| | Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 62 | Title: | Richman Brothers Company Photographs
| | | | 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 individual and group portraits of executives and employees, interior and exterior views of Richman Brothers Company factories and stores, and posed and candid shots of company functions. | | | | Call #: | PG 466 | | | | Extent: | 1.01 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Richman family -- Photograph collections. | Richman Brothers Company -- Photograph collections. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Jewish businesspeople -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Clothing factories -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Clothing workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Men's clothing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 63 | 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* | | 64 | 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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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 65 | 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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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 66 | 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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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 67 | 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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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 68 | Title: | Wellman-Seaver-Morgan Company, Cleveland, Ohio, Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Wellman-Seaver-Morgan Company | | | | Dates: | 1900-1910 | | | | Abstract: | The Wellman-Seaver-Morgan Company was a pioneer manufacturer of steel plant equipment with an international reputation for engineering some of the largest material-handling projects ever built. The firm started in 1896 as the Wellman-Seaver Engineering Company in Cleveland, Ohio, founded by the inventor of the first open-hearth furnace in the U.S., Samuel T. Wellman, his brother, Charles H. Wellman, and John W. Seaver, to engineer and design steel mills and industrial plant equipment. One of the company's executives, George Huelett, invented the Hulett unloader, which revolutionized the Great Lakes ore industry. The collection consists of one album containing forty-two photographs of ship and railroad unloading machinery, eight loose photographs of ship unloaders and coke dumpers, and one blueprint of a railroad car dumper. | | | | Call #: | PG 018 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Wellman-Seaver-Morgan Company (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photograph collections. | Loading and unloading -- Great Lakes -- Photographs. | Railroads -- Great Lakes -- Photographs. | Loaders (Machines) -- Great Lakes -- Photographs. | Ore handling -- Great Lakes -- Photographs. | Cargo ships -- Great Lakes -- Photographs. | Great Lakes -- Commerce -- Photographs.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 69 | 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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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 71 | Title: | Ray's Sausage Company Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Ray's Sausage Company | | | | Dates: | 1969 | | | | Abstract: | Ray's Sausage Company has been located in Cleveland, Ohio, on the corner of East 123rd Street and Imperial Avenue since it was founded by Ray Cash in 1952. The company factory manufactured and sold pure pork, beef sausage, pork and beef links, head cheese, and meat souse. The collection consists of eight color and twelve black and white photographs. | | | | Call #: | PG 601 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | African American business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs | Cash, Raymond, 1919-1977 -- Photographs | Meat industry and trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs | Ray's Sausage Company (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photograph collections | Ray's Sausage Company (Cleveland, Ohio) | African American History / Business/Industry
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 72 | 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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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 73 | 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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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 74 | 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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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 75 | 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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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 77 | 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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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 79 | 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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