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41	Title:	White Motor Company Records and Photographs
	Creator:	White Motor Company
	Dates:	1901-1989
	Abstract:	The White Motor Company was an automobile, truck, and bus manufacturer in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1900-1980. The company was founded and developed by Rollin, Walter, and Windsor White, sons of sewing machine manufacturer Thomas H. White. The collection consists of advertisements, agreements, ballots, bylaws, catalogs, conference materials, constitutions, correspondence, data books, decals, deeds, engineering and design drawings, film cartridges, financial documents, handbooks, histories, identification cards, invitations, legal documents, manuals, maps, memoranda, minutes, newsletters, parts lists, patents, photographs, press releases, price lists, programs, reports, sales brochures, scrapbooks, slide rulers, specifications, tally sheets, transcripts, truck change orders, and a uniform patch.
	Call #:	MS 5319
	Extent:	19.14 linear feet (22 containers, 1 oversize volume, and 4 oversize folders)
	Subjects:	White trucks -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. \| White tractors -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. \| Buses -- Ohio -- Cleveland --Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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42	Title:	Joseph B. Horwitz Papers
	Creator:	Horwitz, Joseph B.
	Dates:	1999
	Abstract:	Joseph B. Horwitz (1899-2000) was a Jewish entrepreneur from Cleveland, Ohio, who was born in Vilnius in 1899. Horwitz came to Cleveland with his family at a young age. In 1930 he married Cleveland native Olyn (Ollie) Shaw (1895-1999). The couple had one daughter, Judy (Relman). In the 1930s, Horwitz devised methods of making usable steel from scrap metals and became the President of the Kaiser-Nelson Corporation. During and after World War II Joseph and Olyn Horwitz were involved with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. They assisted in the relocation of refugees in Europe. In 1948 a refugee gave the couple an eighteenth century silver filigree menorah and inspired them to start collecting Judaica. Joseph B. Horwitz subsequently became one of the most prominent collectors of Jewish religious art in the United States. Horwitz and his wife Olyn contributed significantly to the Jewish community of Cleveland. The collection consists of one scrapbook created for Horwitz's 100th birthday in 1999.
	Call #:	MS 5158
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Cleveland College of Jewish Studies \| Horwitz, Joseph B., 1899-2000 \| Jewish art -- Collectors and collecting -- Ohio -- Cleveland \| Jewish art objects -- Collectors and collecting -- Ohio -- Cleveland \| Jewish art objects \| Jewish art \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland
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43	Title:	Reliance Electric Company Records and Photographs
	Creator:	Reliance Electric Company
	Dates:	1905-2006
	Abstract:	The Reliance Electric Company was founded in 1905 as the Lincoln Electric Motor Works by Reuben and Charles Hitchcock in Cleveland, Ohio. The company, eventually renamed Reliance Electric & Engineering Company, produced electric motors, drives, controls, and telecommunication systems. The collection consists of correspondence, advertising, marketing materials, financial reports, photographic negatives, photographs, and 35mm slides.
	Call #:	MS 5341
	Extent:	1.00 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Electric motors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Electric motors -- Electronic control. \| Women electronic industry workers -- United States. \| Business records -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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44	Title:	Harry Lloyd Eastman Papers
	Creator:	Eastman, Harry Lloyd
	Dates:	1917-1967
	Abstract:	Harry Lloyd Eastman (1882-1963) was a Progressive Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Juvenile Court Judge (1926-1960). He worked with various charitable organizations and service clubs concerned with child welfare and juvenile delinquency. The collection consists of correspondence, speeches, articles, reports, statistics, lists, legal briefs, newsletters, minutes, constitutions, programs, invitations, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, and histories of Hudson Boys School and the Blossom Hill School for Girls.
	Call #:	MS 3301
	Extent:	4.00 linear feet (11 containers and 1 oversize volume)
	Subjects:	Hudson Boys School (Hudson, Ohio) \| Blossom Hill School for Girls (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Cuyahoga County (Ohio). Detention Home. \| Cuyahoga County (Ohio). Juvenile Court. \| Juvenile delinquency -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. \| Juvenile corrections -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. \| Child welfare -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County.
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45	Title:	George Gund Foundation Records, Series III
	Creator:	George Gund Foundation
	Dates:	1984-2008
	Abstract:	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 articles, newspaper clippings, photographs, posters, press releases, publications, reports, and slides generated by the grant recipients and grant proposal forms and notes generated by the George Gund Foundation.
	Call #:	MS 5038
	Extent:	139.40 linear feet (140 containers)
	Subjects:	George Gund Foundation. \| Endowments -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Arts -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Environmental protection -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Social work with youth -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| AIDS (Disease) -- Research. \| Birth control.
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46	Title:	Nina Freedlander Gibans Family Papers
	Creator:	Gift of Nina Gibans
	Dates:	1890-2016
	Abstract:	Nina Freedlander Gibans has been active in Greater Cleveland's arts, culture and educational community for nearly six decades as an arts advocate, administrator, author, and teacher as well as a community volunteer. Gibans was born on July 30, 1932. Her family, the Freedlanders, were, according to family legend, peddlers who headed west in the 1880s from Buffalo, New York. They settled in Wooster, Ohio in the 1940s, where they founded and operated Freedlander's Department Store. After her marriage to architect James Gibans, the family moved to San Francisco where James found work. It was the height of the Beat Era; there Nina often gave poetry readings and had connections with Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Upon her family's return to Cleveland in 1960, Gibans immersed herself in the local and regional arts community. She has been the executive producer of five video programs, three of which have been shown on local public television. Gibans has also served on many panels, boards and committees of local, state and national cultural and civic organizations. The Nina Freedlander Gibans Family Papers collection consists of awards, a book, booklets, certificates, correspondence, a dissertation, family trees, financial records, incorporation articles, interviews, lesson plans, newspaper clippings, patents, photographs, publications, reports, a scrapbook, scripts, speeches, tapes, and yearbooks.
	Call #:	MS 5446
	Extent:	4.2 linear feet (5 boxes, including one oversize folder)
	Subjects:	Gibans, Nina Freedlander \| Freedlander family \| Women television producers and directors -- Ohio -- Cleveland \| Women authors -- Ohio -- Cleveland \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland \| Jews -- Ohio -- Wooster
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47	Title:	Jones, Day, Cockley & Reavis Records
	Creator:	Jones, Day, Cockley & Reavis
	Dates:	1917-1959
	Abstract:	Jones, Day, Cockley & Reavis is a prominent Cleveland, Ohio, law firm which specializes in corporate law. The collection consists of 72 bound volumes, each relating to a specific legal or financial activity engaged in by a Cleveland business or industry, and each containing all documents relevant to the action, including letters, memoranda, deeds, indentures, contracts, stock certificates and the like.
	Call #:	MS 3206
	Extent:	9.00 linear feet (20 containers)
	Subjects:	Jones, Day, Cockley & Reavis (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Law firms -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Corporation law -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Corporations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Consolidation and merger of corporations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Corporate divestiture -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Business records -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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48	Title:	Cleveland Bar Association Records, Series II
	Creator:	Cleveland Bar Association
	Dates:	1937-1983
	Abstract:	The Cleveland Bar Assocaition (f. 1873) is an organization of of Cleveland, Ohio, lawyers whose purpose is to maintain the honor and dignity of the law profession and promote legal and judicial reform. Operating via a series of committees, the association over the years has investigated misconduct by lawyers, judges, sheriffs, and police, which has resulted in resignations and/or disbarment. The collection consists of minutes, agendas, financial materials, correspondence, memoranda, directories, records of the Court Management Project, a subject file, scrapbooks and issues of the Cleveland Bar Association journal. The collection is useful for understanding the activities and interests of the association, including the Court Management Project, 1970-76, which explored judicial reform in Cuyahoga County courts, and illuminates some of the controversy which surrounded the "deregulation" of the profession, such as the advertising of legal services.
	Call #:	MS 4332
	Extent:	25.20 linear feet (36 containers and 11 oversize volumes)
	Subjects:	Cleveland Bar Association -- Archives. \| Court administration -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. \| Justice, Administration of -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. \| Lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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49	Title:	George S. Dively Foundation Records
	Creator:	Geo. S. Dively Foundation
	Dates:	1956-1991
	Abstract:	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.
	Call #:	MS 4635
	Extent:	5.00 linear feet (5 containers)
	Subjects:	Dively, George S., 1902-1988. \| Geo. S. Dively Foundation. \| Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Endowments -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Education, Higher.
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50	Title:	Lees-Bradner Company Records
	Creator:	Lees-Bradner Company
	Dates:	1905-1992
	Abstract:	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 articles of incorporation, minutes, a company history, agreements, stock certificates, financial reports, ledgers, correspondence, administrative reports, memoranda, catalogs, product detail sheets, advertisements, newspaper clippings, and publications.
	Call #:	MS 4653
	Extent:	1.41 linear feet (2 containers and 1 oversize folder)
	Subjects:	Lees, Ernest J. d.1937. \| Bradner, Hosea Townsend, 1872-1963. \| Bradner, George T., 1916- \| Lees-Bradner Company. \| White Consolidated Industries. \| Grant-Lees Machine Company. \| Machine-tool industry -- United States. \| Machine-tool industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Gear industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Gearing -- Manufacture. \| Gear-cutting machines. \| Automobiles -- Transmission devices.
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51	Title:	Frank A. Scott Papers
	Creator:	Scott, Frank Augustus
	Dates:	1848-1935
	Abstract:	Frank Augustus Scott (1873-1949) was a businessman, of Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of correspondence, speeches, magazine articles, newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks, relating to Scott's activities in Cleveland's business, civic, cultural, charitable, and educational institutions, especially Western Reserve University, Case Institute of Technology, University Hospitals, and the Municipal Traction Company. Subjects include the iron and steel industry, business and industrial management, industry in Cleveland, the machine tool industry, economic matters, and federal legislation. Correspondents include Theodore E. Burton.
	Call #:	MS 3284
	Extent:	2.60 linear feet (8 containers)
	Subjects:	Scott, Frank Augustus, 1873-1949. \| Scott family. \| Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937. \| Cleveland Railway Company. \| Municipal Traction Company. \| Machine-tool industry -- United States. \| Metal trade -- United States. \| Iron industry and trade -- United States. \| Steel industry and trade -- United States. \| Legislation -- United States. \| Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Europe -- Description and travel -- 1919-1944.
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52	Title:	Acme-Cleveland Corporation Records, Photographs, and Audio/Visual Materials, Series II
	Creator:	Acme-Cleveland Corporation
	Dates:	1825-1996
	Abstract:	The Acme-Cleveland Corporation was formed In Cleveland, Ohio, by the merger in 1968 of Cleveland Twist Drill Company, a manufacturer of high-speed drills and metal cutting tools, and the National Acme Company, a manufacturer of automatic multiple-spindle lathes and screw machines. Cleveland Twist Drill was founded in 1876 by Jacob D. Cox II, son of a Civil War general and former governor of Ohio, and Francis F. Prentiss. The company became a leader in the manufacture of superior-grade high-speed twist drills. By 1936 it was the world's largest maker of high-speed drills and reamers, flourishing under Jacob D. Cox, Jr., who pioneered profit-sharing and authored two books on wage theory. National Acme originated in Hartford, Connecticut, as the Acme Screw Machine Company in 1895, makers of the first commercially successful automatic multiple-spindle screw manufacturing machine. Acme Screw merged with National Manufacturing Co. in 1901 to become National Acme Manufacturing Company, which purchased the Windsor Machine Company to become National Acme Company in 1916. The collection consists of financial reports, ledgers, shareholder meetings, company newsletters, marketing material, and correspondence, particularly those of Francis F. Prentiss, who was president of Cleveland Twist Drill between 1904 and 1911. There is also a large collection of photographs and glass plate negatives, approximately 1000 images, related to both Cleveland Twist Drill Company and National Acme Company and a 16mm film.
	Call #:	MS 5378
	Extent:	38.00 linear feet (54 containers and 5 oversize folders)
	Subjects:	Business -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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53	Title:	Matthew Luckiesh Papers
	Creator:	Luckiesh, Matthew
	Dates:	1887-2013
	Abstract:	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 awards, booklets, a calendar, certificates, a comic book, correspondence, diplomas, directories, a dissertation, forms, a genealogy, illustrations, a license, magazine articles, manuscripts of books, newspaper articles, notebooks, notes, pamphlets, patents, programs, a radio show script, reports, research notes, research papers, scholarly articles, scrapbooks, and speeches.
	Call #:	MS 5171
	Extent:	5.77 linear feet (5 containers, 26 volumes, and 2 oversize folders)
	Subjects:	Electric lighting -- History -- 20th century \| Electric lighting -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Electric lighting. \| General Electric Company. Lamp Division (Nela Park, Cleveland, Ohio) \| General Electric Company. \| Lighting. \| Luckiesh family \| Luckiesh, Matthew, 1883-1967 \| Pitts family \| Vision.
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54	Title:	Haskell Golf Ball Company Records
	Creator:	Haskell Golf Ball Company
	Dates:	1901-1917
	Abstract:	The Haskell Golf Ball Company was founded by Coburn Haskell Work, who, with Bertram G. Work, patented an improved rubber-wound core for golf balls. The collection consists of a record of proceedings, minutes of meetings, financial statements, a journal and ledger book, incorporation documents, and certificate of dissolution.
	Call #:	MS 0879
	Extent:	0.40 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Haskell Golf Ball Company (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Golf equipment industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Golf balls.
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55	Title:	Cleveland Foundation Records, Series II
	Creator:	Cleveland Foundation
	Dates:	1923-1982
	Abstract:	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.
	Call #:	MS 4092
	Extent:	62.00 linear feet (62 containers)
	Subjects:	Cleveland Foundation \| Endowments -- Ohio -- Cleveland \| Arts -- Ohio -- Cleveland \| Aged -- Ohio -- Cleveland \| Education --Ohio -- Cleveland \| Environmental protection -- Ohio -- Cleveland \| Medical care -- Ohio -- Cleveland \| Minorities -- Ohio -- Cleveland \| Social work with youth -- Ohio -- Cleveland \| Substance abuse -- Ohio -- Cleveland \| Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland
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56	Title:	Greater Cleveland Growth Association Records
	Creator:	Greater Cleveland Growth Association
	Dates:	1881-1972
	Abstract:	The Greater Cleveland Growth Association was founded in 1848 as the Board of Trade in Cleveland, Ohio. It was reorganized and renamed the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce in 1893. It merged with the Greater Cleveland Growth Board in 1968 to form the Greater Cleveland Growth Association. Its goals have always been to provide a forum for business leaders to discuss ideas and problems, to stimulate investments in the local economy, and to make Cleveland a better place to live and work. The organization was active in many areas of progressive reform in the early 1900s, including housing codes, bath houses, and the organization of charitable activities. The collection consists of charters of the Board of Trade, minutes and annual reports of the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Commerce, files of the Transportation and Industrial Relations departments, records of legislative and other committees, general office files, membership records, newspaper clippings and photographs.
	Call #:	MS 3471
	Extent:	188.80 linear feet (293 containers and 15 oversize volumes)
	Subjects:	Greater Cleveland Growth Association. \| Boards of trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Industrial promotion -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Commercial associations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Social problems. \| Civic improvement -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Economic conditions. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Commerce. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions.
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57	Title:	Bea Stadtler Papers
	Creator:	Bea Stadtler
	Dates:	1954-1995
	Abstract:	Bea Horwitz Stadtler (1921-2000) was a prominent author who lived and worked in the Cleveland, Ohio, metropolitan area for her entire life. Graduating from Glenville High School, she attended Case Western Reserve University and the College of Jewish Studies, obtaining the first Bachelor of Judaica Studies degree awarded by the College of Jewish Studies in 1971. Stadtler served as an educator at B'nai Jeshurun Congregation, Beth Sholom, the Cleveland Hebrew Schools, and the Temple-Tifereth Israel. Stadtler served as registrar at the College of Jewish Studies from 1960-1983 and as assistant editor of the Israel Philatelist. She was active in the Cleveland Holocaust Center. The author of six books and articles, stories and poems that appeared in more that twenty different publications, she also co-wrote a rock opera and created an award-winning filmstrip. Her book The Holocaust: A History of Courage and Resistance received the National Book Council prize for the outstanding juvenile book of 1974-1975. She worked with Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver as he prepared the manuscript for his book Where Judaism Differed. She married Oscar Stadtler in 1943 and was the mother of three children and nine grandchildren. The collection consists of publications, scripts, correspondence, unpublished children's stories, curriculum guides, a libretto, and working drafts for published books.
	Call #:	MS 4905
	Extent:	1.00 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Stadtler, Bea, 1921-2000. -- Archives \| Jews -- United States -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History -- 20th century \| Jews -- United States -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History -- Sources \| Jews -- United States -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Intellectual life -- 20th century \| Jews -- United States -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Archives \| Jews -- History \| Jews -- United States -- Historiography \| American literature -- Jewish authors \| American literature -- Women authors \| Children's literature, American -- Jewish authors \| Children's literature, American -- Women authors \| Jewish women authors \| Stamp collecting -- Israel \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Intellectual life -- History -- Sources
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58	Title:	Peter Neff Papers
	Creator:	Neff, Peter
	Dates:	1884-1888
	Abstract:	Peter Neff (1827-1903) was a clergyman and inventor. He served as librarian of the Western Reserve Historical Society from 1888 until his death in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1903. The collection consists of legal briefs, arguments, testimonies, and affidavits, relating to the case of Sarah Neff et al. vs. the Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church at Gambier, Ohio, held in the Court of Common Pleas, Knox County, Ohio, and concerning the ringing of church bells.
	Call #:	MS 3096
	Extent:	0.40 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Neff, Peter, 1827-1903. \| Court records -- Ohio -- Knox County.
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59	Title:	John Franklin Rust Papers
	Creator:	Rust, John Franklin
	Dates:	1849-1888
	Abstract:	John Franklin Rust (1835-1899) was businessman, of Saginaw, Michigan, and Cleveland, Ohio. Rust's lumber firm in Cleveland was known as Rust, King & Company and later became Rust, King & Clint. The collection consists of correspondence, commercial and legal documents, and other papers, relating to Rust's activities in the lumber and shipping businesses on the Great Lakes and to the activities of the companies with which he was associated. Includes invoices, receipts, trip accounts for lake vessels, tax records, insurance policies, agreements, deeds, contracts, bills of sale, mortgages, patents, redemption certificates, wills, land plots, township and range charts, circulars, and financial and statistical data. The bulk of the collection consists of accounts of the many trips made by the companies' vessels and receipts and disbursements (1866-1884) for each vessel.
	Call #:	MS 2710
	Extent:	11.30 linear feet (25 containers)
	Subjects:	Rust, John Franklin, 1835-1899. \| Lumber trade -- United States. \| Inland water transportation -- United States. \| Inland waterway vessels -- United States. \| Shipping -- United States.
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60	Title:	Devereux Family Papers
	Creator:	Devereux Family
	Dates:	1808-1932
	Abstract:	John Devereux was a sea captain of Marblehead, Mass. John H. Devereux was an American Civil War general, engineer, railroad executive, and philanthropist, of Cleveland, Ohio. Henry K. Devereux was an engineer, real estate agent, industrialist, philanthropist, and harness-horse fancier, of Cleveland. The collection consists of correspondence, diaries, business, financial, and legal documents, genealogical data, ship's logs, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and other papers, of John Devereux, John H. Devereux, and Henry K. Devereux. Bulk of the collection relates to railroad construction and John H. Devereux's career with several railroads. Includes records (1895-1916) of the Gentlemen's Driving Club, and material relating to Henry K. Devereux's interest in trotting horses and harness racing and his activities as an official of several businesses. The collection also documents the role played by the railroad for the Union during the American Civil War.
	Call #:	MS 2415
	Extent:	25.0 linear feet (54 containers and 28 oversize volumes)
	Subjects:	Devereux family. \| Logbooks. \| Ship's papers. \| Railroads -- United States -- Construction. \| Railroads -- United States -- Management. \| Railroad companies -- United States. \| Harness racing -- United States. \| Harness racehorses -- United States. \| Horse-racing -- United States. \| Horses -- United States -- Breeding. \| Race horses -- United States. \| United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources.
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