Subject • | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Berkmann family. |
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| • | Camps -- Ohio -- Chagrin Falls. |
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| • | Chinese -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Chinese American businesspeople -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Chinese Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy. |
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| • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions. |
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| • | Cleveland Worsted Mills Company. |
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| • | Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Dunbar family. |
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| • | East Indian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Furniture industry and trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Goodman and Company Furniture Store (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| • | Goodman family. |
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| • | Goodman, Ethel Berkmann, 1894-1980. |
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| • | Goodman, Harvey. |
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| • | Goodman, Morris, 1890-1962. |
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| • | Hiram House Social Settlement (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| • | Holocaust survivors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | [X] | • | Industrial relations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Irish American families -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Irish American families -- Ohio -- Newburgh. |
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| • | Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Newburgh. |
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| • | Italian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Jewish families -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Genealogy. |
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| • | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Jews, German -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Jews, Polish -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Jews, Soviet -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Kazdin family. |
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| • | Kazdin, Betty Levine, 1908-1973. |
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| • | Kazdin, Max. |
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| • | Kazdin, Sol, 1906-1975. |
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| • | Klaper family. |
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| • | Laundry industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Levine family. |
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| • | Levine, Leah, d. 1960. |
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| • | Levine, Nathan, 1874-1935. |
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| • | Newburgh (Ohio) -- History. |
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| • | Perla Novelty Embroidery Company. |
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| • | Perla family. |
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| • | Perla, Herbert. |
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| • | Postcards -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Recreation centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Reid family. |
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| • | Reid, Isaac, 1798-1886. |
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| • | Schiff family. |
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| • | School facilities -- Extended use -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Schools -- Ohio -- Newburgh. |
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| • | Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Textile industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | U.S. Wallpaper Company. |
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| • | United Textile Workers of America. |
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| • | Wau, Lee. |
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| • | Western Reserve Historical Society. Cleveland Jewish Archives. |
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| • | Western and Southern Life Insurance Company. |
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| • | Woolen goods industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | World War, 1939-1945 -- Economic aspects. |
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 1 | Title: | Cleveland Worsted Mills Company Records
| | | Creator: | Cleveland Worsted Mills Company | | | Dates: | 1890-1946 | | | Abstract: | The Cleveland Worsted Mills Company was founded as the Turner Worsted Mill in 1878 by Joseph Turner, and, after a period of restructuring beginning in 1893 led by Kaufman Hays, became the Cleveland Worsted Mills in 1902. The mill was able to handle all steps of the production of various types of woolen cloth. Besides its Cleveland, Ohio, facility, the company also operated eleven other plants in Ohio, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, and Rhode Island. Many Czech, Polish, and Lithuanian immigrants were employed by Cleveland Worsted Mills. During the Depression, employees became dissatisfied with working conditions and organized as part of the United Textile Workers. Two strikes in the 1930s were unsuccessful. The company was forcibly closed by the federal government during World War II for refusal to produce cloth for uniforms. It opened again only after agreeing to the government's terms. Following another strike in 1955, company president Louis O. Poss closed the company for good. The empty building was destroyed by fire in 1993. The collection consists of appraisal inventories, blueprints, and a pamphlet. | | | Call #: | MS 5050 | | | Extent: | 0.81 linear feet (2 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | Subjects: | Cleveland Worsted Mills Company. | United Textile Workers of America. | Textile industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Woolen goods industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industrial relations -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 2 | Title: | Goodman Family Papers
| | | Creator: | Goodman, Morris and Ethel Family | | | Dates: | 1904-1955 | | | Abstract: | Morris Goodman immigrated to Cleveland, Ohio, from Austria-Hungary in 1910 and became an insurance agent for Western and Southern Life Insurance Company. He and his wife, Ethel Berkmann, owned the Goodman and Company Furniture Store in Cleveland and were involved with the World Zionist Organization. Their son, Harvey Goodman, served in World War II in the United States Air Force. Their daughter, Alma, married into the Perla family, which operated an embroidery company. The collection consists of business and personal correspondence, photographs, postcards, licenses and miscellaneous documents. The collection includes immigration and naturalization materials, as well as military service documents and World War II ration books. | | | Call #: | MS 4955 | | | Extent: | 0.41 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder) | | | Subjects: | Goodman, Morris, 1890-1962. | Goodman, Ethel Berkmann, 1894-1980. | Goodman, Harvey. | Perla, Herbert. | Goodman family. | Berkmann family. | Perla family. | Goodman and Company Furniture Store (Cleveland, Ohio) | Western and Southern Life Insurance Company. | Perla Novelty Embroidery Company. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish families -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | World War, 1939-1945 -- Economic aspects. | Furniture industry and trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Postcards -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 3 | Title: | Kazdin-Levine Papers
| | | Creator: | Kazdin-Levine Family | | | Dates: | 1910-1975 | | | Abstract: | Nathan Levine immigrated to Cleveland, Ohio, from Russia ca. 1900. He and his wife Leah Levine founded two Cleveland, Ohio companies, U.S. Wallpaper Company, and Levin Brothers, Inc. Their daughter, Betty, married Sol Kazdin, also a Russian immigrant. Sol's brother, Max Kazdin (born Max Gothelf) was a horse trainer and Talmudic student who came to Cleveland, Ohio from Russia, ca. 1911. the collection consists of an English-Yiddish study guide belonging to Max Kazdin, newspaper clippings relating to Nathan and Leah Levine and Betty and Sol Kazdin, a citizenship guide, and a poem and correspondence of Nathan Levine. | | | Call #: | MS 4994 | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 folder) | | | Subjects: | Kazdin, Sol, 1906-1975. | Kazdin, Betty Levine, 1908-1973. | Kazdin, Max. | Levine, Nathan, 1874-1935. | Levine, Leah, d. 1960. | Kazdin family. | Levine family. | U.S. Wallpaper Company. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 4 | Title: | Asian Indian Community of Cleveland, Ohio, Oral History Project Records
| | | Creator: | Asian Indian Community of Cleveland, Ohio | | | Dates: | 2013-2014 | | | Abstract: | In 2013, the Asian Indian Heritage Project and the Western Reserve Historical Society (WRHS) launched an oral history project with funding from the Smithsonian Institution's Young Historians Living Histories Program (part of the Youth Access Grants Program). High school and middle school students under the direction of Dr. John Grabowski and Ms. Jane Mason of WRHS conducted interviews with ten Asian Indians who had settled in Greater Cleveland, Ohio, during the 1950s and 1960s. The interviews document the unique immigrant experience of Asian Indians in northeast Ohio and explore issues of professional, family, and religious life. The collection consists of seven oral history recordings, biographies of the interviewees, and release statements signed by the interviewees. | | | Call #: | MS 5314 | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | Subjects: | East Indian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 5 | Title: | Soviet Jewish Oral History Collection
| | | Creator: | Cleveland Jewish Archives Advisory Committee, Western Reserve Historical Society | | | Dates: | 1954-2016 | | | Abstract: | Cleveland's Jewish community played an active role helping Soviet Jews emigrate from the Soviet Union and resettle in the United States, and especially in Cleveland, from the 1960s to the 1990s. Approximately 12,000 Soviet Jews came to Cleveland during these years. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the emigration continued, though at a slower pace. This collection, a project of the WRHS Cleveland Jewish Archives Advisory Committee, includes oral histories with Soviet Jews from the Greater Cleveland area and related materials. The collection consists primarily of abstracts, article drafts, correspondence, descriptions of the project, a dissertation, information sheets, interview protocols, lists, minutes, newspaper clippings, notes, oral history user agreements, procedures, programs, progress reports, reports, a script, a student paper, and transcripts of interviews. | | | Call #: | MS 5389 | | | Extent: | 1.60 linear feet (4 containers) | | | Subjects: | Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews, Soviet -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 7 | Title: | Ante-Bellum Cleveland Jewish Immigrants Database
| | | Creator: | Ante-Bellum Cleveland Jewish Immigrants Database | | | Dates: | 1989-1990 | | | Abstract: | The Ante-bellum Cleveland Jewish Immigrants Database Collection was assembled as part of a research project sponsored by the Cleveland Jewish Archives of the Western Reserve Historical Society. The project, organized to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Cleveland, Ohio's Jewish community, resulted in the traveling exhibit "Founders: Cleveland's Jewish Community Before the Civil War," which opened at the Western Reserve Historical Society Museum in 1990. The collection consists of computer printout data sheets of 850 (primarily German) Jews known to have emigrated from Europe to Cleveland, Ohio between the 1830s and 1861. Each data sheet includes an individual's earliest known name and variant spellings. Categories of additional potential information include sex, country, region, and village of origin; arrival date and arrival age in America and in Cleveland; birth date, death date, and cemetery name; marital status, name of spouse(s), marriage date(s), and number of children; home and business address(es); occupations(s); institutional affiliation(s); and extant visual images(s). Data sheets are followed by the original work sheets on which data was entered by hand. Sources for the information on individuals is indicated on the worksheets. | | | Call #: | MS 4516 | | | Extent: | 1.60 linear feet (4 containers) | | | Subjects: | Western Reserve Historical Society. Cleveland Jewish Archives. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Genealogy. | Jews, German -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy.
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 9 | Title: | Isaac Reid Papers
| | | Creator: | Reid, Isaac | | | Dates: | 1829-1862 | | | Abstract: | Isaac Reid of Dromore Parish, County Down, Ireland, emigrated with his wife, Agnes, and his children to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1832. After living for several years in Cleveland, where he worked in a small business and boarded immigrants, the family purchased eighty acres in Newburgh, where they farmed and raised cattle, hogs, and sheep. Reid and his family were members of the First Presbyterian Society of Newburgh, he serving as both trustee and treasurer for several terms throughout the 1840s-1850s. His daughters were married in Newburgh; Mary Ann to Alvah Ruggles, and Elizabeth to George Dunbar, both in 1857. George Dunbar was employed by Reid as a laborer on his farm. Both Reid, his son-in-law George Dunbar, and his grandchildren remained in Newburgh after it became a part of Cleveland. Dunbar and his eldest sons were employed in the iron industry and in local businesses, while Reid lived on Harvard Street and was employed as a laborer. Isaac Reid died in 1886. The collection consists of a ledger/letterbook; receipts, a family register, and notes removed from that volume; notes and transcripts of the contents of the volume; and a Newburgh, Ohio, school register. | | | Call #: | MS 4704 | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | Subjects: | Reid, Isaac, 1798-1886. | Reid family. | Dunbar family. | Irish American families -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Irish American families -- Ohio -- Newburgh. | Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Newburgh. | Schools -- Ohio -- Newburgh. | Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Newburgh (Ohio) -- History.
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 10 | Title: | Hiram House Social Settlement Records
| | | Creator: | Hiram House Social Settlement | | | Dates: | 1893-1972 | | | Abstract: | Hiram House is a pioneer Cleveland, Ohio, social settlement founded in 1896 by a group of Hiram College students led by George Bellamy, who later became Commissioner of Recreation for the city of Cleveland. During the height of its growth the settlement offered a full range of social, educational and recreational activities, but since 1948 it has concentrated its resources on Hiram House Camp in the suburb of Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Before 1948 its primary service area was centered in a neighborhood populated primarily by Jews, Italians and African Americans. The collection consists of minutes, resolutions, financial statements, ledger books, legal papers, correspondence, and employment and administrative policy materials of Hiram House, correspondence and legal and financial papers of George Bellamy, and correspondence from Samuel Mather and other supporters of the settlement. | | | Call #: | MS 3319 | | | Extent: | 38.00 linear feet (78 containers and 17 oversize volumes) | | | Subjects: | Hiram House Social Settlement (Cleveland, Ohio) | Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Recreation centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | School facilities -- Extended use -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Camps -- Ohio -- Chagrin Falls. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Italian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions.
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