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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | 142 | Title: | Jewish Community Center of Cleveland Photographs
| | | Creator: | Jewish Community Center of Cleveland | | | Dates: | 1910-1960 | | | Abstract: | The Jewish Community Center of Cleveland was formed in 1948 by the merger of the Council Educational Alliance (est. 1899), Camp Wise (est. 1907), the Jewish Young Adult Bureau (est. 1939), and the Cultural Department of the Jewish Community Council (est. 1945), for the purpose of providing recreational social and cultural programs to Cleveland's Jewish community. By 1959 the center moved from Cleveland to the suburb of Cleveland Heights. The collection consists of photographs, negatives, and glass slides relating to the various functions, activities, and facilities of the Jewish Community Center of Cleveland, Ohio, and its members. Included are indoor events, such as dances, parties, and plays; outdoor activities including camp houses, recreation houses, and other buildings; photographs of the 50th anniversary party of the Jewish Community Center; and photographs of people, activities, and facilities at Camp Wise. | | | Call #: | PG 149 | | | Extent: | 1.00 linear feet (3 containers) | | | Subjects: | Jewish Community Center of Cleveland -- Photograph collections. | Camp Wise (Euclid, Ohio) -- Photograph collections. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. -- Photographs. | Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Recreation centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Jewish community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Jews -- Recreation -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Social life and customs -- Photographs.
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Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | 144 | Title: | Ella Grant Wilson Photographs
| | | Creator: | Wilson, Ella Grant | | | Dates: | 1880-1940 | | | Abstract: | Ella Grant Wilson (1854-1939) was a Cleveland, Ohio florist, publicist, journalist and author. She was founder of the Floral Syndicate, a publicity service which promoted conventions and other activities of interest to the floral industry and was garden editor of the Plain Dealer. Her series in the Sunday Plain Dealer, focusing on historic Cleveland led to her book, "Famous old Euclid Avenue", featuring anecdotes, history and biographies relating to the homes and personalities of "Millionaires' Row." The collection consists of photographs of flowers, floral arrangements, and floral displays. Included are many views of early homes of Cleveland, Ohio, and Cleveland area florists and florist operations and facilities. | | | Call #: | PG 151 | | | Extent: | 2.00 linear feet (5 containers) | | | Subjects: | Wilson, Ella Grant, 1854-1939 -- photograph collections. | Florists -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Floristry -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Flower arrangement -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Floral decorations -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | 145 | Title: | Troop A, First Cleveland Cavalry Photographs
| | | Creator: | Troop A, First Cleveland Cavalry | | | Dates: | 1877-1940 | | | Abstract: | Troop A was founded in 1877 as an independent military unit to defend against strikers and unruly mobs. It affiliated with the Ohio National Guard in 1877, formed part of the 1st Ohio Volunteer Cavalry in 1898, was absorbed into the 135th Field Artillery in 1918, and reorganized in 1920 as Troop A of the 107th Cavalry Regiment of the Ohio National Guard. It became part of the 107th Armored Cavalry Regiment in 1947. The Cleveland Gatling Gun Battery was also founded in 1877 to quell labor violence. It disbanded by 1905. The che collection consists of albums and loose photographs depicting the unit at outings, encampments, celebrations, and ceremonial services, including the inaugurations of Presidents William McKinley and William Howard Taft, and the funerals of President William McKinley, Senator Marcus A. Hanna, and U.S. Ambassador to France Myron T. Herrick. Locations depicted include Dover Bay, Ohio; Camps Perry, George Crook, McKinley, Beaumont, Nash, and other military camps in Ohio and other states; and in France during World War I. Also included are views of Troop A's Mexican border service in 1916. A large portion of the collection consists of numerous studio individual portraits of members of Troop A and the Cleveland Gatling Gun Battery. | | | Call #: | PG 152 | | | Extent: | 8.50 linear feet (7 containers) | | | Subjects: | Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930 -- Inauguration, 1909 -- Photograph collections. | McKinley, William, 1843-1901 -- Inauguration, 1897 -- Photograph collections. | Troop A (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photograph collections. | United States. Army. -- History -- Punitive expedition into Mexico, 1916 -- Photograph collections. | United States. Army. Field Artillery Regiment, 135th -- Photograph collections. | United States. Army. Ohio Cavalry Regiment, 1st -- Photograph collections. | World War, 1914-1918 -- Photographs. | United States -- Armed Forces -- Reserves -- Photographs. | United States -- Militia -- Photographs. | United States -- History, Military -- Photographs. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- History, Military -- Photographs.
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Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | 147 | Title: | Bellefaire Photographs
| | | Creator: | Bellefaire | | | Dates: | 1870-1970 | | | Abstract: | Bellefaire was organized in 1868 in Cleveland, Ohio, as the Jewish Orphan Asylum. By 1942 it changed its name to Bellefaire and began specializing in the treatment of emotionally disturbed children. The collection consists of individual portraits, including staff and superintendents; and group portraits, including general outdoor recreation; swimming activities; baseball, football, and basketball; fairs and circuses; reunions; plays, music, and art activities; interior and exterior views of the Jewish Orphan Asylum and Bellefaire buildings; and Cherry Farm and Camp Wise. Tintypes, carte de visite, and cabinet card photographs are included. | | | Call #: | PG 154 | | | Extent: | 3.60 linear feet (9 containers and 2 oversize folders) | | | Subjects: | Bellefaire Jewish Children's Home (Shaker Heights, Ohio) -- Photograph collections. | Jewish Orphan Asylum (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photograph collections. | Camp Wise (Euclid, Ohio) -- Photograph collections. | Children -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Jewish orphanages -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities -- Photographs. | Jewish orphanages -- Ohio -- Shaker Heights -- Photographs. | Jewish children -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Orphanages -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Tintype. | Carte de visite photographs. | Cabinet photographs.
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Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | 148 | Title: | Ford and White Family Photographs
| | | Creator: | Ford and White Family | | | Dates: | 1860-1950 | | | Abstract: | The families of Thomas White and Andrew Ford resided in Massachusetts in the mid-1600s. Their descendants migrated to Cleveland, Ohio, where Ella White married Horatio Ford in 1908. The collection consists of individual and group portraits, and views, including tintypes, porcelain prints, carte de visites, and other types of photographic media, depicting the White, Ford, Moulton, and Thorp families of Cleveland, Ohio. | | | Call #: | PG 155 | | | Extent: | 0.80 linear feet (2 containers) | | | Subjects: | Ford, Ella White -- Photograph collections. | White family -- Photograph collections. | Ford family -- Photograph collections. | Thorp family -- Photograph collections. | Moulton family -- Photograph collections. | Carte de visite photographs. | Cabinet photographs. | Tintype.
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Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | 150 | Title: | Ben B. Wickham Photographs
| | | Creator: | Wickham, Ben B. | | | Dates: | 1910-1920 | | | Abstract: | Ben B. Wickham was the Law Director of Cleveland, Ohio (1916-1917) who was associated with the Van Sweringen brothers and their acquisition of land used for the construction of the Terminal Tower and the development of the Shaker Heights area. The collection consists of one photograph album containing photographs of railroad yards and proposed construction sites for bridges and other excavations in Cleveland, Ohio. The first six pages are used to sequentially represent the blueprints of a proposed Cleveland and Youngstown Railroad route through the east side of Cleveland to Shaker Heights. | | | Call #: | PG 157 | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | Subjects: | Wickham, Ben B., -- Photograph collections. | Cleveland & Youngstown Railroad -- Photograph collections. | Railroads -- Design and construction -- Photographs.
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Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | 152 | Title: | Lakeland Freeway Photographs
| | | Creator: | Cleveland Press | | | Dates: | 1947-1970 | | | Abstract: | The Lakeland Freeway is a limited-access freeway in the northeastern suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio. It runs with and parallel to Interstate 90 and State Route 2, and follows the shore of Lake Erie, linking the suburban areas of Lake County to Cleveland and Cuyahoga County. It passes through Cleveland, Euclid, Wickliffe, Willowick, Willoughby, Eastlake, Mentor, Painesville, and Painesville Township. The collection consists of photographs of the location and construction of the Lakeland Freeway, Cleveland, Ohio. | | | Call #: | PG 159 | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | Subjects: | Express highways -- Ohio -- Photographs. | Roads -- Ohio -- Design and construction -- Photographs. | Interstate 90 -- Photographs.
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Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | 156 | Title: | Abraham Lincoln Nebel Photographs
| | | Creator: | Nebel, Abraham Lincoln | | | Dates: | 1860-1965 | | | Abstract: | Abraham Nebel was an amateur historian whose interest in the Jewish community was prompted by a desire to learn more about his wife's family, the Richard's, who had been living in Cleveland for several generations. As his research progressed on the Richard family, Nebel began acquiring material on other prominent Jewish families. The collection consists of photographs, prints, and negatives of Nebel, his family, and friends. Also included are photographs of prominent Jews from the Cleveland, Ohio area. | | | Call #: | PG 163 | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | Subjects: | Nebel, Abraham Lincoln, 1891-1973 -- Photograph collections. | Nebel family -- Photograph collections. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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