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| | Manuscript Collection | Save | | 82 | Title: | James E. Taylor Sketchbook; With Sheridan up the Shenandoah Valley in 1864: Leaves From a Special Artist's Sketchbook and Diary
| | | | Creator: | Taylor, James E. | | | | Dates: | 1890-1898 | | | | Abstract: | James Edward Taylor (1839-1901) was an artist with Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper during the American Civil War who was assigned to cover the campaign of General Phillip Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley which began in August of 1864. Following the war, Taylor compiled over 500 narrative sketches and drawings based on his unique experience as the only artist assigned to cover General Sheridan. His sketches show heroic encounters, tragic deaths, thrilling victories, defeats, and all manner of military activity. Taylor also drew pictures depicting places, buildings, and scenes of local interest and character. All of these are tied together by a narrative. | | | | Call #: | MS 2152B | | | | Extent: | 0.80 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Taylor, James E., 1839-1901 -- Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc. | Taylor, James E., 1839-1901 -- Diaries. | Shenandoah Valley Campaign, 1864 (August-November) -- Pictorial works. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns -- Pictorial works.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 83 | 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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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 84 | Title: | Donald McBride Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | McBride, Donald Family | | | | Dates: | 1857-1989 | | | | Abstract: | Donald McBride was a lawyer and businessman and son of John Harris McBride, owner of Root & McBride Company, a leading wholesale dry goods establishment in Cleveland, Ohio. Donald's brothers, Malcolm and Herbert, were officers in Root & McBride Company. His sister Grace was married to Dr. George Crile, and his sister Edith was married to Henry S. Sherman, chairman of Society for Savings, 1903-1936. Donald's wife, Mary Helen Harman McBride, was daughter of industrialist Ralph A. Harman, who ran Cleveland Forge and Iron Company, was a founder of Cleveland Trust Company, and a director of Cleveland Electric Railway Company. Mary Helen's sister Grace was married to Samuel Livingston Mather, and her sister Sue was married to diplomat John Pelenyi. Her great aunt, Grace Harman Wade, was married to Jeptha H. Wade. The collection consists of Harman and McBride family correspondence, genealogies, coats of arms, reminiscences, memorials, school reports, scrapbooks, ledgers, journals, diaries, newspaper clippings, obituaries, reprints, autograph book, receipts, verses, blueprints, speeches and photographs. Included are personal papers for Ralph A. Harman, Sue Wade Harman and John Pelenyi, Susan Fleming Wade, Donald McBride and Mary Helen McBride, as well as business records, recollections and scrapbooks of Ralph A. Harman relating to the early business, industrial and social history of Cleveland. | | | | Call #: | MS 4585 | | | | Extent: | 10.80 linear feet (10 containers, 14 oversize volumes, and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | McBride, Donald, 1884-1927. | McBride family. | Harmon family. | Kenyon family. | Fleming family. | Wade family -- Periodicals. | Root & McBride Company. | Cleveland Tool and Forge Company. | Cleveland City Forge and Iron Company. | University of Free Europe in Exile. | Cleveland Trust Company. | Cleveland-Akron Bag Company. | Winous Point Shooting Club. | Beech Brook, Inc. (Pepper Pike, Ohio). | Businessmen -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Street-railroads -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Strikes and lockouts -- Street-railroads -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Banks and banking -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Shipping -- Great Lakes. | World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives. | Europe -- Description and travel. | Shipbuilding industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Diplomatic and consular service, Hungarian. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Economic conditions. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. | Hungary -- History.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 85 | Title: | United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, Local 427 Records
| | | | Creator: | United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, Local 427 | | | | Dates: | 1937-1979 | | | | Abstract: | Local 427 of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union was chartered in 1933 in Cleveland, Ohio, as District 427 of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America. It merged with the Retail Clerks International Association in 1979 to form the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. District 427 established the Community Health Foundation in 1964, with the cooperation of the Retail Clerks Local 880. The Foundation merged with Kaiser in 1969. The collection consists of minutes, newsletters, correspondence, convention proceedings, reports, contracts, clippings, financial and membership records, subject files, papers of presidents Sam Pollock and Frank Cimino, and records of or material pertaining to affiliated locals and unions, including Amalgamated Meat Cutters Local 500, Cleveland Fur Workers Local 86, The Canton Federation of Labor and the Cleveland AFL-CIO. | | | | Call #: | MS 3892 | | | | Extent: | 63.60 linear feet (65 containers) | | | | Subjects: | United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. Local 427 (Cleveland, Ohio) | Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clerks (Retail trade) -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Butchers -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Food industry and trade -- Employees -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements. | Civil rights -- United States. | Health maintenance organizations -- United States.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 86 | Title: | A. Donald Gray Papers
| | | | Creator: | Gray, A. Donald | | | | Dates: | 1917-1943 | | | | Abstract: | A. Donald Gray (1891-1939) was a notable landscape architect and designer in Cleveland, Ohio from 1920-1939. Gray worked briefly with Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., in Brookline, Massachusetts, before establishing a landscape architecture practice in Cleveland. He designed many private gardens and estates for some of the most elite families of Cleveland and its outlying suburbs, including the noted private development of Fairhill Road houses in 1931. Gray was also the landscape designer for several public projects, including the Cedar-Central apartments, the first federal public-housing project in the nation, and many of Cleveland's public parks. Perhaps his most notable achievemant was the creation of the WPA-funded Horticultural Gardens for the Great Lakes Exposition, 1936-1937, some of which remain on the site north of Cleveland's Municipal Stadium. The gardens were named for Gray as a memorial after his death. Gray took several trips to England, South America, Mexico and elsewhere throughout his career to study the landscaping of great houses and public places. He also contributed a regular gardening column to the Cleveland Press during the mid-1930s. The collection consists of some personal records, but largely records pertaining to Gray's numerous landscape design projects, including projects for William S. Halle, Mrs. Leonard C. Hanna, Edwin C. Higbee, Fred and Robert Lazarus of Columbus, Ohio, Crispen Oglebay, John Sherwin, and the Van Sweringen brothers. The records consist of correspondence, invoices, receipts, drawings, plans, photographs, blueprint designs, financial records, etc. The collection contains significant material regarding the Fairhill Road houses of the Fairmount Road Group Development Association, the Cedar-Central Housing Project, Cleveland city park projects, and, in particular, the Horticultural Gardens of the Great Lakes Exposition. Included are articles and clippings from Gray's gardening column in the Cleveland Press, lectures, travel reports, personal and financial papers and papers regarding Gray's personal residence, material pertaining to the preservation and restoration of the Dunham Tavern on Euclid Ave. in Cleveland, and photograph albums and photograph scrapbooks of Gray's trips and design projects, some by the noted photographer Margaret Bourke-White. | | | | Call #: | MS 3470 | | | | Extent: | 16.30 linear feet (28 containers, 9 oversize folders, and 21 rolled blueprints) | | | | Subjects: | Gray, A. Donald (Albert Donald), 1891-1939 -- Archives. | Dunham Tavern. | Cedar-Central Housing Project (Cleveland, Ohio) | Great Lakes Exposition (1936-1937 : Cleveland, Ohio) | Landscape architects -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Archives. | Landscape architecture -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area. | Landscape gardening -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area. | Landscape contracting -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area. | Landscape architectural drawing -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area. | Horticultural service industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area. | Gardens -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area -- Design. | Gardens -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area -- Specifications. | Urban beautification -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Historic buildings -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Conservation and restoration. | Parks -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Description and travel -- Views. | South America -- Description and travel -- Views. | Mexico -- Description and travel -- Views. | Nassau (Bahamas) -- Description and travel -- Views.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 87 | Title: | Andrew A. Ryan Cleveland Detective Notebooks
| | | | Creator: | Ryan, Andrew A. | | | | Dates: | 1899-1922 | | | | Abstract: | Andrew A. Ryan, a police detective for the city of Cleveland, Ohio, was born in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, in 1872. He moved his family to Cleveland around 1897 and joined the Cleveland Police Department in 1899. As a detective, Ryan investigated crimes ranging from petty larceny to murder. His regular beat was in and around the west side immigrant neighborhoods of Cudell, Detroit Shoreway, Ohio City, Tremont, and downtown. Ryan spent over twenty years with the Cleveland Police Department. He died on August 21, 1930. The collection consists of bulletins, drawings, field notebooks, a ledger, memoranda of arrests, newspaper clippings, a photograph, a postal receipt, reports, statements, and statistics. | | | | Call #: | MS 5042 | | | | Extent: | 0.80 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Ryan, Andrew A., 1872-1930 | Cleveland (Ohio). Police Dept. | Detectives -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Police -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Law enforcement -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Criminal investigation -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Crime -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 88 | Title: | John Kerr Papers
| | | | Creator: | Kerr, John | | | | Dates: | 1788-1844 | | | | Abstract: | John Kerr (d. 1823) was the mayor of Columbus, Ohio, 1818-1819. The collection consists of letter books, diary, account books, field notes, survey books for land in and around Columbus, and other papers relating to various business, civic, and literary interests of Kerr, including the Chillicothe Library, the Chillicothe Polemic Society, and Franklinton Turnpike Road Company. Includes accounts of John Kerr and Company with Alexander McLaughlin and tax lists for Columbus (1821) and Montgomery County, Ohio (1822). | | | | Call #: | MS 0330 | | | | Extent: | 1.20 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Kerr, John, d. 1823. | Subscription libraries -- Ohio. | Toll roads -- Ohio. | Columbus (Ohio) -- Surveys.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 89 | Title: | Agora Cleveland Records and Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Agora Cleveland | | | | Dates: | 1966-1995 | | | | Abstract: | Henry "Hank" LoConti, started the Agora in 1966 and it operated primarily as a dance club for a number of years. The organization grew and evolved over the 1970s and 1980s to focus more on concerts and it became a prominent player in the world of professional music, booking acts that revitalized the rock'n'roll genre and created the core for progressive rock. In 2023, The Agora continued to put on concerts that highlight new musical trends, young and upcoming touring acts, and local bands. This collection consists of advertisements, announcements, contracts, guest lists, financials, office files, performer files, photographs, press releases, newspaper and magazine articles, venues and event files. | | | | Call #: | MS 4939 | | | | Extent: | 11.41 linear feet (12 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Rock music--Ohio--Cleveland--History--20th century. | Radio broadcasting--Ohio--Cleveland Region--History. | Rock concerts--Ohio--Cleveland | Rock musicians--Ohio--Cleveland
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 90 | Title: | Goodrich Social Settlement Records, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Goodrich Social Settlement | | | | Dates: | 1960-1973 | | | | Abstract: | The Bell Neighborhood Center is an extension of Goodrich Social Settlement founded in 1959 when the Ohio Bell Telephone Company deeded a building in the Hough area of Cleveland, Ohio, to the Goodrich Settlement. The collection consists of correspondence, financial accounts, reports, and special projects of Bell Center, reports of Bell Camp, and records of the Hough Housing Corporation, the School Neighborhood Youth Corps, and the Mayor's Council on Youth Opportunity. | | | | Call #: | MS 3594 | | | | Extent: | 1.60 linear feet (4 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Goodrich Social Settlement (Cleveland, Ohio). Bell Neighborhood Center. | Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Camps -- Ohio -- Chagrin Falls. | Youth programs -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 91 | 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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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 92 | Title: | Frances Payne Bingham Bolton Papers
| | | | Creator: | Bolton, Frances Payne Bingham | | | | Dates: | 1921-1985 | | | | Abstract: | Frances Payne Bingham Bolton (1885-1977) was a Republican congresswoman from Ohio's 22nd congressional district. Bolton served on the committees of Indian Affairs (1940) and Foreign Affairs (1941-1968), participating in foreign aid hearings and conducting study trips abroad, including a trip to the Middle East in 1947 and one to Africa in 1955. She served as a congressional delegate to the United Nations Eighth General Assembly, and was involved with the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association and helped organize the Accokee Foundation to protect the Potomac shoreline across from Mount Vernon. Mrs. Bolton had a long-time interest in nursing and nursing education and provided funds to establish the nursing school at Western Reserve University, as well as founding the Payne Fund to assist a variety of educational and other charitable programs. The collection consists of correspondence, reports, publications, clippings, etc. generated during, or pertaining to, Bolton's service in Congress. Included are bills and hearings, roll calls and voting records; Foreign Affairs & Indian Affairs committees papers, correspondence, reports, and geographical, foreign aid, embassy and State Dept. files; reports, memoranda, and printed material relating to the deptartments of State, Defense and Justice, the Post Office, as well as correspondence with the President; background files, diaries, reports, etc. re: Bolton's foreign relations travels, including her 1955 African trip; speeches, publicity files, campaign files & local political issues files; material re: her involvement with national Republican Party organizations; UN Eighth General Assembly materials; correspondence, etc. re: nursing and nursing education, the Accokeek Foundation, Mt. Vernon Ladies' Assn., Bingham Associates Fund, and other institutions she supported; and general correspondence, scrapbooks, etc. The collection primarily pertains to Mrs. Bolton's public life and reflects her political activities, as well as her personal and philanthropic involvement with various organizations. | | | | Call #: | MS 3943 | | | | Extent: | 175.00 linear feet (176 containers, 31 oversize volumes, and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Accokeek Foundation. | Bingham Associates Fund. | Bolton, Frances Payne Bingham, 1885-1977 -- Archives. | Cuyahoga County (Ohio) -- Politics and government. | Government missions, American. | Indians of North America -- Government relations -- 1934- | Legislators -- United States -- Archives. | Legislators -- United States -- Correspondence. | Missionaries -- Correspondence. | Nursing -- Law and legislation -- United States. | Nursing -- United States. | Political campaigns -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) | United Nations -- United States. | United States -- Diplomatic and consular service. | United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945- | United States -- Politics and government -- 1945- | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. | United States. Dept. of State. | Women in politics -- United States -- Archives.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 93 | Title: | Austin Company Records
| | | | Creator: | Austin Company | | | | Dates: | 1866-2000 | | | | Abstract: | The Austin Company, a carpentry and contracting business, was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1878 by Samuel Austin. Austin became known for his quality work, and by 1904 incorporated his business as the Samuel Austin & Son Company. Wilbert J. Austin, Samuel's son, devised "The Austin Method," a unique bundling of engineering, construction, and design services intended to streamline the building process, as well as a model for a "controlled conditions" plant, a major improvement over the hot, stifling factory environment of the day. The Austin Company grew rapidly during World War I and was able to stay solvent following the stock market crash of 1929, mostly due to the firm's major contract to build the Gorky Automobile Plant in Gorky, Russia. Business saw another increase during World War II and again during the post-war years as the Company branched out beyond industrial construction to build department stores and retail shopping centers, including the Severance Center in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Overseas operations flourished in western Europe, Australia, and Argentina. Throughout the 1970's and into the 1990's, the Austin Company faced a decline in business. In 1984, the Company was purchased by the National Gypsum Company. Following National Gypsum's bankruptcy, the Austin Company was purchased by the Kajima USA Group. As of 2009, the Austin Company continued to maintain an office in suburban Cleveland. The collection consists of advertisements, agreements, annual reports, blueprints, books, brochures, certificates, charts, contracts, correspondence, film reels, financial statements, indexes, journal articles, leases, ledgers, legal documents, magazine articles, manuals, maps, meeting notices, memoranda, minutes, negatives, newsletters, newspaper clippings, notes, office manuals, photograph captions, photographs, presentations, press releases, proposals, reports, resolutions, sales literature, sales letters, scrapbooks, slides, speech texts, and videotapes. | | | | Call #: | MS 5040 | | | | Extent: | 159.26 linear feet (169 containers, 15 oversize volumes, and 28 oversize folders) | | | | Subjects: | Austin, Samuel, 1850-1936. | Austin, Wilbert J., 1876-1940. | Austin Company. | Gorʹkovskiĭ avtomobilʹnyĭ zavod. | Severance Center (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) | Contractors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Construction industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Construction projects -- United States. | Construction projects -- Soviet Union. | Construction contracts. | Industrial buildings -- Design and construction. | Commercial buildings -- Design and construction. | Industrial engineering. | Research, Industrial. | Advertising -- Construction industry. | Construction industry -- Marketing. | Construction industry -- Public relations. | Architectural models -- Photographs.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 94 | Title: | Goodrich Social Settlement Records
| | | | Creator: | Goodrich Social Settlement | | | | Dates: | 1893-1965 | | | | Abstract: | Goodrich Social Settlement was founded in 1897 in Cleveland, Ohio, by Flora Stone Mather and initially supported by her. Its financial support was later provided by the Cleveland Community Fund. It provided a full range of services to the various ethnic groups which resided in its area. The collection consists of correspondence, minutes, annual reports, pamphlets, news sheets, settlement manuals, anniversary publications, registration forms and financial records. | | | | Call #: | MS 3505 | | | | Extent: | 4.00 linear feet (10 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Goodrich Social Settlement (Cleveland, Ohio) | Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Camps -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 95 | Title: | Emma Boutelle Hawley Genealogical Data
| | | | Creator: | Hawley, Emma Boutelle | | | | Dates: | 1940-1956 | | | | Abstract: | Emma Boutelle Hawley (1880-1967) was a genealogist who served as Head Genealogist at the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1942-1956. The collection consists of random correspondence, genealogical charts, memoranda, and other records, relating to families researched by Mrs. Hawley, representing her efforts at tracing family histories for persons in New York, Ohio, and elsewhere. | | | | Call #: | MS 3033 | | | | Extent: | 10.40 linear feet (25 containers) | | | | Subjects: | New York (State) -- Genealogy. | Ohio -- Genealogy. | United States -- Genealogy.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 96 | Title: | City Infirmary, Cleveland, Ohio, Records
| | | | Creator: | City Infirmary, Cleveland, Ohio | | | | Dates: | 1867-1876 | | | | Abstract: | The City Infirmary was established in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1855 to house and assist the poor, aged, mentally ill, and handicapped. The State of Ohio authorized county governments to build and administer poorhouses and infirmaries to provide long-term care for the poor and homeless in 1816. Cuyahoga County was the only county that did not establish a poorhouse, so Cleveland built a combined poorhouse/infirmary in 1827 behind Erie Street Cemetery that accepted referrals from throughout the county. As the population of Cleveland expanded rapidly, its City Council voted in 1849 for a tax levy to pay for a separate workhouse and infirmary. In 1855 the new City Infirmary was built on the site of the current Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital. A few years later, Cleveland was experiencing the consequences of a national economic panic which included an influx of "inmates" to the City Infirmary that included newborn babies, the elderly, and the infirm. Immediately after the American Civil War, Ohio changed its infirmary law to require the election of infirmary directors and boards, thus injecting politics into the management of the City Infirmary. Cleveland's population doubled between 1860-1870, its economy rapidly industrialized, and its immigrant population increased dramatically. The City Infirmary cared for the poorest, most vulnerable citizens of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County during this era, including destitute individuals and families, the mentally ill, the aged, children too young to be apprenticed, alcoholics, and those suffering from mental and physical disabilities. During the 1870s, Cleveland was again mired in an economic panic that did not begin to ease until 1878. The City Infirmary again experienced a flood of impoverished and ill individuals and families seeking aid. Increasingly, those seeking help at the City Infirmary were recent immigrants to the United States, including Germans, Irish, and Eastern Europeans. At the turn of the century, the City Infirmary was transformed into Cooley Farms which became a national model for service delivery and rehabilitation. The collection consists of one intake ledger. | | | | Call #: | MS 5134 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Cleveland (Ohio). City Infirmary. | Hospitals -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Public health -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Medical care -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Registers of births, etc. -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Poor -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Elderly poor -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Orphans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Homeless persons -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 97 | Title: | William P. Palmer Collection of Civil War Manuscripts
| | | | Creator: | Various | | | | Dates: | 1761-1977 | | | | Abstract: | William Pendleton Palmer (1861-1927) was the President of American Steel and Wire Company, a director of U.S. Steel Corporation, and President of the Western Reserve Historical Society (Cleveland, Ohio) from 1913-1927. Palmer had an intense interest in the American Civil War and acquired an extensive collection of manuscript material related to the war, the memories of that conflict, and slavery. This collection is one of several Palmer collections from the Civil War era owned by the Western Reserve Historical Society. The collection consists of dozens of different types of documents in three distinct categories: civilian, governmental, and military. The document types created by civilians are: academic records, autographs, bills of lading, bills of sale, biographical sketches, circulars, diaries, dissertations, envelopes, essays, financials, funeral records, invitations, letters, manifests, memoirs, minutes, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, petitions, plantation records, obituaries, poetry, postcards, prayers, reminiscences, resumes, rosters, scrapbooks, sermons, ship's papers, slave rolls, song lyrics, speaker's notes, speech texts, unpublished books, and yearbooks. Governmental documents types are: affidavits, certificates, contracts, coroner's reports, court documents, depositions, diplomatic documents, financials, indentures, legislation, letters, licenses, notes, pardons, probate records, proclamations, resolutions, subpoenas, telegrams, and warrants. Military documents types are: battlefield dispatches, charts, code books, commissions, courts martial documents, discharges, drawings, furloughs, inventories, letters, maps, manuals, muster rolls, notes, orders, passes, payroll records, pension records, materials by and related to prisoners of war, reports, service records, shipping documents, telegrams, and vouchers. | | | | Call #: | MS 3947 | | | | Extent: | 18.40 linear feet (46 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Confederate States of America -- History, Military -- Sources. | Confederate States of America. Army -- Biography. | Generals -- Confederate States of America -- Biography. | Generals -- United States -- Biography. | Johnson Island Prison. | Ohio -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons. | Plantations -- Florida -- History -- Sources. | Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- History -- Sources. | Slave trade -- United States -- History -- Sources. | Slavery -- United States -- History -- Sources. | Southern States -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Sources. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Biography. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources. | United States. Army -- Biography.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 98 | Title: | Emily Newell Blair Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Blair, Emily Newell Family | | | | Dates: | 1785-1972 | | | | Abstract: | Emily Newell Blair was a suffragist, feminist, Democratic Party official, mother and writer. During World War I she worked in the press department of the Missouri Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense, eventually becoming vice chair. Representing Missouri on the Democratic National Committee, Blair was chosen national vice chair responsible for organizing women voters and women's activities, and eventually rose to first vice president, organized 2,000 plus Democratic women's clubs, and helped found the Woman's National Democratic Club. In 1935, she was appointed to the Consumers' Advisory Board of the National Recovery Administration, and, in 1942, was appointed chief of the Women's Interest Section of the War Department's Public Relations Bureau. Her husband, Harry Wallace Blair, was U.S. Assistant Attorney General in the Land Div. of the Justice Dept. in the 1930s and later served with the President's Loyalty Review Board. The collection consists of personal, professional and family correspondence, published and unpublished writings by and about Emily Blair, diaries, speeches, personal and family memorabilia, and clippings. Series I and II form the bulk of the collection, Series II being largely Emily Blair's personal writings, such as diaries, speeches, published articles, typescripts of fiction and non-fiction, and typescripts of her autobiography. Blair family material consists of the papers of Harry Wallace Blair (husband), Harriet Blair Forsythe (daughter), James Patton and Anna Gray Newell (parents), and her McDowell family ancestors of Pennsylvania, particularly the correspondence of Alexander McDowell. The collection is useful for researching the history of women and the family in the early 20th century, the issues of feminism and women's suffrage, and the emergence of women as politicians within the Democratic Party. Notable correspondents include Cordell Hull, Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt, and Harry S. Truman. McDowell family materials chronicle pioneer life on the 18th-century Pennsylvania frontier. | | | | Call #: | MS 4342 | | | | Extent: | 7.50 linear feet (18 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Blair, Emily Newell, b. 1877 -- Archives. | Blair family. | Newell family. | McDowell family. | United States. Council of National Defense. Woman's Committee. | Democratic National Committee (U.S.) | Democratic Party (U.S.) | Feminists -- United States -- Archives. | Authors, American -- United States -- Archives. | Feminism -- United States -- History -- Sources. | Women in politics -- United States. | Women -- Suffrage -- United States. | Women -- United States -- Societies and clubs. | Journalism, Consumer -- United States -- History -- Sources. | Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1932. | World War, 1914-1918 -- Women -- United States. | Frontier and pioneer life -- Pennsylvania -- Venango County. | United States -- Politics and government -- 1923-1929.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 99 | Title: | Thomas H. White Foundation Records
| | | | Creator: | Thomas H. White Foundation | | | | Dates: | 1939-2011 | | | | Abstract: | The Thomas H. White Foundation was established in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1913 by industrialist Thomas H. White (1836-1914). The foundation supports education and social welfare programs that benefit residents of Cleveland and northeast Ohio. The collection consists of agendas, correspondence, financial documents, lists, memoranda, grant proposals with attachments, and reports. | | | | Call #: | MS 5310 | | | | Extent: | 21.00 linear feet (21 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Philanthropy -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Education -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Endowments.
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