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Clothing factories -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (7)
Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (7)
Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (7)
Women's clothing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (5)
Businessmen -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (3)
Bobbie Brooks, Inc. (2)
Collective bargaining -- Clothing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
Gross family. (2)
Gross, Louis N. (2)
Industrial relations -- United States. (2)
L.N. Gross Company (Cleveland, Ohio). (2)
Protective clothing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
Rosenthal, Samuel, 1885-1957. (2)
Strikes and lockouts -- Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
Work Wear Corporation, Inc. (2)
Work clothes industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (2)
Aeronautics -- History. (1)
Aerospace industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
Aerospace industries -- United States. (1)
Aircraft supplies industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
Aircraft supplies industry -- United States. (1)
American School of Classical Studies at Athens. (1)
Arbitration, Industrial -- United States. (1)
Automobile supplies industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
Automobile supplies industry -- United States. (1)
Bailey, Walter K. (1)
Banks and banking -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
Beech Brook, Inc. (Pepper Pike, Ohio). (1)
Brass industry and trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
Buckeye Brass and Manufacturing Company. (1)
Business -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
Case Institute of Technology. (1)
Central Alloy Steel Corporation. (1)
Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
Cleveland (Ohio) -- Economic conditions. (1)
Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy. (1)
Cleveland (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. (1)
Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. (1)
Cleveland City Forge and Iron Company. (1)
Cleveland Tool and Forge Company. (1)
Cleveland Trust Company. (1)
Cleveland-Akron Bag Company. (1)
Collective bargaining -- Steel industry -- United States. (1)
Collective labor agreements -- Steel industry -- United States. (1)
Consolidation and merger of corporations -- Canada. (1)
Consolidation and merger of corporations -- United States. (1)
Corrigan McKinney Steel Company. (1)
Crawford family. (1)
Crawford, Frederick C., 1891-1994 (1)
Diplomatic and consular service, Hungarian. (1)
Discrimination in employment -- United States. (1)
Eaton, Cyrus Stephen, 1883-1979. (1)
Employee fringe benefits -- United States. (1)
Europe -- Description and travel. (1)
Fleming family. (1)
Florida Institute of Technology. (1)
Frederick C. Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum. (1)
Girdler, T. M. (Tom Mercer), 1877-1965. (1)
Grievance procedures -- United States. (1)
Harmon family. (1)
Hungary -- History. (1)
Import quotas -- United States. (1)
Incentives in industry -- United States. (1)
Industrial relations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
International Aeronautic Federation (1)
International relations. (1)
Iron and steel workers -- Job descriptions -- United States. (1)
Iron and steel workers -- Labor unions -- Organizing -- United States. (1)
Iron and steel workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
Iron and steel workers -- Pensions -- United States. (1)
Iron and steel workers -- United States. (1)
Kenyon family. (1)
Korach family. (1)
Korach, Sigmund, 1873-1934. (1)
Labor disputes -- United States. (1)
Little Steel Strike, U.S., 1937 (1)
Machine-tool industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
McBride family. (1)
McBride, Donald, 1884-1927. (1)
Merchant mariners -- Great Lakes (North America) (1)
Nonprofit organizations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
Ohio EPA. (1)
Optical industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
Optical instruments -- Design and construction. (1)
Patton, Thomas F., b. 1903. (1)
Philanthropists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Europe. (1)
Republic Iron & Steel Company. (1)
Republic Steel Corporation. (1)
Root & McBride Company. (1)
Rosenthal family. (1)
S. Korach Company. (1)
Saltzman, Maurice, 1918-1990. (1)
Shipbuilding industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
Shipping -- Great Lakes (North America) (1)
Shipping -- Great Lakes. (1)
Steel -- Marketing. (1)
Steel -- Transportation -- Great Lakes (North America) (1)
Steel Products Co. (1)
Steel Workers Organizing Committee (U.S.) (1)
Steel industry and trade -- Employees (1)
Steel industry and trade -- Environmental aspects -- United States. (1)
Steel industry and trade -- Government policy -- United States. (1)
Steel industry and trade -- Law and legislation -- United States. (1)
Steel industry and trade -- Mergers -- United States. (1)
Steel industry and trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
Steel industry and trade -- Ohio. (1)
Steel industry and trade -- Prices -- United States. (1)
Steel industry and trade -- United States. (1)
Steel-works -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
Steel-works -- Ohio. (1)
Steel-works -- United States. (1)
Steel. (1)
Street-railroads -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
Strikes and lockouts -- Steel industry -- United States. (1)
Strikes and lockouts -- Street-railroads -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
TRW Inc. (1)
Thompson Products, inc. (1)
Thompson family. (1)
Thompson, Charles E. 1870-1933. (1)
Thompson, Edwin deGroot. (1)
Uniforms industry -- Belgium. (1)
Uniforms industry -- Canada. (1)
Uniforms industry -- France. (1)
Uniforms industry -- Germany. (1)
Uniforms industry -- Great Britain. (1)
Uniforms industry -- Japan. (1)
Uniforms industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
Uniforms industry -- United States. (1)
United States -- History -- 1933-1945. (1)
United States -- History -- 1945-1953. (1)
United States. Environmental Protection Agency. (1)
United States. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. (1)
United States. Securities and Exchange Commission. (1)
United Steelworkers of America. (1)
University of Free Europe in Exile. (1)
Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives. (1)
Wade family -- Periodicals. (1)
Wages -- Iron and steel workers -- United States. (1)
Warner & Swasey. (1)
Western Reserve Historical Society (1)
White, Charles McElroy, 1891-1977. (1)
Winous Point Shooting Club. (1)
Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. (1)
World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives. (1)
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1Title:  Walter K. Bailey Papers     
 Creator:  Bailey, Walter K. 
 Dates:  1975-1991 
 Abstract:  Walter K. Bailey was a Cleveland, Ohio, businessman. A native of Cleveland and the son of L.A. Bailey, founder of the Bailey Company department store, Walter Bailey was raised in East Cleveland and graduated from Oberlin College in 1919. He went to work for the Warner & Swasey Company, a leading manufacturer of machine tools, especially turret lathes, and telescopes and optical equipment, in 1919. By 1928, the company was the world's leading manufacturer of turret lathes, and during World War II produced half of all the turret lathes made in the U.S. After learning the business on the shop floor, he joined the national sales force of Warner & Swasey in 1921, moving up in management and eventually becoming vice president of sales in 1942. During World War II he was in charge of manufacturing operations, and became vice president of the company in 1949. He was president and chief executive officer from 1955-1962, chairman of the board and chief executive officer from 1962-1964, and chairman of the board until his retirement in 1967. Under Bailey's leadership, Warner & Swasey diversified and acquired several smaller companies, growing into a major international producer of machine tools and related products. Bailey also was active in various philanthropic organizations in Cleveland, and served as a trustee of Oberlin College, the Musical Arts Association, and Fairmount Presbyterian Church. The collection consists of a Warner & Swasey Company history compiled in 1975 by Walter Bailey. Included is an illustrated typescript; followed by supporting documents, reports, illustrations, publications, and newspaper clippings. A corporate history file contains reports, newspaper clippings, photographs, and publications collected after completion of the written history. 
 Call #:  MS 4657 
 Extent:  0.20 linear feet (1 container) 
 Subjects:  Bailey, Walter K. | Warner & Swasey. | Businessmen -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Machine-tool industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Optical industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Optical instruments -- Design and construction.
 
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2Title:  S. Korach Company Records     
 Creator:  S. Korach Company 
 Dates:  1898-1987 
 Abstract:  The S. Korach Company was founded in 1902 by Sigmund Korach, a Jewish immigrant from Slovakia who settled in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1897. The company manufactured ready-to-wear dress and skirt garments for women. The company occupied various locations until 1913, when it occupied its permanent home at 2400 Superior Ave. The company was completely family-run, with the brothers of Sigmund Korach; Charles, Leo, and Benjamin W. Korach, serving in various positions, and son Arthur Korach as secretary. The company closed in 1935. The collection consists of correspondence, financial and legal records, blueprints of the 2400 Superior Ave. property, a 1987 description and valuation analysis of that property, and a 1934 issue of Women's Wear Daily with information about S. Korach and other Cleveland garment manufacturing companies. 
 Call #:  MS 4694 
 Extent:  0.20 linear feet (1 container) 
 Subjects:  Korach, Sigmund, 1873-1934. | Korach family. | S. Korach Company. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing factories -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women's clothing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
 
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3Title:  L.N. Gross Company Records     
 Creator:  L.N. Gross Company 
 Dates:  1907-1967 
 Abstract:  The L.N. Gross Company was a manufacturer and distributor of women's apparel founded in 1898 in Cleveland, Ohio, by a Russian immigrant, Louis N. Gross. Gross was president and manager until his death in 1941, when his sons, Nedward N., William V., and Julius S. Gross, and his son-in-law, Miltor E. Reed, became active in the management of the company. By the 1960s, the third generation of the Gross family managed the company. In 1919, the company built its headquarters at 1220 West Third Street in Cleveland. In 1929, additional production sites were acquired in Kent, Ohio, and in 1937 facilities opened in Fayetteville, Tennessee. During the Depression the company was troubled by strikes as well as the general business slump. The Welworth Realty Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of the L.N. Gross Company, operated as title and leaseholder of the parent company's properties. An office was also maintained in the New York City garment district. Beginning in 1950, product manufacturing was performed by subcontractors in their own facilities. A wholly owned subsidiary, Bradley Knitwear Company, acted as sales outlet for the parent company. In 1974, company headquarters moved to Mayfield Village, Ohio. In 1984, after several years of financial difficulties, control of the company was turned over to an outside investment group, and the name was changed to Bradley Sportswear, Inc. The collection consists of a history of the company, an autobiography, passport and visa of Louis Gross, correspondence, reports, applications for patents, contracts, account books, and miscellaneous materials, including scrapbooks containing advertisements for garments made by the company. 
 Call #:  MS 3823 
 Extent:  4.00 linear feet (5 containers) 
 Subjects:  Gross, Louis N. | Gross family. | L.N. Gross Company (Cleveland, Ohio). | Clothing factories -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Collective bargaining -- Clothing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Strikes and lockouts -- Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women's clothing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
 
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4Title:  Acme-Cleveland Corporation Records, Photographs, and Audio/Visual Materials, Series II     
 Creator:  Acme-Cleveland Corporation 
 Dates:  1825-1996 
 Abstract:  The Acme-Cleveland Corporation was formed In Cleveland, Ohio, by the merger in 1968 of Cleveland Twist Drill Company, a manufacturer of high-speed drills and metal cutting tools, and the National Acme Company, a manufacturer of automatic multiple-spindle lathes and screw machines. Cleveland Twist Drill was founded in 1876 by Jacob D. Cox II, son of a Civil War general and former governor of Ohio, and Francis F. Prentiss. The company became a leader in the manufacture of superior-grade high-speed twist drills. By 1936 it was the world's largest maker of high-speed drills and reamers, flourishing under Jacob D. Cox, Jr., who pioneered profit-sharing and authored two books on wage theory. National Acme originated in Hartford, Connecticut, as the Acme Screw Machine Company in 1895, makers of the first commercially successful automatic multiple-spindle screw manufacturing machine. Acme Screw merged with National Manufacturing Co. in 1901 to become National Acme Manufacturing Company, which purchased the Windsor Machine Company to become National Acme Company in 1916. The collection consists of financial reports, ledgers, shareholder meetings, company newsletters, marketing material, and correspondence, particularly those of Francis F. Prentiss, who was president of Cleveland Twist Drill between 1904 and 1911. There is also a large collection of photographs and glass plate negatives, approximately 1000 images, related to both Cleveland Twist Drill Company and National Acme Company and a 16mm film. 
 Call #:  MS 5378 
 Extent:  38.00 linear feet (54 containers and 5 oversize folders) 
 Subjects:  Business -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
 
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5Title:  Bobbie Brooks, Inc. Records, Series II     
 Creator:  Bobbie Brooks, Inc. 
 Dates:  1960-1982 
 Abstract:  Bobbie Brooks, Inc. was founded in 1939 as Ritmore Sportswear in Cleveland, Ohio. Its founders were Maurice Saltzman and Max Reiter. In 1953, Saltzman bought out Reiter's share of the company. The name was changed to Bobbie Brooks in 1960. Bobbie Brooks produced and sold stylish clothes for teenage and junior-miss girls, coordinating the styling, colors, and fabrics. Eventually, the company expanded its line to include apparel for women aged 25 to 44. The company merged with Pubco Corporation in 1985 after encountering serious financial difficulties. The collection consists of advertisements, annual reports, articles, booklets, catalogues, notices, reports, and workbooks. 
 Call #:  MS 5157 
 Extent:  0.41 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder) 
 Subjects:  Bobbie Brooks, Inc. | Clothing factories -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women's clothing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
 
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6Title:  Bobbie Brooks, Inc. Records     
 Creator:  Bobbie Brooks, Inc. 
 Dates:  1939-1992 
 Abstract:  Bobbie Brooks, Inc. was founded in 1939 as Ritmore Sportswear in Cleveland, Ohio. Its founders were Maurice Saltzman and Max Reiter. In 1953, Saltzman bought out Reiter's share of the company. The name was changed to Bobbie Brooks in 1960. The company merged with Pubco Corporation in 1985. The collection consists of annual reports, brochures, newspaper clippings, company newsletters, awards, and a payroll ledger. The newsletters provide contemporaneous descriptions of pioneering use of computers to track and coordinate production, sales, shipping, and accounting. 
 Call #:  MS 4764 
 Extent:  0.20 linear feet (1 container) 
 Subjects:  Saltzman, Maurice, 1918-1990. | Bobbie Brooks, Inc. | Clothing factories -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women's clothing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
 
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7Title:  Frederick C. Crawford Family Papers     
 Creator:  Crawford, Frederick C. Family 
 Dates:  1727-1996 
 Abstract:  Frederick C. Crawford (1891-1994) was a Cleveland, Ohio, industrialist and philanthropist. Crawford headed Thompson Products, Inc. (later TRW Inc.) as it moved from an automotive and aircraft parts manufacturer into the aviation and aerospace industries. A leader of Cleveland's philanthropic community, Crawford served on the boards of many cultural institutions. He was appointed to the Western Reserve Historical Society Board of Trustees in 1944 and later served as it's president. He was instrumental in the transfer of the Thompson Auto Album and Aviation Museum collection to WRHS in the 1960s, which became the nucleus of the Frederick C. Crawford Auto-Aviation Collection of WRHS. Crawford was married twice; to Audrey Cecelia Bowles in 1932, and to Kathleen M. Saxon in 1975. The collection consists of genealogies, biographical sketches, correspondence, appointment diaries and calendars, ledgers, annual financial summaries, bank statements, trust deeds, tax assessments, returns and other financial documents, stock certificates, wills, real estate inventories, diplomas, award certificates, military discharge papers, corporate annual reports, speeches and broadcast transcripts, newspaper and magazine clippings, articles of incorporation, minutes, and scrapbooks. 
 Call #:  MS 4856 
 Extent:  76.84 linear feet (77 containers and 4 oversize folders) 
 Subjects:  Crawford, Frederick C., 1891-1994 | Crawford family. | Thompson, Charles E. 1870-1933. | Thompson, Edwin deGroot. | Thompson family. | TRW Inc. | Steel Products Co. | Thompson Products, inc. | Western Reserve Historical Society | Frederick C. Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum. | Case Institute of Technology. | Florida Institute of Technology. | American School of Classical Studies at Athens. | International Aeronautic Federation | Businessmen -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Philanthropists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Automobile supplies industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Aircraft supplies industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Aerospace industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Automobile supplies industry -- United States. | Aircraft supplies industry -- United States. | Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives. | Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Europe. | International relations. | Aeronautics -- History. | Industrial relations -- United States. | Nonprofit organizations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Aerospace industries -- United States. | United States -- History -- 1933-1945. | United States -- History -- 1945-1953.
 
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8Title:  L. N. Gross Company Records, Series II     
 Creator:  L. N. Gross Company 
 Dates:  1898-1990 
 Abstract:  The L.N. Gross Company was a manufacturer and distributor of women's apparel founded in 1898 in Cleveland, Ohio, by a Russian immigrant, Louis N. Gross. Gross was president and manager until his death in 1941, when his sons, Nedward N., William V., and Julius S. Gross, and his son-in-law, Miltor E. Reed, became active in the management of the company. By the 1960s, the third generation of the Gross family managed the company. In 1919, the company built its headquarters at 1220 West Third Street in Cleveland. In 1929, additional production sites were acquired in Kent, Ohio, and in 1937 facilities opened in Fayetteville, Tennessee. The Welworth Realty Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of the L.N. Gross Company, operated as title and leaseholder of the parent company's properties. An office was also maintained in the New York City garment district. Beginning in 1950, product manufacturing was performed by subcontractors in their own facilities. A wholly owned subsidiary, Bradley Knitwear Company, acted as sales outlet for the parent company. In 1974, company headquarters moved to Mayfield Village, Ohio. In 1984, after several years of financial difficulties, control of the company was turned over to an outside investment group, and the name was changed to Bradley Sportswear, Inc. The collection consists of minutes, notes, reports, budgets, leases, ledgers, tax returns, catalogs, correspondence, agreements, bulletins, business cards, and surveys of the corporate records of the L.N. Gross Company. A small number of Gross family documents are included. 
 Call #:  MS 4711 
 Extent:  4.40 linear feet (5 containers) 
 Subjects:  Gross, Louis N. | Gross family. | L.N. Gross Company (Cleveland, Ohio). | Clothing factories -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women's clothing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Collective bargaining -- Clothing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Strikes and lockouts -- Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
 
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9Title:  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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10Title:  Buckeye Brass and Manufacturing Company Records     
 Creator:  Buckeye Brass and Manufacturing Company 
 Dates:  1912-1982 
 Abstract:  Buckeye Brass and Manufacturing was founded in 1900 as Buckeye Brass and Pattern Company in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1912 it incorporated as Buckeye Brass and Manufacturing Company. It moved to the plant located at 6410 Hawthorne on Cleveland's west side in 1917, and in 1921 a foundry was built. It manufactured brass and bronze castings, tools, parts, and fittings. Buckeye was one of the three top brass and bronze companies in the U.S. when it was sold to Don Shook, owner of competitor, Markey Bronze, in 1952. Shook sold out to Eagle-Picher Company in 1967. After 1952, Buckeye Brass operated at various times as Buckeye Brass, Buckeye-Markey, Masten-Buckeye, and as a division of Masten-Bunting. Eagle consolidated all brass and bronze operations in the Toledo Bunting plant in 1982, and the Buckeye Cleveland plant was closed. The collection consists of articles of incorporation, stock certification, minutes for board of directors and stockholder meetings, corporate history, financial records, personnel records, plant operations records, sales and marketing records that includes catalogs, price lists, and inventory/pricing documents. 
 Call #:  MS 4552 
 Extent:  3.01 linear feet (6 containers and 1 oversize folder) 
 Subjects:  Buckeye Brass and Manufacturing Company. | Brass industry and trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
 
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11Title:  Work Wear Corporation, Inc. Records, Series II     
 Creator:  Work Wear Corporation, Inc. 
 Dates:  1940-1996 
 Abstract:  Work Wear Corporation, Inc. was founded in 1915 in Cleveland, Ohio, as the Cleveland Overall Company by Samuel Rosenthal. In 1919 Rosenthal bought the National Railroad Overall Company, maker of bib overalls and other work garments. Beginning in the 1920s, the enlarged Cleveland Overall Company transformed the uniform industry by producing stylish, functional work garments available on a rental basis. The company was also involved in the industrial laundry industry. In 1961, under Leighton Rosenthal, son of Samuel Rosenthal, Cleveland Overall became the publicly held Work Wear Inc. The name was changed in 1976 to Work Wear Corporation, Inc. Paine Webber Capital, a subsidiary of Paine Webber Group, Inc. of New York City, acquired Work Wear in 1986. The collection consists of correspondence, minutes, newsletters, financial statements, deeds, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, brochures and catalogs, speech texts, and award certificates. 
 Call #:  MS 5094 
 Extent:  2.01 linear feet (2 containers, 1 oversize folder) 
 Subjects:  Rosenthal, Samuel, 1885-1957. | Rosenthal family. | Work Wear Corporation, Inc. | Clothing factories -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Work clothes industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Protective clothing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Uniforms industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Uniforms industry -- United States. | Uniforms industry -- Japan. | Uniforms industry -- Belgium. | Uniforms industry -- Canada. | Uniforms industry -- France. | Uniforms industry -- Great Britain. | Uniforms industry -- Germany. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- History -- Sources.
 
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12Title:  Work Wear Corporation, Inc., Records     
 Creator:  Work Wear Corporation, Inc. 
 Dates:  1961-1986 
 Abstract:  Work Wear Corporation, Inc. was founded in 1915 in Cleveland, Ohio, as the Cleveland Overall Company by Samuel Rosenthal. In 1919 Rosenthal bought the National Railroad Overall Company, maker of bib overalls and other work garments. Beginning in the 1920s, the enlarged Cleveland Overall Company transformed the uniform industry by producing stylish, functional work garments available on a rental basis. The company was also involved in the industrial laundry industry. In 1961, under Leighton Rosenthal, son of Samuel Rosenthal, Cleveland Overall became the publicly held Work Wear Inc. The name was changed in 1976 to Work Wear Corporation, Inc. Paine Webber Capital, a subsidiary of Paine Webber Group, Inc. of New York City, acquired Work Wear in 1986. The collection consists of annual reports, newspaper clippings, and brochures. 
 Call #:  MS 4765 
 Extent:  0.20 linear feet (1 container) 
 Subjects:  Rosenthal, Samuel, 1885-1957. | Work Wear Corporation, Inc. | Clothing factories -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Work clothes industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Protective clothing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
 
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13Title:  Republic Steel Corporation Records     
 Creator:  Republic Steel Corporation 
 Dates:  1895-2001 
 Abstract:  The Republic Steel Corporation was formed in April 1930 from several smaller iron and steel companies, including Republic Iron and Steel, Central Alloy Corporation, Bourne-Fuller Company and Donner Steel Company. Corrigan McKinney Steel Company, Truscon Steel Company, and Gulf States Steel were acquired 1935-1937, and the company headquarters was moved from Youngstown, Ohio, to Cleveland, Ohio. The company included basic steel operations in Ohio, Buffalo, New York, Chicago, Illinois, Gadsden, Alabama, and elsewhere, as well as rolling mills, speciality steel operations, iron ore and coal mines, maritime operations, and research laboratories. During the 1980s, economic losses became severe, and in 1984 Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation merged with Republic Steel, creating LTV Steel Company, a subsidiary of LTV Corporation. The collection consists of administrative records, advertisements, agendas, agreements, analyses, applications, architectural drawings, article sheets, audits, biographies, birth certificates, booklets, brochures, budgets, certificates, charts, citations, compliance reviews, computer printouts, constitutions, contracts, correspondence, deeds, determinations on imports, diagrams, dockets, drawings, earnings records, employment applications, financial records, forms, formulas, genealogy charts, goals and timetables, graphs, grievance sheets, handbooks, hazardous waste manifests, histories, indices, inspections, inventories, job classifications, job descriptions, journals, ledgers, legal briefs, legal records, legislation, lines of progression, lists, magazine articles, manuals, manuscript proofs, maps, memoirs, memoranda, minutes, newsletters, newspapers clippings, notebooks, notes, notices, pamphlets and promotional materials, permits, petitions, photographs, plans, policies and procedures, presentations, press releases, proposals, proxy statements, publications, questionnaires, real estate records including abstracts of titles, bills of sale, closing papers, conveyances, deeds, easements, indentures, leases, and rights of way, receipts, registers, remarks, reports, resolutions, rosters, rules and regulations, schedules, scrapbooks, scripts, separation notices, speech texts, statements, statistics, studies, subpoenas, summaries, surveys, tax records, telegrams, testimonies, time books, time lines, time sheets, trade adjustment assistance determinations, transcripts, typescripts, wage scale changes, wage rate records and cases, and work papers. 
 Call #:  MS 4949 
 Extent:  386.30 linear feet (391 containers and 40 oversize volumes) 
 Subjects:  Eaton, Cyrus Stephen, 1883-1979. | Girdler, T. M. (Tom Mercer), 1877-1965. | Patton, Thomas F., b. 1903. | White, Charles McElroy, 1891-1977. | Republic Steel Corporation. | Republic Iron & Steel Company. | Central Alloy Steel Corporation. | Corrigan McKinney Steel Company. | Steel Workers Organizing Committee (U.S.) | United Steelworkers of America. | Ohio EPA. | United States. Environmental Protection Agency. | United States. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. | United States. Securities and Exchange Commission. | Arbitration, Industrial -- United States. | Collective bargaining -- Steel industry -- United States. | Collective labor agreements -- Steel industry -- United States. | Consolidation and merger of corporations -- United States. | Consolidation and merger of corporations -- Canada. | Discrimination in employment -- United States. | Employee fringe benefits -- United States. | Grievance procedures -- United States. | Import quotas -- United States. | Incentives in industry -- United States. | Industrial relations -- United States. | Industrial relations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Iron and steel workers -- United States. | Iron and steel workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Iron and steel workers -- Labor unions -- Organizing -- United States. | Iron and steel workers -- Job descriptions -- United States. | Iron and steel workers -- Pensions -- United States. | Labor disputes -- United States. | Little Steel Strike, U.S., 1937 | Merchant mariners -- Great Lakes (North America) | Shipping -- Great Lakes (North America) | Steel. | Steel -- Marketing. | Steel -- Transportation -- Great Lakes (North America) | Steel industry and trade -- Employees | Steel industry and trade -- Environmental aspects -- United States. | Steel industry and trade -- Government policy -- United States. | Steel industry and trade -- United States. | Steel industry and trade -- Ohio. | Steel industry and trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Steel industry and trade -- Law and legislation -- United States. | Steel industry and trade -- Mergers -- United States. | Steel industry and trade -- Prices -- United States. | Steel-works -- United States. | Steel-works -- Ohio. | Steel-works -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Strikes and lockouts -- Steel industry -- United States. | Wages -- Iron and steel workers -- United States.
 
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