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| | Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2901 | Title: | Sir Thomas Beecham Society Records
| | | | Creator: | Sir Thomas Beecham Society | | | | Dates: | 1919-2009 | | | | Abstract: | Sir Thomas Beecham (1879-1961) was a highly regarded English conductor associated with the London Philharmonic and Royal Philharmonic Orchestras. The Sir Thomas Beecham Society (founded 1964) was a group of devotees of Beecham's work dedicated to the conductor's legacy. Jack Saul (1923-2009), president of the Sir Thomas Beecham Society for much of its existence, was a Cleveland, Ohio, area native who collected classical music recordings and related documents. The collection consists of radio broadcast notes for the society's radio show on WCLV, as well as addresses, essays, newsletters, correspondence, discographies, flyers, indexes, lists, memorabilia, pamphlets, programs, publications, surveys, and web pages. | | | | Call #: | MS 5337 | | | | Extent: | 2 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Music -- Societies, etc.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2902 | Title: | Jack Saul Papers
| | | | Creator: | Saul, Jack | | | | Dates: | 1893-2007 | | | | Abstract: | Jack Saul (1923-2009) was a significant collector of classical music recordings, memorabilia, and ephemera related to the performing arts. Saul supported musical groups of all kinds throughout the greater Cleveland, Ohio, area, including Jewish music. The collection consists primarily of programs from different musical groups and other documents related to the local music scene in Cleveland, Ohio. The collection includes correspondence, musical scores, newsletters, pamphlets, press releases, programs, and scrapbooks. | | | | Call #: | MS 5338 | | | | Extent: | 1.40 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Music -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Music. | Opera -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2903 | Title: | Glenville High School Class of 1940 Reunion Records
| | | | Creator: | Glenville High School Class of 1940 | | | | Dates: | 1940-2006 | | | | Abstract: | Hinda Saul (b.1925?) and her husband Jack Saul (1923-2009) were members of the Glenville High School (est. 1892) Class of 1940 in Cleveland, Ohio. Glenville High School, located in 1940 at Everton and Parkwood streets in what was then one of the city's predominantly Jewish neighborhoods, had a high concentration of Jewish students in the mid-twentieth century. Hinda was heavily involved in the organization of a number of reunions for the class, and her papers relating to this are contained in this collection. The collection consists of biographies, certificates, correspondence, flyers, invitations, lists, music scores, programs, reports, tax records, and yearbooks. | | | | Call #: | MS 5339 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Class reunions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2904 | Title: | Clark Controller Company Records and Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Clark Controller Company | | | | Dates: | 1955-1974 | | | | Abstract: | The Clark Controller Company was founded in 1925 by Primus P.C. Clark in Cleveland, Ohio. The company produced auxiliary electrical control apparatus for heavy-duty applications, such as steel and non-ferrous mills, cranes, rubber calenders, machinery, and power presses. The collection consists of correspondence, advertising, marketing materials, ephemera, photographic negatives, and photographs. | | | | Call #: | MS 5340 | | | | Extent: | 0.60 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Electric controllers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Iron industry and trade. | Steel industry and trade. | Branding (Marketing) -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2905 | Title: | Reliance Electric Company Records and Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Reliance Electric Company | | | | Dates: | 1905-2006 | | | | Abstract: | The Reliance Electric Company was founded in 1905 as the Lincoln Electric Motor Works by Reuben and Charles Hitchcock in Cleveland, Ohio. The company, eventually renamed Reliance Electric & Engineering Company, produced electric motors, drives, controls, and telecommunication systems. The collection consists of correspondence, advertising, marketing materials, financial reports, photographic negatives, photographs, and 35mm slides. | | | | Call #: | MS 5341 | | | | Extent: | 1.00 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Electric motors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Electric motors -- Electronic control. | Women electronic industry workers -- United States. | Business records -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2906 | Title: | Jacob Dannhauser Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Dannhauser, Jacob Family | | | | Dates: | 1942-1982 | | | | Abstract: | Born in Germany, Jacob (Jack) Dannhauser (1922-1998) emigrated to the United States in 1939, eventually settling in Cleveland, Ohio. He was active as a volunteer in the Jewish community and a member of Shaarey Tikvah Congregation (Gates of Hope). The collection consists of a bulletin, bylaws, correspondence, and lists related to Dannhauser's involvement in the congregations of Mayfield Hillcrest Synagogue and the Gates of Hope Congregation, known today as Shaarey Tikvah. | | | | Call #: | MS 5342 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Jewish refugees -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2907 | Title: | Douglas Braun Papers
| | | | Creator: | Braun, Douglas | | | | Dates: | 1986-2013 | | | | Abstract: | Douglas Braun has been an important activist in the Northeast Ohio lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) rights movement since the mid-1980s. He has been instrumental in organizing campaigns focusing on the domestic partnership registry in Cleveland and Cleveland Heights (with Heights Families for Equality and Ask Cleveland), employment and housing discrimination against transgender people, adoption rights for LGBTQ parents, and marriage equality in Ohio. The collection consists of Ask Cleveland items including one t-shirt and one large outdoor banner used at events, newspaper clippings, correspondence, flyers, petitions, postcards, precinct binders, programs, publications, scripts and talking points for conversing with voters, volunteer manuals and training materials, volunteer phone bank lists, and voter lists. | | | | Call #: | MS 5343 | | | | Extent: | 14.40 linear feet (18 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Gay activists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Same-sex marriage -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Gay adoption -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Gay communities -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Gay rights -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Transgender people--Employment--Law and legislation | Transgender people -- Cleveland -- Ohio. | Sexual minorities -- Periodicals.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2908 | Title: | James A. Paisley Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Paisley, James A. Family | | | | Dates: | 1907-1997 | | | | Abstract: | James A. Paisley (1866-1932) was a Cleveland, Ohio coal and steamship magnate whose company, the Valley Camp Coal Company, comprised twenty-four separate companies, including the James A. Paisley Steamship Company, J.A. Paisley Oil Company, and Morrow Steamship Company. He also organized the J.A. Paisley Company to manage his holdings, of which his wife and seven children were shareholders and ran the company following his death. The collection consists of correspondence, financial reports, shipping records, estate settlement materials, and photographs. | | | | Call #: | MS 5344 | | | | Extent: | 2.40 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2909 | Title: | H. Jack Lang Papers
| | | | Creator: | Lang, H. Jack | | | | Dates: | 1942-1992 | | | | Abstract: | H. Jack Lang (1904-1996) was an advertising executive, editor and author, and philanthropist in Cleveland, Ohio. Married to Frances Elizabeth Wise, Lang was a veteran of World War II and edited several compilations of correspondence, as well as The Wolf Magazine of Letters. The collection consists of articles, correspondence, drafts, manuscripts, newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, publication requests, reader contributions, scrapbooks, and transcripts from Lang's career as an editor, as well as his personal correspondence during World War II. | | | | Call #: | MS 5345 | | | | Extent: | 2.60 linear feet (4 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Editors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | World War, 1939-1945 -- Correspondence. | Advertising executives -- Ohio -- Cleveland
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2910 | Title: | Roy Wortman Collection of the Industrial Workers of the World in Ohio Dissertation Research
| | | | Creator: | Wortman, Roy | | | | Dates: | 1914-2011 | | | | Abstract: | Roy T. Wortman, Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, amassed this collection for a doctoral dissertation while he was a graduate student at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, from 1967-1971. The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) is a labor union founded in 1905 that promoted the concept of "One Big Union", and maintained workers should unite as a social class to promote industrial democracy as an alternative to capitalism. The collection consists of constitutions, contracts, correspondence, memoirs, newspaper clippings, newsletters, bulletins, court decisions, photographs, audio tapes, and microfilm. | | | | Call #: | MS 5346 | | | | Extent: | 0.80 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Strikes and lockouts -- Ohio. | Hungarian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Scandinavian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2914 | Title: | Valhalla Club of Shaw High School and Shaker Heights High School Scrapbooks
| | | | Creator: | Valhalla Club | | | | Dates: | 1920-1955 | | | | Abstract: | The Valhalla Club was a men's fraternity at Shaw High School in East Cleveland, Ohio, and Shaker Heights High School in Shaker Heights, Ohio, founded in 1920. The fraternity promoted good fellowship, clean sportsmanship, better social activities, and higher standards of manhood. The club held social events for students including dances, dinners, and banquets. The collection consists of two scrapbooks that document the activities of the club and its individual members. | | | | Call #: | MS 5350 | | | | Extent: | 2.00 linear feet (2 volumes) | | | | Subjects: | Secret societies -- Ohio -- History. | Hazing -- Ohio -- History.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2915 | Title: | Public Square Relations Records
| | | | Creator: | Public Square Relations | | | | Dates: | 1938-1949 | | | | Abstract: | Public Square Relations was a cooperative effort to promote the city of Cleveland, Ohio, through the medium of Public Square. It was founded in 1938 by representatives of several business entities located in buildings on Public Square. The collection consists of bulletins, correspondence, minutes, and reports. | | | | Call #: | MS 5351 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Public Square Relations -- Records and correspondence.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2916 | Title: | Singers' Club of Cleveland Records and Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Singers' Club of Cleveland | | | | Dates: | 1880-2003 | | | | Abstract: | The Singers' Club of Cleveland, a male chorus in Cleveland, Ohio, was begun informally in 1891 at the Central Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) by Homer B. Hatch and Carroll B. Ellinwood. In 1893 the organization formally became known as the Singers' Club of Cleveland and is still active today (2015) under the direction of Dr. Melvin P. Unger. The collection consists of advertisements, agendas, agreements, applications, attendance records, audio reels, book chapter manuscripts, brochures, budgets, a calendar, cassette tapes, certificates, compact discs, contracts, correspondence, film reels, financial records, flyers, grant proposals, handbooks, historical sketches, indices, itineraries, journals, ledgers, lists, magazine articles, meeting announcements, memoranda, minutes, negatives, newsletter articles, newsletters, newspaper clippings, notes, personal memoirs/remembrances, photographs, posters, press releases, proclamations, program notes, programs, prospecti, public service announcements, reports, resolutions, rosters, scrapbooks, sheet music, sketches, and slides, and tickets. | | | | Call #: | MS 5352 | | | | Extent: | 17.41 linear feet (20 containers, 3 volumes and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Clubs -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Music -- Societies, etc. | Singers -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2917 | Title: | Little Italy Historical Museum Records and Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Mayfield-Murray Hill District Council DBA Little Italy Historical Museum | | | | Dates: | 1888-2006 | | | | Abstract: | The Little Italy Historical Museum, sometimes referred to as the Little Italy Heritage Museum, was operated by members of the Mayfield-Murray Hill District Council in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1983 until 2007. The collection consists of both business records related to the museum and manuscripts and photographs collected by the museum. The collected manuscripts and photographs comprise the majority of the materials. The collection includes agreements, albums, awards, books, certificates, correspondence, 8mm films, flyers, forms, invoices, lists, magazine clippings, magazines, memoirs, memoranda, minutes, negatives, newsletters, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, photographs, posters, proclamations, programs, publications, receipts, reports, resolutions, scrapbooks, sheet music, and VHS tapes. | | | | Call #: | MS 5353 | | | | Extent: | 8.81 linear feet (15 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Italian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History. | Italian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Social life and customs. | Italian Americans -- Genealogy. | Buildings -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2918 | Title: | Wm. Wischmeier and Son Funeral Home Records
| | | | Creator: | Wm. Wischmeier and Son Funeral Home | | | | Dates: | 1908-1988 | | | | Abstract: | The Wm. Wischmeier and Son Funeral Home was established in the Old Brooklyn neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1887 by William Wischmeier (1866-1922). The company initially provided undertaking services and furniture sales to the German immigrant community on Cleveland's West Side. The funeral home merged with Gustav Buesch and Sons Funeral Home in 1972, but continued providing independent funeral home services until 1988. The collection consists primarily of funeral ledgers but includes correspondence, death certificates, invoices, notes, obituaries, photographs, receipts, transit permits, and other documents related to funerals and burials. | | | | Call #: | MS 5354 | | | | Extent: | 4.00 linear feet (6 containers) | | | | Subjects: | German Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy. | Funeral homes -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Undertakers and undertaking -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Registers of births, etc. -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Death certificates -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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