http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/search?docsPerPage%3D100;f1-format%3DManuscript%20Collection;smode%3Dadvanced;subject%3DClubs%20--%20Ohio%20--%20Cleveland;subject-join%3Dexact Results for your query: docsPerPage=100;f1-format=Manuscript Collection;smode=advanced;subject=Clubs -- Ohio -- Cleveland;subject-join=exact Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS1500.xml The Chamber of Industry incorporated in 1907 in Cleveland, Ohio, to promote the general interests of Cleveland's west side. The collection consists of records of social events and some financial accounts. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS1500.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 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 The collection consists of correspondence (1927-1941), research notes, and preliminary and final copies of an unpublished ms.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/MS2812.xml The Ashtabula County Society of Cleveland was an organization of former Ashtabula County, Ohio, residents who moved to Cleveland. the collection consists of a roll-call book with names and addresses of members. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS2812.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4043.xml The collection consists of a twenty page report by Warren H. Manning, describing the topography of the area around the Mayfield Country Club of Cleveland, Ohio, and suggesting conservation measures. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4043.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5352.xml The Singers' Club of Cleveland, a male chorus in Cleveland, Ohio, was begun informally in 1891 at the Central Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) by Homer B. Hatch and Carroll B. Ellinwood. In 1893 the organization formally became known as the Singers' Club of Cleveland and is still active today (2015) under the direction of Dr. Melvin P. Unger. The collection consists of advertisements, agendas, agreements, applications, attendance records, audio reels, book chapter manuscripts, brochures, budgets, a calendar, cassette tapes, certificates, compact discs, contracts, correspondence, film reels, financial records, flyers, grant proposals, handbooks, historical sketches, indices, itineraries, journals, ledgers, lists, magazine articles, meeting announcements, memoranda, minutes, negatives, newsletter articles, newsletters, newspaper clippings, notes, personal memoirs/remembrances, photographs, posters, press releases, proclamations, program notes, programs, prospecti, public service announc... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5352.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5508.xml The Cleveland Hiking Club was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1919 to encourage and promote outdoor recreation for people living in northeast Ohio. The collection consists of anniversary files, audit reports, board minutes, a cookbook, constitutions, directories, event programs, financial records, hiking schedules, mileage lists, newspaper articles, newsletters, organizational history files, photographs and photo albums, and slides. The collection contains approximately 1,200 black and white photographs, 375 color photographs, and 178 slides. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5508.xml Sat, 01 Jan 2022 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS2070.xml The Rubinstein Club was a musical club founded in 1899, in Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of lists of members, minutes of meetings, and some financial records. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS2070.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0388.xml The East Cleveland Literary and Scientific Club was a scholarly society founded in 1878 in Cleveland, Ohio. Members included Prof. Charles Penfield, Rev. J.M. Hall, H.H. Hamlen, Julius King, Prof. Z.P. Taylor, Charles Preston, W.C. Wheedon, Elizabeth J. House (secretary), and Myron F. Fenton (secretary). The collection consists of a constitution, list of members, and minutes of meetings. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0388.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0464.xml The Ydrad Boat Club was located in Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of a constitution, bylaws, and minutes of meetings. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0464.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4170.xml The Slovenski Sokol was a Slovene-American social and athletic club formed by members of the Slovenian Benefit Society Slovenija in 1913, in Cleveland, Ohio. It disbanded in the 1940s. The collection consists of minute books, expense book and dues book. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4170.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4187.xml Klubu Kladno a okli (Kladno Social Club) was a national organization with chapters in areas with significant Czech populations. The club's members were usually from Kladno and the area surrounding it in Czechoslovakia. The collection consists of a minute book of club meetings. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4187.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4189.xml Klubu Blatna a okoli (Blatna Social Club) was a national organization with chapters in areas with significant Czech populations. The club's members were usually from Blatna and the areas surrounding it in Czechoslovakia. The collection consists of a minute book for club meetings. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4189.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4316.xml The Cleveland Jaycees is the Cleveland, Ohio, chapter of what had originally been known as the Junior Chamber of Commerce, a leadership-training and community service-oriented organization for men and women ages 18-36. The Cleveland chapter was organized in 1938 and began accepting women for full membership in 1984. The collection consists of articles of incorporation, minutes, agendas, annual reports, project reports, activity files, financial materials, correspondence, materials relating to the women's auxiliary, newsletters, news releases, clippings, and membership lists. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4316.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4392.xml The Cleveland Society was founded in 1923 and composed of American businessmen and professionals of Polish descent in the Cleveland, Ohio, area who promoted citizenship and fostered the language, traditions and culture of Poland. The group was a spin-off organization of the Polish National Alliance. In addition to sponsoring an annual debutante ball, the membership raised money for Marymount Hospital in Garfield Heights, Ohio. The collection consists of a constitution, membership roster, minutes, correspondence, programs, newsletters, and newspaper clippings. The collection is relevant to the study of an elite ethnic social club that tried to assimilate some of the characteristics of upper class American society while simultaneously retaining their cultural identity. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4392.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4437.xml The Research Club of Cleveland was a woman's social and study club in Cleveland, Ohio, which included bi-weekly luncheon meetings at members' homes, with yearly meetings centered around specific topics. The majority of members were retired or former school teachers. The club was founded in 1895 as the Avery Literary Circle, became the Minerva Literary Club by 1898, and the Research Club in 1905. It disbanded in 1959 due to the declining health and age of the members. The collection consists of minutes, annual reports, yearly program booklets containing topics, names and addresses of members, constitutions and bylaws of the club, newspaper articles about the club, correspondence, and attendance lists. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4437.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4521.xml The Country Club was founded in 1889 in Cleveland, Ohio, as a private club for the wealthy, as an extension of the Bit and Bridle Club. The first clubhouse was located at Eddy Road and Lake Shore Boulevard. Members included Samuel Mather and Tom L. Johnson. In 1895, the Cleveland Golf Club opened as a subsidiary of the Country Club. The original clubhouse was destroyed in 1898, as was the second clubhouse in 1906. The Country Club remained on Lakeshore Boulevard until the late 1920s, when it moved to Lander Road in Pepper Pike, Ohio. The collection consists of one ledger book, containing membership lists and financial records, including expenses, employee wages, and operating expenses for the restaurant. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4521.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4600.xml The Meadville Crawford County Picnic Association was formed when a group of Cleveland, Ohio, families, originally from Meadville and Crawford County, Pennsylvania, gathered in 1917 for a picnic at a lakefront park in Cleveland. Each year thereafter, a picnic was held at either Edgewater Park in Cleveland, or Lakewood Park in Lakewood, Ohio. The association also sponsored luncheons, dances, and theme parties throughout the year. The collection consists of minutes, receipts, budget statements, correspondence, flyers, membership lists, and attendance records. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4600.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5297.xml The Amateur Music Makers was a network of nonprofessional musicians in Cleveland, Ohio, sponsored by the Cleveland Public Library. Members, many of whom were immigrants, used the network to meet other musicians and to play informally in community orchestras, bands, and chamber groups. The collection consists of correspondence, directories, meeting minutes, and membership lists. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5297.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS 5470.xml Excelsior was a Jewish social club established in Cleveland in 1872 partly in reaction to Jewish exclusion from such clubs as the Union Club. The club sponsored a variety of social events and provided dining and recreational facilities. In 1905, a second Jewish association, Oakwood, was established as a golf club in the suburban area of Cleveland Heights. In 1931, the board of the Excelsior leadership agreed to a merger and Excelsior ceased to exist as a separate entity. The Oakwood Club opened in 1906 with a 9-hole golf course. After expansion, the course was selected as the site of the 1921 Western Open Golf Tournament. After the merger with Excelsior, the clubhouse was expanded, with the addition of squash courts, bowling alleys, and an outdoor swimming pool. During World War II, the U.S. Army's 729th Military Police Battalion utilized the Oakwood clubhouse as a barracks. After the war, further improvements were made. In 1961, the membership approved the purchase of l... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS 5470.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2020 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5470.xml Excelsior was a Jewish social club established in Cleveland in 1872 partly in reaction to Jewish exclusion from such clubs as the Union Club. The club sponsored a variety of social events and provided dining and recreational facilities. In 1905, a second Jewish association, Oakwood, was established as a golf club in the suburban area of Cleveland Heights. In 1931, the board of the Excelsior leadership agreed to a merger and Excelsior ceased to exist as a separate entity. The Oakwood Club opened in 1906 with a 9-hole golf course. After expansion, the course was selected as the site of the 1921 Western Open Golf Tournament. After the merger with Excelsior, the clubhouse was expanded, with the addition of squash courts, bowling alleys, and an outdoor swimming pool. During World War II, the U.S. Army's 729th Military Police Battalion utilized the Oakwood clubhouse as a barracks. After the war, further improvements were made. In 1961, the membership approved the purchase of l... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5470.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2020 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS2967.xml The Cleveland Arts Club (Cleveland, Ohio) sought to "organize Cleveland Artists into a body for the betterment of Art Conditions in Cleveland." The collection consists of minutes of meetings and treasurer's reports. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS2967.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3510.xml The Book and Thimble Club was a women's club whose members were primarily concerned with literary pursuits but occasionally engaged in civic and charitable activities. It was organized in 1890, in Cleveland, Ohio, and became inactive after 1957. The collection consists of correspondence, constitution, by-laws, secretaries' and treasurers' books, attendance book, histories of the club, programs, leaflets, newspaper clippings, and other papers, relating to the activities of the club. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3510.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3625.xml The Novel Club of Cleveland was a literary club founded by Elizabeth Cutter Morrow in 1896, in Cleveland, Ohio. Members met monthly to study and discuss novels. The collection consists of yearly calendars, minutes, papers on authors and novels, lists of novels studied, correspondence, and memorials of deceased members. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3625.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3661.xml The Oakwood Club was Jewish country club in Cleveland, and Cleveland Heights, Ohio. It merged with the Excelsior Club in 1931. The collection consists of constitutions, by-laws, minutes, President's reports, a history of the club, membership and subscription lists, and newspaper clippings regarding the Oakwood Club and the Excelsior Club. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3661.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0146.xml The Barber's Benevolent Union of Cleveland, Ohio, was founded in 1874 to provide sick and death benefits to its members. The collection consists of a preamble, constitution, bylaws, and minutes. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0146.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0173.xml The Mechanics and Citizens Institute was a Cleveland, Ohio, organization which sought to encourage manufacturing, pursuit of the fine arts, and diffusion of useful knowledge by establishing a library for general circulation. H. B. Tuttle was the secretary. The collection consists of a constitution and subscription records. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0173.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0889.xml The Cleveland Academy of Natural Science was a Cleveland, Ohio, science society whose early members included John W. Allen, Sherlock D. Andrews, William D. Beattie, William Case, J. Lang Cassells, James D. Cleveland, Jacob J. Delameter, Theodatus Garlick, Charles H. Heard, Jared P. Kirtland, Samuel L. Mather, Samuel Starkweather, Elisha Sterling, Charles Whittlesey, Rufus K. Winslow, and Moses C. Younglove. The collection consists of a constitution, list of members, bylaws, and minutes of meetings. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0889.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3898.xml The Vaclav Snadjr Branch was the Cleveland, Ohio, branch of the Freethinkers Association. It was named in honor of Vaclav Snajdr, a Cleveland journalist, publisher, and leader among the Freethinker faction of Czech Americans. The branch dissolved in 1957. The collection consists of one minute book. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3898.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3911.xml Maison Francaise de Cleveland was founded in 1918 by Emile B. De Sauze in Cleveland, Ohio. The organization sought to promote cultural relations between Cleveland and France by encouraging the study of French culture, language, art and literature, by publishing information regarding these studies, and by assisting professors, teachers and students in their activities. The collection consists of correspondence, membership lists, newsletters, a scrapbook, programs, and information concerning the group's organization and bylaws. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3911.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0445.xml The Franklin Club was a discussion and debate club in Cleveland, Ohio, at which Leon Czolgosz heard Emma Goldman elucidate her anarchical views on May 5, 1901. Four months later Czolgosz assassinated President William McKinley. The collection consists of meeting minutes. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0445.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4081.xml The Novel Club of Cleveland was a literary club founded by Elizabeth Cutter Morrow in 1896, in Cleveland, Ohio. Members met monthly to study and discuss novels. The collection consists of yearly calendars, correspondence, membership requirements list, minutes, papers read by members, and discussion questions used at meetings. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4081.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4133.xml The Polish Library Home was located on Kenilworth Avenue in the Cleveland, Ohio, Tremont neighborhood. It housed a large collection of Polish literature and served as a meeting place for Polish groups, including several lodges of the Polish National Alliance, a fraternal insurance organization which sought to preserve Polish culture and worked for the re-establishment of a free Poland. The home closed in 1984. The collection consists of minute books, dues books, and an account book of the home. Also included are minute books, ledger books, dues books, and insurance rolls of the Polish National Alliance, Groups 171, 229, 861 and 2584. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4133.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4173.xml The Slovenian Benefit Society Slovenija is an independent Slovene-American benefit society formed ca. 1895 in Cleveland, Ohio, by a splinter group from Marijn Spolek, the first Slovenian lodge in the city. It provided insurance and organized both the first Slovenian men's chorus (Zora) and a gymnastics group which developed into the Slovenian Sokol (Slovenski Sokol). The collection consists of bylaws, minute books, account books, membership books, a ledger book, and a dues book. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4173.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4234.xml The Independent Mezricher Association is an organization of Cleveland, Ohio-area Jews whose origins were in Mezrich (Miedzyrzec), Poland. The association maintains cemetery plots for members, sponsors social events, maintains contact with other Mezricher groups, and contributes to projects in Israel. The collection consists of minutes, 1964-1986, correspondence, financial statements, a cemetery account book, membership lists, newspaper clippings, commemorative booklets, a constitution, and a map. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4234.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4237.xml The Princeton Alumni Association of Northern Ohio was founded in 1905 to promote the interests of Princeton University, the association aids in alumni solicitations, helps alumni maintain contact with the university, encourages prospective applicants, and sponsors performances of the Princeton Triangle Club in Cleveland. The collection consists of constitutions, minutes, membership lists, financial records, memoranda, correspondence, notices, publications, contracts, lists of students, statements and speeches from the university, university records, and news clippings. The collection is useful to those interested in the activities of college alumni clubs or the productions of the Princeton Triangle Club and includes some correspondence relating to the admission of women to the university in the 1960s. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4237.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4242.xml The History Club (f. 1907) was established by a group of women in Greater Cleveland, Ohio, who were interested in the study of history. The organization's purpose is to promote interest in the study of history, current events, and to review pertinent literature. The collection consists of constitutions, minutes, membership list, financial records, correspondence, yearbooks, memoranda, and newspaper clippings. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4242.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4256.xml Cleveland Friends of Music was a Cleveland, Ohio, association which sought to encourage the study, creation, and performance of music. They provided support to the Cleveland Institute of Music and sponsored concerts and recitals for the community. The collection consists of certificates, minutes, correspondence, and agreements relating to financial and scholarship matters, as well as press releases and promotional materials relating to concerts and recitals. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4256.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4320.xml The Rotary Club of Cleveland, Ohio, is a chapter (f. 1910) of the national organization, devoted to community service activities, especially helping disabled children. The Cleveland chapter helped form the national and Ohio branches of the Society for Crippled Children, and by 1954 had donated $200,000 to the Society. In 1941, Cleveland Rotarians established the Cleveland Rotary Foundation which by 1953 had spent $150,000 on various projects and had a principal of $90,000. By 1980 it was still the second largest Rotary club in the world. The collection consists of histories, constitutions, minutes, a list of charter members, correspondence, announcements, publications, and national Rotary material. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4320.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4487.xml The Lecture Recital Club was a Cleveland, Ohio, woman's club founded in 1908 to present music and literature in lectures and recitals. Active members were amateur and professional artists who performed in recitals hosted by associate members. The collection consists of constitutions and bylaws, minutes, membership lists, financial materials, programs, and general administrative materials. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4487.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4553.xml The Slovak Gymnastic Union Sokol was a national organization with at least three lodges in the Cleveland, Ohio, area. It encouraged physical fitness, singing, dancing and other cultural activities. With the large number of Slovak immigrants settling in Cleveland between 1870 and the early 1900s, cultural groups such as the gymnastic Sokol Union formed in Slovak neighborhoods. By the 1920s, at least three branches of the Sokol existed in Cleveland. By the 1960s, all the Cleveland lodges had merged into Lodge 260. CThe cllection consists of minutes, account and dues records, membership rolls, and miscellaneous club correspondence. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4553.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4603.xml The Windsor Club was a Cleveland, Ohio, all-male social club that met at Council Educational Alliance and at members' homes. It was founded ca. 1927-1928. The collection consists of one volume of minutes. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4603.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3509.xml The Fortnightly Musical Club was established by Cleveland, Ohio, women in 1894 to sponsor concerts and cultural programs. It later helped establish the Cleveland Music School Settlement and the Cleveland Institute of Music. The collection consists of programs, anniversary folders, a 1970 inventory, yearbooks, bulletins, guest books, scrapbooks, and minutes which also contain correspondence, financial statements, and lists of officers, members and events. Also included are materials from the Ohio Federation of Music Clubs. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3509.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3517.xml The City Club of Cleveland is a men's club formed in 1912 to provide a platform for the discussion of issues of contemporary interest in Cleveland, Ohio. Women were admitted in 1972. A number of noted individuals have addressed the Club's forum. The collection consists of constitutions, articles of incorporation, minutes, correspondence, addresses, opinion polls, financial records, publications, newspaper clippings and scrapbooks. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3517.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3517A.xml The City Club of Cleveland is a men's club formed in 1912 to provide a platform for the discussion of issues of contemporary interest in Cleveland, Ohio. Women were admitted in 1972. A number of noted individuals have addressed the Club's forum. The collection consists of constitutions, articles of incorporation, minutes, correspondence, addresses, financial records, publications, newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks. A number of items relate to prominent political and social leaders who have spoken before the club. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3517A.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3571.xml The Rowfant Club is a Cleveland, Ohio, bibliophile and book collector's club for men founded in 1892. It also issues limited editions of special interest books, and operated a bindery from 1909-1913. The collection consists of correspondence, minutes, resolutions, committee reports, financial records, membership records, speeches, manuscripts, printed matter, yearbooks, meeting notices, blueprints, architectural drawings, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and material on bookmaking and collecting. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3571.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0465.xml The Morning Musical Club of Cleveland was a chamber music ensemble formed in 1888 by a group of women in Cleveland, Ohio. It disbanded in 1914. The collection consists of a constitution, programs, and minutes of meetings. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0465.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0888.xml The Kirtland Society of National Science was originally organized in 1845 by Jared P. Kirtland, John Lang Cassels, and Samuel St. John as the Cleveland Academy of Natural Sciences, Cleveland's first scientific organization. Renamed the Kirtland Society of Natural Science in 1869, this science society was organized with the aim of establishing a natural history museum. In 1876, it opened a museum in Case Hall on Cleveland's Public Square which contained the bird and mammal collection of William Case, the bird collection of R. K. Winslow, the entomology collection of John Fitzpatrick, and fish specimens from the collections of Jared P. Kirtland and Elisha Sterling. The museum continued to function until 1920, when the Cleveland Museum of Natural History was established and the various collections were transferred to it. The collection consists of minutes of meetings, notes on birds, drawings, newspaper clippings, and other papers. Among the early members were Theodatus Garlick, Jared P. Kirtland, B. A. Stanard... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0888.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0993.xml The Four-In-Hand and Tandem Club Company was formed in Cleveland, Ohio, "to furnish facilities for and to promote an interest in four-in-hand and tandem driving and other athletic and outdoor exercises for the amusement, recreation, health, and profit of its members, and to acquire and own property convenient therefore." The collection consists of articles of incorporation, minutes of meetings, correspondence, and legal papers. Stockholders include Daniel R. Hanna, Howard M. Hanna, A.F. Holden, L. Dean Holden, James M. Hoyt, Edward A. Merritt, Charles A. Otis, James Parmelee, Jacob B. Perkins, William L. Rice, Belden Seymour, and R.H. York. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS0993.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3897.xml The West Side D.T.J. was a Cleveland, Ohio, neighborhood branch of the Workers Gymnastic Union (Delnicke Telecvicne Jednoty), a Czech socialist sokol organization established in Cleveland in 1909. The West Side Branch was created in 1926 as an English-speaking unit for second generation Czechs, evolving into a social and cultural organization before it dissolved in 1978. The collection consists of minutes, 1926-1978, and certificates and miscellaneous materials removed from the minute books. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3897.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3899.xml Slapnicka was a shooting and outing club established in 1892, in Cleveland, Ohio, by members of the Freethinker faction of the city's Czech population. The club has since disbanded. The collection consists of ledgers, 1930-1947 and 1939-1950; and an anniversary pamphlet, 1925. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3899.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4148.xml The Nasa Zvezda Dramatic Society was a Slovenian cultural society founded in 1933 in Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of a constitution, minute book, ledger books, expense book, playbills, and scripts. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4148.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4163.xml Tots and Teens was a program for African American families which promoted wholesome recreational and educational activities for youth and parents, served as a clearinghouse for parent-child problems, provided family social activities, and contributed to needy causes. The Cleveland, Ohio Chapter was founded by Emmie G. Lewis. The collection consists of correspondence, memorials, clippings, and organizational materials such as handbooks, reports, newsletters, membership lists and programs. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4163.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4174.xml The Slovenian National Home is a meeting place for Slovene-American social, cultural, political and athletic groups in Cleveland, Ohio. It was built in 1923-24 with funds raised by the Slovene National Benefit Society and houses the Slovenian National Library, a sokol gymnasium, meeting rooms and an auditorium. The collection consists of minutes, financial records, correspondence, membership rolls, stock certificates, and programs of the home. Includes minutes, resolutions, stock certificates, musical scores, scripts, newspaper clippings, and other papers of organizations that used the home. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4174.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4175.xml The Slovene National Benefit Society (Slovenska Narodna Podporna Jednota) is a socialist-oriented fraternal insurance society. It was founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1904 and has several branches in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1941 it absorbed another fraternal insurance society, the Slovene Progressive Benefit Society (Slovenske Svobodomiselne Zveze). The collection consists of constitutions, bylaws, minutes, account books, ledger books, membership rolls, dues books, sickness and hospital benefit records, funeral service records, and publications of the national society and four of its lodges in Cleveland, Ohio. Includes minutes of Lodge 120 of the Slovene Progressive Benefit Society (1919-1941). http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4175.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4186.xml Cesko-Slovanske podporujici spolky ve Spojenych Statech (Czecho-Slavonic Benevolent Society, was a mutual benefit association founded in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1870. Its early members served in the Union army during the American Civil War. Initially, benefits were paid to dependents of men killed in the war. The first Cleveland, Ohio, branch was the third branch of the national organization, and by 1919, 23 branches were located in the city. The national organization was headed by a supreme lodge which had 11 Grand Lodges beneath it. Cleveland was the seat of the Ohio Grand Lodge, which at one point had 31 individual lodges with 3,400 members under its charge. The Czecho-Slavonic Benevolent Society minute book, 1882-1893, consists of a single volume of the Ohio Grand Lodge. The collection is useful for understanding the activities of a late 19th century Czech benevolent society. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4186.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4188.xml Slapnicka (f. 1892) was a Czech hunting and outing club which owned a farm on Route 43 in Solon, Ohio. Its members were drawn from the Freethinker faction of Cleveland area Czechs. The collection consists of a single volume minute book useful for understanding Czech social activities in Cleveland, Ohio. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4188.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4203.xml The Fortnightly Musical Club was established in Cleveland, Ohio, by Mrs. Curtis Webster and other Cleveland women in 1894 to sponsor concerts and cultural programs. It was responsible for bringing to Cleveland many of its early orchestral and musical performances. In partnership with Adella Prentiss Hughes, Fortnightly presented the Symphony Orchestra Concerts which generated the interest in symphonic music that made it possible to organize the Cleveland Orchestra. It later helped establish the Cleveland Music School Settlement and the Cleveland Institute of Music. Fortnightly's role as a concert-agency diminished as Cleveland developed into a music center, and the club turned its attention to awarding performing opportunities for its members and other musicians in the Cleveland area. Fortnightly continues to be an important charter member of the Ohio Federation of Music Clubs. The collection consists of minutes, programs, yearbooks, bulletins, a scrapbook, and record books which were compiled at the turn ... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4203.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4212.xml The Cleveland Alumnae Pan Hellenic Association (f. 1914) is an organization which promotes a closer relationship between Cleveland, Ohio, women of various nationality-based sororities. The most important and constant of the philanthropies supported by the organization has been the Scholarship Fund, which was established in 1915 to lend assistance to women of Cleveland choosing to attend college. The collection consists of histories and minutes of the organization. This collection pertains primarily to the activities of women of the Greater Cleveland area within the context of their educational objectives for future generations, volunteer projects, and philanthropic aid to their community. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4212.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4223.xml The Cleveland Business Economists Club was founded in 1926 representing Cleveland's (and sometimes Akron's and Canton's) leading industrial companies, public utilities, banks, investment firms, merchants, colleges, and governmental statistical staffs. The group met informally for two years before officially incorporating in 1928. In October 1961, the group named itself the Cleveland Business Economists Club. Members met to discuss business matters and to make predictions concerning the economic future of Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of minutes, economic forecasts, correspondence, histories, meeting announcements, and membership lists for the Club and its predecessor, the Business Statistics Section of the Cleveland Chapter of the American Statistical Association. The collection is useful for understanding a segment of Cleveland's business community, the speakers and issues they were interested in, and the predictions they made for Cleveland's business future. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4223.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4231.xml Margurite Mihok (1920-1974) was a prominent leader in Slovak cultural affairs in Cleveland, Ohio. After attending Cleveland College of Western Reserve University and Fenn College, she worked in the fields of personnel, office management, public relations, and transportation for a variety of Cleveland area firms, particularly the Lewis Research Center for the National Aeronautics and Space Agency. Her activities included the Stefanik Dramatics Club, Lutheran Society, Slovak Gymnastic Union Sokol, Slovak Evangelical Union, Dr. Martin Luther Church, Cleveland Folk Arts Association, and Czech and Slovak Cotillion Ball, Inc. The collection consists of biographical materials, clippings, correspondence, and memorabilia. Also included are her following writings: Cleveland Slovak landmarks and accomplishments, Cleveland Slovak personages and personalities--their influences and accomplishments, and The climate of the Cleveland Slovak community. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4231.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4235.xml The Former Junior Federation (f. 1927) was an African American women's social club constituted of the former members of the Junior Federation in Cleveland, Ohio. It was originally called the Gertrude Fisher Club after the founder who molded a group of youngsters into an organization that gathered in each other's homes. The aims of the club were to instill an understanding of the body of culture and thought in the world, to train women to become more efficient club members and better citizens, and to promote service and philanthropy as well as social and cultural interests. In the 1950s they became members of the Council of Colored Women and renamed themselves the Junior Girls Federation. By 1965 they had again changed their name, this time to the Former Junior Federation, but continued their social, civic and friendly activities. The collection consists of a constitution, bylaws, membership rosters, minutes, financial statements, correspondence, clippings, and memorabilia. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4235.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4260.xml The Northeastern Ohio Camera Club Council is a local association of photography clubs from eight Ohio counties. The council coordinated workshops, sponsored field trips, and held competitions for both amateur and professional photographers. The collection consists of incorporation papers, constitutions, minutes, lists, announcements, programs, the council newsletter, Exposure, and correspondence. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4260.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4442.xml The Music and Drama Club of Cleveland was a women's club devoted to promoting interest in, and appreciation of, the combined arts of music and drama. The club was founded in 1904 in Cleveland, Ohio, and originally was called the Music and Drama Study Club. They held monthly meetings featuring performances, primarily by members, and awarded scholarships to students at the Cleveland Music School Settlement, Cleveland Play House and Cleveland Institute of Music, as well as donating funds to various musical organizations in the community. The collection consists of minutes, annual reports, scrapbook materials, and clippings, as well as questionnaires, scripts for skits, and publications concerning scholarship awards. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4442.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4449.xml Paul Gebhart was the art director for Stouffer Foods in Cleveland, Ohio, and an active member and long-time secretary of the Cleveland Society of Artists, which was founded in 1913 as the successor to the Arts Club and was disbanded in 1983. Gebhart was associated with the art department of Stouffer Foods from at least 1943 to 1960 and, as art director, supervised the art work for menus and other publications. The collection consists of administrative materials for the Cleveland Society of Artists; also menus and advertisements for Stouffer Foods, and miscellaneous advertisements, some signed by Gebhart. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4449.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4465.xml Victor G. and Bohumir E. Ptak were brothers who owned the Ptak Music and Furniture Store in Cleveland, Ohio. Bohumir's sons, Bo and Denny (Zdenke) also were partners in the company. The family was very active in Cleveland's Czech societies, including Lumir-Hlahol-Tyl, Sokol Tyrs, Nationalities Services Center, and others. Victor was married to Marus Hlavacek Ptak. The collection consists of a small amount of correspondence, clippings and memorabilia. The organizational records form the bulk of the collection and consist of correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, agendas, memoranda, financial records, bulletins and printed materials. Included in the organizational records are those of various Czech societies and several parent-teacher associations of Cleveland schools. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4465.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4570.xml The Women's Advertising Club of Cleveland, Ohio, is a professional association of women in the advertising and public relations industry in Cleveland. It was founded in 1919 by several of the first women copy writers and commercial artists in the city. Early members included DuMont Grant, advertising manager of Halle Brothers Company, and Freda Gonder, Belle Hoffman, and Ruth Jenkins of the May Company. Others were employed in various advertising offices of department stores and women's specialty shops. As advertising expanded and more women found employment in the field, the club soon included those working in radio and television broadcasting, public relations, printing, direct mail, ad specialties, and newspapers. In addition to professional concerns, the group maintained an extensive social schedule, including benefit activities and community contests. Betty Ott was an active member of the club. The collection consists of minutes, committee reports, correspondence, publications and printed material, fina... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4570.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4682.xml The Swiss Hall Company, located in Cleveland, Ohio, incorporated in 1919. In 1917, members of various Swiss immigrant groups, including the Schweizer Maennerchor (later the Swiss Singing Society), the Schweizer Verien (Swiss Society), Schwiezer Turn Verein (Swiss Turner), and the Schweizerischen Frauen Verien (Swiss Ladies Aid Society) established the Vereinigte Schweizer Vereine (United Swiss Societies) for the purpose of finding a permanent home for the various Swiss Societies. The Swiss Hall Company purchased the old Tuxedo Hall, 2710 Walton Avenue, which became the focal point of Swiss community life in Cleveland. Eventually, the Schwiezer Damenchor (Swiss Women's Chorus), the Dramatic Club, and the Ladies Sewing Circle joined the four founding organizations as stockholding members of the Swiss Hall Company. The Company was responsible for the management and maintenance of the Hall, and eventually for screening and admitting applicants for the individual social societies. Sometime between 1928-1933, the S... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4682.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4684.xml The Swiss Turner was a gymnastic society founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1891 as the Schweizer Turn Verein, by Swiss immigrants. The group practiced at various locations until the united Swiss societies purchased a hall at 2710 Walton Avenue in 1919. The Swiss Turners of Cleveland participated in every national competition sponsored by the Swiss American Gymnastic Association through 1973. The group also hosted national competitions in 1969 and 1973. The group still met as of 1995. The collection consists of minutes, financial information, correspondence, and membership information. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4684.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4685.xml The Swiss Singing Societies consist of a male chorus, women's chorus, and a mixed chorus. In 1867, Swiss immigrants in Cleveland, Ohio, formed the male chorus Schwiezer Gesang Verien Gruetli Bund. In 1872, a mutual aid society, the Swiss Society (Schweizerischen Unterstuetzungs Verein) was formed by the chorus, and the chorus became known as the Gesang Club Gruetli. Later that year, the Gesang Club Gruetli merged with the Helvetia Maennerchor, another Swiss male chorus, to form the Schwiezer Maennerchor of Cleveland. Founders included Markus Knobel, Eduard Gisel, Franz Knobel, Jakob Bohner, Rudolf Knobel, and Arnold Wilhelm. Professor Jakob Keller was the first director/conductor. In 1902, the Schwiezer Maennerchor established a women's chorus. The group hosted a national Saengerfest three times; 1897, 1921, and 1956. The group was still in existence in 1995. The collection consists of minutes, account books and financial records, membership records, correspondence, newspaper clippings and publicity material... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4685.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4714.xml The Musical Art Society, a women's music club, was founded in 1912 in Cleveland, Ohio. Performance and audition standards were criteria for admission of members; and meetings, held at members' homes, included vocal and instrumental performances and presentation of papers on composers and musical topics. The Society also sponsored musical and cultural events for the public, and offered scholarships to promising young musicians and vocalists in the Cleveland area. The collection consists of constitutions and bylaws, minutes, correspondence, programs, seasonal yearbooks, and scrapbooks. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4714.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4859.xml The Cleveland Irish Musicians Club was established in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1976. It is dedicated to the promotion of traditional Irish music and musical instruments and the study of Irish culture, folklore, and history. The collection consists of a constitution, a brochure advertising the Irish Cultural Festival of Cleveland, correspondence, a list of scholarship winners, a magazine, miscellaneous articles, newspaper clippings, photographs, and a transcript. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4859.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5221.xml The Rowfant Club is a Cleveland, Ohio, bibliophile and book collector's club for men founded in 1892. It also issues limited editions of special interest books, and operated a bindery from 1909-1913. The collection consists of an index card file of Rowfant Club members created by Rowfant Club member Anthony Phelps. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5221.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4255.xml The Rowfant Club is a Cleveland, Ohio, club open by invitation only to men of diverse business and professional interests whose bond is a love of books, book collecting, and the art of bookmaking. Organized in 1892, the club chose to identify itself with Frederick Locker-Lampson by adopting the name of his Sussex County, England, estate, "Rowfant." The club insignia, groundhog and candles, are used in initiation and election procedures. The collection consists of committee reports, fellowes' meeting reports, correspondence, articles, scrapbooks, meeting notices, financial records, tax records, insurance records, copyright information, resolutions, drafts of various Rowfant publications, publication lists, and various member files. The collection also includes non-correspondence relating to Rowfant auctions, candlesticks, book holdings and the Friday lunch club. Included are its yearbooks, 1974-86. The collection is useful for those interested in book collecting and bookmaking, members and participants in t... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4255.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4494.xml Flora Johnson (b. 1906) was active in the African American community in Cleveland, Ohio, including the following organizations: Cleveland Chapter of the National Council of Negro Women, Glenville Garden Club, Forest City Hospital Ladies Auxiliary, Antioch Baptist Church, Eliza Bryant Home for the Aged, Four-O'Clock Garden Club, League of Women Voters, the 25th Ward Republican Club, and the Ladies Auxiliary of the National Alliance of Postal Employees. The collection consists of programs, annual reports, membership information, correspondence, and historical and biographical information relating to the organizations in which Flora Johnson was actively involved. This collection also contains a small file containing material reflecting the involvement of the donor, Loraine Huston, in the Ladies Auxiliary of the National Alliance of Postal Employees. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4494.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5107.xml The National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women (f. 1935) is a national nonprofit organization founded in New York City whose mission is to "promote and protect the interests of African American business and professional women; to serve as a bridge for young people seeking to enter business and the professions; to improve the quality of life in the local and global communities; and to foster good fellowship." It contains six districts in the United States and one international division. The Cleveland Club is a part of the North Central District of the national organization which was founded in 1965. The Cleveland Club provides leadership development and networking opportunities to professional working women in Cleveland and northeast Ohio. It also awards college scholarships to youth and increases awareness of economic, educational, and other social issues facing the Black community through community service. The organization's most popular event, the Annual Founder's Day Breakfast, attracts... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5107.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4204.xml Dovie Davis Sweet was a primary teacher in the Cleveland Public Schools, author, and active member of the Cleveland, Ohio, African American community. She wrote "Red light, green light", a children's book about Clevelander Garrett Morgan, and was active in many community groups. She helped organize the Glenville Area Community Council, Parkgate Avenue Street Club, East 111th Street Club, and the Retired Teachers' Union. She served as vice-president of the Cleveland Branch, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and helped with its membership drive, Freedom Fund dinner, march on Washington, and discrimination surveys. The collection consists of biographical materials, correspondence, files on the writing and promotion of "Red light, green light", clippings, and subject files, including those for the NAACP, the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Club, Florida Club, Delta Sigma Theta Club, and St. John's A.M.E. Church. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4204.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4211.xml The League of Women Voters was formed in 1920 in Cleveland, Ohio, by former suffragists and members of the Woman's Suffrage Party. The League is nonpartisan and has endorsed various legislation, including laws to protect female workers and improve child welfare and education. Its efforts include voter registration drives, assistance to election boards, demonstrations of registration and voting techniques, as well as sponsoring candidates debates. The collection consists of annual reports, correspondence, and subject files relating to the group's activities. This collection pertains to the activities and concerns of the women involved in the league, including the Ohio Constitution, public welfare, civil service, voter registration, and food inspection. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4211.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4418.xml The Ophello Club was a woman's social club and study group located in East Cleveland, Ohio. Founded in 1902 and originally affiliated with the First Presbyterian Church, the club became associated with the Cleveland Museum of Art at the end of World War I, holding meetings at the museum, using museum staff as advisors, and focusing their study efforts on the museum's collections. The collection consists of a scrapbook compiled for the club's 50th Anniversary, containing a year-by-year history and programs, with officer lists, presentation titles and meeting dates. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4418.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4683.xml The Swiss Society was created in 1872 as the Schweizerischen Unterstuetzungs Verein by a group of members from the Swiss male chorus, then known as the Schweizer Gesang Verein Gruetli Bund, in Cleveland, Ohio. A mutual aid society for those of Swiss descent, the Swiss Society provided not only insurance to members, but also sought to preserve and nurture the German-Swiss culture, language, and literature. In 1873, the Swiss Society affiliated itself as a branch society with the Gruetli Bund der Vereinigten Staaten von Nord Amerika, which later became the North American Swiss Alliance. In 1881, the Society reorganized as the Schweizer Verein von Cleveland, Ohio. In 1885, the Swiss Society in Cleveland was elected as the executive society for the North American Swiss Alliance. By 1942, the group officially adopted the English name of Swiss Society and was still in operation in 1994. The Swiss Ladies Aid Society was closely associated with the Swiss Society and was originally known as the Schweizer Frauen Unters... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4683.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4811.xml George J. McMonagle was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1906 of Irish descent. A graduate of Cleveland Marshall Law School in 1930, he practiced law for 34 years. In 1964, he was appointed a judge in the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, winning election to that office in 1966. He retired in 1997. McMonagle has been active in Irish organizations in Cleveland, including as a charter member of the Irish Civic Association, founded in 1942, and as a member of the Irish Goodfellowship Club. An annual activity of the Irish Civic Association was the organization of the St. Patrick's Day parade and banquet. The two groups maintain a close relationship; the Civic Association's banquet also serves to honor the Goodfellowship Club's "Man of the Year." the collection consists of personal papers of George J. McMonagle and also records of the Irish Civic Association, which he served as secretary and president. Included is general correspondence concerning the Irish Civic Association, specific correspondence concerning t... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4811.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4834.xml The Knights of Equity is a Roman Catholic Irish social group first established in Cleveland, Ohio, as the Knights of Equity Supreme Council. It then grew into a national organization. The Cleveland group was active from 1895 to 1905. Three courts were founded in Cleveland, one of which eventually had 5,000 members. After 1905, the group disintegrated in Cleveland, but continued to grow in other cities. In 1954, bylaws first included women in the organization. In 1960, the National Daughters of Erin were officially accepted by the Knights as an auxiliary. The collection consists of copies of the articles of incorporation, constitution and bylaws, ritual and installation ceremony program, an anniversary booklet, and miscellaneous newsletter copies. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4834.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5440.xml Excelsior was a Jewish social club established in 1872 partly in reaction to Jewish exclusion from such clubs as the Union Club. The club sponsored a variety of social events and provided dining and recreational facilities. In 1905, a second Jewish association, Oakwood, was established as a golf club in the suburban area of Cleveland Heights. In 1931, the board of the Excelsior leadership agreed to a merger and Excelsior ceased to exist as a separate entity. The Oakwood Club opened in 1906 with a 9-hole golf course. After expansion, the course was selected as the site of the 1921 Western Open Golf Tournament. After the merger with Excelsior, the clubhouse was expanded, with the addition of squash courts, bowling alleys, and an outdoor swimming pool. During World War II, the U.S. Army's 729th Military Police Battalion utilized the Oakwood clubhouse as a barracks. After the war, further improvements were made. In 1961, the membership approved the purchase of land in Kirtland. This prop... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5440.xml Tue, 01 Jan 2019 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3894.xml Ignatius M. Jarzynski (1888-1942) was a physician prominent in the Polish-American community of Cleveland, Ohio. He was a founding member of the Medical and Dental Arts Club, president of the League of Polish Organizations, and a trustee of the Musical Arts Association. His wife, Helen Conrad Jarzynski, was also active in Polish organizations, as well as serving on the Women's Committee of the Cleveland Orchestra. The collection consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, publications, and certificates relating to Dr. Jarzynski's career, and, in part, to that of his wife. The correspondence, 1917-1942, includes letters from Ohio Attorney General John W. Bricker regarding draft board examinations during World War I, and an acknowledgment of condolences from Ignace Jan Paderewski. In addition, the collection contains the minutes, 1916-1922, of the Medical and Dental Arts Club, handwritten in Polish, mimeographed minutes, 1934-1939, of the annual meetings of the Musical Arts Association, and miscellaneou... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3894.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4963.xml Edna and Isadore Silverman were a Jewish couple of Cleveland, Ohio. Edith was a member of the girls' social club, Phi Delis, in the 1930s. The club often participated in social activities with a Jewish boys' club, the Copains. They would have outings in various locales through the Cleveland area. Her husband, Isadore Silverman, served in the 470th Anti-Aircraft Battalion, Sept. 1943-Jan. 1946. He was trained at Camp Callan in California, 1943-1944, and was later stationed in New Guinea and Panay, 1944-1945. the collection consists of photographs, letters, telegrams, and newspaper clippings. The collection includes numerous portraits of Edith Silverman's "Phi Deli" outings (ca. 1930s) and portraits of Isadore Silverman's experiences in the United States and Asia (ca. World War II). http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4963.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 http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3675.xml The Historic Sites of Cleveland Project was funded through the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which gathered data during the Great Depression (1930s) on historic sites and organizations in and around Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of real estate transfer records (1800-1885) for Cleveland and Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and material relating to boardinghouses, bridges, buildings, canals, cemeteries, churches, civic and social institutions, dwellings, educational institutions, hospitals, hotels, military sites, manufacturing and commercial agents, public buildings, railroads, restaurants and saloons, roads, streets, theaters, and halls. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3675.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT