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Kathryn Karipides papers
Collection
Identifier: Spec-Coll-00040
Dates:
1968-2000
Found in:
Kelvin Smith Library Special Collections
Kelvin Smith Library Manuscript Collection
Collection
Identifier: Spec-Coll-00027
Abstract
This collection consists of those single manuscript items which together form an artificial or special collection. Items included in this collection are from these former collections: History of Science manuscript collection; miscellaneous letter and manuscript collection; Astronomy letter collection; and catalogued manuscripts from the libraries of Western Reserve University.
This collection also contains manuscript items removed from books, donated as gifts, purchased by the library and...
Dates:
ca.1050-1977
Found in:
Kelvin Smith Library Special Collections
Kelvin Smith Library Medal collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Spec-Coll-00039
Dates:
1912-1951
Found in:
Kelvin Smith Library Special Collections
Frances W. and H. Jack Lang autograph letter collection
Collection
Identifier: Spec-Coll-00038
Scope and Content
This collection consists of letters and supporting documentation, books on the art of letter writing, a small miscellaneous grouping of catalogs and photographs, and issues of The Wolf Magazine of Letters from June-July 1979 to Summer Quarterly 1991. The earliest letter, from the Marquise de Sevigne, dates from 1695; while the most recent was signed by entertainer Mike Douglas in 1980. Most of the letters date from the 19th century. The collection, which now numbers 85 letters, will continue...
Dates:
1695-1991
Found in:
Kelvin Smith Library Special Collections
Mechanical Rubber Company Collection
Collection
Identifier: Spec-Coll-00030
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of one volume, dated 1930, of photographs and descriptions of the Cleveland, Ohio laboratory of The Mechanical Rubber Company. The photographs are mostly of machinery, laboratories, or men performing experiments. The descriptions provide information about what is being depicted in the photographs. According to the first page in the volume, “this book endeavors to present in pictorial form a record of the work, equipment, and operation of the Cleveland...
Dates:
1930
Found in:
Kelvin Smith Library Special Collections
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland Archive collection
Collection
Identifier: Spec-Coll-00080
Scope and Contents
The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland Archive is the institutional record of the organization and the contemporary artists whose work has been curated for exhibit in their galleries. The archive consists primarily of administrative office files, artist files, exhibition files, reports, exhibit catalogs, publications, clippings, audio visual materials and marketing materials.
Dates:
1968-2014
Found in:
Kelvin Smith Library Special Collections
Paxton-Lowe Family papers
Collection
Identifier: Spec-Coll-00088
Content Description
Correspondence, photos, memorabilia and writings of Dorothy Paxton, K. Elmo Lowe and Stanja Lowe.
Dates:
1890-2009
Found in:
Kelvin Smith Library Special Collections
Performance Art Festival Archive collection
Collection
Identifier: Spec-Coll-00054
Content Description
The collection consists of office files, artists files, audio and video recordings, programs, posters, photographs and artifacts and ephemera relating to the Performance Art Festival (PAF) held annually from 1988-1999 in Cleveland, OH. Created and collected by festival founder Thomas Mulready, the PAF Archive was donated to Case Western Reserve University in 2015. PAF was the largest event of its kind, attracting artists from around the world. Interested artists applied to be in...
Dates:
1987-2013
Found in:
Kelvin Smith Library Special Collections
Thomas F. Peterson, Jr. Telegraphy Collection
Collection
Identifier: Spec-Coll-00092
Abstract
This collection consists primarily of manuscript material, print items, photographs and artifacts related to the history of telegraphy. Of note are a large sample of individual telegraphs, photographs of telegraphers and their equipment, catalogs and instruction pamphlets and artifacts such as telegraphers identification buttons and pins, transmitters, commemorative and promotional mementos and toys.
Dates:
1796-1996
Found in:
Kelvin Smith Library Special Collections
Tony van Renterghem Papers
Collection
Identifier: Spec-Coll-00050
Dates:
1950-1965
Found in:
Kelvin Smith Library Special Collections