| | Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 81 | 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.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 82 | Title: | Service Employees International Union, Natural Gas Workers Union Local 555
| | | | Creator: | Natural Gas Workers' Union, Local 555 | | | | Dates: | 1963-1978 | | | | Abstract: | Local 555 of the Service Employees International Union, Natural Gas Workers' Union, was a trade-union organized in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1937 to represent employees of East Ohio Gas Company and led initially by Francis O'Rourke, and later, by John Nagle and William J. McCarthy. It became affiliated with the Building Service Employees' International Union in 1962, now known as the Service Employees International Union. In 1990 the local had a membership of 1,850. The collection consists of correspondence, constitutions, labor agreements, annual reports, newsletters, newspaper clippings, and publications. The collection primarily relates to the East Ohio Gas Company, including Ohio Public Utilities Commission hearings on rate increase requests and service cutbacks during the 1970s energy crisis. There is minimal material dealing directly with union business, but the collection does include some items on organizing tactics and strike procedures issued by the international union. | | | | Call #: | MS 4524 | | | | Extent: | 0.75 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Service Employees International Union. Natural Gas Workers Union Local 555 (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Archives. | East Ohio Gas Company. | Consolidated Natural Gas Company. | Gas industry -- Employees -- Labor unions -- Ohio. | Gas companies -- Ohio. | Gas companies -- Ohio -- Rates. | Gas companies -- Law and legislation -- Ohio. | Collective labor agreements -- Public utilities -- Ohio. | Collective bargaining -- Public utilities -- Ohio. | Strikes and lockouts -- Public utilities -- Ohio. | Energy policy -- United States.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 84 | Title: | Robert S. Koiner Papers
| | | | Creator: | Koiner, Robert S. | | | | Dates: | 1920-1975 | | | | Abstract: | Robert S. Koiner was a railroad mail clerk active in the Cleveland, Ohio, African American community. He served as chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Brotherhood of Railroad Clerks, Local 1298, and of the Association of Railroad Union Representatives and was active in the Prince Hall Masons and St. James A.M.E. Church. The collection consists of two scrapbooks and memorabilia relating to Koiner's participation in the Association of Railroad Union Representatives, Prince Hall Masonic Lodge, and St. James A.M.E. Church. | | | | Call #: | MS 4201 | | | | Extent: | 0.50 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Koiner, Robert S., 1904- | Association of Railroad Union Representatives. | Saint James African Methodist Episcopal Church (Cleveland, Ohio) | Freemasons. Prince Hall Masonic Lodge (Cleveland, Ohio) | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Railroads -- Employees -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 85 | Title: | Joseph William Shiffman Papers
| | | | Creator: | Shiffman, Joseph William | | | | Dates: | 1923-1975 | | | | Abstract: | Joseph William Shiffman (1891-1967) was Cleveland, Ohio, electrical engineer and founder of the Bell Electric Company (originally the Telephone Construction Company). He chose not to enter the management of the company and instead drew wages as a laborer and joined the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. He served as president of the union from 1927-1931. He petitioned the armed forces to admit him despite his age and was commissioned a lieutenant in the Navy in 1943, at the age of fifty-one. The collection consists of correspondence, military service applications, medical records, discharge affidavits, agreements and arbitrator's decision relating to the IBEW and Bell Electric Company, legal briefs for Bell Electric Company vs. Ohio Bell Telephone Company, time books of Telephone Consultation Company, newspaper clippings, transcripts, birth certificate, receipts, commencement program, amendment to wills, death notices, and other miscellany. | | | | Call #: | MS 3939 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Shiffman, Joseph William, 1891-1967. | Electric engineers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Collective bargaining -- Electric industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Electric industry workers -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 86 | Title: | Ray's Sausage Company Records
| | | | Creator: | Ray's Sausage Company | | | | Dates: | 1952-1993 | | | | Abstract: | Ray's Sausage Company has been located in Cleveland, Ohio, on the corner of East 123rd Street and Imperial Avenue since it was founded by Ray Cash in 1952. The company factory manufactured and sold pure pork, beef sausage, pork and beef links, head cheese, and meat souse. The collection consists of advertisement information, client reports, competitor advertisements, delivery logs, delivery receipts, expense sheets, financial reports, financial summaries, government agency forms and tax information, inventories, meat industry pamphlets, newspaper clippings, personal papers, product packages and information, supplier lists and supplier receipts. | | | | Call #: | MS 5238 | | | | Extent: | 1.90 linear feet (5 containers) | | | | Subjects: | African American business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Cash, Raymond, 1919-1977 | Meat industry and trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Ray's Sausage Company (Cleveland, Ohio) | African American History / Business/Industry / Labor/Union History
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 87 | Title: | Sara Allen Halperin Papers
| | | | Creator: | Halperin, Sara Allen | | | | Dates: | 1954-1979 | | | | Abstract: | Sara Allen Halperin was a Cleveland, Ohio, Jewish community leader from the 1920s-1960s. She was a founding member of Pioneer Women-The Women's Labor Zionist Organization of America, Inc., and helped establish its Cleveland chapter, serving as president of the Cleveland chapter, regional chairperson, national chairperson of regions, and for twelve years, member of the national board. She was also a member of the board of trustees of the Council Educational Alliance, a founder and first secretary of Sholom Aleichem Congregation, and a cultural chairperson of the Jewish Community Council. She married Moses P. Halperin, a Cleveland architect also active in the Cleveland Jewish community, in 1924. In 1965, eight years after her husband's death, she emigrated to Israel where she lived until her death. The collection consists of articles by Halperin concerning her Pioneer Women's activities in Israel, correspondence and newspaper clippings relating to Pioneer Women's activities, and biographical and autobiographical profiles. | | | | Call #: | MS 4546 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Halperin, Sara Allen, 1897-1979. | Pioneer Women (Organization : U.S.). | Pioneer Women (Organization : U.S.). Cleveland Council. | Naʻamat USA (Organization) Cleveland Council. | Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. | Labor Zionists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Zionism -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Working-women's clubs -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 88 | Title: | NA'AMAT USA Cleveland Council Records and Photographs, Series III
| | | | Creator: | NA'AMAT USA | | | | Dates: | 1936-2012 | | | | Abstract: | NA'AMAT USA is a Labor Zionist women's organization originally called Pioneer Women. The Cleveland Council of NA'AMAT was founded in 1926 in Cleveland, Ohio, one year after the national organization came into being. As the organization grew, it was divided into numbered chapters. At its peak, there were fourteen chapters. In 1999, there were four chapters in the Cleveland Council, serving 650 women. Pioneer Women was organized to provide training, educational services, and social services to women, children, and families in Palestine. The Cleveland Council raised funds and sponsored programs that informed the Cleveland community of social service and educational needs in Israel. The national organization also promoted Habonim, a youth organization, and sponsored Jewish and cultural activities. In 1985 the name Pioneer Women was changed to NA'AMAT USA, in order to more closely match its sister organization in Israel, NA'AMAT. The collection consists of agendas, awards, brochures, calendars, cards, certificates, correspondence, flyers, forms, handbooks, ledgers, lists, magazines and magazine clippings, minutes, negatives, newsletters, notes, photographs, press releases, programs, receipts, and schedules pertaining to the membership and operations of Pioneer Women and, later, NA'AMAT USA. | | | | Call #: | MS 5380 | | | | Extent: | 1.50 linear feet (2 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Working-women's clubs -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Zionism -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Labor Zionism -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 89 | Title: | Abba Hillel Silver Papers
| | | | Creator: | Silver, Abba Hillel | | | | Dates: | 1902-1989 | | | | Abstract: | Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver (1893-1963) was the rabbi at The Temple, Cleveland, Ohio, and prominent leader of the Zionist movement for a Jewish homeland. The collection consists of personal and professional correspondence, sermons, writings, speaking engagements files, scrapbooks and miscellaneous personal material. The bulk of the material is in the correspondence series and includes minutes, publications, reports, financial statements and confidential notes relating to Rabbi Silver's participation in numerous local and national organizations, especially Zionist groups. Important material relating to the American Zionist Emergency Council, the Zionist Organization of America, the Jewish Agency for Palestine, the United Jewish Appeal, United Palestine Appeal and the American Zionist Policy Committee is found in the collection. Also included is significant material relating to Cleveland Jewish organizations and other civic groups, such as The Temple (Temple-Tifereth Israel), Cleveland Bureau of Jewish Education, the Jewish Community Council, the Jewish Welfare Federation of Cleveland, and the Cleveland Zionist Society. In addition, the collection contains an extensive file of Silver's speeches, sermons, books, articles and other writings on Zionism, Judaism and other topics, and assorted material relating to Silver's personal life | | | | Call #: | MS 4787 | | | | Extent: | 94.20 linear feet (135 containers and 2 oversize 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* | | 91 | Title: | Stanley Garfinkel Oral History Collection
| | | | Creator: | Garfinkel, Stanley | | | | Dates: | 1981-1983 | | | | Abstract: | Stanley Garfinkel (1930-1997) was an oral historian, documentarian, and history professor at Kent State University. After college, Garfinkel worked in his family's seven-store chain Garfinkel Shoes. He was appointed office manager of the company in the early 1960s, but was encouraged by his father to pursue his dream of teaching. He obtained a position at Kent State University in 1963 and taught there until his retirement in 1996. Garfinkel had a special interest in oral history. One of Garfinkel's oral history projects was on the garment industry in Cleveland, Ohio. He interviewed several people who worked in or helped shape the garment industry. He then used those interviews to produce a slide show entitled "Rags: 100 Years of the Apparel Industry in Northeast Ohio," and a television documentary entitled "Rags." The collection consists of interview transcripts and scripts. | | | | Call #: | MS 5106 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Dery, Arthur. | Gross, Louis N. | Joseph, Frank E. | Reinthal, David. | Saltzman, Maurice. | Rubinstein, Judah. | Clothing workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History. | Clothing trade -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Strikes and lockouts -- Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Oral history -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- History.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 92 | Title: | TRW Inc. Records
| | | | Creator: | TRW Inc. | | | | Dates: | 1900-1969 | | | | 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 Corp. 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 minute books, correspondence, memoranda, financial records, newsletters, histories, and publications, the bulk of which relate to Thompson Products, Inc. and its subsidiaries during the 1930s and 1940s and bear largely upon labor management relations. Detailed information on interactions with the CIO, the National Labor Relations Board and the National War Labor Board is included. | | | | Call #: | MS 3942 | | | | Extent: | 84.80 linear feet (184 containers and 86 oversize volumes) | | | | Subjects: | TRW Inc. | National Air Races (Cleveland, Ohio) | Automobile supplies industry -- United States. | Aircraft supplies industry -- United States. | Aircraft industry -- United States. | Aerospace industries -- United States. | Industrial relations -- United States. | Automobile industry workers -- United States. | Aircraft industry workers -- United States. | Aeronautics -- Competitions -- United States. | Airplane racing -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 93 | Title: | Whiting Williams Papers, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Williams, Whiting | | | | Dates: | 1899-1975 | | | | Abstract: | Whiting Williams (1878-1976) was an author and lecturer in Cleveland, Ohio, who was an expert on labor and management problems and served as a corporate consultant on personnel issues and public relations. The collection consists of correspondence, autobiographical essays, magazine articles he authored, newspaper clippings, some items relating to his daughter Caroline, a family genealogy, and a will. The collection is useful in detailing Williams' attitudes about unions, management philosophy, and social psychology, and reveals the personal life of Williams as well. | | | | Call #: | MS 4261 | | | | Extent: | 0.80 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Williams, Whiting, 1878-1976. | Williams family. | Whiting family. | Industrial management. | Industrial relations -- United States. | Labor unions. | Working class -- Attitudes. | Social psychology. | Psychical research.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 95 | Title: | Benjamin J. Gray Papers
| | | | Creator: | Gray, Benjamin J. | | | | Dates: | 1947-1956 | | | | Abstract: | Benjamin J. Gray (b. 1908) was a member of the Cuyahoga County, Ohio Committee of the Communist Party, and founder and state president of the Project Workers' Union (later the Worker's Alliance) The collection consists of copies of campaign literature from national and local political campaigns (1947-1956), including literature on Henry A. Wallace's 1948 presidential campaign and on Progressive Party activities in Ohio and Cuyahoga County. Also includes information from liberal groups and labor organizations, publications of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, and copies of the 1951 report of the Ohio Un-American Activities Commission. | | | | Call #: | MS 3759 | | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Gray, Benjamin J., 1908- | Wallace, Henry Agard, 1888-1965. | Campaign literature -- United States -- 20th century. | Communism -- United States. | Labor and laboring classes -- United States -- Political activity. | Presidential candidates -- United States. | Progressive Party (Founded 1948)
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 96 | Title: | Pioneer Women, Chapter 2 Records
| | | | Creator: | Pioneer Women, Chapter 2 | | | | Dates: | 1934-1976 | | | | Abstract: | Pioneer Women was founded in 1925 under the name Pioneer Women's Organization of America, as a Labor Zionist organization for women. As a sister organization to the Workingwomen's Council of the Histadrut (Jewish Federation of Labor) in Palestine, it aimed at aiding women in Palestine. The first Cleveland, Ohio, Chapter was established in 1926, with an English-speaking chapter following in 1934. In 1985 the organization changed its name to Na'amat U.S.A. The collection consists of minutes of Chapter 2 (Cleveland, Ohio), bulletins, donor program books, and clippings. | | | | Call #: | MS 3982 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Pioneer Women (Organization: U.S.). Chapter 2 (Cleveland, Ohio). | Workingwomen's Council of the Histadrut (Israel) | Jewish women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. | Working-women's clubs -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Labor Zionists -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 97 | Title: | Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers of America, Local 867 Ledgers
| | | | Creator: | Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers of America, Local 867 | | | | Dates: | 1920-1947 | | | | Abstract: | Local 867 was founded in 1921 in Cleveland, Ohio, as a local of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers of America (est. 1887). The name was changed to the Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades ca. 1969. The collection consists of bound ledgers detailing members' dues, fines and assessments. | | | | Call #: | MS 3746 | | | | Extent: | 9.50 linear feet (23 volumes) | | | | Subjects: | Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers of America. Local 867 (Cleveland, Ohio) | Painters, Industrial -- Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Paperhangers -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 98 | Title: | Joseph Menning Papers
| | | | Creator: | Menning, Joseph | | | | Dates: | 1895-1945 | | | | Abstract: | Joseph Menning (1874-1967) was a public official, of Cleveland, Ohio. He served as city councilman (1909-1911) and Cuyahoga County Commissioner (1911-1919), and was a member of the Knights of Labor. The collection consists of correspondence, financial receipts, newspaper clippings, certificates, and other papers, touching on Menning's political and social activities. | | | | Call #: | MS 3295 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Menning, Joseph, 1874-1967. | Knights of Labor. | City councilmen -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Miscellanea. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. | Cuyahoga County (Ohio) -- Politics and government.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | 99 | Title: | Na'amat USA, Cleveland Council Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Na'amat USA, Cleveland Council | | | | Dates: | 1937-1986 | | | | Abstract: | Na'amat USA is a Labor Zionist women's organization originally called Pioneer Women. The Cleveland Council 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, Ohio, 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 Naع'mat USA, in order to more closely match its sister organization in Israel, Na'amat. The collection consists of 93 individual and group portraits of members, including individual portraits of Clevelanders Sara Halperin and Rose Kaufman, and Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir. Also included are views of the Lod Children's Center in Israel, its groundbreaking and dedication; and the Children's Home in Holon, also in Israel. Other views depict group activities, national conventions, other projects and programs in Israel and the United States, and the 60th anniversary celebration. | | | | Call #: | PG 501 | | | | Extent: | 0.30 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Halperin, Sara Allen, 1897-1979 -- Photograph collections. | Kaufman, Rose -- Photograph collections. | Meir, Golda, 1898-1978 -- Photograph collections. | Na'amat USA (Organization) Cleveland Council -- Photograph collections. | Pioneer Women (Organization : U.S.). Cleveland Council -- Photograph collections. | Na'amat (Organization : Israel) -- Photograph collections. | Habonim (Organization) -- Photograph collections. | Jewish women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs -- Photographs. | Zionism -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. -- Photographs. | Labor Zionists -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. -- Photographs. | Working-women's clubs -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Children -- Institutional care -- Israel -- Photographs.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 100 | Title: | Na'amat USA, Cleveland Council Records
| | | | Creator: | Na'amat USA, Cleveland Council | | | | Dates: | 1942-1998 | | | | Abstract: | Na'amat USA is a Labor Zionist women's organization originally called Pioneer Women. The Cleveland Council was founded in 1926 in Cleveland, Ohio, one year after the national organization came into being. As the organization grew, it was divided into numbered chapters. At its peak, there were fourteen chapters. In 1999, there were four chapters in the Cleveland Council, serving 650 women. Pioneer Women was organized to provide training, educational services, and social services to women, children, and families in Palestine. The Cleveland Council raised funds and sponsored programs that informed the Cleveland community of social service and educational needs in Israel. The national organization also promoted Habonim, a youth organization, and sponsored Jewish and cultural activities. In 1985 the name Pioneer Women was changed to Na'amat USA, in order to more closely match its sister organization in Israel, Na'amat. The collection consists of minutes, bulletins, donor program books, newspaper clippings and magazine articles, membership lists, correspondence and financial records. | | | | Call #: | MS 4797 | | | | Extent: | 1.60 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Na'amat USA (Organization) Cleveland Council. | Pioneer Women (Organization : U.S.). Cleveland Council. | Na'amat (Organization : Israel). | Habonim (Organization). | Jewish women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. | Zionism -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Labor Zionists -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. | Working-women's clubs -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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