http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/search?keyword%3Dcivil%20war;smode%3Dadvanced;f1-format%3DPhotograph%20Collection Results for your query: keyword=civil war;smode=advanced;f1-format=Photograph Collection Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG178.xml Ada Watterson Yerkes (1873-1963) was related to three families who settled early in the Western Reserve. The Harper family came from New York in 1798 and founded Harpersfield, Ohio. The Norton family came from New York before 1839 when Ada Yerkes' maternal grandparents were married in Harpersfield. The Watterson family came from England in 1826 and settled in Warrensville, Ohio. Various family members served in the Civil War and were active in a number of business ventures, including the Gardner Gun Company of London, England and the Ogleby-Norton Company of Cleveland. The collection consists of photographs relating to the Harper, Norton, and Watterson families. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG178.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG063.xml Adella Prentiss Hughes (1869-1950) was a musical impresario and founder and manager of the Cleveland Orchestra. Her grandparents, Benjamin and Rebecca Rouse, were leaders in various charitable and religious institutions in Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of one album containing clippings, some manuscript items, and primarily photographs, relating to the family of Adella Prentiss Hughes of Cleveland, Ohio. Included are portraits of Benjamin and Rebecca Cromwell Rouse, grandparents of Adella Prentiss Hughes; E. C. Rouse; Margaret Miller; Mary Miller Rouse; and H. C. Rouse. Also included are views of the birthplace of Henry Clark Rouse at 489 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio; the Miller Block at 193-195 Superior Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio; and the United Brass Company Works, Lorain, Ohio. Loose photographs include views of the liner Westernland, and travel photographs taken of various sites in Europe. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG063.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG112.xml Alexander Bunts was a Cleveland, Ohio, neurosurgeon, amateur historian, and Trustee of the Western Reserve Historical Society. He traced his descent from Virgil C. Taylor, an American Civil War soldier and Cleveland realtor, and from Levi Johnson, an early settler of Cleveland. The collection consists of photographs and albums of activities, friends, and members of the Bunts family of Cleveland, Ohio. Included are various scenic and vacation views, home interiors, group portraits, and individual portraits. Other families whose photographs are contained in the collection include the Shafer, Barnhisel-Harmon, Johnson, Sacket, Rumbaugh, and Taylor families. Vacation destinations depicted include Hot Springs, North Carolina; Block Island, Rhode Island; Mackinac Island, Michigan; Niagara on the Lake, New York; Salt Lake City, Utah; Evanston, Illinois; Brandon, Ohio; Mt. Washington, New Hampshire; and Cheneaux Island, Canada. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG112.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG211.xml Anna Wing (ca. 1837-?), born in Ohio, was married to Cyrus Fernando Wing (d. 1865) in Sandusky County, Ohio, in 1859. Cyrus Fernando Wing died during the American Civil War while serving with the 72nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Their daughter, Anna E. Wing Mowry (ca. 1860-?) was married to Richard E. Mowry (1858-1904) of Sandusky County, Ohio. The collection consists of individual portraits of identified and unidentified family members and friends of the Anna Wing family of Ohio. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG211.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG490.xml Anna Wing (ca. 1837-?), born in Ohio, was married to Cyrus Fernando Wing (d. 1865) in Sandusky County, Ohio, in 1859. Cyrus Fernando Wing died during the American Civil War while serving with the 72nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Their daughter, Anna E. Wing Mowry (ca. 1860-?) was married to Richard E. Mowry (1858-1904) of Sandusky County, Ohio. The collection consists of a photograph album containing albumen prints and tintypes and loose photographs of portraits of members of the Wing and Mowry families, as well as unidentified portraits and views. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG490.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG070.xml Asa A. Lawrence (1835-1916) was a Captain in the 32nd Regiment, Missouri Infantry, during the American Civil War. He was later active in the Freedman's Bureau and in Maryland Republican Party politics. The collection consists of unidentified individual and group portraits, and geographical views possibly of Columbus and Berea, Ohio, the Rocky River, and unidentified locations. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG070.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG130.xml The collection consists of photographs relating to the Herrick family of Cleveland, Ohio. Included are views of Herrick family homes, various family members, and photographs relating to Troop A. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG130.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG154.xml 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. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG154.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG571.xml Bellefaire, a residential treatment center for emotionally disturbed adolescents, is the oldest Jewish social-service agency in Cleveland, Ohio. It was dedicated on July 14, 1868 as the Jewish Orphan Asylum, established to care for Civil War orphans. By 1900, more than 400 orphans lived there. The name was changed to the Jewish Orphan Home (JOH) in 1919, and later to Bellefaire when its facilities moved to the corner of Belvoir and Fairmount boulevards in 1929. In 1942 the orphanage changed its focus to include residential therapeutic care for emotionally disturbed children and stopped accepting orphans in 1943. In 1954, Bellefaire opened its admissions to children of all faiths and today provides counseling, substance abuse treatment, foster care, adoption services, and residential treatment. The Jewish Orphan Home Alumni Association was established in 1888 to serve and connect the orphans who formerly lived at the Jewish Orphan Home. The Association held Homecomings each year in Cleveland and had several ac... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG571.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG540.xml The Bole Family traces its ancestry to Robert Bole (1818-1891) and Euphemia Bole (Kirkpatrick, birth and death dates unknown). They had five children: Joseph Kirkpatrick (1848-1894), John Clark, Mary (Mame), Allen, and Robert. The donors of the collection are descendents of Joseph Kirkpatrick Bole and Melinda Eliza Bole (Patterson, 1850-1918). Joseph and Melinda had seven children. The majority of the material is related to their second son, Joseph "Joe" Kirkpatrick Bole (1876-1952), and his wife's, Winifred Ely Bole (Ely, 1881-1976), line of descendents. Joe Bole attended Cornell University and was an avid golfer and fisherman. The collection consists of candid photos, professional portraits, and wedding photos. The collection contains 506 photos with three in color and 503 in black and white. The media types included in the photo group are albumens, cabinet cards, glass negatives, negatives, postcards, and tintypes. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG540.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG612.xml The Cleveland Picture File I is a collection of black and white and color photographs that depict scenes in Cleveland, Ohio, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The photographs include views of amusement parks, banquets, bridges, buildings, businesses, celebrations, cemeteries, churches and synagogues, clubs, colleges and universities, conventions, convents and seminaries, court proceedings, disasters, fairs and exhibitions, fire departments, the Flats, hospitals, hotels and inns, housing developments, immigrants and naturalization, industry, labor unions, lakefront and the harbor, libraries, life cycle events, lighthouses, markethouses and malls, the military and military units, monuments, museums, music and musicians, parades, parks, the police department, political campaigns and elections, Public Square, radio and television, recreation, residences, riots/demonstrations/strikes, rivers/streams/brooks, schools (both public and private), social service agencies/charities, sports, streets, taverns, th... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG612.xml Sun, 01 Jan 2023 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG249.xml The Congregational Union of Cleveland Churches was organized in 1853, as the Cleveland Congregational Conference, to oversee the organization of new churches and the mergers of existing churches in Cleveland, Ohio, and to provide financial assistance. In 1912 it merged with the City Missionary Society to form the Congregational Union of Cleveland. In 1963 the Union was merged into the Western Reserve Association of the United Church of Christ. The collection consists of views of the member churches, officers, and activities of the Congregational Union of Cleveland Churches, of Cleveland and northeastern Ohio. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG249.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG061.xml John Devereux was a sea captain of Marblehead, Massachusetts. John H. Devereux was a Civil War officer, engineer, railroad executive, and philanthropist, of Cleveland, Ohio. Henry K. Devereux was an engineer, real estate agent, industrialist, philanthropist, and harness-horse fancier, of Cleveland. The collection consists of five albums, unmounted photographs, and stereographs relating to the life and interests of various Devereux family members of Cleveland, Ohio. In addition to many individual portraits of Devereux family members and friends, the collection includes group portraits of the Cleveland Gatling Gun Battery; various coaching groups; gatherings at North Randall and Wickliffe, Ohio; and horses, drivers, and harness racing. Included are stereographs (ca. 1890-1910) of the Devereux farm in the South, the Medina County, Ohio, fair (1910), and the North Randall, Ohio race track. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG061.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG245.xml Dudley J. Hard (1872-1950) was a Cleveland, Ohio, businessman and soldier. He was a member of Cleveland's Troop A, serving with the First Squadron Ohio Cavalry during the Mexican border dispute of 1916-17, and with the 135th Field Artillery in France during World War I, commanding the unit from Aug. 1917 to Apr. 1919. He retired a brigadier general in 1936. His father, Curtis V. Hard, of Wooster, Ohio, served as a colonel in the 8th Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Cuban campaign of 1898. The collection consists of portraits of Colonel Dudley J. Hard and views of Troop A, the 8th Ohio Cavalry, the 107th Cavalry, and the 135th Field Artillery Regiment at various camps and during the Spanish American War, World War I, Mexican border duty, and in the 1920s and 1930s. Also included are views of President William McKinley's funeral in Canton, Ohio, 1901, and unidentified strikers, ca. 1920. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG245.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG107.xml Earle Levan Johnson (1895-1947) was an Ohio state representative who became national commander of the Civil Air Patrol during World War II. The collection consists of photographs and albums relating to the career and family and friends of Colonel Earle Johnson. Included are numerous photographs reflecting Johnson's career with the Civil Air Patrol. Also included are scenes depicting cadet training at Smyrna Army Airfield, Tennessee, during World War II. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG107.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG603.xml The Early Settlers Association of the Western Reserve is a Cleveland, Ohio, social organization for descendants of early settlers of the Western Reserve. Established in 1879 as the Early Settlers Association of Cuyahoga County, the organization has supported a variety of historical and civic projects. The collection consists of 1,580 photographs, negatives, and slides. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG603.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG044.xml Edgar Decker was one of Cleveland, Ohio's, most prominent photographers. He opened a studio in 1859, and moved his business to Euclid Avenue in 1883. Decker photographed many of the business, political, and society elite of Cleveland over a 40 year period. He also photographed presidents of the United States, statesmen, soldiers, and other famous persons of the time. Decker was elected president of the National Photographic Association in 1887, and was also involved in Cleveland politics, serving on City Council from 1878-1882. His business was taken over by his protege, George Edmondson. The collection consists of one album containing photographs taken by Edgar Decker. The album came into the hands of George Edmundson when he purchased Decker's business. Photographs are primarily of Cleveland, Ohio's, business, political, and society elite. Photographs of many women are included. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG044.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG323.xml Ethelinda Griswold Rice Free, daughter of Joseph and Juliet Boalt Rice of Ohio, spent most of her life gathering materials related to her family's history. She was descended from prominent families in the Western Reserve and New England. The collection consists of individual and group portraits of Ethelinda Free, her immediate family, friends, and ancestors; and views of their travels and residences in the Western Reserve of Ohio. Included are photographs relating to members of the Free, Rice, Hulburt, Boalt, and Griswold families. There are also several photographs of Jay Cooke and Lucy (Mrs. Rutherford B.) Hayes. Included are photographs and notes describing the Ashtabula, Ohio, harbor ca. 1870 and notes and a drawing describing the Great Lakes ships Wend-the-Wave and Snow-Drop. Includes tintype, carte de visite, and cabinet card photographs. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG323.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG155.xml 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. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG155.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG066.xml 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. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG066.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG203.xml 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 portraits of Frank A. Scott and his family, and views of their trip through England in 1909. The photographs made in England were used in Mrs. Bertha Scotts' journal published by Frank A. Scott in 1914 as A Motor Jaunt Through England, with a Digression into France. Negatives have been removed to glass and nitrate negative storage. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG203.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG088.xml Stanley G. Lockwood moved from Connecticut to Painesville, Ohio, where he opened a general store, in 1835. His sons, George D. and John S., continued the firm. In 1856 George moved to Davenport, Iowa and opened another store, Livingston and Lockwood. During the American Civil War he was an officer in Companies D and I of the 7th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment. His brother, Stanley B., served in Company G. of the 2nd Ohio Volunteer Cavalry Regiment and in Company K of the 105th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment. The collection consists of individual and group portraits of various members of the Lockwood and related families. Also included are three albums. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG088.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG064.xml 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 I... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG064.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG442.xml The collection consists of views of activities of the Union Army in South Carolina during the American Civil War. Included are views of Folly Island, Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, Lighthouse Inlet, and Morris Island. The bulk of the material depicts scenes from the siege of Charleston, particularly of Folly and Morris Islands. Included are views of various artillery batteries used and army buildings. The photographs were thought to have been taken by Lt. Philip Haas and Mr. Washington Peale, whose personal histories are unknown. The collection was acquired in 1912 by William P. Palmer for the Western Reserve Historical Society. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG442.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG574.xml The Halle Brothers Company (1891-1982), a department store known for high quality merchandise and superior service, began on February 7, 1891 as a small hat and fur shop operated by brothers Samuel H. (1868-1954) and Salmon P. Halle (1866-1949). It was located at 221 Superior Street near Public Square in Cleveland, Ohio. They purchased the business from Captain T. S. Paddock. In 1893 the business was moved to Euclid Avenue and East 4th Street due to a need for more space. It was also around this time that women's ready to wear clothing began to be carried by the store. In 1902 the company was incorporated, changing its name from Halle Brothers to The Halle Bros. Co. The store continued to grow, adding both space and departments. A new building was constructed at Euclid and East 12th Street where the company moved in 1910. An addition was opened in 1914 allowing for the addition of new departments including furniture, toys, and sporting goods. In 1921 Salmon P. Halle resigned as president to devote himself to ... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG574.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG324.xml Henry P. Moore (1833-1911) was a professional photographer from New Hampshire who operated primarily at Hilton Head, South Carolina, during 1862-1863, where he chiefly took views of the Third New Hampshire Regiment during the American Civil War. The collection consists of views of Civil War forts, hospitals, plantations, camp scenes, naval ships, military buildings, and headquarters, primarily at Hilton Head, South Carolina, and also at other South Carolina and Georgia islands. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG324.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG164.xml Henry Thomas Tanaka (1922-2006) was the national president of the Japanese American Citizens' League. A second generation Japanese American, Tanaka was born in Oregon, placed in an internment camp during World War II and subsequently resettled in Cleveland, Ohio, where he became a leader in Japanese American affairs. The collection consists of photographs of Henry T. Tanaka and various members and activities of the Japanese American Citizens League of Cleveland, Ohio. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG164.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG365.xml The collection consists of photographs depicting Cleveland, Ohio, Jewish leaders and institutions used to illustrate the second edition of the History of the Jews of Cleveland by Lloyd P. Gartner, published by the Western Reserve Historical Society in 1987. Included are views of synagogues that existed in Cleveland from the mid-19th century, and portraits of the rabbis who led them. Also included are views of Jewish-operated stores and shops, including the Levy and Stearn Department store. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG365.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG497.xml James Abram Garfield (1831-1881) was the twentieth president of the United States. He grew up in Orange, Ohio, graduated from Williams College in 1856, became president of Hiram College in Portage County, Ohio, and was a lay minister of the Disciples of Christ Church. He was elected to the Ohio Senate, and in 1858, married Lucretia Rudolph. Garfield served in the Civil War, as a lieutenant-colonel of the 42nd Ohio regiment. He was a major general when he resigned in 1863 to take a seat in the United States House of Representatives, where he served for 17 years. Nominated in 1880 as a compromise Republican presidential candidate, his campaign was conducted from Lawnfield, his Mentor, Ohio, home. Garfield was shot on July 2, 1881, and died September 19. He was survived by his widow, Lucretia Garfield, and by his children; Mary, who married his former secretary, Joseph Stanley-Brown, Irvin McDowell, Harry Augustus, who became president of Williams College, James Rudolph, a Cleveland attorney, Republican politici... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG497.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG059.xml The Jeptha Home Wade family was a prominent nineteenth and early twentieth century Cleveland, Ohio, family with business interests in the telegraph and railroad industries, mining, manufacturing, and banking. Jeptha Homer Wade spent his early life as an apprentice to a tanner and as a carpenter. He next turned his interest to the emerging telegraph industry. In 1849, he organized the Cleveland and Cincinnati Telegraph Company. In 1857, Wade moved to Cleveland as the Western Union Telegraph Company's first general agent. His business interests were extensive in Cleveland, including the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company and the Citizens Savings and Loan Association. Randall Palmer Wade worked with his father in the telegraph business, moving with him to Cleveland in 1857. His business interests included the Cuyahoga Mining Company; the Citizens Savings and Loan Association; the Cleveland Banking Company; the American Sheet and Boiler Plate Company, and the Chicago and Atchison Bridge Company. Jeptha Homer Wade II ... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG059.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG597.xml The Wade family was a prominent nineteenth and early twentieth century Cleveland, Ohio, family with business interests in the telegraph and railroad industries, mining, manufacturing, and banking. Jeptha Homer Wade spent his early life as an apprentice to a tanner and as a carpenter. He next turned his interest to the emerging telegraph industry. In 1849, he organized the Cleveland and Cincinnati Telegraph Company. In 1857, Wade moved to Cleveland as the Western Union Telegraph Company's first general agent. His business interests were extensive in Cleveland, including the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company and the Citizens Savings and Loan Association. Randall Palmer Wade worked with his father in the telegraph business, moving with him to Cleveland in 1857. His business interests included the Cuyahoga Mining Company; the Citizens Savings and Loan Association; the Cleveland Banking Company; the American Sheet and Boiler Plate Company, and the Chicago and Atchison Bridge Company. Jeptha Homer Wade II also worked ... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG597.xml Fri, 01 Jan 2016 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG186.xml The exhibit, "Heritage: Jewish Life in Cleveland, 1839-1978," commemorated the 75th anniversary of the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland, Ohio, and was mounted at the Western Reserve Historical Society in 1978. It was organized by Judah Rubinstein. The collection consists of mounted exhibit photographs copied from originals held by private individuals, the Western Reserve Historical Society, and other repositories. Many of the photographs are reproduced in the book Merging Traditions: Jewish Life in Cleveland, by Sidney Vincent and Judah Rubinstein. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG186.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG189.xml Post 14 of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States was organized in 1919 in Cleveland, Ohio, and admitted to the national organization in 1925. The Jewish War Veterans is the oldest active veterans society in the United States It was formed in 1896 as the Hebrew Union Veterans and merged with the Jewish Veterans of the War with Spain in 1920 to form the present organization. Post 14 activities have included social and charitable activities, lobbying for civil rights, and combating anti-Semitism. The collection consists of photographs and negatives relating to Jewish War Veteran members and activities in Cleveland, Ohio; including individual and group portraits, ceremonies, parades, hospital scenes, and the Cultural Gardens memorial. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG189.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG550.xml John Otis Wattles (d. 1859) was a radical Hicksite Quaker and an ardent abolitionist. With his brother Augustus, John founded the Prairie Home Community in Logan County, Ohio; the Clermont/Excelsior, Ohio, utopian community; and, later, the town of Moneka, Kansas. John married Esther Whinery, an elementary school teacher, in 1844. The Wattles brothers and Esther actively defended John Brown. They continued to promote abolitionism and utopian communal living until John Wattles' death in 1859. Esther and her three daughters then returned from Kansas to Oberlin, Ohio, where the girls attended Oberlin College. Esther died in Coconut Grove, Florida, in 1908. The collection consists of 2 daguerreotypes, 2 ambrotypes, and 28 black and white photographs. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG550.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG340.xml Joseph L. Weinberg (1890-1977) was a prominent Cleveland, Ohio, architect and senior partner of Weinberg, Teare, Fischer, Herman. Weinberg became involved with urban renewal efforts with his design of Lakeview Terrace in Cleveland in 1934. Edith L. Weinberg (1902-1987) was a program director at the Young Men's and Women's Hebrew Association in Pittsburgh (1926-1933) and was a leader in many Jewish and community service organizations. Her mother, Stella S. Lazarus was secretary at the Jewish Orphan Asylum in Cleveland, Ohio (1923-1933). The collection consists of individual and group portraits of Joseph and Edith Weinberg, including family members and activities, and with others. Group portraits include a photograph of Joseph Weinberg with Eleanor Roosevelt at Lakeview Terrace. Views include events such as the ground breaking ceremony of Lakeview Terrace; meetings, dinners and luncheons; aerial views of the Lakeview Terrace housing project; Weinberg family residences; Council Gardens in Cleveland Heights; and... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG340.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG176.xml Warren Lane was a Berea, Ohio farmer and storekeeper. His son, Charles F., was Mayor of Berea (1900-02) and an Ohio state representative (1904-05). In 1878 Charles married Delia, the daughter of James Wheller, a shoemaker in Cuyahoga and Lorain counties. The collection consists of one carte de visite album and four loose photographs relating to members of the Lane and Wheller families. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG176.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG093.xml The collection consists of individual and group portraits of the descendants of Levi Johnson, including various members of the Johnson, Bunts, Taylor, and other related families. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG093.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG097.xml Levi T. Scofield was an architect in Cleveland, Ohio. In addition to designing several asylums for the insane in Ohio, the North Carolina State Penitentiary, the reformatory at Mansfield, Ohio, the Schofield Building in downtown Cleveland, private residences, and public schools; he was the architect and chief proponent of the Cuyahoga County (Ohio) Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, located on Public Square in Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of of photographs, daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, stereoviews, sketches, cabinet card photographs, glass mound prints, and albums, of members of the Scofield family of Cleveland, Ohio. It includes many architectural and building views, the Soldiers and Sailors Monument, and some novelty photographs. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG097.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG439.xml Louis Van Oeyen (1865-1946) was the first photographer hired as staff on a Cleveland, Ohio, newspaper, and a pioneer in many techniques and activities of photojournalism. Van Oeyen was hired as a Cleveland Press photographer in 1901, after his photographs of the water intake explosion disaster in Lake Erie, and the assassination of President William McKinley, were published in the Press. During his career at the Press, he shot portraiture, politics, disaster, crime, scandal, and sports photographs. His greatest love was baseball, and he became official photographer for the American League in 1908, and for the World Series until 1922. Van Oeyen also helped test new photographic equipment, most notably the General Electric flash bulb in 1938. He assisted other photographers at the beginning of their careers, including Margaret Bourke-White and Herman Seid. Van Oeyen died in 1946. The collection consists of photographs and negatives taken by photographer Louis Van Oeyen before and during his career as a Clevela... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG439.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG006.xml Marcus Alonzo Hanna (1837-1904) was prominent businessman, Republican political leader, and United States Senator. Born in New Lisbon, Ohio, his family settled in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1852. Hanna transformed his father-in-law's coal and iron company into the M. A. Hanna Company and owned several railroads and electric streetcar lines. Active in Republican politics, Hanna was instrumental in presidential campaigns of William McKinley. The collection consists of one black album containing 17 photographs of Marcus A. Hanna in various groups. Included in several of the photographs is Theodore Roosevelt. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG006.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG598.xml Mt. Zion Congregational Church was founded on September 11, 1864, when nineteen men and women formally gathered in Plymouth Church on Prospect Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio. The predominantly African American congregation has moved many times throughout its history, including locations downtown, in the Central and Fairfax neighborhoods, and its current location (2014) in University Circle. Mt. Zion's congregation played a significant role in the settlement of freed slaves in Cleveland after the Civil War, the founding of the Cleveland Chapter of the National Association of Colored People (NAACP), and the founding of Eliza Bryant Village. The collection consists of approximately 300 black and white and color photographs depicting church activities. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG598.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG028.xml The 14th Ohio Independent Battery was an artillery battery that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was organized in 1861 in Cleveland, Ohio for a three year enlistment under Captain Jerome Burrows. The Ohio Artillery, 14th Battery Association Photograph Album consists of one album in a brown wooden hinged box labeled, "14th Ohio Battery Association." http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG028.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG065.xml Orlando Charles Risdon was a Union officer from Ohio who organized and commanded the 53rd Colored Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War. In March 1865 he became a brevet brigadier general. The collection consists of one carte de visite photograph album, containing portraits of Civil War Union Army officers. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG065.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG428.xml Peter Henry Kaiser (1840-1929) was a Cleveland, Ohio, lawyer who grew up in the Dutch Valley area of Tuscarawas County, Ohio. He was an amateur historian and wrote numerous short stories about his childhood home in Tuscarawas County. His second wife, Beza (Boynton) Kaiser, also wrote stories about the early history of Tuscarawas County. Their children were Ella Kaiser Carruth and John Boynton Kaiser. The collection consists of individual and group portraits of Kaiser and others, including the first grade class at Outhwaite School (1887), Kaiser in his law office in Cleveland, Ohio (ca. 1900), and the dedication of a monument (1927). http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG428.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG325.xml Samuel A. Cooley, a resident of Beaufort, South Carolina, was an entrepreneur, photographer, and merchant. The collection consists of views taken by Samuel A. Cooley in the Sea Islands of Georgia and South Carolina, and in Jacksonville, Florida, during the American Civil War. The photographs depict daily life in the region during Federal occupation of the Sea Islands and the commercial blockade and siege of Charleston and Savannah. Cooley worked with stereographic cameras, but the negatives were later separated and processed as individual prints. Included are views of institutions, churches, residences, landscapes, hospitals, and military personnel and equipment. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG325.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG101.xml Theodore Yale Gardner (1841-1900) was a Presbyterian and Congregationalist minister who was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and served several congregations throughout Ohio's Western Reserve. The collection consists of one carte de visite photograph album containing portraits of various members of the Theodore Yale Gardner family. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG101.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG358.xml the collection consists of disassembled photograph albums containing images pertaining to the American Civil War. Included are images of battles and battlefields, including troops, headquarters, entrenchments, and buildings; transportation, including bridges, railroads, and supply methods; guns and artillery; camps and camp life; military and field hospitals; forts; gunboats, warships, and other views of the Navy; civilian scenes, including cities and towns, courthouses, sanitary fairs, hospitals, churches, and depots; and cemeteries. Some of the photographs were taken by Mathew B. Brady (ca. 1822-1896) and Alexander Gardner (1821-1882). http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG358.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG606.xml William Henry Jackson (1843-1942) was a photographer, painter, and veteran of the American Civil War. He was well known for his images of the American West. The collection consists of 10 color photochrom images of Cleveland, Ohio, published by the Detroit Photographic Company. The images include The Arcade, the Armory of the Ohio National Guard, the Garfield Memorial at Lakeview Cemetery, the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument on Public Square, the Cleveland Harbor from Lake View Park, a waterfall at Wade Park, the American Steel and Wire Company Plant, ore being unloaded at Cleveland Harbor, a view of Wade Park, and the Steamer City of Erie of the Cleveland and Buffalo Line. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG606.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG087.xml The Cleveland, Ohio, branch of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is the local branch of an international civic and social organization for men and boys. It was established in 1854 and quickly expanded to include numerous branches throughout the Cleveland area which offer a full range of community, recreational and educational activities. The collection consists of photographs of YMCA functions, facilities, and past presidents and other officials. Includes loose photographs and 2 unbound scrapbooks. Photographs include the Fenn Hall and Central YMCA buildings, the Lakewood West Side and the Collinwood branches; East End photographs, photographs of a YMCA building being built, various unidentified group portraits, and one photo of Billy Sunday and Douglas Fairbanks playing baseball for the YMCA. Activities pictured include swimming, athletics, camping, and classes. Many interior views of YMCA facilities are included. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG087.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG050.xml Zenas Ball moved from New Jersey to a farm in Knox County, Ohio in 1819. His son Aaron was the father of Webb C. and F. Grant Ball. Webb C. was the owner of the Webb. C. Ball Co. and the Ball Time Inspection Service. F. Grant was a jeweler, violin maker and family historian of the Ball International Union. The collection consists of five albums and unmounted photographs of the Ball family. Included are views of the Ball Farm, the Zenas Ball Homestead, and various groups of individuals at these locations. Also included are engraving plates of Webb C. Ball and Sidney Ball. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG050.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT