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61Title:  Joseph Family Photographs, Series II     
 Creator:  Joseph Family 
 Dates:  1870-1999 
 Abstract:  The Joseph Family is a prominent Cleveland, Ohio, Jewish family. The family has been active in both leadership and support for a number of cultural and social institutions in Cleveland such as the Musical Arts Association (The Cleveland Orchestra), Bellefaire, and the Jewish Family Service Association. The collection consists of 149 black and white photographs, 281 color photographs, and 33 negatives. 
 Call #:  PG 551 
 Extent:  0.61 linear feet (2 containers and 1 oversize folder) 
 Subjects:  Joseph family. -- Photographs. | Joseph, Emil, 1857-1938. -- Photographs. | Joseph, Frank E., 1904-1995. -- Photographs. | Joseph, Frank E., 1928-2008. -- Photographs. | Joseph, Martha J., 1917-2006. -- Photographs. | Joseph and Feiss Company (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photographs. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Social life and customs -- Photographs. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social life and customs -- Photographs.
 
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62Title:  Florence Ellinwood Allen Photographs     
 Creator:  Allen, Florence Ellinwood 
 Dates:  1886-1963 
 Abstract:  Florence Ellinwood Allen (1884-1966) was a lawyer and judge in Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of individual portraits of Florence E. Allen; group portraits including Florence E. Allen; views taken during her various campaigns; views taken during various trips; and views relating to women's suffrage. Included is a portrait of Carrie Chapman and one of Ohio Supreme Court Justices, ca. 1930. 
 Call #:  PG 200 
 Extent:  0.20 linear feet (1 container) 
 Subjects:  Allen, Florence Ellinwood, 1884-1966 -- Photograph collections. | Allen family -- Photograph collections. | Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Women judges -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Judges -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Judges -- Ohio -- Photographs. | Women judges -- Ohio -- Photographs. | Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- Photographs.
 
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63Title:  Ratner Family Photographs     
 Creator:  Ratner Family 
 Dates:  1965-1996 
 Abstract:  The Ratner (formerly Ratowczer) family has been prominent in the Cleveland, Ohio, area since the mid-twentieth century. The family immigrated to the United States in 1920 and settled in Cleveland in 1921, eventually founding what became known as Forest City Enterprises, Inc. Leonard Ratner married Lillian Bernstein in 1924 and had two children: Ruth Ratner Miller and Albert B. Ratner. Leonard Ratner held many important positions on community boards during his lifetime, including the positions of honorary life trustee at the Jewish Welfare Federation, the Jewish Community Federation, and Mount Sinai Hospital. His daughter Ruth was a civic leader, businesswoman, and philanthropist. She and Samuel Miller had four children. Albert B. Ratner married Faye Katz in 1950 and had two children. The collection consists of 39 black and white photographs and 238 color photographs of varying sizes. 
 Call #:  PG 548 
 Extent:  0.41 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder) 
 Subjects:  Ratner, Leonard, 1896-1974 -- Photograph collections. | Miller, Ruth Ratner, 1926-1996 -- Photograph collections. | Ratner, Albert B., 1927- -- Photograph collections. | Ratner family. -- Photographs. | Jewish businesspeople -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Jewish families -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Philanthropists -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Architects and builders -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Real estate developers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
 
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64Title:  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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65Title:  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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66Title:  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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67Title:  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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68Title:  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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69Title:  Orrel A. Parker Photographs     
 Creator:  Parker, Orrel A. 
 Dates:  1892-1935 
 Abstract:  Orrel A. Parker (1873-1965) was the President of the Parker Wheel Company in Cleveland, Ohio, who also served as an Aeronautical Mechanical Engineer in charge of technical records for the Air Service during World War I. He was largely responsible for the War Department's investigation of irregularities between the Lubrication Department and the Air Division of the Signal Corps. The collection consists of photographs (including tintypes and cabinet cards) and negatives of portraits of Orrel Parker and his family, and views of his residences and businesses. Also included are views and lantern slides made by Parker of the installation of the United States government in Puerto Rico and of an execution by garroting in Puerto Rico. 
 Call #:  PG 277 
 Extent:  1.00 linear feet (1 container) 
 Subjects:  Parker, Orrel A., 1873-1965 -- Photograph collections. | Parker family -- Photograph collections. | Parker Wheel Company (Cleveland, Ohio) | Automobiles -- Wheels -- Photographs. | Tintype. | Cabinet photographs. | Puerto Rico -- History -- 1898-1952 -- Photographs.
 
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70Title:  David N. Myers Photographs     
 Creator:  Myers, David N. 
 Dates:  1900-1995 
 Abstract:  David N. Myers was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1900. He worked his way through high school and earned an accounting degree from Dyke College, a local business college, in 1922. He accepted a position in accounting with the Francis Byerlyte Corporation, and subsequently became president and owner of the company, later known as Consolidated Coatings Corporation. He married Inez Pink in 1929, and the couple raised two sons. Myers' primary philanthropic interest was aging and the elderly. He was instrumental in facilitating the move of the Jewish Orthodox Home for the Aged from the Glenville neighborhood to Beachwood, Ohio. He also assisted in the construction of R.H. Myers Apartments, an independent living facility for the elderly. He served as the President of the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland from 1964 to 1969 and, along with his wife, established the David and Inez Myers Foundation. In 1995, Dyke college was renamed David N. Myers College in recognition of Myers' contributions to the school. The collection consists of approximately 550 black and white photographs and 380 color photographs depicting Cleveland, Ohio philanthropy, business, and Jewish family life. 
 Call #:  PG 547 
 Extent:  1.01 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder) 
 Subjects:  Myers, David N., 1900-1999 -- Photographic collections. | Myers family. -- Photographs. | Jewish Community Federation (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photographs. | Jewish Orthodox Home for Aged (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photographs. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Jewish businesspeople -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Philanthropists -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
 
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71Title:  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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72Title:  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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73Title:  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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74Title:  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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75Title:  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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76Title:  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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77Title:  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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78Title:  Samuel A. Cooley Photographs     
 Creator:  Cooley, Samuel A. 
 Dates:  1862-1865 
 Abstract:  Samuel A. Cooley, a resident of Beaufort, South Carolina, was an entrepreneur, photographer, and merchant. The collection consists of views taken by Samuel A. Cooley in the Sea Islands of Georgia and South Carolina, and in Jacksonville, Florida, during the American Civil War. The photographs depict daily life in the region during Federal occupation of the Sea Islands and the commercial blockade and siege of Charleston and Savannah. Cooley worked with stereographic cameras, but the negatives were later separated and processed as individual prints. Included are views of institutions, churches, residences, landscapes, hospitals, and military personnel and equipment. 
 Call #:  PG 325 
 Extent:  2.90 linear feet (13 containers) 
 Subjects:  Cooley, Sam A. (Samuel A.) -- Photograph collections. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Photographs. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations -- Photographs. | South Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Photographs. | Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Photographs. | Florida -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Photographs. | Beaufort (S.C.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Photographs. | Jacksonville (Fla.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Photographs. | Sea Islands -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Photographs.
 
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79Title:  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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80Title:  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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