| | Manuscript Collection | Save | | 1 | Title: | Eliza Bryant Home for the Aged Records, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Eliza Bryant Home for the Aged | | | | Dates: | 1969-1983 | | | | Abstract: | The Eliza Bryant Home for the Aged is a Cleveland, Ohio retirement home, founded in 1896 as the first non-religious institution sponsored by African Americans in Cleveland. It was first named the Cleveland Home for Aged Colored People and became the Eliza Bryant Home for the Aged in 1960, the Eliza Bryant Center in the 1980s, and is today known as the Eliza Bryant Multipurpose Senior Center, located on Wade Park Avenue. The collection consists of correspondence, minutes, promotional brochures, and reports pertaining to the activities of the home, including consideration of funding sources, property purchase and the possibility of a new facility by the board of trustees. | | | | Call #: | MS 4421 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Eliza Bryant Home for the Aged -- Archives. | Eliza Bryant Center (Cleveland, Ohio). | Aged -- Institutional care -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American aged -- Institutional care -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Old age homes -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities. | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2 | Title: | Montefiore Home Records, Series III
| | | | Creator: | Montefiore Home | | | | Dates: | 1942-1991 | | | | Abstract: | The Montefiore Home is a Jewish nursing home for aged and infirm Jews of Cleveland, Ohio. It was founded in 1882 as the Aged and Infirm Israelites Home, was renamed the Sir Moses Montefiore Kesher Home for Aged and Infirm Israelites in 1884, and, in 1923, Montefiore Home. In the 1940s, Montefiore converted from providing residential care to social and psychological rehabilitation, including day care, social workers, a psychiatric unit, and sheltered workshop. An Auxiliary was formed in 1956-57 to help support Montefiore. In 1991 Montefiore, now a skilled nursing facility, moved to a new $22 million, 240-bed complex in Beachwood, Ohio. The collection consists of annual meeting materials, trustee minutes, building expansion plans, new building materials, publications, reports, and journal reprints. | | | | Call #: | MS 4662 | | | | Extent: | 1.01 linear feet (3 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Montefiore Home (Cleveland, Ohio) | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities. | Old age homes, Jewish -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish aged -- United States. | Jewish aged -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Aged -- Institutional care -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social work with the aged -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 3 | Title: | Julius and Helen K. Weil Papers
| | | | Creator: | Weil, Julius and Helen K. | | | | Dates: | 1942-1977 | | | | Abstract: | Julius and Helen K. Weil were German-born Jews who settled in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1941 where their achievements in geriatric social work earned them national recognition. Julius served as executive director (1941-1968), and Helen as director of social services (1943-1968), at Montefiore Home, an old age home in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. They then joined the staff of the Cornelius Schnurmann House, a housing community for senior citizens in Mayfield Heights, Ohio, as executive director and social services director. The collection consists of published and unpublished articles, presentations, teaching materials, correspondence, and memoirs of Julius and Helen K. Weil. | | | | Call #: | MS 4499 | | | | Extent: | 0.80 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Weil, Julius, 1902-1989. | Weil, Helen K. (Helen Kahn), 1902- | Montefiore Home (Cleveland, Ohio) | Social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Aged. | Aged -- Institutional care -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social work with the aged -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish aged -- Institutional care -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Old age homes, Jewish -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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