Black and white group photograph of African American Civil War veterans posing in front of Lawnfield. Group is not identified. "Copyright and published by J. F. Ryder, Cleveland, Ohio.", Without frame border, approximately 9.5 x 14 in., Featured in the "Cleveland Starts Here" Exhibit
Undated photograph of painting, signature of artist illegible, 1918 JDC (Joint Distribution Committee) Executive Committee Meeting, seated left to right, Felix M. Warburg, Chair; Louis Marshall, Albert Lucas. Secretary: Mrs. F. Friedman, official stenographer; Boris D. Bogen, Executive Director; Leon Sanders, Harry Fischel, Sholem Asch, Alexander Kahn, Jacob Milch, Harriet E. Lowenstein, comptroller; Colonel Moses Schoenberg, Aaron Teitelbaum, M. Z. Margolis, Israel Friedlander, Paul Baerwald, Associate-Treasurer; Julius levy, Peter Wiernik, Meyer Gillis, Harry Cutler, Cyrus Adler, Arthur Lehman, Treasurer; Jacob H. Schiff; (standing left to right) Herbert H. Lehman, Abraham Zucker, Isidore Herschfield, Meyer Berlin, Stanley Bezo, Louis Topkis, Morris Engelman, Historic no. 5A (3040/1499), P98-003
Black and white group portrait of the Freeman Ensemble, who later became the "Evelyn Freeman Swing Band". The location may be the old Phyllis Wheatley auditorium.
Emmitt Theophilus Caviness purchased the suit shown here (on the right) for his wedding to James Lee Pitts on June 15, 1952. After this momentous occasion, he wore the ensemble to formal affairs, Pastors’ Anniversaries, and political functions until the 1970s. In the image here, he is pictured with Cleveland’s Mayor, Carl Stokes, who was elected in 1968. In that election, Rev. Caviness partnered with Cleveland’s African American religious leaders to mobilize voters to secure the Stokes win., Courtesy of Rev. E. Theophilus Caviness
Group of African Americans underneath a banner reading Prophet G.W. Hurley is the Second Coming of Christ. It may be Hurley's church., On back of photograph is written: PG 268/Allen Cole/Subject File-Churches/Hurley, G.W. 1936 8801 [Irving?]
Black and white photograph of Mama Maria and her granddaughter. Captions states, "The queen of Guarino's Restaurant in "Little Italy"--Mama Maria--shows her little granddaughter and namesake just how home-made spaghetti should look".