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| | • | Clarke School of Dressmaking and Fashion Design -- Photograph collections. |
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| | • | Cleveland Transit System -- Photograph collections. |
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| | • | Cole, Allen E., 1883-1970 -- Photograph collections. |
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| | • | Daley, Richard J., 1902-1976 -- Photograph collections. |
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| | • | Perk, Ralph J. -- Photograph collections. |
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| | • | Stokes, Carl -- Photograph collections. |
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| | • | White, Charles William, 1897-1970 -- Photograph collections. |
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| | • | White, Stella G., 1907-1991 -- Photograph collections. |
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| | • | Wicker, Amanda, 1900-1987 -- Photograph collections. |
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| | Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | Clarke School of Dressmaking and Fashion Design Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Clarke School of Dressmaking and Fashion Design | | | | Dates: | 1946-1986 | | | | Abstract: | The Clarke School of Dressmaking and Fashion Design was a Cleveland, Ohio, dressmaking, tailoring and fashion design school founded in 1925 by Amanda Wicker, primarily for young African-American women. Wicker retired and sold the school in 1979, which was still in operation in 1990. The collection consists of individual portraits of founder Amanda Wicker, her friends and associates; Clarke School board members, school graduates, and models; and views of events, activities and instructional classes. Included in the collection are portraits of Cleveland Mayor George Voinovich, Representative Troy Lee James, Cynthia Holloway, Judge Perry B. Jackson, Wyatt Brownlee, and Elizabeth Lambright. Events depicted include The Book of Gold and other fashion shows, award ceremonies of the Amanda Wicker Scholarship and the Cleveland Scholarship Program, board meetings, and social functions. | | | | Call #: | PG 472 | | | | Extent: | 0.80 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Wicker, Amanda, 1900-1987 -- Photograph collections. | Clarke School of Dressmaking and Fashion Design -- Photograph collections. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American fashion designers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Costume design -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Dressmaking -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | Allen E. Cole Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Cole, Allen E. | | | | Dates: | 1870-1970 | | | | Abstract: | Allen E. Cole (1883-1970) was a Cleveland, Ohio, photographer who produced over 50,000 photographs of people and places in the African American community of Cleveland, Ohio. Cole opened his first studio in 1922 at 9909 Cedar Avenue, supplementing his income with commercial work and commission work for eight white-owned studios, and earned prizes and commendations at state and local exhibitions. His photographs were frequently published in The Call and Post. The collection consists of approximately 30,000 black and white and color negatives; 6,000 black and white and color photographs; and 1 oil painting. | | | | Call #: | PG 268 | | | | Extent: | 36.72 linear feet (21 containers, 6 filing cabinets, and 2 oversize folders) | | | | Subjects: | African American athletes -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American businesspeople -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American children -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American clergy -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American entertainers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American families -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American men -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American neighborhoods -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American photographers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American portrait photographers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Social life and customs -- Photographs. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. -- Photographs. | Cole, Allen E., 1883-1970 -- Photograph collections. | Commercial photography -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History -- Sources.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 3 | Title: | Dr. Zelma Watson George Papers and Photographs
| | | | Creator: | George, Dr. Zelma Watson | | | | Dates: | 1881-1994 | | | | Abstract: | Dr. Zelma Watson George (1903-1994) was born in Texas in 1903. As an African American woman coming of age in the early twentieth century, she and her family endured discrimination in many situations. She graduated from high school in Topeka, Kansas, went on to college at the University of Chicago, and eventually earned her Ph.D. from New York University. She moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in the 1940s and became renown for her musical talents and research, diplomatic career, her contributions to the civil rights movement locally, and her career as an administrator and educator/lecturer. The collection consists of agendas, awards, brochures, budgets, by-laws, calendars, cassette tapes, certificates, charters, contracts, correspondence, diaries, a dissertation, financial documents, flyers, forms, guest books, invitations, journal articles, lectures, magazine articles, memoranda, minutes, music scores, negatives (approximately 20), newsletters, newspaper articles and clippings, note cards, notes, passports, photographs (approximately 1300), play scripts, policies, press releases, programs, publications, record albums (LPs), reel-to-reel tapes, reports, resolutions, resumes, rosters, scrapbooks, slides (approximately 620), speeches, VHS tapes, and wills. | | | | Call #: | MS 5415 | | | | Extent: | 55.4 linear feet (70 containers and 7 volumes) | | | | Subjects: | George, Zelma Watson | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Civil rights -- United States. | Social service -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Education (Higher) -- United States. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 4 | Title: | Stella G. White Photographs
| | | | Creator: | White, Stella G. | | | | Dates: | 1940-1970 | | | | Abstract: | Stella G. White (1907-1991) was a free-lance journalist and leader in Cleveland, Ohio, mass transit and interracial community relations. She served on the Community Relations Board, the Council on Human Relations, and the Board of the Cleveland Transit System. She was a columnist for the Plain Dealer. The collection consists of individual and group portraits of Stella White, her family, and friends and business and political associates including Judge Charles W. White, Carl Stokes, Ralph Perk, and Richard Daley. Views of her professional life include photographs of the People's Forum on Mass Transit (1971) and various views depicting her work with the Cleveland Transit System, including facilities and rapid transit trains, dinners and conferences, anniversary celebrations, and miscellaneous views. | | | | Call #: | PG 363 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | White, Stella G., 1907-1991 -- Photograph collections. | White, Charles William, 1897-1970 -- Photograph collections. | Perk, Ralph J. -- Photograph collections. | Stokes, Carl -- Photograph collections. | Daley, Richard J., 1902-1976 -- Photograph collections. | White family -- Photograph collections. | Cleveland Transit System -- Photograph collections. | Women journalists -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Journalists -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American women journalists -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Local transit -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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