Format | • | Manuscript Collection | [X] |
Subject | • | Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | [X] | | • | Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions. |
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| | • | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African American dramatists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African American theater -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African Americans in the performing arts -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations. |
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| | • | Karamu House. |
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| | • | Theater -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Camps -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Italian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Alta House (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | Camps -- Ohio -- Chagrin Falls. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Foreign population. |
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| | • | Cleveland Music School Settlement. |
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| | • | Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland |
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| | • | Community organization -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Community welfare councils -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | East End Neighborhood House (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | Friendly Inn Social Settlement (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | Hiram House Social Settlement (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. |
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| | • | Jelliffe, Rowena Woodham, 1892-1992. |
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| | • | Jelliffe, Russell W., 1891-1980. |
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| | • | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Music -- Instruction and study -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Music -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Endowments. |
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| | • | Poor -- Ohio -- Cleveland |
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| | • | Rural-urban migration -- United States. |
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| | • | Second Presbyterian Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Men's Club. |
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| | • | Silver, Dorothy, 1929- |
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| | • | Silver, Reuben, 1925- |
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| | • | Adolescent boys -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. |
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| | • | Bauer, George P., 1899-1988. |
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| | • | Bellamy, George Albert, 1872-1960. |
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| | • | Boys -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. |
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| | • | Buckeye-Woodland (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | Burton, Harold H. (Harold Hitz), 1888-1964. |
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| | • | Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Clark, Harold T. (Harold Terry), 1882-1965. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Foreign population |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions |
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| | • | Clubs -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Communism -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Community development corporations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Community development, Urban -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Community health services -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Community mental health services -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Day care centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Deaconesses -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | East End Neighborhood Center (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | Elections -- Ohio. |
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| | • | Elections -- United States. |
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| | • | Federations, Financial (Social Service) |
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| | • | Gangs -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Gilpin Players. |
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| | • | Goodrich Social Settlement (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | Goodrich Social Settlement (Cleveland, Ohio). Bell Neighborhood Center. |
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| | • | Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers Association. |
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| | • | Hispanic Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Hough (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | Hungarian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945. |
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| | • | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. |
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| | • | Juvenile delinquents -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Karamu Foundation. |
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| | • | Kathryn R. Tyler Neighborhood Center (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | League Park Center (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | Merrick House Settlement and Day Nursery (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | Neighborhood -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Neighborhood Settlement Association (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | Neighborhood Settlement Association (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Archives. |
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| | • | Ohio -- Politics and government. |
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| | • | Polish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Political campaigns -- Ohio. |
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| | • | Political campaigns -- United States. |
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| | • | Recreation centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Rich, Jason D., 1907-1999. |
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| | • | School facilities -- Extended use -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Slovak Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Social case work. |
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| | • | Social group work |
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| | • | Social group work. |
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| | • | Social service -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Social work education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Social work with African Americans. |
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| | • | Social work with delinquents and criminals -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Social work with immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Social work with youth -- Ohio -- Cleveland |
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| | • | Taft, Robert A. (Robert Alphonso), 1889-1953. |
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| | • | Unemployed -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century. |
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| | • | University Settlement (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | Vocational guidance -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Walter, Paul W., 1907-1992. |
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| | • | West Side Community House (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | Windsor Club (Cleveland, Ohio). |
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| | • | Women in charitable work. |
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| | • | Women social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Women volunteers in social service -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Women's Philanthropic Union (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | Women, Methodist -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Youth -- Ohio -- Cleveland |
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| | • | Youth -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Youth programs -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2 | Title: | Goodrich Social Settlement Records
| | | | Creator: | Goodrich Social Settlement | | | | Dates: | 1893-1965 | | | | Abstract: | Goodrich Social Settlement was founded in 1897 in Cleveland, Ohio, by Flora Stone Mather and initially supported by her. Its financial support was later provided by the Cleveland Community Fund. It provided a full range of services to the various ethnic groups which resided in its area. The collection consists of correspondence, minutes, annual reports, pamphlets, news sheets, settlement manuals, anniversary publications, registration forms and financial records. | | | | Call #: | MS 3505 | | | | Extent: | 4.00 linear feet (10 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Goodrich Social Settlement (Cleveland, Ohio) | Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Camps -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 3 | Title: | Goodrich Social Settlement Records, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Goodrich Social Settlement | | | | Dates: | 1960-1973 | | | | Abstract: | The Bell Neighborhood Center is an extension of Goodrich Social Settlement founded in 1959 when the Ohio Bell Telephone Company deeded a building in the Hough area of Cleveland, Ohio, to the Goodrich Settlement. The collection consists of correspondence, financial accounts, reports, and special projects of Bell Center, reports of Bell Camp, and records of the Hough Housing Corporation, the School Neighborhood Youth Corps, and the Mayor's Council on Youth Opportunity. | | | | Call #: | MS 3594 | | | | Extent: | 1.60 linear feet (4 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Goodrich Social Settlement (Cleveland, Ohio). Bell Neighborhood Center. | Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Camps -- Ohio -- Chagrin Falls. | Youth programs -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 4 | Title: | Cleveland Music School Settlement Records
| | | | Creator: | Cleveland Music School Settlement | | | | Dates: | 1912-1974 | | | | Abstract: | The Cleveland Music School Settlement was founded in 1912 to provide music lessons to children of Cleveland, Ohio, of limited means. In 1920 the Settlement became a member of the Welfare Federation of Cleveland. In 1988 it included an Extension Program with several branches. Programs included Music Therapy, Special Education, a nursery, an advisory committee to aid other institutions, and a consortium with area universities. The collection consists of articles of incorporation, regulations, by-laws, Trustee and Executive Committee minutes, annual reports, Faculty and Finance Committee reports, studies of settlement programs, correspondence, bulletins and catalogs. | | | | Call #: | MS 3914 | | | | Extent: | 1.40 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Cleveland Music School Settlement. | Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Music -- Instruction and study -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Music -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Endowments.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 6 | Title: | Neighborhood Settlement Association Records
| | | | Creator: | Neighborhood Settlement Association | | | | Dates: | 1946-1948 | | | | Abstract: | The Neighborhood Settlement Association is a cooperative federation of social settlements and agencies in Cleveland, Ohio, founded in 1948 as an outgrowth of the Hiram House Study Committee of the Group Work Council of the Welfare Federation of Cleveland. The association was proposed to furnish technical assistance to participating groups, to plan for meeting new needs throughout the city with the Group Work Council of the Welfare Federation of Cleveland, to coordinate and stimulate participating groups to meet the needs of their respective neighborhoods, to collaborate with other city-wide public and private institutions and agencies in serving neighborhoods, and to help find ways of making more efficient use of existing facilities. Today it is known as the Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Settlement Association. The collection consists of budgets, meeting agenda and minutes, correspondence, replies to questionnaires, and reports concerning the formation of the association and the work of the Hiram House Study Committee and the Group Work Council of the Welfare Federation of Cleveland. The collection pertains primarily to the social settlements in Cleveland and to their efforts to maximize their resources for aid to neighborhoods through cooperative programs. | | | | Call #: | MS 4220 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Neighborhood Settlement Association (Cleveland, Ohio) | Neighborhood Settlement Association (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Archives. | Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 8 | Title: | Cleveland Music School Settlement Records, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Cleveland Music School Settlement | | | | Dates: | 1974-1979 | | | | Abstract: | The Cleveland Music School Settlement was founded in 1912 to provide music lessons to children of limited means in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1920 the Settlement became a member of the Welfare Federation of Cleveland. In 1988 it included an Extension Program with several branches. Programs included Music Therapy, Special Education, a nursery, an advisory committee to aid other institutions, and a consortium with area universities. In 2008 the name was changed to The Music Settlement. In 2014 the Music Settlement opened a satellite location at the former Bop Stop jazz club in the Ohio City neighborhood on Cleveland's west side. The collection consists of board meeting minutes. | | | | Call #: | MS 5285 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Cleveland Music School Settlement. | Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Music -- Instruction and study -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Music -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Endowments.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 9 | Title: | East End Neighborhood House Records
| | | | Creator: | East End Neighborhood House | | | | Dates: | 1911-1966 | | | | Abstract: | East End Neighborhood House was founded in the Cleveland, Ohio, in 1907 by Hedwig Kosbob, as a sewing school in the predominantly Hungarian and Slovak neighborhood of Buckeye-Woodland. It was incorporated in 1910. By 1914 it began cultural and recreational programs, and by the Great Depression it grew into a full service community center, adding such services as day care nurseries, Americanization classes, and aid to Japanese Americans relocated to Cleveland during World War II. The collection consists of organizational proceedings, membership records, correspondence, program reports, group worker reports, announcements, scrapbooks, and printed materials. | | | | Call #: | MS 3568 | | | | Extent: | 11.70 linear feet (30 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | East End Neighborhood House (Cleveland, Ohio) | Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Day care centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945. | Hungarian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Slovak Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 11 | Title: | Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers Association Records
| | | | Creator: | Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers Association | | | | Dates: | 1947-1975 | | | | Abstract: | The Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers Association was the first settlement organization in the United States designed to plan, budget, and coordinate settlement services on a metropolitan-wide scale. It was organized in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1948, by the Welfare Federation of Cleveland (later the Federation for Community Planning), and called the Neighborhood Settlement Association. The NSA merged in 1963 with the United Neighborhood Centers to form the Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers Association. The GCNCA absorbed the Cleveland Federation of Settlements in 1963. The collection consists of minutes, correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings, and publications of the Neighborhood Settlement Association, the Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers Association, the Cleveland Federation of Settlements, the Welfare Federation of Cleveland, and Hiram House Camp and other GCNCA member agencies. | | | | Call #: | MS 3991 | | | | Extent: | 5.80 linear feet (7 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers Association. | Community organization -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Community welfare councils -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Federations, Financial (Social Service) | Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social service -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 12 | Title: | Merrick House Settlement and Day Nursery Records
| | | | Creator: | Merrick House Settlement and Day Nursery | | | | Dates: | 1919-1977 | | | | Abstract: | Merrick House Settlement and Day Nursery was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1919 by the National Catholic War Council and the Christ Child Society and named on honor of Mary Virginia Merrick, the Society's founder. Merrick House is located in the Tremont district on Cleveland's near West Side. It serves as a non-sectarian community center, providing social services and promoting community action. The collection consists of minutes, annual reports, budgets, correspondence, registration cards, questionnaires, club records, surveys, camping reports, day nursery records, community service program materials, records of affiliated organizations such as the Welfare Federation and Community Chest, newspaper clippings, published reports and printed materials. | | | | Call #: | MS 4030 | | | | Extent: | 8.90 linear feet (10 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Merrick House Settlement and Day Nursery (Cleveland, Ohio) | Poor -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Youth -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Social work with youth -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Foreign population | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 13 | Title: | East End Neighborhood House Records, Series II
| | | | Creator: | East End Neighborhood House | | | | Dates: | 1910-1976 | | | | Abstract: | East End Neighborhood House was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1907. It originally offered domestic skills classes and recreational activities to new immigrants principally from Hungary. The Center is a social settlement/community center serving Cleveland's Buckeye-Woodland-Woodhill community. Hungarian during the first half of the century, this area became largely Black during the 1960s and 1970s. Throughout this period, the center adjusted its activities to meet the needs of the area and also to take advantage of newly available federal funds. The programs reflected increased attention to the needs of senior citizens and also included expanded daycare programs and mental-health programs. The collection consists of minutes of the Board of Trustees, membership lists, corporate documents, personnel and director search records, general correspondence, financial records, and general program descriptions and budget statements. The collection pertains to the center's operation and includes material relating to its financial crisis, 1974-76, its search for a black director, and the changing racial composition of the area served by the center. | | | | Call #: | MS 4252 | | | | Extent: | 0.60 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | East End Neighborhood House (Cleveland, Ohio) | East End Neighborhood Center (Cleveland, Ohio) | Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Buckeye-Woodland (Cleveland, Ohio)
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 14 | Title: | Friendly Inn Social Settlement Records, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Friendly Inn Social Settlement | | | | Dates: | 1900-1954 | | | | Abstract: | The Friendly Inn Social Settlement is a Cleveland, Ohio, social settlement founded in 1874 by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and located in various city neighborhoods, including Broadway and Central, Woodland, and Carver Park Estates. The collection consists of scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and printed materials. The collection is primarily concerned with the Junior Board and includes material relating to its fund raising activities, the 75th anniversary celebration, and other activities. | | | | Call #: | MS 4259 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Friendly Inn Social Settlement (Cleveland, Ohio) | Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Camps -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Poor -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Foreign population. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 15 | Title: | George P. Bauer Correspondence
| | | | Creator: | Bauer, George P. | | | | Dates: | 1975-1976 | | | | Abstract: | George P. Bauer (1899-1988) was a social worker at Hiram House, Cleveland's first settlement house established in 1896. Cleveland, Ohio, was one of the centers of the settlement-house movement in America, one of the major and most enduring reform movements of the late 19th century. They were a response to the overcrowding, impoverishment, corruption, and disease caused by the rapid industrialization and growth of many cities during the latter half of the century. They are closely identified with the various reforms of the Progressive Era in America. Unique to the movement was the attempt to produce change by working from within those areas of the city and the segments of its population affected by urban problems. By World War I, a variety of settlements in addition to Hiram House existed, each serving a distinct neighborhood. Hiram House initially served the Jewish (later Italian and then Black) community along lower Woodland Avenue in Cleveland. The settlements generally enjoyed autonomy prior to World War I, but by 1930 many came to be dependent on centralized welfare campaigns. The collection consists of correspondence between Bauer and John J. Grabowski regarding Bauer's experiences during his time at Hiram House. The correspondence includes information concerning social settlements in general, and Hiram House in particular, including the relationship between the settlement, the various ethnic groups and their churches, the Communist activities in the neighborhood, and observations on Hiram House founder George Bellamy. | | | | Call #: | MS 4325 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Bauer, George P., 1899-1988. | Bellamy, George Albert, 1872-1960. | Hiram House Social Settlement (Cleveland, Ohio) | Communism -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Foreign population.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 16 | Title: | Jason D. Rich Papers
| | | | Creator: | Rich, Jason D. | | | | Dates: | 1905-1988 | | | | Abstract: | Jason D. Rich was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated from Cornell University in 1929, and earned a master's degree in social work administration from the Western Reserve University School of Applied Social Sciences. He then joined the staff as a social worker at the Council Educational Alliance settlement house in Cleveland, working there throughout the 1930s. After several years in New York, where he continued in social work, he returned to Cleveland and until his retirement worked at the Jewish Vocational Service as a social worker. The collection consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, newsletters, reports and program material relating to Rich's employment at the Council Educational Alliance and general material about social work. | | | | Call #: | MS 4769 | | | | Extent: | 1.00 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Rich, Jason D., 1907-1999. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Vocational guidance -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social work with immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 17 | Title: | University Settlement Records
| | | | Creator: | University Settlement | | | | Dates: | 1926-1970 | | | | Abstract: | The University Settlement was a social settlement founded in a predominantly Polish neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio. It was originally named the University Neighborhood Centers and was operated by the School of Applied Social Sciences of Western Reserve University as a training program for graduate students while providing a full range of community services and activities. In 1936 it changed its affiliation to the Welfare Federation of Cleveland and its name to the University Settlement. The collection consists of minutes, financial records, membership cards, statistical reports, correspondence, 65 theses from the Western Reserve University School of Applied Social Sciences, and a subject file containing reports, correspondence, minutes, lists, and pamphlets. | | | | Call #: | MS 3564 | | | | Extent: | 13.00 linear feet (33 containers) | | | | Subjects: | University Settlement (Cleveland, Ohio) | Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social work education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social group work. | Polish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Unemployed -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Camps -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Youth -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 18 | Title: | West Side Community House Records
| | | | Creator: | West Side Community House | | | | Dates: | 1890-1973 | | | | Abstract: | West Side Community House was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1890 by Methodist deaconesses. Early services included nursing, industrial, and domestic classes. Ongoing services included day care, clubs and classes for both boys and girls, Sunday school, vacation bible school, Christian reading clubs, an Americanization program, and classes in citizenship and English. In 1944 the Community House became non-denominational and adopted a professional social service approach. The collection consists of constitutions, by-laws, minutes, budgets, financial records, personnel and membership files, registration forms, evaluations of individuals and groups, correspondence of the Community House, the Welfare Federation of Cleveland, the Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers Association, the National Federation of Settlements, the Cleveland Federation of Settlements and the Case Western Reserve University School of Applied Social Sciences, subject files, newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks. | | | | Call #: | MS 3938 | | | | Extent: | 32.66 linear feet (35 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | West Side Community House (Cleveland, Ohio) | Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social case work. | Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Deaconesses -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women in charitable work. | Women, Methodist -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women volunteers in social service -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Hispanic Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 19 | Title: | League Park Center Records
| | | | Creator: | League Park Center | | | | Dates: | 1952-1970 | | | | Abstract: | League Park Center, Inc. (f. 1949), located in the Hough neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, was started by the Welfare Federation of Cleveland with two social workers in the old business office of League Park (6601 Lexington Ave.), with additional facilities at nearby Dunham Church of Christ. The Center has always had close ties with the Neighborhood Settlement Association, the Center focusing on the "development of Cleveland's inner city youth," with such programs as Headstart and athletic activities. The Center's other interests included improvement of the neighborhood and encouragement of street clubs, which worked for block and street preservation and sometimes promoted youth activities. The collection consists of articles of incorporation, a code of regulations, minutes, annual reports, correspondence, legal and financial papers, project reports, memoranda, newspaper clippings, and pamphlets and posters published by the corporation. | | | | Call #: | MS 4238 | | | | Extent: | 2.0 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | League Park Center (Cleveland, Ohio) | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social work with African Americans. | Neighborhood -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Community development, Urban -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Community development corporations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions. | Hough (Cleveland, Ohio)
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 20 | Title: | Reuben and Dorothy Silver Papers
| | | | Creator: | Silver, Reuben and Dorothy | | | | Dates: | 1949-1975 | | | | Abstract: | Reuben and Dorothy Silver were active in Karamu House, a performing arts center and theater, founded in 1915 as an interracial social settlement in Cleveland, Ohio. During their tenure, the Silvers were instrumental in presenting works by African American authors such as Langston Hughes and LeRoi Jones, as well as classics from the American theater. Urban unrest in the community surrounding Karamu and the growing popularity of the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s and 1970s forced a reconsideration of Karamu's goals as they related to interracial theater. During this period, Karamu endured major personnel and financial crises. The collection consists of minutes, reports, correspondence, memoranda, press releases, newspaper clippings, publications, playscripts, schedules, programs, and handbills. Most of the material contained in this collection is concerned with Karamu House and the Silvers' roles there as Theater Director and Theater Assistant from 1955-1976. | | | | Call #: | MS 4533 | | | | Extent: | 0.80 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Silver, Reuben, 1925- | Silver, Dorothy, 1929- | Karamu House. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans in the performing arts -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American theater -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American dramatists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Theater -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations.
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