http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/search?docsPerPage%3D100;expand%3Dsubject;f1-format%3DPhotograph%20Collection;facet-format%3DManuscript%20Collection;facet-format%3DPhotograph%20Collection;freeformQuery%3Dinventor%20OR%20patent%20OR%20entrepreneur Results for your query: docsPerPage=100;expand=subject;f1-format=Photograph Collection;facet-format=Manuscript Collection;facet-format=Photograph Collection;freeformQuery=inventor OR patent OR entrepreneur Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG246.xml Garrett A. Morgan (1877-1963) was an entrepreneur and inventor whose inventions included the electric traffic signal and the gas mask. Morgan moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1895 and opened his own sewing machine sales and repair shop in 1907. He received a patent on his gas mask in 1912 and formed the National Safety Device Co. to manufacture and market it. He also established the G.A. Morgan Hair Refining Co., The Cleveland Call and Post, and the Wakeman Country Club for African Americans. The collection consists of individual and group portraits of Garrett A. Morgan, his family, and friends. Also included are views of his residence, and of his inventions, including the gas mask, traffic signal, and a hair treatment system. The collection also includes views relating to the water intake crib disaster in Cleveland, Ohio in 1917. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG246.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG555.xml Odette Valabregue Wurzburger (1909-2006) was a French resistance fighter during World War II, a lawyer and teacher, and an active community leader, especially in the arts. Her husband, Paul Wurzburger (1904-1974), was an entrepreneur, inventor, patron of the arts, and honorary consul of France. Paul's father, Hugo Wurzburger (1887-1952), was a successful industrialist and inventor. Paul's first wife, Margarethe (later Marguerite) Wolf (1900-1976), was born in Germany and died in Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of approximately 150 black and white photographs and 50 color photographs. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG555.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG499.xml 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 ... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG499.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG592.xml Matthew Luckiesh (1883-1967) was an authority and pioneer in the research of light, lighting, color, vision, and seeing. Known as "the father of the Science of Seeing," he was a physicist at the Incandescent Lamp Department of the General Electric Company in Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of 422 black and white photographs, 21 color photographs, and 101 black and white negatives. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG592.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG462.xml The Lees-Bradner Company was organized in 1906 as a partnership between Ernest J. Lees and Hosea Townsend Bradner of Cleveland, Ohio. It incorporated in 1909. The company specialized in gear hobbing and thread milling machinery for automobile timing and transmission gears and other applications. Hosea Bradner's sons; John A., George T., and James H. Bradner, ran the company in the post-World War II era. The company was purchased by White Consolidated Industries in 1967 and by 1983 the name Lees-Bradner had been phased out and the Cleveland plant closed. After White Consolidated Industries was itself purchased by Electrolux in 1986, the gear hobbing division was sold and the name Lees-Bradner was reinstated as a machine tool manufacturer. The collection consists of individual portraits of Hosea Townsend Bradner, George Townsend Bradner, and John Bradner; group portraits of employees, including production workers, managers and sales personnel; and views of products, facilities, and activities. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG462.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG018.xml The Wellman-Seaver-Morgan Company was a pioneer manufacturer of steel plant equipment with an international reputation for engineering some of the largest material-handling projects ever built. The firm started in 1896 as the Wellman-Seaver Engineering Company in Cleveland, Ohio, founded by the inventor of the first open-hearth furnace in the U.S., Samuel T. Wellman, his brother, Charles H. Wellman, and John W. Seaver, to engineer and design steel mills and industrial plant equipment. One of the company's executives, George Huelett, invented the Hulett unloader, which revolutionized the Great Lakes ore industry. The collection consists of one album containing forty-two photographs of ship and railroad unloading machinery, eight loose photographs of ship unloaders and coke dumpers, and one blueprint of a railroad car dumper. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG018.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG357.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 Museum of WRHS. Crawford was married twice; to Audrey Cecelia Bowles in 1932, and to Kathleen M. Saxon in 1975. The collection consists of individual and group portraits of Frederick C. Crawford, his family, friends, and associates, and views of his activities relating to awards, tours, dinners, business enterprises, clubs, travel, residences, and muse... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG357.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG201.xml Charles Francis Brush (1849-1929) was a Cleveland, Ohio, businessman and inventor. His inventions included a dynamo which was the predecessor for the modern generator and the arc light, demonstrated on Cleveland's Public Square in 1879. Brush formed the Brush Electric Co. in 1880, which was subsequently bought by Thomason Houston Electric Co., and then merged with Edison General Electric Co. in 1891, forming the General Electric Co. Brush continued to maintain scientific and business interests throughout his life, and founded the Brush Foundation in 1927. The collection consists of individual and group portraits of Charles F. Brush, his friends and associates, and views of his inventions, including the arc lamp and wind powered dynamo. Also included is a view of an arc lamp on Cleveland, Ohio's Public Square, ca. 1896. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG201.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG195.xml Harry "Czar" Bernstein (1856-1920) was a Cleveland, Ohio, businessman and Republican Party political ward boss. He was born in Poland, and emigrated to Cleveland in 1868 with his parents. In addition to various businesses, he owned the Peoples and Perry theaters in Cleveland, which presented entertainment in Yiddish in the Eastern European Jewish neighborhood of Woodland. He became involved in Cleveland politics as a ward boss in the 16th (later the 12th) ward of Cleveland, a heavily immigrant neighborhood. He married Sarah Trilling in 1888. The collection consists of one album and loose photographs relating to Harry Bernstein, his family and friends. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG195.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG580.xml Curtis Industries, Inc. was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1932 by William Abrams and two of his sons, Morris and Howard, as Clipper Key and Lock Co. The company initially sold several brands of key cutting machines throughout the Cleveland area and the Midwest. In 1934, the Abrams worked together with inventor William Curtis to invent a new key cutting machine that they could manufacture and distribute themselves. The machine was patented, and the company changed its name to Curtis Key Co. The company's focus was on key cutting machines and key blanks, which they both manufactured and sold. However, during World War II, the company concentrated solely on defense work and ceased to manufacture of keys and key machines. Following the war, the company changed its name to Curtis Industries, Inc. and resumed its work on key machines and key blanks. The company also began manufacturing and selling automotive and farm equipment replacement parts. In 1961, Curtis Industries built a large facility in Eastlake, Ohio. ... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG580.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG059.xml The Jeptha Home Wade family was a prominent nineteenth and early twentieth century Cleveland, Ohio, family with business interests in the telegraph and railroad industries, mining, manufacturing, and banking. Jeptha Homer Wade spent his early life as an apprentice to a tanner and as a carpenter. He next turned his interest to the emerging telegraph industry. In 1849, he organized the Cleveland and Cincinnati Telegraph Company. In 1857, Wade moved to Cleveland as the Western Union Telegraph Company's first general agent. His business interests were extensive in Cleveland, including the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company and the Citizens Savings and Loan Association. Randall Palmer Wade worked with his father in the telegraph business, moving with him to Cleveland in 1857. His business interests included the Cuyahoga Mining Company; the Citizens Savings and Loan Association; the Cleveland Banking Company; the American Sheet and Boiler Plate Company, and the Chicago and Atchison Bridge Company. Jeptha Homer Wade II ... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG059.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG471.xml Thomas Howard White (1836-1914) was the founder of the White Sewing Machine Company, the While Motor Company, and the Thomas H. White Foundation, all of Cleveland, Ohio. He was born in Massachusetts, part of the White family which had immigrated from England ca. 1638. He moved to Cleveland in 1867. In 1876 he, his half-brother Howard W. White, and Rollin C. White (no relation) incorporated the White Sewing Machine Company. In 1899, his son Rollin Henry White invented the White steam car, put into production by the White Sewing Machine Company in 1900. In 1906, The automobile division was separated from the Sewing Machine Company as the White Company, later the White Motor Company. He and his wife, Almira Greenleaf White, had eight children; Mabel Almira Harris (wife of James Armstrong Harris), Alice Maud Hammer (wife of William Joseph Hammer), Windsor Thomas White, Clarence Greenleaf White, Rollin Henry White, Walter Charles White, and Ella Almira Ford (wife of Horatio Ford). The collection consists of indiv... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG471.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG079.xml James Finney Lincoln (1883-1965) was the Executive Director of the Lincoln Electric Company of Cleveland, Ohio. He was a pioneer in the areas of arc welding and profit sharing. He also established the James Finney Lincoln Welding Foundation. The collection consists of unmounted photographs and negatives relating to James F. Lincoln and the Lincoln Electric Company of Cleveland, Ohio. Included are group photographs, most of which include James F. Lincoln, taken at the Lincoln Electric Company, Case Institute of Technology reunions, and Lincoln family vacations. The collection also includes one carte de visite photograph, possibly of a Lincoln family member, ca. 1870s. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG079.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG063.xml Adella Prentiss Hughes (1869-1950) was a musical impresario and founder and manager of the Cleveland Orchestra. Her grandparents, Benjamin and Rebecca Rouse, were leaders in various charitable and religious institutions in Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of one album containing clippings, some manuscript items, and primarily photographs, relating to the family of Adella Prentiss Hughes of Cleveland, Ohio. Included are portraits of Benjamin and Rebecca Cromwell Rouse, grandparents of Adella Prentiss Hughes; E. C. Rouse; Margaret Miller; Mary Miller Rouse; and H. C. Rouse. Also included are views of the birthplace of Henry Clark Rouse at 489 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio; the Miller Block at 193-195 Superior Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio; and the United Brass Company Works, Lorain, Ohio. Loose photographs include views of the liner Westernland, and travel photographs taken of various sites in Europe. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG063.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG268.xml Allen E. Cole (1883-1970) was a Cleveland, Ohio, photographer who produced over 50,000 photographs of people and places in the African American community of Cleveland, Ohio. Cole opened his first studio in 1922 at 9909 Cedar Avenue, supplementing his income with commercial work and commission work for eight white-owned studios, and earned prizes and commendations at state and local exhibitions. His photographs were frequently published in The Call and Post. The collection consists of approximately 30,000 black and white and color negatives; 6,000 black and white and color photographs; and 1 oil painting. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG268.xml Mon, 01 Jan 2018 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG597.xml The Wade family was a prominent nineteenth and early twentieth century Cleveland, Ohio, family with business interests in the telegraph and railroad industries, mining, manufacturing, and banking. Jeptha Homer Wade spent his early life as an apprentice to a tanner and as a carpenter. He next turned his interest to the emerging telegraph industry. In 1849, he organized the Cleveland and Cincinnati Telegraph Company. In 1857, Wade moved to Cleveland as the Western Union Telegraph Company's first general agent. His business interests were extensive in Cleveland, including the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company and the Citizens Savings and Loan Association. Randall Palmer Wade worked with his father in the telegraph business, moving with him to Cleveland in 1857. His business interests included the Cuyahoga Mining Company; the Citizens Savings and Loan Association; the Cleveland Banking Company; the American Sheet and Boiler Plate Company, and the Chicago and Atchison Bridge Company. Jeptha Homer Wade II also worked ... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG597.xml Fri, 01 Jan 2016 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG551.xml The Joseph Family is a prominent Cleveland, Ohio, Jewish family. The family has been active in both leadership and support for a number of cultural and social institutions in Cleveland such as the Musical Arts Association (The Cleveland Orchestra), Bellefaire, and the Jewish Family Service Association. The collection consists of 149 black and white photographs, 281 color photographs, and 33 negatives. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG551.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG200.xml Florence Ellinwood Allen (1884-1966) was a lawyer and judge in Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of individual portraits of Florence E. Allen; group portraits including Florence E. Allen; views taken during her various campaigns; views taken during various trips; and views relating to women's suffrage. Included is a portrait of Carrie Chapman and one of Ohio Supreme Court Justices, ca. 1930. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG200.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG548.xml The Ratner (formerly Ratowczer) family has been prominent in the Cleveland, Ohio, area since the mid-twentieth century. The family immigrated to the United States in 1920 and settled in Cleveland in 1921, eventually founding what became known as Forest City Enterprises, Inc. Leonard Ratner married Lillian Bernstein in 1924 and had two children: Ruth Ratner Miller and Albert B. Ratner. Leonard Ratner held many important positions on community boards during his lifetime, including the positions of honorary life trustee at the Jewish Welfare Federation, the Jewish Community Federation, and Mount Sinai Hospital. His daughter Ruth was a civic leader, businesswoman, and philanthropist. She and Samuel Miller had four children. Albert B. Ratner married Faye Katz in 1950 and had two children. The collection consists of 39 black and white photographs and 238 color photographs of varying sizes. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG548.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG277.xml Orrel A. Parker (1873-1965) was the President of the Parker Wheel Company in Cleveland, Ohio, who also served as an Aeronautical Mechanical Engineer in charge of technical records for the Air Service during World War I. He was largely responsible for the War Department's investigation of irregularities between the Lubrication Department and the Air Division of the Signal Corps. The collection consists of photographs (including tintypes and cabinet cards) and negatives of portraits of Orrel Parker and his family, and views of his residences and businesses. Also included are views and lantern slides made by Parker of the installation of the United States government in Puerto Rico and of an execution by garroting in Puerto Rico. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG277.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG547.xml David N. Myers was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1900. He worked his way through high school and earned an accounting degree from Dyke College, a local business college, in 1922. He accepted a position in accounting with the Francis Byerlyte Corporation, and subsequently became president and owner of the company, later known as Consolidated Coatings Corporation. He married Inez Pink in 1929, and the couple raised two sons. Myers' primary philanthropic interest was aging and the elderly. He was instrumental in facilitating the move of the Jewish Orthodox Home for the Aged from the Glenville neighborhood to Beachwood, Ohio. He also assisted in the construction of R.H. Myers Apartments, an independent living facility for the elderly. He served as the President of the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland from 1964 to 1969 and, along with his wife, established the David and Inez Myers Foundation. In 1995, Dyke college was renamed David N. Myers College in recognition of Myers' contributions to the school. The c... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG547.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG325.xml Samuel A. Cooley, a resident of Beaufort, South Carolina, was an entrepreneur, photographer, and merchant. The collection consists of views taken by Samuel A. Cooley in the Sea Islands of Georgia and South Carolina, and in Jacksonville, Florida, during the American Civil War. The photographs depict daily life in the region during Federal occupation of the Sea Islands and the commercial blockade and siege of Charleston and Savannah. Cooley worked with stereographic cameras, but the negatives were later separated and processed as individual prints. Included are views of institutions, churches, residences, landscapes, hospitals, and military personnel and equipment. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG325.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT