| | Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 101 | Title: | NA'AMAT USA Cleveland Council Records, Series II
| | | | Creator: | NA'AMAT USA Cleveland Council | | | | Dates: | 1943-2007 | | | | Abstract: | Naamat USA is a Labor Zionist women's organization dedicated to providing training, education, and social services for children, women, and families in Israel. Formerly known as Pioneer Women, the organization changed its name to Naamat USA in 1985. The Cleveland Council was founded in 1926, one year after the national organization came into being. This collection contains material limited to the Cleveland, Ohio chapter. The collection consists of minutes, bulletins, correspondence, donor program books, membership lists, program booklets, and calendars. | | | | Call #: | MS 5011 | | | | Extent: | 2.00 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Na'amat USA (Organization). Cleveland Council. | Pioneer Women (Organization : U.S.). Cleveland Council. | Jewish women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. | Zionism -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Labor Zionism -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. | Working-women's clubs -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 102 | Title: | National Association of Letter Carriers, Branch 40 Records
| | | | Creator: | National Association of Letter Carriers, Branch 40 | | | | Dates: | 1889-1971 | | | | Abstract: | Branch 40 of the National Association of Letter Carriers was established in 1889 in Cleveland, Ohio, as the Cleveland Letter Carriers' Association. In 1890 it joined with other independent associations to form the National Association of Letter Carriers and was subsequently chartered as Branch 40 of the National Association. In 1898 Branch 40 began calling itself the Forest City Branch. It was changed to the William C. Doherty Branch in 1965. In 1970 Branch 40 joined in the union's first strike, a wage dispute, which resulted in a fourteen percent pay raise. It remains active in local and national labor affairs. The collection consists of reports of the treasurer, the trustees, and the financial secretary, dues books, financial journals, minutes of monthly meetings, attendance books, material on a contested election, materials relating to the 1970 strike, union publications, clippings, scrapbooks, and a miscellaneous file. | | | | Call #: | MS 3701 | | | | Extent: | 3.50 linear feet (4 containers and 4 oversize volumes) | | | | Subjects: | National Association of Letter Carriers (U.S.). Branch 40 (Cleveland, Ohio) | Postal service -- Employees -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Postal service -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Employees. | Collective bargaining -- Postal service -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Strikes and lockouts -- Postal service -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 103 | Title: | Morris and Eleanor Stamm Papers
| | | | Creator: | Stamm, Morris and Eleanor | | | | Dates: | 1936-1986 | | | | Abstract: | Morris and Elanor Stamm were labor, peace, civil rights and political activists from Cleveland, Ohio. Morris Stamm emigrated from Russia and came to Cleveland in 1916, where he was a laborer for 61 years. He joined the Communist Party in 1928 and was a shop floor organizer for the United Electrical Workers (UEW) in the Cleveland area. Stamm fought as a foot soldier with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War from 1937-1938. He married Eleanor Ginsberg in 1940. In 1949, Stamm was fined and jailed for picketing violations in a bitter strike of the Fawick-Airflex company called by Local 735 of the UEW. In the 1970s, Morris and Eleanor led the Cleveland Committee for a Democratic Spain, and were highly involved in the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Eleanor was politically active throughout her life, holding memberships in the American Youth Congress, the Young Communist League and the Youth Committee of the American League Against War and Fascism. The collection consists of material relating to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, including English- and Spanish-language publications, correspondence, minutes, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, newsletters, propaganda, posters, paintings, programs, reports and research papers. The collection also contains similar document types pertaining to other activities and organizations the Stamms were involved in, especially the United States Committee for a Democratic Spain. Included is material re: the strike of the Fawick-Airflex Co. in 1949, personal manuscripts and writings, and material pertaining to politics in the Cleveland metro area during the 1970s. The collection pertains primarily to the Spanish Civil War and Morris Stamm's participation in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, the effort to establish democracy in post-war Spain, socialism and communism, and labor unrest during the 20th century. | | | | Call #: | MS 4505 | | | | Extent: | 3.40 linear feet (5 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Stamm, Morris, 1904- | Stamm, Eleanor G. (Eleanor Ginsberg), 1912-1989. | Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade -- Archives. | United States Committee for a Democratic Spain -- Archives. | United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America. Local 735 (Cleveland, Ohio) | Fawick Airflex Strike, Cleveland, Ohio, 1949. | Communism -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Communists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Socialists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Socialism -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Jurisdictional disputes. | Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Sources. | Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Periodicals. | Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Participation, American. | Spain -- Politics and government -- 1975- | Spain -- Politics and government -- 1939-1975.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 104 | 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* | | 105 | Title: | Samuel H. Silbert Papers
| | | | Creator: | Silbert, Samuel H. | | | | Dates: | 1902-1969 | | | | Abstract: | Samuel H. Silbert (1883-1976) was a Latvian immigrant to Cleveland, Ohio, who became a lawyer and judge. He served as Assistant Police Prosecutor (1912-1915), Municipal Court Judge (1915-1924), and Chief Justice of the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas (1955-1963). Silbert was a noted authority on divorce law. The collection consists of correspondence, writings, speeches, memos, articles, autobiographical material, miscellaneous documents, and personal business records. Also included are minutes of Local 274 of the Hotel Service Workers and records of the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas. | | | | Call #: | MS 3683 | | | | Extent: | 17.10 linear feet (17 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Silbert, Samuel H., 1883-1976. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. | Judges -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Correspondence, reminiscences, etc. | Labor unions -- Hotels, taverns, etc.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 106 | Title: | NA'AMAT USA Cleveland Council Records, Series IV
| | | | Creator: | Gift of Robin Lieberman | | | | Dates: | 1934-2018 | | | | 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, 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 NA'AMAT USA Cleveland Council Records, Series IV collection consists of agendas, announcements, an anthem, booklets, brochures, bylaws, calendars, certificates, a constitution, correspondence, DVDs, flyers, guest books, invitations, lists, meeting minutes, newsletters, newspaper clippings, a pamphlet, play scripts, a photo album, photographs, programs, resolutions, scrapbook material, slides, speech texts, summary reports, and VHS tapes. | | | | Call #: | MS 5461 | | | | Extent: | 4.0 linear feet (4 boxes) | | | | Subjects: | Naʻamat USA (Organization). Cleveland Council | Pioneer Women (Organization : U.S.). Cleveland Council | Jewish women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs | Working-women’s clubs -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Zionism -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Labor Zionism -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 107 | Title: | Abba Hillel Silver papers, 1909-1989, (bulk 1914-1963)
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| | | | Call #: | Microfilm Collection | | | | Extent: | 5892 folders. | | | | Subjects: | American Zionist Policy Committee | American Zionist Council | American Zionist Emergency Council | Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Jewish Problems in Palestine and Europe | Cleveland Bureau of Jewish Education (Cleveland, Ohio) | Jewish Welfare Federation (Cleveland, Ohio) | Jewish National Fund | Jewish Agency for Palestine. -- American Section | Jewish Agency for Palestine | Joint Distribution Committee of the American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers | Keren Hayesod | Ohio Commission on Unemployment Insurance | Jewish Community Federation (Cleveland, Ohio) | Jewish Community Council (Cleveland, Ohio) | Temple (Cleveland, Ohio) | United Palestine Appeal (U.S.) | United Jewish Appeal | Cleveland Zionist Society (Cleveland, Ohio) | League for Human Rights (Cleveland, Ohio) | Zionist Organization of America | Rabbis -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Archives | Zionism | Zionism -- United States | Palestine -- Emigration and immigration | Palestine -- Politics and government | Israel -- Politics and government | Refugees, Jewish | Jews -- Palestine | Jews -- United States | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Judaism | Reform Judaism | Labor movement -- United States | Insurance, Unemployment -- Ohio | Open and closed shop -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Anti-Nazi movements -- Ohio -- Cleveland
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 108 | Title: | Theodore E. Burton Papers
| | | | Creator: | Burton, Theodore E. | | | | Dates: | 1869-1958 | | | | Abstract: | Theodore E. Burton (1851-1929) was a United States Representative (1889-1891, 1895-1909, and 1921-1928) and Senator (1909-1915 and 1928-1929) from Cleveland, Ohio. While in Congress, Burton was involved in a number of important issues of the day, and was also a prominent figure in Republican Party politics. He maintained a lifelong involvement in the international peace movement. Burton was a candidate in the 1907 Cleveland mayoral election, losing to Democrat Tom L. Johnson. A bachelor, he was close to his niece, Grace Burton, who became a political confidant, housekeeper, and companion to him in his later years. The collection consists of diaries, journals, appointment books, correspondence, reports, bills and government documents, minutes, notes and other memoranda, pamphlets, printed public remarks, speeches, articles, manuscripts, notebooks, account books, receipts, income tax returns, programs and other memorabilia, passports, address files, newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks. Legislative issues Burton was involved with are well represented in the collection. These include inland waterways; the Inland Waterways Commission; financial, banking, and currency legislation; immigration restriction; postal, trade and tariff issues; the Panama Canal; political patronage; veterans' and pension affairs; and labor legislation. Local Cleveland, Ohio, issues are represented in the collection. These include the 1907 Cleveland mayoral race, construction of a federal building, local and Ohio politics, and the flood of 1913. Burton's dedication to the international peace movement is documented in the collection. The important role played by his niece Grace Burton is illustrated in her correspondence with her uncle, often demonstrating her own deep interest in local and national politics. Burton's own writings, especially research materials and manuscripts for his two major works, Financial Crises and John Sherman, make up a significant portion of the collection. | | | | Call #: | MS 3469 | | | | Extent: | 58.01 linear feet (58 containers, 64 oversize volumes, and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Burton, Theodore E. (Theodore Elijah), 1851-1929. | Burton, Grace. | Sherman, John, 1823-1900. | American Peace Society. | Emigration and immigration law -- United States. | Harbors -- Law and legislation -- United States. | Waterways -- Law and legislation -- United States. | Currency question -- United States. | Labor laws and legislation -- United States. | Cuban question -- 1895-1898. | Floods -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Peace -- Societies, etc. | Legislators -- United States -- Archives. | Civil service reform -- United States. | Tariff -- Law and legislation -- United States. | Spanish-American War, 1898. | Panama Canal (Panama). | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. | Ohio -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950. | United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1933.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 109 | Title: | Fayette Brown Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Brown, Fayette Family | | | | Dates: | 1831-1891 | | | | Abstract: | Fayette Brown (1823-1910) was a banker and industrialist who resided in Cleveland, Ohio with his wife, Cornelia, and children, Alexander, William, and Mary. The collection consists of personal correspondence of members of the Brown family, poetry, grade reports, a cash sheet detailing school expenses, a Union Army payroll sheet, and notices and memoranda from the Northern Ohio Sanitary Fair (1864). | | | | Call #: | MS 3150 | | | | Extent: | 1.40 linear feet (4 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Brown family. | Brown, Fayette, 1823-1910. | Strikes and lockouts -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Labor -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women -- United States -- Social life and customs. | Upper classes -- United States -- Social life and customs. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. | Yellowstone National Park.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 110 | Title: | Henry Lee Moon Family Papers, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Moon, Henry Lee Family | | | | Dates: | 1885-1985 | | | | Abstract: | The Henry Lee Moon family was a prominent twentieth century Cleveland, Ohio, African American family involved in civil rights and community organizations. In 1912, Roddy K. Moon helped form the Cleveland Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and served as its founding president 1912-1916. He was also on the board of the Negro Welfare Association, supported the Phillis Wheatley Association, and in 1933 organized the Palmetto Club. His wife, Leah Anna Himes Moon, was a fifty-year member of the Cleveland Branch NAACP, and with her husband was a founding member of the Forest City Garden Club. Roddy and Leah Moon had three surviving children; Joseph Herbert, Ella Elizabeth, and Henry Lee. Ella Moon was a teacher, an active member of the Forest City Garden Club, and was married to Clyde Smith. Henry Lee Moon was a newspaper editor, press relations secretary for Tuskegee Institute (1926-1931), and worked for the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration. Moon, along with his future wife and other African Americans, traveled to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for consultations concerning a government sponsored film project on the history of black America. From 1938-1944 he was race relations adviser for the Federal Public Housing Authority. He also worked as assistant director to the Political Action Committee of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). He was active with the NAACP, becoming its director of public relations in 1948-1960. He was the author of two books; Balance of Power: the Negro Vote (1948) and The Emerging Thought of W.E. B. Dubois (1972). His wife, Mollie Virgil Lewis Moon, was a pharmacist, and later worked as a social worker with the Department of Social Services in New York City. She was also a public relations executive, founder and chairman of the National Urban League Guild (1942-1962), and trustee and secretary of the National Urban League (1955-1962). After World War II, she became involved with the "brown-babies" of Germany campaign, which attempted to provide relief for orphaned or abandoned children of mixed African and European or American ancestry. The collection consists of booklets, cards, certificates, correspondence, financial records, letters, memorandum, minutes, newspaper clippings, reports, publications, pamphlets, proposals, speeches, telegrams, published and unpublished writings, and memorabilia. | | | | Call #: | MS 4823 | | | | Extent: | 1.40 linear feet (4 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Moon family. | Moon, Henry Lee, 1901- | Moon, Mollie Lewis. | Moon, Roddy K., 1868-1952. | Moon, Joseph Herbert. | Moon, Leah. | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. | National Urban League. | African Americans. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Civil rights movements -- United States. | Labor movement -- United States. | African American women -- United States. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American women public relations personnel. | African Americans -- Relations with Russians. | African American social workers. | United States -- Race relations.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 111 | 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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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 112 | Title: | Carl Stokes Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Stokes, Carl | | | | Dates: | 1940-1971 | | | | Abstract: | Carl Stokes (1927-1996) was the mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, from 1967-1971. Stokes was the first African American mayor of a major American city and the first African American Democrat in the Ohio State Legislature, where he served three terms from 1962-67. As mayor, Stokes launched a number of programs to alleviate the problems of urban decay. Chief among these was Cleveland: NOW!, a joint public and private program with plans to raise $177 million in its first two years to revitalize Cleveland. The program was discredited due to the Glenville Shootout in July, 1968. Under Stokes, Cleveland City Council passed the Equal Employment Opportunity Ordinance, and HUD resumed funding projects aiding in the construction of over 3,000 new low- and middle-income housing units. Stokes became a newscaster with NBC television in 1972, and returned to his law practice in Cleveland in 1980. In 1983, Stokes was elected a municipal court judge. The collection consists of formal individual portraits of Carl Stokes, individual and group portraits of the Stokes family and friends, city officials, local and national celebrities and political figures, and individual citizens. It also includes candid and formal group portraits and views of official functions of the mayor, functions of individual city departments and commissions, and local community groups. Included are portraits of Hubert H. Humphrey, Edmund Muskie, Rev. Billy Graham, Pope Paul VI, entertainers Bob Hope and Bill Cosby, and Congressmen Charles Vanik and Louis Stokes. Events depicted include Cleveland NOW! activities, urban renewal and housing rehabilitation, the Glenville shootout, and youth activities. | | | | Call #: | PG 429 | | | | Extent: | 2.60 linear feet (5 containers) | | | | Subjects: | African American mayors -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American politicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Civil rights -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government -- Photographs. | Glenville (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photographs. | Judges -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Mayors -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Stokes family -- Photograph collections. | Stokes, Carl -- Photograph collections. | Stokes, Louis, 1925- -- Photograph collections. | Urban renewal -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Vanik, Charles -- Photograph collections.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 113 | Title: | George K. Jenkins Papers
| | | | Creator: | Jenkins, George K. | | | | Dates: | 1788-1887 | | | | Abstract: | George K. Jenkins was a Quaker teacher in Mount Pleasant, Ohio, during the nineteenth century. The collection includes minutes, lists of certificates, members and marriages, and other records of various meetings of the Society of Friends in Delaware, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia; records of Quaker schools and organizations, including the Ohio Yearly Meeting and its Committee on Indian Affairs, the New Garden Monthly Meeting, the Short Creek Meeting, and the Free Produce Association. Includes a journal of Jenkins' observations of Quaker colonies he visited in Canada, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia; an account of the immigration of William Harrison from York County, Virginia, to Mount Pleasant, Ohio (1817); and a memoranda book (1849-60) kept by David Updegraff on visits to Yearly Meetings in Indiana, Maryland and Pennsylvania. | | | | Call #: | MS 0100 | | | | Extent: | 1.80 linear feet (4 containers and 2 oversize volumes) | | | | Subjects: | Church schools -- Ohio -- Mount Pleasant. | Quakers -- Canada. | Quakers -- United States. | Quakers -- Ohio. | Quakers -- Ohio -- Mount Pleasant -- Education. | United States -- Description and travel -- 1783-1848.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 114 | 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.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 115 | Title: | Howard M. Metzenbaum Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Metzenbaum, Howard M, | | | | Dates: | 1960-1994 | | | | Abstract: | Howard Morton Metzenbaum (1917-2008) was an Ohio Democrat who served in the United States Senate for one appointed term in 1974 and for three consecutive elected terms from 1976 to 1995. Metzenbaum was born on June 4, 1917, in Cleveland, Ohio. After graduating from Glenville High School in Cleveland, Howard Metzenbaum attended Ohio State University, where he earned both his B.A. and L.L.D. Soon after graduating from law school, Metzenbaum founded his own law firm, Metzenbaum, Gaines, Finley, and Stern, in Cleveland. Howard Metzenbaum entered politics at the age of 26, serving in the Ohio House of Representatives from1943 to 1947 and in the Ohio State Senate from 1947 to 1950. He went on to become Ohio Senator Stephen M. Young's campaign manager in 1958. Meanwhile, he had also founded the Airport Parking Company of America (APCOA) with his business partner Alva "Ted" Bonda, who would remain an important associate throughout Metzenbaum's career. Metzenbaum ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Senate in 1970, losing to Robert Taft, Jr. In 1974, however, he was appointed to the Senate by Ohio governor John Gilligan to replace William Saxbe, who had been appointed to the position of U.S. attorney general. Metzenbaum sought the Senate seat himself in the 1974 Democratic primary but lost to John Glenn. Metzenbaum later ran against incumbent Republican Robert A. Taft, Jr., in 1976, and won. In 1982 he handily won reelection against moderate Republican state senator Paul Pfeifer, and again in 1988 when he was opposed by Cleveland mayor George Voinovich, who ran a mostly negative campaign that accused Metzenbaum of being soft on child pornography. Metzenbaum chose not to run for reelection in 1994, instead supporting his son-in-law Joel Hyatt's ultimately unsuccessful campaign. Howard Metzenbaum's legacy in the U.S. Senate was as an ardent liberal. He quickly earned a reputation as a champion of consumer rights in 1977 when he and Senator James Abourezk (D-SD) embarked on a 14-day filibuster against the deregulation of natural gas; later, he spearheaded other important consumer legislation such as the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1989, and was also involved in food safety investigations involving artificial sweeteners, dietary supplements, and poultry processing. Metzenbaum was also responsible for significant legislation in the area of workers' rights, particularly the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, which required companies employing 100 or more people to provide at least 60 days' advance notice to employees in the event of a plant closing or mass layoffs. Other legislative priorities included environmental protection, funding for Alzheimer's disease, support for Israel, and gun control. Metzenbaum introduced the Brady Bill in the Senate beginning in 1986 until it was finally signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1993. Senator Metzenbaum also became known for his "filibuster-by-amendment" technique, in which he would delay passage of a bill by attaching as many as several dozen amendments. He was a particular critic of earmark-laden "pork barrel" bills, which he believed wasted taxpayers' money (and which he blocked at every opportunity, to the irritation of many of his colleagues). During his three elected terms, Metzenbaum was a member of the Indian Affairs committee, Budget committee, and Judiciary committee. He also served on the Subcommittee on Citizens and Shareholders Rights and Remedies and the Labor and Human Resources subcommittee. He served as the chairman of the Antitrust, Monopoly, and Business Rights subcommittee. As a member of the Judiciary committee, he investigated the savings and loan and insurance scandals of the 1980s, helped to block President Ronald Reagan's nomination of conservative judge Robert Bork to the U.S. Supreme Court, and unsuccessfully attempted to block confirmation of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court. Married to his wife Shirley (Turoff) Metzenbaum in 1946, Howard Metzenbaum had four daughters: Barbara, Susan, Shelley, and Amy. He died on March 12, 2008, at age 90. The consists of 4120 black and white and color images depicting the life and work of Metzenbaum. Included are images from his public and political involvement with constituents and constituency groups. | | | | Call #: | PG 544 | | | | Extent: | 1.81 linear feet (3 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Metzenbaum, Howard M. -- Photograph collections | Metzenbaum, Howard M. -- Travel -- Photographs | Democratic Party (U.S.) -- Photographs | Legislators -- United States -- Photographs | Political campaigns -- United States -- Photographs | Political campaigns -- Ohio -- Photographs | Working class -- United States -- Political activity -- Photographs | Demonstrations -- United States -- Photographs | Celebrities -- United States -- Photographs | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs | Jewish legislators -- Ohio -- Photographs
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 116 | 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* | | 117 | Title: | Hezekiah Eldredge Papers
| | | | Creator: | Eldredge, Hezekiah | | | | Dates: | 1821-1876 | | | | Abstract: | Hezekiah Eldredge (1795-1845) was an architect, carpenter and builder. He worked in Rochester, New York until 1834 when he moved to Cleveland, Ohio. Alonzo Eldredge was his son. Hezekiah Eldredge was a builder of churches, residences, banks, warehouses, and stores, and was active in the Rochester, New York area from 1825-1834 and in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1834-1845. The collection consists of agreements, receipts, labor and building materials statements, pass and time books, correspondence, ledgers, account books, a ciphering book and plans of Hezekiah and Alonzo Eldredge, and a biography of Hezekiah Eldredge by Sarah E. Rusk. | | | | Call #: | MS 3259 | | | | Extent: | 2.00 linear feet (4 containers and 4 oversize volumes) | | | | Subjects: | Eldredge, Hezekiah, 1795-1845. | Architecture -- New York. | Architects -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Architects -- New York -- Rochester. | Carpenters -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Carpenters -- New York -- Rochester. | Architecture -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 118 | Title: | National Screw and Manufacturing Company Photographs
| | | | Creator: | National Screw and Manufacturing Company | | | | Dates: | 1932-1935 | | | | Abstract: | The National Screw and Manufacturing Company was a Cleveland, Ohio, manufacturer of screws, nuts and bolts. It was incorporated in 1889 and absorbed by Monogram Industries, Inc. in 1974. The collection consists of views depicting National Screw and Manufacturing Company, Cleveland, Ohio, plant operations during the early 1930s. Included are exterior and interior views of various plants in Cleveland, assembly facilities, employees, manufacturing areas, strike photographs from February and March 1935, and views of Plant No. 3 on Payne Avenue during its demolition in 1932. Also included are several lists and descriptions pertaining to the photographs; there is also a letter that refers to the photographs from a former employee. Included is a panorama photograph of Plant No. 3 employees, and a color drawing of a plant. | | | | Call #: | PG 291 | | | | Extent: | 0.30 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | National Screw and Manufacturing Company (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photograph collections. | Screw industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Fasteners industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Bolts and nuts industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Strikes and lockouts -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Picketing -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Manufacturing industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 119 | Title: | James F. Lincoln Papers
| | | | Creator: | Lincoln, James F. | | | | Dates: | 1903-1965 | | | | Abstract: | James Finney Lincoln (1883-1965) was the Executive Director of the Lincoln Electric Company in Cleveland, Ohio. He was a pioneer in the areas of arc welding and profit sharing. He established the James Finney Lincoln Welding Foundation. The collection consists of articles, speeches, newspaper clippings, book manuscripts, court transcripts, patents, certificates and miscellaneous printed items. | | | | Call #: | MS 3569 | | | | Extent: | 5.00 linear feet (8 containers, 6 oversize volumes, and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Lincoln, James Finney, 1883-1965. | Welding. | Electric welding. | Renegotiation of government contracts -- United States. | Defense contracts -- United States. | Industrial relations -- United States. | Incentives in industry -- United States. | Employee motivation -- United States. | Profit-sharing -- United States. | Bonus system -- United States.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 120 | Title: | TRW Inc. Photographs
| | | | Creator: | TRW, Inc. | | | | Dates: | 1894-1960 | | | | Abstract: | TRW, Inc. was established in 1900, in Cleveland, Ohio, as the Cleveland Cap Screw Company. It began producing automotive parts and underwent several reorganizations, becoming the Electric Welding Products Company (1908), the Steel Products Company (1915), and Thompson Products Inc. (1926). It expanded to include branch plants and the production of aircraft parts, and fostered a company union, the Automotive and Aircraft Workers Alliance (later the Aircraft Workers Alliance). It grew during World War II due to defense contracts. After the war it entered the jet and aerospace industries. It merged in 1958 with Ramo Wooldridge Corporation to become TRW Inc. Outside activities include the National Air Races and the Crawford Auto-Aviation Collection of the Western Reserve Historical Society. The collection consists of individual and group portraits, including Charles Hubbell, Samuel L. Mather, Thomas E. Dewey, Henry Ford, Edsel Ford, Henry Ford II, Frederick C. Crawford, Gene Autry, and other employees and associates of TRW Inc. Subjects of photographs include Thompson Aircraft Products Company, trade shows, Garrison Machine Works, the Frederick C. Crawford home, Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum, Ford Motor Company the TRW administration buildings and plants, a Thompson Products press binder, Thompson Products family day (1949), and the crew of the "Memphis Belle." | | | | Call #: | PG 194 | | | | Extent: | 1.20 linear feet | | | | Subjects: | Crawford, Frederick C., 1891- -- Photograph collections. | TRW Inc. -- Photograph collections. | Automobile supplies industry -- United States -- Photographs. | Aircraft supplies industry -- United States -- Photographs. | Aircraft industry -- United States -- Photographs. | Aerospace industries -- Photographs. | Automobile industry workers -- United States -- Photographs. | Aircraft industry workers -- United States -- Photographs.
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