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| | Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 61 | Title: | George Magoffin Humphrey Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Humphrey, George Magoffin | | | | Dates: | 1910-1959 | | | | Abstract: | George Magoffin Humphrey was the President of the M.A. Hanna Company, and United States Secretary of the Treasury (1953-1957). The collection consists of two albums, loose photographs, a notebook, and a booklet containing photographs related to the career of George M. Humphrey of Cleveland, Ohio. Included are portraits of Humphrey as a child, with President Dwight Eisenhower and various members of the Eisenhower administration, and with his wife, Pamela Stark Humphrey. Group photographs contain views of Eisenhower's second inauguration that include Vice President Richard M. Nixon; business associates of Humphrey; various ceremonies, receptions, and dinners attended by Humphrey and his wife; photographs of Humphrey receiving various honorary academic degrees at a number of institutions; Humphrey with Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain; and travel photographs, including several trips with President Eisenhower and other cabinet members. A booklet contains photographs and maps relating to the operation of the Iron Ore Company of Canada. Other loose photographs contain views of work on a railroad to the Scheffeville Mines Iron Ore Company, a ceremony marking the completion of that railroad line, and ceremonies marking the first passage of an iron ore cargo from Canada to Cleveland, Ohio through the St. Lawrence Seaway. | | | | Call #: | PG 064 | | | | Extent: | 1.00 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Humphrey, George M. (George Magoffin), b. 1890 -- Photograph collections. | Humphrey, Pamela Stark -- Photograph collections. | Humphrey family -- Photograph collections. | Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 -- Photograph collections. | Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913- -- Photograph collections. | Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926- -- Photograph collections. | Iron Ore Company of Canada -- Photograph collections. | Iron mines and mining -- Canada -- Photographs. | Iron industry and trade -- Canada -- Photographs. | Iron industry and trade -- United States -- Photographs. | Ore carriers -- Great Lakes -- Photographs. | Cabinet officers -- United States -- Photographs. | Presidents -- United States -- Photographs.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 63 | Title: | Frank A. Scott Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Scott, Frank Augustus | | | | Dates: | 1904-1930 | | | | Abstract: | Frank Augustus Scott (1873-1949) was a Cleveland, Ohio businessman and civic leader who was chairman of the Munitions Standards Board of the Council of National Defense and first chairman of the War Industries Board during World War I, as well as chairman of the board of Warner & Swasey Company. The collection consists of photographs depicting Scott, his friends and associates, and his travels connected to his studies of United States military preparedness. Included are views taken at Port Arthur, Russia, displaying damage inflicted on the city's fortifications during the 1905 Russo-Japanese War. | | | | Call #: | PG 066 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Scott, Frank Augustus, 1873-1949 -- Photograph collections. | Military readiness -- Photographs. | Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905 -- Photographs.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 65 | Title: | Ray Thomas Miller Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Miller, Ray Thomas | | | | Dates: | 1880-1965 | | | | Abstract: | Ray Thomas Miller (1893-1966) was a prominent lawyer, businessman and Democratic political leader in Cleveland, Ohio, who served as assistant law director (1922-1923), city prosecutor (1928), and Mayor (1932-1935). A major accomplishment of his administration was the relief of the city's homeless and unemployed through the acquisition of federal WPA funds and the establishment of such programs as the Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority, the Wayfarer's Lodge, and municipal kitchens. The collection consists of photograph albums, a scrapbook, photographs, and negatives relating to the family, life, and career of Ray T. Miller, of Cleveland, Ohio. Included are four albums entitled Official Photographs of the 37th Division A.E.F., published by the E.R. Kissenger Co., Columbus, Ohio. Photographs in the albums depict World War I scenes ca. 1917-1918. Another album contains snapshots of a Miller family trip (ca. 1900) to California and the Southwest, and include family group portraits, raliroad scenes, photographs of western Native Americans, and views of the Grand Canyon. Loose photographs include portraits of Ray T. Miller and Miller family members; individual and group photographs at Defiance High School, Defiance, Ohio; photographs depicting the University of Notre Dame, including Notre Dame football teams, individual portraits of Knute Rockne, and individual football players; and photographs of Ray T. Miller and other members of the 37th Division A.E.F. during World War I. The bulk of photographs depict the political career of Ray T. Miller, and include scenes of Democratic National Conventions (1940, 1944, and 1960); political campaigns, including the Miller gubernatorial campaign of 1948 and various presidential campaign functions for Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Adlai Stevenson, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson; and local Cleveland and Ohio Democratic Party political functions and personalities, including the Cuyahoga County Democratic Steer Roast at Euclid Beach Park, Jack P. Russell, Stephen M. Young, and Anthony Celebrezze, and views of Judge Manuel Levine swearing Ray T. Miller in as mayor of Cleveland. | | | | Call #: | PG 068 | | | | Extent: | 2.10 linear feet (8 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Miller, Ray T. (Ray Thomas), 1893-1966 -- Photograph collections. | Miller family -- Photograph collections. | Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 -- Photograph collections. | Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972 -- Photograph collections. | Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Photograph collections. | Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 -- Photograph collections. | Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965 -- Photograph collections. | Young, Stephen M. (Stephen Marvin), 1889-1984 -- Photograph collections. | Russell, Jack P. (Jack Paul), 1915-1979 -- Photograph collections. | Rockne, Knute, 1888-1931 -- Photograph collections. | Celebrezze, Anthony J. (Anthony Joseph), 1910-1998 -- Photograph collections. | Democratic Party (U.S.) -- Photograph collections. | Democratic Party (Cuyahoga County, Ohio) -- Photograph collections. | Defiance High School (Defiance, Ohio) -- Photograph collections. | University of Notre Dame -- Photograph collections. | Democratic National Convention -- Photograph collections. | Mayors -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Presidential candidates -- Photographs. | Political candidates -- Photographs. | Politicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | World War, 1914-1918 -- Photographs. | Political campaigns -- Photographs.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 66 | Title: | Paul Bellamy Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Bellamy, Paul | | | | Dates: | 1908-1955 | | | | Abstract: | Paul Bellamy (1884-1956) was an author, journalist, and editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer (1933-1954). He also served as president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and director of the Plain Dealer and Forest City Publishing Companies. The collection consists of photographs documenting the life, family, and career of Cleveland, Ohio, newspaper editor Paul Bellamy. Included are photographs of Paul Bellamy's birthplace, Paul Bellamy and the staff of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, ca. 1908-1911, and group photographs (ca. 1940-1955) picturing Bellamy and various other individuals, including Emma Augusta Sanderson Bellamy, Mrs. Paul Bellamy, Nat Howard, Louis Seltzer, Anthony Celebrezze, Robert P. Patterson, Herman L. Vail, Robert Bulkley, Gardner Cowles, Jr., Frank Hubbell, Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Peter Lawford, Irving Berlin, Carl Friebolin, Thomas A. Burke, Thomas Herbert, I.F. Freiberger, Warren Craves, and Eleanor Roosevelt. Also included is an album (ca. 1946) relating to the inaugural round-the-world flight by Pan American Airways on which Bellamy was a passenger. | | | | Call #: | PG 069 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Bellamy, Paul, 1884-1956 -- Photograph collections. | Bellamy family -- Photograph collections. | Plain Dealer (Firm) -- Photograph collections. | Pan American Airways Corporation -- Photograph collections. | Journalists -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Air travel -- Photographs.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 68 | Title: | Historic American Buildings Survey, District 22 Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Historic American Buildings Survey, District 22 | | | | Dates: | 1935-1940 | | | | Abstract: | The Historic American Buildings Survey was a national survey to record and catalog historic buildings. It began in 1934 as a federal make-work project to provide work for unemployed architects, draftsmen and photographers. It was initially funded and supervised by the Civil Works Administration and later supervised by the National Park Service, the American Institute of Architecture and the Library of Congress, with a combination of private and Works Progress Administration (WPA) funds. William A. Bohnard was the first Northern Ohio District Officer. The collection consists of photographs of historic buildings in northern Ohio taken under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration during the late 1930s. In most cases, the photographs are mounted in small pamphlets giving historical and structural information concerning the building. Historic buildings in the following northern Ohio communities are included: Akron, Ashland, Atwater, Aurora, Avon, Bath, Bentleyville, Brecksville, Bristolville, Burton, Chagrin Falls, Claridon, Cleveland, Colebrook, Copley, Deerfield, Dover, Findley, Fremont, Gates Mills, Hudson, Huntington, Ira, Jefferson, Kinsman, Kirtland, Lakewood, Limaville, McCuthonville, Mentor, Milan, Monroeville, Mt. Vernon, Newton Falls, North Bloomfield, North Bristol, North Lewisberg, North Olmstead, Northfield, Norwalk, Painesville, Parma, Parma Heights, Peninsula, Seville, Solon, Streetsboro, Tallmadge, Twinsburg, Unionville, Vermillion, Warren, Wellington, Waterville, Weymouth, Whitesburgh, Wooster, and Zoar. A card index to the buildings surveyed by the Historic American Buildings Survey in northern Ohio is also included. | | | | Call #: | PG 071 | | | | Extent: | 0.80 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Historic American Buildings Survey. District 22 -- Photograph collections. | Historic buildings -- Ohio -- Photographs. | Architecture, Domestic -- Ohio -- Photographs.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 69 | Title: | Charles W. White Photographs
| | | | Creator: | White, Charles W. | | | | Dates: | 1890-1966 | | | | Abstract: | Charles W. White (1897-1970) was a Cleveland, Ohio, African American attorney who became Assistant Law Director for Cleveland (1933-1955) and Common Pleas Court judge (1955-1970). He was active in African American rights organizations and civic affairs. The collection consists of photographs and negatives relating to the family, life, and career of Judge Charles W. White of Cleveland, Ohio. Family photographs include individual and group portraits of Judge White, wife Stella White, brothers Robert and Allen White, and daughter Lillian White, among others. Included with Judge White in political and non-family group portraits are Ralph Locher, Clayborne George, William O. Walker, Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., Howard Metzenbaum, Judge Paul White, Perry Jackson, Louis Seltzer, Anthony Celebrezze, Samuel Silbert, and Arthur Godfrey. | | | | Call #: | PG 072 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | White, Charles William, 1897-1970 -- Photograph collections. | White family -- Photograph collections. | Locher, Ralph S. (Ralph Sidney), 1915- -- Photograph collections. | George, Clayborne, 1888-1970 -- Photograph collections. | Walker, William O., 1896-1981 -- Photograph collections. | Davis, Benjamin O. (Benjamin Oliver), 1912- -- Photograph collections. | Metzenbaum, Howard M. -- Photograph collections. | White, Paul (Judge), -- Photograph collections. | Jackson, Perry B. (Perry Brooks), 1896- -- Photograph collections. | Seltzer, Louis Benson, 1897- -- Photograph collections. | Silbert, Samuel H., 1883-1976 -- Photograph collections. | Godfrey, Arthur, 1903-1983 -- Photograph collections. | Celebrezze, Anthony J. (Anthony Joseph), 1910-1998 -- Photograph collections. | Judges -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American judges -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 70 | Title: | Katherine P. Williamson Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Williamson, Katherine P. | | | | Dates: | 1950-1960 | | | | Abstract: | Katherine P. Williamson (1910-1964) was a Cleveland, Ohio, social worker who had a particular interest in improved housing for minority groups. She was a caseworker for the Cuyahoga County Child Welfare Dept., Family Life Coordinator for the Welfare Federation of Cleveland's Central Area Community Council, and Child Welfare Consultant, and later, Northeast Area Superior, for the Ohio Dept. of Public Welfare. The collection consists of photographs relating mainly to Katherine P. Williamson's work at Friendly Inn Social Settlement, Cleveland, Ohio. Includes photographs of various groups of African Americans at Friendly Inn Social Settlement, including senior citizens and arts and crafts groups. Also includes photographs relating to a Family Life and Health Month parade and fair held in Cleveland in 1957, sponsored by the Friendly Inn. Those pictured in the parade and fair photographs are: Anthony Celebrezze, Perry B. Jackson, William O. Walker, Russell Davis, Ethel Storey, Charles W. White, and George Theobald. | | | | Call #: | PG 073 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Williamson, Katherine P., 1910-1964 -- Photograph collections. | White, Charles William, 1897-1970 -- Photograph collections. | Jackson, Perry B. (Perry Brooks), 1896- -- Photograph collections. | Walker, William O., 1896-1981 -- Photograph collections. | Davis, Russell Howard, 1897-1976 -- Photograph collections. | Storey, Ethel -- Photograph collections. | Theobald, George -- Photograph collections. | Celebrezze, Anthony J. (Anthony Joseph), 1910-1998 -- Photograph collections. | Friendly Inn Social Settlement (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photograph collections. | Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Social service -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Social work with African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 71 | Title: | Phillis Wheatley Association Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Phillis Wheatley Association | | | | Dates: | 1930-1960 | | | | Abstract: | The Phillis Wheatley Association was a Cleveland, Ohio, self-help organization designed to help young African American women adjust to city life. It was organized in 1911 by Jane Edna Hunter and originally called the Working Girls Home Association. Services included a boarding house, homemaking classes, and recreational, literary and social activities. The collection consists of photographs relating to the activities carried on by this Cleveland, Ohio African American social service agency. Includes photographs, ca. 1930-1960, of unidentified individuals, various children's groups, and camping scenes. | | | | Call #: | PG 074 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Phillis Wheatley Association (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photograph collections. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. -- Photographs. | Social service -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Social work with African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 73 | Title: | Henry M. Albaugh Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Albaugh, Henry M. | | | | Dates: | 1900-1915 | | | | Abstract: | Henry M. Albaugh was a Cleveland, Ohio dentist and amateur photographer. The collection consists of candid photographs taken by Albaugh of various individuals, groups, and views of daily life and scenery, most unidentified but likely located in northern Ohio. Subjects include family groups on porches; parades; various forms of play and recreation, including ice skating, swimming, hunting, fishing, and horse racing; various forms of work and occupations, including maple syrup making, blacksmithing, ice harvesting, carpentry, photography, and spinning; unidentified towns and villages; unidentified structures, including bridges and homes, unidentified home interiors; various farms and farming scenes, including sheep sheering and herding, harvesting, and general farm life; and various landscape photographs, including the Rocky River at Fort Hill, and other unidentified lakes and rivers. Also included are printed calendars advertising Dr. Albaugh's dentistry practice and featuring his photography. | | | | Call #: | PG 076 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Albaugh, Harry M. -- Photograph collections. | Recreation -- Photographs. | Work -- Photographs. | Occupations -- Photographs. | Farms -- Photographs. | Agriculture -- Photographs. | Cities and towns -- Photographs. | Lakes -- Photographs. | Landscape photography -- Ohio. | Architecture, Domestic -- Photographs. | Rocky River (Ohio : River) -- Photographs.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 74 | Title: | Shaker Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Shaker Communities | | | | Dates: | 1860-1920 | | | | Abstract: | The Shakers were a religious communal society founded and originally led by Mother Ann Lee, who came to America from England in 1774. By 1826 communities were established throughout New England and the Midwest, as well as in Georgia and Florida. In 1911 Wallace H. Cathcart, Director of the Western Reserve Historical Society, began collecting Shaker memorabilia. |b See finding aid for complete history of the Shakers. The collection consists of ambrotypes; tintypes; photographs, including stereographs, carte de visites, and cabinet cards; postcards (black and white and color), negatives, and prints. Images include individual and group portraits of members of various Shaker communities and views of buildings, farms, work scenes, interiors, and general scenes depicting life at Shaker communities in the United States. Communities depicted include Alfred, Maine; Canterbury, New Hampshire; Enfield, Connecticut; Enfield, New Hampshire; Hancock, Massachusetts; Harvard, Massachusetts; Mt. Lebanon, New York; Sabbathday Lake, Maine, South Union, Kentucky; Union Village, Ohio; Watervliet, New York; Whitewater, Ohio; Groveland, New York; North Union, Ohio; Pleasant Hill, Kentucky; Shirley, Massachusetts; Tyringham, Massachusetts; Union Village, Ohio; White Oak, Georgia; and various mixed and unidentified communities. Most photographs are identified. | | | | Call #: | PG 077 | | | | Extent: | 4.70 linear feet (12 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Cabinet photographs. | Carte de visite photographs. | Collective settlements -- United States -- Photographs. | Shaker architecture -- United States -- Photographs. | Shaker women -- United States -- Photographs. | Shakers -- United States -- Photograph collections. | Stereoscopic views.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 75 | Title: | Clement E. Beard Photograph Album
| | | | Creator: | Beard, Clement E. | | | | Dates: | 1900-1910 | | | | Abstract: | Clement E. Beard was an electrical engineer and amateur photographer originally from Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of one photograph album containing 279 photographs, in black and white and some with hand-tinted color, relating to the family and work of Clement E. Beard. The album contains photographs taken mainly in Mexico; Cobalt, Canada; Cleveland, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; Niagara Falls, New York: and several views from scattered Ohio locations. The Mexican and Canadian photographs relate largely to Beard's work as an electrical engineer at various mining concerns, including the Cleveland Cobalt Company in Canada. Cleveland and Ohio photographs include views of Luna Park, the General Incandescent Lamp Company, Public Square, League Park, Mill Creek Park in Youngstown, and a view of the Beard family home in Columbiana County. | | | | Call #: | PG 078 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Beard, Clement E. -- Photograph collections. | Beard family -- Photograph collections. | Cleveland Cobalt Company -- Photograph collections. | General Incandescent Lamp Company (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photograph collections. | League Park (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photograph collections. | Luna Park (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photographs. | Public Square (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photographs. | Mill Creek Park (Youngstown, Ohio) -- Photographs. | Columbiana County (Ohio) -- Photographs.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 76 | Title: | James F. Lincoln Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Lincoln, James F. | | | | Dates: | 1870-1960 | | | | Abstract: | James Finney Lincoln (1883-1965) was the Executive Director of the Lincoln Electric Company of Cleveland, Ohio. He was a pioneer in the areas of arc welding and profit sharing. He also established the James Finney Lincoln Welding Foundation. The collection consists of unmounted photographs and negatives relating to James F. Lincoln and the Lincoln Electric Company of Cleveland, Ohio. Included are group photographs, most of which include James F. Lincoln, taken at the Lincoln Electric Company, Case Institute of Technology reunions, and Lincoln family vacations. The collection also includes one carte de visite photograph, possibly of a Lincoln family member, ca. 1870s. | | | | Call #: | PG 079 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Lincoln, James Finney, 1883-1965 -- Photograph collections. | Lincoln family. | Lincoln family -- Photograph collections. | Lincoln Electric Company -- Photograph collections. | Case Institute of Technology -- Photograph collections.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 78 | Title: | Margaret Bourke-White Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Bourke-White, Margaret | | | | Dates: | ca. 1928 | | | | Abstract: | The Margaret Bourke-White Photographs, ca. 1928, consist of 16 views of the buildings and grounds of Glenallen, the estate of Elisabeth Severance Allen Prentiss, who lived there with her first husband, Dr. Dudley Allen and her second husband, Francis F. Prentiss. It was located at 3505 Mayfield Road, Cleveland Heights, Ohio. The photographs are mounted on thin board stock and are signed by Bourke-White. | | | | Call #: | PG 081 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Bourke-White, Margaret, 1904-1971 -- Photograph collections. | Allen, Dudley Peter, 1852-1915 -- Homes and haunts -- Photograph collections. | Prentiss, Francis Fleury, 1858-1937 -- Homes and haunts -- Photograph collections.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 79 | Title: | Stone Family Photograph Album
| | | | Creator: | Stone Family | | | | Dates: | 1860-1875 | | | | Abstract: | Simon Stone came from England to America in 1635 with his wife, Joan Clarke, and their five children, Frances, Ann, Simon, Mary and John. They settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, where Stone took an active part in church and town affairs. The collection consists of one album containing individual portraits. Names of those pictured include Stone, Peirce, Wetherell, Edwards, Stedman, Woodworth, Hallock, Stevens, Fuller, Johnson, Paine, Hutchins, and Sabin. | | | | Call #: | PG 082 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Stone family -- Photograph collections. | Carte de visite photographs. | Cabinet photographs.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 80 | Title: | Franklin S. Terry Album
| | | | Creator: | Terry, Franklin S. | | | | Dates: | 1904-1906 | | | | Abstract: | Franklin S. Terry (1862-1926) was a business executive in the incandescent lamp industry with broad philanthropic interests related to World War I relief. Terry established the National Electric Lamp Association (NELA) with Burton G. Tremaine in 1901 in Cleveland, Ohio. Formed ostensibly as a consortium of small lamp makers in order to compete with industry giants such as General Electric and Westinghouse, NELA was found to be secretly and 75% financed by General Electric during a federal anti-trust suit in 1911. Terry served as vice president of GE and under his leadership Nela Park was built, one of the first campus-like research and production facilities in the United States. Terry's deep interest in World War I led to the establishment of the Nela Fund. Terry supported and corresponded with orphans and soldiers of the war, and acquired a large collection of posters, publications, and artifacts relating to the historical significance of World War I. The collection consists of an album containing photographs, drawings, programs, and memorabilia relating to the first to third annual conventions (1904-1906) of the national Electric Lamp Association, held respectively at Muskoka, Wisconsin; Montmorency Falls, Quebec, Canada; and Chautauqua, New York. Included are views of baseball, track and field events, fishing, boating, and other activities of convention participants. | | | | Call #: | PG 083 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Terry, Franklin S., 1862-1926 -- Photograph collections. | National Electric Lamp Association -- Photograph collections. | Electric lamp industry -- Photographs.
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