Available Works or Citations from Western Reserve Historical Society
Arthur and Murtis Taylor were community leaders active in Cleveland, Ohio, African-American organizations. They both worked at Karamu House and Outhwaite Homes Housing Project. Arthur then became an insurance underwriter and Murtis became director of Mount Pleasant Community Center and coordinator of the Federation for Community Planning’s Project on Aging. Their son Bruce was a biomedical engineer researching artificial arteries…
The Ashtabula County Female Anti-Slavery Society was an auxiliary of the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society. The collection consists of a preamble, constitution, list of members, music notes for various songs, minutes of meetings, and a list of names of memorialists for 1836.
Barristers’ Wives was a group committed to community and social concerns that was founded in 1956 by a group of seventeen African-American women in Cleveland, Ohio. The group initially met in October 1956 to support the campaign of Cleveland’s first African-American mayoral candidate, Alexander Martin, and continued to meet throughout the 1950s and 1960s to support other African-American politicians. The…
Dr. Henry Justus Herrick was born on January 20, 1833 in Aurora, Portage County, Ohio. He was the son of Justus Tyler Herrick (1801-1882) and Caroline J. Herrick (1808-1847). The family moved to Twinsburg when he was a child where he worked on the family farm and attended school. He graduated from Williams College in 1858 and Rush Medical College…
Bertha Blue was a member of a well-known African-American family in Cleveland, Ohio. She was a teacher at the Murray Hill Elementary School located in Little Italy, an Italian immigrant neighborhood on Cleveland’s East side, from 1903 to 1947. The collection consists of Bertha Blue’s art course notebook, correspondence, newspaper clippings, St. John African Methodist Episcopal newsletters, scrapbooks, and Jane…
Bertha Blue (ca. 1877-1963) was a member of a well-known African-American family in Cleveland, Ohio. She was a teacher at the Murray Hill Elementary School located in Little Italy, an Italian immigrant neighborhood on Cleveland’s East side, from 1903 to 1947. The collection consists of individual and group portraits of Bertha Blue, her daughter Jane Darr, Welcome T. Blue, Sr.,…
The collection consists of copy photographs for illustrations used in the book The Birth of Modern Cleveland, 1865-1930, edited by Thomas F. Campbell and Edward M. Miggins and published by the Western Reserve Historical Society in 1988. Portraits include Garrett Morgan, Charles Brush, Alexander Winton, Tom L. Johnson, Joseph Edwards, Nellie Santo Lanese, and Frederick Kohler. Subjects and views include…
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The Black Folk Art in Cleveland exhibition was presented in 1984 by the Mather Gallery of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. The exhibit was the result of a search for Cleveland’s African-American folk artists and the works created by them. It featured folk artists Peggy Davenport, Reverend Albert Wagner, Ruby Hall, Helen Dobbins, Jim Moss, Mickey Towns, Benjamin Collins,…
The Black Folk Art in Cleveland exhibition was presented in 1984 by the Mather Gallery of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. The exhibit was the result of a search for Cleveland’s African-Americanfolk artists and the works created by them. It featured folk artists Peggy Davenport, Reverend Albert Wagner, Ruby Hall, Helen Dobbins, Jim Moss, Mickey Towns, Benjamin Collins, Perkine…