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41	Title:	Ryan Gowdy & Company Daybook
	Creator:	Ryan Gowdy & Company
	Dates:	1836-1837
	Abstract:	Ryan Gowdy settled in Xenia, Greene County, Ohio, in the 1810s and operated the town's first general store. The collection consists of a daybook containing the general store's daily transactions, as well as children's drawings and arithmetic exercises.
	Call #:	MS 3508
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Ryan Gowdy & Company (Xenia, Ohio) \| General stores -- Ohio -- Xenia. \| Xenia (Ohio) -- Commerce.
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42	Title:	Forbes Chocolate Company Records
	Creator:	Forbes Chocolate Company
	Dates:	1910-2008
	Abstract:	The Forbes Chocolate Company was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1901 as a manufacturer of chocolate products. The company filed for bankruptcy after World War I, and was reborn as a manufacturer of powered chocolate for milk and ice cream. The collection consists of company magazines, correspondence, declaration of trust, financial records, party guest lists, industry histories, newspaper clippings, Ohio Historical Society Archives inventories, product labels and stock holders information.
	Call #:	MS 5239
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Periodicals \| Business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland \| Chocolate industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland \| Forbes Chocolate Company \| Forbes, Benjamin P. \| Business/Industry
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43	Title:	Kenton Milling Company Records
	Creator:	Kenton Milling Company
	Dates:	1880-1890
	Abstract:	The Kenton Milling Company operated mills for flour and wood in Kenton, Ohio. The collection consists of a charter and minutes of meetings of the board of directors.
	Call #:	MS 1224
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Kenton Milling Company. \| Mills and mill-work -- Ohio -- Kenton. \| Flour mills -- Ohio -- Kenton. \| Planing-mills -- Ohio -- Kenton. \| Industries -- Ohio -- Kenton.
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44	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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45	Title:	Hough Area Development Corporation Records, Series II
	Creator:	Hough Area Development Corporation
	Dates:	1983-1989
	Abstract:	The Hough Area Development Corporation (f. 1967) was formed in the wake of the Hough riots by DeForest Brown in conjunction with African American professionals and neighborhood leaders to aid in bringing economic prosperity to the Hough neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio. Dedicated to African American self-determination, the group initially met in secret in order to prevent competition for dollars and outside attempts to control it. The group promoted African American business entrepreneurship and better housing. The collection consists of board minutes, reports, correspondence, audits, and newspaper clippings. The collection pertains to the final years of the organization's existence, when local financial support eroded and the Office of Community Services of the United States Department of Health and Human Services obtained its assets.
	Call #:	MS 4609
	Extent:	0.10 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Hough Area Development Corporation. \| United States. CSA/Office of Community Services. \| United States. Dept. of Health and Human Services. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African Americans -- Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African American business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Hough (Cleveland, Ohio)
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46	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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47	Title:	Connecticut Land Company Miscellaneous Records
	Creator:	Connecticut Land Company
	Dates:	1765-1835
	Abstract:	The Connecticut Land Company (1795-1809) was a syndicate of 35 groups representing 58 individuals who purchased on credit the majority of Connecticut's Western Reserve land as a speculative venture. Proceeds from the sale of the Reserve were used to establish the Connecticut School Fund. The Western Reserve was that area of northeastern Ohio which Connecticut reserved for her citizens in 1786 in exchange for ceding the remainder of her western land claims to the newly-formed United States government. Settlers were slow to purchase Reserve lands, and many of the original proprietors did not make any profits due to company mismanagement. The collection consists of correspondence of Elias Perkins, Joseph Perkins, Oliver Phelps and various other interested people as well as an historical sketch of the Western Reserve lands, land records of New Lisbon, Ohio, and will and estate records. This collection pertains primarily to the efforts of company members to sell the land and settle the frontier known as Connecticut's Western Reserve.
	Call #:	MS 4240
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Connecticut Land Company. \| Real property -- Ohio -- New Lisbon. \| Real property -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Decedents' estates -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. \| Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. \| New Lisbon (Ohio) -- History -- Sources.
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48	Title:	Work Wear Corporation, Inc. Records, Series II
	Creator:	Work Wear Corporation, Inc.
	Dates:	1940-1996
	Abstract:	Work Wear Corporation, Inc. was founded in 1915 in Cleveland, Ohio, as the Cleveland Overall Company by Samuel Rosenthal. In 1919 Rosenthal bought the National Railroad Overall Company, maker of bib overalls and other work garments. Beginning in the 1920s, the enlarged Cleveland Overall Company transformed the uniform industry by producing stylish, functional work garments available on a rental basis. The company was also involved in the industrial laundry industry. In 1961, under Leighton Rosenthal, son of Samuel Rosenthal, Cleveland Overall became the publicly held Work Wear Inc. The name was changed in 1976 to Work Wear Corporation, Inc. Paine Webber Capital, a subsidiary of Paine Webber Group, Inc. of New York City, acquired Work Wear in 1986. The collection consists of correspondence, minutes, newsletters, financial statements, deeds, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, brochures and catalogs, speech texts, and award certificates.
	Call #:	MS 5094
	Extent:	2.01 linear feet (2 containers, 1 oversize folder)
	Subjects:	Rosenthal, Samuel, 1885-1957. \| Rosenthal family. \| Work Wear Corporation, Inc. \| Clothing factories -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Work clothes industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Protective clothing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Uniforms industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Uniforms industry -- United States. \| Uniforms industry -- Japan. \| Uniforms industry -- Belgium. \| Uniforms industry -- Canada. \| Uniforms industry -- France. \| Uniforms industry -- Great Britain. \| Uniforms industry -- Germany. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- History -- Sources.
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49	Title:	Boldt Construction Company Photographs
	Creator:	Boldt Construction Company
	Dates:	1916-1929
	Abstract:	The Boldt-Low Construction Company was founded in 1915 in Cleveland, Ohio, by John Boldt, Albert S. Low, R. M. Calfee, M. M. Feidner, and J. C. Fogg. The company changed its name to the Boldt Construction Company in 1918. The Boldt Construction Company specialized in commercial, industrial, and church building construction and maintained its corporate office at 6110 Euclid Avenue. The collection consists of seventy-five black and white photographs that document construction projects in Cleveland, Ohio, and other locations in Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.
	Call #:	MS 5300
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Construction industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| Architecture -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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50	Title:	E. P. Lambert Company Records
	Creator:	E. P. Lambert Company
	Dates:	1961-1998
	Abstract:	Opened in June 1945 by E.P. "Ted" Lambert in Akron, Ohio, the E.P. Lambert Company was the only business outside of New York that traded natural rubber. The automobile and tire industries in Akron enabled the Company to maintain its place in a market prone to extreme fluctuation through the mid-1990's. E.P. Lambert retired as the head of the company in 1963, passing leadership to his son, Donald M. Lambert. Donald Lambert closed the company in 1997. The company has been assimilated by Centrobank of Vienna under the name Centrotrade Rubber USA. The collection consists of contracts, correspondence, financial statements, inventories, journals, ledgers, legal files, lists, manuals, office files, reports, and statistics.
	Call #:	MS 5029
	Extent:	36.00 linear feet (38 containers)
	Subjects:	Lambert, E. P. \| Lambert, Donald M. \| E. P. Lambert Company. \| Rubber industry and trade -- Ohio -- Akron. \| Rubber industry and trade -- United States.
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51	Title:	Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad Company Stockholders' Protective Committee Records
	Creator:	Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad Company Stockholders' Protective Committee
	Dates:	1911-1915
	Abstract:	The Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad Company Stockholder's Protective Committee was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, on November 1, 1911, by Clevelanders George Bishop, John Garfield, William Mather, J.R. Nutt, and John W. Platten, to devise a plan to end the receivership of the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad. The collection consists of correspondence and publications (bound in one volume), pertaining to the Committee's efforts to gain shares of stock, and to court cases against the Wabash-Pittsburgh Terminal Railway Company.
	Call #:	MS 4075
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad Company Stockholders' Protective Committee \| Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad Company \| Wabash-Pittsburgh Terminal Railway Company \| Railroads -- United States
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52	Title:	L.N. Gross Company Records
	Creator:	L.N. Gross Company
	Dates:	1907-1967
	Abstract:	The L.N. Gross Company was a manufacturer and distributor of women's apparel founded in 1898 in Cleveland, Ohio, by a Russian immigrant, Louis N. Gross. Gross was president and manager until his death in 1941, when his sons, Nedward N., William V., and Julius S. Gross, and his son-in-law, Miltor E. Reed, became active in the management of the company. By the 1960s, the third generation of the Gross family managed the company. In 1919, the company built its headquarters at 1220 West Third Street in Cleveland. In 1929, additional production sites were acquired in Kent, Ohio, and in 1937 facilities opened in Fayetteville, Tennessee. During the Depression the company was troubled by strikes as well as the general business slump. The Welworth Realty Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of the L.N. Gross Company, operated as title and leaseholder of the parent company's properties. An office was also maintained in the New York City garment district. Beginning in 1950, product manufacturing was performed by subcontractors in their own facilities. A wholly owned subsidiary, Bradley Knitwear Company, acted as sales outlet for the parent company. In 1974, company headquarters moved to Mayfield Village, Ohio. In 1984, after several years of financial difficulties, control of the company was turned over to an outside investment group, and the name was changed to Bradley Sportswear, Inc. The collection consists of a history of the company, an autobiography, passport and visa of Louis Gross, correspondence, reports, applications for patents, contracts, account books, and miscellaneous materials, including scrapbooks containing advertisements for garments made by the company.
	Call #:	MS 3823
	Extent:	4.00 linear feet (5 containers)
	Subjects:	Gross, Louis N. \| Gross family. \| L.N. Gross Company (Cleveland, Ohio). \| Clothing factories -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Collective bargaining -- Clothing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Strikes and lockouts -- Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Women's clothing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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53	Title:	Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company Correspondence
	Creator:	Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company
	Dates:	1869-1874
	Abstract:	The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company is one of the oldest railroads in America, the Chesapeake and Ohio was created by an act of the Virginia legislature in 1826. Known as the Louisa Railroad prior to 1868, a major source of the C & O's income was for many years hauling coal from the coal fields of Virginia and West Virginia to ports along the Potomac River and to industries in the midwest. During the 1920s, the C & O was owned by the Van Sweringen brothers, with corporate offices in Cleveland's Terminal Tower. Cyrus Eaton served as chairman of the board for nearly 20 years beginning in 1954. In 1962, the C & O was merged with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad to create the Chessie System, which, along with Seaboard Coastline Industries, make up the CSX Corporation. The collection consists of business letters received by H.D. Whitcomb, chief engineer, Richmond, Virginia, 1869-1871; and letters received by A.H. Perry, general superintendent, C.P. Huntington, president, and J.J. Tracy, treasurer, 1872-1874.
	Call #:	MS 1089
	Extent:	1.00 linear feet (3 containers)
	Subjects:	Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company. \| Railroad companies -- United States. \| Railroads -- United States -- Management.
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54	Title:	E.C. Blackman & Company Records
	Creator:	E.C. Blackman & Company
	Dates:	1858-1900
	Abstract:	The E. C. Blackman & Company was a cheese factory and warehouse, organized in 1861 under the name of Robbins & Blackman Company by Edwin C. Blackman and A.D. Robbins. It was located in Solon, Ohio. The collection consists of correspondence, daybooks, ledgers, journals, invoice books, and cashbooks, of E.C. Blackman & Company. Includes newspaper clippings (1868-87), from the New York Bulletin containing the dairy-products market quotations; score book (1867) of "The Republic" baseball club of Solon; 2 record books (1876-1900) of the Solon Presbyterian Church; daily record book (1875-78) for Solon's Primary School; and daily record book (1880-1886) for Solon High School.
	Call #:	MS 3003
	Extent:	13.20 linear feet (6 containers and 54 oversize volumes)
	Subjects:	E.C. Blackman & Company (Solon, Ohio) \| Cheese factories -- Ohio -- Solon. \| Dairy products industry -- United States. \| Baseball -- Ohio -- Records \| Solon (Ohio) -- Schools.
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55	Title:	S. Korach Company Records
	Creator:	S. Korach Company
	Dates:	1898-1987
	Abstract:	The S. Korach Company was founded in 1902 by Sigmund Korach, a Jewish immigrant from Slovakia who settled in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1897. The company manufactured ready-to-wear dress and skirt garments for women. The company occupied various locations until 1913, when it occupied its permanent home at 2400 Superior Ave. The company was completely family-run, with the brothers of Sigmund Korach; Charles, Leo, and Benjamin W. Korach, serving in various positions, and son Arthur Korach as secretary. The company closed in 1935. The collection consists of correspondence, financial and legal records, blueprints of the 2400 Superior Ave. property, a 1987 description and valuation analysis of that property, and a 1934 issue of Women's Wear Daily with information about S. Korach and other Cleveland garment manufacturing companies.
	Call #:	MS 4694
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Korach, Sigmund, 1873-1934. \| Korach family. \| S. Korach Company. \| Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Clothing factories -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Women's clothing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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56	Title:	Abeyton Realty Company Records
	Creator:	Abeyton Realty Company
	Dates:	1930
	Abstract:	The Abeyton Realty Company was created by John D. Rockefeller in 1909 to manage and control his real estate interests throughout the United States. The company was created initially to protect the real estate interests of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church in New York City and then expanded to develop Rockefeller's property interests in New York, Ohio, and elsewhere. The collection consists of construction specifications and contracts for property developed in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, including the homes in the Forest Hill Subdivision and the store, office, and apartment building at the corner of Lee Boulevard and Mayfield Road.
	Call #:	MS 5183
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Abeyton Realty Company \| Forest Hill (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) \| Housing development -- Ohio -- Cleveland Heights \| Real estate development -- Ohio -- Cleveland Heights \| Real property -- Ohio -- Cleveland Heights \| Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison), 1839-1937
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57	Title:	Odell and Cozad Abstracting Companies Search Books
	Creator:	Odell and Cozad Abstracting Companies
	Dates:	1870-1900
	Abstract:	The Odell and Cozad Abstracting Companies were two land title search companies owned, respectively, by Jay Odell and Justus L. Cozad, and which operated in Cleveland, Ohio, in the late nineteenth century. Merged for the period 1870-1875, these companies were usually competitors in the business of supplying summaries, or abstracts, of the public records pertaining to land titles in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. The collection consists of 269 bound volumes pertaining to the process of abstracting land titles in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. They consist specifically of 163 volumes of Odell search books and 98 volumes of Cozad search books; two indexes; four subdivision books, in which the conveyances of numbered lots in recorded subdivisions are listed; an Odell copy book, which includes a collection of formal abstracts written for clients; and a Cozad foundation book, in which are copied the founding documents of the Connecticut Land Company.
	Call #:	MS 4598
	Extent:	50.00 linear feet (269 oversize volumes)
	Subjects:	Odell Abstract Company. \| Cozad Abstract Company. \| Connecticut Land Company. \| Land titles -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. \| Abstracts of title -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. \| Deeds -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. \| Real property -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County.
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58	Title:	Gilchrist Transportation Company Records
	Creator:	Gilchrist Transportation Company
	Dates:	1892-1914
	Abstract:	The Gilchrist Transportation Company was a Cleveland, Ohio-based shipping firm which dealt primarily with the transportation of coal and ore on the Great Lakes during the early 1900s. The collection consists of daily reports, agreements, account records, and miscellaneous reports and papers.
	Call #:	MS 3392
	Extent:	0.40 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Gilchrist Transportation Company (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Inland waterway vessels -- Great Lakes. \| Inland water transportation -- Great Lakes. \| Shipping -- Great Lakes. \| Lake steamers -- Great Lakes.
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59	Title:	Maple Leaf Land Company Records
	Creator:	Maple Leaf Land Company
	Dates:	1900-1918
	Abstract:	The Maple Leaf Land Company was a real estate enterprise which developed and sold land in Mayfield and Gates Mills, Ohio. the collection consists of correspondence, articles of incorporation, contracts, deeds, leases, financial statements, reports, lists of stockholders, and stock certificates. Includes papers (1909) relating to the organizing of the Chagrin Valley Country Sports Club (later Chagrin Valley Hunt Club).
	Call #:	MS 2538
	Extent:	1.20 linear feet (3 containers)
	Subjects:	Maple Leaf Land Company (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Deeds -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. \| Leases -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. \| Real estate business -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County.
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60	Title:	Thomas James & Company Shipping Receipts
	Creator:	Thomas James & Company
	Dates:	1831-1834
	Abstract:	Thomas James & Company was a firm dealing in iron products such as bar iron, nails, stoves and castings. The collection consists of shipping receipts of railroads and boats promising delivery of materials from Thomas James & Company.
	Call #:	MS 0563
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Thomas James & Company (Chillicothe, Ohio) \| Shipping -- Ohio -- Chillicothe. \| Shipping -- Ohio -- Ohio and Erie Canal. \| Chillicothe (Ohio) -- Commerce.
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