http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/search?docsPerPage%3D100;expand%3Dsubject;f1-format%3DManuscript%20Collection;keyword%3Dshakers;smode%3Dadvanced Results for your query: docsPerPage=100;expand=subject;f1-format=Manuscript Collection;keyword=shakers;smode=advanced Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3944.xml 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. The collection consists of covenants, laws, legal records, land records, financial records, membership records, correspondence, diaries, journals, testimonies, biographies, addresses, sermons, essays, inspired writings and drawings (also known as spirit drawings), other writings, music, poetry, recipes, prescriptions, school books, instructional texts, scrapbooks, photographs, and miscellaneous material relating to 20 Shaker communities located in 10 eastern States. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3944.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5367.xml The Nature Center at Shaker Lakes, established in 1966 on part of the site of the original North Union Shaker Community, was the result of a grassroots effort to prevent the construction of two interstate highways which would have bisected major sections of Shaker Heights and Cleveland Heights and caused property loss and damage to the Doan Brook watershed. The collection consists of administrative documents, architectural drawings, audiovisual materials, clippings, correspondence, financial documents, flyers, legal documents, maps, minutes, negatives, photographs, publications, reports, scrapbooks, signs, and studies. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5367.xml Sun, 01 Jan 2017 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=marc/skclmarc202890322046876.mrc http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=marc/skclmarc202890322046876.mrc Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4527.xml The Van Sweringen Company was a real estate development firm formed by Oris P. and Mantis J. Van Sweringen, two brothers who, in 1905, began purchasing land in what is now Shaker Heights, Ohio, 8 miles southeast of Cleveland. The land, originally part of Warrensville Twp., was settled in 1822 by the celibate North Union Shaker community, which disbanded in 1889. The Van Sweringen idea was the development of a comprehensively planned "garden city" suburb which included the maintenance of natural topography and lakes, curving roads, and specific locations for apartments, commercial areas, public schools, churches and private secondary schools. The plan was achieved in the 1920s and 1930s, with the company managing and enforcing strict zoning and building restrictions, deed (including ethnic and racial) restrictions, and architectural design guidelines. The suburb grew to a population of nearly 18,000 by 1930, in large part due to the construction by the Van Sweringens of the Shaker Rapid Transit, a high-speed, ... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4527.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4167.xml The Ludlow Community Association was founded in 1957 to maintain neighborhood stability as the Ludlow area of Shaker Heights, Ohio, became integrated. The group sponsored block clubs, established a real-estate clearing house to encourage white ownership of Ludlow homes, and worked to improve sanitation, traffic flow, building codes and recreation facilities for the area. By 1968 the group had achieved national recognition for its progress in neighborhood stabalization and integration. The group was also active in promoting integration in other suburbs. The collection consists of minutes, correspondence, newsletters, reports, financial materials, publicity files, and clippings. These records pertain to the quality of housing and integration in the suburban community of Shaker Heights, Ohio, including both apartments and single-family units. They also highlight the organizational structure of the group. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4167.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3598.xml The Lomond Association is a community association founded in 1963, in Shaker Heights, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of correspondence, minutes of meetings, newsletters, and reports. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3598.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4819.xml Temple Beth El was established in 1950 as a modern Orthodox Jewish congregation in Shaker Heights, Ohio, under the leadership of Rabbi David L. Genuth. A synagogue was constructed in 1957. Due to declining membership, the building and property were sold to the City of Shaker Heights in 1998, and in 1999, Beth El and newly formed Heights Synagogue merged under the name Beth El-Heights Synagogue. The collection consists of birth records, correspondence, deeds, financial statements, lists, minutes, newsletters, sermons, and speeches. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4819.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5012.xml Temple Beth El was established in 1950 as a modern Orthodox Jewish congregation in Shaker Heights, Ohio, under the leadership of Rabbi David L. Genuth. A synagogue was constructed in 1957. Due to declining membership, the building and property were sold to the City of Shaker Heights in 1998, and in 1999, Beth El and newly formed Heights Synagogue merged under the name Beth El-Heights Synagogue. The collection consists of correspondence, essays, funeral records, lists, newsletters, newspaper clippings, prayers, and sermons. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5012.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5350.xml The Valhalla Club was a men's fraternity at Shaw High School in East Cleveland, Ohio, and Shaker Heights High School in Shaker Heights, Ohio, founded in 1920. The fraternity promoted good fellowship, clean sportsmanship, better social activities, and higher standards of manhood. The club held social events for students including dances, dinners, and banquets. The collection consists of two scrapbooks that document the activities of the club and its individual members. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5350.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4981.xml The Ludlow Community Association (f. 1957) is "the voice of Ludlow, articulating to the city governments and other agencies Ludlow's concerns and desires." The Ludlow Community Association (LCA) formed from a series of block meetings to discuss the stabilization of the demographically shifting community of Ludlow, a neighborhood in Cleveland and Shaker Heights, Ohio. The main task of the LCA during its conception was to persuade white people to buy homes in Ludlow in order to maintain a racially integrated community. The collection consists of annual reports, meeting minutes, newsletters, newspaper clippings, promotional material, committee and president reports, and various other records. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4981.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=marc/skclmarc202890322046876.mrc http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=marc/skclmarc202890322046876.mrc Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4925.xml Thomas Campbell was an author, community leader, and professor and university administrator who co-founded the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University and served as its director. Campbell served as president of the City Club of Cleveland, and was instrumental in opening its doors to women. He directed the Cleveland Heritage Program for Cleveland Public Library. He ran for mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1977. He founded the Irish American Archives Society and was deeply involved in the Irish American community of Cleveland, as well as numerous other groups in the Cleveland, Ohio area. The collection consists of agendas, awards, biographical data, correspondence, diaries, a dissertation, examination papers, flyers, invitations, magazine articles, memberships, minutes, newsletters, newspaper clippings, photographs, plays, poems, programs, recipes, reports, resumes, speeches, workshops and writings. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4925.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4233.xml Miriam Cramer (1905-1980) was a well-known playwright, lecturer, teacher and fashion designer in the Cleveland, Ohio, area. She graduated from Flora Stone Mather College in 1928, then from Western Reserve University's School of Graduate Studies in 1941 after writing "More Love Brother" for her master's thesis. This musical play (included in this collection), concerning the North Union Shaker community in the 1860s, was performed at Cain Park, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, in 1945. She also studied dance with Eleanor Frampton and Martha Graham, and taught at Laurel and Cain Park schools in the Cleveland area. She was married to Sidney Andorn, but continued to use her maiden name, Miriam Cramer. The collection consists of clippings, correspondence, miscellaneous papers and publications, musical publications, research notes, scrapbook materials, speeches, and writings. The collection primarily pertains to Cramer's research on the Shaker communities in the eastern United States, including their lifestyle, religion,... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4233.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4111.xml Myra Caley Gibbs (1871-1964) was a Warrensville Township, Ohio, native and descendant of Daniel and Moses Warren. She married Samuel L. Gibbs, who helped the Van Sweringen brothers develop Shaker Heights. She also maintained an interest in the North Union Shaker community. The collection consists of newspaper clippings, correspondence, diaries, a journal, genealogical materials, a probate inventory, writings, and scrapbooks for Gibbs and some members of her immediate family. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4111.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3662.xml The Ludlow Community Association was formed in 1957 to address the problems of integration in the Ludlow community of Shaker Heights and Cleveland, Ohio. Its main goals were to maintain a racial balance and prevent white flight from the community. The collection consists of trustees' minutes, financial records, membership lists, project files, reports, correspondence, photographs, newsletters, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous records. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3662.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4758.xml The Warrensville Center Synagogue, an Orthodox Jewish congregation in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, was established in 1959 as a result of a merger between three smaller synagogues, the Tetiever Ahavath Achim Anshe Sfard Congregation, the Kinsman Jewish Center, and Congregation Nvai Zedek. In 1970, Sherith Jacob Israel, the Eddy Road Jewish Center-Memorial Synagogue joined Warrensville Center. This congregation was itself a merger of Sherith Jacob and Sherith Israel of Mount Pleasant congregations. In 1972, Shaker-Lee Congregation was absorbed by the Warrensville Center Synagogue. Shaker-Lee Congregation was the result of a previous merger of Ohel Jacob, Ohel Yavne, and Tifereth Israel (not to be confused with The Temple-Tifereth Israel, a Reform congregation) congregations. The collection consists of organizational documents, membership lists, newsletters, newspaper clippings, and program brochures. Included is the card file (1950-1989) of funerals of congregants maintained by Rabbi Jacob Muskin, leader of the K... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4758.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5500.xml Jack Forman (1910-?) and Sarah Fish (1911-1986) first arrived at the Jewish Orphan Home (JOH) in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1919. Jack arrived after his mother died during the flu epidemic and Sarah arrived from Omaha, Nebraska, when it was discovered her mother was dying. The couple married in 1933 and had two children: Richard and Judy. Later in life, the Formans were active members of the Jewish Orphan Home Alumni Association with Jack serving as the president for several years. This collection consists of autograph books, awards, correspondence, a Seder Hagadah, photo albums, publications, a scorebook, a scrapbook, and yearbooks. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5500.xml Sat, 01 Jan 2022 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3730.xml Prudence Asenath Stickney (1860-1950) was the Eldress of the Sabbathday Lake Shakers in Maine. The collection consists of copies of letters, primarily ALS from Prudence Stickney and TLS from Herbert Hoover, and of birthday, Christmas and Easter cards. Eldress Stickney's letters convey support of the ex-president's speeches and policies, while his convey thanks for gifts she sent him. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3730.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3743.xml Albert Pennybacker was a civil rights activist and pastor of Heights Christian Church in the Cleveland, Ohio, suburb of Shaker Heights. The collection consists of correspondence with civil rights workers and organizations, including the Cleveland Board of Education, the League of Women Voters of Shaker Heights, the Welfare Federation, and Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld. Also included are committee minutes and reports, newsletters, newspaper clippings, and news releases of groups including the Citizens' Commission of Shaker Heights, the Cleveland Interfaith Housing Corporation, the Emergency Clergy Committee on Civil Rights, Laymen for Civil Rights, and the Ludlow Community Association. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3743.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5215.xml Trinity Congregational Church was incorporated in 1894, in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1928 it moved to the suburb of Cleveland Heights. From 1946 to 1952 services were held in a school in Shaker Heights. In 1952 the congregation moved to Pepper Pike, Ohio. The collection consists of two church registers. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5215.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4304.xml Joseph Doherty (1889-1965) was a public relations officer for Oris P. and Mantis J. Van Sweringen, developers of the Cleveland, Ohio, suburb of Shaker Heights, and Cleveland's Terminal Tower and Union Terminal complex. The Van Sweringen brothers established a railroad empire in the 1920s which collapsed during the Depression. Doherty wrote a history of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad entitled, Smooth is the road. The collection consists of correspondence, press releases, official statements of the Van Sweringens, promotional materials for the Van Sweringen projects, including Shaker Village, Ohio, magazine articles about the Van Sweringens, newspaper clippings, and a manuscript by Doherty concerning the Van Sweringen brothers. The collection contains information relative to the Chesapeake and Ohio, Nickel Plate and Pere Marquette railroads. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4304.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5418.xml The Jewish Orphan Asylum (also known as the Cleveland Jewish Orphan Home) was founded in 1868 with the mission to care for orphaned or abandoned children. The organization grew with community need, and was relocated to a campus in University Heights in 1938. The name of the organization changed to Orthodox Jewish Children's Home and merged with Bellefaire to become Bellefaire Jewish Children's Bureau. The Jewish Orphan Home Alumni Association (JOHAA) was founded in July, 1888 with open membership to all who had resided at the Orphan Home. The records, beginning in 1938, are a history of the founding and activities of the JOHAA. The collection consists of booklets, brochures, bulletins, a constitution, correspondence, a directory, Haggadah, a photo album, two black and white photographs, a program, a scrapbook, song sheets, and yearbooks. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5418.xml Mon, 01 Jan 2018 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5499.xml The Jewish Orphan Home Alumni Association (JOHAA) was founded in July 1888 and was open to all those who resided within the Jewish Orphan Home (JOH). The primary goal of the JOHAA was to aid and assist the Jewish Orphan Home alumni and graduates; perpetuate and foster friendships among the alumni; and support and assist Bellefaire, the Jewish Orphan Home successor. This collection consists of a booklet, bulletins, correspondence, lists, memos, minutes, newsletters, newspaper clippings, photographs, poetry, programs, a sport book, and video recordings. Click here to see the entry on Bellefaire-JCB in the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5499.xml Sat, 01 Jan 2022 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5515.xml B.A.T. was a social club started in 1929 at Cleveland Heights High School. It adopted the Greek letters, Beta Alpha Tau, to describe itself in its constitution. B.A.T. was initially created as a club specifically for Jewish male students and remained that way for about thirty years, when it diversified its membership. B.A.T. stayed in existence until 1997, surpassing the longevity of other area high school clubs. In 2006, the club celebrated what the group called its 77th anniversary with a reunion, followed by its 90th in 2019. Some of the local prominent members were Jules and Mike Belkin, Albert Ratner, Robert Goldberg, Vic Gelb, and Dr. Lester Persky. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5515.xml Sun, 01 Jan 2023 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5242.xml Molly Doan Bellamy (1918-1995) was the society editor of the Cleveland News in the 1950s and the Cleveland Plain Dealer from 1960-1984. In 1974, she began a travel column and became assistant editor of the Friday Magazine of the Plain Dealer. The collection consists of advertisements, autographs buttons, certificates, cigarette cases, coasters, correspondences, dried flowers, invitations, maps, match boxes, menus, napkins, newspaper clippings, party favors, pendants, photographs, place cards, programs, report cards, ribbons, score cards. telegraphs, ticket stubs, and other memorabilia. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5242.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4703.xml Bellfaire 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 minutes, correspondence, an annual report, programs, legal documents, manuals, newsletters, brochures, booklets, conference proceedings, and publications. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4703.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4543.xml Raymond F. Blosser was a staff writer/editor and, eventually, bureau chief for the Associated Press in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1935-1943. In his spare time beginning in 1938, Blosser conducted interviews and extensive research for a biography of Oris P. and Mantis J. Van Sweringen, developers of the exclusive suburb of Shaker Heights, Ohio and builders of Cleveland's Union Terminal, who amassed huge holdings in railroads during the 1920s. Blosser finished his manuscript in 1946, but it remained unpublished. Blosser was public relations director for the New York Central Railroad until 1956, and vice president in charge of public relations and advertising at Union Commerce Bank in Cleveland from 1956 to 1973. The collection consists of a typescript second draft of Blosser's "Untitled biography of the Van Sweringen brothers of Cleveland," a carbon copy of the same containing additions, comments and corrections by William H. Wenneman, William Barrett and William Wyer (all top officers and aides to the Van Sweringe... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4543.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5100.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. It 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. Jack Girick, whose papers are included in this collection, was a resident of the Jewish Orphan Asylum from 1902 to 1912. While a resident, he served as a monitor, assisted the superintendent in conducting Sabbath religi... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5100.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3665.xml Bellfaire 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 minutes, correspondence, publications, and scrapbooks. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3665.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4802.xml Charles Beard was born in Georgia and raised in Newport, Rhode Island. He enlisted in the United States Air Force during World War II, serving as a fighter pilot, after training at Tuskegee Air Force Base. In 1945, he moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and attended Western Reserve University. In 1946, he served as a junior city planner for the City Planning Commission, and in the 1950s worked for the Cleveland Urban Renewal Agency. In the late 1950s, he was promoted to Chief City Planner for Cleveland, and in the 1960s, became the Director of Plan of Action for Tomorrow's Housing (PATH). From the late 1970s to the early 1980s, he held a position as a government liaison with the Federation for Community Planning. He also was founder of the Friends of Shaker Square and Fair Housing, Inc. He helped organize the North Coast Chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen, Inc., in 1993. The collection consists of reports, speeches, proposals, correspondence, agendas, annual reports, financial statements, newsletters, notes, ordinances, ... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4802.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5427.xml The United Order True Sisters Cleveland No. 30, a Jewish women's charitable organization, was a local lodge that was part of the national United Order True Sisters founded in New York in 1846. Founded in November of 1925, the Cleveland lodge's goal was to promote family unity by establishing a day care center for the benefit of the community. The collection consists of awards, booklets, budgets, bulletins, bylaws, a calendar, a cookbook, correspondence, a journal, flyers, manuals, membership books, minutes, newspaper clippings, notebooks, poems, a proclamation, reports, scrapbooks, sheet music, and speech text. There are also approximately 50 black and white 300 color photographs. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5427.xml Mon, 01 Jan 2018 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=marc/skclmarc202890322046876.mrc http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=marc/skclmarc202890322046876.mrc Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5127.xml Seth Chase Taft (December 31, 1922-April 14, 2013) was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Charles P. and Eleanor Chase Taft. He is the grandson of American president William Howard Taft. He married Frances Prindle (December 12, 1921-May 14, 2017) on June 19, 1943 and they had four children: Frederick I. (Rick) (b. June 26, 1945), Thomas P. (b. July 19, 1948), Cynthia B. (b. May 24, 1950), and Seth Tucker (Tucker) (b. March 4, 1953). They were active members of the greater Cleveland, Ohio, cultural, civic, and political community. The collection consists of 31 scrapbooks which include agendas, birth announcements, birthday cards, brochures, building permits, campaign literature, certificates, children's artwork and letters, Christmas cards and newsletters, contracts, correspondence, currency, flyers, greeting cards, interviews, invitations, itineraries, journal articles, lecture paperwork, legal briefs, licenses, lists, magazine articles, maps, memoranda, menus, newsletters, newspaper articles, newspaper clippings... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5127.xml Sun, 01 Jan 2017 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5391.xml Joseph Ceruti (1912-1993) was a prominent architect and member of the Italian-American community in Cleveland. He graduated from East Technical High School in 1929, and earned a degree in architecture at Western Reserve University in 1934. After working for Warner & Swasey during World War II, he went into private practice in 1947. Some of his clients included Case Institute of Technology (later Case Western Reserve University), Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA), Fenn College (later Cleveland State University), Cleveland Public Library, the Cleveland Board of Education (Adlai Stevenson School), Warner & Swasey, and Motch & Merryweather. He was active in the American Institute of Architects, and was a member of many organizations including the board of directors of Alta Social Settlement House and the Fine Arts Advisory Committee of the City of Cleveland. The collection consists of architectural drawings and specifications, clippings, contracts, correspondence, general office files, photographs,... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5391.xml Sun, 01 Jan 2017 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4894.xml The Joseph Family is a prominent Cleveland, Ohio, Jewish family. Moritz Joseph arrived in the United States in 1853 from Gauersheim, Rheinpfalz, Germany, during the nineteenth-century German-Jewish immigration period. Settling in Cleveland in 1872, Joseph became successful in the manufacturing ofmen's clothing incorporating that operation as the Joseph and Feiss Company in 1907. The company, formed out of previously operating businesses, was one of the largest manufacturers of men's clothing in the United States. Moritz Joseph married Jette Selig in 1853; the marriage produced four sons. Three of them, Isaac, Fred, and Siegmund, and Siegmund's son Ralph, worked all or part of their careers with the Joseph and Feiss Company. The foruth son, Emil, Emil's son Frank E., and Frank E.'s son William R., became lawyers after graduating from Columbia University Law School. Frank E. Joseph was a promient lawyer and a partner at the Jones, Day, Cockley, & Reavis law firm. The family has been very active in both leader... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4894.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3470.xml A. Donald Gray (1891-1939) was a notable landscape architect and designer in Cleveland, Ohio from 1920-1939. Gray worked briefly with Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., in Brookline, Massachusetts, before establishing a landscape architecture practice in Cleveland. He designed many private gardens and estates for some of the most elite families of Cleveland and its outlying suburbs, including the noted private development of Fairhill Road houses in 1931. Gray was also the landscape designer for several public projects, including the Cedar-Central apartments, the first federal public-housing project in the nation, and many of Cleveland's public parks. Perhaps his most notable achievemant was the creation of the WPA-funded Horticultural Gardens for the Great Lakes Exposition, 1936-1937, some of which remain on the site north of Cleveland's Municipal Stadium. The gardens were named for Gray as a memorial after his death. Gray took several trips to England, South America, Mexico and elsewhere throughout his career to st... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3470.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5343.xml Douglas Braun has been an important activist in the Northeast Ohio lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) rights movement since the mid-1980s. He has been instrumental in organizing campaigns focusing on the domestic partnership registry in Cleveland and Cleveland Heights (with Heights Families for Equality and Ask Cleveland), employment and housing discrimination against transgender people, adoption rights for LGBTQ parents, and marriage equality in Ohio. The collection consists of Ask Cleveland items including one t-shirt and one large outdoor banner used at events, newspaper clippings, correspondence, flyers, petitions, postcards, precinct binders, programs, publications, scripts and talking points for conversing with voters, volunteer manuals and training materials, volunteer phone bank lists, and voter lists. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5343.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4635.xml The George S. Dively Foundation was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1956, by industrialist and philanthropist George S. Dively. Funding has centered around the field of higher education, with scholarship funds being established for engineering, business administration, graphic arts, and urban affairs students at numerous institutions, including the University of Pittsburgh, Harvard Business School, Lock Haven (Pennsylanvania) State College, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland State University, and the Florida Institute of Technology. Other organizations receiving funding reflect the interests of Dively; including civic improvement, enterprise development, and the arts. The foundation was officially closed in 1995. The collection consists of articles of incorporation, code of regulations, annual reports, minutes, correspondence, proposals, contribution records, investment records, legal documents, agreements, grants, and awards. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4635.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS 5484.xml The Martha Holden Jennings Foundation is an educational foundation founded by Martha Holden Jennings and her nephew Arthur S. Holden, Jr., in 1958. Since its inception, the foundation has funded educational projects and programs throughout Ohio. The collection consists of annual reports, board minutes, executive director reports, grants, and newsletters. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS 5484.xml Fri, 01 Jan 2021 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5484.xml The Martha Holden Jennings Foundation is an educational foundation founded by Martha Holden Jennings and her nephew Arthur S. Holden, Jr., in 1958. Since its inception, the foundation has funded educational projects and programs throughout Ohio. The collection consists of annual reports, board minutes, executive director reports, grants, and newsletters. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5484.xml Fri, 01 Jan 2021 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS2803.xml Charles Asa Post (1848-1943) was a businessman and historian, of Cleveland, Ohio. His works on local history include Doans Corners and the City Four Miles West (Cleveland: The Caxton Company, 1930); "The Cuyahoga, the Crooked River that Made a City Great," 1941; and Those Were the Days (Cleveland: The Caxton Company, 1935). The collection consists of correspondence (1927-1941), research notes, and preliminary and final copies of an unpublished ms. on social clubs in Cleveland; personal papers, including correspondence (1917-1918), journal (1930-1935), and letters (1930-1931) received by Post from recipients of his book on Doan's Corners Ohio. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS2803.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4305.xml The Cleveland Area Leadership Study was a major research project designed to study the power base of greater Cleveland, Ohio, with emphasis on the decision-making process and the role of various community leaders. The project was supervised by Maurice Klain, professor in the Department of Political Science at Western Reserve University. The collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, interview transcripts, a subject file, questionnaires, raw data from Klain's studies on endorsements and voter tabulations, interpretative computer printouts, and newspaper clippings. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4305.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4786.xml Saint Luke's Hospital was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1894 as the Cleveland General Hospital. Its purpose was to provide clinical training for medical students of Wooster University and as a training school for nurses. At the same time, the College Building and Hospital Association was incorporated. The College Building and Hospital Association became the Saint Luke's Hospital Association of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1904. Medical staff at the hospital affiliated with the medical department of Ohio Wesleyan University. In 1906 Cleveland General Hospital was renamed Saint Luke's Hospital. Cleveland industrialist and philanthropist Francis Fleury Prentiss provided financial support and leadership, serving as president of the association from 1906 until his death in 1937. His wife, Elisabeth Severance Allen Prentiss, succeeded him as president until her death in 1944. The Saint Luke's Hospital School of Nursing closed in 1970. In 1980, the Saint Luke's Hospital Association adopted a long range plan of... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4786.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS 5463.xml Cornelia Schnurmann was born in Karlsruhe, Germany in 1901, the daughter of a wealthy, well known philanthropic Jewish family. Little is known about her early life. In 1940, Schnurmann faced deportation to a Nazi concentration camp. A Catholic friend assisted her escape to Luxembourg where she found refuge in a convent and was given shelter by the Catholic Nuns. She came to America on August 20, 1941, and her journey was self-sponsored. Schnurmann, age 40 and unmarried, was the sole surviving member of her family. Whether her family died in the Holocaust or whether they were deceased at the time she left Germany remains unknown. In Cleveland, Ohio, she joined friends Dr. Julius and Helen Weil, respectively the director of Montefiore Home for the Aged, and head of its social services department. At Montefiore, Cornelia worked with the Weils in developing an occupational therapy department, a sheltered workshop, as well as therapeutic and innovative programs for the aging population. She died in an a... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS 5463.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2020 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4962.xml Daniel Jeremy Silver (1928-1989) was a Reform rabbi at Temple-Tifereth Israel in Cleveland, Ohio, and author of several books and many articles. The collection consists of private and public correspondence, articles, programs, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and one group portrait taken at Shaker Heights High School class reunion, 1984. Included are several tributes and articles about Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, Daniel's father, tributes to, and articles written by, Daniel, several pamphlets and newsletters from Temple-Tifereth Israel, reviews of Daniel's books, and articles relating to Harry S. Truman. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4962.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5237.xml The Cleveland Foundation was the first community trust established in the United States. It was organized in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1914 by Frederick J. Goff and the Board of Directors of the Cleveland Trust Company. It has provided funds for educational and artistic development and for humanitarian purposes such as housing and aid to children and the handicapped. The collection consists of grant files, both accepted and declined, which include agreements, award letters, brochures, budgets, correspondence, evaluations, financial statements, forms, memoranda, newsletters, notes, press releases, programs, proposals, and reports. All photographs and audio/visual media have been retained in their respective grant files. The Cleveland Foundation Assistance to Other Foundations series contains much the same document types as the grant files. Other document types contained in the collection include annual reports, articles, budgets, correspondence, declaration of trusts, forms, indexes, lists, memoranda, min... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5237.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3668.xml The Jewish Community Center of Cleveland, Ohio, was formed in 1948 by the merger of the Council Educational Alliance (est. 1899), Camp Wise (est. 1907), the Jewish Young Adult Bureau (est. 1939), and the Cultural Department of the Jewish Community Council (est. 1945), for the purpose of providing recreational social and cultural programs to Cleveland's Jewish community. By 1959 the center moved from Cleveland to the suburb of Cleveland Heights. The collection consists of minutes, reports, administrative files, financial records, and other records of the Jewish Community Center, the Council Educational Alliance, and the Jewish Young Adult Bureau, and camp applications, historical material and other records of Camp Wise. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3668.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5055.xml The Joseph family is a prominent Cleveland, Ohio, Jewish family. Moritz Joseph arrived in the United States in 1852 from Gauersheim, Rheinpfalz, Germany. Settling in Cleveland in 1872, Joseph became successful in the manufacture of men's clothing. The Joseph and Feiss Company was incorporated in 1907, and was one of the largest manufacturers of men's clothing in the United States. Moritz Joseph's son Emil became a lawyer, and Emil's son, Frank, was partner at the law firm of Jones, Day, Cockley & Reavis. Frank E. Joseph and his wife, Martha, were also active philanthropists. The couple's son, William R. Joseph, Sr. continues to be active in the community. The collection consists of awards, correspondence, diaries, diplomas, genealogies, guest lists, inventories, news clippings, newsletters, legal records, notebooks, programs, scrapbooks, and assorted writings. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5055.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5394.xml Zweig Brothers Realty Company was formally founded by Jewish-Russian immigrants Eli Zweig (ca.1895-1945) and Nathan Zweig (ca. 1875-1944) around 1923. The Collection consists of 34 photographs of a property survey done for Zweig Brothers Realty Company during the 1920s through the 1940s. A detailed inventory of the collection is included. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5394.xml Sun, 01 Jan 2017 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5038.xml The George Gund Foundation is a charitable foundation established by Cleveland, Ohio, businessman and philanthropist George Gund. It supports education and various projects of community organizations located primarily in northeastern Ohio, but also in Ohio and the United States. Of particular interest to the Foundation are new teaching methods and education for disadvantaged people. The arts, civic affairs, economic development, the environment, and human services are also priorities of the Foundation. Abortion rights, women's issues, handgun control, homelessness, equal housing, museum development, retinitis pigmentosa research, AIDS public policy and education, community gardening, historic preservation, population control, family planning, and nuclear weapons control are also areas supported by the Foundation. The collection consists of grant files, including agendas, annual reports, architectural drawings, budgets, compact discs, correspondence, financial statements, grant proposals, lists, magazine arti... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5038.xml Sat, 01 Jan 2022 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4453.xml Margaret Manor Butler was a historian in the Cleveland, Ohio, area who wrote several books on the history of Lakewood, Ohio and the Western Reserve, including: A Pictorial History of the Western Reserve, 1796-1860. The collection consists of correspondence and county subject files concerning the publication of: A Pictorial history of the Western Reserve. The collection pertains largely to the process of compiling a pictorial history and to the history of the Western Reserve. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4453.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5362.xml The Western Reserve Manuscripts is a collection of small manuscript accessions that have been donated to the Western Reserve Historical Society since its founding in 1867. These manuscripts often consist of one document but can include multiple items contained in one folder. This collection of material documents numerous subjects and themes in the history of Cleveland, Ohio, and the region of northeast Ohio known as the Western Reserve. The collection consists of advertisements, agreements, applications, articles, autobiographies, autograph books and autographs, biographical sketches, certificates, correspondence, deeds, diaries, drawings, envelopes, genealogies, histories, indentures, invoices, letters, lists, manuscripts, memoranda, newspaper clippings, notes, papers, photographs, poems, receipts, reports, scripts, speech transcripts, telegrams, and other material. Western Reserve Historical Society library staff began to describe these manuscripts in this finding aid in 2015. This is an ongoing p... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5362.xml Sun, 01 Jan 2017 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4051.xml Joseph L. Weinberg was a prominent Cleveland, Ohio, architect and senior partner of Weinberg, Teare, Fischer, Herman. Edith L. Weinberg 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 agendas, brochures, certificates, clippings, contracts, correspondence, drawings, genealogical charts, inventories, invitations, lists, memoirs, minutes, newsletters, notebooks, programs, reports, scrapbooks, speech texts, telegrams and writings. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4051.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5141.xml Jewish Women International (f. 1897) began in San Francisco to promote social activities among B'nai B'rith families. The first B'nai B'rith auxiliary was founded in 1909, and auxiliaries grew rapidly in the 1920s and 1930s to 178 groups and over 17,000 members reaching a peak in the 1950s with 600 chapters. In 1963 B'nai B'rith Women became an independent organization. The organization's mission has adapted to changing issues facing women, children, and families, including anti-Semitism, reproductive rights, and domestic violence. In 1995 the organization changed its name to Jewish Women International. In Cleveland, Ohio, the first chapter of B'nai B'rith Women was the Heights Chapter #119, founded in 1933, followed one month later by the Cleveland Chapter #121. During the 1930s and 1940s eleven more chapters were created, with one more in the 1950s. In addition, Cleveland chapters assisted in the organization of Women's District Grand Lodge No. 2, which included several midwestern states. The distri... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5141.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4821.xml The George Gund Foundation is a charitable foundation established by Cleveland, Ohio, businessman and philanthropist George Gund. It supports education and various projects of community organizations located primarily in northeastern Ohio, but also in Ohio and the United States. Of particular interest to the Foundation are new teaching methods and education for disadvantaged people. The arts, civic affairs, economic development, the environment, and human services are also priorities of the Foundation. Abortion rights, women's issues, handgun control, homelessness, equal housing, museum development, retinitis pigmentosa research, AIDS public policy and education, community gardening, historic preservation, population control, family planning, and nuclear weapons control are also areas supported by the Foundation. The collection consists of grant files, which include architectural drawings, budgets, correspondence, financial statements, grant proposals, lists, newspaper clippings, one audio cassette tape, ph... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4821.xml Sat, 01 Jan 2022 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4856.xml 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,... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4856.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4243.xml The PACE Association was a citizens' group that worked to improve the quality of education and to promote better race relations in the Greater Cleveland, Ohio, area school systems. It was founded in 1963 and operated until January, 1974. The collection consists of articles of incorporation, a constitution, bylaws, code of regulations, minutes, policy statements, reports, correspondence, memoranda, proposals, financial records, subject files, project files, membership lists, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and publications. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4243.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5089.xml The Eva L. and Joseph M. Bruening Foundation was established in 1987 in Cleveland, Ohio, through the estate donations of Joseph M. Bruening and his wife Eva L. Bruening. It is an independent foundation which provides grants to agencies in the greater Cleveland, Ohio, area. The foundation's focus areas are education and social services, with an emphasis on care for the elderly, disabled, and disadvantaged. Proposals funded include those in the fields of early childhood education, primary and secondary education, higher education, domestic violence and child abuse prevention, human services, and children and youth services. Special consideration is given to Roman Catholic organizations and institutions that provide these types of programs and services. Joseph M. Bruening founded the Ohio Ball Bearing Company in Cleveland in 1923, later known as Bearings Inc. The collection consists of applications, budgets, correspondence, grant proposals (including: audit reports, budgets, correspondence, fact sheets, financi... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5089.xml Fri, 01 Jan 2021 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5503.xml The George Gund Foundation is a charitable foundation established by Cleveland, Ohio, businessman and philanthropist George Gund in 1952. It supports education and projects of community organizations located in northeastern Ohio, but also in Ohio and the United States. The institution's central goal is the advancement of human welfare. The collection consists of grant files, with some administrative files related to arts and culture and tobacco use prevention, and some audio-visual materials. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5503.xml Sat, 01 Jan 2022 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4833.xml The B'nai B'rith Interlodge Council of Greater Cleveland was formed in 1942 to coordinate lodge activities of the Cleveland, Ohio, chapter of B'nai B'rith. the collection consists of minutes, newsletters, certificates, and charters of several lodges that were part of the Interlodge Council. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4833.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5310.xml The Thomas H. White Foundation was established in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1913 by industrialist Thomas H. White (1836-1914). The foundation supports education and social welfare programs that benefit residents of Cleveland and northeast Ohio. The collection consists of agendas, correspondence, financial documents, lists, memoranda, grant proposals with attachments, and reports. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5310.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5137.xml The Abington Foundation (f. 1983) was created by David Knight Ford (1894-1993) and Elizabeth Kingsley Ford (1896-1990) to support organizations, generally in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, dedicated to promoting education, health care, economic independence, and cultural activities. The foundation's grant-making philosophy was devised by Mr. Ford and his four sons who comprised the original board of trustees. Each funding area had a particular focus. The educational focus is pre-primary through higher education, and thus the foundation has supported a vast array of educational institutions and programs such as Early Childhood Options of University City, museums (e.g. Cleveland Museum of Natural History), historical societies (e.g. Moreland Hills Historical Society, and the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad) and universities, including Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland State University Foundation, Inc. The foundation's healthcare focus is on geriatrics and nursing with grants going to the Eliza Bryant Center... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5137.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4970.xml The Women's Law Fund was a nonprofit organization founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1972 dedicated to eradicating gender discrimination in employment, education, government benefits, and housing. Under the direction of Jane M. Picker and Lizabeth A. Moody, the organization secured attorneys and provided funding for litigation related to women's issues. Most notably, the fund supported LaFleur, et al. v. Cleveland Board of Education, et al., a case that reached the U.S. Supreme Court in a landmark ruling concerning mandatory maternity leave for female employees. In the 1990s the fund focused on female age discrimination and discrimination faced by American women employed overseas by American companies. The Women's Law Fund disbanded in 2006. The collection consists of agendas, annual reports, correspondence, financial records, meeting minutes, memorandums, magazine articles, newspaper clippings, reports, resumes, and video tapes. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4970.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4569.xml The Ohio Historic Preservation Office, Western Reserve Region was a regional office of the state agency designated to regulate funding and organize and administer an historic preservation plan in Ohio. It was established in 1973 and located at the Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio. After state funding ceased in 1981, the Historical Society funded the office until 1990. Eric Johannesen served as the preservation officer. The Western Reserve Region includes 12 counties in Northeast Ohio. The collection consists of nomination forms, inventory forms, correspondence, photographs, and research material relating to the office's National Register of Historic Places program and the Ohio Historic Inventory program collected during the office's operation at the Western Reserve Historical Society. The first program was to recognize and nominate important historic structures within the region to the National Register of Historic Places. The second program was an on-going survey to record all buildings, ... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4569.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4620.xml The Cleveland Hebrew Schools evolved from the Montefiore Free Hebrew School (later called the Talmud Torah) established in Cleveland, Ohio, ca. 1885. In 1905, another communal Hebrew school was founded by Joshua Flock and Aaron Garber. In 1907, the two schools combined, the name remaining the Talmud Torah. In 1913, the Talmud Torah received an Ohio charter and changed its name to the Cleveland Hebrew School and Institute, enrolling students in grades one through eight. Abraham Hayyim Friedland, an internationally known educator, headed the school from 1921-1939. In 1926, a high school was added, and a Parent Council was organized in 1930. Bernard Levitin served as superintendent from 1944-1970, a period of movement of Cleveland's Jewish population to the suburbs. A reorganization of the Cleveland Hebrew Schools took place during this period, with some Cleveland branches closing and new suburban schools opening. As the number of Jewish day schools and congregational classes grew, the Cleveland Hebrew Schools e... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4620.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3979.xml Bernard R. Hollander (1927-1975) was a prominent Cleveland, Ohio, attorney who was a leader in many legal, civic, Jewish and educational organizations, including Anshe Chesed Congregation, the National Federation of Temple Brotherhoods and Expo Israel '70. The collection consists of correspondence, notes, writings, appointment calendars, clippings, memorabilia, papers relating to Hollander's activities in various Jewish organizations, and business or legal papers of Sidney and Helen Rich Hollander, Hollander Drug Company and Louis Rich. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3979.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3975.xml Albina Cermak was active in Republican Party politics. She was vice-chairman and secretary of the Cuyahoga County Republican Central and Executive Committees, chairman of the Republican Women's Organization of Cuyahoga County, member of the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections, a Cleveland precinct committeewoman, and a member of the Ohio Federation of Republican Women's Clubs. She was a United States Customs Collector before running unsuccessfully for Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, state senator and Clerk of the Cleveland Municipal Court. The collection consists of correspondence, speeches, minutes, rosters, reports and printed matter, clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, appointment books and personal correspondence. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3975.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4092.xml The Cleveland Foundation was first community trust in the United States. It was organized in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1914 by Frederick J. Goff and the Board of Directors of the Cleveland Trust Company. It has provided funds for educational and artistic development and for humanitarian purposes such as housing and aid to children and the handicapped. The collection consists of grant proposal files, containing the Foundation's evaluation, correspondence, and progress reports. Also included are administrative records of the Foundation. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4092.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4772.xml The Martha Holden Jennings Foundation, an education foundation located in Cleveland, Ohio, was founded by Martha Holden Jennings in 1958. The objective of the Jennings Foundation is to promote excellence in Ohio's primary and secondary schools by funding projects that improve the quality of teaching, teacher training, curriculum development, and school evaluation studies, as well as the creation of educational television programs and provide for in-service educational conferences and seminars. The foundation's main interests are programs that promote more effective teaching in schools and explore new frontiers in education. The collection consists primarily of grant and program files but also include minutes and publications. The grant files include award letters, grant proposals, proposal reviews, correspondence, project reports, photographs, and project evaluations. Program files consist of correspondence, meeting materials, and program descriptions. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4772.xml Sun, 01 Jan 2017 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5299.xml The Abington Foundation (f. 1983) was created by David Knight Ford (1894-1993) and Elizabeth Kingsley Ford (1896-1990) to support organizations, generally in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, dedicated to promoting education, health care, economic independence, and cultural activities. The foundation's grant-making philosophy was devised by Mr. Ford and his four sons who comprised the original board of trustees. Each funding area had a particular focus. The educational focus is pre-primary through higher education, and thus the foundation has supported a vast array of educational institutions and programs such as Early Childhood Options of University City, museums (e.g. Cleveland Museum of Natural History), historical societies (e.g. Moreland Hills Historical Society, and the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad) and universities, including Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland State University Foundation, Inc. The foundation's healthcare focus is on geriatrics and nursing with grants going to the Eliza Bryant Center... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5299.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4876.xml The George S. Dively Foundation was a private endowment fund administered by George S. Dively in Cleveland, Ohio. It primarily supported leadership development in the business sector and higher education projects. The collection consists of agendas, annual reports, correspondence, financial statements, grant proposals, minutes, newspaper and magazine clippings, notes, publications, reports, speech texts, and tax returns. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4876.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4514.xml John W. Barkley was a Cleveland, Ohio, lawyer who worked for Alta House and Goodrich House social settlements and the Cleveland Board of Education and also served as an assistant to the Law Director for the city of Cleveland in matters relating to the Board of Education. He later joined the firm of Squire, Saunders and Dempsey, served as mayor of Shaker Heights, 1950-55, and was a trustee of Hiram House. Barkley attended Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa., and was involved in many college debates. He later married Margaret Megrit. The collection consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings and a scrapbook relating chiefly to Barkley's college life at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. Also includes a farm journal, 1880-1886 kept by William B. Goodrich of Erie County, Pennsylvania, and two household ledgers belonging to Josephine Kreitler of Warren, Ohio, 1889-1898. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4514.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4835.xml The Jewish Community Federation is a central policy making and fundraising agency for the Jewish community of Cleveland, Ohio, which traces its origin to the Federation of the Jewish Charities of Cleveland (founded 1903). The Federation of the Jewish Charities of Cleveland changed its name to the Jewish Welfare Federation of Cleveland in 1926, and in 1930, added a fundraising arm, the Jewish Welfare Fund of Cleveland. In 1951 the Jewish Welfare Federation merged with the Jewish Community Council to become the Jewish Community Federation. The collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, trustee and committee minutes, reports, proposals, newspaper clippings, wills, and financial records. Records are organized into three series consisting of administrative files, endowment funds, and social planning and research. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4835.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5017.xml Brith Emeth Temple was established in 1959 in the Greater Cleveland, Ohio, area. A need for a new Reform congregation was apparent when existing Reform congregations had reached membership capacity. Services were held at various sites until a permanent synagogue was built in 1967 at 27575 Shaker Boulevard in Pepper Pike, Ohio. It was designed by architect Edward Durell Stone. Brith Emeth disbanded in 1986, principally for financial reasons. The collection consists of lists, memoranda, minutes, posters, rosters, and reports. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5017.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3641.xml The Women's Civic Club of Cleveland Heights was a civic and cultural club organized in 1917, in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. It has been active in civic, educational, legislative and recreational affairs of Cleveland Heights. The collection consists of press releases, minutes, histories, newspaper clippings, bulletins, and scrapbooks. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3641.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS 5472.xml Saint Luke's Foundation was established in 1997 after the Saint Luke's Medical Center was sold to Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corporation and its regional partners, the Sisters of Charity of Saint Augustine. The foundation was created to help continue the philanthropic mission of the Saint Luke's Medical Center and Saint Luke's Hospital Association. This collection consists of institutional and administrative records for Saint Luke's Foundation, Saint Luke's Medical Center and Saint Luke's Hospital Association, grant records from Saint Luke's Foundation, as well as some artwork and photographs related to these organizations. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS 5472.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2020 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5472.xml Saint Luke's Foundation was established in 1997 after the Saint Luke's Medical Center was sold to Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corporation and its regional partners, the Sisters of Charity of Saint Augustine. The foundation was created to help continue the philanthropic mission of the Saint Luke's Medical Center and Saint Luke's Hospital Association. This collection consists of institutional and administrative records for Saint Luke's Foundation, Saint Luke's Medical Center and Saint Luke's Hospital Association, grant records from Saint Luke's Foundation, as well as some artwork and photographs related to these organizations. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5472.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2020 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5392.xml Joseph Lowe, a longtime resident of Shaker Heights, Ohio, was born to Branya (Dun, Dinn) and Isaac Low in Sambor, Poland, in 1924. Lowe's mother's family lived in Lorain, Ohio, and arranged for Lowe to come to the United States in early 1939. Lowe left behind his parents and four siblings. He served in the United States Navy during World War II, married, and began a career as a hairdresser in Shaker Heights. In 1957 he received his father's Soviet passport from Zdzislaw Sulak, a former classmate from Sambor who was imprisoned with Isaac Low during the war. Joseph Lowe's immediate family members were killed by the Germans in the killing center of Belzec and the village of Radlowice (Ralivka) in 1943. The Joseph Lowe Family Papers consist of a newspaper clipping, a passport, and a translation of the passport. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5392.xml Sun, 01 Jan 2017 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5441.xml The Alfred and Clara Rankin papers focus on the history of the Rankin and Taplin families and their ancestors. It relates primarily to Alfred and Clara Rankin's ancestors. Clara's ancestors are the Smith and Taplin family. The earliest documents are from the early 1800s going through 2010s. The collection includes awards, bank books, brochures, books, booklets, cards, certificates, contracts, correspondences, diaries, drawings, financial records, magazines, maps, minutes, negatives, newspapers, notes, pamphlets, passports, photo albums, photocopied papers, photos, postcards, scrapbook pages, and telegraphs. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5441.xml Tue, 01 Jan 2019 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5415.xml Dr. Zelma Watson George (1903-1994) was born in Texas in 1903. As an African American woman coming of age in the early twentieth century, she and her family endured discrimination in many situations. She graduated from high school in Topeka, Kansas, went on to college at the University of Chicago, and eventually earned her Ph.D. from New York University. She moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in the 1940s and became renown for her musical talents and research, diplomatic career, her contributions to the civil rights movement locally, and her career as an administrator and educator/lecturer. The collection consists of agendas, awards, brochures, budgets, by-laws, calendars, cassette tapes, certificates, charters, contracts, correspondence, diaries, a dissertation, financial documents, flyers, forms, guest books, invitations, journal articles, lectures, magazine articles, memoranda, minutes, music scores, negatives (approximately 20), newsletters, newspaper articles and clippings, note cards, notes, passports, pho... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5415.xml Mon, 01 Jan 2018 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4206.xml The Urban League of Cleveland was organized in 1917, in Cleveland, Ohio, as the Negro Welfare Association of Cleveland to aid the adjustment of black workers coming to Cleveland during the Great Migration following World War I. Led by Wm. R. Conners for the first 25 years, it joined the National Urban League in 1930 and changed its name to the Urban League of Cleveland in 1940. Formed initially to confront barriers to economic opportunities and find jobs for black workers, by the 1930s the primary goal of the League was the issue of improved housing. Its purpose is interracial planning to help the community devise solutions to social and economic problems. The collection consists of minutes, correspondence, newspaper clippings, reports, contracts, memoranda and other papers relating to the organization's operation, especially Operation Equality, a subdivision of the organization concerned with fair housing issues. This collection is essential for those interested in the issues of race relations and open ho... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4206.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4123.xml The George Gund Foundation is a charitable foundation established by Cleveland, Ohio, businessman and philanthropist George Gund (1888-1966). It supports education and various projects of community organizations. Of particular interest to the foundation are new teaching methods and education for disadvantaged people. One of its special interests was the Ohio American Revolution Bicentennial Advisory Commission. The collection consists of annual reports of the Foundation, and grant proposals (including histories and reports) of grant-seeking organizations. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4123.xml Sat, 01 Jan 2022 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4827.xml Ronald Brown was born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised and educated in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1928, he founded, along with William C. Treuhaft and Elmer C. Hann, the Tremco Manufacturing Company in Cleveland. Brown was a vice president of Tremco. After retirement from the company in 1960, he became a management consultant. Brown was the author of From Selling to Managing: Guidelines for the First-Time Sales Manager. His volunteer and philanthropic activities included work for the Jewish Big Brothers Association of Cleveland, the Citizen's Advisory Board to the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court, the Ohio Department on Aging, and the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Board of Education. He married Isabelle Gup in 1934. She was a graduate of Case Western Reserve University. Active in the Cleveland Section, National Council of Jewish Women, she served as president of that organization and was active on the national and international level. She also was first chair of the Women's Organization of the Jewish Community ... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4827.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5271.xml The Benjamin S. Gerson Family Foundation was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, as a charitable fund in 1968 by Eleanor Rosenfeld Gerson (1915-2000) and her husband Benjamin S. Gerson (1911-1972). It was converted to a private family foundation in 1973 in memory of Benjamin Gerson. The foundation dissolved in 2004. The collection consists of budgets, correspondence, evaluations, financial statements, and grant proposals, and project reports. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5271.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4343.xml Winifred Wolcott (1879-1946) was a genealogist from Medina County, Ohio. Wolcott compiled a great deal of information on her ancestral families, most of whom came from New England. The collection consists of correspondence, writings, family histories, hereditary society applications, cemetery records, marriage records, and papers of Mrs. Wolcott's maternal ancestors, the Kings and the Porters. Includes correspondence, transcripts of letters, notices of payments from the U.S. Postal Service, excerpts from the Windfall, a newspaper edited by Cyrus King, and miscellaneous material. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4343.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5296.xml The George Gund Foundation is a charitable foundation established by Cleveland, Ohio, businessman and philanthropist George Gund. It supports education and various projects of community organizations located primarily in northeastern Ohio, but also in Ohio and the United States. Of particular interest to the Foundation are new teaching methods and education for disadvantaged people. The arts, civic affairs, economic development, the environment, and human services are also priorities of the Foundation. Abortion rights, women's issues, handgun control, homelessness, equal housing, museum development, retinitis pigmentosa research, AIDS public policy and education, community gardening, historic preservation, population control, family planning, and nuclear weapons control are also areas supported by the Foundation. The collection consists primarily of grant files. These grant files include audited financial statements, brochures, correspondence, proposals, newspaper clippings, reports, publications, and o... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5296.xml Sat, 01 Jan 2022 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4423.xml Richard N. Campen was a Cleveland, Ohio, area architectural historian who authored numerous books and articles on architecture in Ohio and the Western Reserve. His work not only dealt with architectural styles, but with particular architects as well. The collection consists of copies of some of Campen's writings, correspondence, lists of preserved buildings, and newspaper clippings. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4423.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5181.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 addresses, advertisements, agendas, agreements, annual reports, applications, articles of incorporation, bibliographies, board of trustees minutes, book manuscripts, brochures, by-laws, certificates, constitutions, correspondence, diary entries, dues payments, family trees, financial records, flyers, forms, genealogies, handbooks, indexes, inventories, invitations, itineraries, journal articles, journals, lectures, lists, magazine articles, magazine clippings, maps, meeting announcements, membership cards, memoranda, minutes, newsletters, newspaper articles, newspaper clippings, notes, obituaries, pamphlets, photographs, post cards, press releases, proclamations, progra... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5181.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5078.xml James C. Hardie (1922-2009), an independent development and public relations consultant in Cleveland, Ohio. Through his professional relationship with industrialist and philanthropist Frederick Crawford (1891-1994), Hardie was impressed with the caliber of Cleveland corporations and their ability to support educational endeavors as well as with the region's pioneering work in philanthropy, most notably its creation of the first unified community fund raising campaign. Hardie became Vice President of Case Institute of Technology in 1967. He held the same office when Case merged with neighboring Western Reserve University in 1967, serving there until 1969. While at Case and CWRU he continued to develop new and innovative ideas in the development/fundraising field and was allowed by the university to consult for John Carroll University's development department. Through his work with John Carroll University and other such opportunities, he broadened his career purview and embraced new concepts. He became involv... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5078.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4681.xml The John P. Murphy Foundation is a charitable foundation established in 1960, which received most of the $13 million estate of John Patrick Murphy, a Minnesota and Montana railroad lawyer who came to Cleveland, Ohio in 1920 as lawyer for the Van Sweringen brothers, builders of Cleveland's Terminal Tower. Murphy represented the Van Sweringen brothers in their development of real estate interests, railroads, and the Cleveland Union Terminal on Public Square from 1920-1937, and was named executor of the Van Sweringen estate after the deaths of the brothers. Murphy took over the Van Sweringens' controlling interest in the Higbee Company, and became president in 1944 and chairman of the board in 1968. The foundation supports primarily local projects in the area of secondary and higher Catholic education, music, hospitals, and the Community Fund. The collection consists of grant proposals, audited financial statements, and investment reports from National City Bank. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4681.xml Fri, 01 Jan 2021 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3581.xml Perry B. Jackson (1896-1986) was Ohio's first African American judge. He was active in Cleveland, Ohio civic, religious, and educational organizations. The collection consists of correspondence, reports, minutes, programs, speeches, financial material, personnel lists, bench notes, judicial election material, and other material relating to Judge Jackson and his judicial, church and civic activities. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3581.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5279.xml Julia Gants Simpson (b. 1912) was an African American woman born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Mildred Braggs Gants. Her grandmother was Henrietta Braggs who worked as a maid and cook for the Wentworth Marshall family of Shaker Heights, Ohio. The collection consists of two scrapbooks of newspaper clippings and programs that document African American history in Cleveland, Ohio, and the United States. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5279.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5132.xml David Berger (1944-1972), an American and Israeli citizen, was a champion weightlifter and a member of the Israeli weightlifting team at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany. He was murdered by Arab terrorists on September 6, 1972, along with ten other Israeli athletes. Berger was a 1962 graduate of Shaker Heights High School in Shaker Heights, Ohio. He studied psychology at Tulane University, graduating in 1966, after which he completed a master's degree in business administration and a law degree at Columbia University. Throughout the mid and late 1960s, Berger competed successfully in many weightlifting competitions. He represented the United States twice in the Maccabiah Games, an international Jewish athletic event held in Israel every four years. In 1965 he won a silver medal and in 1969 he won gold, setting a world record. He also won a silver medal at the 1971 Asian Games. He is in the Hall of Fame of the Amateur Athletic Union. Berger moved to Israel in 1970 after visiting the country with his f... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5132.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5458.xml The William Bingham Foundation was established in 1955 in Cleveland, Ohio, by Elizabeth Bingham Blossom with the proceeds of an inheritance from her brother, William Bingham II. Grants were originally given to institutions of learning, hospitals, and public charities in Ohio. After the death of Elizabeth Bingham Blossom in 1970, other family members maintained control of the foundation, and the focus of grantmaking changed to include organizations in the fields of the arts, sciences, education, and health and human services. Projects related to urban revitalization, adult psychological development, and nuclear issues were also undertaken. Environmental issues also took center stage in grants funding by the William Bingham Foundation. A majority of the collection contains materials related to grants administration, grant proposals, grant decisions, and grant reports. The rest of the collection consists of annual reports and annual meeting documentation, articles of incorporation, Blossom and Bingham family his... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5458.xml Tue, 01 Jan 2019 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5248.xml The Junior League of Cleveland was a women's service organization founded in 1912, in Cleveland, Ohio. The organization's constitution stated that the "object of the League shall be to foster interest among its members in the social, economic, and civic conditions of their community and to make efficient their volunteer service." The organization served the community through various activities such as musical and theatrical performances, volunteer drives, and philanthropy and among other activities to respond to community needs. The collection consists of annual reports, directories, event programs, financial documents, meeting minutes, newsletters, publicity materials, and yearbooks. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5248.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4691.xml William Bingham 2nd (1879-1955) was the son of Charles W. and Mary Perry Payne Bingham of Cleveland, Ohio, and a descendent of the Perry, Payne, Beardsley, and Bingham families. Ill health forced him to lead a secluded life in Bethel, Maine, where he sought treatment at the Bethel Inn under the care of Dr. John G. Gehring. With the advice and support of Dr. Gehring, Bingham turned his focus to philanthropy, particularly the fields of medicine and education. In 1932 he created the Bingham Associates Fund, which provided funding for medical care and training of physicians for rural areas of New England. This plan for regional medical care became known as the Bingham Plan. The Bingham Associates Fund also provided funding for the construction of the Joseph H. Pratt Diagnostic Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, and the Farnsworth Surgical Wing of the New England Medical Center. William Bingham 2nd also gave financial support to Gould Academy, a local private high school in Bethel, Maine, and to many residents of ... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4691.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4456.xml Ralph J. Perk was the Cuyahoga County, Ohio auditor, 1963-1971, and mayor of Cleveland, 1972-1977. Perk, the first Republican mayor since 1941, faced big budget deficits which he covered with existing bond funds and general revenue sharing funds, as well as large federal grants from the Nixon administration. Nevertheless, city sewer and public transit systems had to be regionalized to raise operating capital. A Czech-American, Perk was seen as a national leader on ethnic issues. He retired from politics in 1977 after an unsuccessful campaign against John Glenn for the United States Senate in 1974 and a defeat in the 1977 nonpartisan mayoral primary. The collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, financial records, reports, speeches, minutes, news releases, campaign materials, newspaper clippings, invitations, certificates, etc., pertaining to Perk's political career and public service. Mayoral records include voluminous correspondence and a subject file, as well as the records of various secretaries a... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4456.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3114.xml Taylor Hampton (Virginia Taylor) was a personal friend of the Van Sweringen brothers who shared their interest in railroads. The collection consists of manuscript notes and copies or originals of magazine and newspaper articles, pamphlets, blueprints, maps, annual reports, financial statements, stock certificates, time tables, charts, and letters used by Hampton to research her book, The Nickel Plate Road, the history of a great railroad. The book was published in 1947. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3114.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5112.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://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5112.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4550.xml Kenyon Castle Bolton was a Cleveland, Ohio, businessman and philanthropist and son of Chester and Frances Payne Bolton. He served in the military, beginning in 1936 as a member of the 107th Cavalry of the Ohio National Guard. He entered active service in 1940, served during World War II and attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He was president of Cleveland Air Taxi, a helicopter taxi service, and had a strong interest in higher education and the arts. Bolton served with the Council of Foreign Ministers in 1947 and 1948, the Austrian Peace Treaty Conference in 1948, and was special assistant of the U.S. ambassador to France. Kenyon C. Bolton was married to Mary Riding Peters, and had five children. The collection consists of family data, personal records, military records, business records, and records of Bolton's organizational involvements, including correspondence, newspaper clippings, genealogical data, summary court papers, air travel cards, contribution lists, articles, brochures, advertisements, co... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4550.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT