Subject | • | Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | [X] | | • | Clothing factories -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Gross family. |
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| | • | Gross, Louis N. |
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| | • | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Joseph and Feiss Company (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | L.N. Gross Company (Cleveland, Ohio). |
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| | • | Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Strikes and lockouts -- Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Cleveland Joint Board. |
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| | • | Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union. |
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| | • | American Federation of Labor. |
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| | • | Business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Catalogs. |
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| | • | Cooperative Workers Association (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | Factories -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Design and construction. |
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| | • | Fashion design -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Federal Knitting Mills Company (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. |
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| | • | Knit goods industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Labor unions -- Clothing workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Men's clothing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Marketing. |
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| | • | Peppercorn, Beryl, 1892-1969. |
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| | • | Printz-Biederman Company (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Catalogs. |
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| | • | Printz-Biederman Company (Cleveland, Ohio). |
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| | • | Richman Brothers Company. |
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| | • | Textile industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | United States. Army -- Uniforms. |
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| | • | United States. National Labor Relations Board. |
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| | • | United States. Navy -- Uniforms. |
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| | Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | Federal Knitting Mills Company Records
| | | | Creator: | Federal Knitting Mills Company | | | | Dates: | 1907-1939 | | | | Abstract: | The Federal Knitting Mills Company was founded in Cleveland, Ohio in 1905 by several Jewish businessmen. The company produced knit goods, including sweaters, and also supplied fabric to the garment-making industry. The company's national accounts included Sears, Roebuck & Co., Montgomery Ward, and Marshall Field & Co. At its height, the company employed five hundred people at its 125,000 square foot plant. Following the passage of the National Labor Relations Act in 1937, several unions attempted to replace the Cooperative Workers Association, the company union for Federal Knitting Mills. An ensuing strike related to this matter seriously strained the company's finances. Federal Knitting Mills dissolved in December 1937. The collection consists of audit reports, balance sheets, correspondence, legal documents, minutes, newspaper clippings, and a scrapbook. | | | | Call #: | MS 5051 | | | | Extent: | 0.60 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Federal Knitting Mills Company (Cleveland, Ohio) | Cooperative Workers Association (Cleveland, Ohio) | American Federation of Labor. | American Federation of Labor. Committee for Industrial Organization. | International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. | United States. National Labor Relations Board. | Textile industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing workers -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industrial relations -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | Beryl Peppercorn Papers
| | | | Creator: | Peppercorn, Beryl | | | | Dates: | 1924-1969 | | | | Abstract: | Beryl Peppercorn (1892-1969) was a Cleveland, Ohio, labor leader who served as manager of the Cleveland Joint Board, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (1922-1958). He was a co-founder of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America with Frank Rosenblum in 1914. By 1935, the ACWA had negotiated contracts at most of the men's clothing stores in Cleveland, making it one of the largest labor unions in the area. He also co-founded the Cleveland Industrial Union Council, the local affiliate of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). The collection consists of loose papers, pamphlets, and scrapbooks containing broadsides, pamphlets, programs, letters, newspaper clippings and telegrams relating to the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and its activities in Ohio. | | | | Call #: | MS 3388 | | | | Extent: | 0.60 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Peppercorn, Beryl, 1892-1969. | Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Cleveland Joint Board. | Clothing workers -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Collective bargaining -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 3 | Title: | Printz-Biederman Company Records
| | | | Creator: | Printz-Biederman Company | | | | Dates: | 1914-1957 | | | | Abstract: | The Printz-Biederman Company was a Cleveland, Ohio, coat manufacturing company established in 1893 by Moritz Printz, his sons Michael and Alexander, and his son-in-law Joseph Biederman. The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union tried to organize its employees in the 1930s. It closed in the 1970s. The collection consists of minutes, reports, agreements, correspondence, historical sketches, and publications relating to employee representative bodies which operated in the plant, and letters, telegrams and other writings to and from Abraham Katovsky and David Dubinsky of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union Also includes catalogs and advertisements of the company's clothing. | | | | Call #: | MS 3870 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Printz-Biederman Company (Cleveland, Ohio). | Printz-Biederman Company (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Catalogs. | Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Catalogs. | Clothing factories -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women's clothing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Collective bargaining -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing workers -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industrial relations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 4 | Title: | Joseph and Feiss Company Records, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Joseph and Feiss Company | | | | Dates: | 1858-1988 | | | | Abstract: | The Joseph and Feiss Company was founded in 1841 as Koch and Loeb, a general store in Meadville, Pennsylvania. The store moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1845, and when Samuel Loeb left shortly after the move, Kaufman Koch expanded the enterprise to three locations. Other partners joined the company, including Jacob Goldsmith and Julius Feiss in 1865 and Moritz Joseph in 1873. As Goldsmith, Joseph, Feiss & Company, an internal factory was opened in 1897 to begin the production of ready-made men's clothing under the Clothcraft label. After changing its name to the Joseph and Feiss Company in 1907, the company became fully incorporated as The Joseph and Feiss Company in 1920 when it moved into its new factory on W. 53rd Street in Cleveland. The company had originally balanced scientific management with benevolent corporate paternalism in order to keep workers happy as well as healthy. In 1934, the company was unionized by the Amalgamated Clothing & Textile Workers Union of America and these paternalistic programs were ended. During World War II, Joseph and Feiss became an important manufacturer of uniforms for the United States army and navy. After the war, the company continued to expand its line of products, purchasing Samuel Spitz Company and its Cricketeer label in 1957 and Windbreaker-Danville in 1962. Joseph and Feiss also owned and operated several subsidiaries, including the Naval Uniform Service, Inc. In 1966, Joseph and Feiss merged with Phillips Van-Heusen Corporation and continued to operate under its own name. In 1989, it was acquired by the German clothing firm Hugo Boss. The Cricketeer label was discontinued in 1995 and in 1997 its Cleveland operations were moved to the Tiedeman Road facility in Brooklyn, Ohio. In 2010, the planned closure of that plant was averted after union negotiations. The plant continues to produce 150,000 suits a year. The collection consists of minutes, correspondence, news clippings, inventories, audit reports, tax records, contracts, legal deeds, blueprints, ledger books, personnel records, and booklets. | | | | Call #: | MS 5054 | | | | Extent: | 17.20 linear feet (11 containers and 15 oversize volumes) | | | | Subjects: | Joseph and Feiss Company (Cleveland, Ohio) | Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union. | United States. Army -- Uniforms. | United States. Navy -- Uniforms. | Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing factories -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Labor unions -- Clothing workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Men's clothing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Men's clothing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Marketing. | Fashion design -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industrial relations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish businesspeople -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Factories -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Design and construction.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 5 | Title: | 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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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 6 | Title: | National Knitted Outerwear Association, Cleveland District Records
| | | | Creator: | Knitted Outerwear Association, Cleveland District | | | | Dates: | 1950-1982 | | | | Abstract: | The National Knitted Outerwear Association, Cleveland District, was an organization of knitting mills in Cleveland, Ohio, originally affiliated with the National Association headquartered in New York City. In the 1930s, the Cleveland District withdrew from the National Association and ceased to exist, and local knitting mills joined the national organization as individual members. During this period, members also met locally. By 1960, the Cleveland group had re-affiliated with the national organization. The collection consists of minutes, correspondence, and newspaper clippings. The collection also contains questionnaires sent to various Cleveland mills in 1981 by David Reinthal, president of the Cleveland District, to document the history of the knitted garment industry in Cleveland. Information on the questionnaires includes dates of company founding, names of founders and successors, dates of company expansions and relocations, and product descriptions. | | | | Call #: | MS 4651 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | National Knitted Outerwear Association Cleveland District. | Knit goods industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing factories -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 7 | Title: | Joseph and Feiss Company Records
| | | | Creator: | Joseph and Feiss Company | | | | Dates: | 1847-1960 | | | | Abstract: | The Joseph and Feiss Company was established in 1841, by Caufman Koch and Samuel Loeb, as a general store in Meadville, Pennsylvania. In 1845 they moved the store to Cleveland, Ohio, and began specializing in tailored men's clothing. The company underwent several name changes before becoming Joseph & Feiss in 1907. The collection consists of Shareholders' and Directors' minutes, correspondence, legal and financial records, subject files, publications, scrapbooks and newspaper clippings. | | | | Call #: | MS 3886 | | | | Extent: | 5.20 linear feet (5 containers and 1 oversize volume) | | | | Subjects: | Joseph and Feiss Company (Cleveland, Ohio) | Clothing workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing factories -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Men's clothing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industrial relations -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 8 | Title: | Richman Brothers Company Records
| | | | Creator: | Richman Brothers Company | | | | Dates: | 1924-1992 | | | | Abstract: | The Richman Brothers Company began in Cleveland, Ohio, when Henry Richman, a Jewish immigrant from Bavaria, and his partner, Joseph Lehman, moved their men's clothing manufacturing business, the Lehman-Richman Company, from Portsmouth, Ohio, to Cleveland in 1879. Following the depression of 1893, Lehman retired, and in 1904, Henry Richman turned over the business to his sons; Nathan, Charles, and Henry, Jr., and the business became the Richman Brothers Company. The first retail store was established in Cincinnati in 1906, followed a year later by stores in Cleveland and Louisville, Kentucky. Moving away from reliance on outside piecework, the Cleveland plant at 1600 E. 55 St. was built in 1916. The company incorporated in 1919. Throughout the 1920s-1930s, Richman Brothers continued to open new retail stores. After the deaths of the three Richman Brothers, the company was headed by Frank C. Lewman, and later by George H. Richman, until 1970, when Donald J. Gerstenberger became president and CEO. Expansion continued throughout the 1940s-1950s, despite problems with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America which attempted to unionize Richman Brothers. It remained a non-union shop throughout its existence. In 1969, Richman Brothers became a subsidiary of F.W. Woolworth Company. In 1986, corporate headquarters was moved to Massachusetts, and in 1990, its Cleveland manufacturing plant was closed. By December 1992, Richman Brothers Company had been completely liquidated. The collection consists of legal documents including leases and escrow papers, shareholders reports, issues of two company-published employee magazines, Chain Reaction (1967-1984) and Common Thread (1985-1987), newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous documents. | | | | Call #: | MS 4664 | | | | Extent: | 0.80 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Richman Brothers Company. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish businesspeople -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing factories -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Men's clothing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 9 | Title: | 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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