Subject | • | Alleghany Corporation. |
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| | • | Capitalists and financiers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Biography. |
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| | • | Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company. |
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| | • | Cleveland & Youngstown Railroad. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Biography. |
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| | • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government. |
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| | • | Cleveland Terminals Building Company. |
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| | • | Court records -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Doherty, Joseph, 1889-1965. |
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| | • | Hampton, Taylor, (Virginia Taylor), 1910- |
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| | • | Hocking Valley Railway Company. |
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| | • | Lafayette, Bloomington and Muncie Railroad. |
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| | • | Lake Erie and Western Railroad Company. |
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| | • | Missouri Pacific Railroad Company. |
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| | • | New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad. |
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| | • | New York, Chicago, and St. Louis Railroad Co. |
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| | • | New York, Chicago, and St. Louis Railroad. |
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| | • | Nickel Plate Road. |
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| | • | Northern Ohio Food Terminal. |
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| | • | Pere Marquette Railway. |
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| | • | Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway Company. |
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| | • | Railroad terminals -- Ohio -- Cleveland. |
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| | • | Railroads -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History. |
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| | • | Railroads -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Stations. |
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| | • | Railroads -- United States -- Consolidation. |
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| | • | Railroads -- United States -- Management. |
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| | • | Railroads -- United States. |
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| | • | Real estate development -- Ohio -- Shaker Heights. |
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| | • | Shaker Heights (Ohio) -- History -- Sources. |
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| | • | Shaker Heights Rapid Transit. |
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| | • | Terminal Tower Complex (Cleveland, Ohio) |
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| | • | Toledo, St. Louis and Western Railroad Co. |
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| | • | Toledo, St. Louis and Western Railroad. |
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| | • | United States. Interstate Commerce Commission. |
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| | • | Van Sweringen Company -- Public relations. |
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| | • | Van Sweringen, Mantis James, 1881-1935. | [X] | | • | Van Sweringen, Oris Paxton, 1879-1936. |
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| | • | Wickham, Ben B. |
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| | Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | | 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* | | | 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* | | | Title: | Material on the Nickel Plate Road
| | | | Creator: | Hampton, Taylor | | | | Dates: | 1869-1960 | | | | Abstract: | Taylor Hampton (Virginia Taylor) was a personal friend of the Van Sweringen brothers who shared their interest in railroads. The collection consists of manuscript notes and copies or originals of magazine and newspaper articles, pamphlets, blueprints, maps, annual reports, financial statements, stock certificates, time tables, charts, and letters used by Hampton to research her book, The Nickel Plate Road, the history of a great railroad. The book was published in 1947. | | | | Call #: | MS 3114 | | | | Extent: | 2.80 linear feet (7 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Van Sweringen, Mantis James, 1881-1935. | Van Sweringen, Oris Paxton, 1879-1936. | Hampton, Taylor, (Virginia Taylor), 1910- | New York, Chicago, and St. Louis Railroad Co. | Lafayette, Bloomington and Muncie Railroad. | Toledo, St. Louis and Western Railroad Co. | Northern Ohio Food Terminal. | Nickel Plate Road. | Railroads -- United States. | Railroads -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Stations. | Railroad terminals -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Van Sweringen Miscellany
| | | | Creator: | Wickham, Ben B. | | | | Dates: | 1912-1929 | | | | Abstract: | Ben B. Wickham was the Law Director of Cleveland, Ohio (1916-1917) who was associated with the Van Sweringen brothers and their acquisition of land used for the construction of the Terminal Tower and the development of the Shaker Heights area. The collection consists of documents pertaining to the activities of Mantis J. and Oris P. Van Sweringen of Cleveland, Ohio, including exhibits 1-155 entered in the case of the Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway Company vs. the United States of America et al. (1929); proceedings (1918-1919) of the City Council concerning Cleveland Union Terminal; ordinances authorizing construction of the Cleveland & Youngstown Railroad in Cleveland, with notes; Cleveland's proposed charter (1913); and Cleveland's charter (1923). | | | | Call #: | MS 2865 | | | | Extent: | 2.00 linear feet (3 containers and 2 oversize volumes) | | | | Subjects: | Wickham, Ben B. | Van Sweringen, Mantis James, 1881-1935. | Van Sweringen, Oris Paxton, 1879-1936. | Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway Company. | Cleveland & Youngstown Railroad. | Court records -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government.
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