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1	Title:	Frank Jardine Papers
	Creator:	Jardine, Frank
	Dates:	1921-1963
	Abstract:	Frank Jardine was a pioneer in the development of aluminum as a material for automotive parts, especially the automobile piston. Jardine was manager of Alcoa's Cleveland Developmental Division, 1940-1953, and held numerous patents for automobile parts manufactured from aluminum. In the late 1920s, Jardine helped to develop the Peerless V-16, a luxury automobile made from aluminum components, but the car never went into production. The collection consists of testimonial letters upon Jardine's retirement in 1955, but also includes speeches, technical articles, and news clippings relating to Jardine's career, the aluminum industry and its role in automobile manufacturing, technological developments in the industry, and Cleveland's contributions to that industry.
	Call #:	MS 4510
	Extent:	0.21 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder)
	Subjects:	Jardine, Frank, 1888-1963. \| Aluminum Company of America. \| Aluminum industry and trade -- United States. \| Aluminum industry and trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Automobile industry and trade -- United States. \| Automobile industry and trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Automobiles -- Parts. \| Automobiles -- Parts -- Patents. \| Automobiles -- Technological innovations. \| Automobiles -- Motors -- Pistons and piston rings. \| Automobiles -- Motors -- Technological innovations.
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2	Title:	Rollin H. White and Walter C. White Papers
	Creator:	White, Rollin H. and Walter C.
	Dates:	1895-1980
	Abstract:	Rollin H. White and Walter C. White were sons of Thomas H. White, founder of the White Sewing Machine Company of Cleveland, Ohio. Rollin and Walter White, along with their brother Windsor, were involved with the early design and manufacture of automobiles. In 1899, Rollin H. White developed a steam boiler useful for powering automobiles, and in 1900 the White Steamer automobile was introduced. In 1906 the White Company, a firm separate from their father's White Sewing Machine Company, was formed by the brothers to manufacture automobiles and other vehicles. It later became the White Motor Company. The collection consists of correspondence, engineering notes, test data, newspaper clippings, a patent, a memoriam booklet, obituaries, blueprints, and reports.
	Call #:	MS 4734
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	White, Rollin Henry, 1872-1962. \| White, Walter Charles, 1876-1929. \| White family. \| White, Thomas Howard, 1836-1914. \| White, Windsor Thomas, 1866-1958. \| White Sewing Machine Company. \| White Motor Company. \| Automobiles, Steam. \| Automobile industry and trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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3	Title:	Thomas H. White Family Papers Collected by Betty King
	Creator:	White, Thomas H. Family
	Dates:	1638-1992
	Abstract:	Thomas Howard White (1836-1914) was the founder of the White Sewing Machine Company, the While Motor Company, and the Thomas H. White Foundation, all of Cleveland, Ohio. He was born in Massachusetts, part of the White family which had immigrated from England ca. 1638. He moved to Cleveland in 1867. In 1876 he, his half-brother Howard W. White, and Rollin C. White (no relation) incorporated the White Sewing Machine Company. In 1899, his son Rollin Henry White invented the White steam car, put into production by the White Sewing Machine Company in 1900. In 1906, The automobile division was separated from the Sewing Machine Company as the White Company, later the White Motor Company. He and his wife, Almira Greenleaf White, had eight children; Mabel Almira Harris (wife of James Armstrong Harris), Alice Maud Hammer (wife of William Joseph Hammer), Windsor Thomas White, Clarence Greenleaf White, Rollin Henry White, Walter Charles White, and Ella Almira Ford (wife of Horatio Ford). The collection consists of a copy of the publication, Descendants of Thomas White, Volume II , written for Elizabeth White King by Betty King and Alice Coyle Lunn. The documentation collected during research for this book makes up the rest of the collection. It includes copies of wills, deeds, and patents; original correspondence and transcripts of correspondence of members of the White family; travel scrapbooks and a baby scrapbook; diaries; unpublished manuscripts; book; newspaper clippings; drawings; maps; oral history transcripts and memoirs; reports of Dr. Lunn to Betty King concerning her genealogical and historic research; and genealogical questionnaires filled out by family members.
	Call #:	MS 4725
	Extent:	3.20 linear feet (6 containers)
	Subjects:	King, Betty, collector. \| White family. \| White, Thomas Howard, 1836-1914. \| White, Rollin Henry, 1872-1962. \| White, Walter Charles, 1876-1929. \| White, Windsor Thomas, 1866-1958. \| King, Elizabeth White. \| Harris, Mabel White. \| Harris, James Armstrong. \| Hammer, William J. \| Hammer, Maud White. \| White, Katharine Elizabeth King. \| Asheton, Mabel White Hammer. \| White Sewing Machine Company. \| White Motor Company. \| Automobiles, Steam. \| Automobile industry and trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Sewing-machine industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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