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Special Collections has been very fortunate to have received the generous suppport of many people and firms. At the risk of overlooking anyone, here are some people that we would particularly like to thank:
Gerald
Adams
The Allan
King Sloan Family Fund
The American Society for Civil Engineers, Cleveland Section for
several grants involving the history of civil engineering in northeastern
Ohio, including:
Robert Beach
Newburgh & South
Shore Collection
A former Trainmaster for the Newburgh & South Shore Railroad, Mr.
Beach has generously donated an unbound book of some 100 photographs of
the N&SS, ca. 1920. This will fit in nicely with our large
collection of Newburgh & South Shore materials
John Stark Bellamy II
James and Susan Borchert
The Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation for $30,000 to underwrite
several important web sites on Great Lakes and Cuyahoga River industrial
history, including:
Joseph E. Cole
Cleveland Press
Collection
The Cleveland Press Collection was the former editorial library, or
"morgue," of The Cleveland Press and includes hundreds of
thousands of clippings and photographs. The last of Cleveland's daily
afternoon newspapers, The Cleveland Press was published from 1878
until 1982. Little survives from the first half-century, but the
collection's coverage of local and national history becomes
progressively stronger after 1920. The library was donated to the
Cleveland State University Library in 1984 by the newspaper's owner,
Joseph E. Cole, who was at the time a Trustee of the University.
Shirley Cooper
Edward D'Allessandro
William Donohue Ellis
Mrs. Blythe Gehring
Dennis Gouden
Clay Herrick
Clay Herrick Slide
Collection
Clay Herrick, author of "Cleveland Landmarks", donated in May 1991 a
collection consisting of some 100 pamphlets, brochures, books, and
photographs. The most important element of this collection is some 6,000
slides of one-of-a-kind shots of various buildings in Cleveland.
Joan Hofer
Herbert
Elwell Archive
Herbert Elwell (May 10, 1898 - April 17, 1974), composer, critic, and
teacher, was an important figure in Cleveland's musical scene. The
Archive is comprised of the composer's scores, discs, reel-to-reel
tapes, manuscripts, articles, program annotations for the Cleveland
Orchestra, and assorted letters and memorabilia received through the
efforts of Joan Hofer, Elwell's niece.
John
Horton
The Kulas Foundation
Marc Lackritz
Dr. Walter C. Leedy
Postcards of
Cleveland
Walter Leedy began his comprehensive collection of Cleveland
postcards, now numbering nearly 8,000 in earnest in 1989. The earliest
of Leedy's postcards date from 1898. Major highlights include several 32
inch long panoramas of Cleveland, and major people in Cleveland's
popular history, such as Bob Feller and Satchel Paige, starting pitchers
for the 1948 World Champion Cleveland Indians. For digital rights to Cleveland's
Terminal Tower - The Van Sweringens' Afterthought. See a video tribute to the late Dr. Leedy
Robert
Linsey
Edwin London
The Mather Foundation
Edward Miggins
Jeffrey Morris
The John P. Murphy Foundation, Herbert Strawbridge, President
Mrs. Bain Murray
The North American Railway
Foundation for several grants totalling $96,000 over two years to:
Process the Newburgh
& South Shore Collection Acquire equipment for exibits, and to acquire and digitize railroad
photographs, Mount a new exhibition of Cleveland Union Terminal panoramic photographs Process our Nickel Plate Road collections and the archives of the Nickel Plate Historical & Technical Society Archives, housed here.
Ray Osrin
Klaus G. Roy
Molly Schaeffer
Jan Van Der Meulen
Michael Tevesz
Lewis Turco
The Lewis Turco Collection
Lewis Turco, poet, English instructor, and founder/director of the Poetry Center at Fenn College, has
been a kind friend to the Cleveland State University Library and its Special Collections Department. His
donation of books containing various works by American poets is made available to scholars and poets alike through the Lewis Turco Archive of American Poetry and continues to grow through his kind support.
In addition to that, Lewis Turco's donations to Special Collections of the Fenn Poetry Scrapbook, his Bordello portfolio of "poemprints", correspondance and audiotapes provide a vibrant rendering of the early Cleveland poetry scene.
Mrs. Naomi E. Walker
Dr. William
O. and Naomi E. Walker Collection
In September 1985, Mrs. Naomi E. Walker donated to Cleveland State
University Libraries the substantial collection of more than four
hundred books and rare historical material which comprise the William O.
Walker collection of Afro-American literature.
Dr. William O. Walker became publisher and editor of the Cleveland
Call and Post, a black weekly newspaper, in 1932. He built the newspaper
into one of the largest black weeklies in the nation. As its publisher
he became a power in Cleveland, speaking out for civil rights and
exposing discrimination and wrongdoing. Besides being an editorial
voice, he was a mighty political force in the Republican Party. He was a
councilman in the 1940's and in the 1960's became Ohio's first black
Cabinet member, as industrial relations director for Governor James A.
Rhodes. At the time of his death, he was under consideration by
President Reagan to become chairman of the U. S. Civil Rights
Commission.
Dr. Sara Ruth Watson
Watson Bridge Book
Collection
In March of 1983, Dr. Sara Ruth Watson, a former Professor of English
and Engineering at Fenn College, donated to the Cleveland State
University Library over one hundred and seventy-five rare books, some
dating from the eighteenth century, and fifteen albums of photographs on
civil engineering and, in particular, on bridges. The collection is
considered one of the best of its kind in the country.
The collection was begun by Dr. Watson's father, Wilbur J. Watson, a
distinguished civil engineer and bridge designer who from his student
days at Western Reserve University collected books on bridges and
continued this interest during a long professional career. He founded
the Watson Engineering Company in Cleveland, now the AC Engineering
Company on Prospect near Thirtieth Street.
Western Reserve
Camera Collector's Society
(aka the Photographic Historical Society of the Western Reserve)
For $2,000 in support of our photographic history collections. For $1,000 in support of the Bruce Young Collection .
Bruce
Young
Cleveland State University Library's Special Collections, and the wider community in general, are all the richer for these valuable acquisitions. We hope you will come visit Special Collections and examine these and other interesting materials we hold on the history of greater Cleveland, the Western Reserve and the Great Lakes Region.
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