Format • | Manuscript Collection | [X] |
Subject • | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | [X] | • | Clothing factories -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Businessmen -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Women's clothing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Machine-tool industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Industrial relations -- United States. |
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| • | Optical industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Optical instruments -- Design and construction. |
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| • | Warner & Swasey. |
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| • | Bobbie Brooks, Inc. |
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| • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. |
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| • | Collective bargaining -- Clothing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Consolidation and merger of corporations -- United States. |
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| • | Fork lift trucks -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Gross family. |
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| • | Gross, Louis N. |
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| • | Industrial equipment industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Industrial power trucks -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Iron industry and trade -- United States. |
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| • | L.N. Gross Company (Cleveland, Ohio). |
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| • | Machine-tool industry -- United States. |
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| • | Materials handling equipment industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Protective clothing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Rosenthal, Samuel, 1885-1957. |
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| • | Shipping -- Great Lakes. |
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| • | Steel industry and trade -- United States. |
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| • | Strikes and lockouts -- Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Work Wear Corporation, Inc. |
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| • | Work clothes industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Aeronautics -- History. |
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| • | Aerospace industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Aerospace industries -- United States. |
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| • | Aircraft supplies industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Aircraft supplies industry -- United States. |
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| • | Airplanes, Military -- Markings. |
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| • | Airplanes, Military -- Painting. |
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| • | American School of Classical Studies at Athens. |
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| • | Arbitration, Industrial -- United States. |
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| • | Ashtabula & Buffalo Dock Company. |
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| • | Automobile supplies industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Automobile supplies industry -- United States. |
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| • | Automobiles -- Transmission devices. |
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| • | Babcock & Wilcox Company. |
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| • | Bailey Meter Company. |
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| • | Bailey family. |
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| • | Bailey, E. G. (Ervin George), 1880-1974. |
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| • | Bailey, Walter K |
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| • | Bailey, Walter K. |
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| • | Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937. |
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| • | Banks and banking -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Beech Brook, Inc. (Pepper Pike, Ohio). |
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| • | Bradner, George T., 1916- |
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| • | Bradner, Hosea Townsend, 1872-1963. |
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| • | Brass industry and trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Brush Electric Light and Power Company. |
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| • | Buckeye Brass and Manufacturing Company. |
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| • | Business -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Case Institute of Technology. |
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| • | Caterpillar Tractor Company. |
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| • | Centerior Energy Corporation. |
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| • | Central Alloy Steel Corporation. |
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| • | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Economic conditions. |
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| • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy. |
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| • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. |
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| • | Cleveland City Forge and Iron Company. |
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| • | Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company. |
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| • | Cleveland Electric Light Company. |
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| • | Cleveland General Electric Company. |
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| • | Cleveland Printing and Graphic Communications Union. Local No. 56. |
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| • | Cleveland Railway Company. |
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| • | Cleveland Tool and Forge Company. |
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| • | Cleveland Trust Company. |
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| • | Cleveland-Akron Bag Company. |
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| • | Coal mines and mining -- United States. |
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| • | Collective bargaining -- Printing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Collective bargaining -- Public utilities -- Ohio. |
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| • | Collective bargaining -- Steel industry -- United States. |
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| • | Collective labor agreements -- Printing industry -- United States. |
(1)
| • | Collective labor agreements -- Steel industry -- United States. |
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| • | Color in advertising. |
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| • | Color in marketing. |
(1)
| • | Color in the textile industries. |
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| • | Coloring matter. |
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| • | Consolidation and merger of corporations -- Canada. |
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| • | Continental Lithograph Corpation. Conti-Glo Division. |
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| • | Corrigan McKinney Steel Company. |
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| • | Crawford family. |
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| • | Crawford, Frederick C., 1891-1994 |
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| • | Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Plant (Ohio). |
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| • | Day-Glo Color Corp. |
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| • | Day-Glo Investment Corporation. |
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| • | Diplomatic and consular service, Hungarian. |
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| • | Discrimination in employment -- United States. |
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| • | Dye industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Dye industry -- United States. |
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| • | Eaton, Cyrus Stephen, 1883-1979. |
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| • | Electric industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area. |
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| • | Electric power distribution -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area. |
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| • | Electric power transmission -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area. |
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| • | Electric power-plants -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area. |
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| • | Electric utilities -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area. |
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| • | Employee fringe benefits -- United States. |
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| • | Engineers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Erie Mining Company. |
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| • | Europe -- Description and travel -- 1919-1944. |
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| • | Europe -- Description and travel. |
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| • | First Energy Corporation. |
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| • | Fleming family. |
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| • | Florida Institute of Technology. |
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| • | Fluorescence. |
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| • | Frederick C. Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum. |
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| • | Gear industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Gear-cutting machines. |
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| • | Gearing -- Manufacture. |
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| • | Girdler, T. M. (Tom Mercer), 1877-1965. |
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| • | Grant-Lees Machine Company. |
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| • | Grievance procedures -- United States. |
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| • | Harmon family. |
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| • | Hungary -- History. |
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| • | Import quotas -- United States. |
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| • | Incentives in industry -- United States. |
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| • | Industrial relations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Interlake Iron Corporation. |
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| • | Interlake Steamship Company. |
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| • | International Aeronautic Federation |
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| • | International relations. |
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| • | Inventors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Iron and steel workers -- Job descriptions -- United States. |
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| • | Iron and steel workers -- Labor unions -- Organizing -- United States. |
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| • | Iron and steel workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Iron and steel workers -- Pensions -- United States. |
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| • | Iron and steel workers -- United States. |
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| • | Iron industry and trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Iron mines and mining -- United States. |
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| • | Kenyon family. |
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| • | Korach family. |
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| • | Korach, Sigmund, 1873-1934. |
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| • | Labor -- United States. |
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| • | Labor disputes -- United States. |
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| • | Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Lees, Ernest J. d.1937. |
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| • | Lees-Bradner Company. |
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| • | Legislation -- United States. |
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| • | Little Steel Strike, U.S., 1937 |
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| • | Luminescence. |
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| • | Machine-tool industry -- United States -- History -- Sources. |
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| • | Mather, Samuel, 1851-1931. |
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| • | McBride family. |
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| • | McBride, Donald, 1884-1927. |
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| • | Merchant mariners -- Great Lakes (North America) |
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| • | Metal trade -- United States. |
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| • | Morse, Jay. |
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| • | Municipal Traction Company. |
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| • | Nalco Chemical Company. |
(1)
| • | Nonprofit organizations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| • | Nuclear energy. |
(1)
| • | Nuclear power plants -- Ohio. |
(1)
| • | Ohio EPA. |
(1)
| • | Ohio Edison Company. |
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| • | Ontario Iron Company. |
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| • | Optical industry -- United States -- History -- Sources. |
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| • | Paint industry and trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Paint industry and trade -- United States. |
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| • | Patton, Thomas F., b. 1903. |
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| • | Pensions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Perry Nuclear Power Plant (Ohio) |
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| • | Philanthropists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Photoluminescence. |
(1)
| • | Pickands, James S., 1839-1896. |
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| • | Pickands, Mather and Company. |
(1)
| • | Pigments industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| • | Pigments industry -- United States. |
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| • | Printing industry -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Printing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| • | Printing industry -- United States. |
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| • | Public utilities -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area. |
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| • | Publishers and publishing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| • | Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Europe. |
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| • | Republic Iron & Steel Company. |
(1)
| • | Republic Steel Corporation. |
(1)
| • | Root & McBride Company. |
(1)
| • | Rosenthal family. |
(1)
| • | S. Korach Company. |
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| • | Saltzman, Maurice, 1918-1990. |
(1)
| • | Scott family. |
(1)
| • | Scott, Frank Augustus, 1873-1949. |
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| • | Sears family. |
(1)
| • | Sears, Lester M., 1888-1967. |
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| • | Shipbuilding industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Shipping -- Great Lakes (North America) |
(1)
| • | Steel -- Marketing. |
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| • | Steel -- Transportation -- Great Lakes (North America) |
(1)
| • | Steel Products Co. |
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| • | Steel Workers Organizing Committee (U.S.) |
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| • | Steel industry and trade -- Employees |
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| • | Steel industry and trade -- Environmental aspects -- United States. |
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| • | Steel industry and trade -- Government policy -- United States. |
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| • | Steel industry and trade -- Law and legislation -- United States. |
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| • | Steel industry and trade -- Mergers -- United States. |
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| • | Steel industry and trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Steel industry and trade -- Ohio. |
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| • | Steel industry and trade -- Prices -- United States. |
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| • | Steel-works -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Steel-works -- Ohio. |
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| • | Steel-works -- United States. |
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| • | Steel. |
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| • | Street-railroads -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Strikes and lockouts -- Public utilities -- Ohio. |
(1)
| • | Strikes and lockouts -- Steel industry -- United States. |
(1)
| • | Strikes and lockouts -- Street-railroads -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Swetland, Mary Ann. |
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| • | Switzer Brothers, Inc. |
(1)
| • | Switzer, Joseph L., 1915-1973. |
(1)
| • | Switzer, Robert C., 1914-1997. |
(1)
| • | Syracuse Mining Company. |
(1)
| • | TRW Inc. |
(1)
| • | Textile industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| • | Thompson Products, inc. |
(1)
| • | Thompson family. |
(1)
| • | Thompson, Charles E. 1870-1933. |
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| • | Thompson, Edwin deGroot. |
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| • | Toledo Edison Company. |
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| • | Towmotor Corporation. |
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| • | Uniforms industry -- Belgium. |
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| • | Uniforms industry -- Canada. |
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| • | Uniforms industry -- France. |
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| • | Uniforms industry -- Germany. |
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| • | Uniforms industry -- Great Britain. |
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| • | Uniforms industry -- Japan. |
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| • | Uniforms industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Uniforms industry -- United States. |
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| • | United States -- History -- 1933-1945. |
(1)
| • | United States -- History -- 1945-1953. |
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| • | United States. Environmental Protection Agency. |
(1)
| • | United States. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. |
(1)
| • | United States. Securities and Exchange Commission. |
(1)
| • | United Steelworkers of America. |
(1)
| • | University of Free Europe in Exile. |
(1)
| • | Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives. |
(1)
| • | Wabush Mines. |
(1)
| • | Wade family -- Periodicals. |
(1)
| • | Wages -- Iron and steel workers -- United States. |
(1)
| • | Wages -- Printers -- United States. |
(1)
| • | Western Reserve Historical Society |
(1)
| • | White Consolidated Industries. |
(1)
| • | White, Charles McElroy, 1891-1977. |
(1)
| • | Winous Point Shooting Club. |
(1)
| • | Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
(1)
| • | World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives. |
(1)
| • | Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. |
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 1 | Title: | Acme-Cleveland Corporation Records, Photographs, and Audio/Visual Materials, Series II
| | | Creator: | Acme-Cleveland Corporation | | | Dates: | 1825-1996 | | | Abstract: | The Acme-Cleveland Corporation was formed In Cleveland, Ohio, by the merger in 1968 of Cleveland Twist Drill Company, a manufacturer of high-speed drills and metal cutting tools, and the National Acme Company, a manufacturer of automatic multiple-spindle lathes and screw machines. Cleveland Twist Drill was founded in 1876 by Jacob D. Cox II, son of a Civil War general and former governor of Ohio, and Francis F. Prentiss. The company became a leader in the manufacture of superior-grade high-speed twist drills. By 1936 it was the world's largest maker of high-speed drills and reamers, flourishing under Jacob D. Cox, Jr., who pioneered profit-sharing and authored two books on wage theory. National Acme originated in Hartford, Connecticut, as the Acme Screw Machine Company in 1895, makers of the first commercially successful automatic multiple-spindle screw manufacturing machine. Acme Screw merged with National Manufacturing Co. in 1901 to become National Acme Manufacturing Company, which purchased the Windsor Machine Company to become National Acme Company in 1916. The collection consists of financial reports, ledgers, shareholder meetings, company newsletters, marketing material, and correspondence, particularly those of Francis F. Prentiss, who was president of Cleveland Twist Drill between 1904 and 1911. There is also a large collection of photographs and glass plate negatives, approximately 1000 images, related to both Cleveland Twist Drill Company and National Acme Company and a 16mm film. | | | Call #: | MS 5378 | | | Extent: | 38.00 linear feet (54 containers and 5 oversize folders) | | | Subjects: | Business -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 2 | Title: | Buckeye Brass and Manufacturing Company Records
| | | Creator: | Buckeye Brass and Manufacturing Company | | | Dates: | 1912-1982 | | | Abstract: | Buckeye Brass and Manufacturing was founded in 1900 as Buckeye Brass and Pattern Company in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1912 it incorporated as Buckeye Brass and Manufacturing Company. It moved to the plant located at 6410 Hawthorne on Cleveland's west side in 1917, and in 1921 a foundry was built. It manufactured brass and bronze castings, tools, parts, and fittings. Buckeye was one of the three top brass and bronze companies in the U.S. when it was sold to Don Shook, owner of competitor, Markey Bronze, in 1952. Shook sold out to Eagle-Picher Company in 1967. After 1952, Buckeye Brass operated at various times as Buckeye Brass, Buckeye-Markey, Masten-Buckeye, and as a division of Masten-Bunting. Eagle consolidated all brass and bronze operations in the Toledo Bunting plant in 1982, and the Buckeye Cleveland plant was closed. The collection consists of articles of incorporation, stock certification, minutes for board of directors and stockholder meetings, corporate history, financial records, personnel records, plant operations records, sales and marketing records that includes catalogs, price lists, and inventory/pricing documents. | | | Call #: | MS 4552 | | | Extent: | 3.01 linear feet (6 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | Subjects: | Buckeye Brass and Manufacturing Company. | Brass industry and trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 3 | Title: | World Publishing Company Records
| | | Creator: | World Publishing Company | | | Dates: | 1954-1979 | | | Abstract: | The World Publishing Company was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1905 by Alfred H. Cahen, an immigrant from Poland. The company was a major publisher of trade books, bibles, dictionaries, and children's books. This collection consists primarily of catalogs, annual reports, and bulletins from the World Publishing Company dating from the 1950s to the 1970s. It also includes employee benefit manuals and company-issued books detailing pension and retirement plans. | | | Call #: | MS 5357 | | | Extent: | 0.80 linear feet (2 containers) | | | Subjects: | Publishers and publishing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Pensions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 5 | Title: | Warner and Swasey Company Records
| | | Creator: | Warner and Swasey Company | | | Dates: | 1883-1970 | | | Abstract: | The Warner and Swasey Company was a leading manufacturer of machine tools, especially turret lathes, and telescopes and optical equipment. By 1928, the company was the world's leading manufacturer of turret lathes, and during World War II produced half of all the turret lathes made in the United States. The company was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1881 by Worcester R. Warner, who had a passionate interest in astronomy, and Ambrose Swasey. The company was bought by the Bendix Corp. of Michigan in 1980, which was taken over by Allied in 1983, which, in turn, sold it to Cross and Trecker in 1984. The collection consists of a copy of a pictorial historical reference book, clippings, and miscellaneous articles and lists relating to the company's history. | | | Call #: | MS 4486 | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | Subjects: | Warner & Swasey. | Optical instruments -- Design and construction. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Machine-tool industry -- United States -- History -- Sources. | Optical industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Machine-tool industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Optical industry -- United States -- History -- Sources.
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 6 | Title: | Walter K. Bailey Papers
| | | Creator: | Bailey, Walter K. | | | Dates: | 1975-1991 | | | Abstract: | Walter K. Bailey was a Cleveland, Ohio, businessman. A native of Cleveland and the son of L.A. Bailey, founder of the Bailey Company department store, Walter Bailey was raised in East Cleveland and graduated from Oberlin College in 1919. He went to work for the Warner & Swasey Company, a leading manufacturer of machine tools, especially turret lathes, and telescopes and optical equipment, in 1919. By 1928, the company was the world's leading manufacturer of turret lathes, and during World War II produced half of all the turret lathes made in the U.S. After learning the business on the shop floor, he joined the national sales force of Warner & Swasey in 1921, moving up in management and eventually becoming vice president of sales in 1942. During World War II he was in charge of manufacturing operations, and became vice president of the company in 1949. He was president and chief executive officer from 1955-1962, chairman of the board and chief executive officer from 1962-1964, and chairman of the board until his retirement in 1967. Under Bailey's leadership, Warner & Swasey diversified and acquired several smaller companies, growing into a major international producer of machine tools and related products. Bailey also was active in various philanthropic organizations in Cleveland, and served as a trustee of Oberlin College, the Musical Arts Association, and Fairmount Presbyterian Church. The collection consists of a Warner & Swasey Company history compiled in 1975 by Walter Bailey. Included is an illustrated typescript; followed by supporting documents, reports, illustrations, publications, and newspaper clippings. A corporate history file contains reports, newspaper clippings, photographs, and publications collected after completion of the written history. | | | Call #: | MS 4657 | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | Subjects: | Bailey, Walter K. | Warner & Swasey. | Businessmen -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Machine-tool industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Optical industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Optical instruments -- Design and construction.
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 7 | Title: | Walter K. Bailey Family Papers
| | | Creator: | Bailey, Walter K. Family | | | Dates: | 1897-1983 | | | Abstract: | Walter K. Bailey was a Cleveland, Ohio, businessman. A native of Cleveland and the son of L.A. Bailey, founder of the Bailey Company department store, Walter Bailey was raised in East Cleveland and graduated from Oberlin College in 1919. He went to work for the Warner & Swasey Company, a leading manufacturer of machine tools, especially turret lathes, and telescopes and optical equipment, in 1919. By 1928, the company was the world's leading manufacturer of turret lathes, and during World War II produced half of all the turret lathes made in the U.S. After learning the business on the shop floor, he joined the national sales force of Warner & Swasey in 1921, moving up in management and eventually becoming vice president of sales in 1942. During World War II he was in charge of manufacturing operations, and became vice president of the company in 1949. He was president and chief executive officer from 1955-1962, chairman of the board and chief executive officer from 1962-1964, and chairman of the board until his retirement in 1967. Under Bailey's leadership, Warner & Swasey diversified and acquired several smaller companies, growing into a major international producer of machine tools and related products. Bailey also was active in various philanthropic organizations in Cleveland, and served as a trustee of Oberlin College, the Musical Arts Association, and Fairmount Presbyterian Church. The collection consists of family history, genealogy, and biographical information compiled by the Bailey family, which has been loaned to the Historical Society for microfilming, and returned to the donor. | | | Call #: | MS 4665 | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize volume/1 roll of microfilm) | | | Subjects: | Bailey, Walter K | Warner & Swasey. | Businessmen -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Machine-tool industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Optical industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Optical instruments -- Design and construction. | Bailey family.
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 8 | Title: | S. Korach Company Records
| | | Creator: | S. Korach Company | | | Dates: | 1898-1987 | | | Abstract: | The S. Korach Company was founded in 1902 by Sigmund Korach, a Jewish immigrant from Slovakia who settled in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1897. The company manufactured ready-to-wear dress and skirt garments for women. The company occupied various locations until 1913, when it occupied its permanent home at 2400 Superior Ave. The company was completely family-run, with the brothers of Sigmund Korach; Charles, Leo, and Benjamin W. Korach, serving in various positions, and son Arthur Korach as secretary. The company closed in 1935. The collection consists of correspondence, financial and legal records, blueprints of the 2400 Superior Ave. property, a 1987 description and valuation analysis of that property, and a 1934 issue of Women's Wear Daily with information about S. Korach and other Cleveland garment manufacturing companies. | | | Call #: | MS 4694 | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | Subjects: | Korach, Sigmund, 1873-1934. | Korach family. | S. Korach Company. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing factories -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women's clothing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 9 | Title: | Ervin George Bailey Papers
| | | Creator: | Bailey, Ervin George | | | Dates: | 1918-1974 | | | Abstract: | Ervin George Bailey was an industrialist and manufacturer. He founded the Bailey Meter Company, a major manufacturer of industrial meters and controls, in 1916. The company was moved from Boston, Massachusetts to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1919. In 1926, Bailey Meter Company was purchased by The Babcock and Wilcox Company, although it continued production under its own name. Ervin Bailey remained with Babcock and Wilcox, serving as president of the Fuller LeHigh Company division 1926-1936, as chairman of Bailey Meter Company 1944-1956, and as a vice president of Babcock and Wilcox 1931-1951. Bailey was awarded 141 United States patents for his inventions in the fields of fluid and combustion control. He was a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers; a member of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers; the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers; and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London, England. He was also the author of many articles on metering, controls, fuels and combustion, and engineering education. The collection consists of biographical sketches, diaries, notebooks, historical sketches, speeches, and writings. | | | Call #: | MS 4743 | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | Subjects: | Bailey, E. G. (Ervin George), 1880-1974. | Bailey Meter Company. | Babcock & Wilcox Company. | Businessmen -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Inventors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Engineers -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 10 | Title: | Bobbie Brooks, Inc. Records
| | | Creator: | Bobbie Brooks, Inc. | | | Dates: | 1939-1992 | | | Abstract: | Bobbie Brooks, Inc. was founded in 1939 as Ritmore Sportswear in Cleveland, Ohio. Its founders were Maurice Saltzman and Max Reiter. In 1953, Saltzman bought out Reiter's share of the company. The name was changed to Bobbie Brooks in 1960. The company merged with Pubco Corporation in 1985. The collection consists of annual reports, brochures, newspaper clippings, company newsletters, awards, and a payroll ledger. The newsletters provide contemporaneous descriptions of pioneering use of computers to track and coordinate production, sales, shipping, and accounting. | | | Call #: | MS 4764 | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | Subjects: | Saltzman, Maurice, 1918-1990. | Bobbie Brooks, Inc. | Clothing factories -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women's clothing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 11 | Title: | Work Wear Corporation, Inc., Records
| | | Creator: | Work Wear Corporation, Inc. | | | Dates: | 1961-1986 | | | Abstract: | Work Wear Corporation, Inc. was founded in 1915 in Cleveland, Ohio, as the Cleveland Overall Company by Samuel Rosenthal. In 1919 Rosenthal bought the National Railroad Overall Company, maker of bib overalls and other work garments. Beginning in the 1920s, the enlarged Cleveland Overall Company transformed the uniform industry by producing stylish, functional work garments available on a rental basis. The company was also involved in the industrial laundry industry. In 1961, under Leighton Rosenthal, son of Samuel Rosenthal, Cleveland Overall became the publicly held Work Wear Inc. The name was changed in 1976 to Work Wear Corporation, Inc. Paine Webber Capital, a subsidiary of Paine Webber Group, Inc. of New York City, acquired Work Wear in 1986. The collection consists of annual reports, newspaper clippings, and brochures. | | | Call #: | MS 4765 | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | Subjects: | Rosenthal, Samuel, 1885-1957. | Work Wear Corporation, Inc. | Clothing factories -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Work clothes industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Protective clothing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 12 | Title: | Bobbie Brooks, Inc. Records, Series II
| | | Creator: | Bobbie Brooks, Inc. | | | Dates: | 1960-1982 | | | Abstract: | Bobbie Brooks, Inc. was founded in 1939 as Ritmore Sportswear in Cleveland, Ohio. Its founders were Maurice Saltzman and Max Reiter. In 1953, Saltzman bought out Reiter's share of the company. The name was changed to Bobbie Brooks in 1960. Bobbie Brooks produced and sold stylish clothes for teenage and junior-miss girls, coordinating the styling, colors, and fabrics. Eventually, the company expanded its line to include apparel for women aged 25 to 44. The company merged with Pubco Corporation in 1985 after encountering serious financial difficulties. The collection consists of advertisements, annual reports, articles, booklets, catalogues, notices, reports, and workbooks. | | | Call #: | MS 5157 | | | Extent: | 0.41 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder) | | | Subjects: | Bobbie Brooks, Inc. | Clothing factories -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women's clothing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 13 | Title: | A Stitch in Time: The Cleveland Garment Industry Collection
| | | Creator: | Western Reserve Historical Society | | | Dates: | 1919-2015 | | | Abstract: | Cleveland, Ohio, played a prominent role in the garment industry in the United States from the late nineteenth century to the industry's decline a century later. Most of the owners of garment manufacturing firms in Cleveland, as throughout the United States, were owned by Jewish immigrants. The garment industry in Cleveland declined as a whole in the late twentieth century. In the early 2010s, the Western Reserve Historical Society began making efforts toward compiling the stories of the Cleveland garment industry through research and oral history interviews, culminating in a book and exhibition project titled A Stitch in Time: The Cleveland Garment Industry. The collection consists of budgets, correspondence, drafts, memoranda, newspaper clippings, notes, operating agreements, oral histories, orders, photographs, proposals, questionnaires, scrapbooks, and sketches pertaining to the planning, research, and implementation of the "Stitch in Time" project by the Western Reserve Historical Society. | | | Call #: | MS 5425 | | | Extent: | 2.00 linear feet (2 containers, 1 oversize folder, and 1 volume) | | | Subjects: | Business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing factories -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Textile industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 14 | Title: | L.N. Gross Company Records
| | | Creator: | L.N. Gross Company | | | Dates: | 1907-1967 | | | Abstract: | The L.N. Gross Company was a manufacturer and distributor of women's apparel founded in 1898 in Cleveland, Ohio, by a Russian immigrant, Louis N. Gross. Gross was president and manager until his death in 1941, when his sons, Nedward N., William V., and Julius S. Gross, and his son-in-law, Miltor E. Reed, became active in the management of the company. By the 1960s, the third generation of the Gross family managed the company. In 1919, the company built its headquarters at 1220 West Third Street in Cleveland. In 1929, additional production sites were acquired in Kent, Ohio, and in 1937 facilities opened in Fayetteville, Tennessee. During the Depression the company was troubled by strikes as well as the general business slump. The Welworth Realty Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of the L.N. Gross Company, operated as title and leaseholder of the parent company's properties. An office was also maintained in the New York City garment district. Beginning in 1950, product manufacturing was performed by subcontractors in their own facilities. A wholly owned subsidiary, Bradley Knitwear Company, acted as sales outlet for the parent company. In 1974, company headquarters moved to Mayfield Village, Ohio. In 1984, after several years of financial difficulties, control of the company was turned over to an outside investment group, and the name was changed to Bradley Sportswear, Inc. The collection consists of a history of the company, an autobiography, passport and visa of Louis Gross, correspondence, reports, applications for patents, contracts, account books, and miscellaneous materials, including scrapbooks containing advertisements for garments made by the company. | | | Call #: | MS 3823 | | | Extent: | 4.00 linear feet (5 containers) | | | Subjects: | Gross, Louis N. | Gross family. | L.N. Gross Company (Cleveland, Ohio). | Clothing factories -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Collective bargaining -- Clothing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Strikes and lockouts -- Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women's clothing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 15 | Title: | Towmotor Corporation Records
| | | Creator: | Towmotor Corporation | | | Dates: | 1915-1977 | | | Abstract: | Towmotor Corporation was a Cleveland, Ohio-based company founded by Lester M. Sears in 1919 which produced industrial tractors and fork lifts. His father, F.W. Sears, became co-partner, retaining that position until his death in 1934. The first Towmotor plant was located on Bliss Road in Euclid, a suburb of Cleveland. The plant later moved to 1226 East 152nd Street and then to 16100 Euclid Avenue. Small tractors were produced for the first 14 years, and in 1933, Lester Sears produced the first gasoline-powered fork lift. Towmotor continued to grow during World War II and during the 1950s and 1960s, acquiring Gerlinger Company of Dallas, Oregon in 1956, and began international distribution. In 1963, the company acquired Ohio Gear. Also in 1963, Towmotor merged with Caterpillar Tractor Company of Peoria, Ill. By the 1970s, the Towmotor name was dropped from vehicles. After a 1983 strike over cheaper labor costs in Korea, the Towmotor plant was closed in 1985. The collection consists of administrative, legal and financial records, correspondence, manuals, publications, advertisements, memorabilia and newspaper clippings relating largely to the formation, organization, and functioning of Towmotor Corporation, particularly during the 1920s and 1940s. In addition to the business records of the company, the collection includes valuable information pertaining to technological advancements in the material handling industry and personal material relating to Lester M. Sears, Mary Ann Swetland, and other Sears family members. | | | Call #: | MS 4593 | | | Extent: | 3.20 linear feet (4 containers) | | | Subjects: | Sears, Lester M., 1888-1967. | Sears family. | Swetland, Mary Ann. | Towmotor Corporation. | Caterpillar Tractor Company. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Materials handling equipment industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industrial equipment industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Fork lift trucks -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industrial power trucks -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 16 | Title: | L. N. Gross Company Records, Series II
| | | Creator: | L. N. Gross Company | | | Dates: | 1898-1990 | | | Abstract: | The L.N. Gross Company was a manufacturer and distributor of women's apparel founded in 1898 in Cleveland, Ohio, by a Russian immigrant, Louis N. Gross. Gross was president and manager until his death in 1941, when his sons, Nedward N., William V., and Julius S. Gross, and his son-in-law, Miltor E. Reed, became active in the management of the company. By the 1960s, the third generation of the Gross family managed the company. In 1919, the company built its headquarters at 1220 West Third Street in Cleveland. In 1929, additional production sites were acquired in Kent, Ohio, and in 1937 facilities opened in Fayetteville, Tennessee. The Welworth Realty Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of the L.N. Gross Company, operated as title and leaseholder of the parent company's properties. An office was also maintained in the New York City garment district. Beginning in 1950, product manufacturing was performed by subcontractors in their own facilities. A wholly owned subsidiary, Bradley Knitwear Company, acted as sales outlet for the parent company. In 1974, company headquarters moved to Mayfield Village, Ohio. In 1984, after several years of financial difficulties, control of the company was turned over to an outside investment group, and the name was changed to Bradley Sportswear, Inc. The collection consists of minutes, notes, reports, budgets, leases, ledgers, tax returns, catalogs, correspondence, agreements, bulletins, business cards, and surveys of the corporate records of the L.N. Gross Company. A small number of Gross family documents are included. | | | Call #: | MS 4711 | | | Extent: | 4.40 linear feet (5 containers) | | | Subjects: | Gross, Louis N. | Gross family. | L.N. Gross Company (Cleveland, Ohio). | Clothing factories -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women's clothing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Collective bargaining -- Clothing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Strikes and lockouts -- Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 17 | 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.
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 18 | Title: | Cleveland Printing and Graphic Communications Union, Local No. 56 Records, Series II
| | | Creator: | Cleveland Printing and Graphic Communications Union, Local No. 56 | | | Dates: | 1935-1983 | | | Abstract: | The Cleveland Printing and Graphic Communications Union, Local No. 56, was chartered in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1891 as the Cleveland Printing and Pressmen's Union, No. 56. It became the Cleveland Printing Pressmen's and Assistants Union, Local No. 56, in 1929, after merging with the Cleveland Pressmen's Assistants Union, Local No. 45. The present name was adopted after a merger in 1973 with the Stereotypers and Electrotypers International. The collection consists of constitutions, histories, minutes, grievances, agreements, proceedings of conventions, and correspondence. | | | Call #: | MS 4172 | | | Extent: | 3.01 linear feet (3 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | Subjects: | Cleveland Printing and Graphic Communications Union. Local No. 56. | Collective bargaining -- Printing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Printing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Printing industry -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Collective labor agreements -- Printing industry -- United States. | Industrial relations -- United States. | Labor -- United States. | Printing industry -- United States. | Wages -- Printers -- United States. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 19 | Title: | Lees-Bradner Company Records
| | | Creator: | Lees-Bradner Company | | | Dates: | 1905-1992 | | | Abstract: | The Lees-Bradner Company was organized in 1906 as a partnership between Ernest J. Lees and Hosea Townsend Bradner of Cleveland, Ohio. It incorporated in 1909. The company specialized in gear hobbing and thread milling machinery for automobile timing and transmission gears and other applications. Hosea Bradner's sons; John A., George T., and James H. Bradner, ran the company in the post-World War II era. The company was purchased by White Consolidated Industries in 1967 and by 1983 the name Lees-Bradner had been phased out and the Cleveland plant closed. After White Consolidated Industries was itself purchased by Electrolux in 1986, the gear hobbing division was sold and the name Lees-Bradner was reinstated as a machine tool manufacturer. The collection consists of articles of incorporation, minutes, a company history, agreements, stock certificates, financial reports, ledgers, correspondence, administrative reports, memoranda, catalogs, product detail sheets, advertisements, newspaper clippings, and publications. | | | Call #: | MS 4653 | | | Extent: | 1.41 linear feet (2 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | Subjects: | Lees, Ernest J. d.1937. | Bradner, Hosea Townsend, 1872-1963. | Bradner, George T., 1916- | Lees-Bradner Company. | White Consolidated Industries. | Grant-Lees Machine Company. | Machine-tool industry -- United States. | Machine-tool industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Gear industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Gearing -- Manufacture. | Gear-cutting machines. | Automobiles -- Transmission devices.
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 20 | Title: | Pickands, Mather and Company Records
| | | Creator: | Pickands, Mather and Company | | | Dates: | 1889-1969 | | | Abstract: | Pickands, Mather and Company was a Cleveland, Ohio-based mining and shipping firm; a major supplier of iron ore and coal to the steel industry, with one of the largest fleets of freight carriers on the Great Lakes. It originated with founders Samuel Mather, Jay Morse, and James S. Pickands in 1883. To meet its ore transport demands, the firm formed the Interlake Steamship Company in 1913, which became the second largest fleet on the Great Lakes. By the 1920s, the company was the one of the largest producers of iron ore in the U.S. In 1929 a subsidiary, the Interlake Iron Corporation, was formed. Pickands, Mather also had heavy investments in the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company. In 1973, Pickands, Mather and Company became part of Moore McCormack Resources, Inc. Moore McCormack sold its Pickands, Mather stock to Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. in 1986. The collection consists of bound annual statements, annual statements of the mining department, individual cost statements, and a bound commemorative book which was presented to Samuel Mather, one of the founders. | | | Call #: | MS 4590 | | | Extent: | 17.30 linear feet (21 containers and 72 oversize volumes) | | | Subjects: | Mather, Samuel, 1851-1931. | Pickands, James S., 1839-1896. | Morse, Jay. | Pickands, Mather and Company. | Interlake Steamship Company. | Ashtabula & Buffalo Dock Company. | Erie Mining Company. | Wabush Mines. | Syracuse Mining Company. | Ontario Iron Company. | Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. | Interlake Iron Corporation. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Iron mines and mining -- United States. | Iron industry and trade -- United States. | Iron industry and trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Coal mines and mining -- United States. | Shipping -- Great Lakes.
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