| | Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 121 | Title: | Pickands, Mather and Company Records
| | | | Creator: | Pickands, Mather and Company | | | | Dates: | 1889-1969 | | | | Abstract: | Pickands, Mather and Company was a Cleveland, Ohio-based mining and shipping firm; a major supplier of iron ore and coal to the steel industry, with one of the largest fleets of freight carriers on the Great Lakes. It originated with founders Samuel Mather, Jay Morse, and James S. Pickands in 1883. To meet its ore transport demands, the firm formed the Interlake Steamship Company in 1913, which became the second largest fleet on the Great Lakes. By the 1920s, the company was the one of the largest producers of iron ore in the U.S. In 1929 a subsidiary, the Interlake Iron Corporation, was formed. Pickands, Mather also had heavy investments in the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company. In 1973, Pickands, Mather and Company became part of Moore McCormack Resources, Inc. Moore McCormack sold its Pickands, Mather stock to Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. in 1986. The collection consists of bound annual statements, annual statements of the mining department, individual cost statements, and a bound commemorative book which was presented to Samuel Mather, one of the founders. | | | | Call #: | MS 4590 | | | | Extent: | 17.30 linear feet (21 containers and 72 oversize volumes) | | | | Subjects: | Mather, Samuel, 1851-1931. | Pickands, James S., 1839-1896. | Morse, Jay. | Pickands, Mather and Company. | Interlake Steamship Company. | Ashtabula & Buffalo Dock Company. | Erie Mining Company. | Wabush Mines. | Syracuse Mining Company. | Ontario Iron Company. | Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. | Interlake Iron Corporation. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Iron mines and mining -- United States. | Iron industry and trade -- United States. | Iron industry and trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Coal mines and mining -- United States. | Shipping -- Great Lakes.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 122 | Title: | Work Wear Corporation, Inc. Records, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Work Wear Corporation, Inc. | | | | Dates: | 1940-1996 | | | | Abstract: | Work Wear Corporation, Inc. was founded in 1915 in Cleveland, Ohio, as the Cleveland Overall Company by Samuel Rosenthal. In 1919 Rosenthal bought the National Railroad Overall Company, maker of bib overalls and other work garments. Beginning in the 1920s, the enlarged Cleveland Overall Company transformed the uniform industry by producing stylish, functional work garments available on a rental basis. The company was also involved in the industrial laundry industry. In 1961, under Leighton Rosenthal, son of Samuel Rosenthal, Cleveland Overall became the publicly held Work Wear Inc. The name was changed in 1976 to Work Wear Corporation, Inc. Paine Webber Capital, a subsidiary of Paine Webber Group, Inc. of New York City, acquired Work Wear in 1986. The collection consists of correspondence, minutes, newsletters, financial statements, deeds, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, brochures and catalogs, speech texts, and award certificates. | | | | Call #: | MS 5094 | | | | Extent: | 2.01 linear feet (2 containers, 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Rosenthal, Samuel, 1885-1957. | Rosenthal family. | Work Wear Corporation, Inc. | Clothing factories -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Work clothes industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Protective clothing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Uniforms industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Uniforms industry -- United States. | Uniforms industry -- Japan. | Uniforms industry -- Belgium. | Uniforms industry -- Canada. | Uniforms industry -- France. | Uniforms industry -- Great Britain. | Uniforms industry -- Germany. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- History -- Sources.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 123 | Title: | Donald McBride Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | McBride, Donald Family | | | | Dates: | 1857-1989 | | | | Abstract: | Donald McBride was a lawyer and businessman and son of John Harris McBride, owner of Root & McBride Company, a leading wholesale dry goods establishment in Cleveland, Ohio. Donald's brothers, Malcolm and Herbert, were officers in Root & McBride Company. His sister Grace was married to Dr. George Crile, and his sister Edith was married to Henry S. Sherman, chairman of Society for Savings, 1903-1936. Donald's wife, Mary Helen Harman McBride, was daughter of industrialist Ralph A. Harman, who ran Cleveland Forge and Iron Company, was a founder of Cleveland Trust Company, and a director of Cleveland Electric Railway Company. Mary Helen's sister Grace was married to Samuel Livingston Mather, and her sister Sue was married to diplomat John Pelenyi. Her great aunt, Grace Harman Wade, was married to Jeptha H. Wade. The collection consists of Harman and McBride family correspondence, genealogies, coats of arms, reminiscences, memorials, school reports, scrapbooks, ledgers, journals, diaries, newspaper clippings, obituaries, reprints, autograph book, receipts, verses, blueprints, speeches and photographs. Included are personal papers for Ralph A. Harman, Sue Wade Harman and John Pelenyi, Susan Fleming Wade, Donald McBride and Mary Helen McBride, as well as business records, recollections and scrapbooks of Ralph A. Harman relating to the early business, industrial and social history of Cleveland. | | | | Call #: | MS 4585 | | | | Extent: | 10.80 linear feet (10 containers, 14 oversize volumes, and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | McBride, Donald, 1884-1927. | McBride family. | Harmon family. | Kenyon family. | Fleming family. | Wade family -- Periodicals. | Root & McBride Company. | Cleveland Tool and Forge Company. | Cleveland City Forge and Iron Company. | University of Free Europe in Exile. | Cleveland Trust Company. | Cleveland-Akron Bag Company. | Winous Point Shooting Club. | Beech Brook, Inc. (Pepper Pike, Ohio). | Businessmen -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Street-railroads -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Strikes and lockouts -- Street-railroads -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Banks and banking -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Shipping -- Great Lakes. | World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives. | Europe -- Description and travel. | Shipbuilding industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Diplomatic and consular service, Hungarian. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Economic conditions. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. | Hungary -- History.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 124 | Title: | Centerior Energy Corporation Records
| | | | Creator: | Centerior Energy Corporation | | | | Dates: | 1881-1996 | | | | Abstract: | The Centerior Energy Corporation was founded in 1892 in Cleveland, Ohio, as the Cleveland General Electric Company, with a franchise from the General Electric Company of Boston, Massachusetts. In 1893, assets of the Brush Electric Light and Power Company and of the Cleveland Electric Light Company were transferred to the Cleveland General Electric Company, forming the nucleus of a new organization. On July 21, 1894, the name of the company was changed to the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company (CEI). In 1926, the company purchased the Cleveland, Painesville and Eastern Railroad Company and its subsidiary, The United Light and Power Company. Other power companies in the northeastern Ohio region were purchased during this time. In 1947 control of the company returned to the hands of public investors, and new power plants continued to be added to the system. The company's first nuclear power plant, the Davis-Besse facility, became fully operational in 1978. A second nuclear power facility, the Perry Nuclear Power Plant, was subsequently added. In 1986 Centerior Energy Corporation, an affiliation between CEI and the Toledo Edison Company, was formed to become one of the largest electric systems in the United States. In 1996, Centerior Energy Corporation and the Ohio Edison Company merged into a new holding company, First Energy Corporation. The collection consists of articles of incorporation, annual reports, bylaws, histories, correspondence, legal briefs, financial records, handbooks, speeches, pamphlets, publications, oral history transcriptions, organizational charts, rate schedules, magazine and newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks. Includes the correspondence of various presidents of the corporation. | | | | Call #: | MS 4791 | | | | Extent: | 31.40 linear feet (45 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company. | Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Plant (Ohio). | Perry Nuclear Power Plant (Ohio) | Centerior Energy Corporation. | Cleveland General Electric Company. | Toledo Edison Company. | Ohio Edison Company. | Brush Electric Light and Power Company. | Cleveland Electric Light Company. | First Energy Corporation. | Electric utilities -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area. | Electric industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area. | Electric power distribution -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area. | Electric power transmission -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area. | Electric power-plants -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area. | Public utilities -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. | Strikes and lockouts -- Public utilities -- Ohio. | Collective bargaining -- Public utilities -- Ohio. | Nuclear energy. | Nuclear power plants -- Ohio.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 125 | Title: | Frederick C. Crawford Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Crawford, Frederick C. Family | | | | Dates: | 1727-1996 | | | | Abstract: | Frederick C. Crawford (1891-1994) was a Cleveland, Ohio, industrialist and philanthropist. Crawford headed Thompson Products, Inc. (later TRW Inc.) as it moved from an automotive and aircraft parts manufacturer into the aviation and aerospace industries. A leader of Cleveland's philanthropic community, Crawford served on the boards of many cultural institutions. He was appointed to the Western Reserve Historical Society Board of Trustees in 1944 and later served as it's president. He was instrumental in the transfer of the Thompson Auto Album and Aviation Museum collection to WRHS in the 1960s, which became the nucleus of the Frederick C. Crawford Auto-Aviation Collection of WRHS. Crawford was married twice; to Audrey Cecelia Bowles in 1932, and to Kathleen M. Saxon in 1975. The collection consists of genealogies, biographical sketches, correspondence, appointment diaries and calendars, ledgers, annual financial summaries, bank statements, trust deeds, tax assessments, returns and other financial documents, stock certificates, wills, real estate inventories, diplomas, award certificates, military discharge papers, corporate annual reports, speeches and broadcast transcripts, newspaper and magazine clippings, articles of incorporation, minutes, and scrapbooks. | | | | Call #: | MS 4856 | | | | Extent: | 76.84 linear feet (77 containers and 4 oversize folders) | | | | Subjects: | Crawford, Frederick C., 1891-1994 | Crawford family. | Thompson, Charles E. 1870-1933. | Thompson, Edwin deGroot. | Thompson family. | TRW Inc. | Steel Products Co. | Thompson Products, inc. | Western Reserve Historical Society | Frederick C. Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum. | Case Institute of Technology. | Florida Institute of Technology. | American School of Classical Studies at Athens. | International Aeronautic Federation | Businessmen -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Philanthropists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Automobile supplies industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Aircraft supplies industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Aerospace industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Automobile supplies industry -- United States. | Aircraft supplies industry -- United States. | Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives. | Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Europe. | International relations. | Aeronautics -- History. | Industrial relations -- United States. | Nonprofit organizations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Aerospace industries -- United States. | United States -- History -- 1933-1945. | United States -- History -- 1945-1953.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 126 | Title: | Day-Glo Color Corporation Records
| | | | Creator: | Day-Glo Color Corporation | | | | Dates: | 1930-1991 | | | | Abstract: | The Day-Glo Color Corporation was founded in 1946 by Robert and Joseph Switzer, who developed ways to make photoluminescent paints and dyes.These paints and dyes were used by the military to mark airplanes as well as uniforms, and to detect flaws in airplane engines and other parts. They were also used extensively in the graphic arts industry, for product advertising and packaging.The company, which began as the Conti-Glo Division of Continental Lithograph Corporation, became Switzer Brothers, Inc., and later, Day-Glo Corporation, and was sold in 1986 to Nalco Chemical Corporation. The collection consists of agendas, annual reports, articles of incorporation, blueprints, brochures, budgets, bylaws, color guides, contracts, correspondence, fabric samples, financial statements, handbooks, histories, interview transcripts, legal documents, lists, magazine clippings, manuals, memoranda, minutes, newsletters, newspaper clippings, notebooks, notes, outlines, photographs, press releases, publications, questionnaires, reports, scrapbooks, speech texts, stock certificates, and tax returns. | | | | Call #: | MS 4878 | | | | Extent: | 6.04 linear feet (8 containers and 4 oversize folders) | | | | Subjects: | Switzer, Robert C., 1914-1997. | Switzer, Joseph L., 1915-1973. | Day-Glo Color Corp. | Switzer Brothers, Inc. | Continental Lithograph Corpation. Conti-Glo Division. | Nalco Chemical Company. | Day-Glo Investment Corporation. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Pigments industry -- United States. | Pigments industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Paint industry and trade -- United States. | Paint industry and trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Dye industry -- United States. | Dye industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Fluorescence. | Luminescence. | Photoluminescence. | Airplanes, Military -- Markings. | Airplanes, Military -- Painting. | Color in the textile industries. | Coloring matter. | Color in advertising. | Color in marketing. | Consolidation and merger of corporations -- United States.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 127 | Title: | LTV Steel Company Records
| | | | Creator: | LTV Steel Company | | | | Dates: | 1899-2002 | | | | Abstract: | The LTV Steel Company was formed in 1984 by the LTV Corporation through a merger of Jones & Laughlin Steel, Inc. (itself a merger of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation and Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company) and Republic Steel Corporation, with its headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio. The company declared bankruptcy and its assets were purchased by W.L. Ross and Company in 2002 and became known as the International Steel Group (ISG). The collection consists of administrative records, agendas, agreements, architectural drawings, award programs, biographies, budgets, contracts, correspondence, deeds, dockets, drafts, financial records, forms, handbooks, histories, indexes, job descriptions, journals, ledgers, legal records, lists, manuals, maps, memoranda, minutes, newsletters, newspaper and magazine clippings, notes, personnel records, photographs, plans, policies, presentations, press releases, publications, reports, speech texts, scrapbooks, surveys, tax records, and transcripts. | | | | Call #: | MS 4950 | | | | Extent: | 230.00 linear feet (258 containers and 7 oversize folders) | | | | Subjects: | Ling, James J. | LTV Steel Company. | LTV Corporation | Republic Steel Corporation | Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation | Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company | United Steelworkers of America | LTV Steel Tubular Products Company | LTV Energy Products Company | LTV Steel Mining | Tri-State Mining Company. | United States. Securities and Exchange Commission | United States. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission | United States. National Labor Relations Board | United States. Environmental Protection Agency | United States. Occupational Safety and Health Administration | African American iron and steel workers. | Arbitration, Industrial -- United States | Collective labor agreements -- Steel industry -- United States | Collective bargaining -- Steel industry -- United States | Consolidation and merger of corporations -- United States | Corporate reorganization -- United States | Corporations -- Finance | Discrimination in employment -- United States | Employee fringe benefits -- United States | Industrial relations -- United States | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Iron and steel workers -- United States | Iron and steel workers -- Labor unions -- United States | Labor disputes -- United States | Labor union locals -- United States | Labor unions and education -- United States | Minorities -- Employment -- United States | Plant shutdowns -- United States | Steel industry and trade -- United States | Steel industry and trade -- Ohio | Steel industry and trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Steel industry and trade -- Environmental aspects -- United States | Steel industry and trade -- Environmental aspects -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Steel industry and trade -- Mergers -- United States. | Steel-works -- United States | Steel-works -- Ohio | Steel-works -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Wages -- Iron and steel workers -- United States | Women -- Employment -- United States | Women iron and steel workers -- United States
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 128 | Title: | Republic Steel Corporation Records
| | | | Creator: | Republic Steel Corporation | | | | Dates: | 1895-2001 | | | | Abstract: | The Republic Steel Corporation was formed in April 1930 from several smaller iron and steel companies, including Republic Iron and Steel, Central Alloy Corporation, Bourne-Fuller Company and Donner Steel Company. Corrigan McKinney Steel Company, Truscon Steel Company, and Gulf States Steel were acquired 1935-1937, and the company headquarters was moved from Youngstown, Ohio, to Cleveland, Ohio. The company included basic steel operations in Ohio, Buffalo, New York, Chicago, Illinois, Gadsden, Alabama, and elsewhere, as well as rolling mills, speciality steel operations, iron ore and coal mines, maritime operations, and research laboratories. During the 1980s, economic losses became severe, and in 1984 Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation merged with Republic Steel, creating LTV Steel Company, a subsidiary of LTV Corporation. The collection consists of administrative records, advertisements, agendas, agreements, analyses, applications, architectural drawings, article sheets, audits, biographies, birth certificates, booklets, brochures, budgets, certificates, charts, citations, compliance reviews, computer printouts, constitutions, contracts, correspondence, deeds, determinations on imports, diagrams, dockets, drawings, earnings records, employment applications, financial records, forms, formulas, genealogy charts, goals and timetables, graphs, grievance sheets, handbooks, hazardous waste manifests, histories, indices, inspections, inventories, job classifications, job descriptions, journals, ledgers, legal briefs, legal records, legislation, lines of progression, lists, magazine articles, manuals, manuscript proofs, maps, memoirs, memoranda, minutes, newsletters, newspapers clippings, notebooks, notes, notices, pamphlets and promotional materials, permits, petitions, photographs, plans, policies and procedures, presentations, press releases, proposals, proxy statements, publications, questionnaires, real estate records including abstracts of titles, bills of sale, closing papers, conveyances, deeds, easements, indentures, leases, and rights of way, receipts, registers, remarks, reports, resolutions, rosters, rules and regulations, schedules, scrapbooks, scripts, separation notices, speech texts, statements, statistics, studies, subpoenas, summaries, surveys, tax records, telegrams, testimonies, time books, time lines, time sheets, trade adjustment assistance determinations, transcripts, typescripts, wage scale changes, wage rate records and cases, and work papers. | | | | Call #: | MS 4949 | | | | Extent: | 386.30 linear feet (391 containers and 40 oversize volumes) | | | | Subjects: | Eaton, Cyrus Stephen, 1883-1979. | Girdler, T. M. (Tom Mercer), 1877-1965. | Patton, Thomas F., b. 1903. | White, Charles McElroy, 1891-1977. | Republic Steel Corporation. | Republic Iron & Steel Company. | Central Alloy Steel Corporation. | Corrigan McKinney Steel Company. | Steel Workers Organizing Committee (U.S.) | United Steelworkers of America. | Ohio EPA. | United States. Environmental Protection Agency. | United States. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. | United States. Securities and Exchange Commission. | Arbitration, Industrial -- United States. | Collective bargaining -- Steel industry -- United States. | Collective labor agreements -- Steel industry -- United States. | Consolidation and merger of corporations -- United States. | Consolidation and merger of corporations -- Canada. | Discrimination in employment -- United States. | Employee fringe benefits -- United States. | Grievance procedures -- United States. | Import quotas -- United States. | Incentives in industry -- United States. | Industrial relations -- United States. | Industrial relations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Iron and steel workers -- United States. | Iron and steel workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Iron and steel workers -- Labor unions -- Organizing -- United States. | Iron and steel workers -- Job descriptions -- United States. | Iron and steel workers -- Pensions -- United States. | Labor disputes -- United States. | Little Steel Strike, U.S., 1937 | Merchant mariners -- Great Lakes (North America) | Shipping -- Great Lakes (North America) | Steel. | Steel -- Marketing. | Steel -- Transportation -- Great Lakes (North America) | Steel industry and trade -- Employees | Steel industry and trade -- Environmental aspects -- United States. | Steel industry and trade -- Government policy -- United States. | Steel industry and trade -- United States. | Steel industry and trade -- Ohio. | Steel industry and trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Steel industry and trade -- Law and legislation -- United States. | Steel industry and trade -- Mergers -- United States. | Steel industry and trade -- Prices -- United States. | Steel-works -- United States. | Steel-works -- Ohio. | Steel-works -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Strikes and lockouts -- Steel industry -- United States. | Wages -- Iron and steel workers -- United States.
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