Format | • | Manuscript Collection | [X] |
Subject | • | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Philanthropists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities. |
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| | • | Endowments -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland |
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| | • | Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. |
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| | • | Businessmen -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Jewish Community Federation (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland |
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| | • | Arts -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Jewish businesspeople -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Jewish women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. |
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| | • | Women volunteers in social service -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Community development -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | National Council of Jewish Women. Cleveland Section. |
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| | • | Philanthropy -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Women in charitable work -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations -- Ohio -- Cleveland |
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| | • | Cleveland Foundation. |
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| | • | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Jewish women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Jews, Soviet -- Emigration and immigration. |
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| | • | Philanthropists -- Ohio -- Cleveland |
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| | • | Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Women in charitable work. |
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| | • | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities. |
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| | • | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations |
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| | • | Charity organization. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions. |
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| | • | Gerson family. |
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| | • | Gerson, Eleanor Rosenfeld, 1916-2000 |
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| | • | Abortion -- Government policy -- United States. |
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| | • | Alzheimer's disease -- Law and legislation -- United States. |
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| | • | Automobile industry and trade -- Ohio. |
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| | • | Banks and banking -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Bingham family. |
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| | • | Bingham, William, 2nd, 1879-1955. |
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| | • | Blossom family. |
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| | • | Blossom, Elizabeth Bingham, 1881-1970. |
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| | • | Celeste, Richard F. |
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| | • | Cleveland Trust Company. |
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| | • | Clubs -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Consumer protection -- United States. |
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| | • | Democratic Party (U.S.) |
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| | • | Education -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Endowments. |
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| | Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | Friendly Inn Social Settlement Records
| | | | Creator: | Friendly Inn Social Settlement | | | | Dates: | 1875-1968 | | | | Abstract: | The Friendly Inn Social Settlement is a Cleveland, Ohio, settlement house founded in 1874 by members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. It offered a full range of services and social activities, including an outreach program for delinquent boys. Its service area became the center of Cleveland's African American community. The collection consists of minutes, financial statements, reports, evaluations, club journals, correspondence, newspaper clippings, expense accounts, and records of the Women's Philanthropic Union. | | | | Call #: | MS 3526 | | | | Extent: | 5.90 linear feet (13 containers and 1 oversize volume) | | | | Subjects: | Friendly Inn Social Settlement (Cleveland, Ohio) | Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Boys -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. | Adolescent boys -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. | Gangs -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Juvenile delinquents -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social work with delinquents and criminals -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions. | Women's Philanthropic Union (Cleveland, Ohio)
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Cleveland, Ohio Records
| | | | Creator: | Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Cleveland, Ohio | | | | Dates: | 1874-1951 | | | | Abstract: | The Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Cleveland, Ohio, was a temperance organization founded in 1874 and incorporated in 1880 as the Woman's Christian Temperance League. It was an auxiliary of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Ohio. In 1886 it changed its name to the Non-Partisan Woman's Christian Temperance Union. In 1933 it became the Woman's Philanthropic Union. It was also involved in many civic and charitable activities. The collection consists of a constitution, articles of incorporation, minutes of board and committee meetings, letters, and financial records. | | | | Call #: | MS 3247 | | | | Extent: | 1.20 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Woman's Christian Temperance Union (Cleveland, Ohio) | Friendly Inn (Cleveland, Ohio) | Women in charitable work -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Temperance -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. | Women volunteers in social service -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 3 | Title: | United Order True Sisters Cleveland No. 30 Records and Photographs
| | | | Creator: | United Order True Sisters | | | | Dates: | 1925-2008 | | | | Abstract: | The United Order True Sisters Cleveland No. 30, a Jewish women's charitable organization, was a local lodge that was part of the national United Order True Sisters founded in New York in 1846. Founded in November of 1925, the Cleveland lodge's goal was to promote family unity by establishing a day care center for the benefit of the community. The collection consists of awards, booklets, budgets, bulletins, bylaws, a calendar, a cookbook, correspondence, a journal, flyers, manuals, membership books, minutes, newspaper clippings, notebooks, poems, a proclamation, reports, scrapbooks, sheet music, and speech text. There are also approximately 50 black and white 300 color photographs. | | | | Call #: | MS 5427 | | | | Extent: | 6.11 linear feet ((10 containers, including one oversized container and one oversized folder)) | | | | Subjects: | Jewish women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities. | Bellefaire Jewish Children's Home (Shaker Heights, Ohio) | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 4 | Title: | Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland Records, Series II
| | | | Creator: | The Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland | | | | Dates: | 1936-1990 | | | | Abstract: | The Jewish Community Federation is a central policy making and fundraising agency for the Jewish community of Cleveland, Ohio, which traces its origin to the Federation of the Jewish Charities of Cleveland (founded 1903). The Federation of the Jewish Charities of Cleveland changed its name to the Jewish Welfare Federation of Cleveland in 1926, and in 1930, added a fundraising arm, the Jewish Welfare Fund of Cleveland. In 1951 the Jewish Welfare Federation merged with the Jewish Community Council to become the Jewish Community Federation. The collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, trustee and committee minutes, reports, proposals, newspaper clippings, wills, and financial records. Records are organized into three series consisting of administrative files, endowment funds, and social planning and research. | | | | Call #: | MS 4835 | | | | Extent: | 107.70 linear feet (111 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Jewish Community Federation (Cleveland, Ohio) | Case Western Reserve University. | Federation for Community Planning. | Baldwin-Wallace College. | Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds. | American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. | United Jewish Appeal. | Cleveland Bureau of Jewish Education (Cleveland, Ohio). | Chabad House of Cleveland. | Cleveland College of Jewish Studies. | Jewish Community Center of Cleveland. | Jewish Community Housing, Inc. | Jewish Convalescent Hospital (Cleveland, Ohio). | Jewish Family Service Association (Cleveland, Ohio). | Jewish Vocational Service. | Menorah Park Center for the Aging (Cleveland, Ohio). | Montefiore Home (Cleveland, Ohio) | Mount Sinai Hospital (Cleveland, Ohio) | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Human services. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Federations, Financial (Social Service) | Community welfare councils -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Israel-Arab War, 1967. | Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Human services -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Population. | Jewish religious education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Friendly societies -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Old age homes, Jewish -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 5 | 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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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 6 | Title: | Albert and Maxine Levin Papers
| | | | Creator: | Levin, Albert and Maxine | | | | Dates: | 1928-1992 | | | | Abstract: | Albert Arthur Levin was a Cleveland, Ohio, lawyer and developer of commercial and industrial real estate. A native of Pennsylvania, he moved to Lorain, Ohio, at the age of 10. In 1918, he assumed operation of the family clothing store. After graduation from college in 1934, he became active in Democratic Party politics. He moved to Cleveland and established a law practice in 1938. He later became involved in major real estate developments, including the Marshall and Public Square buildings and the Parmatown and Shoreway shoppong centers. Levin was also a leader in fund drives for the United Jewish Appeal and Bonds for Israel, and was involved in various civic affairs, including serving as foreman of the Cuyahoga County Grand Jury (1962), trustee of the Greater Cleveland Growth Association, and co-chair of the national fund drive for Wilberforce University. He married Maxine Goodman in 1945. Maxine Goodman Levin was a civic activist and philanthropist in her own right. Born in Cleveland, she was a descendant of early Cleveland settlers. Her father, Max P. Goodman, was a prominent Cleveland attorney. Maxine Goodman Levin graduated from Ohio State University, where she studied the history of architecture. She was a founder and first president of the Cleveland Restoration Society and was chairperson of the Cleveland Landmarks Commission. She was also active on the Woodruff Hospital Board, the Women's City Club, Hadassah, Cleveland Chapter, and the World Jewish Congress Division of Northeast Ohio. She served on the boards of Dyke College, Cleveland State University, the East End Neighborhood House, the Jewish Community Federation, and the Catholic Social Services of Cuyahoga County. In 1969, she endowed a chair in urban studies and public service at Cleveland State University, and subsequently was instrumental in establishing the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at that school. Maxine Goodman Levin died in 2002. The collection consists of awards, honors, biographical materials, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and brochures. | | | | Call #: | MS 4676 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Levin, Albert Arthur, 1899-1969. | Levin, Maxine Goodman. | Goodman, Max P., 1872-1934. | United Jewish Appeal. | Cleveland State University. College of Urban Affairs. | Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities. | Real estate developers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Real estate development -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Philanthropists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Historic preservation -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cities and towns -- Study and teaching -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 7 | Title: | Frances Payne Bolton Oral History Interviews
| | | | Creator: | Bolton, Frances Payne | | | | Dates: | 1989 | | | | Abstract: | Frances Payne Bingham Bolton was a Republican congresswoman from Ohio's 22nd congressional district. Bolton served on the committees of Indian Affairs (1940) and Foreign Affairs (1941-1968), participating in foreign aid hearings and conducting study trips abroad, including a trip to the Middle East in 1947 and one to Africa in 1955. She served as a congressional delegate to the United Nations Eighth General Assembly, and was involved with the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association and helped organize the Accokee Foundation to protect the Potomac shoreline across from Mount Vernon. Mrs. Bolton had a long-time interest in nursing and nursing education and provided funds to establish the nursing school at Western Reserve University, as well as founding the Payne Fund to assist a variety of educational and other charitable programs. The collection consists of transcripts of 16 interviews conducted with individuals who had known and worked with Frances Payne Bolton in her capacity as United States Representative from Ohio's 22nd District (1940-1968), as a member of the Republican Party, in her family and personal interests, or in her many philanthropic and advocacy endeavors. The interviews were conducted in 1989 by Leslie Anne Solotko as part of the project conducted at the Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio, to process the papers of Congresswoman Frances Payne Bolton (MS 3943). Questions focused on Mrs. Bolton's personality and career; and her political, family, business, and personal interests. Interviewees included Viola Anderson, David K. Ford, Zelma George, Donald W. Gropp, Alice Hansen, Robert E. Hughes, Theodore F. Owen, H. Chapman Rose, Rozella M. Schlotfeldt, John Burns Simpson, Margaret Chase Smith, Robert Ware Strauss, Charles A. Vanik, Helen Wallace, Paul W. Walter, and Fred White. | | | | Call #: | MS 4616 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Bolton, Frances Payne Bingham, 1885-1977. | Bolton family. | United States. Congress. House. | Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) | Accokeek Foundation. | Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union. | Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing. | Republican Party (Ohio) | Women legislators -- United States. | Legislators -- United States. | Nursing -- United States. | Women in politics -- United States. | Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 8 | Title: | George S. Dively Foundation Records, Series II
| | | | Creator: | George S. Dively Foundation | | | | Dates: | 1935-1996 | | | | Abstract: | The George S. Dively Foundation was a private endowment fund administered by George S. Dively in Cleveland, Ohio. It primarily supported leadership development in the business sector and higher education projects. The collection consists of agendas, annual reports, correspondence, financial statements, grant proposals, minutes, newspaper and magazine clippings, notes, publications, reports, speech texts, and tax returns. | | | | Call #: | MS 4876 | | | | Extent: | 1.80 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Dively, George S., 1902-1988. | Dively, Michael Augustus, 1938- | Geo. S. Dively Foundation. | Endowments -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Education, Higher -- Endowments. | Scholarships -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 9 | Title: | Jennings Center for Older Adults Records
| | | | Creator: | Jennings Center for Older Adults | | | | Dates: | 1856-1997 | | | | Abstract: | The Jennings Center for Older Adults, a Roman Catholic non-profit organization, serves older adults of all faiths with a continuum of care in Garfield Heights, Ohio. The collection consists of agendas, annual reports, budgets, by-laws, certificates, contracts, correspondence, financial statements, ledgers, lists, manuals, minutes, newsletters, newspaper clippings, reports, rosters, and wills. | | | | Call #: | MS 5146 | | | | Extent: | 6.80 linear feet (8 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Catholic Church -- Ohio -- Garfield Heights -- Charities | Catholic health facilities -- Ohio -- Garfield Heights | Community health services for older people -- Ohio -- Garfield Heights | Nursing homes -- Ohio -- Garfield Heights | Older people -- Care -- Ohio -- Garfield Heights | Older people -- Hospital care -- Ohio -- Garfield Heights | Older people -- Services for -- Ohio -- Garfield Heights | Women in church work -- Ohio -- Garfield Heights -- Catholic Church
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 10 | Title: | Hebrew Free Loan Association Records, Series V
| | | | Creator: | Hebrew Free Loan Association | | | | Dates: | 1956-2014 | | | | Abstract: | The Hebrew Free Loan Association (founded 1904) is a century-old benevolent institution. It grants small, interest-free loans of up to $7,500 on a non-sectarian basis to individuals in financial need who do not qualify to borrow from conventional sources such as banks. A majority of the loans granted are for educational purposes; other loans are for a wide-range of needs such as home repairs, emergency medical care, rent, and funerals. The Hebrew Free Loan Association Records, Series V collection consists of loan applications, bylaws, correspondence, DVDs, financial statements, lists, meeting minutes, newsletters, photographs, proclamations, resolutions, and tributes. | | | | Call #: | MS 5462 | | | | Extent: | 11.0 linear feet (13 boxes) | | | | Subjects: | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Hebrew Free Loan Association (Cleveland, Ohio) | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Friendly societies -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 11 | Title: | Dudley S. Blossom Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Blossom, Dudley S. | | | | Dates: | 1883-1954 | | | | Abstract: | Dudley S. Blossom was a wealthy Cleveland, Ohio, businessman and philanthropist who served as city welfare director, 1919-1921 and 1924-1932. He graduated from Yale University in 1901 and became a partner in the Cleveland firm of William Bingham and Company. He was also an officer or director of other businesses, including Perry-Payne Corporation, the Payne-Bingham Company, the Standard Tool Company, the Cleveland Hobbing Machine Company, the Blossom Lock Company, and the Central National Bank. His wife, Elizabeth Bingham Blossom, was the sister of Congresswoman Frances Payne Bolton and a philanthropist in her own right. Their son, Dudley S. Blossom, Jr. was also a prominent businessman and philanthropist, serving on the boards of many Cleveland civic organizations. The collection consists of correspondence, announcements of events, scrapbooks, musical scores, personal cards, a season ticket for Yale University baseball games, and a report card. The collection primarily pertains to Dudley Blossom, Sr.'s years at Yale University and to his career as welfare director of Cleveland. There is correspondence from Dudley Blossom, Jr. to his mother and some material on the family's philanthropic activities. | | | | Call #: | MS 4562 | | | | Extent: | 0.41 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Blossom family. | Blossom, Elizabeth Bingham, 1881-1970. | Blossom, Dudley Stuart, 1879-1938. | Blossom, Dudley Stuart, Jr., 1912-1961. | Yale University. | Businessmen -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Philanthropists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Public welfare -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 12 | Title: | William Bingham 2nd Papers
| | | | Creator: | Bingham, Willima 2nd | | | | Dates: | 1914-1961 | | | | Abstract: | William Bingham 2nd (1879-1955) was the son of Charles W. and Mary Perry Payne Bingham of Cleveland, Ohio, and a descendent of the Perry, Payne, Beardsley, and Bingham families. Ill health forced him to lead a secluded life in Bethel, Maine, where he sought treatment at the Bethel Inn under the care of Dr. John G. Gehring. With the advice and support of Dr. Gehring, Bingham turned his focus to philanthropy, particularly the fields of medicine and education. In 1932 he created the Bingham Associates Fund, which provided funding for medical care and training of physicians for rural areas of New England. This plan for regional medical care became known as the Bingham Plan. The Bingham Associates Fund also provided funding for the construction of the Joseph H. Pratt Diagnostic Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, and the Farnsworth Surgical Wing of the New England Medical Center. William Bingham 2nd also gave financial support to Gould Academy, a local private high school in Bethel, Maine, and to many residents of rural Maine, who sought his help in the areas of health care and education. He supported many other religious, educational, and charitable institutions, particularly those of Maine and Florida. In addition to Dr. Gehring, Bingham relied on Dr. George Farnsworth and Dr. Arthur L. Walters as contacts and advisors in his various philanthropic pursuits. The collection consists of correspondence, reports, accounts, budgets, tax returns, and financial statements concerning the various philanthropic pursuits of William Bingham 2nd. | | | | Call #: | MS 4691 | | | | Extent: | 7.00 linear feet (7 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Bingham family. | Bingham, William, 2nd, 1879-1955. | Charities, medical. | Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations. | Philanthropists. | Hospitals -- Endowments.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 16 | Title: | Clarke School of Dressmaking and Fashion Design Records, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Clarke School of Dressmaking and Fashion Design | | | | Dates: | 1924-1979 | | | | 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 certificates, proclamations and awards related to the education, business, and philanthropic interests of Amanda Wicker, the school's owner. | | | | Call #: | MS 4605 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Wicker, Amanda, 1900-1987. | Clarke School of Dressmaking and Fashion Design. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American fashion designers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Costume design -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Dressmaking -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 17 | Title: | May Hope Francis Papers
| | | | Creator: | Francis, May Hope | | | | Dates: | 1922-1959 | | | | Abstract: | May Hope Francis was a prominent clubwoman in Cleveland, Ohio, during the 1920s and 1930s. Much of her community work was done through her membership in the Cleveland Federation of Women's Clubs as member and chairman of its American Citizenship Committee. Mrs. Francis also worked with the City of Cleveland during the tenure of City Manager William R. Hopkins to promote ethnic cultural events and to publicize civic events, including the 1927 reception for Charles A. Lindbergh. In 1929, she helped establish the All Nations Hopkins Testimonial Committee. She was also active in the Women's Organization of the National Retail Druggists Association and the Early Settlers Association of Cuyahoga County. The collection consists of scrapbooks, correspondence, a ledger, and newspaper clippings. Most of the collection relates to Francis' work with the Cleveland Federation of Women's Clubs and with the City of Cleveland, particularly the reception for Charles A. Lindbergh in 1927, and ethnic programs sponsored by the City. | | | | Call #: | MS 4540 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Francis, May Hope. | Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974. | Hopkins, William Rowland, 1869-1961. | Cleveland Federation of Women's Clubs. | All Nations Hopkins Testimonial Committee (Cleveland, Ohio). | Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Americanization. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Ethnic relations.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 18 | Title: | Max Ratner Papers
| | | | Creator: | Ratner, Max | | | | Dates: | 1959-1985 | | | | Abstract: | Max Ratner was a Cleveland, Ohio, businessman, philanthropist, and Zionist. He was born Meyer Ratowczer in Bialystok, Belarus, Russia, and immigrated with his family to the United States, arriving in Cleveland in 1921. The family changed its name to Ratner. After graduation from Glenville High School in 1925, he went to work at the family-owned business, Forest City Materials Company, a supplier of lumber and building materials. He became president of Forest City Materials in 1928, and in 1929, directed its merger with Buckeye Material. By the 1950s, Forest City profited from the suburban building boom, and by the end of that decade was one of Ohio's largest retail building materials companies. In 1960, Forest City Materials became Forest City Enterprises, Inc. and began concentrating on real estate development, ending its retail operations in 1987. Since the 1970s it has been involved in large urban developments such as Tower City Center in Cleveland. Max Ratner was active in Zionist activities, was a founder of the American-Israel Chamber of Commerce, served as president of Park Synagogue, and along with other family members, supported the Ratner Montessori Schools. The collection consists of photostatic copies from business publications and newspapers, an annual report of Forest City Enterprises, art catalogues, a publication by and about former residents of Bialystok, Russia, and a Ratner Schools brochure. | | | | Call #: | MS 4623 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Ratner, Max, 1907-1995. | Ratner family. | Forest City Enterprises, Inc. | Ratner Schools. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish businesspeople -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Philanthropists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews, Russian -- History.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 19 | Title: | United Black Fund of Greater Cleveland Records
| | | | Creator: | United Black Fund of Greater Cleveland | | | | Dates: | 1981-1996 | | | | Abstract: | The United Black Fund of Greater Cleveland was founded in 1981 in Cleveland, Ohio, to fund organizations that serve African Americans, the poor, and minorities that are underserved in Cleveland's philanthropic and charitable sector. The United Black Fund accumulates and allocates funds to alleviate suffering, poverty and illiteracy. It also seeks to strengthen the tradition of charitable giving among African Americans to promote economic self sufficiency. The collection consists of agendas, annual reports, audit reports, board of trustee minutes, bylaws, correspondence, programs, invitations, financial documents, and newsletters. | | | | Call #: | MS 4909 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities. | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social work with African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | United Black Fund of Greater Cleveland, Inc.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 20 | Title: | Alpha Omega Cleveland Alumni Chapter Women's Auxiliary Records
| | | | Creator: | Alpha Omega Cleveland Alumni Chapter Women's Auxiliary | | | | Dates: | 1948-2003 | | | | Abstract: | The Alpha Omega Cleveland Alumni Chapter Women's Auxiliary was the Women's Auxiliary of the Alpha Omega Jewish dental fraternity, open to all wives and girlfriends of Alpha Omega fraternity members. The Cleveland branch of the Alpha Omega Women's Auxiliary promoted cultural, social, and philanthropic growth among its members, hosting fundraisers, meetings, parties, and an annual scholastic competition for Jewish dental students at Case Western Reserve University. The collection consists of agendas, board highlights, brochures, bylaws, correspondence, guidelines, lists, minutes, order forms, policies, proposals, receipt forms, reminders, reports, schedules, scrapbooks, scripts, and summaries from the activities of the Women's Auxiliary. | | | | Call #: | MS 5373 | | | | Extent: | 1.60 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Jewish dentists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Dentists -- Societies, etc.
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