| | Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 41 | Title: | Leisy Brewing Company Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Leisy Brewing Company | | | | Dates: | 1870-1960 | | | | Abstract: | The Leisy Brewing Company was a Cleveland, Ohio, based brewery which began as Isaac Leisy & Co. in 1873. Once Cleveland's largest independent brewery, it had branch agencies in Ohio, western Pa., and Indiana, and gained a reputation for its Premium Lager and Budweiser beers, before that became a brand name. Production in 1890 was over 90,000 barrels, and rose to 355,000 barrels by 1917. When the company closed in 1959, it was the oldest brewery in Cleveland and one of the longest surviving family-operated breweries in America. The collection consists of individual portraits of Otto Leisy and his family; unidentified individual and group portraits of Leisy Brewing Company staff; Leisy staff party portraits; views of the Leisy family residence; and exterior and interior views of the Leisy plant complex at various stages. The majority of photographs depict various aspects of Leisy advertising and include views of billboards, taxi posters, displays, horse-drawn and motorized delivery vehicles, and the Leisy company mascot. A bound album contains reproductions of product labels and advertising. | | | | Call #: | PG 422 | | | | Extent: | 0.60 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Leisy, Otto, 1863-1914 -- Photograph collections. | Leisy family -- Photograph collections. | Leisy Brewing Company (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photograph collections. | Brewing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | German Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Advertising -- Brewing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Brewery workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | German American families -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 42 | Title: | Bosworth Hardware Company Records
| | | | Creator: | Bosworth Hardware Company | | | | Dates: | 1875-1935 | | | | Abstract: | The Bosworth Hardware Company was a Cleveland, Ohio, hardware store founded in 1874 by Newton C. Bosworth and known as Burrows-Bosworth Hardware Company until 1905. The company apparently specialized in industrial supplies and had accounts with such companies as Ohio Bell Telephone, Western Electric, Lake Erie Glass, Cleveland Paper and Warner and Swasey. The collection consists of financial records, including of account books, indexes to account books, and cash journals. Included are external and internal accounts, with dates and amounts for merchandise, advertising, labor, tools, charity and other expenses. The cash journals include a daily account of transactions. | | | | Call #: | MS 4508 | | | | Extent: | 4.40 linear feet (2 containers and 10 oversize volumes) | | | | Subjects: | Bosworth Hardware Company -- Finance. | Burrows-Bosworth Hardware Company -- Finance. | Hardware stores -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Finance.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 43 | Title: | 171st Ohio Infantry Regiment, Company E Ledgers
| | | | Creator: | 171st Ohio Infantry Regiment, Company E | | | | Dates: | 1864 | | | | Abstract: | The 171st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company E, was an American Civil War regiment mustered in May 7, 1864 and mustered out Aug. 20, 1864. The regiment fought at Kelly's Bridge against General Morgan. The collection consists of four volumes of military ledgers, listing names, descriptions, and rank of the company's men, official and special orders, activities engaged in, and clothing issued during their service. | | | | Call #: | MS 4250 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 171st (1864). Company E. | Ohio -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Registers. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories -- Ohio Infantry -- 171st -- Company E. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Registers.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 44 | Title: | Wilson Transit Company Records
| | | | Creator: | Wilson Transit Company | | | | Dates: | 1882-1890 | | | | Abstract: | The Wilson Transit Company (f. 1872) of Cleveland, Ohio, was a shipping company which shipped coal, railroad supplies and other goods on Lake Erie. The collection consists of record books of three ships, Charlemagne Tower, Jr., Wadena, and Wallula, from the company's freight-transportation fleet. | | | | Call #: | MS 3082 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Wilson Transit Company (Cleveland, Ohio) | Shipping -- Erie, Lake -- Finance. | Ship's papers.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 46 | Title: | Beeman Chemical Company Records
| | | | Creator: | Beeman Chemical Company | | | | Dates: | 1891-1899 | | | | Abstract: | The Beeman Chemical Company was organized in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1888 by Edwin E. Beeman, a druggist and medical practitioner specializing in digestive disorders. Beeman discovered that pepsin, an extract from the stomach of hogs, relieved indigestion. Beeman added pepsin to chewing gum in 1890. The company manufactured and sold pepsin, "Beeman's Pepsin Gum," and other confections, and was sold to American Chicle Co. in 1899. The collection consists of articles of incorporation, bylaws, minutes of meetings, treasurer's reports, and other documents. | | | | Call #: | MS 2752 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Beeman Chemical Company. | Confectioners -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History -- Sources. | Chewing gum. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History -- Sources.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 48 | Title: | Cleveland Shopping News Company Records
| | | | Creator: | Cleveland Shopping News Company | | | | Dates: | 1922-1950 | | | | Abstract: | The Cleveland Shopping News Company was a newspaper company founded in 1921, by a group of downtown department stores, to secure lower advertising rates by competing with the daily newspapers. It ceased operations in 1972. The collection consists of two bound volumes containing A General Management Survey of the Cleveland Shopping News Company, dated Dec. 6, 1950, prepared by Cresap, McCormick and Paget, management engineers, to determine the feasibility of continued publication of the Cleveland Shopping News, and financial records, consisting of incomplete accounts of the company. | | | | Call #: | MS 3556 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Cleveland Shopping News Company. | Advertising, Newspaper -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 49 | Title: | Lees-Bradner Company Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Lees-Bradner Company | | | | Dates: | 1915-1965 | | | | 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 individual portraits of Hosea Townsend Bradner, George Townsend Bradner, and John Bradner; group portraits of employees, including production workers, managers and sales personnel; and views of products, facilities, and activities. | | | | Call #: | PG 462 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Bradner, Hosea Townsend, 1872-1963 -- Photograph collections. | Bradner, George T., 1916- -- Photograph collections. | Lees-Bradner Company -- Photograph collections. | White Consolidated Industries -- Photograph collections. | Grant-Lees Machine Company -- Photograph collections. | Machine-tool industry -- United States -- Photographs. | Machine-tool industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Gear industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Gear-cutting machines -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 51 | Title: | Winton Motor Carriage Company Factory Stereographs
| | | | Creator: | Winton Motor Car Company | | | | Dates: | 1910s | | | | Abstract: | The Winton Motor Carriage Company was founded in 1897 by Cleveland, Ohio, bicycle manufacturer Alexander Winton. A factory at the corner of Belden and Mason streets was established. A new factory complex at 10601 Berea Road and a sales office and garage at 1228 Huron Road was built in 1902. New models included delivery vehicles and a racing car. The company was reorganized in 1915 as the Winton Motor Car Company, and produced 2,450 vehicles the following year. Winton produced expensive models of cars, and could not compete with increasingly mass-produced competitors such as Ford. In 1924, the company ceased production of automobiles. The collection consists of a stereographic viewer containing stereographic photographs on a roll of the Winton Motor Carriage Company factory, Cleveland, Ohio. Also includes 81 black and white slide transparencies which are duplicates of the stereographic roll photographs. And two 8 x 10 inch black and white copy photographs: of slide no. 29 (assembly building) and slide no. 54 (parts and repairs building). Factory views include automobile assembly, workers, buildings, departments, machinery, and other locations within the complex. | | | | Call #: | PG 334 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Winton Motor Carriage Company -- Photograph collections. | Automobiles -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Design and construction -- Photographs. | Automobile industry and trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Stereoscopic views -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 52 | Title: | Printz-Biederman Company Records
| | | | Creator: | Printz-Biederman Company | | | | Dates: | 1914-1957 | | | | Abstract: | The Printz-Biederman Company was a Cleveland, Ohio, coat manufacturing company established in 1893 by Moritz Printz, his sons Michael and Alexander, and his son-in-law Joseph Biederman. The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union tried to organize its employees in the 1930s. It closed in the 1970s. The collection consists of minutes, reports, agreements, correspondence, historical sketches, and publications relating to employee representative bodies which operated in the plant, and letters, telegrams and other writings to and from Abraham Katovsky and David Dubinsky of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union Also includes catalogs and advertisements of the company's clothing. | | | | Call #: | MS 3870 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Printz-Biederman Company (Cleveland, Ohio). | Printz-Biederman Company (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Catalogs. | Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Catalogs. | Clothing factories -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women's clothing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Collective bargaining -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing workers -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industrial relations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 53 | Title: | Glenn L. Martin Company Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Glenn L. Martin Company | | | | Dates: | 1918-1950 | | | | Abstract: | The Glenn L. Martin Company was founded by Glenn L. Martin, a pioneer airplane manufacturer. It incorporated in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1917 and remained until 1929, when Martin moved the company to Essex, Maryland. The company produced aircraft for military use. The Glenn L. Martin Company also built mail and passenger planes. It eventually evolved into the Martin Marietta Corporation. The collection consists of views of various aircraft and blimps, the Cleveland plant, and an R.A.F. jet bomber in Essex, Maryland, after a 1950s transatlantic flight. Also includes group portraits of Glenn L. Martin employees, interior and aerial views of the Glenn L. Martin plant in Cleveland, and postcards of the Glenn L. Martin plant in Essex, Maryland. | | | | Call #: | PG 436 | | | | Extent: | 0.21 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Glenn L. Martin Company -- Photograph collections. | Aircraft industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Airplanes -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Design and construction -- Photographs. | Martin airplanes -- Photographs. | Bombers -- Photographs. | Airplanes, Military -- Photographs.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 54 | Title: | Richman Brothers Company Records
| | | | Creator: | Richman Brothers Company | | | | Dates: | 1924-1992 | | | | Abstract: | The Richman Brothers Company began in Cleveland, Ohio, when Henry Richman, a Jewish immigrant from Bavaria, and his partner, Joseph Lehman, moved their men's clothing manufacturing business, the Lehman-Richman Company, from Portsmouth, Ohio, to Cleveland in 1879. Following the depression of 1893, Lehman retired, and in 1904, Henry Richman turned over the business to his sons; Nathan, Charles, and Henry, Jr., and the business became the Richman Brothers Company. The first retail store was established in Cincinnati in 1906, followed a year later by stores in Cleveland and Louisville, Kentucky. Moving away from reliance on outside piecework, the Cleveland plant at 1600 E. 55 St. was built in 1916. The company incorporated in 1919. Throughout the 1920s-1930s, Richman Brothers continued to open new retail stores. After the deaths of the three Richman Brothers, the company was headed by Frank C. Lewman, and later by George H. Richman, until 1970, when Donald J. Gerstenberger became president and CEO. Expansion continued throughout the 1940s-1950s, despite problems with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America which attempted to unionize Richman Brothers. It remained a non-union shop throughout its existence. In 1969, Richman Brothers became a subsidiary of F.W. Woolworth Company. In 1986, corporate headquarters was moved to Massachusetts, and in 1990, its Cleveland manufacturing plant was closed. By December 1992, Richman Brothers Company had been completely liquidated. The collection consists of legal documents including leases and escrow papers, shareholders reports, issues of two company-published employee magazines, Chain Reaction (1967-1984) and Common Thread (1985-1987), newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous documents. | | | | Call #: | MS 4664 | | | | Extent: | 0.80 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Richman Brothers Company. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish businesspeople -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing factories -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Men's clothing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 57 | 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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