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Subject | • | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | [X] | | • | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. |
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| | • | African American churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. |
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| | • | African American business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. |
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| | • | African American clergy -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. |
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| | • | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. -- Photographs. |
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| | • | Social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. |
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| | • | Stokes, Carl -- Photograph collections. |
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| | • | African American athletes -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. |
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| | • | African American businesspeople -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. |
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| | • | African American children -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. |
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| | • | African American churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African American clergy -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African American entertainers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. |
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| | • | African American families -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. |
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| | • | African American fashion designers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. |
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| | • | African American men -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. |
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| | • | African American musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs |
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| | • | African American neighborhoods -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. |
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| | • | African American photographers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African American politicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. |
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| | • | African American portrait photographers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs -- Photographs. |
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| | • | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | African American women journalists -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. |
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| | • | African American women political activists -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. |
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| | • | African American women teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. |
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| | • | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Social life and customs -- Photographs. |
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| | • | African Methodist Episcopal Church -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photograph collections. |
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| | • | Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975 -- Photograph collections. |
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| | • | Baseball -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. |
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| | • | Birthday parties -- Photographs. |
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| | • | Blue, Bertha, ca. 1877-1963 -- Photograph collections. |
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| | • | Cheek family -- Photographs. |
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| | • | Churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. |
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| | • | Clarke School of Dressmaking and Fashion Design -- Photograph collections. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government -- Photographs. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations -- Photographs. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio). City Council -- Photograph collections. |
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| | • | Cleveland Transit System -- Photograph collections. |
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| | • | Cole, Allen E., 1883-1970 -- Photograph collections. |
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| | • | Commercial photography -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History -- Sources. |
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| | • | Community development, Urban -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. |
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| | • | Costume design -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. |
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| | • | Daley, Richard J., 1902-1976 -- Photograph collections. |
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| | • | Dallas Colored High School (Dallas, Tex.) -- Photographs. |
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| | • | Darr, Jane Lee -- Photograph collections. |
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| | • | Dressmaking -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. |
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| | • | Fleming, Charles W., 1928-1994 -- Photograph collections. |
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| | • | Fleming, Lethia Cousins, 1876-1963 -- Photograph collections. |
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| | • | Hough (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photographs. |
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| | • | Johnson family. -- Photographs. |
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| | • | Johnson, Ella Mae Cheeks, 1904-2010 -- Photograph collections. |
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| | • | Journalists -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. |
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| | • | Knoxville College. |
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| | • | Lewis, Fannie M., 1926- -- Photograph collections. |
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| | • | Local transit -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. |
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| | • | Oberlin College. Conservatory of Music. |
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| | • | Perk, Ralph J. -- Photograph collections. |
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| | • | Perk, Ralph J. 1914- -- Photograph collections. |
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| | • | Philanthropists -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. |
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| | • | Smith (Dorothy E.) family. |
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| | • | Smith family |
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| | • | Smith, Dorothy E. 1905-1995. |
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| | • | St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church Missionary Society (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photograph collections. |
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| | • | Stokes, Louis, 1925- -- Photograph collections. |
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| | • | Tall, Booker T. -- Photograph collections. |
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| | • | Teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. |
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| | • | White family -- Photograph collections. |
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| | • | White, Charles William, 1897-1970 -- Photograph collections. |
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| | • | White, Stella G., 1907-1991 -- Photograph collections. |
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| | • | Wicker, Amanda, 1900-1987 -- Photograph collections. |
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| | • | Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. |
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| | • | Women in church work -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. |
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| | • | Women journalists -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. |
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| | • | Women teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. |
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| | Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | Lethia Cousins Fleming Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Fleming, Lethia Cousins | | | | Dates: | 1900-1940 | | | | Abstract: | Lethia Cousins Fleming (1876-1963) was a teacher from West Virginia who became a social worker for the Division of Child Welfare, Cuyahoga County, Ohio (1931-1951). She and her husband, Cleveland city councilman Thomas W. Fleming, were active in local civic and charitable organizations. The collection consists of photographs relating to the activities of Lethia Fleming and various African American organizations. Includes a group portrait, including the Flemings, with Josephine Baker in Paris, 1927. | | | | Call #: | PG 142 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Fleming, Lethia Cousins, 1876-1963 -- Photograph collections. | Fleming, Charles W., 1928-1994 -- Photograph collections. | Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975 -- Photograph collections. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. -- Photographs. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | Clarke School of Dressmaking and Fashion Design Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Clarke School of Dressmaking and Fashion Design | | | | Dates: | 1946-1986 | | | | Abstract: | The Clarke School of Dressmaking and Fashion Design was a Cleveland, Ohio, dressmaking, tailoring and fashion design school founded in 1925 by Amanda Wicker, primarily for young African-American women. Wicker retired and sold the school in 1979, which was still in operation in 1990. The collection consists of individual portraits of founder Amanda Wicker, her friends and associates; Clarke School board members, school graduates, and models; and views of events, activities and instructional classes. Included in the collection are portraits of Cleveland Mayor George Voinovich, Representative Troy Lee James, Cynthia Holloway, Judge Perry B. Jackson, Wyatt Brownlee, and Elizabeth Lambright. Events depicted include The Book of Gold and other fashion shows, award ceremonies of the Amanda Wicker Scholarship and the Cleveland Scholarship Program, board meetings, and social functions. | | | | Call #: | PG 472 | | | | Extent: | 0.80 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Wicker, Amanda, 1900-1987 -- Photograph collections. | Clarke School of Dressmaking and Fashion Design -- Photograph collections. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American fashion designers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Costume design -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Dressmaking -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 3 | Title: | Bertha Blue Family Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Blue, Bertha Family | | | | Dates: | 1900-1970 | | | | Abstract: | Bertha Blue (ca. 1877-1963) was a member of a well known African American family in Cleveland, Ohio. She was a teacher at the Murray Hill Elementary School located in Little Italy, an Italian immigrant neighborhood on Cleveland's East side, from 1903 to 1947. The collection consists of individual and group portraits of Bertha Blue, her daughter Jane Darr, Welcome T. Blue, Sr., and other family members and friends. Included in the collection are photographs of Jane Edna Hunter, Virginia Bray, and G. Howard Fields. Events depicted are the weddings of Mabelle Blue and Jane Lee Darr, the tennis group with whom Bertha Blue played, and Bertha Blue's first grade class. | | | | Call #: | PG 475 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Blue, Bertha, ca. 1877-1963 -- Photograph collections. | Darr, Jane Lee -- Photograph collections. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American women teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Women teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 5 | Title: | St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church, Sadie J. Anderson Missionary Society Photographs
| | | | Creator: | St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church | | | | Dates: | 1930-1986 | | | | Abstract: | The Sadie J. Anderson Missionary Society of St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church performed outreach and social services in the African American community in Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of group portraits and views of members and events of the Missionary Society, group portraits of members of the Las Amigas Club, trips made by the Missionary Society, conferences sponsored by the Society, and a reunion of the Las Amigas Club. Individuals pictured include Marjorie Ison Davis, Gertrude Lang, Myrtis Howard, Dr. James Tanner, and Derrick Floyd. | | | | Call #: | PG 481 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church Missionary Society (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photograph collections. | African Methodist Episcopal Church -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photograph collections. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs -- Photographs. | African American churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Women in church work -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 6 | Title: | Dorothy E. Smith Family Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Smith, Dorothy E. Family | | | | Dates: | 1864-1970 | | | | Abstract: | Dorothy E. Smith was a Cleveland, Ohio, African American music teacher and the first African American member of the Cleveland Women's Orchestra. A violinist, she was a 1931 graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music and was a music teacher at the Cleveland Music School Settlement, the Phillis Wheatley Association, the Friendly Inn Settlement, and Knoxville College. She was also a supervisor for the Ohio State Department of Aid for the Aged until her retirement in 1973. Dorothy E. Smith was the daughter of Joseph W. Smith and Elizabeth Rayner. Joseph W. Smith moved to Cleveland in the late 1880s. He established a barbershop on Central Avenue in Cleveland, managed baseball teams in the 1890s and early 1900s, and was also a musician. The collection consists of 86 black and white photographs and 6 color photographs. | | | | Call #: | PG 519 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | African American musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Baseball -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Knoxville College. | Oberlin College. Conservatory of Music. | Smith (Dorothy E.) family. | Smith family | Smith, Dorothy E. 1905-1995.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 7 | Title: | Ella Mae Cheeks Johnson Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Johnson, Ella Mae Cheeks | | | | Dates: | 1921-2010 | | | | Abstract: | Ella Mae Cheeks Johnson was born in Dallas, Texas, in 1904. Orphaned at age four, she was raised by the Davis family. She attended Dallas Colored High School and Fisk University before applying to the School of Applied Social Sciences at Western Reserve University. Johnson graduated in 1928 with a master's degree in social work. As a social worker, Johnson was first employed by Associated Charities of Cleveland. Later, she worked for the Cuyahoga County Department of Welfare in conjunction with the federal program Aid to Dependent Children. She retired in 1961. Johnson married Elmer Cheeks in 1929. They had two sons. Cheeks died in 1941, and Johnson married Raymond Johnson in 1957. He died in 1983. Mrs. Johnson was an active member of Mt. Zion Congregational Church, an avid reader and traveler, and a supporter of a variety of charities. At age 105, she attended the inauguration of President Barack Obama in Washington, D.C. Soon after, with the assistance of a freelance writer, she wrote her autobiography. It was published shortly after her death in 2010. The collection consists of 4 black and white photographs, 251 color photographs, 5 DVDs, and 5 VHS tapes. | | | | Call #: | PG 553 | | | | Extent: | 0.80 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Johnson, Ella Mae Cheeks, 1904-2010 -- Photograph collections. | Cheek family -- Photographs. | Johnson family. -- Photographs. | Dallas Colored High School (Dallas, Tex.) -- Photographs. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Philanthropists -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Birthday parties -- Photographs.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 8 | Title: | Stella G. White Photographs
| | | | Creator: | White, Stella G. | | | | Dates: | 1940-1970 | | | | Abstract: | Stella G. White (1907-1991) was a free-lance journalist and leader in Cleveland, Ohio, mass transit and interracial community relations. She served on the Community Relations Board, the Council on Human Relations, and the Board of the Cleveland Transit System. She was a columnist for the Plain Dealer. The collection consists of individual and group portraits of Stella White, her family, and friends and business and political associates including Judge Charles W. White, Carl Stokes, Ralph Perk, and Richard Daley. Views of her professional life include photographs of the People's Forum on Mass Transit (1971) and various views depicting her work with the Cleveland Transit System, including facilities and rapid transit trains, dinners and conferences, anniversary celebrations, and miscellaneous views. | | | | Call #: | PG 363 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | White, Stella G., 1907-1991 -- Photograph collections. | White, Charles William, 1897-1970 -- Photograph collections. | Perk, Ralph J. -- Photograph collections. | Stokes, Carl -- Photograph collections. | Daley, Richard J., 1902-1976 -- Photograph collections. | White family -- Photograph collections. | Cleveland Transit System -- Photograph collections. | Women journalists -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Journalists -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American women journalists -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Local transit -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 9 | Title: | Fannie M. Lewis Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Lewis, Fannie M. | | | | Dates: | 1952-1975 | | | | Abstract: | Fannie M. Lewis (1926-2008) was an African American activist and Cleveland, Ohio, councilwoman. She was involved in a number of Hough neighborhood improvement programs, including Community Action for Youth, Neighborhood Youth Corps, Model Cities Association, and the Citizen's Participation Organization. She became a city councilwoman from Cleveland's Ward 7 in 1982. The collection consists of photographs depicting Lewis' involvement in the Hough community of Cleveland, Ohio, and Cleveland politics. It includes images of Fannie Lewis, Carl and Louis Stokes, Ralph Perk, and Booker Tall. | | | | Call #: | PG 427 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Lewis, Fannie M., 1926- -- Photograph collections. | Stokes, Carl -- Photograph collections. | Stokes, Louis, 1925- -- Photograph collections. | Perk, Ralph J. 1914- -- Photograph collections. | Tall, Booker T. -- Photograph collections. | Cleveland (Ohio). City Council -- Photograph collections. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American politicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American women political activists -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Community development, Urban -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Hough (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photographs. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government -- Photographs. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations -- Photographs.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 10 | Title: | Allen E. Cole Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Cole, Allen E. | | | | Dates: | 1870-1970 | | | | Abstract: | Allen E. Cole (1883-1970) was a Cleveland, Ohio, photographer who produced over 50,000 photographs of people and places in the African American community of Cleveland, Ohio. Cole opened his first studio in 1922 at 9909 Cedar Avenue, supplementing his income with commercial work and commission work for eight white-owned studios, and earned prizes and commendations at state and local exhibitions. His photographs were frequently published in The Call and Post. The collection consists of approximately 30,000 black and white and color negatives; 6,000 black and white and color photographs; and 1 oil painting. | | | | Call #: | PG 268 | | | | Extent: | 36.72 linear feet (21 containers, 6 filing cabinets, and 2 oversize folders) | | | | Subjects: | African American athletes -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American businesspeople -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American children -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American clergy -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American entertainers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American families -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American men -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American neighborhoods -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American photographers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American portrait photographers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Social life and customs -- Photographs. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. -- Photographs. | Cole, Allen E., 1883-1970 -- Photograph collections. | Commercial photography -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History -- Sources.
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