the Ofrice on School Monitoring and Community Relations at the suggestion of the federal court's Special Master and the leadership of the Greater Cleveland Project. Funded initially by the Interchurch Council, the Greater Cleveland Project was also funded by the Cleveland Foundation and the George Gund Foundation. Additional funding was provided from the federal government's Emergency School Aid Act. The Greater Cleveland Project ceased operation in 1981 when federal and local funding was not renewed. The collection consists of correspondence, budgets, funding proposals, and legal briefs relating to the desegregation case of Reed v. Rhodes. | | | | Call #: | MS 4720 | | | | Extent: | 1.40 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Greater Cleveland Project. | Office on School Monitoring & Community Relations. | Interchurch Council of Greater Cleveland. | Cleveland Public Schools. | School integration -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Segregation -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Public schools -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Busing for school integration -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2307 | Title: | Samuel Rocker Papers
| | | | Creator: | Rocker, Samuel | | | | Dates: | 1910-1984 | | | | Abstract: | Samuel Rocker founded and served as editor and publisher of a Yiddish newspaper, The Jewish World (Die Yiddishe Velt), in Cleveland, Ohio. Born in Galicia, he studied for the rabbinate and immigrated to the United States in 1891. In 1898, he established the first Jewish print shop in Cleveland. In 1908 he founded The Jewish Daily Press (Die Yiddishe Tegliche Presse) with partners Adolph Hass and Jonas Gross. After disagreement with his business partners a few years later, he founded The Jewish World. In 1914, the two newspapers merged with Rocker as editor and eventually, sole owner. In 1938, the first English edition was published. Rocker remained editor and publisher of The Jewish World until his death in 1936. He was also active in the Cleveland Jewish community, particularly with the Cleveland Hebrew Schools, the Hebrew Free Loan Association, the Council Educational Alliance, Mt. Sinai Hospital, and the Zionist movement. The collection consists of correspondence, newspaper articles, and memoirs. | | | | Call #: | MS 4721 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Rocker, Samuel. | Rocker family. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish publishers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish publishing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish press -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish printers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish newspapers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Yiddish newspapers -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2308 | Title: | Village of Parkview, Ohio Records
| | | | Creator: | Village of Parkview, Ohio | | | | Dates: | 1925-1967 | | | | Abstract: | Parkview was incorporated as a village in 1925. Located in western Cuyahoga County, Ohio, this Cleveland suburb was bounded to the north by the municipality of Fairview Park, to the east by the Rocky River Reservation of the Cleveland Metroparks, to the south by the municipality of Brook Park, and to the west by the municipality of North Olmsted. In 1967 Parkview was annexed by the City of Fairview Park, which took over the village government operations. The collection consists of the records created by the Village of Parkview's government offices. Included are annual reports, budgets, minutes, ordinances, resolutions, financial records, and various departmental records. | | | | Call #: | MS 4722 | | | | Extent: | 3.00 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Suburbs -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Parkview (Ohio) -- Politics and government. | Parkview (Ohio) -- History. | Fairview Park (Ohio) -- Politics and government. | Fairview Park (Ohio) -- History.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2309 | Title: | Charles Cort Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Cort, Charles Family | | | | Dates: | 1899-1993 | | | | Abstract: | Charles Cort emigrated to Cleveland, Ohio, from Gederowitz, Lithuania, in 1904. In 1906, he was joined by his wife, Tzeviah and their children. Charles Cort's sons, Al, Abe, and Lou, were introduced to the shoe business in Cleveland through helping out in their uncle's store, and then through work at various shoe stores in Cleveland. In September 1919, Abe Cort, along with his friend Phil Berman, purchased Oppenheimer's Shoe Store at Woodland Ave. and 37th St., renaming it the Cort Shoe Store. The Cort brothers, Al, Abe, Lou, and Paul, eventually became full partners in the Cort Shoe Company, which at its peak owned fifty-five stores. Most were called Cort Shoes, but several operated under the names King, Reed, Belmar, and Economy Shoe Companies. Stores were located in many northern Ohio communities. By the late 1970s, Cort Shoe Company went out of business. The collection consists of newspaper clippings, correspondence, family history, financial records, and legal documents. | | | | Call #: | MS 4723 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Cort, Charles, 1874-1955. | Cort, Abe. | Cort family. | Cort Shoe Company. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Shoe industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish businesspeople -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish merchants -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Retail trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2310 | Title: | Jewish National Fund of Cleveland, Ohio Records
| | | | Creator: | Jewish National Fund of Cleveland, Ohio | | | | Dates: | 1946-1992 | | | | Abstract: | The Jewish National Fund, Cleveland, Ohio, office is one of numerous regional offices maintained throughout the United States by the national office of the Jewish National Fund, headquartered in New York City. The Jewish National Fund was founded in 1901 at the Fifth Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, to purchase land in Israel. The Fund's major activities included planting and maintaining forests throughout Israel; building parks and outdoor recreational facilities; preparing land for new communities, industries, and agriculture; and developing irrigation systems, dams, and reservoirs. From ca. 1916-1960, the work of the Fund in Cleveland was informally organized and implemented by Jewish lay leadership under the auspices of the Cleveland Jewish National Fund Council. In 1960 The Jewish National Fund of Cleveland was formally established. It continues its fundraising efforts; including solicitation, honorary dinners, missions to Israel, and planned giving. The group also provides educational programming in the local Jewish day schools and religious schools. The collection consists of honorary luncheon and dinner programs; correspondence; Women's Division records consisting of programs, minutes, and rosters; tree certificates, and newspaper clippings. | | | | Call #: | MS 4724 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Jewish National Fund Cleveland office. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. | Fund raising -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Reforestation -- Israel. | Tree planting -- Israel.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2311 | Title: | Thomas H. White Family Papers Collected by Betty King
| | | | Creator: | White, Thomas H. Family | | | | Dates: | 1638-1992 | | | | Abstract: | Thomas Howard White (1836-1914) was the founder of the White Sewing Machine Company, the While Motor Company, and the Thomas H. White Foundation, all of Cleveland, Ohio. He was born in Massachusetts, part of the White family which had immigrated from England ca. 1638. He moved to Cleveland in 1867. In 1876 he, his half-brother Howard W. White, and Rollin C. White (no relation) incorporated the White Sewing Machine Company. In 1899, his son Rollin Henry White invented the White steam car, put into production by the White Sewing Machine Company in 1900. In 1906, The automobile division was separated from the Sewing Machine Company as the White Company, later the White Motor Company. He and his wife, Almira Greenleaf White, had eight children; Mabel Almira Harris (wife of James Armstrong Harris), Alice Maud Hammer (wife of William Joseph Hammer), Windsor Thomas White, Clarence Greenleaf White, Rollin Henry White, Walter Charles White, and Ella Almira Ford (wife of Horatio Ford). The collection consists of a copy of the publication, Descendants of Thomas White, Volume II , written for Elizabeth White King by Betty King and Alice Coyle Lunn. The documentation collected during research for this book makes up the rest of the collection. It includes copies of wills, deeds, and patents; original correspondence and transcripts of correspondence of members of the White family; travel scrapbooks and a baby scrapbook; diaries; unpublished manuscripts; book; newspaper clippings; drawings; maps; oral history transcripts and memoirs; reports of Dr. Lunn to Betty King concerning her genealogical and historic research; and genealogical questionnaires filled out by family members. | | | | Call #: | MS 4725 | | | | Extent: | 3.20 linear feet (6 containers) | | | | Subjects: | King, Betty, collector. | White family. | White, Thomas Howard, 1836-1914. | White, Rollin Henry, 1872-1962. | White, Walter Charles, 1876-1929. | White, Windsor Thomas, 1866-1958. | King, Elizabeth White. | Harris, Mabel White. | Harris, James Armstrong. | Hammer, William J. | Hammer, Maud White. | White, Katharine Elizabeth King. | Asheton, Mabel White Hammer. | White Sewing Machine Company. | White Motor Company. | Automobiles, Steam. | Automobile industry and trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Sewing-machine industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2312 | Title: | B'nai Jeshurun Congregation Records
| | | | Creator: | B'nai Jeshurun Congregation | | | | Dates: | 1891-1991 | | | | Abstract: | B'nai Jeshurun Congregation, one of the largest Conservative synagogues in the United States, was established in 1866 by Jewish Hungarian immigrants as an Orthodox synagogue in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1884, a vacated synagogue building on Eagle Street in Cleveland housed the congregation. Buildings on Scoville Avenue and East 55th Street were home to the congregation from 1906-1926, when the congregation moved to Mayfield and Lee Roads, Cleveland Heights, Ohio. In 1980 B'nai Jeshurun moved to Fairmount Boulevard, Pepper Pike, Ohio. A gradual shift from the Orthodox to Conservative movement began under the first rabbi, Sigmond Dreschler. Over the years, portions of the congregation broke away over the issue of liberalization of religious practices and formed new congregations, including Oheb Zedek in 1904 and Beth Am in 1933. Rabbi Rudolph M. Rosenthal served the then firmly Conservative congregation from 1933-1976. The collection consists of minutes, bulletins, correspondence, newspaper articles, membership lists, committee reports, and anniversary displays. | | | | Call #: | MS 4726 | | | | Extent: | 4.81 linear feet (8 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Rosenthal, Rudolph M. (Rudolph Marvin), 1906-1979. | B'nai Jeshurun (Cleveland Heights, Ohio). | Oheb Zedek Congregation (Cleveland, Ohio). | Congregation Beth Am (Cleveland Heights, Ohio). | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews, Hungarian -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Synagogues -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Synagogues -- Ohio -- Cleveland Heights. | Synagogues -- Ohio -- Pepper Pike. | Synagogues -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Organization and administration. | Synagogues -- Ohio -- Pepper Pike -- Organization and administration. | Synagogues -- Ohio -- Cleveland Heights -- Organization and administration. | Conservative Judaism -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Synagogue bulletins.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2313 | Title: | d. a. levy Papers
| | | | Creator: | levy, d. a. | | | | Dates: | 1964-1981 | | | | Abstract: | d.a. levy (Darryl Allen Levy) was a central figure in poetry and the publishing of poetry in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1962 until his death in 1968. Using a small hand letterpress and mimeograph, levy produced and distributed hundreds of chapbooks, pamphlets, magazines, and newspapers. From 1963-1968 his 7 Flowers Press and his publications The Marrahwannah Quarterly and The Buddhist Third Class Junk Mail Oracle printed the works of scores of Cleveland poets. His own poetry appeared in journals throughout the United States. A significant figure in the Cleveland counterculture of the 1960s, he was arrested several times. He committed suicide in 1968. The collection consists of published poems, artwork, publications, correspondence, legal correspondence, and posthumous biographical sketches. Correspondents include Allen Ginsberg. | | | | Call #: | MS 4727 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Levy, D. A. | Levy, D. A. -- Poetry. | Poets, American -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Poetry -- Publishing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Poetry.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2314 | Title: | Morris E. Meyer Papers
| | | | Creator: | Meyer, Morris e. | | | | Dates: | 1842-1939 | | | | Abstract: | Morris E. Meyer was a German Jew born in Hanover, Germany, in 1812. He emigrated to the United States, settled in Charleston, South Carolina, and became a citizen in 1844. He married Sarah Gertrude Oppenheim, a fourth generation member of a South Carolina Jewish-American family. About 1863 they moved to Camden, South Carolina, where he established himself as a merchant in the cotton trade, and was himself a slaveholder. During General William T. Sherman's sweep through Camden in 1865, Meyer lost his entire store of cotton and many household goods. After the Civil War, Meyer moved to New York City, where he engaged in the cotton trade and other ventures. Sometime after 1877, he and his family took up residence in Hanover, Germany, where he died in 1886. The collection consists of business and family records and correspondence, including cotton claims, records of cotton purchases, inventories, a presidential pardon for Meyer following the Civil War, and family passports. Of particular interest are slave transactions, 1850-1865, including bills of sale and mortgage bonds related to slave transactions by Morris Meyer 1850-1861, and a list of Meyer's household slaves in 1865. | | | | Call #: | MS 4728 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Meyer, Morris E., 1812-1886. | Myers family. | Jews -- South Carolina. | Jews -- New York. | Slaveholders -- South Carolina. | Slavery -- South Carolina. | Jewish businesspeople -- South Carolina. | Jewish businesspeople -- New York. | Jews, German -- South Carolina. | Jews, German -- New York. | Cotton trade -- South Carolina. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Jews. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Economic aspects
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2315 | Title: | New York Central Railroad Records
| | | | Creator: | New York Central Railroad | | | | Dates: | 1880-1957 | | | | Abstract: | The New York Central Railroad first stationed business representatives in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1853, but it was not until 1870 that the railroad established a significant presence in the local railroad economy. During the 1880s-1890s, the New York Central purchased controlling interests in various railroads to secure routes into Cleveland. In the early twentieth century it built and bought lines through and around Cleveland. Yards that were key to New York Central's repair, maintenance, and storage operations in the Cleveland area included Collinwood, Linndale, and Union Depot. In 1921, the New York Central participated in financing of Cleveland Union Terminal on Public Square and eventually established a yard on that site. By 1929, the railroad had 9,963 employees in the Cleveland area, and had established one of two national offices in Cleveland. During the Depression, many yardworkers were laid off, and labor organizations had units within the yards. Many employees served in World War II, a time of unprecedented passenger and freight activity. In the 1950s-1960s, passenger traffic and freight activity declined. In 1975, the remnants of the New York Central and other railroads were consolidated under the name Conrail. The collection consists of index cards containing the work history, education level, address, birth date, and occasionally, race of the yard workers employed by the New York Central Railroad and its predecessors in northeast Ohio from approximately 1880-1957. | | | | Call #: | MS 4729 | | | | Extent: | 4.50 linear feet (5 containers) | | | | Subjects: | New York Central Railroad Company. | New York Central Railroad Company -- Employees. | Railroad companies -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Railroads -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Yards. | Railroads -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Employees. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Commerce.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2316 | Title: | David K. Ford Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Ford, David K. Family | | | | Dates: | 1791-1993 | | | | Abstract: | The Ford family were prominent lawyers, philanthropists, and businessmen of Cleveland, Ohio, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The collection consists of genealogies, biographical sketches, correspondence, diaries, journals, account books, appointment books, ledgers, stock certificates, minutes, leases, articles of incorporation, wills, deeds, corporate inventories, maps, newspaper and magazine clippings, tax assessments and returns, diplomas, certificates, military orders, and discharge papers. Material is included on several banking institutions, including Garfield Savings Bank, The Western Reserve Trust Company, Metropolitan National Savings Bank, and the East End Savings and Trust Company. Material on Ford family involvement in the construction and management of the Williamson Building is included, as is family involvement in other real estate enterprises, including The New Amsterdam Company, One Euclid Company, and the Ford McCaslin Company. Involvement in various legal firms by H. Clark, Horatio, and David K. Ford is well documented, as is David K. Ford's role in the organization and operation of the Lubrizol Corporation and Lubrizol Foundation. Family involvement with the Euclid Avenue Congregational Church, and with other philanthropic and social service organizations, such as the American Red Cross, the Maternal Health Association, University Hospitals, and the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University, is documented. Family members were also involved with the Congregational City Missionary Society, the Congregational Home Missionary Society, the Schauffler Missionary Training School (later Schauffler College of Religious and Social Work), and the National Council of the Congregational Churches of the United States. David K. Ford's involvement with Defiance College is documented. David and Elizabeth Brooks Ford's commitment to community service and social reform is well documented in this collection, including correspondence with others sharing their interests, such as Ralph Hayes of the City Club, Dorothy Adams Hamilton Brush with the Maternal Health Association, Agnes Brooks Young with the Cleveland Playhouse, and Katherine Gill Brooks of the Visiting Nurse Association. Of particular interest is the correspondence of H. Clark Ford with the notorious swindler Cassie Chadwick. The majority of the genealogical and family history materials included is the work of Oliver Kingsley Brooks. | | | | Call #: | MS 4730 | | | | Extent: | 36.91 linear feet (40 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Thorpe family. | Ford, David K., 1894-1993. | Ford, Horatio, 1881-1952. | Ford, Horatio Clark, 1853-1915. | Ford, Elizabeth Kingsley Brooks, 1896-1990. | Ford family. | Brooks family. | Gill family. | Dunn family. | Shyrock family. | Keith family. | Reynolds family. | Schauffler College of Religious and Social Work -- History. | Euclid Avenue Congregational Church (Cleveland, Ohio). | Congregational City Missionary Society (Cleveland, Ohio). | Congregational Home Missionary Society (Cleveland, Ohio). | Defiance College (Defiance, Ohio). | Maternal Health Association of Cleveland, Ohio. | New Amsterdam Company. | One Euclid Company. | Williamson Company. | Ford-McCaslin Company. | Lubrizol Corporation. | Lubrizol Foundation. | Cleveland Trust Company. | Garfield Savings Bank. | Western Reserve Trust Company. | Metropolitan National Savings Bank. | East End Savings and Trust Company. | Lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Businessmen -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Banks and banking -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Real estate business -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Buildings -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Philanthropists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Congregational churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Missions -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2317 | Title: | Cleveland Stock Exchange Records
| | | | Creator: | Cleveland Stock Exchange | | | | Dates: | 1900-1949 | | | | Abstract: | The Cleveland Stock Exchange was organized in 1899 by Cleveland, Ohio, financiers Herbert Wright, W.H. Lamprecht, and R. H. York, and began operations on April 16, 1900. After the crash of 1929, the market never regained its pre-Depression value, and after fluctuating throughout World War II, it reached a post-crash high in 1946. In the late 1930s the exchange, registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission, sold odd lots and unlisted securities, and permitted incorporatd brokerages to purchase seats which had previously only been sold to individual brokers. The Cleveland Bourse, as it was commonly known, offered stocks and bonds primarily from local corporations engaged in manufacturing, refining and the rubber industry. Many of the men on the Exchange served in World War II, allowing women to assume responsibility as board markers, chief clerk, and traders. After a decline in yearly activity and the improvement of communications technology, the Cleveland Stock Exchange was replaced by the Chicago-based Midwest Stock Exchange on December 1, 1948. Thereafter, trading was moved to the Midwest's main floor in Chicago while a branch office was maintained in Cleveland until 1966. The collection consists of annual reports, daily sales registers, account ledgers, dividend records, and scrapbooks. The dividend records of corporations participating in the Exchange include Eaton Manufacturing Company, Dow Chemical Company, Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, General Tire and Rubber Company, Glidden Company, Halle Brothers Company, Otis Steel Company, Packer Corporation, Peerless Motor Car Corporation, Standard Oil of Ohio (and New Jersey), Stouffer Corporation, Thompson Products Incorporated, Timken Roller Bearing Company, United States Steel Corporation, Vlchek Tool Company, and White Motor Company. | | | | Call #: | MS 4731 | | | | Extent: | 1.40 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Cleveland (Ohio). Stock Exchange. | Stock exchanges -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Stock exchange. | Stocks -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Securities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Commerce.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2318 | Title: | Albert A. Woldman Papers
| | | | Creator: | Woldman, Albert A. | | | | Dates: | 1918-1969 | | | | Abstract: | Albert A. Woldman was a Cleveland, Ohio, lawyer, author, teacher, speechwriter, administrator and judge who served in various state and local governmental positions during his professional career. Born in Vilna, Lithuania, his family emigrated from there in 1901 to Cleveland. After graduation from Ohio Northern University College of Law in 1919, Woldman began a private law practice and taught at John Marshall Law School. In 1941, he was appointed assistant law director for the city of Cleveland. He also was a speech writer for Mayor Frank Lausche. After Lausche was elected governor of Ohio in 1944, he appointed Woldman to chair the Ohio Unemployment Compensation Board of Review. In 1949 Lausche appointed him director of the Department of Industrial Relations. In 1953, he was appointed to fill an unexpired term as judge of the Juvenile Court of Cuyahoga County. He remained a judge until his retirement in 1968. Woldman was also active in several Jewish community organizations. He was founder and first president of the Cleveland Hebrew Young Men's and Women's Association in the 1920s. In the 1940s he served as president of B'nai B'rith District No. 2 in Cleveland. He also authored two books on Abraham Lincoln, Lawyer Lincoln and Lincoln and the Russians. He married Lydia Levin of Cleveland in 1921, and had three children; Dr. Robert, Stuart, and Phyllis Woldman Klein. The collection consists of correspondence, drafts of writings, addresses on the subjects of juvenile delinquency and Abraham Lincoln, articles concerning the Constitution of the United States, correspondence, minutes and reports concerning the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court. | | | | Call #: | MS 4732 | | | | Extent: | 2.20 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Woldman, Albert A. (Albert Alexander), 1897-1971. | Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. | Lausche, Frank John, b. 1895 | Burke, Thomas A. (Thomas Aloysius), 1898-1971. | Ohio Bureau of Unemployment Compensation. | Cuyahoga County (Ohio). Juvenile Court. | Cleveland Hebrew Young Men's and Women's Association. | Ohio. Dept. of Industrial Relations. | Welfare Federation of Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish judges -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Judges -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Juvenile courts -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. | Courts -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. | Juvenile delinquency -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. | Youth -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2319 | Title: | West Side Jewish Center
| | | | Creator: | West Side Jewish Center | | | | Dates: | 1883-1992 | | | | Abstract: | The West Side Jewish Center was organized in Cleveland, Ohio, as B'nai Israel by ten Orthodox Jewish families in 1910, the second Jewish congregation founded on the west side of Cleveland. A small house was purchased at 1794 West 30th Street in 1912. In 1918, a former church building at West 25th Street and Bridge Avenue was acquired. In 1926, a new synagogue was constructed at 1791 West 57th Street, but was lost through foreclosure about 1937. Services were held in various rented quarters until 1940, when a small house was purchased at 4101 John Avenue. During the 1940s and 1950s membership averaged 55 families. A new building was occupied at 14308 Triskett Road in 1957, when the Center was merged with Beth Israel-The West Temple. By 1919, the congregation had become Conservative. With the 1957 merger with Beth Israel, the Center became part of the Reform movement. A school was also operated by the Center until 1944. The collection consists of board of trustee minutes, bulletins, newspaper clippings, interview notes, and financial records. | | | | Call #: | MS 4733 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | West Side Jewish Center (Cleveland, Ohio) | Beth Israel - The West Temple (Cleveland, Ohio) | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Synagogues -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Organization and administration. | Orthodox Judaism -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Conservative Judaism -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Reform Judaism -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2320 | Title: | Rollin H. White and Walter C. White Papers
| | | | Creator: | White, Rollin H. and Walter C. | | | | Dates: | 1895-1980 | | | | Abstract: | Rollin H. White and Walter C. White were sons of Thomas H. White, founder of the White Sewing Machine Company of Cleveland, Ohio. Rollin and Walter White, along with their brother Windsor, were involved with the early design and manufacture of automobiles. In 1899, Rollin H. White developed a steam boiler useful for powering automobiles, and in 1900 the White Steamer automobile was introduced. In 1906 the White Company, a firm separate from their father's White Sewing Machine Company, was formed by the brothers to manufacture automobiles and other vehicles. It later became the White Motor Company. The collection consists of correspondence, engineering notes, test data, newspaper clippings, a patent, a memoriam booklet, obituaries, blueprints, and reports. | | | | Call #: | MS 4734 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | White, Rollin Henry, 1872-1962. | White, Walter Charles, 1876-1929. | White family. | White, Thomas Howard, 1836-1914. | White, Windsor Thomas, 1866-1958. | White Sewing Machine Company. | White Motor Company. | Automobiles, Steam. | Automobile industry and trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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