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The Hruby family was one of the most prominent musical families in Cleveland, Ohio, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries. In 1883 clarinetist Frank Hruby, Sr. (IV) arrived in Cleveland from Cehnice, Bohemia (now Czech Republic). Frank
IV organized and played in many local musical groups, including the Great Western Band, Lakeside, Ohio, summer orchestra,
and the Euclid Opera House. He and his wife Katerina had seven children who all became musicians, and who all taught at the
Hruby Conservatory of Music, which was located at Broadway Avenue and East 55th Street in Cleveland. The collection consists
of newspaper clippings, correspondence, event programs, family history documents, financial documents, maps, scrapbooks, sheet
music, tour itineraries, and travel journals.
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