| | Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Bellefaire Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Bellefaire | | | | Dates: | 1870-1970 | | | | Abstract: | Bellefaire 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 individual portraits, including staff and superintendents; and group portraits, including general outdoor recreation; swimming activities; baseball, football, and basketball; fairs and circuses; reunions; plays, music, and art activities; interior and exterior views of the Jewish Orphan Asylum and Bellefaire buildings; and Cherry Farm and Camp Wise. Tintypes, carte de visite, and cabinet card photographs are included. | | | | Call #: | PG 154 | | | | Extent: | 3.60 linear feet (9 containers and 2 oversize folders) | | | | Subjects: | Bellefaire Jewish Children's Home (Shaker Heights, Ohio) -- Photograph collections. | Jewish Orphan Asylum (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photograph collections. | Camp Wise (Euclid, Ohio) -- Photograph collections. | Children -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Jewish orphanages -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities -- Photographs. | Jewish orphanages -- Ohio -- Shaker Heights -- Photographs. | Jewish children -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Orphanages -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Tintype. | Carte de visite photographs. | Cabinet photographs.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Shaker Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Shaker Communities | | | | Dates: | 1860-1920 | | | | Abstract: | The Shakers were a religious communal society founded and originally led by Mother Ann Lee, who came to America from England in 1774. By 1826 communities were established throughout New England and the Midwest, as well as in Georgia and Florida. In 1911 Wallace H. Cathcart, Director of the Western Reserve Historical Society, began collecting Shaker memorabilia. |b See finding aid for complete history of the Shakers. The collection consists of ambrotypes; tintypes; photographs, including stereographs, carte de visites, and cabinet cards; postcards (black and white and color), negatives, and prints. Images include individual and group portraits of members of various Shaker communities and views of buildings, farms, work scenes, interiors, and general scenes depicting life at Shaker communities in the United States. Communities depicted include Alfred, Maine; Canterbury, New Hampshire; Enfield, Connecticut; Enfield, New Hampshire; Hancock, Massachusetts; Harvard, Massachusetts; Mt. Lebanon, New York; Sabbathday Lake, Maine, South Union, Kentucky; Union Village, Ohio; Watervliet, New York; Whitewater, Ohio; Groveland, New York; North Union, Ohio; Pleasant Hill, Kentucky; Shirley, Massachusetts; Tyringham, Massachusetts; Union Village, Ohio; White Oak, Georgia; and various mixed and unidentified communities. Most photographs are identified. | | | | Call #: | PG 077 | | | | Extent: | 4.70 linear feet (12 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Cabinet photographs. | Carte de visite photographs. | Collective settlements -- United States -- Photographs. | Shaker architecture -- United States -- Photographs. | Shaker women -- United States -- Photographs. | Shakers -- United States -- Photograph collections. | Stereoscopic views.
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | James Fitch Millard Family Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Millard, James Fitch Family | | | | Dates: | 1865-1955 | | | | Abstract: | James Fitch Millard (1824-1909) was the co-founder of J.F. Millard and Son, a family funeral business. It was patronized by many of the Italian Americans from the University Circle area of Cleveland, Ohio. It underwent several name changes over the years. It was Millard and Betts from 1884-1887, J.F. Millard and Son from 1887-1917, and Millard, Son, and Raper Company after 1917. William C. Millard was a founding member of the Fairmount Club, a gentlemen's social club. The collection consists of individual and group portraits of the Millard family of Cleveland, Ohio, and views of their undertaking businesses, including the Millard & Son hearse and the Millard Son & Raper Company Funeral Directors building at East 105th Street and Carnegie Avenue, Cleveland. | | | | Call #: | PG 253 | | | | Extent: | 0.60 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Millard, James Fitch, 1824-1909 -- Photograph collections. | Millard family -- Photograph collections. | J.F. Millard and Son (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photograph collections. | Millard, Son, and Raper Co.(Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photograph collections. | Undertakers and undertaking -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Tintype. | Carte de visite photographs. | Cabinet photographs.
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