| | Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1 | Title: | Frank A. Scott Papers, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Scott, Frank A. | | | | Dates: | 1894-1950 | | | | Abstract: | Frank A. Scott (1873-1949) was a Cleveland, Ohio, businessman and civic leader who was chairman of the Munitions Standards Board of the Council of National Defense and first chairman of the War Industries Board during World War I, as well as chairman of the board of Warner & Swasey Company. The collection consists of correspondence, biographical materials, diaries, personal mementos, speech texts, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, manuscripts, and the diaries of his second wife, Faith Alice Fraser Scott, and her sister, Grace Fraser Waugh. The collection is useful for understanding Scott's personal and business life, including his activities at Warner and Swasey and his work as an administrator at the War Dept. during World War I. Included among the correspondents are Samuel Mather, Theodore Burton, Newton D. Baker, Francis F. Prentiss, and Ambrose Swasey. | | | | Call #: | MS 4307 | | | | Extent: | 3.00 linear feet (6 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Scott, Frank Augustus, 1873-1949. | Warner & Swasey. | Machine-tool industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Machine-tool industry -- United States. | Optical industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Optical industry -- United States. | World War, 1914-1918 -- United States. | World War, 1914-1918 -- Economic aspects -- United States. | Industrial mobilization -- United States. | Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Diaries. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History -- Sources.
| | | | |
View Finding Aid
|
View XML
| |
| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2 | Title: | Frank A. Scott Papers
| | | | Creator: | Scott, Frank Augustus | | | | Dates: | 1848-1935 | | | | Abstract: | Frank Augustus Scott (1873-1949) was a businessman, of Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of correspondence, speeches, magazine articles, newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks, relating to Scott's activities in Cleveland's business, civic, cultural, charitable, and educational institutions, especially Western Reserve University, Case Institute of Technology, University Hospitals, and the Municipal Traction Company. Subjects include the iron and steel industry, business and industrial management, industry in Cleveland, the machine tool industry, economic matters, and federal legislation. Correspondents include Theodore E. Burton. | | | | Call #: | MS 3284 | | | | Extent: | 2.60 linear feet (8 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Scott, Frank Augustus, 1873-1949. | Scott family. | Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937. | Cleveland Railway Company. | Municipal Traction Company. | Machine-tool industry -- United States. | Metal trade -- United States. | Iron industry and trade -- United States. | Steel industry and trade -- United States. | Legislation -- United States. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Europe -- Description and travel -- 1919-1944.
| | | | |
View Finding Aid
|
View XML
| |
|
