| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | 101 | Title: | Jewish War Veterans Ladies Auxiliaries Photographs
| | | Creator: | Jewish War Veterans Ladies Auxiliaries | | | Dates: | 1940-2001 | | | Abstract: | The Jewish War Veterans posts in Cleveland, Ohio, also included a number of ladies auxiliaries. These auxiliaries supported the war veterans by assisting at Veterans Administration hospitals, providing visitation to members, conducting military funerals, and maintaining graves of veterans in Jewish cemeteries. The collection consists of 3 black and white and 86 color images of Jewish War Veterans ladies auxiliaries events. Many of the photographs relate to Paul A. Rosenblum Post 44 (formerly Buckeye State Post). | | | Call #: | PG 543 | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | Subjects: | Jewish War Veterans of the United States, Inc. -- Photographic collections. | Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America. Post 44 (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photographic collections. | Jewish women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs -- Photographs. | Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs -- Photographs. | Jewish soldiers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. -- Photographs. | Veterans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. -- Photographs. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. -- Photographs. | Veterans' families -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. -- Photographs.
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Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | 103 | Title: | Chester Castle Bolton Photographs
| | | Creator: | Bolton, Chester Castle | | | Dates: | 1917 | | | Abstract: | Chester Castle Bolton (1882-1939) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio's 22nd Congressional district from 1928-1939. Bolton served previously in the Ohio State Senate from 1922-1928. During World War I, Bolton served in the Ordnance Department and the War Industries Board, and became aide to Benedict Crowell, assistant secretary of war. As a United States Congressman, Bolton was esteemed representative of the Great Lakes states on the Rivers and Harbors Committee, and served on the Appropriations Committee and numerous other committees. Bolton was chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee in 1934 and 1936, and helped to bring the Republican National Convention to Cleveland, Ohio in 1936. His widow, Frances Payne Bolton, succeeded him in Congress following his death in 1939. The collection consists of photographs of the Ohio state Republican convention held in Columbus, Ohio July 1917 and the American Legion welcome party at that convention. Individuals depicted, in addition to Bolton, include John D. M. Hamilton, John W. Bricker, Herbert Hoover, Maurice Mashke, George Bender, and Bert Snell. | | | Call #: | PG 408 | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | Subjects: | Bolton, Chester Castle, 1882-1939 -- Photograph collections. | Republican Party (Ohio). Convention -- Photograph collections.
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Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | 104 | Title: | Harry Stone Photographs
| | | Creator: | Stone, Harry | | | Dates: | 1917-1988 | | | Abstract: | Harry Stone (1917-2007) was a Cleveland, Ohio area business leader, active in politics and philanthropy. He was the son of Jacob Sapirstein, the founder of American Greetings Corporation, a manufacturer of greeting cards. Stone was a member of the Glenville High School Class of 1935. In addition to the positions he held at American Greetings, Stone also owned radio stations WIXY and WDOK and was engaged in real estate and international trade and finance. Among his many civic activities, Stone was a trustee of Brandeis University, the Jewish Community Federation, and the Cleveland Sight Center. The collection consists of approximately 60 black and white and color photographs, including group portraits, individual portraits, subjects, and views. | | | Call #: | PG 568 | | | Extent: | 0.21 linear feet (1 container ans 1 oversize folder) | | | Subjects: | Stone, Harry, 1917-2007. -- Photographs. | Stone family. -- Photographs | Sapirstein, Jacob, 1884-1987. -- Photographs | Sapirstein family. -- Photographs | Stokes, Carl. -- Photographs | Vanik, Charles. -- Photographs | American Greeting Publishers, Inc. -- Photographs | Glenville High School (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photographs | Jewish Community Federation (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photographs | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs | Jewish businesspeople -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social life and customs -- Photographs
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 105 | Title: | George S. Dively Foundation Records, Series II
| | | Creator: | George S. Dively Foundation | | | Dates: | 1935-1996 | | | Abstract: | The George S. Dively Foundation was a private endowment fund administered by George S. Dively in Cleveland, Ohio. It primarily supported leadership development in the business sector and higher education projects. The collection consists of agendas, annual reports, correspondence, financial statements, grant proposals, minutes, newspaper and magazine clippings, notes, publications, reports, speech texts, and tax returns. | | | Call #: | MS 4876 | | | Extent: | 1.80 linear feet (3 containers) | | | Subjects: | Dively, George S., 1902-1988. | Dively, Michael Augustus, 1938- | Geo. S. Dively Foundation. | Endowments -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Education, Higher -- Endowments. | Scholarships -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | 106 | Title: | University Circle United Methodist Church Photographs
| | | Creator: | University Circle United Methodist Church | | | Dates: | 1842-2010 | | | Abstract: | The University Circle United Methodist Church, formerly known as Epworth-Euclid United Methodist Church, is descended from the earliest Methodist societies in Cleveland, Ohio, having been formed in 1919 from 2 historic congregations: Euclid Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church and Epworth Memorial Church. For over 60 years the congregation has occupied a landmark building in Cleveland's University Circle neighborhood, nicknamed the "Holy Oil Can" because of its tall copper spire. The Euclid Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church began with Methodist classes at Doan's Corners in 1831. A church building, known as Doan Street Methodist Episcopal Church, was constructed in 1837 on Doan (East 105th) Street. A second building was built in 1870 and razed in 1885. In 1887 a new building went up on Euclid Avenue at Oakdale (East 93rd), and the church became known as Euclid Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1919-1920, the Euclid Avenue and Epworth Memorial congregations merged, creating the Epworth-Euclid Methodist Church at East 107th Street and Chester Avenue. In 2010, First United Methodist Church and Epworth-Euclid United Methodist Church merged to become University Circle United Methodist Church. The collection consists of approximately 7490 prints (a mixture of both color and black and white), 53 35mm slides, 104 glass slides, 73 negatives, and 315 35mm negative strips. It also contains 40 CD/DVDs, five cassette tapes, three 3.5 inch floppy discs, six audio wire reels, one digital video cassette master, ten VHS tapes, three audio reels, and two film reels. | | | Call #: | PG 593 | | | Extent: | 10.41 linear feet (16 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | Subjects: | Church buildings -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs | Epworth League (U.S.) -- Photographs | Epworth Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photographs | Epworth-Euclid Methodist Episcopal Church (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photographs | First Methodist Episcopal Church (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photographs | Methodist Church -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Methodists -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | University Circle United Methodist Church (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photographs | Genealogy | Religion
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 107 | Title: | Federation for Community Planning Records
| | | Creator: | Federation for Community Planning | | | Dates: | 1913-1974 | | | Abstract: | The Federation for Community Planning was founded in 1913 as the Federation for Charity and Philanthropy, to coordinate funding for the numerous charities in Cleveland, Ohio. It merged with the Welfare Council of Cleveland in 1917 to form the Cleveland Welfare Federation. In 1972 it became the Federation for Community Planning. By 1919 it had given up solicitation of funds and by 1966 their allocation also, evolving into a specialized community planning agency. Today, the organization is known as the Center for Community Solutions. The collection consists of minutes, correspondence, reports, clippings and publications of the Federation for Community Planning, the Welfare Federation, the Federation for Charity and Philanthropy and various bodies allied to these organizations, files of the executive directors Edward D. Lynde and William T. McCullough, speech texts, television and radio scripts, personnel files and news releases. | | | Call #: | MS 3788 | | | Extent: | 64.00 linear feet (52 containers and 13 oversize volumes) | | | Subjects: | Federation for Community Planning. | Juvenile delinquency -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Aged -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Care and hygiene. | Adoption -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Transients, Relief of -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Foster home care -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Illegitimate children -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Alcoholism -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Family social work -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Japanese Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945. | Depressions -- 1929 -- United States. | Community organization -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Charity organization. | Public welfare -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | 110 | Title: | Lethia Cousins Fleming Photographs
| | | Creator: | Fleming, Lethia Cousins | | | Dates: | 1900-1940 | | | Abstract: | Lethia Cousins Fleming (1876-1963) was a teacher from West Virginia who became a social worker for the Division of Child Welfare, Cuyahoga County, Ohio (1931-1951). She and her husband, Cleveland city councilman Thomas W. Fleming, were active in local civic and charitable organizations. The collection consists of photographs relating to the activities of Lethia Fleming and various African American organizations. Includes a group portrait, including the Flemings, with Josephine Baker in Paris, 1927. | | | Call #: | PG 142 | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | Subjects: | Fleming, Lethia Cousins, 1876-1963 -- Photograph collections. | Fleming, Charles W., 1928-1994 -- Photograph collections. | Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975 -- Photograph collections. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. -- Photographs. | African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Social workers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | 111 | Title: | Bingham-Brayton Family Photographs
| | | Creator: | Bingham-Brayton Family | | | Dates: | 1860-1900 | | | Abstract: | William Bingham (1816-1904) was a prominent Cleveland, Ohio, businessman, city councilman, and Ohio state senator. His daughter, Caroline, married Charles A. Brayton, owner of the Standard Car Wheel Company of Cleveland. His granddaughter, Frances Payne Bingham Bolton, became a prominent philanthropist and United States Congresswoman from Ohio. The collection consists of individual and group portraits of members of the Bingham and Brayton families and friends, and of their activities. The photographs are primarily portraits of Brayton family members and friends. Also included are views of Cleveland, Ohio, including the William Bingham residence on Euclid Avenue, and an inscribed photograph of the Soldiers' Aid Society. There are also interior views of an unidentified fraternity house at Yale University. | | | Call #: | PG 354 | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | Subjects: | Bingham family -- Photograph collections. | Brayton family -- Photograph collections. | Bingham, William, 1816-1904 -- Homes and haunts -- Photograph collections. | United States Sanitary Commission. Cleveland Branch -- Photograph collections. | Tintype.
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Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | 112 | Title: | Severance Family Photographs, Series II
| | | Creator: | Severance Family | | | Dates: | 1850-2011 | | | Abstract: | The Severance family was a prominent Cleveland, Ohio, family known for its philanthropic activities. Solon Severance, a Cleveland banker, was the son of Solomon Severance and Mary Helen Long, and a brother of Louis Severance. He was also a descendent of John Walworth, an early settler of Cleveland who was a civil engineer and was appointed in 1806 as the Custom Collector for the District of Erie. Solon's wife, Emily Allen, was the daughter of Dr. Dudley Allen, and the sister of prominent surgeon Dudley P. Allen. Solon and Emily's daughter, Julia Severance Millikin, was the wife of Benjamin Millikin, a noted Cleveland opthalmologist. Julia's children included Helen Millikin Nash and Severance, Marianne, Dudley, and Louise Millikin. The collection consists of 12 daguerreotypes, 4 ambrotypes, 70 cartes-de-vistes, 1 lantern slide, 3 silhouettes, 1 portrait drawing, 14 color prints and 326 black and white prints. They include Severance and related family portraits and views of various family homes and estates. | | | Call #: | PG 585 | | | Extent: | 2.60 linear feet (3 containers and 3 oversize volumes) | | | Subjects: | Allen family -- Photograph collections | Architecture, Domestic -- California -- Pasadena -- Photographs | Architecture, Domestic -- California -- San Marino -- Photographs | Architecture, Domestic -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs | Architecture, Domestic -- Ohio -- Cleveland Heights -- Photographs | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy -- Photographs | Cleveland (Ohio) -- History -- 19th century -- Photographs | Long family -- Photograph collections | Millikin family -- Photograph collections | Severance family -- Photograph collections | Walworth family -- Photograph collections
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 114 | Title: | Cleveland Foundation Records, Series III
| | | Creator: | Cleveland Foundation | | | Dates: | 1955-1999 | | | Abstract: | The Cleveland Foundation was the first community trust established in the United States. It was organized in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1914 by Frederick J. Goff and the Board of Directors of the Cleveland Trust Company. It has provided funds for educational and artistic development and for humanitarian purposes such as housing and aid to children and the handicapped. The collection consists of grant files, both accepted and declined, which include agreements, award letters, brochures, budgets, correspondence, evaluations, financial statements, forms, memoranda, newsletters, notes, press releases, programs, proposals, and reports. All photographs and audio/visual media have been retained in their respective grant files. The Cleveland Foundation Assistance to Other Foundations series contains much the same document types as the grant files. Other document types contained in the collection include annual reports, articles, budgets, correspondence, declaration of trusts, forms, indexes, lists, memoranda, minutes, newsletters, notes, and reports. The dates of the grant files and assistance to other files series are not necessarily a date range of what is in the file, but are the dates given as the grant periods on the paperwork contained in the files. | | | Call #: | MS 5237 | | | Extent: | 365.80 linear feet (383 containers) | | | Subjects: | Arts -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Cleveland Foundation | Community development -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Economic development -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Endowments -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Human services -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | University Circle (Cleveland, Ohio)
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Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | 115 | 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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Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | 116 | Title: | Walter K. Bailey Photographs
| | | Creator: | Bailey, Walter K. | | | Dates: | 1879-1975 | | | 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. CThe cection consists of photographs collected by Walter K. Bailey in 1975 to illustrate a narrative history of Warner and Swasey Company. It includes individual and group portraits of Warner & Swasey officers and employees, including W. R. Warner and Ambrose Swasey, and views of plants, products, and activities. | | | Call #: | PG 463 | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | Subjects: | Bailey, Walter K. -- Photograph collections. | Warner & Swasey -- Photograph collections. | Businessmen -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Machine-tool industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Optical industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Optical instruments -- Design and construction -- Photographs.
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 117 | Title: | Maurice Klain Research Papers : Cleveland Area Leadership Studies, Series I
| | | Creator: | Klain, Maurice | | | Dates: | 1957-1965 | | | Abstract: | The Cleveland Area Leadership Studies were produced by Dr. Klain, a political scientist at Western Reserve University (Case Western Reserve University since 1967), as a scholarly project to identify, describe and analyze leadership, decision-making, influence and power in Greater Cleveland, Ohio, during the 1950s and 1960s. The people interviewed were eminent figures in the business and professional life of Cleveland, prominent in government, law and politics, education, journalism, religion, philanthropy, non-governmental civic institutions, ethnic communities and social activism. The collection is therefore critical to the study of Cleveland in the 1960s. Because the collection was produced on the eve of the racial conflicts which shook the U.S. in the 1960s and which erupted in Cleveland's Hough neighborhood during 1966, Klain has characterized such interviews as "conversations on a powderkeg." The collection is comprised of the second drafts of the interview transcripts. The Klain research papers constitute an extensive and massive body of information about the Cleveland metropolitan region, its leaders, groups and interests. The heart of the study is embodied in over 700 transcripts of interviews conducted by Klain and his graduate students from 1957 to 1965. Included are a number of interviews with members of the exclusive Fifty Club and the founders of University Circle, Incorporated. | | | Call #: | MS 4219 | | | Extent: | 14.0 linear feet (14 containers) | | | Subjects: | Cities and towns -- Research -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Political participation -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Urban policy -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Sociology, Urban -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | City and town life -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Leadership. | Community leadership -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Political leadership -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Race discrimination -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Race relations. | Community power -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Interviews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Economic conditions.
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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 118 | Title: | Diana Tittle Mount Sinai Medical Center Research Papers
| | | Creator: | Tittle, Diana | | | Dates: | 1891-2015 | | | Abstract: | Mount Sinai Hospital (1903-2000) had its origins in the Young Ladies Hebrew Association for the Care of the Needy Sick, created in 1892 by nine young women in Cleveland, Ohio. The hospital opened in 1903. In 1996, the nonprofit hospital was sold to a for-profit company, Primary Health Systems (PHS). In March 1999, PHS filed for bankruptcy, and in February 2000, Mount Sinai Hospital closed. The closure of Mount Sinai was a significant development in the history of medicine in the Cleveland area and in the history of the Jewish community. Diana Tittle, author of Welcome to Heights High: The Crippling Politics of Restructuring America's Public Schools and other titles, began research on a book documenting the closure of Mt. Sinai in 2004. Amid concerns that the ongoing consolidation of the health care delivery system and the ongoing national health care debate would overshadow her publication, Tittle reached the decision to pursue an alternative use for her research other than publication. This collection preserves her research in its entirety, including primary source materials she collected and extensive notes from numerous oral history interviews. The collection consists of articles, booklets, brochures, correspondence, drafts, indexes, memoranda, newsletters, newspaper clippings, notes, overviews of specific subjects, reports, a scrapbook, summaries, texts of unpublished material, and other documents related to the donor's work on the history of Mt. Sinai Medical Center. | | | Call #: | MS 5413 | | | Extent: | 8.60 linear feet (10 containers) | | | Subjects: | Case Western Reserve University. School of Medicine | Charitable uses, trusts and foundations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Hospitals -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Administration. | Hospitals -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish Women's Hospital (Cleveland, Ohio) | Jewish refugees -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Medical care | Jewish women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. | Jewish women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Medical care -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Mount Sinai Hospital (Cleveland, Ohio) | Nursing schools -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Young Ladies Hebrew Association for the Care of the Needy Sick (Cleveland, Ohio)
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Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | 119 | Title: | Halle Bros. Co. Photographs
| | | Creator: | Halle Bros. Co. | | | Dates: | 1893-1975 | | | Abstract: | The Halle Brothers Company (1891-1982), a department store known for high quality merchandise and superior service, began on February 7, 1891 as a small hat and fur shop operated by brothers Samuel H. (1868-1954) and Salmon P. Halle (1866-1949). It was located at 221 Superior Street near Public Square in Cleveland, Ohio. They purchased the business from Captain T. S. Paddock. In 1893 the business was moved to Euclid Avenue and East 4th Street due to a need for more space. It was also around this time that women's ready to wear clothing began to be carried by the store. In 1902 the company was incorporated, changing its name from Halle Brothers to The Halle Bros. Co. The store continued to grow, adding both space and departments. A new building was constructed at Euclid and East 12th Street where the company moved in 1910. An addition was opened in 1914 allowing for the addition of new departments including furniture, toys, and sporting goods. In 1921 Salmon P. Halle resigned as president to devote himself to philanthropic work and other private interests. Samuel Halle then became president. By 1927 a new building, the Huron-Prospect store was opened in the Playhouse Square district. Branch stores were opened in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1929 and Canton, Ohio, in 1930. Although losses did occur during the Depression, business bounced back after World War II allowing Halle Bros. Co. to open suburban branches, beginning with a Shaker Square store in 1948. Walter Halle, son of Samuel, became president in 1946 and Samuel moved to the position of chairman of the board. There was also expansion to their main downtown Euclid Avenue store which was completed in 1949. Problems began to arise in the 1960s stemming from their over-expanded downtown store and sales competition from stores such as the Higbee Co. and May Co. In 1970 Halle Bros. Co. was merged with Marshall Field and Company of Chicago. Operations continued to decline and Chisholm Halle, son of Walter who had become president in 1966, resigned in 1974. Medium-priced goods were introduced but failed help the stores and in 1981 they were sold to Associated Investors Corporation which closed or sold all stores in 1982. The collection consists of approximately ten containers (8.0 linear feet) of photographs and three containers (2.0 linear feet) of negatives plus six glass plate negatives and 20 transparencies detailing, among other things, employee portraits, employees' activities inside and outside of the workplace, portraits of executives, exterior and interior views of the store and its branches, store promotions, and major events in the company's history. | | | Call #: | PG 574 | | | Extent: | 10.25 linear feet (13 containers, 5 Oversize Folders and 1 Oversize Volume) | | | Subjects: | Halle Bros. Co. -- Photograph collections | Marshall Field & Company | Department stores -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs | Department stores -- United States -- 20th century -- Photographs | Department stores -- Employees -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs | Clerks (Retail trade) -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs | Women clerks (Retail trade) -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs | Women employees -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs | Industrial recreation -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs | Retail trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs | Retail trade -- United States -- 20th century -- Photographs | Department stores -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Marketing -- Photographs | Sales promotion -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs | Shopping -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Photographs
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