University of ToledoScope and Content Note This collection consists of six series that primarily document the products of the Harris Toy Company. Series I, The Harris Metal Wheel Company, includes a page from Frank Harris’ other company’s 1889 catalog, as well as a business directory of employees between 1889 and 1891, listing name, address, and job title. The materials in Series II, The Harris Toy Company Documents, consist of sample letterhead, patents, and photographs depicting the toy factory. Series III, H ...Contact InformationFinding Aid
University of ToledoScope and Content Note Papers I cover the period from 1949-1977. They consist of twelve letters from Brooks to George Core, copies of the text of a 1949 radio interview, and two essays (1950 and 1958). The letters were written to Core between 1972 and 1977 when he was a member of the faculty of the University of Georgia. Core has edited several books including Regionalism and Beyond: Essays of Randall Stewart, with M. E. Bradford; The Southern Tradition at Bay by Richard Weaver; and Southern Fic ...Contact InformationFinding Aid
University of ToledoScope and Content The Toledo Turners Collection dates from 1858-1987. Some of the materials contain items written either entirely in German or English or a combination of both. It is organized into fourteen record groups and several series within these groups. Record groups include clippings, general correspondence, documents and historical materials, expenditure ledgers, fliers, inventory books (bar revenue/expenses), minute books, miscellaneous items, newsletters, photographs, programs, receip ...Contact InformationFinding Aid
University of ToledoScope and Content Note This small collection is a scrapbook containing circulars from state and national "headquarters" of the Grand Army of the Republic, programs of state and national “encampments," correspondence concerning these events, and newspaper clippings of stories about the encampments and about Civil War veterans. The scrapbook is actually a 1915 Locomobile manual. Subjects include G.A.R. officers' elections; the McKinley Memorial in Niles, Ohio; and the 1917 Ohio encampment at Akr ...Contact InformationFinding Aid
University of ToledoScope and Content Note This collection contains records documenting the administration of the club and its many philanthropic and social activities from 1916-2011. The collection is divided into seven series based upon record type. Included are administrative files (of particular note are a nearly complete set of minutes of the club’s Board of Directors dating from 1916), limited financial records, membership information, printed material (including club newsletters), subject files that docume ...Contact InformationFinding Aid
University of ToledoScope and Content Note The J. William Myers Papers, 1936-1997 are comprised of legal documents (photocopies), newspaper clippings, copies of entries in reference books, books of poetry, a brochure, and a poetry readings booklet. These papers were too diverse to warrant division into series, so instead five (5) folders were created. [F1] Legal Documents, contains photocopies of important certificates and degrees obtained by Mr. Myers, including his high school and college diplomas. [F2] Printed M ...Contact InformationFinding Aid
University of ToledoScope and Content Note This collection follows the time-span of Margot Sanger's career as a performer and a writer. With the exception of the autograph collection, which is arranged alphabetically, the folders are all arranged chronologically by subject, although many of the folders overlap in dates. Many of Margot Sanger's original works of poetry, prose, and scripts from 1923-1944 were handwritten in composition notebooks and scrapbooks. The original order and integrity of the scrapbooks have ...Contact InformationFinding Aid
University of ToledoScope and Content Note This collection consists mainly of correspondence of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (U.F.C.W.) correspondence from other related organizations; several union publications; and newspaper clippings. The collection includes three films and several audio tapes regarding the Retail Clerks International Union (R.C.I.U.) and numerous R.C.I.U. legal agreements from the 1930’s to the 1970’s. The collection is divided into four series. Series I: U.F.C.W. Correspond ...Contact InformationFinding Aid
University of ToledoScope and Content Notes Series I, Political Materials, document Sandy Isenberg's activities in political office. Included are photographs of Isenberg with local, national and international political leaders and celebrities that include Lech Walesa, Pete Rose, Joe Paterno and Robert Taft. Information is also included on her association with the Jewish community in Northwest Ohio and her 2002 bid for re-election to the Lucas County Board of County Commissioners. This collection includes numerous c ...Contact InformationFinding Aid
University of ToledoScope and Content Note The records of the University Circle Child Conservation League include documentation from the organization’s inception on April 10, 1946, until November 8, 1975. These records primarily consist of minutes of League meetings. Attendance records are also periodically intermixed with them. The University Circle CCL used a school-year calendar, starting their year in September and ending it in May. However, there are occasional gaps in the sequence where one or more months a ...Contact InformationFinding Aid
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