Subject • | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. |
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| • | African Methodist Episcopal Church -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photograph collections. |
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| • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations -- Photographs. |
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| • | Karamu House -- Photograph collections. |
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| • | Stokes, Carl -- Photograph collections. |
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| • | White, Charles William, 1897-1970 -- Photograph collections. |
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| • | Celebrezze, Anthony J. (Anthony Joseph), 1910-1998 -- Photograph collections. |
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| • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government -- Photographs. |
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| • | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social conditions -- Photographs. |
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| • | Community centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. |
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| • | Friendly Inn Social Settlement (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photograph collections. |
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| • | Gilpin Players -- Photograph collections. |
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| • | Hines family -- Photograph collections. |
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| • | Hough (Cleveland, Ohio) -- Photographs. |
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| • | Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. |
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| • | Italian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. |
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| • | Jackson, Perry B. (Perry Brooks), 1896- -- Photograph collections. |
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| • | Jackson, Perry B. (Perry Brooks), 1896-1986 -- Photograph collections. |
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| • | Jelliffe, Rowena Woodham, 1892-1992 -- Photograph collections. |
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| • | Jelliffe, Russell W., 1891-1980 -- Photograph collections. |
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| • | Moon family -- Photograph collections. |
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| • | Moon, Henry Lee, 1901- -- Photograph collections. |
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| • | Moon, Leah -- Photograph collections. |
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| • | Moon, Mollie Lewis -- Photograph collections. |
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| • | Moon, Roddy K., 1868-1952 -- Photograph collections. |
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| Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | 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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Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | 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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Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | 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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Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | 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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Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | 9 | 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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Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | 10 | 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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Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | 13 | 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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Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | 14 | 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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Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | 15 | 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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Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | 17 | 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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Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | 19 | Title: | Tuskegee Airmen, Inc., North Coast Chapter Photographs
| | | Creator: | Tuskegee Airmen, Inc., North Coast Chapter | | | Dates: | 1944 | | | Abstract: | The Tuskegee Airmen, Inc., North Coast Chapter is the Cleveland, Ohio, area chapter of the national organization whose purpose is to educate African American youth about the challenges faced by the Tuskegee Airmen in training to become World War II fighter pilots in the United States Army Air Corps. The Tuskegee Airmen, all African Americans, were graduates of the segregated Tuskegee Army Flying School near Tuskegee, Alabama. Many of the graduates joined four squadrons of the 332nd Fighter Group and served with distinction throughout World War II. The collection consists of individual and group portraits of members of the Tuskegee Airmen, and views of training exercises at Tuskegee, Alabama. Individuals depicted include Robert A. Decatur, Joseph D. Barrucker, and other members of the Tuskegee Airmen, Inc., North Coast Chapter. Other individuals depicted include George Washington Carver, Henry Ford, and Frederick Douglass Patterson. | | | Call #: | PG 485 | | | Extent: | 0.10 linear feet (1 container) | | | Subjects: | Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. North Coast Chapter -- Photograph collections. | United States. Army Air Forces. Fighter Group, 332nd -- Photograph collections. | Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. -- Photograph collections. | World War, 1939-1945 -- African Americans -- Photographs. | World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations -- Photographs. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American air pilots -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Tuskegee Army Air Field (Ala.) -- Photographs.
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Photograph Collection | Requires cookie* | 20 | Title: | John T. Weeden, Sr. Family Photographs
| | | Creator: | Weeden, John T. Family | | | Dates: | 1920-1989 | | | Abstract: | John T. Weeden, Sr. (1901-1988) was a prominent African-American Baptist clergyman of Cleveland, Ohio. After pastoring two churches in Indianapolis, Indiana, he was called in 1948 to St. Timothy Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio, remaining there until his death in 1988. In addition to his extensive involvement in a number of Baptist and religious organizations, Weeden was involved in civil rights and political issues, including service as co-chair of the clergy committee for Carl Stokes during the mayoral campaign of 1967. The collection consists of photographs of the African-American church community of Cleveland, Ohio, and images of political activities in Cleveland, including the 1964 voter registration campaign. In addition to photographs of Reverend Weeden and the Weeden family, the collection includes images of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Andrew Young, Ralph Abernathy, and Jesse Jackson in 1968; images of the King funeral procession in Atlanta, Georgia in 1968; portraits of Carl B. Stokes, Louis Stokes, Benjamin Hooks, and Dick Gregory; and views of St. Timothy Baptist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, and other African-American churches and church activities. The collection includes 207 black and white photographs, 248 color photographs, and 13 negatives in various formats. | | | Call #: | PG 498 | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | Subjects: | Weeden, John T., Sr., 1901-1988 -- Portraits. | Weeden family -- Portraits. | African American Baptists -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African American clergy -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | African Americans -- Photographs. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Civil rights -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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