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| | Photograph Collection | Save | | 343 | Title: | Moses Warren Family Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Warren, Moses Family | | | | Dates: | 1960-1980 | | | | Abstract: | The Moses Warren family were early settlers of Warrensville, Ohio. Warren (1760-1851), a descendant of John Warren of Watertown, Mass., was a surveyor with the Moses Cleaveland expedition to the Connecticut Western Reserve in 1796 and an early settler in Warrensville Township, Ohio. He was one of the founders of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1837 and served as a trustee, treasurer, and overseer of the poor for the township. He died in Warrensville in 1851, survived by 3 of his children, including Daniel Warren (1786-1862), Anna Wilcox Prentiss, and Moses Warren, Jr. Daniel Warren's wife, Margaret (Prentiss), purportedly gave the township her husband's name. The collection consists of views of Warren family headstones, a postcard of the Rebecca Nurse home, and photographs of baptism, marriage, and death records pertaining to the Warren family, and portraits of Art and Joanna Lersch. | | | | Call #: | PG 378 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Warren, Moses, 1760-1851 -- Photograph collections. | Warren family -- Photograph collections. | Warrensville (Ohio : Township) -- Genealogy -- Photographs. | Massachusetts -- Genealogy -- Photographs.
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| Photograph Collection | Save | | 344 | Title: | Education for Freedom of Choice in Ohio Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Education for Freedom of Choice in Ohio | | | | Dates: | 1970-1980 | | | | Abstract: | Education for Freedom of Choice in Ohio (f. ca. 1976), with offices in Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio, was organized for the purpose of educating people on all aspects of problem pregnancy. The organization receives material from various abortion groups throughout Ohio, both pro-choice and anti-choice groups, although it is a pro-choice organization. It channels this information to the public, its primary goal being to inform women facing problem pregnancy of the legal options available to them. The collection consists of individual and group portraits, including Sherrod Brown, Louis Stokes, and Rabbi Balfour Brickner. Also includes views of demonstrations and rallies for and against abortion rights. | | | | Call #: | PG 379 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Education for Freedom of Choice in Ohio -- Photograph collections. | Abortion counseling -- Ohio -- Photographs. | Pro-choice movement -- Ohio -- Photographs. | Pro-life movement -- Ohio -- Photographs.
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| Photograph Collection | Save | | 345 | Title: | John Phillips Family Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Phillips, John Family | | | | Dates: | 1900-1960 | | | | Abstract: | John Phillips was a Cleveland, Ohio, physician who helped found the Cleveland Clinic in 1921 and served on the faculty of Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Phillips contributed some 70 articles on subjects relating to internal medicine to various medical journals. He was one of the 124 persons who died in the Cleveland Clinic Disaster of May 15, 1929. His son, John Edward Phillips, was a field engineer for Archer Daniels Midland Company and compiled the family history. The collection consists of individual and group portraits of Phillips family members and others, including Myron T. Herrick. Also include are postcards of various overseas locations, and photographs of U.S. Navy ships, including the USS Oahu and the USS Indianapolis, along with group portraits of naval officers. | | | | Call #: | PG 380 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Phillips, John, 1879-1929 -- Photograph collections. | Herrick, Myron T. (Myron Timothy), 1854-1929 -- Photograph collections. | Phillips family -- Photograph collections. | Phillips, John Edward, 1908-1983 -- Photograph collections. | United States. Navy -- Boats -- Photographs. | Physicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Ships -- United States -- Photographs
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| Photograph Collection | Save | | 347 | Title: | Clifford W. Henderson Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Henderson, Clifford W. | | | | Dates: | 1929-1939 | | | | Abstract: | Clifford W. Henderson (1895-1984) was the director of the National Air Races, 1928-1939, as well as other air races and expositions. Henderson managed and promoted sporting and cultural events, expositions, and conventions in the Los Angeles area after resigning from the National Air Races. He served with honor in North Africa during World War II, and founded the community of Palm Desert, California. The collection consists of individual and group portraits of Clifford W. Henderson and his associates, including studio portraits and candid site photographs, often autographed; views of the National Air Races, including air race events and individual planes; and panoramic and oversize photographs. Individuals pictured include Pancho Barnes, Vincent Bendix, Jacqueline Cochran, Frederick C. Crawford, James Doolittle, Amelia Earhart, Harvey Firestone, Jr., Charles A. Lindbergh, Mary Pickford, Eddie Rickenbacker, Will Rogers, Alexander de Seversky, Roscoe Turner, Rudy Vallee, and Chuck Yeager. | | | | Call #: | PG 385 | | | | Extent: | 1.20 linear feet (3 containers and 3 oversize folders) | | | | Subjects: | Aeronautics -- Competitions -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Aeronautics -- Competitions -- United States -- Photographs. | Air pilots -- United States -- Photographs. | Aircraft industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Aircraft industry -- United States -- Photographs. | Airplane racing -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Airplane racing -- United States -- Photographs. | Henderson, Clifford W. (Clifford William), 1895-1984 -- Photograph collections. | National Air Races (U.S.) -- Photograph collections. | Women air pilots -- United States -- Photographs.
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| Photograph Collection | Save | | 348 | Title: | National Air Races Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Various | | | | Dates: | 1929-1967 | | | | Abstract: | The 1928 race of the National Air Races was held in Los Angeles, California, but from 1929 to 1939 most of the races were held in Cleveland, Ohio. They featured cross country races, short races, army and navy maneuvers, stunt flying, parachute jumping, gliders, dirigibles, balloons and model planes and were considered a working laboratory for the aviation industry where new developments could be tested and refined. The collection consists of individual portraits, group portraits, and views pertaining to the National Air Races, National Aircraft Shows, and Thompson Trophy Races. Individuals pictured include Clifford W. Henderson, Jimmy Doolittle, Pancho Barnes, Amelia Earhart, Roscoe Turner, Mary Pickford, Alexander de Seversky, Jacqueline Cochran, Frederick C. Crawford, and Bill Odom. Included are views of the 1949 crash site and debris. | | | | Call #: | PG 386 | | | | Extent: | 1.20 linear feet (3 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Henderson, Clifford W. (Clifford William), 1895-1984 -- Photograph collections. | National Air Races (U.S.) -- Photograph collections. | Airplane racing -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Airplane racing -- United States -- Photographs. | Aircraft industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Aircraft industry -- United States -- Photographs. | Air pilots -- United States -- Photographs. | Women air pilots -- United States -- Photographs. | Aeronautics -- Competitions -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Aeronautics -- Competitions -- United States -- Photographs.
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| Photograph Collection | Save | | 350 | Title: | General Motors Corporation, Fisher Body Division, Plant No. 1 Photographs
| | | | Creator: | General Motors Corporation, Fisher Body Division, Plant No. 1 | | | | Dates: | 1926-1983 | | | | Abstract: | Plant No. 1 of the Fisher Body Division of the General Motors Corporation opened in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1921 as part of the Fisher Body Company. Fisher produced automobile bodies, and in 1926 became part of the General Motors Corporation. During World War II the plant produced tank and gun parts and engine parts for airplanes, wartime employment totalling 14,000, including a large number of women. After the war the plant produced large stamping dies and upholstery and trim sets rather than auto bodies. General Motors closed the plant in 1983. The plant was involved in several bitter strikes during the 1930s, including the 1936-1937 sit-down strike to gain union recognition by GM, which began at the plant. The plant was also known as the Coit Road Plant. The collection consists of individual and group portraits of plant managers and supervisors, award dinners and presentations, open houses, visits of General Motors officials and politicians, and World War II-related photographs of award ceremonies, portraits of employees who died in action, and a postwar visit by General Douglas MacArthur. Views include aerial and exterior photographs of the plant and photographs of production and facilities. | | | | Call #: | PG 389 | | | | Extent: | 0.90 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | General Motors Corporation. Fisher Body Division. Plant No. 1 (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photograph collections. | International Union, United Automobile, Aircraft, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America. Local 45 (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photograph collections. | General Motors automobiles -- Photographs. / Automobile industry and trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Automobile industry and trade -- United States -- Photographs. | Automobile industry workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Automobile industry workers -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Strikes and lockouts -- Automobile industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Plant shutdowns -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | General Motors Corporation Sit-Down Strike, 1936-1937 -- Photographs. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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| Photograph Collection | Save | | 351 | Title: | Cleveland Newspaper Guild, Local 1 Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Cleveland Newspaper Guild, Loca 1 | | | | Dates: | 1936-1963 | | | | Abstract: | Local 1 of the Cleveland Newspaper Guild was first chartered in 1934 as the Cleveland, Ohio, local of the American Newspaper Guild, founded in 1933. Editorial employees of the Cleveland Press and Cleveland News had previously organized in 1933 as the Cleveland Editorial Workers Association, which then united with other newspaper guilds to form the American Newspaper Guild. The first contract of the national Guild was successfully negotiated in 1934 with the Cleveland News by William Davy, executive secretary of Local #1 for its first 30 years. By 1935, the Guild had adopted the industrial-union form of organization and in 1937, Local #1 expanded to include all non-mechanical employees. By 1944, the guild included workers at the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Catholic Universe Bulletin, followed by the Cleveland Citizen, Cleveland Union Leader, Call & Post, and others. In 1968 the Canton Repository became a unit of Local #1, and in 1969 the Massillon Evening Independent local merged with the guild. Cleveland hosted the 50th anniversary convention of the national Guild in 1983, when members voted to merge with the International Typographical Union to form the Media Workers International Union. The collection consists of individual and group portraits of Newspaper Guild members, and scenes of Guild activities; including meetings, parties, reunions, newspaper production, conventions, and strikes. Individuals pictured include Louis B. Seltzer, Lloyd White, Ray Bruner, Garland Ashcraft, William Davy, and others. | | | | Call #: | PG 391 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Cleveland Newspaper Guild -- Photograph collections. | Cleveland plain dealer -- Photograph collections. | Cleveland press -- Photograph collections. | Cleveland News (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photograph collections. | Newspaper employees -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Collective bargaining -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Newspapers -- Photographs. | Strikes and lockouts -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Newspapers -- Photographs. | Newspapers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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| Photograph Collection | Save | | 352 | Title: | Channel Islands Genealogical Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Turk, Marion G. | | | | Dates: | 1870-1970 | | | | Abstract: | Marion G. Turk was a Parma, Ohio, genealogist whose research on Channel Island families culminated in the 1983 publication of The Quiet Adventurers in North America. The collection consists of various subjects related to the genealogy of Channel Islands families. Included are views of Guernsey County, Ohio, Ohio Cemetery tombstones; the Machon family home on the Island of Jersey, the Sarchet family home, Cambridge, Ohio; and various tombstone photographs of Machon, Dore, Franklin, Sarchet, Thompson, Legallais, and Lecarn family members. | | | | Call #: | PG 392 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Turk, Marion G., 1914- -- Photograph collections. | Channel Islands -- History -- Photographs. | Channel Islands -- Genealogy -- Photographs. | Guernsey County (Ohio) -- Genealogy -- Photographs. | Guernsey County (Ohio) -- History -- Photographs.
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| Photograph Collection | Save | | 353 | Title: | Frank Cesen Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Cesen, Frank | | | | Dates: | 1910-1965 | | | | Abstract: | Frank Cesen (1890-1983) was active in the Slovenian-American community of Cleveland, Ohio. He was a founder of the Ivan Cankar Dramatic Society, president of the Slovenian American National Council, wrote articles on Slovenian history and culture for newspapers and magazines, including the column "Stric Matic" in Prosveta, and was active in various Slovenian-American performing arts associations. The collection consists of individual and group portraits of members of the Slovenian-American community in Cleveland, Ohio. Also includes views of the Slovenian Auditorium, the Slovene Home for the Aged, Richmond Heights General Hospital, Slovene National Home, the home of Frank Cesen (all located in Cleveland, Ohio); and the Austrian Army. | | | | Call #: | PG 393 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Cesen, Frank, 1890-1983 -- Photograph collections. | Slovenian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Slovenian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History -- Photographs.
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| Photograph Collection | Save | | 354 | Title: | Birth of Modern Cleveland Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Birth of Modern Cleveland | | | | Dates: | ca. 1987 | | | | Abstract: | The collection consists of copy photographs for illustrations used in the book The Birth of Modern Cleveland, 1865-1930, edited by Thomas F. Campbell and Edward M. Miggins and published by the Western Reserve Historical Society in 1988. Portraits include Garrett Morgan, Charles Brush, Alexander Winton, Tom L. Johnson, Joseph Edwards, Nellie Santo Lanese, and Frederick Kohler. Subjects and views include Tremont, residence of D.S. Brainard, various views of Cleveland, Grasselli Chemical Company, Cleveland Rolling Mills, G.A. Tinnerman Hardware, the Flats, incorporation papers for Standard Oil Company, Case School of Applied Science, ads for Theodor Kundtz, the Italian Cultural Garden, Call and Post newspaper boys, various buildings including St. Vincent Orphanage, Bethel Union, Cleveland Museum of Art, First Methodist Church of Akron, Woman Suffrage headquarters, a suffrage parade, Hiram House Social Settlement, St. Theodosius Cathedral, garment workers, and other photographs depicting a wide range of subjects concerning the history of Cleveland, Ohio. | | | | Call #: | PG 394 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Cleveland (Ohio) -- History -- Photographs. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Economic conditions -- Photographs. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions -- Photographs.
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| Photograph Collection | Save | | 356 | Title: | William Sanders and Sarah Cordelia Bierce Scarborough Family Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Scarborough, William Sanders and Sarah Cordelia Bierce Family | | | | Dates: | 1850-1920 | | | | Abstract: | William and Sarah Scarborough were educators and writers in Greene County, Ohio, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. William Scarborough migrated to Ohio from Georgia, graduating from Oberlin College in 1875. He spent a year at the Oberlin Theological Seminary before joining the classical department at Wilberforce University in Greene County. In 1878 he received a Master of Arts degree. Sarah Cordelia Bierce was an 1875 graduate of the State Normal School at Oswego, New York. She served as principal of the Normal Department of Wilberforce University from 1877-1887, and for the next twenty-seven years, as principal of the Combined Normal and Industrial Department at Wilberforce. William Scarborough moved up through the ranks of faculty and administration at Wilberforce, eventually becoming president of the University in 1908. During their career as educators, both wrote frequently, Sarah focusing on fiction for women's and Christian magazines, and William on scholarly topics. William joined a variety of professional and race-related organizations, including the Afro-American State League and the American Negro Academy, while his wife pursued her family's genealogy, collecting correspondence and documents for the Abbey and Bierce families. The collection consists of individual photographs of Scarborough, Bierce, Abbey, and Grant family members and other family members, friends and associates. Also included is an album of views of Tretton Place, home of the Scarboroughs. | | | | Call #: | PG 396 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Scarborough, W. S. (William Sanders), 1852-1926. | Scarborough, Sarah Cordelia Bierce, b. 1851. | Scarborough family. | Bierce family. | Abbey family. | Kistler family. | Wilberforce University. | African Americans -- Ohio. | African American teachers -- Ohio -- Greene County. | African American women teachers -- Ohio -- Greene County. | African American authors -- Ohio. | African Americans -- Genealogy. | Authors as teachers. | Education, Higher -- Ohio. | African Americans -- Education (Higher) -- Ohio. | Ohio -- Social life and customs.
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| Photograph Collection | Save | | 358 | Title: | Society of Mayflower Descendants, Cleveland Colony Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Society of Mayflower Descendants, Cleveland Colony | | | | Dates: | 1931-1954 | | | | Abstract: | The Cleveland Colony of the Society of Mayflower Descendants (f. 1930) was organized by Mrs. Walter D. Meals as a colony of the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Ohio. The activities of the colony include genealogical research on descendants of Mayflower passengers and distributing copies of the Mayflower Compact in schools. Membership is open to any proven descendant of a Mayflower passenger. The collection consists of individual and group portraits of members, including Mary Sanford Hunt, Frederick A. Van Fleet, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Pratt, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis E. Allerton, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Patton, Edward Smith, and Michael Gray. Also includes views of the Mayflower Barn, Winslow House, and the headquarters of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants in Plymouth, Massachusetts. | | | | Call #: | PG 402 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Society of Mayflower Descendants. Cleveland Colony -- Photograph collections. | Patriotic societies -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) -- Genealogy. | Massachusetts -- History -- New Plymouth, 1620-1691 -- Societies, etc. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy.
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