Format | • | Manuscript Collection | [X] |
| | Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 101 | 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.
| | | | |
View Finding Aid
|
View XML
| |
| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 102 | Title: | Ronald and Isabelle Brown Papers
| | | | Creator: | Brown, Ronald and Isabelle | | | | Dates: | 1914-1996 | | | | Abstract: | Ronald Brown was born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised and educated in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1928, he founded, along with William C. Treuhaft and Elmer C. Hann, the Tremco Manufacturing Company in Cleveland. Brown was a vice president of Tremco. After retirement from the company in 1960, he became a management consultant. Brown was the author of From Selling to Managing: Guidelines for the First-Time Sales Manager. His volunteer and philanthropic activities included work for the Jewish Big Brothers Association of Cleveland, the Citizen's Advisory Board to the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court, the Ohio Department on Aging, and the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Board of Education. He married Isabelle Gup in 1934. She was a graduate of Case Western Reserve University. Active in the Cleveland Section, National Council of Jewish Women, she served as president of that organization and was active on the national and international level. She also was first chair of the Women's Organization of the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland, served on the national executive council of the American Jewish Committee, and was the first chair of the Greater Cleveland Women's Committee for Civil Rights. The collection consists of correspondence, speeches and other writings, scrapbooks, newsletters, certificates, and newspaper clippings. | | | | Call #: | MS 4827 | | | | Extent: | 2.20 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Brown, Ronald, 1900-2003. | Brown, Isabelle, 1911-1998. | Cleveland Heights (Ohio). Board of Education. | Ohio. Dept. of Aging. | Cuyahoga County (Ohio) Juvenile Court. | Tremco Manufacturing Company. | American Management Association. | National Council of Jewish Women. Cleveland Section. | International Council of Jewish Women. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish women -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
| | | | |
View Finding Aid
|
View XML
| |
| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 103 | Title: | Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, Cleveland Chapter Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Hadassah, Cleveland Chapter | | | | Dates: | 1930-2000 | | | | Abstract: | Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America (founded 1912) is a Jewish women's volunteer organization, numbering over 300,000 members in the United States, that focuses on advocating for solutions to health issues that affect Jews worldwide. Cleveland had an active Hadassah chapter almost from the founding of the organization until June of 2015 when it announced its closure. This collection consists of photographs that tell the history of the Cleveland Hassadah chapter beginning in the 1930s through the early 2000s. | | | | Call #: | MS 5376 | | | | Extent: | 1.2 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Jewish women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities. | Zionism -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
| | | | |
View Finding Aid
|
View XML
| |
| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 104 | Title: | Pilgrim Congregational Church Records
| | | | Creator: | Pilgrim Congregational Church | | | | Dates: | 1876-1961 | | | | Abstract: | Pilgrim Congregational Church was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1854 as University Heights Congregational Church in the Near West Side neighborhood of Tremont, then known as University Heights.To accommodate the growing congregation, the current church located at 2592 West 14th Street was built in 1893-1894 by architect S.R. Badgeley, whose unique design combined worship space with the growing need for a community center, including a library and the first kindergarten in the city of Cleveland. By 1919 the building had expanded to include a gymnasium complete with shower rooms, a boxing ring, and bowling alleys. Pilgrim Congregational Church was also the first building on the West Side of Cleveland to be fitted with electricity, operating its own power plant for several years. Pilgrim Congregational Church is now (2014) affiliated with the United Church of Christ. The collection consists of church bulletins, correspondence, financial documents, historical records, histories, invoices, ledgers, marriage licenses, meeting minutes, membership applications, pledge cards, receipts, Sunday school records, and withdrawal cards. | | | | Call #: | MS 5247 | | | | Extent: | 22.40 linear feet (20 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Pilgrim Congregational Church (Cleveland, Ohio) | Congregationalists -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History. | Congregational churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
| | | | |
View Finding Aid
|
View XML
| |
| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 105 | Title: | Consumers League of Ohio Oral History Interviews
| | | | Creator: | Consumers League of Ohio | | | | Dates: | 1982 | | | | Abstract: | The collection consists of interviews conducted by Case Western Reserve University graduate students in a program administered by the university's Department of History. Six members of the ConsumerLeague's board were interviewed regarding their activities with the League and the Elizabeth S. Magee Foundation, including Eleanor Farnham, Jean Pilcher, Edwin R. Teple, Dorothy Thomas, Marie R. Wing, and Dallas Young. The collection includes transcripts of oral history interviews with six Consumers League of Ohio board members focusing on their personal backgrounds and their involvement with the League. | | | | Call #: | MS 4467 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Magee, Elizabeth S., 1889-1972. | Farnham, Eleanor. | Pilcher, Jean. | Teple, Edwin R. | Thomas, Dorothy. | Wing, Marie Remington, 1885-1982. | Young, Dallas. | Consumers League of Ohio -- History.
| | | | |
View Finding Aid
|
View XML
| |
| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 106 | Title: | Ardelia Bradley Dixon Papers
| | | | Creator: | Dixon, Ardelia Bradley | | | | Dates: | 1931-1991 | | | | Abstract: | Ardelia Bradley Dixon (1916-1991) was a lifelong African American rights activist and philanthropist in Cleveland, Ohio. Dixon served as secretary at the Antioch Baptist Church, Central High School, and John Hay High School. She served on the boards and committees of the Cleveland Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Cleveland Public Library. In 1963, Dixon took part in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom for Colored People led by Martin Luther King, Jr., and was passionate about the issues of desegregation in schools and racial violence. She volunteered at the Interchurch Council of Greater Cleveland, the National Council of Churches, Fairhill Mental Health Center, and the Phillis Wheatley Center. The collection includes booklets, brochures, cards, church programs, correspondence, funeral booklets, hymns, letters, letters to the editor of the Plain Dealer, magazine and newspaper clippings, notes, pamphlets, photographs and negatives, postcards, schedules of events, scrapbooks, and telegrams. | | | | Call #: | MS 5199 | | | | Extent: | 1.80 linear feet (2 containers and 2 volumes) | | | | Subjects: | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland | African American women political activists -- Ohio -- Cleveland | African Americans -- Civil rights -- Ohio -- Cleveland | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority | Cleveland Public Library | Dixon, Ardelia Bradley, 1916-1991 | Interchurch Council of Greater Cleveland | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Cleveland Branch | Public schools -- Ohio -- Cleveland | School integration -- Ohio -- Cleveland | African American History / Women's History
| | | | |
View Finding Aid
|
View XML
| |
| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 107 | Title: | Nancie Swan Folkett Papers
| | | | Creator: | Foskett, Nancie Swan | | | | Dates: | 1818-1869 | | | | Abstract: | Nancie Swan Foskett(1838-?) of Medina County, Ohio, was a schoolteacher (1861-1865) in various schools in Medina County. During 1861-1862, she and her father lived in LeSeuer, Minnesota with her brothers and their families, returning to Medina County in the spring of 1862. In 1865, Nancie Swan married Captain Porter Foskett of Brunswick, Ohio. They made their home in the city of Medina, where Porter Foskett became a successful businessman. The collection consists of eleven diaries of Nancie Swan Foskett, 1855-1869, and one account book of N.A. Goodwin, 1818-1834. The diaries detail her life as a teacher in various schools in Medina County, Ohio, her trip to Minnesota, civilian life during the American Civil War, and family events during the period. | | | | Call #: | MS 4576 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Foskett, Nancie Swan. | Foskett, Nancie Swan -- Diaries. | Foskett, Porter. | Swan family. | Goodwin, N. A. | Women -- Ohio -- Medina County. | Women -- Ohio -- Medina County -- Diaries. | Teachers -- Ohio -- Medina County. | Education -- Ohio -- Medina County. | Diaries. | Account books -- Ohio -- Medina County. | Medina County (Ohio) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women. | Ohio -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. | Ohio -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women.
| | | | |
View Finding Aid
|
View XML
| |
| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 108 | Title: | Nature Center at Shaker Lakes Collection of Papers, Photographs and Audiovisual Materials
| | | | Creator: | Nature Center at Shaker Lakes | | | | Dates: | 1880-2015 | | | | Abstract: | The Nature Center at Shaker Lakes, established in 1966 on part of the site of the original North Union Shaker Community, was the result of a grassroots effort to prevent the construction of two interstate highways which would have bisected major sections of Shaker Heights and Cleveland Heights and caused property loss and damage to the Doan Brook watershed. The collection consists of administrative documents, architectural drawings, audiovisual materials, clippings, correspondence, financial documents, flyers, legal documents, maps, minutes, negatives, photographs, publications, reports, scrapbooks, signs, and studies. | | | | Call #: | MS 5367 | | | | Extent: | 29.88 linear feet (39 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Nature Center at Shaker Lakes -- History. | Shaker Lakes Region (Ohio) | Highway Planning -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Citizen Participation. | Doan Brook (Ohio) | Shaker Heights (Ohio) -- History | Shaker Lakes Region (Ohio) -- Environmental Aspects. | Parks -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Nature centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
| | | | |
View Finding Aid
|
View XML
| |
| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 110 | Title: | Mount Sinai Hospital Records
| | | | Creator: | Mount Sinai Hospital | | | | Dates: | 1903-1996 | | | | Abstract: | Mount Sinai Hospital had its origins in the Young Ladies Hebrew Association for the Care of the Needy Sick, created in 1892 by nine young women in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1900, they changed their name to the Jewish Women's Hospital Association. A 29-bed facility, named Mount Sinai Hospital, opened in 1903 at 2373 East 37th Street. In 1916, a new, larger facility was opened at East 105th Street and Ansel Road. Innovations included outpatient clinics for pediatrics and mental hygiene, established in 1915. A nursing school was included. Mount Sinai affiliated with Western Reserve University for the training and education of its nurses in 1930, and its doctors in 1947. Medical research was given a high priority. The Women's and Junior Women's auxiliaries provided important assistance to the medical staff and patients, including a nursery school for children of nurses and volunteers. Mount Sinai served as a major medical resource for Cleveland's east side throughout its history. Expansion included a twelve-story building and a kidney dialysis center (1960), a new laboratory facility (1970), and an outpatient clinic in the Cleveland suburb of Beachwood (1972). A new medical wing was added to the hospital in the 1980s, and in 1993 an integrated medical campus was opened at the Beachwood facility. In 1996, the nonprofit hospital was sold to a for-profit company, Primary Health Systems (PHS). In March 1999, PHS filed for bankruptcy, and in February 2000, Mount Sinai Hospital closed. The collection consists of reports, minutes, histories, newspaper and magazine articles, booklets, financial records, staff publications, bulletins, medical case histories, drawings, and scrapbooks. | | | | Call #: | MS 4840 | | | | Extent: | 1.60 linear feet (6 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Mount Sinai Hospital (Cleveland, Ohio) | Jewish Women's Hospital (Cleveland, Ohio). | Young Ladies Hebrew Association for the Care of the Needy Sick (Cleveland, Ohio). | Case Western Reserve University. School of Medicine. | Hospitals -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities. | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Refugees, Jewish -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Medical care. | Hospitals -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Administration. | Nursing schools -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. | Medical care -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Nurses -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Physicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Medical personnel -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
| | | | |
View Finding Aid
|
View XML
| |
| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 111 | Title: | Bea Stadtler Papers
| | | | Creator: | Bea Stadtler | | | | Dates: | 1954-1995 | | | | Abstract: | Bea Horwitz Stadtler (1921-2000) was a prominent author who lived and worked in the Cleveland, Ohio, metropolitan area for her entire life. Graduating from Glenville High School, she attended Case Western Reserve University and the College of Jewish Studies, obtaining the first Bachelor of Judaica Studies degree awarded by the College of Jewish Studies in 1971. Stadtler served as an educator at B'nai Jeshurun Congregation, Beth Sholom, the Cleveland Hebrew Schools, and the Temple-Tifereth Israel. Stadtler served as registrar at the College of Jewish Studies from 1960-1983 and as assistant editor of the Israel Philatelist. She was active in the Cleveland Holocaust Center. The author of six books and articles, stories and poems that appeared in more that twenty different publications, she also co-wrote a rock opera and created an award-winning filmstrip. Her book The Holocaust: A History of Courage and Resistance received the National Book Council prize for the outstanding juvenile book of 1974-1975. She worked with Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver as he prepared the manuscript for his book Where Judaism Differed. She married Oscar Stadtler in 1943 and was the mother of three children and nine grandchildren. The collection consists of publications, scripts, correspondence, unpublished children's stories, curriculum guides, a libretto, and working drafts for published books. | | | | Call #: | MS 4905 | | | | Extent: | 1.00 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Stadtler, Bea, 1921-2000. -- Archives | Jews -- United States -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History -- 20th century | Jews -- United States -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History -- Sources | Jews -- United States -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Intellectual life -- 20th century | Jews -- United States -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Archives | Jews -- History | Jews -- United States -- Historiography | American literature -- Jewish authors | American literature -- Women authors | Children's literature, American -- Jewish authors | Children's literature, American -- Women authors | Jewish women authors | Stamp collecting -- Israel | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Intellectual life -- History -- Sources
| | | | |
View Finding Aid
|
View XML
| |
| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 112 | Title: | NA'AMAT USA Cleveland Council Records and Photographs, Series III
| | | | Creator: | NA'AMAT USA | | | | Dates: | 1936-2012 | | | | Abstract: | NA'AMAT USA is a Labor Zionist women's organization originally called Pioneer Women. The Cleveland Council of NA'AMAT was founded in 1926 in Cleveland, Ohio, one year after the national organization came into being. As the organization grew, it was divided into numbered chapters. At its peak, there were fourteen chapters. In 1999, there were four chapters in the Cleveland Council, serving 650 women. Pioneer Women was organized to provide training, educational services, and social services to women, children, and families in Palestine. The Cleveland Council raised funds and sponsored programs that informed the Cleveland community of social service and educational needs in Israel. The national organization also promoted Habonim, a youth organization, and sponsored Jewish and cultural activities. In 1985 the name Pioneer Women was changed to NA'AMAT USA, in order to more closely match its sister organization in Israel, NA'AMAT. The collection consists of agendas, awards, brochures, calendars, cards, certificates, correspondence, flyers, forms, handbooks, ledgers, lists, magazines and magazine clippings, minutes, negatives, newsletters, notes, photographs, press releases, programs, receipts, and schedules pertaining to the membership and operations of Pioneer Women and, later, NA'AMAT USA. | | | | Call #: | MS 5380 | | | | Extent: | 1.50 linear feet (2 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Working-women's clubs -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Zionism -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Labor Zionism -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc.
| | | | |
View Finding Aid
|
View XML
| |
| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 113 | 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.
| | | | |
View Finding Aid
|
View XML
| |
| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 114 | Title: | Flora Johnson Papers
| | | | Creator: | Johnson, Flora | | | | Dates: | 1950-1979 | | | | Abstract: | Flora Johnson (b. 1906) was active in the African American community in Cleveland, Ohio, including the following organizations: Cleveland Chapter of the National Council of Negro Women, Glenville Garden Club, Forest City Hospital Ladies Auxiliary, Antioch Baptist Church, Eliza Bryant Home for the Aged, Four-O'Clock Garden Club, League of Women Voters, the 25th Ward Republican Club, and the Ladies Auxiliary of the National Alliance of Postal Employees. The collection consists of programs, annual reports, membership information, correspondence, and historical and biographical information relating to the organizations in which Flora Johnson was actively involved. This collection also contains a small file containing material reflecting the involvement of the donor, Loraine Huston, in the Ladies Auxiliary of the National Alliance of Postal Employees. | | | | Call #: | MS 4494 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Johnson, Flora, ca. 1906- | Antioch Baptist Church (Cleveland, Ohio) | Glenville Garden Club. | Forest City Hospital. Auxiliary. | National Council of Negro Women. Cleveland Council. | League of Women Voters of Cleveland. | Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. | Clubs -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
| | | | |
View Finding Aid
|
View XML
| |
| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 115 | Title: | Margret S. Ferguson Correspondence
| | | | Creator: | Ferguson, Margaret S. | | | | Dates: | 1846-1861 | | | | Abstract: | Margret S. Ferguson was a resident of Ways Station, Bryan County, Georgia. Her son, C.W. Ferguson, served in the 8th Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry, during the American Civil War, and was stationed at Manassas Junction, Virginia, in 1861. The collection consists of letters received by Mrs. Ferguson, including some from her son, C.W. Ferguson. | | | | Call #: | MS 3424 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Ferguson, Margret S. | Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 8th. | Women -- Georgia -- Correspondence. | Soldiers -- Georgia -- Correspondence. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
| | | | |
View Finding Aid
|
View XML
| |
| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 116 | Title: | Lilian Wyckoff Johnson Papers
| | | | Creator: | Johnson, Lilian Wyckoff | | | | Dates: | 1879-1968 | | | | Abstract: | Lilian Wyckoff Johnson (1864-1956) was one of the American South's pioneer women educators. She served as president of the Western College for Women at Oxford, Ohio, founded the West Tennessee Normal School (now Memphis State College), and established a center for social and cooperative work on the Cumberland Plateau at Summerfield, Tennessee which was called KinCo. It later became the Highlander Folk School. The collection consists of autobiographical sketches, obituaries, tributes, genealogical materials, correspondence, writings, notebooks, minutes, speeches, financial papers, newspaper articles, writings and poetry by others, programs, membership lists, certificates, diplomas, diaries, address books, and records from the Cumberland Mountain KinCo and the Highlander Folk School. | | | | Call #: | MS 3885 | | | | Extent: | 2.10 linear feet (2 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Johnson, Lilian Wyckoff, 1864-1956. | Women educators -- United States. | Women college teachers -- United States. | Women college administrators -- United States. | Women school administrators -- United States. | Women in education -- United States.
| | | | |
View Finding Aid
|
View XML
| |
| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 117 | Title: | Asian Indian Community of Cleveland, Ohio, Oral History Project Records
| | | | Creator: | Asian Indian Community of Cleveland, Ohio | | | | Dates: | 2013-2014 | | | | Abstract: | In 2013, the Asian Indian Heritage Project and the Western Reserve Historical Society (WRHS) launched an oral history project with funding from the Smithsonian Institution's Young Historians Living Histories Program (part of the Youth Access Grants Program). High school and middle school students under the direction of Dr. John Grabowski and Ms. Jane Mason of WRHS conducted interviews with ten Asian Indians who had settled in Greater Cleveland, Ohio, during the 1950s and 1960s. The interviews document the unique immigrant experience of Asian Indians in northeast Ohio and explore issues of professional, family, and religious life. The collection consists of seven oral history recordings, biographies of the interviewees, and release statements signed by the interviewees. | | | | Call #: | MS 5314 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | East Indian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
| | | | |
View Finding Aid
|
View XML
| |
| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 118 | Title: | Dorothy Davis Kates Papers
| | | | Creator: | Kates, Dorothy Davis | | | | Dates: | 1936-1994 | | | | Abstract: | Dorothy Davis Kates was employed by the Historical Records Survey of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in Cleveland, Ohio, during the 1930s; serving as a Superintendent of the Cuyahoga County Archives Survey Project, as an Area Supervisor, a Project Planning Assistant, and eventually as the Director of the Historical Records Program of the WPA in Cleveland. Kates was also active in many civic and arts organizations throughout her life, including the Print Club of Cleveland, the Cleveland Society for Contemporary Art, and the Women's City Club of Cleveland. Beginning in 1966, she chaired the Mental Health Committee of the Women's City Club, helping to organize lectures and community projects concerned with mental health, drug abuse, juvenile delinquency, teen pregnancy, child abuse, and prison reform issues. She founded the Women's City Club Mental Health Institute in 1976. Kates was also active in local Democratic Party politics, particularly in the presidential elections of 1960, 1964, and 1968. Other organizations in which she participated included the Women's Forum of Greater Cleveland, Le Cercle des Conferences Francaise, Organization for Rehabilitation through Training, Federation of Jewish Women's Organizations, and the Jewish Community Center. Kates also was the author of articles, reviews, essays, and radio plays. The collection consists of correspondence, minutes, essays, newspaper and magazine articles, play transcriptions, unpublished manuscripts, notes, lists, rosters, bylaws, reports, brochures, itineraries, programs, memoranda, cards, campaign flyers, newsletters, legislative bills, publications, surveys, schedules, regulations, directories, awards, and certificates. | | | | Call #: | MS 4749 | | | | Extent: | 3.40 linear feet (4 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Kates, Dorothy Davis, 1907-1996. | Women's City Club of Cleveland. | Cleveland Society for Contemporary Art. | Democratic Party (Cuyahoga County, Ohio) | United States. Works Progress Administration. | Historical Records Survey (Ohio). | Women in politics -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. | Art, Modern -- 20th century. | Mental health education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Drug abuse -- Study and teaching -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Juvenile delinquency -- Study and teaching -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Teenage pregnancy -- Study and teaching -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cuyahoga County (Ohio) -- Politics and government. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions.
| | | | |
View Finding Aid
|
View XML
| |
| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 119 | Title: | Gospel Worker Society Records
| | | | Creator: | Gospel Worker Society | | | | Dates: | 1874-2006 | | | | Abstract: | The Gospel Worker Society (founded in 1895 by Reverend William Brunner Musselman) is a nondenominational Christian missionary ministry designed to reach people outside of an established church community, and to encourage them to accept Jesus Christ as their personal Savior. This goal was reached by holding missionary meetings, daily colportage work, tent meetings and saloon work. In 1896 two branches of the Home Missionary Society were established, one being for men and one for women. In 1897 the Women's Home Missionary Society was changed to the Gospel Worker Society, and has remained the Society's name since. Although it started in Annandale, New Jersey, the Gospel Worker Society soon spread to various towns, including Williamsport, Pennsylvania. In 1907 the Gospel Worker Society (as well as their publishing company: the Herald Publishing House) moved their headquarters to Cleveland, Ohio. They resided in a fifteen-building complex on the corner of West Seventh and Jefferson Avenue. In order to stop distributing nondenominational literature that was not written by the Society itself, the Herald Publishing House was started in 1902 by the Society to print its own literature for distribution. After much expansion and numerous name changes the Herald Publishing House became known as the Union Gospel Press in 1922. In 1938 Rev. Musselman passed away, and his youngest daughter, Miss Mary E. Musselman, was elected as president, who led the nonprofit organization until her death in 1971. After Miss Musselman's death, Miss Julia P. Stabley was elected president until her retirement in 1990. Today (as of June 2007) The Incorporated Trustees of the Gospel Workers Society and Union Gospel Press is under the leadership of Mrs. Beryl C. Bidlen, who was elected president in 1990. In 1950 the Gospel Workers Society and the Union Gospel Press moved to their present locations (as of June of 2007) at the corner of Brookpark Road (State Route 17) and Broadview Road (State Route 176). The collection consists of group photographs of members of the Society as well as information on a house located at 2028 Corning Street in Cuyahoga County, a photograph album, and a scrapbook. | | | | Call #: | MS 4977 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Gospel Worker Society. | Women in church work -- United States. | Women in church work -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women in charitable work -- United States. | Women in charitable work -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women -- United States -- Societies and clubs. | Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. | Women in missionary work. | Church societies -- United States. | Church societies -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Societies, etc.
| | | | |
View Finding Aid
|
View XML
| |
| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 120 | Title: | Ruth Wiener Einstein Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Einstein, Ruth Wiener Family | | | | Dates: | 1860-1977 | | | | Abstract: | Ruth Wiener Einstein and her family were involved in numerous Jewish organizations and projects in Cleveland, Ohio. Educated in Cleveland at Central High School and Flora Stone Mather College of Western Reserve University, Ruth Wiener married Jacob L. Einstein in 1903. His father, Leopold Einstein, along with several cousins, had founded the Ullman Brothers (later the Ullman, Einstein) Company, one of the largest liquor distilleries in the United States. Ruth Wiener Einstein's grandfather, Abraham Aub, was a founder and first president of the Jewish Orphan Asylum (later, Bellefaire). Her father, Abraham Wiener, also served as a president of that organization and was the Director of Charities and Corrections (1889-1901) under Cleveland mayor John Farley. Her mother, Bella Aub Wiener, was one of the founders of the Cleveland Section, National Council of Jewish Women, and the Council Educational Alliance (later the Jewish Community Center). Ruth Wiener Einstein founded Cleveland's Jewish Big Sisters in 1920. She also served as a Board member of the Cleveland Section, National Council of Jewish Women; Montefiore Home; Bellefaire; Jewish Family Service Association; Jewish Community Center; and the Jewish Community Federation. One of her most notable achievements was the founding of Council Gardens, a housing complex for the elderly. She and Jacob Einstein had three children; Paul (Einstein) Eden, Edith (Mrs. Samuel O. Freedlander), and Jane (Mrs. Eldy S. Gross). The collection consists of correspondence, speeches, financial records, legal documents, newspaper clippings, and awards and tributes of various family members. Includes the articles of incorporation and other business materials of the Ullman, Einstein Company. | | | | Call #: | MS 4656 | | | | Extent: | 0.81 linear feet (2 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Einstein, Ruth Wiener, 1882-1977. | Einstein family. | Wiener family. | Baer family. | Aub, Abraham, 1813-1879. | Wiener, Abraham, 1839-1921. | Wiener, Bella Aub, d. 1923. | Einstein, Leopold. | Einstein, Jacob L., d. 1919. | Ullman, Einstein Company. | Council Gardens (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) | National Council of Jewish Women. Cleveland Section. | Jewish Big Sisters. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. | Women in charitable work -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women volunteers in social service -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Distilleries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Liquor industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
| | | | |
View Finding Aid
|
View XML
| |
|
