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1	Title:	Women's Centennial Commission Records
	Creator:	Women's Centennial Commission
	Dates:	1891-1971
	Abstract:	The Women's Centennial Commission of Cleveland, Ohio, was founded in 1895 as the Women's Auxiliary of the Cleveland Centennial Commission. The group formally became a part of the Cleveland Centennial Commission on September 25, 1895, when its name was changed to the Woman's Department of the Cleveland Centennial Commission. Mary B. Ingham served as the first president, and Catherine Hitchcock Avery was chairman of the executive board. Woman's Day, a part of the centennial celebration, was held July 28, 1896. In December 1896, an aluminum casket time capsule was filled by members and sealed, to be opened one hundred years later in 1996 during the bicentennial of the founding of Cleveland. The casket was given to the Western Reserve Historical Society for safekeeping. In 1898, the executive committee of the Woman's Department became a permanent organization. Each member designated a successor, and yearly meetings were held. In 1921, a second aluminum casket time capsule was prepared, commemorating the one hundred twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of Cleveland. This casket was not sealed until 1927, so that volume five of the Memorial to the Pioneer Women of the Western Reserve, a project begun in 1896 by the Woman's Department, and edited by Gertrude Van Rensselaer Wickham, could be included. That same year, the name of the group was changed to the Women's Centennial Commission. Continued by the successors of the women of 1896 and 1921, a sealed aluminum casket was placed at the Western Reserve Historical Society during the sesquicentennial celebration of Cleveland in 1946. At the one hundred seventy-fifth anniversary of Cleveland in 1971, a fourth time capsule was prepared. The group was revived as the bicentennial of 1996 approached, and in 1996, the contents of the time capsules were unpacked by lineal descendants of the original members. The collection consists of the contents of four aluminum casket time capsules from the years 1896, 1921, 1946, and 1971. The contents include letters, constitutions and bylaws, minutes, resolutions, financial statements, programs, lists, certificates, cards, photographs, invitations, addresses, speeches, essays, poems, newspaper clippings, magazines, newsletters, newspapers, brochures, directories, bulletins, notes, books, pamphlets, annual reports, yearbooks, biographical and genealogical sketches, business cards, medals, ribbons, coins, flags, badges, a gavel, drawings, watercolor prints, maps, calendars, and a poster. Material from philanthropic, social service, cultural, and religious organizations and agencies of the time is included. Documentation on the formation and organization of the Women's Centennial Commission is included, as is a large amount of personal letters and photographs addressed to their descendants by Commission members. The collection also documents how the Cleveland centennial was planned and celebrated in 1896, and how subsequent anniversary years were celebrated. Original manuscripts and copies of the speeches and toasts given during Woman's Day in 1896 were included in the time capsules.
	Call #:	MS 4752
	Extent:	6.80 linear feet (14 containers)
	Subjects:	Avery, Catherine Hitchcock, 1844-1911. \| Ingham, Mary Bigelow, 1832-1923. \| Wickham, Gertrude Van Rensselaer, 1844-1930. \| Women's Centennial Commission. \| Cleveland Centennial Commission. Woman's Dept. \| Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History. \| Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. \| Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Biography. \| Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Genealogy. \| Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Social service -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Women volunteers in social service -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Time capsules -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Centennial celebrations, etc.
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2	Title:	Dr. Zelma Watson George Papers and Photographs
	Creator:	George, Dr. Zelma Watson
	Dates:	1881-1994
	Abstract:	Dr. Zelma Watson George (1903-1994) was born in Texas in 1903. As an African American woman coming of age in the early twentieth century, she and her family endured discrimination in many situations. She graduated from high school in Topeka, Kansas, went on to college at the University of Chicago, and eventually earned her Ph.D. from New York University. She moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in the 1940s and became renown for her musical talents and research, diplomatic career, her contributions to the civil rights movement locally, and her career as an administrator and educator/lecturer. The collection consists of agendas, awards, brochures, budgets, by-laws, calendars, cassette tapes, certificates, charters, contracts, correspondence, diaries, a dissertation, financial documents, flyers, forms, guest books, invitations, journal articles, lectures, magazine articles, memoranda, minutes, music scores, negatives (approximately 20), newsletters, newspaper articles and clippings, note cards, notes, passports, photographs (approximately 1300), play scripts, policies, press releases, programs, publications, record albums (LPs), reel-to-reel tapes, reports, resolutions, resumes, rosters, scrapbooks, slides (approximately 620), speeches, VHS tapes, and wills.
	Call #:	MS 5415
	Extent:	55.4 linear feet (70 containers and 7 volumes)
	Subjects:	George, Zelma Watson \| African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Civil rights -- United States. \| Social service -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African Americans -- Education (Higher) -- United States. \| African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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3	Title:	Marie Remington Wing Family Papers
	Creator:	Wing, Marie Remington Family
	Dates:	1846-1980
	Abstract:	Marie Remington Wing was a Cleveland, Ohio, lawyer who served on the Cleveland City Council (1923-1927), as Solicitor for the Village of Mentor, Ohio (1929-1936), and as Regional Attorney for the Social Security Board (1936-1953). She was also involved in numerous professional, civic, and health organizations in Cleveland and in Mentor. Wing came from a distinguished Cleveland family, which included her uncle, George Clary Wing, an author and attorney who served in several United States government departments. Marie's father, Francis Joseph Wing, was a judge in the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas and in the United States District Court for Northern Ohio. Her older sister, Virginia Remington Wing, was, like Marie, a social activist, working for the Red Cross, the Cleveland Anti-Tuberculosis League, and the Cleveland Health Council's Health Education Department. She was also the secretary of both the Brush Foundation and the Sight Saving Council. Marie's longtime companion, Dorothy Smith, worked with the YWCA, founded an insurance business, and was an executive for the East End Neighborhood House. Marie Wing's niece, Stephanie Ralph, was a school psychologist, and her husband, Paul Ralph, was also prominent in the academic world. The collection consists of diaries, correspondence, newspaper clippings, miscellaneous memorabilia, financial and legal papers, and records of Marie Wing and her family, and those of the organizations they served. Included are the diaries of Wing's grandfather, Stephen Remington, who served in the Civil War as a private in the 19th Battery, Ohio Light Artillery.
	Call #:	MS 4655
	Extent:	5.00 linear feet (5 containers and 4 oversize volumes)
	Subjects:	Wing, Marie Remington, 1885-1982. \| Wing family. \| Remington family. \| Ralph family. \| Consumers League of Ohio. \| Democratic Party (Cleveland, Ohio). \| Democratic Party (Mentor, Ohio). \| East End Neighborhood House (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Cuyahoga County Relief Administration. \| United States. Federal Security Agency. \| Lake County Committee on Aging. \| Legal Services Association of Lake County (Ohio). \| Lake County Bar Association. \| Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Women lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Women lawyers -- Ohio -- Mentor. \| Women in politics -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Women in politics -- Ohio -- Mentor. \| Social service -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Social service -- Ohio -- Mentor. \| Women volunteers in social service -- Ohio. \| Lake County (Ohio) -- Politics and government. \| Mentor (Ohio) -- Politics and government.
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4	Title:	Ella Mae Cheeks Johnson Papers
	Creator:	Johnson, Ella Mae Cheeks
	Dates:	1948-2010
	Abstract:	Ella Mae Cheeks Johnson was born in Dallas, Texas, in 1904. Orphaned at age four, she was raised by the Davis family. She attended Dallas Colored High School and Fisk University before applying to the School of Applied Social Sciences at Western Reserve University. Johnson graduated in 1928 with a master's degree in social work. As a social worker, Johnson was first employed by Associated Charities of Cleveland, Ohio. Later, she worked for the Cuyahoga County Department of Welfare in conjunction with the federal program Aid to Dependent Children. She retired in 1961. Johnson married Elmer Cheeks in 1929. They had two sons. Cheeks died in 1941, and Johnson married Raymond Johnson in 1957. He died in 1983. Mrs. Johnson was an active member of Mt. Zion Congregational Church, an avid reader and traveler, and a supporter of a variety of charities. At age 105, she attended the inauguration of President Barack Obama in Washington, D.C. Soon after, with the assistance of a freelance writer, she wrote her autobiography. It was published shortly after her death in 2010. The collection consists of annual reports, booklets, book manuscripts, book proofs, brochures, catalogues, certificates, church directories, citations, correspondence, forms, a guest book, an inauguration ticket, lists, magazine articles, newsletter articles, newspaper articles, notes, passports, proclamations, programs, remarks, speeches, and writings.
	Call #:	MS 5068
	Extent:	0.60 linear feet (2 containers)
	Subjects:	Johnson, Ella Mae Cheeks, 1904-2010. \| Case Western Reserve University. \| Fisk University. \| Mt. Zion Congregational Church (Cleveland, Ohio) \| African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Social service -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Civil rights -- United States. \| African Americans -- Education (Higher) -- United States. \| Congregational churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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5	Title:	Family Service Association of Cleveland Records
	Creator:	Family Service Association of Cleveland
	Dates:	1867-1977
	Abstract:	The Family Service Association of Cleveland was founded in 1867 as the Cleveland Bethel Union in Cleveland, Ohio. It extended its services to all the city's poor, transients and unemployed in 1873 and renamed itself the Bethel Relief Association. It merged in 1884 with the Charity Organization Society (founded 1881) and was renamed Bethel Associated Charities, with the added function of investigation and registration of all cases. In 1900 it changed its name to Cleveland Associated Charities and began an era of modern social casework. In 1945 it adopted a new name, Family Service Association, and changed its focus from relief to professional casework services. It merged in 1976 with the Travelers Aid Society and various day care centers to form the Center for Human Services. The collection consists of minutes, budgets, correspondence, financial statements, case books, reports, letters to staff, statistical reports, annual reports, newsletters, pamphlets, agency operational manuals, payroll records, membership lists, speech notes, and scrapbooks relating to the association's history and operation and to James F. Jackson's leadership.
	Call #:	MS 3920
	Extent:	18.20 linear feet (18 containers and 3 oversize volumes)
	Subjects:	Family Service Association of Cleveland. \| Social service -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Food relief -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Relief stations for the poor -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Community welfare councils -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Community organization -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Social service exchanges -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Social work administration -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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