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1	Title:	Hart Family Photograph Album
	Creator:	Hart Family
	Dates:	1900-1953
	Abstract:	Charles C. Hart, Sr. was a member of the Hart family of Cleveland, Ohio. He was married to Susan Tucker Hart, whose father, William Tucker, was the first African American police officer in Cleveland. The collection consists of one photograph album containing photographs of various members of the Hart and Tucker families in and around Cleveland, Ohio, and other locations. Most of the photographs are identified and/or dated.
	Call #:	PG 162
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Hart family -- Photograph collections. \| African American families -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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2	Title:	Perry B. Jackson Photographs, Series II
	Creator:	Jackson, Perry B.
	Dates:	1900-1986
	Abstract:	Perry B. Jackson (1896-1986) was Ohio's first African American judge. He was active in Cleveland civic, religious, and educational organizations. The collection consists of individual portraits of Perry B. Jackson, family portraits, views of Jackson presiding as a jurist, and various photographs of social organizations, including the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the Worlds and the Prince Hall Masons.
	Call #:	PG 467
	Extent:	0.40 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Jackson, Perry B. (Perry Brooks), 1896-1986 -- Photograph collections. \| Judges -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| African American judges -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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3	Title:	Perry B. Jackson Photographs
	Creator:	Jackson, Perry B.
	Dates:	1900-1970
	Abstract:	Perry B. Jackson (1896-1986) was Ohio's first African American judge. He was extremely active in Cleveland civic, religious, and educational organizations. The collection consists of loose photographs and one photograph album relating to the career, social life, and family of Cleveland, Ohio Municipal Court Judge Perry B. Jackson.
	Call #:	PG 098
	Extent:	0.80 linear feet (2 containers)
	Subjects:	Jackson, Perry B. (Perry Brooks), 1896-1986 -- Photograph collections. \| Judges -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| African American judges -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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4	Title:	Black Folk Art in Cleveland Photographs
	Creator:	Mather Gallery, Case Western Reserve University
	Dates:	1984
	Abstract:	The Black Folk Art in Cleveland exhibition was presented in 1984 by the Mather Gallery of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. The exhibit was the result of a search for Cleveland's African American folk artists and the works created by them. It featured folk artists Peggy Davenport, Reverend Albert Wagner, Ruby Hall, Helen Dobbins, Jim Moss, Mickey Towns, Benjamin Collins, Perkine Lard, Marcella Welch, Nick Biggins, and J.D. Harmon. The collection consists of images depicting the exhibit in the Mather Gallery, its visitors, participants, and organizers. Included in the collection are photographs of Dr. Zelma George, Ishmael Reed, and other visitors of the exhibition.
	Call #:	PG 474
	Extent:	0.10 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Case Western Reserve University. Mather Gallery -- Exhibitions -- Photograph collections. \| Black Folk Art in Cleveland -- Exhibitions -- Photograph collections. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| African American folk art -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| Exhibitions -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| African American artists -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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5	Title:	Bertha Blue Family Photographs
	Creator:	Blue, Bertha Family
	Dates:	1900-1970
	Abstract:	Bertha Blue (ca. 1877-1963) was a member of a well known African American family in Cleveland, Ohio. She was a teacher at the Murray Hill Elementary School located in Little Italy, an Italian immigrant neighborhood on Cleveland's East side, from 1903 to 1947. The collection consists of individual and group portraits of Bertha Blue, her daughter Jane Darr, Welcome T. Blue, Sr., and other family members and friends. Included in the collection are photographs of Jane Edna Hunter, Virginia Bray, and G. Howard Fields. Events depicted are the weddings of Mabelle Blue and Jane Lee Darr, the tennis group with whom Bertha Blue played, and Bertha Blue's first grade class.
	Call #:	PG 475
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Blue, Bertha, ca. 1877-1963 -- Photograph collections. \| Darr, Jane Lee -- Photograph collections. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| African American women teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| Teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| Women teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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6	Title:	Supreme Camp of the American Woodmen Photographs
	Creator:	Supreme Camp of the American Woodmen
	Dates:	1941-1966
	Abstract:	The Supreme Camp of the American Woodmen was founded in Denver, Colorado, as a national African American fraternal and mutual benefit association. The organization had chapters, called Tents, across the country. A subsidiary, the American Woodmen Life Insurance Company, provided mutual benefit life insurance to members of the Supreme Camp. The collection consists of individual portraits of Frank Simon, president of the Cleveland, Ohio tent, and other members of the Cleveland tent; and views of business meetings, conferences, ceremonies, parades, and coronations of Kings and Queens of American Woodmen. Also included are images of the American Woodmen District Convention in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1930.
	Call #:	PG 479
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Simon, Frank. \| Supreme Camp of the American Woodmen -- Photograph collections. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. -- Photographs. \| African American friendly societies -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| Friendly societies -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| Insurance, fraternal -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. -- Photographs.
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7	Title:	Friendly Inn Social Settlement Photographs
	Creator:	Friendly Inn Social Settlement
	Dates:	1921-1966
	Abstract:	The Friendly Inn Social Settlement is a Cleveland, Ohio, social settlement founded in 1874 by members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. It offered a full range of services and social activities, including an outreach program for delinquent boys. Located in various city neighborhoods, including Broadway and Central, Woodland, and Carver Park Estates, its service area became the center of Cleveland's African American community. The collection consists of photographs of activities, games, and sports at the Friendly Inn Social Settlement, and also of the neighborhood it served. Included are many views of African American and Italian organizations at the Settlement and views of housing conditions of the surrounding area.
	Call #:	PG 126
	Extent:	0.40 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Friendly Inn Social Settlement (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photograph collections. \| Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| Boys -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs -- Photographs. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| Italian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions -- Photographs.
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8	Title:	Henry Lee Moon Family Photographs
	Creator:	Moon, Henry Lee Family
	Dates:	1885-1962
	Abstract:	Henry Lee Moon (1901-1985) was public relations director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) at its New York headquarters (1948-1960). Mollie Lewis Moon, his wife, was a social worker, public relations executive, founder and chairman of the National Urban League Guild (1942-1962), and trustee and secretary of the National Urban League (1955-1962). Roddy K. Moon (1868-1952) was an organizer of the Cleveland chapter of the NAACP. The collection consists of group and individual and group portraits of Henry Lee Moon, his family, friends and associates.
	Call #:	PG 187
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Moon, Henry Lee, 1901- -- Photograph collections. \| Moon family -- Photograph collections. \| Moon, Mollie Lewis -- Photograph collections. \| Moon, Roddy K., 1868-1952 -- Photograph collections. \| Moon, Leah -- Photograph collections. \| Hines family -- Photograph collections. \| Wiggins family -- Photograph collections. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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9	Title:	Saint John's African Methodist Episcopal Church Photographs
	Creator:	Saint John's African Methodist Episcopal Church
	Dates:	1950-1960
	Abstract:	Saint John's African Methodist Episcopal Church was the first African American church established in Cleveland, Ohio. Chartered by the African Methodist Episcopal Society in 1836, services were first held in members' homes. The first church building was dedicated in 1850. In 1908, after several moves to various church buildings in the nineteenth century, the congregation erected a new church building at East 40th Street and Central Avenue, where it remains. The collection consists of group portraits and views of groups and activities of members of Saint John's African Methodist Episcopal Church of Cleveland, Ohio. Included are photographs of choirs, Sunday School classes, and church boards.
	Call #:	PG 223
	Extent:	0.10 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Saint John's African Methodist Episcopal Church (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photograph collections. \| African Methodist Episcopal Church -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photograph collections. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| African American churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| Churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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10	Title:	Garrett A. Morgan Photographs
	Creator:	Morgan, Garrett A.
	Dates:	1915-1978
	Abstract:	Garrett A. Morgan (1877-1963) was an entrepreneur and inventor whose inventions included the electric traffic signal and the gas mask. Morgan moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1895 and opened his own sewing machine sales and repair shop in 1907. He received a patent on his gas mask in 1912 and formed the National Safety Device Co. to manufacture and market it. He also established the G.A. Morgan Hair Refining Co., The Cleveland Call and Post, and the Wakeman Country Club for African Americans. The collection consists of individual and group portraits of Garrett A. Morgan, his family, and friends. Also included are views of his residence, and of his inventions, including the gas mask, traffic signal, and a hair treatment system. The collection also includes views relating to the water intake crib disaster in Cleveland, Ohio in 1917.
	Call #:	PG 246
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Morgan, Garrett A., 1877-1963 -- Photograph collections. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| African American inventors -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| Water tunnels -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Accidents -- Photographs. \| Traffic signs and signals -- Photographs. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Waterworks crib explosion, 1916 -- Photographs.
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11	Title:	Hough Area Development Corporation Photographs
	Creator:	Hough Area Development Corporation
	Dates:	1850-1980
	Abstract:	The Hough Area Development Corporation (f. 1967) was formed in the wake of the Hough riots by DeForest Brown in conjunction with African American professionals and neighborhood leaders to aid in bringing economic prosperity to the Hough neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio. Dedicated to African American self-determination, the group initially met in secret in order to prevent competition for dollars and outside attempts to control it. The group promoted African American business entrepreneurship and better housing. The collection consists of photographs and negatives of individual and group portraits of Hough Area Development Corporation Board members and staff; group portraits of programs, parties and banquets, and meetings; and views of streets of the Hough neighborhood, Hough community buildings, MLK Plaza businesses, industrial businesses, and individual houses.
	Call #:	PG 374
	Extent:	2.10 linear feet (6 containers and 1 oversize folder)
	Subjects:	Hough Area Development Corporation -- Photograph collections. \| African American business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| African Americans -- Housing -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| Hough (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photographs.
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12	Title:	Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Photographs
	Creator:	King, Martin Luther Jr.
	Dates:	1963-1989
	Abstract:	The collection consists of photographs and copy negatives assembled from a variety of sources, including PG 273 United Auto Workers, Local 45 Negatives (Western Reserve Historical Society), the Cleveland Press collection of Cleveland State University, and former Press photographer William S. Nehez. The photographs were used in an audiovisual presentation for the January 18, 1989 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration at the Western Reserve Historical Society. The bulk of photographs are views of Dr. King's visits to Cleveland, Ohio and portraits of program honorees from the 1989 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration.
	Call #:	PG 433
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 -- Photograph collections. \| Western Reserve Historical Society Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration (1989) -- Photographs. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| Civil rights movements -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations -- Photographs.
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13	Title:	Eugene Bailey Photographs
	Creator:	Bailey, Eugene
	Dates:	1910-1970
	Abstract:	Eugene Bailey (1913-1942) was an African American from Cleveland, Ohio, who attended Virginia State College for Negroes, excelling in athletics. Bailey became physical education director at Booker T. Washington High School in Norfolk, Va. and then enlisted in the Navy at the start of World War II. In 1942, he was killed in an explosion at the Norfolk Navy Yard. The collection consists of individual and group portraits of Eugene Bailey, his family and friends; and views of life at college, athletic events, and campuses, including Hampton College in Virginia.
	Call #:	PG 437
	Extent:	0.30 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Bailey, Eugene, 1913-1942 -- Photograph collections. \| Virginia State College for Negroes -- Photograph collections. \| Hampton University (Va.) -- Photograph collections. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| African Americans -- Virginia -- Norfolk -- Photographs. \| African American athletes -- Virginia -- Photographs. \| African American athletes -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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14	Title:	Greater Cleveland Ethnographic Museum Photographs
	Creator:	Greater Cleveland Ethnographic Museum
	Dates:	1873-1988
	Abstract:	The Greater Cleveland Ethnographic Museum was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1975 to prepare exhibits for the American Revolution Bicentennial celebration in Cleveland. The exhibits were to depict contributions from Cleveland's ethnic groups to the multicultural society of the area. Following the 1976 Bicentennial celebration, the museum established a permanent office and exhibit gallery in the Old Arcade in downtown Cleveland. Although the museum closed in 1981, it was able to document the experiences of immigrants through oral histories, photographs, and other collected material. The collection consists of approximately 1,500 photographs and 1,500 slides.
	Call #:	PG 594
	Extent:	2.03 linear feet (2 containers, 3 oversize folders)
	Subjects:	African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| Asian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs \| Cleveland (Ohio) -- Emigration and immigration \| Greater Cleveland Ethnographic Museum -- Photographs \| Greater Cleveland Ethnographic Museum \| Hispanic Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs \| Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland
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15	Title:	Greater Avery African Methodist Episcopal Church Photographs
	Creator:	Greater Avery African Methodist Episcopal Church
	Dates:	1927-2004
	Abstract:	Greater Avery African Methodist Episcopal Church was founded by Reverend James J. Price on April 21, 1918 in Cleveland, Ohio. As the membership of the church grew, Reverend Price lead the church to purchase property at 2363 East 28th Street in 1920. In 1953, Greater Avery purchased the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Bethlehem Church on Wade Park Avenue. The collection consists of approximately 150 color and black and white photographs depicting church buildings, church members, and church events.
	Call #:	PG 599
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Religion. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Social life and customs -- Photographs. \| African Methodist Episcopal Church -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photograph collections. \| Greater Avery African Methodist Episcopal Church (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photograph collections \| Greater Avery African Methodist Episcopal Church (Cleveland, Ohio)
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16	Title:	Josephus Hicks Collection of Church Records, Photographs, and Audio/Visual Materials
	Creator:	Hicks, Josephus
	Dates:	1940-1996
	Abstract:	Josephus Hicks was an African American photographer and historian who lived in Cleveland from the mid-1930s until his death in 1998. In addition to photographing people and events in the Cleveland African American community, Mr. Hicks wrote the history of St. John A.M.E. Church, the Mount Zion Church and the Hough area of the city. The collection consists of church records, photographs, 16mm film, and audio LPs.
	Call #:	MS 5366
	Extent:	3.61 linear feet (9 containers and 1 oversize folder)
	Subjects:	African Methodist Episcopal Church -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| League Park (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Photographers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Cinematographers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| Churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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17	Title:	Dr. Zelma Watson George Papers and Photographs
	Creator:	George, Dr. Zelma Watson
	Dates:	1881-1994
	Abstract:	Dr. Zelma Watson George (1903-1994) was born in Texas in 1903. As an African American woman coming of age in the early twentieth century, she and her family endured discrimination in many situations. She graduated from high school in Topeka, Kansas, went on to college at the University of Chicago, and eventually earned her Ph.D. from New York University. She moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in the 1940s and became renown for her musical talents and research, diplomatic career, her contributions to the civil rights movement locally, and her career as an administrator and educator/lecturer. The collection consists of agendas, awards, brochures, budgets, by-laws, calendars, cassette tapes, certificates, charters, contracts, correspondence, diaries, a dissertation, financial documents, flyers, forms, guest books, invitations, journal articles, lectures, magazine articles, memoranda, minutes, music scores, negatives (approximately 20), newsletters, newspaper articles and clippings, note cards, notes, passports, photographs (approximately 1300), play scripts, policies, press releases, programs, publications, record albums (LPs), reel-to-reel tapes, reports, resolutions, resumes, rosters, scrapbooks, slides (approximately 620), speeches, VHS tapes, and wills.
	Call #:	MS 5415
	Extent:	55.4 linear feet (70 containers and 7 volumes)
	Subjects:	George, Zelma Watson \| African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Civil rights -- United States. \| Social service -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African Americans -- Education (Higher) -- United States. \| African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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18	Title:	Clarke School of Dressmaking and Fashion Design Photographs
	Creator:	Clarke School of Dressmaking and Fashion Design
	Dates:	1946-1986
	Abstract:	The Clarke School of Dressmaking and Fashion Design was a Cleveland, Ohio, dressmaking, tailoring and fashion design school founded in 1925 by Amanda Wicker, primarily for young African-American women. Wicker retired and sold the school in 1979, which was still in operation in 1990. The collection consists of individual portraits of founder Amanda Wicker, her friends and associates; Clarke School board members, school graduates, and models; and views of events, activities and instructional classes. Included in the collection are portraits of Cleveland Mayor George Voinovich, Representative Troy Lee James, Cynthia Holloway, Judge Perry B. Jackson, Wyatt Brownlee, and Elizabeth Lambright. Events depicted include The Book of Gold and other fashion shows, award ceremonies of the Amanda Wicker Scholarship and the Cleveland Scholarship Program, board meetings, and social functions.
	Call #:	PG 472
	Extent:	0.80 linear feet (2 containers)
	Subjects:	Wicker, Amanda, 1900-1987 -- Photograph collections. \| Clarke School of Dressmaking and Fashion Design -- Photograph collections. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| African American business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| African American fashion designers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| Costume design -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| Dressmaking -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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19	Title:	Eliza Bryant Center Auxiliary II Photographs
	Creator:	Eliza Bryant Center Auxiliary II
	Dates:	1950-1989
	Abstract:	The Eliza Bryant Center Auxiliary II, formerly known as the Junior Board of the Eliza Bryant Center, was a group founded by African American women in 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio. Organized by Bessie Blue, it was to provide residents of the Eliza Bryant Center, a home for the African American elderly, with a cheerful and homelike atmosphere. Members of the Auxiliary raised funds to purchase items and supplies such as kitchen equipment, linen, beds, carpeting, and electronics. The collection consists of group portraits of Auxiliary members, Center residents, and program participants; and views of the Eliza Bryant Center and the programs, fundraisers, and other activities sponsored by its auxiliary. Included in the collection are photographs of Councilwoman Fanny Lewis, Congressman Louis Stokes, and Governor Richard Celeste. Events depicted include the annual Christmas Mart, a fashion show, social affairs, and fundraisers.
	Call #:	PG 473
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Eliza Bryant Center (Cleveland, Ohio) Auxiliary II -- Photograph collections. \| Eliza Bryant Center (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photograph collections. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs -- Photographs. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities -- Photographs. \| African American aged -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| Aged -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| Nursing homes -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| Charities -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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20	Title:	George Gould Photographs
	Creator:	Gould, George
	Dates:	1930-1971
	Abstract:	George Gould (1905-1990) was a professional African American actor. Gould first worked with the Royal American Show, an African American theater group based in Tampa, Florida, in the 1930s. In the late 1950s, Cleveland, Ohio, became his base of operation. The majority of his work in Cleveland was at Karamu House under the direction of Dorothy and Reuben Silver. He also performed in several productions at the Cleveland Playhouse. The collection consists of individual and group portraits of George Gould in various theatrical productions, including those at the Cleveland Playhouse and Karamu House.
	Call #:	PG 480
	Extent:	0.20 linear feet (1 container)
	Subjects:	Gould, George 1905-1990 -- Photograph collections. \| Karamu House -- Photograph collections. \| Cleveland Play House (Ohio) -- Photograph collections. \| African American actors -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| African American theater -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| Theater -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. \| Actors -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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