Subject • | Business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland | [X] | • | African American business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Antislavery movements -- Ohio. |
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| • | Business enterprises -- England -- London |
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| • | Businessmen -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- 19th century. |
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| • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy. |
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| • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- History. |
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| • | Connecticut Land Company. |
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| • | Electric lamps, Arc |
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| • | Fire prevention -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | G.A. Morgan Hair Refining Company (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| • | Industrialists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Inventors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| • | Jandus Arc Lamp and Electric Company (London, England) |
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| • | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History. |
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| • | Johnson and Phillips (London, England) |
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| • | London Electric Firm (London, England) |
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| • | Morgan, Garrett A., 1877-1963 |
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| • | Pioneers -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. |
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| • | Real property -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. |
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| • | Slavery -- United States -- History -- Sources. |
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| • | Surveyors -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. |
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| • | Temperance -- Ohio -- Societies, etc. |
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| • | Traffic signs and signals. |
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| • | United States -- History -- 19th century. |
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| • | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources. |
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| • | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. |
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| • | Water tunnels -- Accidents -- Ohio -- Cleveland |
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| • | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History. |
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| • | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Surveys. |
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| • | Western Reserve Manufacturing Works (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| • | Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History. |
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| • | Wunderlich, Adolph, ca. 1869-1942 |
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 1 | Title: | Adolph Wunderlich Papers
| | | Creator: | Wunderlich, Adolph | | | Dates: | 1855-1967 | | | Abstract: | Adolph Wunderlich (ca. 1869-1942) was an inventor, engineer, and businessman who was born in Buffalo, New York, and moved to Cleveland, Ohio, as a child. He held patents for inventions and improvements on electric arc lamps, hoisting and lowering mechanisms, suspension devices for electric arc lamps, winches, lubricating devices, and caulking devices. He lived in England from 1898-1912 where he installed London's first street lights and headed his own electrical firm. He founded the Western Reserve Manufacturing Works in Cleveland in 1914. The collection consists of advertisements, agreements, apprenticeship records, catalogs, certificates, correspondence, extracts, financial documents, instructions, legal documents, memoranda, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, patents, a scorecard, and a will. | | | Call #: | MS 5208 | | | Extent: | 1.00 linear feet (1 container) | | | Subjects: | Business enterprises -- England -- London | Business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Businessmen -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Electric lamps, Arc | Industrialists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jandus Arc Lamp and Electric Company (London, England) | Johnson and Phillips (London, England) | London Electric Firm (London, England) | Western Reserve Manufacturing Works (Cleveland, Ohio) | Wunderlich, Adolph, ca. 1869-1942
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 2 | Title: | Garrett A. Morgan Scrapbook
| | | Creator: | Morgan, Garrett A. | | | Dates: | 1913-1969 | | | Abstract: | Garrett A. Morgan (1877-1963) was an African American entrepreneur and inventor whose inventions included an electric traffic signal and gas mask. Morgan moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1895 and opened his own sewing machine sales and repair shop in 1907. He received a patent on his gas mask in 1912 and formed the National Safety Device Company to manufacture and market it. He also established the G.A. Morgan Hair Refining Company, The Cleveland Call and Post, and the Wakeman Country Club for African Americans. The collection consists of a scrapbook that contains mostly newspaper articles and clippings, but also includes letters detailing the success of his products, magazine clippings, pamphlets, photocopied autobiography samples, photographs, product order requests, and a subscription and induction notice to the National Geographic Society. | | | Call #: | MS 5201 | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | Subjects: | African American business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American inventors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Fire prevention -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | G.A. Morgan Hair Refining Company (Cleveland, Ohio) | Inventors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Morgan, Garrett A., 1877-1963 | Traffic signs and signals. | Water tunnels -- Accidents -- Ohio -- Cleveland
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 3 | Title: | Western Reserve Manuscripts (Western Reserve Historical Society Manuscript Vertical File)
| | | Creator: | Various | | | Dates: | 1636-1991 | | | Abstract: | The Western Reserve Manuscripts is a collection of small manuscript accessions that have been donated to the Western Reserve Historical Society since its founding in 1867. These manuscripts often consist of one document but can include multiple items contained in one folder. This collection of material documents numerous subjects and themes in the history of Cleveland, Ohio, and the region of northeast Ohio known as the Western Reserve. The collection consists of advertisements, agreements, applications, articles, autobiographies, autograph books and autographs, biographical sketches, certificates, correspondence, deeds, diaries, drawings, envelopes, genealogies, histories, indentures, invoices, letters, lists, manuscripts, memoranda, newspaper clippings, notes, papers, photographs, poems, receipts, reports, scripts, speech transcripts, telegrams, and other material. Western Reserve Historical Society library staff began to describe these manuscripts in this finding aid in 2015. This is an ongoing project that will be updated for public access as the project progresses in real time. | | | Call #: | MS 5362 | | | Extent: | 27.80 linear feet (29 containers) | | | Subjects: | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Surveys. | Pioneers -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. | Real property -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. | Surveyors -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- History. | Connecticut Land Company. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy. | Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History. | Business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources. | Slavery -- United States -- History -- Sources. | United States -- History -- 19th century. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- 19th century. | Temperance -- Ohio -- Societies, etc. | Antislavery movements -- Ohio.
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