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| | Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2781 | Title: | Mount Sinai Baptist Church Records
| | | | Creator: | Mount Sinai Baptist Church | | | | Dates: | 1954-1998 | | | | Abstract: | Mount Sinai Baptist Church was founded in the African American community of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1927. The church outgrew several locations on Cleveland's east side until building its church on property purchased at 7510 Woodland Avenue in 1969. The collection consists of agendas, anniversary booklets, anniversary programs, annual reports, budgets, by-laws, church covenants, constitutions, a directory, event flyers, financial reports, funeral programs, a history book, letters, minutes, and newsletters. | | | | Call #: | MS 5217 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Genealogy. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Baptists -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Church history -- Sources. | Hill, David W. | Hill, Luther F. | Mount Sinai Baptist Church (Cleveland, Ohio)
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2783 | Title: | Turkish American Society of Northeastern Ohio Records
| | | | Creator: | Turkish American Society of Northeastern Ohio | | | | Dates: | 1976-2001 | | | | Abstract: | The Turkish American Society of Northeastern Ohio (TASNO) was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1977 to create a community for Turkish-Americans and their families living in Northeastern Ohio. TASNO promotes and assists in the understanding of Turkish heritage, culture and traditions by organizing and conducting educational, cultural, social and charitable events and other activities. The collection consists of agendas, correspondence, event flyers and programs, magazines, minutes, newsletters, newspaper clippings, proclamations, publications, reports, statements, and telegrams. | | | | Call #: | MS 5219 | | | | Extent: | 0.81 linear feet (2 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Emigration and immigration -- 20th century | Turkish American Society of Northeastern Ohio | Turkish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. | Turkish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2786 | Title: | William J. Murphy Family Scrapbook
| | | | Creator: | Murphy, William J. Family | | | | Dates: | 1898-1967 | | | | Abstract: | William Joseph Murphy (1876-1942) served as postmaster of Cleveland, Ohio, from 1914-1922 where he initiated the area's first airmail service. He served as secretary to Cleveland mayor Newton D. Baker from 1912-1914 Cleveland city manager William R. Hopkins from 1924-1930. From 1930-1942, Murphy was a vice president for Central United National Bank. He served as president of Catholic Charities Corporation of Cleveland from 1938-1939. The collection consists of a scrapbook maintained by Murphy's daughter Florence Murphy Lackamp that includes funeral cards, greeting cards, invitations, letters, newspaper clippings, ordination cards, photographs, prayer cards, and programs. | | | | Call #: | MS 5222 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937. | Catholic Charities Corporation of Cleveland. | Catholic Church -- Education -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Catholics -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities -- 20th century. | Catholics -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Politics and government -- 20th century. | Hopkins, William Rowland, 1869-1961. | Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Murphy family | Murphy, William Joseph, 1876-1942
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2787 | Title: | Union Commerce Building Records
| | | | Creator: | Union Commerce Building | | | | Dates: | 1948 | | | | Abstract: | The Union Commerce Building, subsequently known as the Huntington Building, is located at the corner of Euclid Avenue and East Ninth Street in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. It has housed a series of banks, retail stores, and offices since it was built in the 1920s. The collection consists of a building appraisal completed by Ostendorf-Morris Company at the request of the noteholders committee of Union Properties, Inc. | | | | Call #: | MS 5223 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Architecture -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Architecture -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Buildings -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs. | Buildings -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Photographs. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Buildings, structures, etc. | Commercial buildings -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Huntington Building (Cleveland, Ohio) / Union Trust Company (Cleveland, Ohio)
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2790 | Title: | Cleveland School Budget Coalition Records
| | | | Creator: | Cleveland School Budget Coalition | | | | Dates: | 1982-1986 | | | | Abstract: | The Cleveland School Budget Coalition was a public education advocacy group formed in 1982 in Cleveland, Ohio. Its purpose was to organize parents and citizens in Cleveland to urge the Cleveland Board of Education to allocate at least 55% of the Cleveland Public Schools budget to direct services to students. The collection consists of agendas, budgets, calendars, certificates, correspondence, fact sheets, job descriptions, memoranda, minutes, newsletters, newspaper clippings, notes, press releases, programs, proposals, reports, and statements. | | | | Call #: | MS 5226 | | | | Extent: | 0.60 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Cleveland Public Schools | Cleveland School Budget Coalition (Cleveland, Ohio) | Education -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Finance. | Education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Public schools -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2791 | Title: | Community Action for Youth Records
| | | | Creator: | Community Action for Youth | | | | Dates: | 1958-1967 | | | | Abstract: | Community Action for Youth was a social services agency in the Hough neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, created through a federal matching grant from the President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime in 1963. Its goals included the reduction of juvenile delinquency and poverty through increased social services, educational opportunities, and job training. The collection consists of correspondence, diaries, financial documents, memoranda, minutes, newsletters, newspaper clippings, notes, papers, proposals, reports, speeches, and statements. | | | | Call #: | MS 5227 | | | | Extent: | 1.20 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Community Action for Youth (Cleveland, Ohio) | Hough (Cleveland, Ohio) | Juvenile delinquency -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Poverty -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Race discrimination -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Youth -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Social conditions. | Youth -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2792 | Title: | Jeptha Homer Wade Family Papers, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Wade, Jeptha Homer Family | | | | Dates: | 1832-2013 | | | | Abstract: | The Wade family was a prominent nineteenth and early twentieth century Cleveland, Ohio, family with business interests in the telegraph and railroad industries, mining, manufacturing, and banking. Jeptha Homer Wade spent his early life as an apprentice to a tanner and as a carpenter. He next turned his interest to the emerging telegraph industry. In 1849, he organized the Cleveland and Cincinnati Telegraph Company. In 1857, Wade moved to Cleveland as the Western Union Telegraph Company's first general agent. His business interests were extensive in Cleveland, including the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company and the Citizens Savings and Loan Association. Randall Palmer Wade worked with his father in the telegraph business, moving with him to Cleveland in 1857. His business interests included the Cuyahoga Mining Company; the Citizens Savings and Loan Association; the Cleveland Banking Company; the American Sheet and Boiler Plate Company, and the Chicago and Atchison Bridge Company. Jeptha Homer Wade II also worked in the telegraph industry; he later joined the banking community in Cleveland. He was an active philanthropist, serving as a trustee of the Western Reserve Historical Society, Western Reserve University, Adelbert College, and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. He was an incorporator of the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1913, and later established a purchasing fund for the Museum. of an account book, annual report, applications, architectural plans, bibles, booklets, a cash book, a CD, charts, correspondence, deeds, diaries, drawings, family histories, genealogies, historical accounts, inventories, an invitation, an itinerary, journal articles and clippings, journals, magazine articles and clippings, newsletters, newspaper articles and clippings, notebooks, notes, personal accounts, reports, a resolution, research notes, sketches, and a will. | | | | Call #: | MS 5228 | | | | Extent: | 2.01 linear feet (4 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Wade family -- Correspondence. | Love family. | Sedgwick family. | Wade, Jeptha Homer, 1811-1890. | Wade, Randall Palmer, 1835-1876. | Wade, Jeptha Homer, 1857-1926. | Wade, Ellen Garretson, 1859-1917. | Garretson, Ellen M. Howe.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2793 | Title: | Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, August 1929 of the World Records
| | | | Creator: | Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, August 1929 of the World | | | | Dates: | 1949-1993 | | | | Abstract: | The Universal Negro Improvement Association is an international African American fraternal and philanthropic organization founded in 1914 by Marcus Garvey. Originally designed to promote Pan-Africanism, it later developed into a radical political organization which advocated the repatriation of blacks to Africa. The UNIA, Inc. split into separate factions following the deportation of Marcus Garvey to Jamaica in 1927, and in 1929 Garvey officially denounced the UNIA, Inc. operating out of New York and established the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, August 1929 of the World ("UNIA-ACL 1929"). This latter organization has been headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1940-1949 and from 1975 to the present (2014). In 2007, both UNIA organizations held a unification conference and have operated as a single organization since that time. The collection consists of agendas, articles of incorporation, by-laws, charts, constitutions, correspondence, a death certificate, dues books, financial documents, flyers, lists, maps, membership applications and cards, minutes, newspapers, newspaper clippings, notes, photographs, press releases, reports, resolutions, and statements. | | | | Call #: | MS 5229 | | | | Extent: | 0.80 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland | African Americans -- Societies, etc. | Black nationalism. | Garvey, Marcus, 1887-1940 | Hargrave, Mason | Miller, Cleophus, 1952- | Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, August 1929 of the World | Universal Negro Improvement Association
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2795 | Title: | Mt. Zion Congregational Church Records
| | | | Creator: | Mt. Zion Congregational Church | | | | Dates: | 1888-2005 | | | | Abstract: | Mt. Zion Congregational Church was founded on September 11, 1864 when nineteen men and women formally gathered in Plymouth Church on Prospect Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio. The predominantly African American congregation has moved many times throughout its history, including locations downtown, in the Central and Fairfax neighborhoods, and its current location (2014) in University Circle. Mt. Zion's congregation played a significant role in the settlement of freed slaves in Cleveland after the Civil War, the founding of the Cleveland Chapter of the National Association of Colored People (NAACP), and the founding of Eliza Bryant Village. The collection consists of correspondence, meeting minutes, historical sketches, programs, bulletins, and financial documents. | | | | Call #: | MS 5231 | | | | Extent: | 0.60 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Religion | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Church buildings -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Congregational churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History | Congregational churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Mt. Zion Congregational Church (Cleveland, Ohio) | University Circle (Cleveland, Ohio) | African American History / Religion
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2796 | Title: | Ralph E. Cozad Genealogical Research Papers
| | | | Creator: | Cozad, Ralph E. | | | | Dates: | 1898-1968 | | | | Abstract: | The Cozad family was one of the first families to settle in the Western Reserve. The family first came to the United States from Holland in 1662, when French Huguenot Jacques Cossart, his wife Lydia, and their two children settled in New Amsterdam (now known as New York City). The Cozad family grew and migrated West, settling in places such as Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Iowa. The family also settled in Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of genealogical records, genealogical narratives, military service records, and legal records. | | | | Call #: | MS 5232 | | | | Extent: | 2.00 linear feet (5 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Cozad family | Illinois -- Genealogy | New Jersey -- Genealogy | New York (State) -- Genealogy | Ohio -- Genealogy | Pennsylvania -- Genealogy | Registers of births, etc. -- Ohio | West Virginia -- Genealogy | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Genealogy | Genealogy
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2798 | Title: | Greater Avery African Methodist Episcopal Church Records
| | | | Creator: | Greater Avery African Methodist Episcopal Church | | | | Dates: | 1929-2008 | | | | 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 bulletins, calendars of events, correspondence, financial records, historical sketches, ledgers, newspaper clippings, programs, and scrapbooks. | | | | Call #: | MS 5234 | | | | Extent: | 1.00 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Genealogy. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Religion. | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland | African Methodist Episcopal Church -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Greater Avery African Methodist Episcopal Church (Cleveland, Ohio) | Women in church work -- Ohio -- Cleveland
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2799 | Title: | Trinity United Church of Christ Records
| | | | Creator: | Trinity United Church of Christ | | | | Dates: | 1911-2008 | | | | Abstract: | Trinity Evangelical Church was established on the west side of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1911 after the Home Mission Board of the Ohio District of the Evangelical Church felt compelled to institute an English-speaking congregation because the children of German immigrants no longer understood German and disassociated themselves from German-speaking churches. Located at West 25th Street and Scranton Avenue, the church and its membership expanded rapidly in the decades that followed. The church joined the newly formed Church of Christ in 1963, and changed its name to Trinity United Church of Christ. Construction of a freeway physically divided the neighborhood in the 1960s, and membership numbers never recovered. The church closed in 2008 and its members joined nearby parishes within the United Church of Christ. The collection consists of annual reports, articles of incorporation, baptism records, budgets, building plans, bulletins, certificates, confirmation class lists, committee records, constitutions, contracts, correspondence, deeds, financial records and ledgers, flyers, handouts, historical summaries, marriage records, membership lists, memorials, minutes of meetings, newsletters, newspaper articles and clippings, programs, reports, scrapbooks, Sunday school records, and youth activities and permission slips. | | | | Call #: | MS 5235 | | | | Extent: | 7.80 linear feet (9 containers and 6 volumes) | | | | Subjects: | Church records and registers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Congregational churches -- Ohio -- Cleveland | German Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Church history. | German Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Marriage records -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Registers of births, etc. -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Trinity United Church of Christ (Cleveland, Ohio)
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2800 | Title: | German Cultural Garden Association Records
| | | | Creator: | German Cultural Garden Association | | | | Dates: | 1961-1986 | | | | Abstract: | The German Cultural Garden was officially opened on June 2, 1929 as part of the Cleveland Cultural Gardens, landscaped gardens with statuary honoring various ethnic groups in Cleveland, Ohio, situated along East Boulevard and Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard. The German garden was the second garden to be constructed, following the Hebrew Cultural Garden in 1926. The Cleveland Cultural Gardens Historic District was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. The collection consists of budgets, membership lists, correspondence, ledgers, newsletters, newspaper clippings, and event programs. | | | | Call #: | MS 5236 | | | | Extent: | 0.80 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Cleveland Cultural Gardens (Cleveland, Ohio) | Gardens -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | German Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland | German Cultural Garden (Cleveland, Ohio) | German Cultural Garden Association (Cleveland, Ohio)
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