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| | Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2921 | Title: | World Publishing Company Records
| | | | Creator: | World Publishing Company | | | | Dates: | 1954-1979 | | | | Abstract: | The World Publishing Company was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1905 by Alfred H. Cahen, an immigrant from Poland. The company was a major publisher of trade books, bibles, dictionaries, and children's books. This collection consists primarily of catalogs, annual reports, and bulletins from the World Publishing Company dating from the 1950s to the 1970s. It also includes employee benefit manuals and company-issued books detailing pension and retirement plans. | | | | Call #: | MS 5357 | | | | Extent: | 0.80 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Publishers and publishing -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Pensions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2922 | Title: | AMIT Women Records, Series II
| | | | Creator: | AMIT Women | | | | Dates: | 1925-2010 | | | | Abstract: | AMIT Women (Mizrachi Women's Organization of America, Hebrew acronym for Association of Volunteers for Israel and Torah) was founded at the Mizrachi Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1925 as Mizrachi Women of America (MWoA) and later named AMIT Women in 1983. AMIT Women is an organization of orthodox Jewish Zionist women that provides support for poor children in Israel. Throughout the history of the organization AMIT built up a network of vocational schools, homes for children, surrogate family residences and other projects for youth in Israel. In Cleveland, AMIT has been an active part of the Jewish community, organizing numerous fundraising dinners, luncheons, and other events along the Jewish holidays to support both the local Jewish community and to raise money for their numerous projects in Israel. The collection consists of reports, brochures, catalogues, correspondence, instruction booklets, invoices, manuals, newspaper clippings, photographs, posters, proclamations, programs, publications, recognition certificates, resource manuals, and a scrapbook. | | | | Call #: | MS 5358 | | | | Extent: | 0.82 linear feet (2 containers and 2 oversize folders) | | | | Subjects: | Zionists -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. | Women in charitable work -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2923 | Title: | Cleveland Hebrew Schools Records and Photographs, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Cleveland Hebrew Schools | | | | Dates: | 1902-2006 | | | | Abstract: | Cleveland Hebrew Schools (CHS), officially founded in 1913, having roots back to 1885, provided an educational center for the Cleveland, Ohio, Jewish community until its closure in 2009. The collection includes school records and related documents from Cleveland Hebrew Schools, documenting changes throughout its history, including announcements, bank records, books, booklets, budgets, calendars, contracts, correspondence, curricula, employee records, enrollment records, financial records, government records, graduation records, journals, minute books, negatives, newsletters, photographs, reports, school records, song books, and tuition records. | | | | Call #: | MS 5359 | | | | Extent: | 15.41 linear feet (18 containers and 1 oversize folder) | | | | Subjects: | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History. | Jews -- Education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish educators -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Schools -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish religious education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish religious schools -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2924 | Title: | Coalition of Labor Union Women Records
| | | | Creator: | Coalition of Labor Union Women | | | | Dates: | 1967-1996 | | | | Abstract: | The Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) was founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1974. The organization's primary purpose was to make unions more responsive to unorganized working women and help its members share common labor problems and concerns. Jean Tussey (1918-2010) was a prominent member of the Cleveland, Ohio, chapter of CLUW. As a union activist, Tussey was highly involved in the Coalition of Labor Union Women. This collection consists primarily of agendas, bylaws, correspondence, financial reports, minutes, newsletters, handbooks and other material related to CLUW's Cleveland chapter and Tussey's involvement. | | | | Call #: | MS 5360 | | | | Extent: | 0.80 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Women labor union members -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Labor unions -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Feminism -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2925 | Title: | E.F. Hauserman Company Records, Photographs, and Audio Materials
| | | | Creator: | Sunar-Hauserman, Inc. | | | | Dates: | 1856-1989 | | | | Abstract: | The E.F. Hauserman Company was a leading producer of of movable interior walls for offices, factories, and schools, headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. The company was founded by Earl F. Hauserman (1885-1943) who bought out part of the building supplies dealer for whom he worked and organized the E.F. Hauserman Co. in 1913. The company became a leading manufacturer of interior steel partitions and was a major defense contractor during World War II. Following the war, E.F. Hauerman's sons, Fred M. Hauserman (1909-1972) and William F. Hauserman (1920-2012) led the company, including expansion into Canada and Europe. In the mid 1970s, E.F. Hauserman Company consolidated with its principle subsidiaries to become Hauserman, Inc., In 1978 the company acquired Sunar, a Canadian office furniture manufacturer and in 1983 became Sunar-Hauserman, Inc. The company closed in 1989 due to changing economic conditions. The collection consists of correspondence, financial reports, project and patent files, product literature, organizational materials, photographs, and audio recordings. | | | | Call #: | MS 5361 | | | | Extent: | 30.02 linear feet (27 containers, 8 oversize volumes, and 2 oversize folders) | | | | Subjects: | Business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Prefabricated interior architecture. | Wall panels. | Landing mats. | Pontoon bridges. | Steel plate deck bridges -- United States.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2926 | Title: | Western Reserve Manuscripts (Western Reserve Historical Society Manuscript Vertical File)
| | | | Creator: | Various | | | | Dates: | 1636-1991 | | | | Abstract: | The Western Reserve Manuscripts is a collection of small manuscript accessions that have been donated to the Western Reserve Historical Society since its founding in 1867. These manuscripts often consist of one document but can include multiple items contained in one folder. This collection of material documents numerous subjects and themes in the history of Cleveland, Ohio, and the region of northeast Ohio known as the Western Reserve. The collection consists of advertisements, agreements, applications, articles, autobiographies, autograph books and autographs, biographical sketches, certificates, correspondence, deeds, diaries, drawings, envelopes, genealogies, histories, indentures, invoices, letters, lists, manuscripts, memoranda, newspaper clippings, notes, papers, photographs, poems, receipts, reports, scripts, speech transcripts, telegrams, and other material. Western Reserve Historical Society library staff began to describe these manuscripts in this finding aid in 2015. This is an ongoing project that will be updated for public access as the project progresses in real time. | | | | Call #: | MS 5362 | | | | Extent: | 27.80 linear feet (29 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History. | Western Reserve (Ohio) -- Surveys. | Pioneers -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. | Real property -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. | Surveyors -- Ohio -- Western Reserve. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- History. | Connecticut Land Company. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy. | Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History. | Business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources. | Slavery -- United States -- History -- Sources. | United States -- History -- 19th century. | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- 19th century. | Temperance -- Ohio -- Societies, etc. | Antislavery movements -- Ohio.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2927 | Title: | Leon Weisberg Papers
| | | | Creator: | Weisberg, Leon | | | | Dates: | 2006-2015 | | | | Abstract: | Leon Weisberg was born to a Jewish family in Jedrzejow, Poland, in 1929, and lived in Sedziszow with his six siblings until the German army invaded Poland in 1939. For the next several years, Weisberg and his family were subjected to the constant horrors of the camps and ghettos of Poland, with Weisberg himself being sent from Sedziszow to Skarzysko-Kamienna to Buchenwald and, finally, to Theresienstadt, where he was liberated by the Russian army in 1945. After the war, Weisberg and his surviving relatives slowly began to immigrate outward and Weisberg immigrated to Cleveland in 1951, working in various businesses as an electrician until his retirement. The collection consists of correspondence, a narrative, notes, photographs, a questionnaire, summaries, and transcripts created as part of Weisberg's oral history interview and the research conducted by the Western Reserve Historical Society on his family's experiences during World War II. | | | | Call #: | MS 5363 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Holocaust survivors -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews, Polish -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2928 | Title: | Katz Family Papers and Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Katz Family | | | | Dates: | 1900-1992 | | | | Abstract: | The Katz family began emigrating to the Cleveland area in the 1880s from their home of Podzelva, Lithuania (then part of the Russian Empire). The Katzes were very active in the Cleveland Jewish community. Aaron Katz and his son Solomon David prepared a "booklet of remembrance" (a history of their family) in 1905. This "booklet", a large ledger with writing in Biblical Hebrew by Cleveland area scribe Yaacov Landy, was updated with the names of family members through 1913. A composite photograph of individual portraits of over one hundred family members (not part of the ledger) was included in "An American Story", the core exhibit of the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, opened in 2005. The collection includes a photocopy of this photograph and a guide to the names of those pictured. The collection consists of the certificate of naturalization of Sam Katz, the Family History, an unusually extensive genealogy, photographs, and a supplement to and translation of the family history. | | | | Call #: | MS 5364 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | United States -- Emigration and immigration. | Immigrants -- Ohio -- Cleveland
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2929 | Title: | Goldstein-Wallenstein Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Goldstein-Wallenstein, Laura | | | | Dates: | 1916-1952 | | | | Abstract: | Laura Goldstein-Wallenstein, a resident of Beachwood, Ohio, is the only daughter of Jewish immigrants Sidney Walzer and Fanny Harkavy. Walzer (1900-1988) was born in Austria-Hungary in 1900 and emigrated to the United States in 1913. Walzer found work in the women's garment industry where he met his wife, Fanny Harkavy, who had emigrated from Lithuania and worked alongside him at Keller-Kohn. Their only daughter, Laura, was born shortly after their marriage in 1930. The collection consists of certificates, correspondence, currency, declarations of immigration, identification cards, information sheets, inspection cards, library records, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, passports, passport covers, permissions to travel, photographs, postcards, receipts, transport contracts, and vaccination records from the Goldstein, Harkavy, and Walzer families during the time of their immigration from Europe to the United States. | | | | Call #: | MS 5365 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Zionism -- Ohio.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2931 | Title: | Nature Center at Shaker Lakes Collection of Papers, Photographs and Audiovisual Materials
| | | | Creator: | Nature Center at Shaker Lakes | | | | Dates: | 1880-2015 | | | | Abstract: | The Nature Center at Shaker Lakes, established in 1966 on part of the site of the original North Union Shaker Community, was the result of a grassroots effort to prevent the construction of two interstate highways which would have bisected major sections of Shaker Heights and Cleveland Heights and caused property loss and damage to the Doan Brook watershed. The collection consists of administrative documents, architectural drawings, audiovisual materials, clippings, correspondence, financial documents, flyers, legal documents, maps, minutes, negatives, photographs, publications, reports, scrapbooks, signs, and studies. | | | | Call #: | MS 5367 | | | | Extent: | 29.88 linear feet (39 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Nature Center at Shaker Lakes -- History. | Shaker Lakes Region (Ohio) | Highway Planning -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Citizen Participation. | Doan Brook (Ohio) | Shaker Heights (Ohio) -- History | Shaker Lakes Region (Ohio) -- Environmental Aspects. | Parks -- Ohio -- Cleveland | Nature centers -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2932 | Title: | Ohio Knitting Mills Collection
| | | | Creator: | Ohio Knitting Mills | | | | Dates: | 1926-2000 | | | | Abstract: | The Ohio Knitting Mills was founded as Stone Knitting Mills in Cleveland, Ohio, by Harry Stone and Walker Woodworth in 1927. The company manufactured sweaters, caps, capes, vests, dresses, pants, and shirts. The collection consists of material from Ohio Knitting Mills (Stone Knitting Mills before 1946) and other material related to the knitwear industry. The bulk of the collection consists of fabric samples, production cards, and advertising samples. Other material includes handbooks, catalogs, product boards for design purposes, and manuals for knitting and other design. | | | | Call #: | MS 5368 | | | | Extent: | 45.80 linear feet (53 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Textile industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Knitwear -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Business enterprises -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Fashion design -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Clothing trade -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2933 | Title: | Solomon Schechter Day School of Cleveland Records, Series II
| | | | Creator: | Solomon Schechter Day School of Cleveland | | | | Dates: | 1997-2004 | | | | Abstract: | The Solomon Schechter Day School, now known as the Gross Schechter Day School, of Cleveland, Ohio (f. 1980) is a day school affiliated with the Conservative movement of Judaism for children from preschool through the eighth grade. Founded as the Jewish Day School Association of Cleveland in 1980, the Solomon Schechter Day School was originally located at the Beth Am Congregation in Cleveland Heights, but moved several times to accommodate a growing student population, starting with just fifteen students at its inception. Now the Gross Schechter Day School, the institution is currently housed in Pepper Pike and serves nearly 260 students. The collection consists of calendars, correspondence, flyers, lists, manuals, newsletters, and programs published by the Solomon Schechter Day School for its students, parents, and the public. | | | | Call #: | MS 5369 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Conservative Judaism -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish day schools -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Private schools -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2934 | Title: | Bennett Yanowitz Papers and Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Yanowitz, Bennett | | | | Dates: | 1979-1999 | | | | Abstract: | Bennett Yanowitz (1923-2011), a native of the Glenville neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, was an influential lawyer and leader in the national Jewish community, co-founding a law firm and leading several national Jewish organizations. Yanowitz was very involved in the cause of supporting Soviet and Ethiopian Jewry (also known as Falashas and Beta Israel). His papers document his work on behalf of the Jews of Ethiopia and the Soviet Union. The collection consists of background papers, correspondence, currency exchange receipts, flyers, guidelines, itineraries, lists, maps, newsletters, notes, pamphlets, photographs, press releases, proclamations, reports, resolutions, speeches, theses, tickets, and transcripts | | | | Call #: | MS 5370 | | | | Extent: | 0.60 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Jewish lawyers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews, Soviet. | Jews, Ethiopian. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2936 | Title: | Detroit-Superior High-Level Bridge Right-of-Way Photograph Album
| | | | Creator: | Unknown | | | | Dates: | 1911 | | | | Abstract: | The Detroit-Superior High-Level Bridge was constructed by the King Bridge Company between 1912 and 1917 to link the east and west sides of downtown Cleveland, Ohio. Prior to the start of construction, the City of Cleveland, Ohio, and Cuyahoga County approved a 120 foot wide right-of-way along the proposed 5,600 foot path of the bridge from the intersection of Detroit Avenue, N.W. and 25th Street on the west side of the River, to the intersection of Superior Avenue, N.W. and 9th Avenue, N.W., on the east side of the River. Contains one photograph album containing 62 images from the Flats area of downtown Cleveland, Ohio, including businesses, residences, and streets of those areas that were located in the proposed path of the Detroit-Superior Bridge. | | | | Call #: | MS 5372 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet | | | | Subjects: | Bridges -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Buildings -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Working class -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cuyahoga River (Ohio)
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2937 | Title: | Alpha Omega Cleveland Alumni Chapter Women's Auxiliary Records
| | | | Creator: | Alpha Omega Cleveland Alumni Chapter Women's Auxiliary | | | | Dates: | 1948-2003 | | | | Abstract: | The Alpha Omega Cleveland Alumni Chapter Women's Auxiliary was the Women's Auxiliary of the Alpha Omega Jewish dental fraternity, open to all wives and girlfriends of Alpha Omega fraternity members. The Cleveland branch of the Alpha Omega Women's Auxiliary promoted cultural, social, and philanthropic growth among its members, hosting fundraisers, meetings, parties, and an annual scholastic competition for Jewish dental students at Case Western Reserve University. The collection consists of agendas, board highlights, brochures, bylaws, correspondence, guidelines, lists, minutes, order forms, policies, proposals, receipt forms, reminders, reports, schedules, scrapbooks, scripts, and summaries from the activities of the Women's Auxiliary. | | | | Call #: | MS 5373 | | | | Extent: | 1.60 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Jewish dentists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Dentists -- Societies, etc.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2938 | Title: | Nili Adler Papers
| | | | Creator: | Adler, Nili | | | | Dates: | 1983-2011 | | | | Abstract: | Nili Adler (1942-2014), a Hebrew teacher and educator, worked as head of the Hebrew Department for the Cleveland College of Jewish Studies (after 2002, Siegal College of Judaic Studies). She also led Akiva High School, a supplementary educational program for Jewish high school students offering courses in Hebrew language and Jewish cultural programming. The collection consists of agendas, booklets, contributions acknowledgments, correspondence, course listings, curriculum guidelines, evaluations, flyers, graduation programs, handbooks, lesson plans, lists, manuals, memoranda, minutes, newspaper clippings, notes, a photograph, proficiency tests, program descriptions and evaluations, proposals, reports, speeches, and syllabi. | | | | Call #: | MS 5374 | | | | Extent: | 1.00 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Jews -- Education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Judaism -- Study and teaching -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Adult education -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jewish religious education of adults -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 2940 | Title: | Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, Cleveland Chapter Photographs
| | | | Creator: | Hadassah, Cleveland Chapter | | | | Dates: | 1930-2000 | | | | Abstract: | Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America (founded 1912) is a Jewish women's volunteer organization, numbering over 300,000 members in the United States, that focuses on advocating for solutions to health issues that affect Jews worldwide. Cleveland had an active Hadassah chapter almost from the founding of the organization until June of 2015 when it announced its closure. This collection consists of photographs that tell the history of the Cleveland Hassadah chapter beginning in the 1930s through the early 2000s. | | | | Call #: | MS 5376 | | | | Extent: | 1.2 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Jewish women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Charities. | Zionism -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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