WRHS Search Results

Library Collections Search Results

Modify Search \| New Search	RSS \| Saved Results (0)
Search: labor in keywords [X] Manuscript Collection in format [X] Photograph Collection in format [X] Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. in subject [X]	Results: 14 Items
Sorted by:	Page: 1

Manuscript Collection			Requires cookie*
1	Title:	Cleveland Printing and Graphic Communications Union, Local No. 56 Records, Series II
	Creator:	Cleveland Printing and Graphic Communications Union, Local No. 56
	Dates:	1935-1983
	Abstract:	The Cleveland Printing and Graphic Communications Union, Local No. 56, was chartered in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1891 as the Cleveland Printing and Pressmen's Union, No. 56. It became the Cleveland Printing Pressmen's and Assistants Union, Local No. 56, in 1929, after merging with the Cleveland Pressmen's Assistants Union, Local No. 45. The present name was adopted after a merger in 1973 with the Stereotypers and Electrotypers International. The collection consists of constitutions, histories, minutes, grievances, agreements, proceedings of conventions, and correspondence.
	Call #:	MS 4172
	Extent:	3.01 linear feet (3 containers and 1 oversize folder)
	Subjects:	Cleveland Printing and Graphic Communications Union. Local No. 56. \| Collective bargaining -- Printing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Printing industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Printing industry -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Collective labor agreements -- Printing industry -- United States. \| Industrial relations -- United States. \| Labor -- United States. \| Printing industry -- United States. \| Wages -- Printers -- United States. \| Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
		View Finding Aid \| View XML

Manuscript Collection			Requires cookie*
2	Title:	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.
		View Finding Aid \| View XML

Manuscript Collection			Requires cookie*
3	Title:	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.
		View Finding Aid \| View XML

Manuscript Collection			Requires cookie*
4	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.
		View Finding Aid \| View XML

Manuscript Collection			Requires cookie*
5	Title:	World Publishing Company Records
	Creator:	World Publishing Company
	Dates:	1954-1979
	Abstract:	The World Publishing Company was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1905 by Alfred H. Cahen, an immigrant from Poland. The company was a major publisher of trade books, bibles, dictionaries, and children's books. This collection consists primarily of catalogs, annual reports, and bulletins from the World Publishing Company dating from the 1950s to the 1970s. It also includes employee benefit manuals and company-issued books detailing pension and retirement plans.
	Call #:	MS 5357
	Extent:	0.80 linear feet (2 containers)
	Subjects:	Publishers and publishing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Pensions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
		View Finding Aid \| View XML

Manuscript Collection			Requires cookie*
6	Title:	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.
		View Finding Aid \| View XML

Manuscript Collection			Requires cookie*
7	Title:	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.
		View Finding Aid \| View XML

Manuscript Collection			Requires cookie*
8	Title:	Towmotor Corporation Photographs
	Creator:	Towmotor Corporation
	Dates:	1920-1945
	Abstract:	Towmotor Corporation was a Cleveland, Ohio, company founded by Lester M. Sears in 1919, which produced industrial tractors and fork lifts. The company merged with Caterpillar Tractor Company of Peoria, Illlinois, in 1963 but operated under its own name until the 1970s. The Towmotor plant was closed in 1985. The collection consists of 112 photographs.
	Call #:	MS 5396
	Extent:	0.40 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Fork lift trucks -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Industrial equipment industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Industrial power trucks -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Materials handling equipment industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
		View Finding Aid \| View XML

Manuscript Collection			Requires cookie*
9	Title:	Donald McBride Family Papers
	Creator:	McBride, Donald Family
	Dates:	1857-1989
	Abstract:	Donald McBride was a lawyer and businessman and son of John Harris McBride, owner of Root & McBride Company, a leading wholesale dry goods establishment in Cleveland, Ohio. Donald's brothers, Malcolm and Herbert, were officers in Root & McBride Company. His sister Grace was married to Dr. George Crile, and his sister Edith was married to Henry S. Sherman, chairman of Society for Savings, 1903-1936. Donald's wife, Mary Helen Harman McBride, was daughter of industrialist Ralph A. Harman, who ran Cleveland Forge and Iron Company, was a founder of Cleveland Trust Company, and a director of Cleveland Electric Railway Company. Mary Helen's sister Grace was married to Samuel Livingston Mather, and her sister Sue was married to diplomat John Pelenyi. Her great aunt, Grace Harman Wade, was married to Jeptha H. Wade. The collection consists of Harman and McBride family correspondence, genealogies, coats of arms, reminiscences, memorials, school reports, scrapbooks, ledgers, journals, diaries, newspaper clippings, obituaries, reprints, autograph book, receipts, verses, blueprints, speeches and photographs. Included are personal papers for Ralph A. Harman, Sue Wade Harman and John Pelenyi, Susan Fleming Wade, Donald McBride and Mary Helen McBride, as well as business records, recollections and scrapbooks of Ralph A. Harman relating to the early business, industrial and social history of Cleveland.
	Call #:	MS 4585
	Extent:	10.80 linear feet (10 containers, 14 oversize volumes, and 1 oversize folder)
	Subjects:	McBride, Donald, 1884-1927. \| McBride family. \| Harmon family. \| Kenyon family. \| Fleming family. \| Wade family -- Periodicals. \| Root & McBride Company. \| Cleveland Tool and Forge Company. \| Cleveland City Forge and Iron Company. \| University of Free Europe in Exile. \| Cleveland Trust Company. \| Cleveland-Akron Bag Company. \| Winous Point Shooting Club. \| Beech Brook, Inc. (Pepper Pike, Ohio). \| Businessmen -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Street-railroads -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Strikes and lockouts -- Street-railroads -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Banks and banking -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Shipping -- Great Lakes. \| World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives. \| Europe -- Description and travel. \| Shipbuilding industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Diplomatic and consular service, Hungarian. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Economic conditions. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. \| Hungary -- History.
		View Finding Aid \| View XML

Manuscript Collection			Requires cookie*
10	Title:	Towmotor Corporation Records
	Creator:	Towmotor Corporation
	Dates:	1915-1977
	Abstract:	Towmotor Corporation was a Cleveland, Ohio-based company founded by Lester M. Sears in 1919 which produced industrial tractors and fork lifts. His father, F.W. Sears, became co-partner, retaining that position until his death in 1934. The first Towmotor plant was located on Bliss Road in Euclid, a suburb of Cleveland. The plant later moved to 1226 East 152nd Street and then to 16100 Euclid Avenue. Small tractors were produced for the first 14 years, and in 1933, Lester Sears produced the first gasoline-powered fork lift. Towmotor continued to grow during World War II and during the 1950s and 1960s, acquiring Gerlinger Company of Dallas, Oregon in 1956, and began international distribution. In 1963, the company acquired Ohio Gear. Also in 1963, Towmotor merged with Caterpillar Tractor Company of Peoria, Ill. By the 1970s, the Towmotor name was dropped from vehicles. After a 1983 strike over cheaper labor costs in Korea, the Towmotor plant was closed in 1985. The collection consists of administrative, legal and financial records, correspondence, manuals, publications, advertisements, memorabilia and newspaper clippings relating largely to the formation, organization, and functioning of Towmotor Corporation, particularly during the 1920s and 1940s. In addition to the business records of the company, the collection includes valuable information pertaining to technological advancements in the material handling industry and personal material relating to Lester M. Sears, Mary Ann Swetland, and other Sears family members.
	Call #:	MS 4593
	Extent:	3.20 linear feet (4 containers)
	Subjects:	Sears, Lester M., 1888-1967. \| Sears family. \| Swetland, Mary Ann. \| Towmotor Corporation. \| Caterpillar Tractor Company. \| Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Materials handling equipment industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Industrial equipment industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Fork lift trucks -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Industrial power trucks -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
		View Finding Aid \| View XML

Manuscript Collection			Requires cookie*
11	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.
		View Finding Aid \| View XML

Manuscript Collection			Requires cookie*
12	Title:	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.
		View Finding Aid \| View XML

Manuscript Collection			Requires cookie*
13	Title:	Pickands, Mather and Company Records
	Creator:	Pickands, Mather and Company
	Dates:	1889-1969
	Abstract:	Pickands, Mather and Company was a Cleveland, Ohio-based mining and shipping firm; a major supplier of iron ore and coal to the steel industry, with one of the largest fleets of freight carriers on the Great Lakes. It originated with founders Samuel Mather, Jay Morse, and James S. Pickands in 1883. To meet its ore transport demands, the firm formed the Interlake Steamship Company in 1913, which became the second largest fleet on the Great Lakes. By the 1920s, the company was the one of the largest producers of iron ore in the U.S. In 1929 a subsidiary, the Interlake Iron Corporation, was formed. Pickands, Mather also had heavy investments in the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company. In 1973, Pickands, Mather and Company became part of Moore McCormack Resources, Inc. Moore McCormack sold its Pickands, Mather stock to Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. in 1986. The collection consists of bound annual statements, annual statements of the mining department, individual cost statements, and a bound commemorative book which was presented to Samuel Mather, one of the founders.
	Call #:	MS 4590
	Extent:	17.30 linear feet (21 containers and 72 oversize volumes)
	Subjects:	Mather, Samuel, 1851-1931. \| Pickands, James S., 1839-1896. \| Morse, Jay. \| Pickands, Mather and Company. \| Interlake Steamship Company. \| Ashtabula & Buffalo Dock Company. \| Erie Mining Company. \| Wabush Mines. \| Syracuse Mining Company. \| Ontario Iron Company. \| Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. \| Interlake Iron Corporation. \| Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Iron mines and mining -- United States. \| Iron industry and trade -- United States. \| Iron industry and trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Coal mines and mining -- United States. \| Shipping -- Great Lakes.
		View Finding Aid \| View XML

Manuscript Collection			Requires cookie*
14	Title:	Centerior Energy Corporation Records
	Creator:	Centerior Energy Corporation
	Dates:	1881-1996
	Abstract:	The Centerior Energy Corporation was founded in 1892 in Cleveland, Ohio, as the Cleveland General Electric Company, with a franchise from the General Electric Company of Boston, Massachusetts. In 1893, assets of the Brush Electric Light and Power Company and of the Cleveland Electric Light Company were transferred to the Cleveland General Electric Company, forming the nucleus of a new organization. On July 21, 1894, the name of the company was changed to the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company (CEI). In 1926, the company purchased the Cleveland, Painesville and Eastern Railroad Company and its subsidiary, The United Light and Power Company. Other power companies in the northeastern Ohio region were purchased during this time. In 1947 control of the company returned to the hands of public investors, and new power plants continued to be added to the system. The company's first nuclear power plant, the Davis-Besse facility, became fully operational in 1978. A second nuclear power facility, the Perry Nuclear Power Plant, was subsequently added. In 1986 Centerior Energy Corporation, an affiliation between CEI and the Toledo Edison Company, was formed to become one of the largest electric systems in the United States. In 1996, Centerior Energy Corporation and the Ohio Edison Company merged into a new holding company, First Energy Corporation. The collection consists of articles of incorporation, annual reports, bylaws, histories, correspondence, legal briefs, financial records, handbooks, speeches, pamphlets, publications, oral history transcriptions, organizational charts, rate schedules, magazine and newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks. Includes the correspondence of various presidents of the corporation.
	Call #:	MS 4791
	Extent:	31.40 linear feet (45 containers)
	Subjects:	Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company. \| Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Plant (Ohio). \| Perry Nuclear Power Plant (Ohio) \| Centerior Energy Corporation. \| Cleveland General Electric Company. \| Toledo Edison Company. \| Ohio Edison Company. \| Brush Electric Light and Power Company. \| Cleveland Electric Light Company. \| First Energy Corporation. \| Electric utilities -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area. \| Electric industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area. \| Electric power distribution -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area. \| Electric power transmission -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area. \| Electric power-plants -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area. \| Public utilities -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area. \| Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. \| Strikes and lockouts -- Public utilities -- Ohio. \| Collective bargaining -- Public utilities -- Ohio. \| Nuclear energy. \| Nuclear power plants -- Ohio.
		View Finding Aid \| View XML