| | Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | Menorah Park, Jewish Home for Aged Records
| | | | Creator: | Menorah Park, Jewish Home for Aged | | | | Dates: | 1906-1968 | | | | Abstract: | Menorah Park was established in 1906 as the Jewish Orthodox Old Home in Cleveland, Ohio. It became one of the five largest old age homes in the country by 1940. The name was changed to the Jewish Orthodox Home for Aged in 1950. The prefix Menorah Park was added in the 1960s. The collections consists of constitutions, minutes, admission applications, naturalization certificates, correspondence, financial records, reports, legal documents, publications, newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks. | | | | Call #: | MS 3741 | | | | Extent: | 24.70 linear feet (16 containers, 85 oversize volumes, and 2 oversize folders) | | | | Subjects: | Menorah Park, Jewish Home for Aged (Cleveland, Ohio) | Jewish old age homes -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities. | Older people -- Institutional care -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish aged -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | Eliza Bryant Home for the Aged Records
| | | | Creator: | Eliza Bryant Home for the Aged | | | | Dates: | 1898-1968 | | | | Abstract: | The Eliza Bryant Home for the Aged was the first retirement home for elderly African Americans in Cleveland, Ohio. It was founded in 1896, by Eliza Bryant, and called the Cleveland Home for Aged Colored People. In 1960 it was renamed the Eliza Bryant Home for the Aged. The collection consists of records of patients, guests, and membership, Board of Trustees' minutes, Secretary's record of correspondence, Board of Lady Managers' financial records, constitutions, by-laws, receipts, cancelled checks, and a history of the Home by Helen Smith. | | | | Call #: | MS 3532 | | | | Extent: | 4.20 linear feet (10 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Eliza Bryant Center (Cleveland, Ohio). | African American aged -- Institutional care -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities. | Old age homes -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Older people -- Institutional care -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Benevolent and moral institutions and societies. | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 3 | Title: | Montefiore Home Records
| | | | Creator: | Montefiore Home | | | | Dates: | 1880-1976 | | | | Abstract: | The Montefiore Home was established in 1882 in Cleveland, Ohio, by the Kesher Shel Barzel Order (Band of Iron), District Grand Lodge No. 4, and called the Aged and Infirm Israelites Home. In 1884 it was renamed the Sir Moses Montefiore Kesher Home for Aged and Infirm Israelites. In 1923 it became simply the Montefiore Home. The collection consists of minutes, correspondence, administrative reports and records, staff memos and lists, departmental reports, records of auxiliary organizations, residents files, audits, ledgers and other financial records, and subject files relating to the Home's interaction with other agencies such as the Association of Ohio Philanthropic Homes for Aged, Inc., the Jewish Community Federation, the Jewish Family Service Association, United Appeal of Greater Cleveland, the Welfare Federation of Cleveland, the White House Conference on Aging, and Julius and Helen Weil. | | | | Call #: | MS 3835 | | | | Extent: | 17.10 linear feet (13 containers, 12 oversize volumes, and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Montefiore Home (Cleveland, Ohio) | Social work with older people -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities. | Jewish old age homes -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish aged -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Older people -- Institutional care -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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