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| | Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 21 | Title: | Joseph Doherty Papers
| | | | Creator: | Doherty, Joseph | | | | Dates: | 1921-1944 | | | | Abstract: | Joseph Doherty (1889-1965) was a public relations officer for Oris P. and Mantis J. Van Sweringen, developers of the Cleveland, Ohio, suburb of Shaker Heights, and Cleveland's Terminal Tower and Union Terminal complex. The Van Sweringen brothers established a railroad empire in the 1920s which collapsed during the Depression. Doherty wrote a history of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad entitled, Smooth is the road. The collection consists of correspondence, press releases, official statements of the Van Sweringens, promotional materials for the Van Sweringen projects, including Shaker Village, Ohio, magazine articles about the Van Sweringens, newspaper clippings, and a manuscript by Doherty concerning the Van Sweringen brothers. The collection contains information relative to the Chesapeake and Ohio, Nickel Plate and Pere Marquette railroads. | | | | Call #: | MS 4304 | | | | Extent: | 1.01 linear feet (3 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Doherty, Joseph, 1889-1965. | Van Sweringen, Oris Paxton, 1879-1936. | Van Sweringen, Mantis James, 1881-1935. | Van Sweringen Company -- Public relations. | Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company. | New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad. | Pere Marquette Railway. | Railroads -- United States. | Shaker Heights (Ohio) -- History -- Sources.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 22 | Title: | Jewish Orphan Home Alumni Association Records
| | | | Creator: | Jewish Orphan Home Alumni Association | | | | Dates: | 1929-2008 | | | | Abstract: | The Jewish Orphan Asylum (also known as the Cleveland Jewish Orphan Home) was founded in 1868 with the mission to care for orphaned or abandoned children. The organization grew with community need, and was relocated to a campus in University Heights in 1938. The name of the organization changed to Orthodox Jewish Children's Home and merged with Bellefaire to become Bellefaire Jewish Children's Bureau. The Jewish Orphan Home Alumni Association (JOHAA) was founded in July, 1888 with open membership to all who had resided at the Orphan Home. The records, beginning in 1938, are a history of the founding and activities of the JOHAA. The collection consists of booklets, brochures, bulletins, a constitution, correspondence, a directory, Haggadah, a photo album, two black and white photographs, a program, a scrapbook, song sheets, and yearbooks. | | | | Call #: | MS 5418 | | | | Extent: | 0.90 linear feet (2 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Bellefaire Jewish Children's Home (Shaker Heights, Ohio) | Jewish orphanages -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish orphanages -- Ohio -- University Heights. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities. | Jewish Orphan Asylum (Cleveland, Ohio) | Jewish children -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish orphanages -- Ohio -- Shaker Heights. | Orphanages -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 23 | Title: | Jewish Orphan Home Alumni Association Records, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Jewish Orphan Home Alumni Association | | | | Dates: | 1929-2006 | | | | Abstract: | The Jewish Orphan Home Alumni Association (JOHAA) was founded in July 1888 and was open to all those who resided within the Jewish Orphan Home (JOH). The primary goal of the JOHAA was to aid and assist the Jewish Orphan Home alumni and graduates; perpetuate and foster friendships among the alumni; and support and assist Bellefaire, the Jewish Orphan Home successor. This collection consists of a booklet, bulletins, correspondence, lists, memos, minutes, newsletters, newspaper clippings, photographs, poetry, programs, a sport book, and video recordings.
Click here to see the entry on Bellefaire-JCB in the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History | | | | Call #: | MS 5499 | | | | Extent: | 1.89 linear feet (3 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Bellefaire Jewish Children's Home (Shaker Heights, Ohio) | Jewish orphanages -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Jewish orphanages -- Ohio -- University Heights | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities | Jewish Orphan Asylum (Cleveland, Ohio) | Jewish children -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Jewish orphanages -- Ohio -- Shaker Heights
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 24 | Title: | B. A. T. (Beta Alpha Tau) Records
| | | | Creator: | Beta Alpha Tau (BAT) | | | | Dates: | 1929-2006 | | | | Abstract: | B.A.T. was a social club started in 1929 at Cleveland Heights High School. It adopted the Greek letters, Beta Alpha Tau, to describe itself in its constitution. B.A.T. was initially created as a club specifically for Jewish male students and remained that way for about thirty years, when it diversified its membership. B.A.T. stayed in existence until 1997, surpassing the longevity of other area high school clubs. In 2006, the club celebrated what the group called its 77th anniversary with a reunion, followed by its 90th in 2019. Some of the local prominent members were Jules and Mike Belkin, Albert Ratner, Robert Goldberg, Vic Gelb, and Dr. Lester Persky. | | | | Call #: | MS 5515 | | | | Extent: | 2.2 linear feet (three containers) | | | | Subjects: | Cleveland Heights High School (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) | High schools -- Ohio -- Cleveland Heights | Shaker Heights High School (Shaker Heights, Ohio) | High school students -- Ohio -- Cleveland Heights | Greek letter societies | Jewish youth | B. A. T. (Beta Alpha Tau)
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 25 | Title: | Molly Doan Bellamy Scrapbooks
| | | | Creator: | Bellamy, Molly Doan | | | | Dates: | 1929-1942 | | | | Abstract: | Molly Doan Bellamy (1918-1995) was the society editor of the Cleveland News in the 1950s and the Cleveland Plain Dealer from 1960-1984. In 1974, she began a travel column and became assistant editor of the Friday Magazine of the Plain Dealer. The collection consists of advertisements, autographs buttons, certificates, cigarette cases, coasters, correspondences, dried flowers, invitations, maps, match boxes, menus, napkins, newspaper clippings, party favors, pendants, photographs, place cards, programs, report cards, ribbons, score cards. telegraphs, ticket stubs, and other memorabilia. | | | | Call #: | MS 5242 | | | | Extent: | 2.00 linear feet (7 volumes) | | | | Subjects: | Bellamy family | Bellamy, Molly Doan, 1918-1995 | Doan family | Girls -- Education -- Ohio -- Shaker Heights | Golf -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Hathaway Brown School | Ohio -- Description and travel -- 20th century | Shaker Heights (Ohio) -- History | Stark family | University School (Cleveland, Ohio) | Weddings -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Western Reserve Academy (Hudson, Ohio) | Genealogy / Women's History
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 26 | Title: | Bellefaire Records, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Bellefaire | | | | Dates: | 1868-1983 | | | | Abstract: | Bellfaire was organized in 1868 in Cleveland, Ohio, as the Jewish Orphan Asylum. By 1942 it changed its name to Bellefaire and began specializing in the treatment of emotionally disturbed children. The collection consists of minutes, correspondence, an annual report, programs, legal documents, manuals, newsletters, brochures, booklets, conference proceedings, and publications. | | | | Call #: | MS 4703 | | | | Extent: | 1.00 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Bellefaire Jewish Children's Home (Shaker Heights, Ohio) | Jewish orphanages -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish orphanages -- Ohio -- University Heights. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities. | Mentally ill children -- Care -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Mentally ill children -- Care -- Ohio -- University Heights. | Child psychotherapy -- Residential treatment -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Child psychotherapy -- Residential treatment -- Ohio -- University Heights.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 27 | Title: | Raymond F. Blosser Papers, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Blosser, Raymond F. | | | | Dates: | 1918-1988 | | | | Abstract: | Raymond F. Blosser was a staff writer/editor and, eventually, bureau chief for the Associated Press in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1935-1943. In his spare time beginning in 1938, Blosser conducted interviews and extensive research for a biography of Oris P. and Mantis J. Van Sweringen, developers of the exclusive suburb of Shaker Heights, Ohio and builders of Cleveland's Union Terminal, who amassed huge holdings in railroads during the 1920s. Blosser finished his manuscript in 1946, but it remained unpublished. Blosser was public relations director for the New York Central Railroad until 1956, and vice president in charge of public relations and advertising at Union Commerce Bank in Cleveland from 1956 to 1973. The collection consists of a typescript second draft of Blosser's "Untitled biography of the Van Sweringen brothers of Cleveland," a carbon copy of the same containing additions, comments and corrections by William H. Wenneman, William Barrett and William Wyer (all top officers and aides to the Van Sweringens), miscellaneous correspondence, notes, newspaper clippings pertaining to the biography, and a privately published biography of the Van Sweringens by Louise Davidson Jenks. The collection pertains to the lives of the Van Sweringen brothers, in particular to their business careers and especially in regards to the consolidation of their railroad holdings, with valuable information re: the Nickel Plate Railroad, the Alleghany Corporation and other Van Sweringen-controlled holding companies, as well as the Interstate Commerce Commission hearings on railroads in the 1930s. | | | | Call #: | MS 4543 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Blosser, Raymond F., 1913- | Van Sweringen, Oris Paxton, 1879-1936. | Van Sweringen, Mantis James, 1881-1935. | United States. Interstate Commerce Commission. | Alleghany Corporation. | New York, Chicago, and St. Louis Railroad. | Toledo, St. Louis and Western Railroad. | Lake Erie and Western Railroad Company. | Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company. | Hocking Valley Railway Company. | Pere Marquette Railway. | Missouri Pacific Railroad Company. | Shaker Heights Rapid Transit. | Cleveland Terminals Building Company. | Terminal Tower Complex (Cleveland, Ohio) | Capitalists and financiers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Biography. | Railroads -- United States -- Consolidation. | Railroads -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History. | Railroads -- United States -- Management. | Railroad terminals -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Real estate development -- Ohio -- Shaker Heights. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Biography.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 28 | Title: | Bellefaire Records, Series III
| | | | Creator: | Bellefaire | | | | Dates: | 1900-2003 | | | | Abstract: | Bellefaire, a residential treatment center for emotionally disturbed adolescents, is the oldest Jewish social-service agency in Cleveland, Ohio. It was dedicated on July 14, 1868 as the Jewish Orphan Asylum, established to care for Civil War orphans. By 1900, more than 400 orphans lived there. The name was changed to the Jewish Orphan Home (JOH) in 1919, and later to Bellefaire when its facilities moved to the corner of Belvoir and Fairmount Boulevards in 1929. In 1942 the orphanage changed its focus to include residential therapeutic care for emotionally disturbed children. It stopped accepting orphans in 1943. In 1954, Bellefaire opened its admissions to children of all faiths and today provides counseling, substance abuse treatment, foster care, adoption services, and residential treatment. Jack Girick, whose papers are included in this collection, was a resident of the Jewish Orphan Asylum from 1902 to 1912. While a resident, he served as a monitor, assisted the superintendent in conducting Sabbath religious services, and was elected president of the Literary Union and the Athletic Association of the Home. Girick was sent to Central High School, and then to Hebrew Union College to train for the rabbinate. In 1917 he left school and returned to the Jewish Orphan Home, where he became governor of the Home from 1917 to 1922 and then assistant superintendent from 1922 to 1938. He remained active in the Jewish Orphan Home Alumni Association until his death in 1988. The Jewish Orphan Home Alumni Association was established in 1888 to serve and connect the orphans who formerly lived at the Jewish Orphan Home. The Association held Homecomings each year in Cleveland and had several active chapters located throughout the country. "Graduates" of JOH were designated by the year of their confirmation class. The collection consists of bulletins, correspondence, books, membership lists, minutes, magazines, and directories. | | | | Call #: | MS 5100 | | | | Extent: | 1.50 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Girick, Jack, 1896-1988. | Bellefaire Jewish Children's Home (Shaker Heights, Ohio) | Jewish Orphan Asylum (Shaker Heights, Ohio) | Jewish orphanages -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish orphanages -- Ohio -- University Heights. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities. | Jews -- Ohio -- University Heights -- Charities. | Mentally ill children -- Care -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Mentally ill children -- Care -- Ohio -- University Heights. | Child psychotherapy -- Residential treatment -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Child psychotherapy -- Residential treatment -- Ohio -- University Heights. | Child welfare -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Child welfare -- Ohio -- University Heights.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 30 | Title: | Charles Beard Papers
| | | | Creator: | Beard, Charles | | | | Dates: | 1919-1975 | | | | Abstract: | Charles Beard was born in Georgia and raised in Newport, Rhode Island. He enlisted in the United States Air Force during World War II, serving as a fighter pilot, after training at Tuskegee Air Force Base. In 1945, he moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and attended Western Reserve University. In 1946, he served as a junior city planner for the City Planning Commission, and in the 1950s worked for the Cleveland Urban Renewal Agency. In the late 1950s, he was promoted to Chief City Planner for Cleveland, and in the 1960s, became the Director of Plan of Action for Tomorrow's Housing (PATH). From the late 1970s to the early 1980s, he held a position as a government liaison with the Federation for Community Planning. He also was founder of the Friends of Shaker Square and Fair Housing, Inc. He helped organize the North Coast Chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen, Inc., in 1993. The collection consists of reports, speeches, proposals, correspondence, agendas, annual reports, financial statements, newsletters, notes, ordinances, bibliographies, booklets, tables, pamphlets, publications, lists, and maps. The majority of the material relates to Beard's career as Chief City Planner for the City Planning Commission. | | | | Call #: | MS 4802 | | | | Extent: | 1.80 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Beard, Charles, 1923-1993. | Cleveland (Ohio). City Planning Commission. | Federation for Community Planning. | Plan of Action for Tomorrow's Housing (Cleveland, Ohio). | Fair Housing Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio) | Friends of Shaker Square. | Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. North Coast Chapter. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | City planning -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Urban renewal -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 31 | Title: | United Order True Sisters Cleveland No. 30 Records and Photographs
| | | | Creator: | United Order True Sisters | | | | Dates: | 1925-2008 | | | | Abstract: | The United Order True Sisters Cleveland No. 30, a Jewish women's charitable organization, was a local lodge that was part of the national United Order True Sisters founded in New York in 1846. Founded in November of 1925, the Cleveland lodge's goal was to promote family unity by establishing a day care center for the benefit of the community. The collection consists of awards, booklets, budgets, bulletins, bylaws, a calendar, a cookbook, correspondence, a journal, flyers, manuals, membership books, minutes, newspaper clippings, notebooks, poems, a proclamation, reports, scrapbooks, sheet music, and speech text. There are also approximately 50 black and white 300 color photographs. | | | | Call #: | MS 5427 | | | | Extent: | 6.11 linear feet ((10 containers, including one oversized container and one oversized folder)) | | | | Subjects: | Jewish women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities. | Bellefaire Jewish Children's Home (Shaker Heights, Ohio) | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 32 | Title: | Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church records, 1843-1994
| | | | Creator: | Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church (Cleveland, Ohio) | | | | | Schwan, Henry C., 1818-1905 | | | | | Schuknecht, C.T. | | | | Dates: |
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| | | | Call #: | Microfilm (Cab. 54:2) | | | | Extent: | 24 reels of microfilm. | | | | Subjects: | Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church (Cleveland, Ohio) | Zion Lutheran School (Cleveland, Ohio) | Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States | Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod | Mount Calvary Evangelical Lutheran Church (Cleveland, Ohio) | Saint John's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Cleveland, Ohio) | Saint John's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Garfield Heights, Ohio) | Saint John's Evangelical Lutheran Church (South Euclid, Ohio) | Saint Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Cleveland, Ohio) | Saint Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Westlake, Ohio) | Saint Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Shaker Heights, Ohio) | Lutherans -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Lutherans, German -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Lutheran church buildings -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Churches Ohio Cleveland | Germans -- Ohio -- Cleveland | German Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Religious life | Church records and registers -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Lutheran Church -- Education -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Church schools -- Ohio -- Cleveland
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 33 | Title: | Seth and Frances Taft Papers
| | | | Creator: | Taft, Seth and Frances | | | | Dates: | 1951-2006 | | | | Abstract: | Seth Chase Taft (December 31, 1922-April 14, 2013) was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Charles P. and Eleanor Chase Taft. He is the grandson of American president William Howard Taft. He married Frances Prindle (December 12, 1921-May 14, 2017) on June 19, 1943 and they had four children: Frederick I. (Rick) (b. June 26, 1945), Thomas P. (b. July 19, 1948), Cynthia B. (b. May 24, 1950), and Seth Tucker (Tucker) (b. March 4, 1953). They were active members of the greater Cleveland, Ohio, cultural, civic, and political community. The collection consists of 31 scrapbooks which include agendas, birth announcements, birthday cards, brochures, building permits, campaign literature, certificates, children's artwork and letters, Christmas cards and newsletters, contracts, correspondence, currency, flyers, greeting cards, interviews, invitations, itineraries, journal articles, lecture paperwork, legal briefs, licenses, lists, magazine articles, maps, memoranda, menus, newsletters, newspaper articles, newspaper clippings, notes, obituaries, pamphlets, passports, photographs, plane tickets, playbills, poems, post cards, press releases, proclamations, programs, registration cards, report cards, reports, resolutions, scorecards, scripts, sketches, song lyrics, telegrams, tickets, and travel documents. | | | | Call #: | MS 5127 | | | | Extent: | 8.00 linear feet (31 volumes) | | | | Subjects: | Taft, Seth Chase, 1922- | Taft, Frances Prindle, 1921- | Taft family. | Republican Party (Cuyahoga County, Ohio) | Cleveland Metropolitan Services Commission. | Cleveland Development Foundation. | Citizens League of Greater Cleveland. | Government Research Institute of Cleveland. | Federation for Community Planning. | Cuyahoga County (Ohio). Board of Commissioners. | Laurel School (Cleveland, Ohio) | Hawken School. | Vassar College. | University Circle Inc. | City Club of Cleveland. | Cleveland Council on World Affairs. | Cleveland International Program. | Cleveland Institute of Art. | Cleveland Museum of Art. | Karamu House. | League of Women Voters (Shaker Heights, Ohio) | Art -- Study and teaching -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Lawyers -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. | Politicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Political campaigns -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Political campaigns -- Ohio -- Cuyahoga County. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. | Cuyahoga County (Ohio) -- Politics and government. | Pepper Pike (Ohio) -- History.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 34 | Title: | Joseph Ceruti Papers
| | | | Creator: | Ceruti, Joseph | | | | Dates: | 1923-1993 | | | | Abstract: | Joseph Ceruti (1912-1993) was a prominent architect and member of the Italian-American community in Cleveland. He graduated from East Technical High School in 1929, and earned a degree in architecture at Western Reserve University in 1934. After working for Warner & Swasey during World War II, he went into private practice in 1947. Some of his clients included Case Institute of Technology (later Case Western Reserve University), Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA), Fenn College (later Cleveland State University), Cleveland Public Library, the Cleveland Board of Education (Adlai Stevenson School), Warner & Swasey, and Motch & Merryweather. He was active in the American Institute of Architects, and was a member of many organizations including the board of directors of Alta Social Settlement House and the Fine Arts Advisory Committee of the City of Cleveland. The collection consists of architectural drawings and specifications, clippings, contracts, correspondence, general office files, photographs, and slides. | | | | Call #: | MS 5391 | | | | Extent: | 186.01 linear feet (77 containers, 456 rolled architectural drawings, and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Architects -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Italian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History. | Warner & Swasey. | Architecture -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Buildings -- Designs and plans.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 35 | Title: | Joseph Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Joseph Family | | | | Dates: | 1866-1993 | | | | Abstract: | The Joseph Family is a prominent Cleveland, Ohio, Jewish family. Moritz Joseph arrived in the United States in 1853 from Gauersheim, Rheinpfalz, Germany, during the nineteenth-century German-Jewish immigration period. Settling in Cleveland in 1872, Joseph became successful in the manufacturing ofmen's clothing incorporating that operation as the Joseph and Feiss Company in 1907. The company, formed out of previously operating businesses, was one of the largest manufacturers of men's clothing in the United States. Moritz Joseph married Jette Selig in 1853; the marriage produced four sons. Three of them, Isaac, Fred, and Siegmund, and Siegmund's son Ralph, worked all or part of their careers with the Joseph and Feiss Company. The foruth son, Emil, Emil's son Frank E., and Frank E.'s son William R., became lawyers after graduating from Columbia University Law School. Frank E. Joseph was a promient lawyer and a partner at the Jones, Day, Cockley, & Reavis law firm. The family has been very active in both leadership and philanthropy in Cleveland in institutions such as the Musical Arts Associaton (The Cleveland Orchestra), the Kulas Foundation, and the Warner and Swasey Foundation, and in Jewish communal institutions such as Bellefaire and The Jewish Family Service Association. The collection consists of scrapbooks chronicling the lives of Martha J. Joseph Joseph, Adele Joseph Yelson and Edmil, Frank E. and William R. Joseph. Included in the scrapbooks are correspondence, photographs, programs, and newspaper clippings. The Joseph Family Papers also include the diaries of Emil Joseph from 1877 to 1938 and Ralph S. Joseph from 1903 to 1948, and extensive correspondence of Emil Joseph to Fanny Dryfoos Joseph between 1886 and 1909, and his son, Frank, between 1922 and 1928. | | | | Call #: | MS 4894 | | | | Extent: | 40.02 linear feet (37 containers, 11 oversize volumes, and 2 oversize folders) | | | | Subjects: | Joseph family -- Archives. | Joseph, Moritz, 1834-1917. | Joseph, Martha J., 1917-2006. | Joseph, Ray K. Hahn, 1888-1937. | Yelson, Adele Joseph, 1944-1977. | Joseph, Emil, 1857-1938. | Joseph, Fanny Dryfoos, 1866-1930. | Joseph, Frank E., 1904-1995. | Joseph, Ralph S., 1888-1958. | Joseph, William R., 1946- | Blossom Music Center. | Musical Arts Association (Cleveland, Ohio) | Jewish Family Service Association (Cleveland, Ohio). | Bellefaire Jewish Children's Home (Shaker Heights, Ohio) | Jews -- United States -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History -- 19th century. | Jews -- United States -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History -- 20th century. | Jews -- United States -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History -- Sources. | Jews -- United States -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. | Jews -- United States -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. | Jews -- United States -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Archives. | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Nonprofit organizations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Intellectual life -- History -- Sources. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social life and customs -- History -- Sources.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 36 | Title: | A. Donald Gray Papers
| | | | Creator: | Gray, A. Donald | | | | Dates: | 1917-1943 | | | | Abstract: | A. Donald Gray (1891-1939) was a notable landscape architect and designer in Cleveland, Ohio from 1920-1939. Gray worked briefly with Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., in Brookline, Massachusetts, before establishing a landscape architecture practice in Cleveland. He designed many private gardens and estates for some of the most elite families of Cleveland and its outlying suburbs, including the noted private development of Fairhill Road houses in 1931. Gray was also the landscape designer for several public projects, including the Cedar-Central apartments, the first federal public-housing project in the nation, and many of Cleveland's public parks. Perhaps his most notable achievemant was the creation of the WPA-funded Horticultural Gardens for the Great Lakes Exposition, 1936-1937, some of which remain on the site north of Cleveland's Municipal Stadium. The gardens were named for Gray as a memorial after his death. Gray took several trips to England, South America, Mexico and elsewhere throughout his career to study the landscaping of great houses and public places. He also contributed a regular gardening column to the Cleveland Press during the mid-1930s. The collection consists of some personal records, but largely records pertaining to Gray's numerous landscape design projects, including projects for William S. Halle, Mrs. Leonard C. Hanna, Edwin C. Higbee, Fred and Robert Lazarus of Columbus, Ohio, Crispen Oglebay, John Sherwin, and the Van Sweringen brothers. The records consist of correspondence, invoices, receipts, drawings, plans, photographs, blueprint designs, financial records, etc. The collection contains significant material regarding the Fairhill Road houses of the Fairmount Road Group Development Association, the Cedar-Central Housing Project, Cleveland city park projects, and, in particular, the Horticultural Gardens of the Great Lakes Exposition. Included are articles and clippings from Gray's gardening column in the Cleveland Press, lectures, travel reports, personal and financial papers and papers regarding Gray's personal residence, material pertaining to the preservation and restoration of the Dunham Tavern on Euclid Ave. in Cleveland, and photograph albums and photograph scrapbooks of Gray's trips and design projects, some by the noted photographer Margaret Bourke-White. | | | | Call #: | MS 3470 | | | | Extent: | 16.30 linear feet (28 containers, 9 oversize folders, and 21 rolled blueprints) | | | | Subjects: | Gray, A. Donald (Albert Donald), 1891-1939 -- Archives. | Dunham Tavern. | Cedar-Central Housing Project (Cleveland, Ohio) | Great Lakes Exposition (1936-1937 : Cleveland, Ohio) | Landscape architects -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Archives. | Landscape architecture -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area. | Landscape gardening -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area. | Landscape contracting -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area. | Landscape architectural drawing -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area. | Horticultural service industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area. | Gardens -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area -- Design. | Gardens -- Ohio -- Cleveland Metropolitan Area -- Specifications. | Urban beautification -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Historic buildings -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Conservation and restoration. | Parks -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Description and travel -- Views. | South America -- Description and travel -- Views. | Mexico -- Description and travel -- Views. | Nassau (Bahamas) -- Description and travel -- Views.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 37 | Title: | Douglas Braun Papers
| | | | Creator: | Braun, Douglas | | | | Dates: | 1986-2013 | | | | Abstract: | Douglas Braun has been an important activist in the Northeast Ohio lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) rights movement since the mid-1980s. He has been instrumental in organizing campaigns focusing on the domestic partnership registry in Cleveland and Cleveland Heights (with Heights Families for Equality and Ask Cleveland), employment and housing discrimination against transgender people, adoption rights for LGBTQ parents, and marriage equality in Ohio. The collection consists of Ask Cleveland items including one t-shirt and one large outdoor banner used at events, newspaper clippings, correspondence, flyers, petitions, postcards, precinct binders, programs, publications, scripts and talking points for conversing with voters, volunteer manuals and training materials, volunteer phone bank lists, and voter lists. | | | | Call #: | MS 5343 | | | | Extent: | 14.40 linear feet (18 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Gay activists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Same-sex marriage -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Gay adoption -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Gay communities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Gay rights -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Transgender people--Employment--Law and legislation | Transgender people -- Cleveland -- Ohio. | Sexual minorities -- Periodicals.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 38 | Title: | George S. Dively Foundation Records
| | | | Creator: | Geo. S. Dively Foundation | | | | Dates: | 1956-1991 | | | | Abstract: | The George S. Dively Foundation was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1956, by industrialist and philanthropist George S. Dively. Funding has centered around the field of higher education, with scholarship funds being established for engineering, business administration, graphic arts, and urban affairs students at numerous institutions, including the University of Pittsburgh, Harvard Business School, Lock Haven (Pennsylanvania) State College, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland State University, and the Florida Institute of Technology. Other organizations receiving funding reflect the interests of Dively; including civic improvement, enterprise development, and the arts. The foundation was officially closed in 1995. The collection consists of articles of incorporation, code of regulations, annual reports, minutes, correspondence, proposals, contribution records, investment records, legal documents, agreements, grants, and awards. | | | | Call #: | MS 4635 | | | | Extent: | 5.00 linear feet (5 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Dively, George S., 1902-1988. | Geo. S. Dively Foundation. | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Endowments -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Education, Higher.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 39 | Title: | Martha Holden Jennings Foundation Records, Series VII
| | | | Creator: | Martha Holden Jennings Foundation | | | | Dates: | 2011-2017 | | | | Abstract: | The Martha Holden Jennings Foundation is an educational foundation founded by Martha Holden Jennings and her nephew Arthur S. Holden, Jr., in 1958. Since its inception, the foundation has funded educational projects and programs throughout Ohio. The collection consists of annual reports, board minutes, executive director reports, grants, and newsletters. | | | | Call #: | MS 5484 | | | | Extent: | 17.00 linear feet (17 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Education -- Ohio -- Endowments | Curriculum enrichment -- Ohio | Educational innovations -- Ohio | Endowments -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Museums -- Educational aspects -- Ohio | School improvement programs -- Ohio | Teachers -- Training of -- Ohio | Teachers' workshops -- Ohio
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 40 | Title: | Martha Holden Jennings Foundation Records, Series VII
| | | | Creator: | Martha Holden Jennings Foundation | | | | Dates: | 2011-2017 | | | | Abstract: | The Martha Holden Jennings Foundation is an educational foundation founded by Martha Holden Jennings and her nephew Arthur S. Holden, Jr., in 1958. Since its inception, the foundation has funded educational projects and programs throughout Ohio. The collection consists of annual reports, board minutes, executive director reports, grants, and newsletters. | | | | Call #: | MS 5484 | | | | Extent: | 17.00 linear feet (17 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Education -- Ohio -- Endowments | Curriculum enrichment -- Ohio | Educational innovations -- Ohio | Endowments -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Museums -- Educational aspects -- Ohio | School improvement programs -- Ohio | Teachers -- Training of -- Ohio | Teachers' workshops -- Ohio
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