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1	Title:	Cleveland, Ohio 175th Anniversary Collection
	Creator:	Halle, Katherine Murphy
	Dates:	1932-1973
	Abstract:	Gala dinner in honor of the 175th anniversary of the settling of Cleveland, Ohio. Its toastmaster and hostess was radio commentator Katherine Murphy Halle, daughter of the department store founder, Samuel Halle. The collection consists of copies of newspaper clippings, resumes, and entries in Who's Who in America about 300 distinguished Clevelanders who attended the dinner. Also included are R.S.V.P. cards with handwritten regrets.
	Call #:	MS 3723
	Extent:	0.40 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Cleveland (Ohio) -- Anniversaries, etc. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Biography.
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2	Title:	Cleveland Families Oral History Project Interviews
	Creator:	Tuve, Jeanette E.
	Dates:	1982-1985
	Abstract:	The collection consists of 39 oral history interviews conducted by Jeanette Tuve with individuals and representatives of long-established Cleveland, Ohio, families who have played significant roles in the city's growth and development and with several Cleveland philanthropic foundation administrators. The interviews focused on the philanthropic involvement of these families and reveal the continuity of philanthropic motivation between generations of a particular family and the shared interest between related families and social peers in specific areas of charitable activity. The project was sponsored by the Western Reserve Historical Society and funded by the William Bingham Foundation.
	Call #:	MS 4345
	Extent:	0.80 linear feet (2 containers)
	Subjects:	Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Endowments -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Interviews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Philanthropists -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Interviews. \| Upper classes -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Interviews. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Biography. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy.
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3	Title:	Cleveland Commission on Higher Education Records, Series II
	Creator:	Cleveland Commission on Higher Education
	Dates:	1959-1986
	Abstract:	The Cleveland Commission on Higher Education is a cooperative organization of universities and colleges in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, devoted to common problem solving and the promotion of higher education in the area. The commission helps to assess needs and eliminate the duplication of programs, coordinates educational efforts, and works to further education in general. The collection consists of a copy of the organization's regulations, minutes, biographical sketches of the executive director and the trustees, reports, correspondence, news releases, memoranda, interviews with members, publications, and miscellaneous material.
	Call #:	MS 4372
	Extent:	0.40 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Cleveland Commission on Higher Education -- Archives. \| Education, Higher -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. \| Universities and colleges -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. \| University cooperation -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. \| Educators -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County -- Interviews. \| Educators -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County -- Biography. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Biography.
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4	Title:	Henry Dodge Papers
	Creator:	Dodge, Henry
	Dates:	1958
	Abstract:	Henry Dodge was a descendant of one of the oldest families in Cleveland, Ohio, and an employee of Standard Oil of New Jersey. Dodge lived his adult life in Scarsdale, New York. The collection consists of a book of reminiscences for his children. In addition to his own life story, his book provides information on many of his family members, including his wife, Lila McClelland Dodge, his parents, Samuel Douglas Dodge and Jeannette May Groff, and his grandparents, George C. Dodge, Lucy A. Burton Dodge, Henry R. Groff, and Mary A. Sutherland Groff. The book contains references to prominent Clevelanders, including John D. Rockefeller. The collection is valuable as a sketch of the life of Henry Dodge and for the information it contains on the Dodge family and related families. Since the Dodges were a prominent Cleveland family, the material also includes information on the social life of Cleveland's upper class during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Dodge's experiences in France during World War I may also be of interest.
	Call #:	MS 4432
	Extent:	0.10 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Dodge, Henry, b. 1883. \| Dodge family. \| Groff family. \| Upper classes -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, American. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Biography. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social life and customs.
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5	Title:	Nineteenth Ohio Battery Association Records
	Creator:	Nineteenth Ohio Battery Association
	Dates:	1873-1919
	Abstract:	The Nineteenth Ohio Battery Association was an association of American Civil War veterans of the 19th Battery of Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, which met annually and semi-annually in reunion. The 19th Ohio Battery was recruited in 1862 in Cleveland, Ohio by Captain Joseph C. Shields, and trained in University Heights, Ohio. The battery went by railroad to Cincinnati, and entered the war in Kentucky in pursuit of Confederate cavalry leader Col. James Hunt Morgan. The battery was mustered out of service in June 1865. Many of the reunions were arranged and administered by Frank Gilbert. The collection consists of a minute book of annual reunions, beginning with the 7th (1873) and ending with the 51st (1916), when the association dissolved. The book includes lists of attending members and deceased members. Included is a volume containing a history of the battery during the war, with accounts of battles and campaigns, along with minutes of 14 mid-winter reunions, 1902-1915. Also included is a scrapbook containing reunion programs, obituaries and newspaper clippings, as well as correspondence, postcards, photographs and miscellany.
	Call #:	MS 1163
	Extent:	0.60 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize volume)
	Subjects:	Shields, Joseph C. \| United States. Army. Ohio Light Artillery Battery, 19th (1862-1865) \| Nineteenth Ohio Battery Association -- Archives. \| Veterans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. -- Archives. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories -- Ohio Light Artillery Battery, 19th. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Registers. \| Ohio -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Registers. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Biography.
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6	Title:	Cleveland Light Artillery Association Records
	Creator:	Cleveland Light Artillery Association
	Dates:	1856-1922
	Abstract:	The Cleveland Light Artillery Association is a Cleveland, Ohio, association of former members of the Cleveland Light Artillery. The association was formed in 1870 and was composed primarily of veterans of the Civil War. It met annually in reunion to pay tribute to one another and to honor deceased members. It disbanded in 1922. The Cleveland Light Artillery was originally organized in 1839 by 9 members of the Cleveland Grays gun squad, an independent military organization made up of young men chosen from the area's elite families. It was named the Cleveland Light Artillery in 1846, when it was detached from the Grays, and served as an independent artillery militia service until 1860, when it became part of Battery A of the 1st Regiment of the Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, led by Col. James Barnett. When the Civil War broke out, the Cleveland Light Artillery did an initial 3-month tour of duty from April-July 1861, and was the first Cleveland unit to experience battle (Phillippi) in the war and the first to suffer a casualty. The collection consists of minute books of annual meetings (1870-1922), including lists of members and account records, a book of memorial tributes and biographies of deceased members, a register book of members, including newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous correspondence, invitations, acknowledgments, and locations of burials in Cleveland's Lakeview Cemetery. J.F. Adams was a long-time secretary-treasurer for the association.
	Call #:	MS 1600
	Extent:	0.40 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Barnett, James, 1821-1911. \| United States. Army. Ohio Light Artillery Regiment, 1st (1861-1865). Battery A. \| Cleveland Light Artillery Association -- Archives. \| Veterans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. -- Archives. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Registers. \| Ohio -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Registers. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Biography.
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7	Title:	Grand Army of the Republic, Army and Navy Post No. 187 Records
	Creator:	Grand Army of the Republic, Army and Navy Post No. 187
	Dates:	1892-1920
	Abstract:	The Grand Army of the Republic, Army and Navy Post No. 187 was the Cleveland, Ohio, chapter of this national association of Union Civil War veterans. The GAR worked on both the state and national levels for issues such as pensions and the establishment of soldiers' homes. By 1908 there were a total of 8 GAR posts in Cleveland, with a membership of 886. Five additional posts were located elsewhere in Cuyahoga County, with 129 additional members. The collection consists of a list of members who served in the Civil War with information concerning their births, deaths, and military service, minutes of meetings of Post 187 (1913-1920), and a memorial volume to Louis Black, Company A, 150th Ohio Infantry.
	Call #:	MS 2758
	Extent:	0.40 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Black, Louis, d. 1919. \| Grand Army of the Republic. Army and Navy Post, No. 187 (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Registers of births, etc. -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Veterans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. \| Veterans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Registers. \| Ohio -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Registers. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Registers. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Biography.
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8	Title:	Personal War Sketches of the Members of Army and Navy Post No. 187
	Creator:	Grand Army of the Republic, Army and Navy Post No. 187
	Dates:	ca. 1899
	Abstract:	The Grand Army of the Republic, Army and Navy Post No. 187, was the Cleveland, Ohio, chapter of this national association of Union Civil War veterans. The GAR worked on both the state and national levels for issues such as pensions and the establishment of soldiers' homes. By 1908 there were a total of 8 GAR posts in Cleveland, with a membership of 886. Five additional posts were located elsewhere in Cuyahoga County, with 129 additional members. The collection consists of a record of the Civil War service of living and deceased members of the post. Presented to the post by William Bingham, 1899.
	Call #:	MS 2769
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Grand Army of the Republic. Army and Navy Post, No. 187 (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Registers of births, etc. -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Veterans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. \| Veterans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Registers. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Biography. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Registers. \| Ohio -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Registers.
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9	Title:	Ella Grant Wilson Papers
	Creator:	Wilson, Ella Grant
	Dates:	1864-1938
	Abstract:	Ella Grant Wilson (1854-1939) was a Cleveland, Ohio, florist, publicist, journalist and author. She was founder of the Floral Syndicate, a publicity service which promoted conventions and other activities of interest to the floral industry and was garden editor of the Plain Dealer. Her series in the Sunday Plain Dealer, focusing on historic Cleveland led to her book, "Famous old Euclid Avenue", featuring anecdotes, history and biographies relating to the homes and personalities of "Millionaires' Row." The collection consists of correspondence, reminiscences, writings, and memorabilia relating to Wilson's life and family, the floral industry, her organizational affiliations, and her book. There are also some genealogical materials relating to the Grant family. The collection is particularly useful to the study of women in business, the floral industry in Cleveland and the Midwest, and the history of Cleveland.
	Call #:	MS 4302
	Extent:	3.00 linear feet (5 containers)
	Subjects:	Wilson, Ella Grant, 1854-1939. \| Grant family. \| Floriculture -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Floriculture -- United States. \| Florists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Flowers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Marketing. \| Flower shows -- United States. \| Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Biography. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- History. \| Euclid Avenue (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social life and customs.
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10	Title:	William Ganson Rose Papers
	Creator:	Rose, William Ganson
	Dates:	1862-1955
	Abstract:	William Ganson Rose (1878-1957) was a noted Cleveland, Ohio, author, historian, lecturer, advertising executive, and civic promoter. In 1915, Rose formed Wm. G. Rose, Inc., his own advertising and public relations firm. He managed numerous fairs and expositions, including the first Cleveland Electrical Exposition (1914), the Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race and Aerial Carnival (1930), the Great Lakes Exposition (1936-1937), and the Cleveland Sesquicentennial (1946). In 1916-1917, Rose chaired the group which promoted and ultimately secured passage of a bond issue financing the construction of the Cleveland Public Auditorium. He served on the board of Hiram House, a Cleveland social settlement founded by George Bellamy in 1896, and belonged to the American Press Humorists and the Cleveland Athletic Club. Rose authored several books and numerous articles for newspapers and magazines, as well as a comprehensive history of Cleveland entitled Cleveland, the making of a city, published in 1950. Rose died in 1957. The collection consists of newspaper clippings, promotional material, correspondence, biographical material, photographs, reports, and historical material pertaining to the history of Cleveland, Ohio and many of its prominent citizens, but also including material on national and international events and personages. Individuals, organizations and events that figure most prominently include: the American Press Humorists, Newton D. Baker, George Bellamy and Hiram House, Charles F. Brush, the Cleveland Sesquicentennial of 1946, the visit to Cleveland of Emile Coue, Thomas A. Edison, the Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race and Aerial Carnival of 1930, Abraham Lincoln, the Cleveland Public Auditorium, John D. Rockefeller, the Cleveland War Service Center, the Cleveland Grays, and the writings of Whiting Williams. Also included is a significant amount of biographical material on numerous women in Cleveland's history, material pertaining to sports, particularly baseball, and material relating to the theater in Cleveland, with newspaper reviews of performances.
	Call #:	MS 3365
	Extent:	4.80 linear feet (6 containers and 4 oversize volumes)
	Subjects:	Rose, William Ganson, b. 1878 -- Archives. \| Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937. \| Bellamy, George Albert, 1872-1960. \| Brush, Charles Francis, 1849-1929. \| Coue, Emile, 1857-1926. \| Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931. \| Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. \| Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison), 1839-1937. \| Hiram House Social Settlement (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Cleveland Public Auditorium (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Cleveland Grays (Military unit) \| War Service Center (Cleveland, Ohio) \| American Press Humorists. \| Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race and Aerial Carnival (1930 : c Cleveland, Ohio) \| Cleveland Sesquicentennial (1946 : Cleveland, Ohio) \| Public buildings -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Baseball -- United States -- History. \| Baseball -- United States -- Biography. \| Mental suggestion. \| Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Biography. \| Theater -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Reviews. \| Buildings -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Fairs -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Biography.
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11	Title:	Raymond F. Blosser Papers, Series II
	Creator:	Blosser, Raymond F.
	Dates:	1918-1988
	Abstract:	Raymond F. Blosser was a staff writer/editor and, eventually, bureau chief for the Associated Press in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1935-1943. In his spare time beginning in 1938, Blosser conducted interviews and extensive research for a biography of Oris P. and Mantis J. Van Sweringen, developers of the exclusive suburb of Shaker Heights, Ohio and builders of Cleveland's Union Terminal, who amassed huge holdings in railroads during the 1920s. Blosser finished his manuscript in 1946, but it remained unpublished. Blosser was public relations director for the New York Central Railroad until 1956, and vice president in charge of public relations and advertising at Union Commerce Bank in Cleveland from 1956 to 1973. The collection consists of a typescript second draft of Blosser's "Untitled biography of the Van Sweringen brothers of Cleveland," a carbon copy of the same containing additions, comments and corrections by William H. Wenneman, William Barrett and William Wyer (all top officers and aides to the Van Sweringens), miscellaneous correspondence, notes, newspaper clippings pertaining to the biography, and a privately published biography of the Van Sweringens by Louise Davidson Jenks. The collection pertains to the lives of the Van Sweringen brothers, in particular to their business careers and especially in regards to the consolidation of their railroad holdings, with valuable information re: the Nickel Plate Railroad, the Alleghany Corporation and other Van Sweringen-controlled holding companies, as well as the Interstate Commerce Commission hearings on railroads in the 1930s.
	Call #:	MS 4543
	Extent:	0.40 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Blosser, Raymond F., 1913- \| Van Sweringen, Oris Paxton, 1879-1936. \| Van Sweringen, Mantis James, 1881-1935. \| United States. Interstate Commerce Commission. \| Alleghany Corporation. \| New York, Chicago, and St. Louis Railroad. \| Toledo, St. Louis and Western Railroad. \| Lake Erie and Western Railroad Company. \| Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company. \| Hocking Valley Railway Company. \| Pere Marquette Railway. \| Missouri Pacific Railroad Company. \| Shaker Heights Rapid Transit. \| Cleveland Terminals Building Company. \| Terminal Tower Complex (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Capitalists and financiers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Biography. \| Railroads -- United States -- Consolidation. \| Railroads -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History. \| Railroads -- United States -- Management. \| Railroad terminals -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Real estate development -- Ohio -- Shaker Heights. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Biography.
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