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| | Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2881 | Title: | Edward L. and Cynthia Moultrie Holloway Papers and Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Holloway, Edward L. and Cynthia Moultrie | | | | Dates: | 1907-1993 | | | | Abstract: | Cynthia Moultrie Holloway (1912-1994) taught in the Cleveland Public Schools for over thirty years. She was a teacher at Rutherford B. Hayes, Kinsman, and Anton Grdina schools. She traveled throughout the world as a delegate to conferences of the World Confederation of the Teaching Profession, including Australia, England, Nigeria, Indonesia, and Brazil. She held leadership positions in thirty Ohio Education assemblies and served for eight years on the Ohio Education Association's Human Relations Committee. Her husband Edward L. Holloway (1910-1985) was a industrial arts teacher at several Cleveland Public Schools who served in leadership capacities in the North Eastern Ohio Teachers Association and the Ohio Education Association. The Holloways were among the first African American teachers to serve in leadership positions within the Ohio Education Association. The collection consists of scrapbooks that contain biographies, certificates, correspondence, memoranda, newsletters, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, photographs, and ephemera. | | | | Call #: | MS 5317 | | | | Extent: | 2.41 linear feet (3 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | African American teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2882 | Title: | George V. Voinovich Papers
| | | | Creator: | Voinovich, George V. | | | | Dates: | 1979-2003 | | | | Abstract: | George Victor Voinovich was born in 1936 and grew up on the east side of Cleveland, Ohio. He attended Ohio University for his undergraduate studies and received his law degree from Ohio State University in 1961. Following his marriage to Janet Allan in 1962, he established a law practice in his Collinwood neighborhood. He was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1966, became Cuyahoga County Auditor in 1971, and was elected a Cuyahoga County commissioner in 1976. He also served one term as Lieutenant Governor under James A. Rhodes. Voinovich was elected mayor of the city of Cleveland in 1979 and served for ten years, restructuring the city's finances, promoting neighborhood revitalization, and supporting development of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, among other achievements. The National Civic League awarded the city of Cleveland the "All American City Award" three times during Voinovich's tenure. He was elected Governor of Ohio in 1990. From 1999-2011, he represented Ohio in the United States Senate. The collection consists of calendars, correspondence, itineraries, lists, magazines, memoranda, newspaper clippings, notes, press releases, reports, schedules, and speeches. | | | | Call #: | MS 5318 | | | | Extent: | 4.60 linear feet (6 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Mayors -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2883 | Title: | White Motor Company Records and Photographs
| | | | Creator: | White Motor Company | | | | Dates: | 1901-1989 | | | | Abstract: | The White Motor Company was an automobile, truck, and bus manufacturer in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1900-1980. The company was founded and developed by Rollin, Walter, and Windsor White, sons of sewing machine manufacturer Thomas H. White. The collection consists of advertisements, agreements, ballots, bylaws, catalogs, conference materials, constitutions, correspondence, data books, decals, deeds, engineering and design drawings, film cartridges, financial documents, handbooks, histories, identification cards, invitations, legal documents, manuals, maps, memoranda, minutes, newsletters, parts lists, patents, photographs, press releases, price lists, programs, reports, sales brochures, scrapbooks, slide rulers, specifications, tally sheets, transcripts, truck change orders, and a uniform patch. | | | | Call #: | MS 5319 | | | | Extent: | 19.14 linear feet (22 containers, 1 oversize volume, and 4 oversize folders) | | | | Subjects: | White trucks -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. | White tractors -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. | Buses -- Ohio -- Cleveland --Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2884 | Title: | Cleveland Tractor Company Records and Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Cleveland Tractor Company | | | | Dates: | 1910-1945 | | | | Abstract: | The Cleveland Tractor Company (Cletrac, Inc.), was a manufacturer of tractors for military and civilian use in Cleveland, Ohio. It was organized by Rollin H. White (1872-1962) as the Cleveland Motor Plow Company in 1916. The company was sold to the Oliver Corporation in 1944 and renamed Cletrac, Inc. in 1959. The collection consists of a contract, correspondence, instruction books, photographs, and a price list. | | | | Call #: | MS 5320 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Farm tractors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Vehicles, Military -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2885 | Title: | Dudley S. Blossom, III Papers
| | | | Creator: | Blossom, Dudley S. III | | | | Dates: | 1980-1985 | | | | Abstract: | Dudley S. Blossom, III ("Bun" Blossom) is the grandson of Dudley S. Blossom (1879-1938) and Elizabeth Bingham Blossom (1881-1970). He is a prominent businessman and philanthropist in Cleveland, Ohio. During the 1980s, he was led efforts for the economic revitalization of the Hough neighborhood by leveraging the activities and support of the Institute of Man and Science, the William Bingham Foundation, Glenco Enterprises, the North Coast Village Steering Committee, local churches, and Leland Schubert (1907-1998). The collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, minutes, newsletters, newspaper and magazine clippings, notes, proposals, and reports. | | | | Call #: | MS 5321 | | | | Extent: | 0.60 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Businessmen -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2886 | Title: | John Meek Midget Car Racing Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Meek, John | | | | Dates: | 1920-1978 | | | | Abstract: | John Meek (d. 1984) was a midget car racing enthusiast from Warren, Ohio. He retired to Key West, Florida, in the mid-1960s and became known as "The Iguana Man of Key West" for his passion for iguanas. The collection consists of approximately 300 black and white and color photographs of midget car races and drivers, primarily in Ohio and Pennsylvania, in the late 1930s through the early 1950s. The collection also includes photographs of antique racing car shows in the 1970s and race and pit passes from the 1940s. | | | | Call #: | MS 5322 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Midget car racing -- Ohio -- Photographs. | Midget car racing -- Pennsylvania -- Photographs.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2887 | Title: | WHK Radio Station Records
| | | | Creator: | WHK-AM and WHK-FM | | | | Dates: | 1974-1998 | | | | Abstract: | Radio station WHK-AM in Cleveland, Ohio, is one of the oldest radio stations in the United States, having received its commercial broadcasting license in 1922. The station received one of the first FM broadcasting licenses in the United States in 1946, and this station became WMMS in 1968. Ownership and broadcasting formats of these stations has changed multiple times throughout their existence, and in 1996 WHK was sold to Salem Communications and WMMS was sold to Nationwide Communications. In 1997 WHK and WHK-FM adopted a Christian format and eliminated all local programming. The collection consists of agreements, contracts, correspondence, forms, and reports. | | | | Call #: | MS 5323 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Radio stations -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2888 | Title: | Harmonia Chopin Singing Society Records
| | | | Creator: | Harmonia Chopin Singing Society | | | | Dates: | 1926-1969 | | | | Abstract: | The Harmonia Chopin Singing Society was established in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1902 by young Polish immigrants interested in preserving their heritage. The collection consists of a certificate and minutes. All of the material is in Polish. | | | | Call #: | MS 5324 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Choral societies -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Polish Americans -- Societies, etc.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2890 | Title: | Joseph A. Artl Papers and Photographs, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Artl, Joseph A. | | | | Dates: | 1941-1971 | | | | Abstract: | Joseph A. Artl (1893-1970) was a Cleveland, Ohio, judge who served in the municipal, common pleas, and appeals courts. He was also active in Cleveland's Czech community. The collection consists of biographical material, campaign posters, certificates. correspondence, legal opinions, newspaper clippings, photographs, a request for a blessing, resolutions, a scrapbook, and speech transcripts. | | | | Call #: | MS 5326 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Czech Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Judges -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Miscellanea.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2891 | Title: | Hupp Motor Car Corporation Account Book
| | | | Creator: | Hupp Motor Car Corporation | | | | Dates: | 1920 | | | | Abstract: | The Hupp Corporation began as an automobile manufacturer in Detroit, Michigan, and was revitalized as an appliance and heating system manufacturer. In 1928 the Hupp Motor Car Corporation purchased the Chandler-Cleveland Motors Corporation of Cleveland, Ohio, in order to expand its manufacturing facilities for a low price version of the Hupmobile. The collection consists of one general ledger for 1920. | | | | Call #: | MS 5327 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 volume) | | | | Subjects: | Account books -- Michigan -- Detroit.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2892 | Title: | Power of Dance, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Scrapbook and Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Western Reserve Historical Society | | | | Dates: | 1930-1993 | | | | Abstract: | The Power of Dance, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow was a video documentary on the work of African American social worker, educator, and choreographer Marjorie Witt Johnson (1910-2007) of Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of one scrapbook created by the African American Archives Auxiliary of the Western Reserve Historical Society to celebrate the premiere of the documentary and photographs taken and collected by documentary film makers Stanley Garfinkel and Keith Richards. | | | | Call #: | MS 5328 | | | | Extent: | 0.80 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Documentary films -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2893 | Title: | Cleveland Hiking Club Records and Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Cleveland Hiking Club | | | | Dates: | 1915-2007 | | | | Abstract: | The Cleveland Hiking Club was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1919 to encourage and promote outdoor recreation for people living in northeast Ohio. The collection consists of architectural records, a ballot, booklets, brochures, certificates, constitutions, a cookbook, correspondence, directories, event announcements, fabric swatches, financial records, flyers, a guest register, lists, log books, magazine articles, maps, membership records, minutes, newsletters, newspaper and magazine clippings, newspaper articles, organizational histories, proclamations, programs, reports, schedules, and scrapbooks. The collection also contains approximately 2,228 black and white photographs, 750 color photographs, 118 negatives, and one VHS videotape. | | | | Call #: | MS 5329 | | | | Extent: | 7.90 linear feet (9 containers and 7 volumes) | | | | Subjects: | Hiking -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Trails -- Ohio.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2894 | Title: | Lana Moresky Papers and Photographs, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Moresky, Lana Z. | | | | Dates: | 1971-2010 | | | | Abstract: | Lana Moresky is a women's rights activist and officer of the National Organization for Women (NOW). In 1972, Moresky joined the Cleveland, Ohio, NOW. By 1973 she was a member of the executive board and a state delegate, and, in 1974, Moresky became state NOW coordinator. In 1976 she was elected to a seat on the NOW national board. Moresky remained involved in NOW, particularly at the local level, throughout the 1980s, even as her political and women's rights activities increased and diversified. Her involvement included: Ohio Attorney General's Task Force on Sexism in Education, Cuyahoga County Democratic Executive Committee, Twenty-Second District Caucus chairperson, Democratic National Convention delegate, and Cleveland board member of Americans for Democratic Action. The collection consists of agendas, agreements, brochures, bylaws, correspondence, flyers, lists, magazine articles, memoranda, minutes, newspaper articles, newsletters, notes, press releases, programs, questionnaires, reports, resolutions, resumes, rosters, schedules/day planners, and speeches. The collection also contains two cassette tapes, one compact disc, 25 black and white photographs, and 42 color photographs. | | | | Call #: | MS 5330 | | | | Extent: | 5.60 linear feet (7 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Women's rights -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2895 | Title: | Herbert E. Prentke Collection
| | | | Creator: | Prentke, Herbert E. | | | | Dates: | 1929-1958 | | | | Abstract: | Herbert Prentke was president of the Humphrey, Prentke & Associates advertising agency in Cleveland, Ohio. He was named advertising director for the 1929 National Air Races; he then directed the advertising and promotional campaigns for the National Aeronautical Exposition of 1929; the National Air Races of 1929, 1931, 1932, 1934 and 1935 (which were all held in Cleveland), and the Great Lakes Exposition of 1936-1937 that was also held in Cleveland, Ohio. The collection consists of artwork, banners, booklets, business documents, clippings, correspondence, directories, ephemera, film reels, membership cards, menus, newsletters, pamphlets, passes, photographs, pins, posters, programs, promotional materials, ribbons, signs and tickets. | | | | Call #: | MS 5331 | | | | Extent: | 7.90 linear feet (10 containers and 42 oversize folders) | | | | Subjects: | Great Lakes Exposition | Great Lakes Exposition -- (1936-1937 : -- Cleveland, Ohio) | Exhibitions -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Airplane racing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | National Air Races (Cleveland, Ohio) | National Air Races (Cleveland, Ohio) -- History | Advertising -- Ohio -- Cleveland
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2896 | Title: | D. James Pritchard Papers
| | | | Creator: | Pritchard, D. James | | | | Dates: | 1922-1991 | | | | Abstract: | D. James Pritchard (1908-1998) was a bank executive and public relations director at Society Corporation in Cleveland, Ohio. He was a local philanthropist who supported its cultural institutions, namely the Cleveland Botanical Gardens, the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. The collection consists of annual reports, awards, biographies, charters, correspondence, financial records, histories, notices, and reports. | | | | Call #: | MS 5332 | | | | Extent: | 1.00 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Bank marketing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Charity organization -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Philanthropy -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2897 | Title: | Peerless Motor Car Company Records
| | | | Creator: | Peerless Motor Car Company | | | | Dates: | 1911-1943 | | | | Abstract: | The Peerless Motor Car Company was founded as the Peerless Wringer and Manufacturing Company. in 1889 on the east side of Cleveland, Ohio. The company produced washing machine wringers into the late 1890's until it began bicycle production. In 1903, The Peerless Manufacturing Company. was renamed The Peerless Motor Car Company to reflect its new focus on automobile parts and construction. The company specialized in luxury car manufacturing and thrived for two decades. Peerless also profited from truck manufacture and sales, particularly during World War I. New marketing strategies, however, could not offset the economic decline of the Great Depression; the company dissolved in 1931 and its last president arranged to have the Carling Brewing Company use the factory to produce beer. The collection consists of appraisals, catalogs, correspondence, memoranda, and minutes. | | | | Call #: | MS 5333 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Automobile industry and trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Temperance -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2898 | Title: | JoAnn Lowe Papers
| | | | Creator: | Lowe, JoAnn | | | | Dates: | 1979-2009 | | | | Abstract: | JoAnn Lowe (b. 1941) is an artist based in Pepper Pike, Ohio, who initially served as the courtroom sketch artist for the Cleveland Jewish News during the five-week trial of Ivan (John) Demjanjuk, a former Cleveland resident arrested for his alleged involvement in the German extermination camps of World War II, held in Cleveland in 1981. Lowe then returned to volunteer as a sketch artist for Demjanjuk's second denaturalization trial in Cleveland in 2001. The collection consists of articles, correspondence, newspaper clippings, notes, a script, and Lowe's courtroom sketches from the 1981 Demjanjuk trial. | | | | Call #: | MS 5334 | | | | Extent: | 0.21 linear feet (1 container and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Courtroom art -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | War crime trials -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) | World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2899 | Title: | Herbert S. Caron Collection of Ivan (John) Demjanjuk Research
| | | | Creator: | Caron, Herbert S. and Blanche | | | | Dates: | 1935-2009 | | | | Abstract: | Herbert S. Caron (b. 1924) is a psychologist based in Cleveland, Ohio, and has been instrumental in the movement for the immigration of Soviet Jewry to Israel and the United States. He took an active interest in the trials of Ivan (John) Demjanjuk (1920-2012), a former Cleveland resident arrested for his alleged involvement in the German extermination camps of World War II, and collected materials pertinent to the trials for his personal research. The collection consists of correspondence, fact sheet on the case, newspaper clippings, notes on court proceedings, and a summary of the Israeli court decision. | | | | Call #: | MS 5335 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | War crime trials -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) | World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities. | War crime trials -- Israel.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2900 | Title: | Samuel Goldhamer Papers, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Goldhamer, Samuel | | | | Dates: | 1905-1968 | | | | Abstract: | Samuel Goldhamer (1884-1982), was the executive director of the Jewish Community Federation (JCF) of Cleveland, Ohio, from 1907-1948. He initiated a community-wide drive to expedite fund raising, a concept which became common throughout the United States. A resident of Shaker Heights, he published a book in 1963, titled Why Doncha Write a Book? A Half-Century of Experience in Jewish Communal Life. The collection consists of articles, correspondence, newspaper clippings, mailing lists, photographs, programs, testimonials, scrapbooks, and book manuscripts pertaining to Goldhamer's life and involvement with the JCF. | | | | Call #: | MS 5336 | | | | Extent: | 1.40 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities.
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