Finding aid for the Karamu House Records
Title:
Karamu House Records
Repository:
Western Reserve Historical Society
Phone: 216-721-5722
http://www.wrhs.org
Creator:
Karamu House
Dates:
1914-1979
Quantity:
79.21 linear feet (92 containers and 1 oversize folder)
Abstract:
 Karamu House was founded in 1915 in Cleveland, Ohio, by Russell W. and Rowena Woodham Jelliffe, in conjunction with the Second Presbyterian Church Men's Club, as the Neighborhood Association (later as the Playhouse Settlement), a settlement house promoting interracial activities and cooperation through the performing arts. The Jelliffes saw a need to provide activities and social services for the city's growing African American population, in order to assist in their transition from rural Southern life to an urban setting. The Playhouse Settlement was renamed Karamu Theater in 1927. By 1941, the entire settlement had taken the name Karamu House. The Dumas Dramatic Club was created to support and encourage interest and activities in the performing arts. In 1922, the theater troupe's name was changed to The Gilpin Players in honor of noted African American actor Charles Gilpin. During the 1920s and 1930s, works by many accomplished playwrights were produced at Karamu, including those of Zora Neale Hurston, Eugene O'Neill, and Langston Hughes, whose career was launched at Karamu. In 1939, the house was destroyed by fire. Rebuilding was not completed until 1949. The Jelliffes' mission of an interracial institution continued until the late 1960s, when, under the leadership of new director Kenneth Snipes, Karamu's mission became one of promoting African-American theater and plays specifically about the African-American experience. During this time a professional troupe of actors was formed. In 1982, Karamu formally returned to its original mission as an interracial organization. The collection consists of articles of incorporation, building construction applications, historical accounts, minutes, records of the Board of Trustees, reports, proposals, publications, financial records, contribution records, correspondence, play scripts and related information, announcements of events, programs, memoranda, date books, guest books, newspaper clippings, subject files, ledgers, scrapbooks, and student enrollment cards. Notable correspondents include Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Ida B. Wells, Hubert Humphrey, Eleanor Roosevelt, A. Phillip Randolph, Coretta Scott King, Carter G. Woodson, Eliot Ness, Walter White, Marian Anderson, W.C. Handy, Zora Neale Hurston, Ethel Waters, Countee Cullen, Arna Bontemps, Harry E. Davis, Harry C. Smith, and Jane Edna Hunter. The majority of the papers date from the period after World War II, particularly the 1950s and 1960s.
Identification:
MS 4606
Location:
closed stacks
Language:
The records are in English

History of Karamu House

Karamu House (f. 1915), a performing arts theater and former settlement house that promotes interracial activities and cooperation, is located at the corner of East 89th Street and Quincy Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio. Karamu House represents the first serious effort at creating an interracial institution for the performing arts in the United States. It was originally known as the Playhouse Settlement and was first located at 2239 East 38th Street in an area then known as the "Roaring Third." It was founded by Russell W. Jelliffe (1891-1980) and his wife Rowena Woodham Jelliffe (1892-1992). The Jelliffes graduated from Oberlin College in 1914 and from there went to the University of Chicago where they received master's degrees in sociology in 1915, the year they married.

The idea for Karamu House grew out of Russell Jelliffe's employment with the Men's Club of the Second Presbyterian Church after the couple's move to Cleveland. Dr. Dudley P. Allen, a member of the club, came up with the original suggestion for a settlement house for the city's black community, but he died in January 1915 before the project came to fruition. Allen's concept was enthusiastically endorsed by local and national leaders including Booker T. Washington who forwarded a personal letter of encouragement. In addition, the Jelliffes saw a need to provide activities and social services for the city's growing black population to assist in their transition from rural Southern life to an urban setting. They faced pressure to create a settlement house exclusively for the black community, but their vision was of a racially integrated institution. The Jelliffes' dream prevailed. Originally called the Playhouse Settlement, the organization's theater was renamed Karamu Theater in 1927 at the suggestion of Hazel Mountain Walker, who later became principal of Cleveland's Rutherford B. Hayes Elementary School. By 1941, the entire settlement had taken the name Karamu House. The term "Karamu" is a Swahili word meaning "place of joyful meeting or gathering."

Although Karamu House provided a wide variety of activities for local residents, the performing arts became the major focus of its mission by 1920. The Dumas Dramatic Club was created to support and encourage this interest. In 1922 the theater troupe's name was changed to The Gilpin Players in honor of noted black actor Charles Gilpin. During the 1920s and 1930s works by many accomplished playwrights were produced at Karamu, including those of Zora Neale Hurston, Eugene O'Neill and Langston Hughes, the latter of whose career was launched there. In 1939 the house (which included the theater) was destroyed by fire. Because of the national emergency created by the onslaught of World War II, the rebuilding of the theater did not begin until the late 1940s, with completion occurring in 1949. The Jelliffes' mission of an interracial institution continued from this point until the late 1960s when, under the leadership of new director Kenneth Snipes (the Jelliffes had retired in 1963), the focus changed. Under growing pressure from Black Nationalist groups of the era, Karamu's mission became one of promoting black theater and plays specifically about the black experience. During this era, white participation in the theater's activities dropped off dramatically. This era did produce some critically acclaimed work and resulted in the formation of a professional troupe of actors. In 1982, however, the troupe was dissolved, and Karamu formally returned to its original mission as an interracial organization.

(For further historical background, see Cora Geiger Newald's unpublished manuscript, "Karamu: 48 Years of Integration Through the Arts').


click here to view the Encyclopedia of Cleveland history entry for Karamu House


click here to view the Encyclopedia of Cleveland history entry for Russell Jelliiffe


click here to view the Encyclopedia of Cleveland history entry for Rowena Jelliffe
click here to view the Encyclopedia of Cleveland history entry for Langston Hughes

Scope and Content

The Karamu House Records, 1914-1979 consist of articles of incorporation, building construction applications, historical accounts, minutes, records of the Board of Trustees, reports, proposals, publications, financial records, contribution records, correspondence, scripts of plays and related information, announcements of events, memoranda, date books, guest books, newspaper clippings, subject files, ledgers, scrap books, and student enrollment cards.

This collection pertains primarily to the development of an interracial theater and settlement house that grew out of the Great Migration of blacks in the 1910s. It sheds light on the work of several prominent playwrights including Langston Hughes who began his career at Karamu House. It also illuminates the racial tensions of the 1960s and the 1970s, exemplified by the controversy over whether Karamu's mission was to promote black theater or to continue its vision of interracial cooperation. In addition, it provides information on the Jelliffes' efforts to secure continued funding to keep Karamu House in operation. The historical accounts give details about the Jelliffes' personal lives as well as facts about Karamu. The files on the plays performed and the programs for them contained in the announcements of events are of interest for anyone researching dramatic art. The 1935 controversy over the play Stevedore, deemed by Harry C. Smith (editor of the Cleveland Gazette) to be racially demeaning, is thoroughly documented in the collection. Notable correspondents include Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Ida B. Wells, Hubert Humphrey, Eleanor Roosevelt, A. Phillip Randolph, Coretta Scott King, Carter G. Woodson, Eliot Ness, Walter White (president of the NAACP), Marian Anderson, W.C. Handy, Zora Neale Hurston, Ethel Waters, Countee Cullen (a writer of the Harlem Renaissance), Arna Bontemps (also a writer of the Harlem Renaissance), Harry E. Davis (prominent local black politician), Harry C. Smith, and Jane Edna Hunter (founder of the Phillis Wheatley Association). The majority of the papers date from the period after World War II, with the 1950s and 1960s being particularly well-represented. Though the material from the early years of Karamu's existence is sparse, such critical documents as a report of the original investigation of the Central Avenue area for the house's establishment and the articles of incorporation appear in the collection. It is possible that some of the earliest records were lost in the 1939 fire. The student enrollment cards could be used to reconstruct a demographic profile of those who attended classes at Karamu. These cards also have genealogical value since they usually give the names of students' parents.

Statement of Arrangement

The collection is arranged in four series.
Series I: Records of Operations is arranged in fifteen sub-series.
Sub-series A: Administrative Files and Historical Accounts is arranged by document type and then chronologically.
Sub-series B: Board of Trustees is arranged by document type and then chronologically.
Sub-series C: Reports is arranged chronologically.
Sub-series D: Proposals is arranged alphabetically by the title of the proposal.
Sub-series E: Publications is arranged alphabetically and then chronologically.
Sub-series F: Financial Records is arranged chronologically.
Sub-series G: Personnel is arranged alphabetically.
Sub-series H: Contributors is arranged alphabetically.
Sub-series I: Correspondence is arranged in two sections, the first of which is arranged alphabetically and the second chronologically.
Sub-series J: Plays is arranged alphabetically by the title of the play.
Sub-series K: Announcements of Events is arranged chronologically.
Sub-series L: Memoranda, is arranged chronologically.
Sub-series M: Date Books is arranged alphabetically last name and then chronologically.
Sub-series N: Guest Books is arranged chronologically.
Sub-series O: Newspaper Clippings is arranged chronologically.
Series II: Subject Files is arranged alphabetically by subject heading and then chronologically.
Series III: Ledgers is arranged by document type and then chronologically.
Series IV: Student Enrollment Cards is arranged alphabetically by student last name.

Restrictions on Access

None.

Related Material: Related Material

The researcher should also consult MS 4737 Russell and Rowena Jelliffe Papers; and PG 443 Karamu House Photographs.


Separated Material: Separated Material

All photographs have been removed to PG 443 Karamu House Photographs.


Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Subjects:

African American dramatists -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
African American theater -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
African Americans in the performing arts -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
Cleveland (Ohio) -- Race relations.
Gilpin Players.
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
Jelliffe, Rowena Woodham, 1892-1992.
Jelliffe, Russell W., 1891-1980.
Karamu House.
Rural-urban migration -- United States.
Second Presbyterian Church (Cleveland, Ohio) Men's Club.
Social settlements -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
Theater -- Ohio -- Cleveland.

Preferred Citation

[Container ___, Folder ___ ] MS 4606 Karamu House Records, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio

Acquisition Information

Gift of Karamu House in 1980.

Processing Information

Processed by Sherlynn Allen-Harris, Isaac Bland, and Richard Hite in 1992. The processing of this collection was made possible by a grant from the Untied Black Fund of Cleveland.


Detailed Description of The Collection



Series I: Records of Operations, 1919-1979; undated




Sub-series A: Administrative Files and Historical Accounts, 1914-1976; undated

Box 1 / Folder 1
Report of original investigation of Central Avenue area for establishment of Karamu House and related papers, 1914




Box 1 / Folder 1
Articles of incorporation, 1919




Box 1 / Folder 2
Papers relating to proposed expansion of Karamu House, 1937-1939




Box 1 / Folder 3
Theater fire, 1939




Box 1 / Folder 4
Correspondence with Draz and Scholl architects, 1941-1945




Box 1 / Folder 5
New building funds statement and layout of buildings, 1949




Box 1 / Folder 6-14
New building construction applications, 1948-1950




Box 1 / Folder 15
Ground-breaking ceremonies of new Karamu Theater, address by Burgess Meredith, 1948




Box 1 / Folder 15
Sale of old property, 1946-1949




Box 1 / Folder 16
Historical accounts of Karamu House, 1916-1966




Box 1 / Folder 17
Statements of mission of Karamu House, 1941-1972




Box 1 / Folder 18
Statement of dissatisfaction with Karamu House by participants in workshop on Afro-American humanities, 1970




Box 1 / Folder 19
Karamu House codes of regulations and policy statements, 1967-1971




Box 1 / Folder 20
Staff policies, 1970-1973




Box 1 / Folder 21
Organizational charts, 1951-1973




Box 1 / Folder 22
Contract with United Office and Professional Workers of America of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1944-1946




Box 1 / Folder 23
Physical descriptions of Karamu House, undated




Box 1 / Folder 24
Description of typical day at Karamu House by Rowena Jelliffe, undated




Box 1 / Folder 25
Annual reports, 1921




Box 1 / Folder 26
Annual meetings (incomplete run), 1940-1970




Box 2 / Folder 27-29
Staff meeting minutes, 1950-1971




Box 2 / Folder 30
Administrative Cabinet minutes, 1970




Box 2 / Folder 31
Executive Cabinet meeting, 1970-1974




Box 2 / Folder 32
Reports on examinations of accounts, 1942-1949




Box 2 / Folder 33
Contracts, 1962-1976




Box 2 / Folder 34
Periodic review, 1969




Box 2 / Folder 35
Program Cabinet goals, 1970




Box 2 / Folder 36
Karamu House staff lists, 1966-1972




Box 2 / Folder 37
Contracts with performing artists, 1972




Box 2 / Folder 38
Speeches, 1928-1940




Box 2 / Folder 39-40
Committees (arranged alphabetically by name), 1956-1972




Box 2 / Folder 41
Membership information, 1971




Box 2 / Folder 42
Unidentified meeting notes, 1967-1970







Sub-series B: Board of Trustees, 1939-1974; undated

Box 2 / Folder 43
Annual meeting, 1953-1973




Box 2 / Folder 44-45
Minutes, 1939




Box 2 / Folder 46
Executive Board minutes (incomplete run), 1965-1973




Box 2 / Folder 47
Lists of members, 1940-1974




Box 2 / Folder 48
Resume analyses, 1971




Box 2 / Folder 49
Minutes of committees, 1950-1973




Box 2 / Folder 49
Lists of committees, 1962-1972




Box 2 / Folder 50
Correspondence, 1946-1973




Box 2 / Folder 50
News releases, 1963-1971







Sub-series C: Reports, 1946-1973; undated

Box 3 / Folder 51-59
Reports, 1946-1973







Sub-series D: Proposals, 1966-1973

Box 3 / Folder 60
"Artist in Residence" - "Cleveland Foundation", 1966-1970




Box 3 / Folder 61
"Karamu Dance Proposal" - "Prospectus for the Strategy: Karamu Arts Perspective in Urban Studies,", 1970-1973




Box 3 / Folder 62
"Special Programs Proposal: A Pilot Project in Student Development" - "Urban Neighborhood Arts Project", 1969-1971







Sub-series E: Publications, 1935-1979; undated

Box 3 / Folder 63
Karamu, Vol. 1, 1-5, 1946




Box 3 / Folder 63
Karamu, undated




Box 3 / Folder 63
Karamu Gazette, 1961




Box 3 / Folder 63
Karamu House, 1964-1965




Box 3 / Folder 63
Karamu Kaleidoscope, 1975




Box 3 / Folder 63
Karamu News, 1972-1979




Box 3 / Folder 64
Karamuse, 1951-1965




Box 3 / Folder 65
Names that Will Live On, undated




Box 3 / Folder 65
Offstage at Karamu House, 1962




Box 3 / Folder 65
This is Karamu, 1953




Box 3 / Folder 65
Worker's Guide and Portfolio, undated




Box 3 / Folder 66-67
Publications with articles about Karamu House, 1935-1961




Box 4 / Folder 68
Publications with articles about Karamu House, 1962-1972







Sub-series F: Financial Records, 1940-1973; undated

Box 4 / Folder 69-77
Financial Records, 1940-1973







Sub-series G: Personnel, 1958-1974

Box 4 / Folder 78
Policies, data sheets, and information, 1965-1970




Box 4 / Folder 79-83
Personnel files, alphabetical last names A through G, 1958-1972




Box 5 / Folder 84-91
Personnel files, alphabetical last names H through Z, 1959-1974




Box 5 / Folder 92
Wage and tax statements, 1958







Sub-series H: Contributors, 1941-1971

Box 5 / Folder 93
Information on contributors, general, 1941-1969




Box 5 / Folder 94-102
Information on contributors, alphabetical by last name A through C, 1946-1971




Box 6 / Folder 103-119
Information on contributors, alphabetical by last name E through W, 1942-1971







Sub-series I: Correspondence, 1919-1974; undated


Sub-sub-series 1: Alphabetical, 1940-1972


Box 7 / Folder 120-138
Correspondence arranged alphabetically by last name A through M, 1941-1971


Box 8 / Folder 139-149
Correspondence arranged alphabetically by last name N through Y, 1928-1971




Box 7 / Folder 120-138
Correspondence arranged alphabetically by last name A through M, 1941-1971




Box 8 / Folder 139-149
Correspondence arranged alphabetically by last name N through Y, 1928-1971





Sub-sub-series 2: Chronological, 1919-1974


Box 8 / Folder 150-157
Correspondence arranged chronologically, 1919-1964


Box 9 / Folder 158-168
Correspondence arranged chronologically, 1964-1974




Box 8 / Folder 150-157
Correspondence arranged chronologically, 1919-1964




Box 9 / Folder 158-168
Correspondence arranged chronologically, 1964-1974







Sub-series J: Plays, 1935-1973; undated

Box 9 / Folder 169
The Abduction from the Harem, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1959; The Absent-Minded Tailor, by Anne Metcalf, undated; Adventures In Wonderland, 1968; Adventures of Prince Fairyfoot, by Judith B. Kase,undated; African Folk Tales, by Carol Korty, 1970-1971; Albert Herring, by Britten, 1957; Album '56, 1955-1956; Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves, by Wadeeha Atiyeh, undated; All in Love, 1963; All Summer Long, by Robert Anderson, 1956; All the Way Home, By Tad Mosel, 1965; Allegro, by Rodgers and Hammerstein, 1953-1967, .




Box 9 / Folder 170
Amahl and the Night Visitors, by Gian-Carlo Menotti, 1951-1957; Ananse and the Dwarf Brigade, by Efua T. Sutherland, 1970-1971; Androcles and the Lion, by George Bernard Shaw, 1950-1963., .




Box 9 / Folder 171
Angel in the Pawnshop, by A.B. Shiffrin, 1955; Animal Farm, 1964; Antigone, by Jean Anouilh, 1948; Any Old Man Will Do, by Eunice Lea Kettering and Frederick L. Saur, undated; Anyone Could Rob a Bank, by Tom Coffey, 1961. The Apothecary, 1961; Archy and Mehitable (folder also mentions If Men Played Cards as Women and Trouble in Tahiti), 1963-1967; Arsenic and Old Lace, by Joseph Kesserling, 1962, .




Box 9 / Folder 172
Babar the Elephant, by Nicolai Berezowsky, 1953-1954; Balkis, by Randall Thompson, 1950. A Ballad for Americans, by John LaTouche, undated; Ballad for Bimshire, by Irving Burgie and Loften Mitchell, 1964-1965; Ballet Ballads, by Jerome Moross and John LaTouche, 1964; Bamboula, 1950; Barber of Seville, by Giovanni Paisello, 1963; Barefoot in Athens, by Maxwell Anderson, 1952-1954, .




Box 9 / Folder 173
The Barrier, by Langston Hughes, 1949; Beggar's Holiday, 1953; Bernadine, by Mary Chase, 1955; Between Two Thieves, by Warner Leroy, 1959; The Bible Salesman, by Jay Thompson, 1962; Billy Budd, by Louis O. Coxe and Robert Chapman, 1957; The Birthday Party, by Harold Pinter, 1966., .




Box 9 / Folder 174
Black Man, by W.E. Burghardt Dubois, 1950; Black Nativity, by Martin Tahse, 1963; The Blacks, 1968; Bless the Child, 1968, .




Box 10 / Folder 175
Blood Knot, by Athol Fugard, 1966; Blood Wedding, by Federico Garcia-Lorca, 1953; Bloomer Girl, 1953; The Blue Bird, by Maurice Maeterlinck, 1956; Blue Bonnets, undated; Blue Denim, by Herlihy and Noble, 1959-1961; Blues for Mr. Charlie, by James Baldwin, 1966, .




Box 10 / Folder 176
Boys from Syracuse, by Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart, 1957-1967; Brimstone, 1953; The Broken Jug, by Donald Harron, 1959; The Brothers, by George Antheil, 1954; Bullfight, by Leslie Stevens, 1958; Bury the Dead, by Irwin Shaw, undated; By Jupiter, by Rodgers and Hart, 1961, .




Box 10 / Folder 177
Candide, by Voltaire, 1961; Caravan to Mecca, by Kenward Elmslie, 1951; Carmen Jones, by Oscar Hammerstein, 1950; Carnival, by Michael Stewart, 1965; Carousel, by Rogers and Hammerstein, 1959; Cecilia Valdes, by Roig, 1963; A Certain Joy, by Irving Ravetch, 1955; Chariot's A-Comin', by Zelma Watson George, undated; The Children Are Listening, by Barbara Kay Davidson, 1963, .




Box 10 / Folder 178
The Children's Hour, by Lilian Hellman, 1955; A Christmas Carol, by Martha B. King, 1968; Cinderella's Slipper, by Theodosia Paynter, 1938; Circus in the Wind, 1963; The Cloak, by Giacomo Puccini, 1954; The Clown Who Ran Away, by Conrad Seiler, undated; Come Back Little Sheba, by William Inge, 1963, .




Box 10 / Folder 179
Come Lucia, based upon novel by Josephine Leslie, 1961; Comedy on the Bridge, by Martinu, 1953; Comedy of Errors, by William Shakespeare, 1949; The Consul, by Gian-Carlo Minotti, 1958; Collision Course, by Leo Bayer, 1964; Cooling Waters, by Elizabeth White, 1953; The Corn is Green, by Emlyn Williams, 1946; Cosi Fan Tutte, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1956; Cradle Will Rock, by Blitzstein, 1952; The Creation, by James Weldon Johnson, undated; Crystal Tree, by Doris Julian, 1957, .




Box 10 / Folder 180
Darling Corlie, by Elie Siegmeister, 1953; Dark of the Moon, by Howard Richardson and William Berney, 1959; Davey Crokett, 1951; Death and Life of Sneaky Fitch, by James A. Rosenberg, 1965; Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller, 1957; Deep Dark, by Isadora Bennett, undated; Defiant Island, by James Forsyth, 1964; Der Hauptman von Koeppernick, by Gabriel Dregley, 1954; Desire Under the Elms, by Eugene O'Neill, 1952, .




Box 10 / Folder 181
Destination Ashes, undated; Detective Story, by Sidney Kingsley, 1966; The Devil and Daniel Webster, by Douglas Moore, 1954; The Devil a Saint Would Be, by D'Alton, 1956; Die Kluge, by Karl Orff, 1956; The Doctor in Spite of Himself, by Moliere, 1964; Down in the Valley, by Weill, 1950; Dream Believers, by George A. Moore, undated; The Dreamy Kid, undated; Dr. Miracle, by Bizet, 1965, .




Box 10 / Folder 182
Drums and Voices, by Wole Soyinka, 1964; Dumbbell People in a Barbell World, by Dan Blue, 1964; The Dumb Waiter, by Harold Pinter, 1966; Sarah and the Sax, by Lewis John Carlino,1966; Dutchman, by LeRoi Jones, 1969; Neighbors, by James Saunders, 1969; The Early Years, by Tennessee Williams and Eugene O'Neill, 1957, .




Box 10 / Folder 183
The Elevator, by Jean Reynolds Davis, 1956; El Hajj Malik, by N. R. Davidson Jr., 1971; Emil and the Detectives, by Erich Kastner, 1949; Emperor Jones, 1954; The Emperor's New Clothes, by Hans Christian Anderson, 1953; Enter the Hero, undated; Epitaph for a Bluebird, by Ted Shine, 1958; "Everyman," 1950; The Experiment, by Paul Schwartz, 1960; Fall of the City, undated; Familiar Stranger, by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, undated, .




Box 10 / Folder 184
Fanny, 1966; Fantasticks, by Tom Jones, 1965; Fashion, by Anna Cora Mowatt, 1960; Fast Sam, Cool Clyde and Stuff, undated; Father Christmas, by Rose Fyleman, undated; Finian's Rainbow, by Burton Lane, 1958; Five on the Blackhand Side, by Charlie L. Russell, 1971, .




Box 10 / Folder 185
Flower Drum Song, by Rodgers and Hammerstein, 1967; Flowering Peach, by Clifford Odets, 1955; Fly Blackbird, 1964; Foolish and Fickle, by Joseph Haydn, 1963; Free and Easy, by Howard Roberts, 1959, .




Box 10 / Folder 186
Free Man! Free Man!, by Jan Hartman, 1967




Box 10 / Folder 187
The Gallant Tailor, by Zelma Smith and Edith Rothrock, 1958; Gammer Gurton's Needle, by William Stevenson, 1952; The Gentle People, by Irwin Shaw, 1954; Gentlemen Be Seated, by Jerome Moross, 1964; Gerald McBoing-Boing, by Jordan Matthews, undated; Ghosts, by Henrik Ibsen, 1951; Gift of Song, by Caldwell, 1964 and Nativity Play, by Tcherepnin, 1964; Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams, 1965; Go Down Death, by James Weldon Johnson, undated Golden Boy, by Clofford Odets, 1963; Golden Bracelet, by Virginia Olcott, undated, .




Box 10 / Folder 188
Golden Ladder, by Joanna Roos, 1953; The Good Soldier Schweik, by Robert Kurka, 1964; Gooseherd and the Goblin, by Josephine Royle and Julia Smith, undated; Grass Harp, by Junius Eddy, 1953; Great Big Doorstep, by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, 1956; Guys and Dolls, by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, 1957, .




Box 10 / Folder 189
Haiti, by W. E. Burghardt DuBois, 1950; A Hand of Bridge, by Barber and Minotti, 1960; Hannele on Journey, by Gerhart Hauptman, undated; Hansel and Gretel, by Englebert Humperdink, 1968; Happy Ending and Day of Absence, by Douglas Turner Ward, 1968; Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden and Hello Out There, 1964; A Hatful of Rain, by Michael Gazzo, 1957; The Heathen Chinee, undated; Heavenly Express, by Albert Bein, 1951; He Who Gets Slapped, by Robert Ward, 1961, .




Box 10 / Folder 190
Henderson the Rain King, by Robert Alvin, 1964; The Hidden Treasure, by Virginia D. Craft, undated; The Hit, by Julian Mayfield, 1958; A Holiday Festival, 1963; Homecoming, by Pinter, 1967; House Afire, by Haydn, 1965; How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, 1966; How the Grinch Stole Christmas, undated, .




Box 10 / Folder 191
I Am an American, undated; I Gotta Home, by Shirley Graham, 1940; I Have Spoken to My Children, by Darius Leander Swann, 1957; The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde, undated; The Impresario, by Mozart, 1965; The Innocents, by William Archibald, 1958; In Splendid Error, by William Branch,1962; In the Last Days, by Buddy Butler, 1971, .




Box 10 / Folder 192
In White America, by Martin B. Duberman, 1966; Indian Wants the Bronx, by Israel Horowitz, 1969; An Instant of Time, by Frank Wenzel, undated; The Italian Straw Hat, by Eugene Labiche and Marc Michel, 1956; It's Called the Sugarplum, by Israel Horowitz, 1969; Jamaica, by E.Y. Harburg, 1963, .




Box 10 / Folder 193
Jezebel's Husband, by Robert Nathan, 1956; John Henry, by Frank B. Wells, undated; Johnny Appleseed, by Eunice Kettering, 1954, .




Box 11 / Folder 194
Johnny Moonbeam and the Silver Arrow, by Joseph Golden, 1966; Joy to the World, undated; The Jumping Frog, by Lukas Foss, 1954; Joy Rider, by Willis Richardson, undated, .




Box 11 / Folder 195
Julius Caesar, by Handel, 1961; Karamu Album, by Christine Buster, 1955, 1956; Karamu Album, by Benno Frank, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, and 1965, .




Box 11 / Folder 196
Katya Kabanova, by Leos Janacek, 1957; Kicks and Company, by Oscar Brown Jr., 1961, .




Box 11 / Folder 197
The King and I, by Rodgers and Hammerstein, 1956; King Heroin, by Al Fann, 1971; King Kong, by Todd Matshikiza, Pat Williams, and Ralph Trewhela, 1962; King Thrushbeard, by Hazel Peterson and Thomas Fry, undated, .




Box 11 / Folder 198
Kismet, 1950; Knight of the Funny Bone, by Frances Cavanagh and The Princess Who Wanted the Moon, undated; Kiss Me Kate, by Cole Porter, 1965; Kwamina, 1962; La Vera Costanza, by Joseph Haydn, 1967; La Voix Humaine (The Human Voice), by Jean Cocteau and Francis Poulenc, 1967; Lady in Lottery, 1963; Lady in the Dark, 1967; Lakme, by Leo Delibes, 1952; Land Beyond, by Loften Mitchell, 1957, .




Box 11 / Folder 199
Langston Hughes Memorial, by Reuben Silver, 1969; The Last Savage, by Menotti, 1964; L'Enfant Prodigue, by Claude Debussy, 1949; Let it Ride, by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, 1963; Let's Go to the Moon, by Conrad Seiler, 1956; Let's Make an Opera, by Barbara Osterstrom, 1950; Let's Take a Trip, by Selig Alkon, 1956; Liliom, by Ferenc Molnar, 1950; The Lion Writes, by Lois McGuire, 1971, .




Box 11 / Folder 200
Little Mary Sunshine, by Besoyan, 1960; Little Red Riding Hood, by Seymour Barab, 1965; Livin' the Life, 1957; Long After Summer, by William Durkee, 1953; A Loss of Roses, by William Inge, 1960; The Lost Birthday, by Bea Harvey, undated; Lost in the Stars, by Kurt Weil and Maxwell Anderson, 1962, .




Box 11 / Folder 201
Lo! The Angel, by Nancy Wallace, 1958; Lowland Sea, by Alec Wilder and Arnold Sundgaard, 1952; Lute Song, 1965; Lysistrata, by Aristophenes, 1952; Macbeth, by Ernest Bloch, 1957; The Magic Whistle, by Marie Agnes Foley,undated; Man Better Man, by Errol Hill, 1965; A Man For All Seasons, by Robert Bolt, 1967; The Man in the Moon, by Joseph Hayden, 1960, .




Box 11 / Folder 202
The Man With the Golden Arm, 1956; Maria Golovin, by Gian-Carlo Menotti, 1959; Marriage Under the Lanterns, by Jacques Offenbach, 1962; Me and Juliet, by Rodgers and Hammerstein, 1959; Me, Candido, by Walt Anderson, 1959, .




Box 11 / Folder 203
Mean to be Free, undated; Medium, by Gion-Carlo Menotti, 1950; Member of the Wedding, by Carson McCullers, 1952; Midnight Cry, by Bernard Reines, 1958; Mikado, by Gilbert and Sullivan, 1950; Milk and Honey, 1966; The Missing Aunt, by Betty Hunter, undated; Mister Job, by H. Shirley Fowke, 1948; Mister Johnson, by Norman Rosten, 1956, .




Box 11 / Folder 204
A Mixed Bag, (concert) 1970; Mornings At Seven, by Paul Osborn, 1959; Most Happy Fella, by Frank Loesser, 1960; Mother Courage And Her Children, by Eric Bentley, 1969; Mrs. Patterson, by Charles Sebree and Greer Johnson, 1957; A Musical Album, by Frank Benno, 1955, 1958, and 1960, .




Box 11 / Folder 205
The Music Man, by Meredith Willson and Franklin Lacey, 1966; My Fair Lady, 1963; My Heart's In The Highlands, by William Saroyan, 1948; My Name Is Marlene, by Elinore Woldman, 1963, .




Box 11 / Folder 206
The Mystery Of The Missing Star, by Jesse Bryant, undated; The Neighbors and The Trysting Place, by Zona Gale and Booth Tarkington, 1966; New Girl In Town, by George Abbott and Bob Merrill, 1960; Night Of The Auk, by Arch Oboler, 1961, .




Box 11 / Folder 207
No Strings, by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, 1967




Box 11 / Folder 208
Nuremberg U.S.A., Warren Coleman, 1964; Nutcracker and Pas de Quatre (excerpts), 1969; Of Mice And Men, by John Steinbeck, 1961; Oh! My Papa!, 1962; Oklahoma!, by Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein, 1963; Old Maid And The Thief, 1950; Ole King Cole, by Joe Grezenback and Haakon Pederbach, 1957, .




Box 11 / Folder 209
Oliver, by Charles Dickens, 1968; On The town, by Leonard Berstein, 1954; Once Upon A Mattress, 1970, .




Box 11 / Folder 210
Once Upon A Tailor, 1958; Ondine, by Jean Giraudoux, 1955; One Hundred In The Shade, 1939-1966; Opra In the Park, by George O'Farrell, undated; Oprheus In The Underworld, by Josephine Fretter Royle, 1953, .




Box 11 / Folder 211
Or Does It Explode, by Joan Silver, undated; Othello, by William Shakespeare, 1973; Ouanga, by Clarence Cameron White, 1955; Our Town, by Thornton Wilder, 1960; Out Of This World, by Dwight Taylor and Reginald Lawrence, 1966, .




Box 11 / Folder 212
Overtones, The Happy Journery To Trenton And Camden, and Hello Out There, by Alice Gerstenberg, Thorton Wilder, and Diane Johnson, 1966; Paint Your Wagon, Alan J. Lerner and Frederick Loewe, 1962; Pajama Game, by George Abbott and Richard Bissell, 1958; Pal Joey, by John O'Hara, 1954, .




Box 12 / Folder 213
A Part Of The Blues, by Walter Brough, 1961; Pencil Of God, by Ernest Pascal, 1960; Pepito, by Jacques Offenbach, 1961; Phyllis Sits Tight, George H. Dunne, undated; The Pied Piper, by Marianna Lloyd, undated, .




Box 12 / Folder 214
The Ping Pong, by Errol Hill, 1956; The Pink Siamese, by Seymour Barab, 1962; Pins and Needles, by Harold Rome, 1964; Pipe Dream, by Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein, 1957; The Pirate Of Pooh, undated; Porgy And Bess, by Dorothy and DuBose Hayward, 1952; Present Pleasure, by Nora Stirling, undated, .




Box 12 / Folder 215
Prince And The Pauper, 1968; The Prince Of Mandalore, by John Murray, 1963; The Princess And The Swineherd, by Gwendolyn And Conrad Seiler, undated; Purlie Victorious, by Ossie Davis, 1963; Puss In Boots, 1965; A Raisin In The Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, 1961-1964, .




Box 12 / Folder 216
The Rainmaker, by N. Richard Nash, 1955; Rajah's Ruby, There And Back, and Trial By Jury, by Seymour Barab, Paul Hindemith, and William S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivand, 1967; Reba, by Seymour Barab, 1966; The Reformed Drunkard, by Gluck, 1967; Red Riding Hood, by Rose Fyleman and Will Grant, undated; Rickety Tickety Tin, undated; The Rider Of Dreams, 1949; The Rimers OF Eldritch, by Lanford Wilson, 1969; The Rivals, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1969, .




Box 12 / Folder 217
Riverwind, John Jennings, 1965; The Robe Of Pearls, Leo Justinus Kaufmann, 1955, .




Box 12 / Folder 218
Robin Hood, by Owen Davis, undated; Rx For Love (L'Amore Medico), by Enrico Golisciani, 1956; Sandhog, by Earl Robinson, 1967; Sandrina, by Sarah Caldwell and Eugene Haun, 1965, .




Box 12 / Folder 219
The Sap Of Life, by Richard Maltby Jr. and David Shire, 1961; School For Wives, Libermann, 1965; See the Jaguar, by Richard Nash, 1961; Sermon in the Valley, undated; Set My People Free, by Dorothy Heyward, 1961-1962 Seven Times Monday, by Ernest Pendrell, 1961-1962; Seventeen, by Walter Kent, 1952-1956; Shadow of a Gunman by Sean O'Casey, 1952; Shakespeare in Harlem, by Langston Hughes, 1960-1961; She Loves Me, 1968, .




Box 12 / Folder 220
The Shining Hour, by Keith Winter, 1954; The Shoemaker's Wife, 1969; The Show-Off, by George Kelly, 1947; The Sign of Jonah, by Guenter Rutenborn, 1959-1964, .




Box 12 / Folder 221
Simply Heavenly, by Langston Hughes, 1959-1961; The Sistuhs, undated, .




Box 12 / Folder 222
Skin of Our Teeth, by Thornton Wilder, 1953-1954; A Sleep of Prisoners, by Christopher Fry, 1952-1961; The Sleeping Beauty, by Elizabeth Flory Kelly, undated; Slow Dusk, by Carlisle Floyd, and Reba, by Seymour Barab, 1966; Something New Under the Sun, by Sallie Bennet and J. Harold Brown, undated; Something Nice for Spring, by Leibling and Wood, 1953; Song for a Broken Horn, by Hugh Hill, 1952-1953; Song of Solomon, by Kenward Elmslie, 1951, .




Box 12 / Folder 223
The Songstress, by Joseph Haydn, and The Maid of Elizondo by Jacques Offenbach, 1967; Soon Bright Day, by Isadora Bennet, undated; SOS from Easter Island, by Cornel Lengyel, 1958; The Sound of Music, by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, 1962; Sound of the Goose, 1958; South Pacific, by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, 1956; Spirit of the Dead Watches, by Anthony Terpiloff, 1958; Spoon River Anthology, by Charles Aidman, 1967-1968, .




Box 12 / Folder 224
Squaring The Circle, by Valentin Katayev, 1962; Stack-A-Lee, 1956; Star of the Morning, by Lofton Mitchell, 1964; Sterlingman, The Selfish Giant, and The Bridegroom, Klaus George Roy, Raymond Wilding-White, and Harold Fink, 1965, .




Box 12 / Folder 225
Stevedore, by George Sklar and Paul Peters, 1935




Box 12 / Folder 226
The Stolen Rainbow, by Dorothy Sardinha, 1963; Stop the World I Want to Get Off, by Leslie Bricusse nd Anthony Newley, 1969; A Stravinsky Evening, A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams, 1966; Street Scene, by Kurt Weill, Langston Hughes, and Elmer Rice, 1961; Summer and Smoke, by Tenessee Williams, 1952; Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, by Ray Lawler, 1960; Sunday Excursion, by Alec Wilder, 1964; Sun On the Water, by Lillian Gale, 1953, .




Box 12 / Folder 227
Sunrise in My Pocket, by Edwin Justus Mayer, 1959; Susannah, by Carlisle Floyd, 1958; The Swamp Dwellers and The Trials of Brother Jero, by Wole Soyinka, 1964; Sweet Betsy From Pike and The Medium, by Mark Bucci, and Raymond Wilding-White, 1963; Sweet Singer of Avon, 1960; Take a Giant Step, by Louis Peterson, 1960, .




Box 12 / Folder 228
Take Me Along, 1967; Tambourines To Glory, by Langston Hughes, 1960-1973; Taming of the Shrew, by William Shakespere, 1948; Telemachus Clay, by Lewis John Carlino, 1968; Tell It Like It Is, 1969; That Others Might Love, George Anthony Moore, undated; Theater of Today (three one act plays) Home Free!, The Gloaming, Oh My Darling, and Act Without Words, by Landford Wilson, Megan Terry, and Samuel Beckett 1967, .




Box 12 / Folder 229
The Thief and the Hangman, by Albert Ellstein, 1958; Thieves Carnival, by Jean Annouihl, 1954; Thirteen Clocks, 1967; Three Contemporary American Operas: The Tub, Sunday Excursion, and Sweet Betsy From Pike, by Rymond Wilding-White, Alec Wilder, and Mark Bucci, 1964; Three Penny Opera, by Bert Brecht and Kurt Weill, 1955-1968; Through a Glass Darkly, by N. Lindsay Norden, 1952; Through The Years, by Ameila Platts Boynton, 1960, .




Box 13 / Folder 230
Thunder on Sycamore Street, by Reginald Rose, undated; A Thurber Carnival, 1966-1967; Tiger Tiger Buring Buring Bright, by Peter Feibleman, 1963; The Time of Your Life, by William Saroyan, 1954; Tobias and the Angel, by James Bridie, 1951; Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, 1969, .




Box 13 / Folder 231
Touchstone, by William Stucky, 1953; Track Thirteen, by Shirley Graham, undated; Traveling Musicians, by Royle, Holden and Bergh, undated; A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith, 1961; The Trial, by Gottfried von Einem, 1954; Two Husbands, by Henri Lavedan, 1908; Trouble in Tahiti, by Leonard Bernstein, 1955; The Tub, by Raymond Wilding-White, 1964; The Turk in Italy, by Gioacchino Rossini, 1958; The Twelefth Night, by William Shakespere, 1959; Twilight Walk, 1954, .




Box 13 / Folder 232
Up-Tight, 1968; A Visit from St. Nicholas, by Clement Moore, undated; Volpone, by George Antheil, 1953; Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett, 1962; Wedding Band, Alice Childress, 1966; What are We Waiting For?, by Curtis Williams, undated; What Men Live By, Bohuslav Martin, 1955; Whither Bound, undated, .




Box 13 / Folder 233
Who'll Bless the Child, 1968; Willie and His Wind Engine, by Lucia Pomeroy and Bascom Little, undated; The Wind Blows, Alec Wilder, 1953; Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson, 1947; Wings of the Dove, by Douglas Moore, 1964; Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne, 1964; The Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, 1967; Wonderful Town, by Joseph A. Fields and Jerome Chodorov, 1956; The Wooden Dish, by Edmund Morris, 1957, .




Box 13 / Folder 234
The Would-Be Gentleman, Moliere, 1950; A Wreath for Udomo, by William Branch, 1960; Yerma, by Federico Garcia Lorca, 1950; Zoo Story and The Death of Bessie Smith, by Edward Albee, 1964; Zulu and the Zayda, 1967, .




Box 13 / Folder 235
Untitled plays, undated




Box 13 / Folder 236
Miscellaneous plays, undated




Box 13 / Folder 236
List of operas and musicals performed after 1949, undated







Sub-series K: Announcements of Events, 1921-1978; undated

Box 13 / Folder 237-246
Announcements of events, 1921-1965




Box 14 / Folder 247-259
Announcements of events, 1966-1978







Sub-series L: Memoranda, 1940-1978; undated

Box 14 / Folder 260-264
Memoranda, 1940-1970




Box 15 / Folder 265-278
Memoranda, 1970-1978







Sub-series M: Date Books, 1950-1971

Box 16 / Folder 279
Beasley, Landon, 1961




Box 16 / Folder 280-282
Burns, Dargan, 1955-1959




Box 16 / Folder 283-286
Jelliffe, Rowena, 1958-1962




Box 16 / Folder 287-294
Jelliffe, Russell, 1953-1959




Box 17 / Folder 295-296
Jelliffe, Russell, 1960-1961




Box 17 / Folder 297
King, Charles E., 1950




Box 17 / Folder 298
Magner, Mary Ann, 1971




Box 17 / Folder 299-310
Roberson, Wilhelmina, 1954-1963




Box 18 / Folder 311-319
Roberson, Wilhelmina, 1964-1968







Sub-series N: Guest Books, 1945-1961

Box 18 / Folder 320-324
Guest books, 1945-1961







Sub-series O: Newspaper Clippings, 1931-1973; undated

Box 19 / Folder 325-331
Newspaper clippings, general, 1931-1973




Box 19 / Folder 332
Newspaper clippings regarding bombing of home of J. Newton Hill, 1967





Series II: Subject Files, 1916-1974; undated

Box 19 / Folder 333
AARTS, 1970; Activities, 1954-1967; Actor's Equity, 1970 Actors Press Data, undated; Adams, Donald C. 1964-1966; Addressing Services, 1971; Addressograph Machine, 1959; Administration on Aging Application, 1971, .




Box 19 / Folder 334
Administration - Cabinet Minutes, 1970. Administrative Cabinet, 1969-1970, .




Box 19 / Folder 335
Adult Education Council of Greater Cleveland, 1973




Box 19 / Folder 336-337
Adult Work of Karamu House, 1940




Box 19 / Folder 338
Ad-Vantages, 1969-1971; Advertising, 1971; Advertising Agency, 1970-1971; A.E.T.A., 1971, .




Box 19 / Folder 339
African and African-American Studies, 1970; African Art Sponsors, 1927-1928; Africa House, 1959-1960, .




Box 19 / Folder 340
African Music Society, 1951-1952; African People's Community Center, 1970; African Tour, 1971; Afro-American Exhibit, undated; African-American Music Opportunities Association, Inc., 1970-1971, .




Box 19 / Folder 341
Aging, 1970




Box 20 / Folder 342-347
Agreements, theater sponsors, 1964-1969




Box 20 / Folder 348
Akron Convention on Women's Rights, 1951; Akron Teacher Corps, 1969-1969; Albert A. List, 1954-1956; Aldridge, Ira, 1959; Allegheny College, 1956-1958, .




Box 20 / Folder 349
All Nations Fair, 1962-1964; All-Staff Memos, 1972-1974; Aluminum Corporation of America, 1946-1953; Alumni, 1971; Alvin Ailey, 1970-1971; Amateur Music Makers, 1963; American Assembly, 1969, .




Box 20 / Folder 350
American Association of University Women, 1950-1951; American Educational Theatre, 1968-1972; American Foundation, 1970; American Friends Service Committee, 1954-1966; American Greeting Corporation, 1956; American Indians Project Committee, 1965; American Negro Emancipation Centennial Authority, 1961; American Red Cross, 1954, .




Box 20 / Folder 351-354
American National Theatre and Academy, 1950-1962; American Repertory Theatre, 1969-1970, .




Box 20 / Folder 355-356
American Society of African Culture, 1964-1968




Box 20 / Folder 357
American Theatre Wing, Inc., 1952-1954; Anniversary, 25th, 1940, .




Box 20 / Folder 358-359
Anniversary, 40th, 1955




Box 21 / Folder 360
Anniversary, 50th, 1965; Annual Meeting, 1973-1974; Anton Grdina School, 1970; ARA Coffee Systems, 1969; Archives, 1972, .




Box 21 / Folder 361
Armed Services, Men and Women, undated; Arts Education, 1961-1967; Art and Argot at Karamu, 1966; Arts and Crafts Unit, 1950; Art Commission, 1968; Artists, 1940-1941; Artists Information, 1966; Art Craft Reproductions, 1968, .




Box 21 / Folder 362
Art Department, 1966-1973




Box 21 / Folder 363
Art Shows, 1966; Art mailing list, 1965; Art reports-extension, 1967; Artists, Inc., undated; Artist-In-Residence, 1970; Associated Councils of the Arts, 1973; Association for Children with Learning Disabilities, Inc., 1970-1972, .




Box 21 / Folder 364
Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 1930-1937; Association for Voluntary Sterilization, Inc., 1964; Association of American Dance Companies, 1966-1967; Association of Community Development Corporation, Inc., 1970-1971; Association of Real Estate Brokers, 1957, .




Box 21 / Folder 365
Atlanta University Center for African and African-American Studies, 1969-1970




Box 21 / Folder 366-374
Attendance sheets, 1961-1967




Box 21 / Folder 375
Audience development, 1970-1971; Audio Craft Company, 1969-1970, .




Box 22 / Folder 376-381
Auditors' reports, 1920-1969




Box 22 / Folder 382
Ballard, Orville E., 1963-1964; Band, 1962-1963; Banquet program for the Jelliffes, 1963; Batie, James, 1952; Beginning Electronic Music, 1971; Bellamy Memorial Fund, 1968; Bennett College, 1957, .




Box 22 / Folder 383
Bennington College, 1956-1968




Box 22 / Folder 384
Berlin Project, 1964-1965; Biafra Relief, 1968; Bicknell Fund, 1970; Big Brother, Inc., 1971; Bills for class fees and rentals, 1965-1968, .




Box 22 / Folder 385
Biographies, prominent African-Americans, undated; Biographies, prominent Karamu alumni, undated; Black arts, 1968; Black Churchmen, National Committee of, 1969-1971; Black politics and nationalists, 1973, .




Box 22 / Folder 386-387
Black printmakers, 1969




Box 22 / Folder 388
Black Studies, 1969; Black Unity Conference, 1967; Black Voices, 1969, .




Box 22 / Folder 389-394
Board of Trustees, 1951-1971




Box 22 / Folder 395-396
Bowling Green State University, 1957-1958; Box Office, 1967-1973, .




Box 22 / Folder 397
Boyd, Emil (benefit concert), 1970; Britton, Gertrude, 1970; Britton Fund, 1970; Broadside Press, 1970; Book parties, 1970; Boston Fine Arts Festival, 1968; Brochures, 1969, .




Box 23 / Folder 398-401
Brooks, Arthur, 1971; Brown, Gregory, 1970; Buckeye-Woodland Cultural Fair, 1969; Budget, 1941-1970, .




Box 23 / Folder 402-407
Building fund, 1940-1961




Box 23 / Folder 408
Building hours 1971-1974; Buildings and grounds, 1972-1974; Bulart Foundation, 1965; Business Men's Inter-Racial Committee, 1971; Cain Park Theatre, 1956-1973; Calendar, 1969-197 Calendar project, 1971; California trip (Ken Snipes), 1973; Call & Post series, 1969, .




Box 23 / Folder 409
Camera Club, 1970; Camp Fire Girls, 1967-1969; Camp Karamu, 1940-1954, .




Box 23 / Folder 410
Canada Lee Foundation, 1953; Canteens (questionnaire), 1944; Canterbury School, 1971; Capital account (financial), 1952; Carling Brewing Company Project, 1968, .




Box 23 / Folder 411
Carver Community Center (Bedford, Oh.), 1957; Case Institute of Technology, 1963-1969; Case Western Reserve University, 1972-1973, .




Box 23 / Folder 412
Case Western Reserve University (Afro American Society), 1970; Cash receipts (box office), 1974, .




Box 23 / Folder 413
Centers (associations), 1962; Central area social study, 1942-1943; Certificates and awards (given to the Jelliffs), 1960-1961; Chart of accounts, 1970; Checklists (miscellaneous), undated, .




Box 23 / Folder 414
Cherrio Circle, 1971; Children's Chorus, 1952-1963 and undated, .




Box 24 / Folder 415-416
Children's Theatre, 1964; Christmas appeals and contributions, 1945-1964, .




Box 24 / Folder 417
Christmas at Karamu, 1964-1965; Church of Reconciliation, undated; Citations (given by Karamu), 1962, .




Box 24 / Folder 418-421
Classes (children and adult: art, ceramics, dance, fencing, foreign language, music & puppetry, photography), 1963-1968, .




Box 24 / Folder 422
Cleveland, city of, 1931-1970




Box 24 / Folder 423
Cleveland Area Arts Council, 1973-1974; Cleveland Arts: 71, 1971; Cleveland Association Foundation, 1970-1971; Cleveland Clinic, 1971; Cleveland College Report, 1932; Cleveland Crane & Engineering, 1971, .




Box 24 / Folder 424-425
Cleveland Construction Company, 1950-1959




Box 24 / Folder 426
Cleveland Federation of Musicians, 1971; Cleveland Federation of Settlements, 1954-1962, .




Box 24 / Folder 427-428
Cleveland Heights Bombing Reward Fund (J. Newton Hill), 1967-1969




Box 24 / Folder 429
Cleveland Interfaith Housing Corporation, 1969. Cleveland Lawyers, 1971; Cleveland International Programs, 1971-1973; Cleveland Job Corp, 1969; Cleveland Management, Inc., 1969, .




Box 24 / Folder 430
Cleveland Mental Health Association, 1967-1968; Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority, 1969; Cleveland Modern Dance, 1969; Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944 and 1959-1968, .




Box 24 / Folder 431
Cleveland Museum of Natural History, 1963-1968; Cleveland Music School Settlement, 1968-1973; Cleveland Now!, 1968-1970; Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra, 1968-1969, .




Box 25 / Folder 432
Cleveland Public Library, 1963-1973; Cleveland Scholarship Program, 1969; Cleveland State University, 1968-1971, .




Box 25 / Folder 433
Cleveland Urban Learning Community, 1970; Cleveland Youth Services, 1965; Clubs (Playhouse Settlement and Karamu), 1916-1954, .




Box 25 / Folder 434
College Day, 1964; Collinwood Arts Center, undated; Color charts (new building), 1958; Colum, Padriac (correspondence), 1961-1962; Columbus Educational Development Facility, 1974; Columbus Urban League, 1956-1964; Commentary on Karamu House (Fred Griffith WEWS), 1970; Community Action for Youth, Inc. (CAY), 1964-1965, .




Box 25 / Folder 435
Community Congress, 1968; Community Impact, 1971; Community Music Center, 1971; Community news, 1965-1969; Community Relations Board (Cleveland), 1945-1962; Community Service Program, 1969-1970, .




Box 25 / Folder 436
Community/social services, 1972-1974; Computer, 1971; Conception Abbey Press, 1971; Concerned Friends of Karamu, 1969-1971; Concerts (outside artists), 1946-1950; Concert Series, 1971-1972; Conferences for Executives of Large Neighborhood Centers 1961-1963; Congress Of Racial Equality, 1969, .




Box 25 / Folder 437-438
Construction, 1944-1953




Box 25 / Folder 439
Conference on Aging, 1969; Connecticut Dance Festival, 1954-1966, .




Box 25 / Folder 440
Continuing Education, 1971; Contributions (Cleveland Heights High performance), 1974; Conway and Patton (attorneys at law), 1971; Cooperative Urban Studies, 1969-1970; Copyright ("Karamu"), 1950-1959, .




Box 25 / Folder 441
Corning, Maude, 1970-1971; Coronet, 1946-1953; Corporations, 1955-1971, .




Box 25 / Folder 442-445
Correspondence, 1969-1971




Box 25 / Folder 446
Council for Economic Opportunities in Greater Cleveland, 1967-1973; Council of International Programs, 1970-1971; Council on Human Relations, 1968-1970; Council on World Affairs (visitors), 1963-1964; Course descriptions, 1970, .




Box 25 / Folder 447
Courtesy policies, 1971; Cuyahoga Community College, 1971-1972; Cuyahoga County Charter Commission, 1959; Cultural Arts Committee, 1966-1967; Cultural Arts Series, 1967-1968; Curtain speeches (Kenneth E. Snipes), 1970-1971, .




Box 25 / Folder 448
C Miscellaneous, 1963-1965




Box 26 / Folder 449
Dance concert, 1971; Dance Department, 1970-1971; Dance group (modern), undated; Dance programs, 1939-1941; Dance recital (children), 1964 and undated; Davella Mills Foundation, 1947-1954, .




Box 26 / Folder 450-452
Day Care Center, 1944-1954




Box 26 / Folder 453-454
Day Nursery, general, 1948-1959




Box 26 / Folder 455-459
Day Nursery roll books, 1947-1958




Box 26 / Folder 460
Delinquency problems, 1942-1943; Denison University, 1958-1959; Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1965-1967, .




Box 26 / Folder 461
Des Moines, Iowa, 1970; DeSouza, Ruth, 1951-1952, .




Box 26 / Folder 462
Development, 1969-1971; Development Office background, 1969-1970, .




Box 26 / Folder 463
Development Office design, 1970-1971; Development plan, 1970; Development Program, 1969, .




Box 26 / Folder 464
Diamond-Shamrock, 1971; Dinners, 1960 and undated; Directing Workshop, 1965-1966; Directories, undated, .




Box 26 / Folder 465
Discrimination, 1943-1961




Box 26 / Folder 466
Donaldson, Lou, 1971; Donations, 1960-1965; Dorothy H. and Lewis Rosensteil Foundation, 1947-1948; Drama Associates of Detroit (Dramatic Publishing Company), 1957; Drama critics, 1956; Dramatics Play Service, Inc., 1954-1969; Drug abuse, 1973; Drum Making Workshop, 1970, .




Box 27 / Folder 467
Earlham College, 1953-1959; East-Central Task Force, 1968; East Cleveland Community Theatre, 1973; East Cleveland Schools Project, 1971; East Eighty-Ninth Street Conservation Club and Neighbors, 1949-1955; Editorial services, 1971; Educational discussion groups, 1952-1963, .




Box 27 / Folder 468
Educational entity, 1970; Educational Exchange Program (United States State Department), 1954-1955; Educational material, 1965-1966, .




Box 27 / Folder 469-470
Edward John Noble Foundation, 1954-1955; Eisenstst, Max (Memorial Night), 1956; Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Foundation, 1961-1962; The Emerson Press, Inc. 1968-1969; Encampment for citizenship, 1946-1964, .




Box 27 / Folder 471
Enrollment (total number in classes), 1971; Equipment, 1948-1959; Erie Civic Theatre, 1974; Excelsior Stamp Works Co., 1953-1963; Exchange exhibits, undated, .




Box 27 / Folder 472
Exhibitions (tentative), 1967; Expense sheets (plays), 1967; Experimental labs, 1969; Extension classes, undated, .




Box 27 / Folder 473
Fair Employment Practices Commission, 1951-1960; Fair Housing, Inc., 1963-1964, .




Box 27 / Folder 474-478
Fairfax Foundation, 1960-1971




Box 27 / Folder 479-480
Fann, Al, 1971




Box 27 / Folder 481-482
Federal Works Agency (nursery project), 1944-1945




Box 27 / Folder 483
Federation of Black Nationalist (Jay Arki Et al.), 1970-1971; Fee committee, 1969; Fee receipts and records, 1967; Festival week, 1949, .




Box 27 / Folder 484
Field Foundation, 1969; Field trips, caravans (educational), 1951-1963; Field trip (permission slips), 1970, .




Box 27 / Folder 485
Films (shown at Proscenium theatre), 1971; Film catalogues, 1963; Film making (Snipes), 1969, .




Box 27 / Folder 486
Film program, undated; Final attendance reports (show run), 1973-1974 and undated; Fisk University (integration items), 1956; Ford Foundation, 1970-1971; Foreign visitors, 1962-1966; Forest City Materials (Leonard Ratner), 1960; Foundations, 1970, .




Box 27 / Folder 487
Foundations (corporate), 1956-1971; Foundation procedures, 1970; Four brain storming sessions, undated; Frank Griesinger & Associates, 1968; Friendly Inn, 1965-1973, .




Box 27 / Folder 488
Friends of Karamu, 1957-1971




Box 28 / Folder 489-494
Friends of Karamu, 1957-1971




Box 28 / Folder 495
Fund Development Committee, 1971; Fund Development Flow Chart, 1970; Fund Development (office), 1970-1971; Fund Raising Proposals, 1970; Funding Sources, undated, .




Box 28 / Folder 496
Gage, Margaret, 1960; Gallery, 1971-1974; Gallery/American Greetings Show, 1971; Gallery/Coast Show, 1971; Gallery/Nichols Show, 1971; Gallery/P.O. Show, 1971; Garzia, Pasqualina, 1963; Gestetner, undated, .




Box 28 / Folder 497
Gilpin Players, 1931-1953; Gilpin Players Programs, 1939-1948; Gilpin Players Play Lists, 1931; Gilpin Players African Art Sponsors, 1927-1936; Gilpin History, 1927, .




Box 28 / Folder 498
Gilpin Players, 1926-1938; Gilpin Players Open House, 1953, .




Box 28 / Folder 499
Gilpin Players Reviews, 1931-1947




Box 28 / Folder 500
Gilpin Players Scholarship Fund, 1929-1935; Girl Scout Council, correspondence, 1951-1953; Globe Ticket Company, 1950-1961, .




Box 28 / Folder 501-503
Golden Age Club, 1949-1971




Box 29 / Folder 504-506
Golden Age Club, 1949-1971




Box 29 / Folder 507
Golden Age Registration, 1966-1967; Golden Agers Cheerio Circle, 1963-1967; Golden Age Club Minutes, 1965; Golden Agers Tours, 1958-1964, .




Box 29 / Folder 508
Golden Agers New York Trip, undated; Golden Agers Miscellaneous, 1967-1969; Golden Anniversary, 1965; Goodrich Gannett Neighborhood Center, 1964-1965; Gospel Holiday, 1973; Gospel Workshop, 1971, .




Box 29 / Folder 509
Goth, Trudy, 1953-1954; Grand Jury Association, 1960, .




Box 29 / Folder 510
Great Lakes Association of Colleges and Universities, 1968; Greater Cleveland Committee for Fair Housing Practices, 1959-1961; Greater Cleveland Growth Association, 1969-1971, .




Box 29 / Folder 511-512
Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers Association, 1968-1971




Box 29 / Folder 513
Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers Association Board Manual, 1963; Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers Association, Correspondence, 1966-1967; Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers Association, Minutes/Reports, 1970-1971, .




Box 29 / Folder 514
Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers Association, Public School Policy Committee, 1969-1971; Green is Beautiful, 1971, .




Box 29 / Folder 515
Ground Breaking Ceremonies, 1957; Ground Breaking Exercises, 1948; Group Activities Monthly Service Reports, 1961-1963; Group Training, 1964, .




Box 29 / Folder 516
Growing Up Project, 1970-1971




Box 29 / Folder 517
Halloween, 1970; Handy, W.C., 1952-1956; Harriet Eells Fund, 1970; Harrison, Victoria, 1957-1959; Harvard, 1971; H.E.W., 1970; Health and Nutrition, 1964-1965; Heights Citizens for Human Rights, 1969-1970; Highlander Folk School, 1955-1958, .




Box 29 / Folder 518
Hill, J. Newton, 1966; Hiram College, 1951-1973; Hiram College Exhibition, 1968; Holiday Magazine, 1951-1952; Hollywood Letters of Appeal, 1950-1956; Horse Show, 1956-1961; Hospital Audiences, 1971; Hospitality Project, 1969-1970, .




Box 29 / Folder 519
Host/Hostess Committee, 1963-1970; Hostess Committee, 1970, .




Box 30 / Folder 520
Hough, 1969; HADC (HDC), 1970-1973; Hough/Karamu Project, 1969; House Groups, 1966-1967; Housing Assistance Services Rendered, 1952-1957; Housing: Negro Housing and the Cleveland Freeway: 1955-1956; Housing Plans, 1933; Hughes, Langston (music composed), 1952 and undated. IBM Foundation, 1959; Information Week, 1970-1971, .




Box 30 / Folder 521
Ingram, Zell, 1937-1940; Inner City, 1973; Inner-City Holiday Project, 1969; Insurance, 1949-1960, .




Box 30 / Folder 522
Insurance, 1961; Insurance Council Luncheon Meeting, 1957; Intercultural Practice, 1950; Internal Communications, 1971; Internal Program, 1969; International Institute of Erie, Pennsylvania, 1960; International Student Group, 1968; International Theatre Month, 1959-1961; International Youth Exchange, 1956-1958, .




Box 30 / Folder 523
Interns, 1971; Inventory, 1970; Invoices, 1961-1967; Iowa Tour, 1971; Jazz, 1971, .




Box 30 / Folder 524
Jazz in the Afternoon, 1971; Jazz Rap, 1971; Jewish Community Centers, 1954-1969, .




Box 30 / Folder 525
Job Analysis Survey, 1970-1971; John R. Raible Foundation, 1950; Johnson Foundation, 1969-1971, .




Box 30 / Folder 526
Junior League of Cleveland, 1960-1971; Juvenile Delinquency, 1960; Karamu Camera Club, 1966; Karamu Dance Programs-Children and Beginners, 1955-1959, .




Box 30 / Folder 527-531
Karamu Dancers, 1951-1971




Box 30 / Folder 532-535
Karamu Dancers Tours Alphabetized by Location, 1940-1963




Box 31 / Folder 536-541
Karamu Dancers Tours Alphabetized by Location, 1940-1963




Box 31 / Folder 542
Karamu Extension Program, 1967-1971




Box 31 / Folder 543
Karamu Extension Program Aides, 1967-1968; Karamu Extension Program Budget and Payroll, 1967-1968; Karamu Extension Program , Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers Association, undated; Karamu Extension Program Reports for Staff, 1967-1968, .




Box 31 / Folder 544
Karamu Extension Program Schedules, 1967-1968; Karamu Extension Program Staff, 1964-1968; Karamu Extension Program Staff Meetings, 1967; Karamu Extension Program Time Cards, 1967-1968, .




Box 31 / Folder 545-547
Karamu Institute for the Performing Arts, 1970-1973




Box 31 / Folder 548-550
Karamu Theatre, 1946-1974




Box 31 / Folder 551
Karamu Theatre, Admission Tax, 1948-1963; Karamu Theatre Advance Sales (daily), 1965; Karamu Theatre Attendance Reports (final), 1973-1974; Karamu Theatre Attendance Reports (monthly), 1973-1974, .




Box 31 / Folder 552
Karamu Theatre Attendance Report (nightly), 1973; Karamu Theatre Attendance Statistics (monthly), 1962-1970, .




Box 31 / Folder 553
Karamu Theatre Box Office Night Sheet, 1964; Karamu Theatre Committee Notes, 1966; Karamu Theatre Club Plan, 1966-1971; Karamu Theatre Cost, 1970-1971; Karamu Theatre Department Program Report, 1970, .




Box 31 / Folder 554
Karamu Theatre Expenses, 1951-1966




Box 31 / Folder 555
Karamu Theatre 47th Season Playlist, 1970-1971; Karamu Theatre 48th Season, 1971; Karamu Theatre Funds, 1970; Karamu Theatre Guild, 1950-1967; Karamu Theatre Income and Expense, 1950-1962, .




Box 31 / Folder 556
Karamu Theatre Information, 1964-1968; Karamu Theatre Lab Group, 1960-1961; Karamu Theatre Memos and Mailing Lists, 1969; Karamu Theatre Monthly Report, 1968-1974; Karamu Theatre Party Contracts, 1973-1974; Karamu Theatre Proposal, 1970; Karamu Theatre Productions, 1961, .




Box 32 / Folder 557
Karamu Theatre Programs, 1953-1976. Karamu Theatre Reorganization, 1967-1968; Karamu Theatre Schedule, 1966-1968; Karamu Theatre Season Book, 1969, .




Box 32 / Folder 558
Karamu Theatre Seat Purchase, 1949-1964; Karamu Theatre Staff, 1971; Karamu Theatre Staff Material, 1949-1960; Karamu Theatre Staff Minutes, 1969-1970. Karamu Theatre Miscellaneous, 1968-1970, .




Box 32 / Folder 559
Kaynee Company, 1956-1959; Keesecker, Raymond P. Memorial, 1951-1960; Keegan, 1970; Kent State University (Center of Pan-African Culture), undated; Kerkow, Inc., 1953-1957; Kress Foundation, 1969; King, Martin Luther (Committee to Defend), 1960-1968; King, Martin Luther Memorial Program, 1968-1971, .




Box 32 / Folder 560
King, Martin Luther Scholarship Fund Contacts, 1968; Kulas Foundation, 1970-1971; Kulas Proposal, 1971; Labs, 1969; Lake Erie Girl Scouts, 1964-1968; Lake Erie Opera Professional Advisory Committee, 1965-1968; Lakewood Little Theater, undated; Lalli-Indian Dancer, 1957; Lamson and Sessions Co., 1956-1959; Land Purchase, 1941, .




Box 32 / Folder 561
Landscaping (Karamu, Maud Corning chairperson), 1951-1956; Lane Bryant Awards, 1948-1965; Lang, Fisher and Stasower, 1954-1961; League Park Center, 1969, .




Box 32 / Folder 562
The Learning Thing, 1970; Legislative Bulletin, 1955; Lessing Rosenwald Fund, 1946-1954; Lewis, Wilmarth S., 1952; Libraries (National), 1955-1961; Life Magazine, 1947-1952, .




Box 32 / Folder 563
Lima Tour, 1971; Limon, Jose, 1955-1956; Lincoln University, Pa., 1957; Lincoln University, Mo., 1953-1954, .




Box 32 / Folder 564
Lists-Classes and Programs, 1968-1969




Box 32 / Folder 565
Lists- Karamu Mailing, 1955-1967




Box 32 / Folder 566
Lists- Karamu Organizations, 1957-1970




Box 32 / Folder 567
Lists- Plays, 1920-1971




Box 32 / Folder 568
Lists- Summer Workshops, 1968-1971




Box 32 / Folder 569
Lists- Miscellaneous, 1954-1971




Box 32 / Folder 570
Literature for Inner-City Children, 1971; Littauer Foundation, 1948; Living Heritage, 1970; Loans Out/Due, 1971; Loans Returned, 1970; Log Memo, 1970; Lower Woodland Community Council, 1932-1939; Lubrizol Corporation, 1956-1961; Ludwig, Frank, 1963; Luntz Iron and Steel, 1958; Lyon Knitting Mills, 1956-1959, .




Box 32 / Folder 571-575
Mailings and mailing lists, 1955-1973




Box 33 / Folder 576
Mainbocher, Inc., 1961; Miantenance department, 1966-1969; Marionettes, undated; Mangun, Dale, 1970; Majorie and Alan Littman Fund, 1965-1966; Martha Holden Jennings Foundation, 1965; Martin Luther King Memorial Program, 1968; Maryland State College, 1956-1957; Mass media, 1969; May Company, 1971, .




Box 33 / Folder 577-578
Mayor's Council on Youth Opportunity (MCYO), 1970




Box 33 / Folder 579
Melon Educational and Charitable Trust, 1940-1941; Membership, 1971; Membership development, 1971; Membership meetings, 1969; Memorials, 1953; Mende, Diethich, Dr., 1954-1959, .




Box 33 / Folder 580
Merrick House (extension program), 1965; Miller, Clifford, A., (Memorial), 1969; Mini proposals, 1970-1971; Miss Black America Beauty Pageant, 1969; Moneybook sales instructions, 1971; Montage, 1971-1972, .




Box 33 / Folder 581
Monthly reports, 1949-1968 and undated; Moppett Players (Minneapolis), 1962-1964; Mount Pleasant Community Center (extension program), 1965-1966; Multi-Racial Communication, 1970-1971; Municpal income tax, 1969; Museums, 1969, .




Box 33 / Folder 582-584
Music, 1967-1971




Box 33 / Folder 585
Music Program, 1969; Music staff resumes, 1969-1979, .




Box 33 / Folder 586
Music survey, 1969




Box 33 / Folder 587
Music Theatre International, 1969; Music therapy, 1970-1971; Music workshops, 1971; Musicales (personnel), undated; Nash, Ogden, poem, "The boy Who Laughed at Santa Claus," undated, .




Box 33 / Folder 588
National Acme Company, 1957-1971; National Art and Eduation Association (NAEA), 1954-1955; National Association of Community Theatres, 1955; National Association of Social Workers, 1968; National Association for the Adancement of Colored People (NAACP), 1924-1970, .




Box 33 / Folder 589
National Broadcasting Company, Inc., 1953-1955; National City Bank, 1954-1957; National Committee for the Musical Arts, Inc., 1959; National Council on the Arts in Education, 1970-1971, .




Box 33 / Folder 590
National Endowment for the Arts, 1970-1971




Box 33 / Folder 591-592
National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers, 1967-1974




Box 34 / Folder 593-594
National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers, 1967-1974




Box 34 / Folder 595
National Guild of Community Music Schools, 1970-1971; National Malleable & Steel Casting Co., 1961; National Screw and Manufacturing Co., 1957-1962, .




Box 34 / Folder 596
National sponsors, 1951-1962; National Theatre Arts Conference, 1974; Negro Artists, 1967-1968; Negro Ensemble (New York City), 1968-1970, .




Box 34 / Folder 597
Negro history, 1916-1968; Negro Labor Conference, 1929; Negro literature lists, 1928 and undated, .




Box 34 / Folder 598
Negro theatre groups, 1926-1935 and undated; Neighborhood Development Program, 1969; Neighborhood Settlement (proposed program), 1939; Neighborhood street clubs, undated, .




Box 34 / Folder 599-602
Neighborhood Youth Corp (NYC), 1965-1969




Box 34 / Folder 603-612
Neighborhood Youth Corp, student employees, alphabetical by last name, A through W, 1965-1969




Box 34 / Folder 613
Neighborhood and community programs, 1968; Neighbors Now!, 1969; Nelson, Linton, 1958; New Dramatist Committee, 1954, .




Box 35 / Folder 614-616
New York City trip, 1970




Box 35 / Folder 617
New York City trip, 1971; New York World's Fair, 1940; Newsletter, 1971; North Eastern Ohio Teachers Association (NEOTA), 1956; Night sheets (theatre), 1973-1974, .




Box 35 / Folder 618
Nilotics Club (constitution), 1953; North America Manufacturing Co., 1956-1962; Northern Ohio Council of Little Theatres, 1955-1961; Nursery, 1968-1974; Oakland College, 1971, .




Box 35 / Folder 619
Oberlin College citations (Russell and Rowena Jelliffe), 1944; Office of Economic Opportunity, 1969; Office of Job Retraining and Manpower Development, 1962-1963; Oglebay Norton Foundation, 1961; Ohio Arts Council, 1971; Ohio Bell Telephone Co., 1956-1959, .




Box 35 / Folder 620
Ohio Community Theatre Association, 1955-1965




Box 35 / Folder 621
Ohio Desk Co., 1969; Ohio Detective Bureau, 1968-1969; Ohio Fair Employment Practices Act, 1950; Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges, 1960; Ohio State Department of Urban Affairs, 1971; Ohio State Reformatory (art show), 1972; Ohio State sales tax, 1960-1969, .




Box 35 / Folder 622
Ohio Youth Commission (Cleveland House of Corrections), 1972; Omaha trip (ACTA), 1969; Omnibus Crime Bill, 1970; O'Neil Brothers Foundation, 1961; Open House, 1954; Open House, 1956, .




Box 35 / Folder 623
Open letter to Greater Cleveland #2, 1971; Opera Workshop, 1968; Operation Crossroads Africa, 1970; Operation Demonstrate (East 89th St.), 1956; Operation Haiti (educational trips), 1954, .




Box 35 / Folder 624
Operation Kara-Brick (building Campaign), 1957-1958; Opportunity Centers (Central, Hough, Glenville), 1966-1968; Orders (materials), 1965; Organizational chart, 1967; Organization for the Development and Advancement of the Cultural Black Arts (ODACBA), 1970; Osborne Manufacturing Co., 1956-1961; Outreach, 1971, .




Box 35 / Folder 625
Paley Foundation, 1945-1947; Parking lot, 1954-1956; P.A.T.H., 1969-1971; Payne Fund (Francis P.Bolton), 1941-1963, .




Box 35 / Folder 626
Payroll, 1969




Box 35 / Folder 627
Peace Corps, 1968; Peace group (anti-war), 1971; Peace Vigil, 1969; Peoples Art Center (St. Louis), 1946-1955; Performing Arts, 1969-1970, .




Box 35 / Folder 628
Performing arts, 1970-1971




Box 35 / Folder 629
Periodic review, 1963-1970




Box 35 / Folder 630
Pesco Products, 1954-1956; Phelps-Stokes Fund, 1940-1946; Phillis Wheatley Association, 1966-1969; Piano (tuning), 1970; Plain Dealer, 1969-1970; Planned Parenthood of Greater Cleveland (Maternal Health Association), 1969; Personnel, manual 1971; Phonograph, 1970; Pilot study, 1969, .




Box 35 / Folder 631
Plaques (memorial, Albert Ayler and Joe Berkins), 1970; Play lists, 1920-1977; Play and musical lists, 1953-1961, .




Box 35 / Folder 632
Playhouse Settlement of the Neighborhood Association, undated; Playhouse Square Association, 1971; Plays (miscellaneous), undated; Plays on Negro life, undated; Plays (published and pending), 1945-1963; Plays (reports of play committee), 1939, .




Box 36 / Folder 633
Plays submitted for evaluation, undated




Box 36 / Folder 634
Playward Bus Theatre Co., 1974; Playwrights workshop, 1971; Playwriting class, 1952-1953; Poems (various), undated; Poems by Black poets (various), undated; Poetry, 1971, .




Box 36 / Folder 635
Poetry forum, 1965-1966; Poetry lab, 1969-1970, .




Box 36 / Folder 636
Police Department, 1958; Politics 1960 (Educational discussion group), 1960; Pon's Puppets (box office day sheet), 1975; Population Statistics (Black), 1928; Population study, 1940; Pop Festival, 1970, .




Box 36 / Folder 637
Porgy & Bess Benefit, 1954-1955; Portrait day, 1955; Post theatre discussion, 1970; Pottery sale, 1968, .




Box 36 / Folder 638
Pre-season theatre sales campaign, 1971




Box 36 / Folder 639
Prescott & Company, 1959-1965; Press (Karamu), 1970; Print collection (Cleveland Museum of Art), 1941; Printmaking, undated; Prison follow-up (Daniel E. Purnell), 1956, .




Box 36 / Folder 640
Prison follow-up (Lloyd Irving, Robert Thomas, and Richard Wimbush), 1958-1963; Program, 1969; Program for Action by citizens in Education (PACE), undated; Program Bureau, 1969, .




Box 36 / Folder 641-642
Program cabinet, 1968-1970




Box 36 / Folder 643
Program class schedule, 1971-1972; Program expenses, 1970; Program ideas, 1964; Program staff, 1969-1970; Program staff meeting, 1970, .




Box 36 / Folder 644-646
Programs (miscellaneous), 1937-1969




Box 36 / Folder 647
Programs outside of Karamu (performed by Karamu), 1969; Programs (services rendered), 1955-1962; Project Bridge, 1968; Project Impact, 1968, .




Box 36 / Folder 648
Project Search, 1969; Project summaries, 1971; Property (Karamu House), 1940-1958, .




Box 36 / Folder 649
Proposals, 1969-1970; Public Impact, 1970-1971, .




Box 37 / Folder 650-652
Public information, 1970-1971




Box 37 / Folder 653-654
Public relations, 1955-1974




Box 37 / Folder 655-657
Publicity, 1940-1970




Box 37 / Folder 658
Puppetry Workshop, undated; Qua Car Care Center, 1972, .




Box 37 / Folder 659-661
Quartet, 1951-1967




Box 37 / Folder 662
Quote Quiz, 1959-1960




Box 37 / Folder 663-665
Radio scripts, 1942-1961




Box 37 / Folder 666
Radio station WCUY, 1971; Radio station WJW, 1971, .




Box 37 / Folder 667
Rawlings Junior High and Karamu project, 1962-1963




Box 37 / Folder 668
R.E.A. Express, 1969; Readers' Digest Foundation, 1951-1952; Registrar's annual reports, 1958-1961; Registration, 1971-1972, .




Box 37 / Folder 669
Rental/purchase agreements, 1970-1971; Report forms, 1970; Republic Steel Corporation, 1956-1967; Research and Development, 1971; Resource file (Kenneth Snipes), 1963-1968, .




Box 38 / Folder 670
Resumes, 1968-1970; Richman Brothers, contributions, 1951-1963, .




Box 38 / Folder 671-672
Rockefeller Foundation, 1941-1959




Box 38 / Folder 673-678
Rutherford B. Hayes School project, 1939-1941




Box 38 / Folder 679
Samuel French, Inc., 1968-1969; Samuel Rosenthal Foundation, 1970; Saturday program, 1969-1970, .




Box 38 / Folder 680
Schedules, 1970-1973; Schedules (gallery), 1964-1965, .




Box 38 / Folder 681-686
Scholarship applications, 1951-1965




Box 39 / Folder 687-690
Scholarship applications, 1951-1965




Box 39 / Folder 691
Schools' projects, 1972-1974; Science club, undated; Script and Score financial records and cash, 1966-1967; Sears presentation piece, 1970, .




Box 39 / Folder 692
Season tickets, 1954-1969




Box 39 / Folder 693
Service requests, 1970-1974; Services offered, 1965; Services rendered, Children's Theatre, 1961-1962; Services rendered, counseling, 1959-1962; Services rendered, door prizes, 1956-1958, .




Box 39 / Folder 694
Services rendered, employment assistance, 1955-1962; Services rendered, facilities, free use of, 1954-1958; Services rendered, Karamettes and Karateens, 1958-1963, .




Box 39 / Folder 695
Services rendered, financial services, 1960-1963; Services rendered, materials, 1953-1961, .




Box 39 / Folder 696
Services rendered, membership inquiries, 1956-1962; Services rendered, papers on Karamu House, 1952-1962; Services rendered, social content plays, 1961-1963; Services rendered, speeches by Russell and Rowena Jelliffe, 1957-1963, .




Box 39 / Folder 697
Services rendered, sponsors' responses, 1958-1962; Services rendered, theatre criticism, 1953; Services rendered, theatre groups, 1953-1962; Services rendered, theatre information, 1957-1963; Services rendered, theses, 1955-1960, .




Box 39 / Folder 698
Services rendered, tours, 1950-1962; Services rendered, Wingfield, William, 1961-1963; Settlement movement, 1945; Settlements, Detroit, 1950; Settlements, Warren, Ohio (Rebecca Williams Community House), 1957; Shaker Savings, 1970, .




Box 39 / Folder 699
Shakespeare Festival, 1960-1961; Showboat ball, 1969; Showcase, 1968-1970; Singers, undated; Snipes, Kenneth, 1969-1970, .




Box 39 / Folder 700-702
Social Security, 1951-1963




Box 39 / Folder 703
Sojourner Truth commemoration, 1951; Songs, 1961-1970; Speakers, 1970, .




Box 39 / Folder 704
Speaking engagements, 1968-1969; Special assignments, 1970-1974; Special events, 1970, .




Box 39 / Folder 705
Special Programs Department, 1970; Special projects, 1970-1972; Special requests for programming, 1965; Special services, 1971; Speeches, Russell and Rowena Jelliffe, 1957-1958, .




Box 39 / Folder 706
Spirituals and songs for Christmas, undated




Box 40 / Folder 707
Sport Sampler magazine, 1950-1956




Box 40 / Folder 708-709
Staff (general information), 1950-1973




Box 40 / Folder 710
Staff day, 1971




Box 40 / Folder 711
Staff development program, 1971; Staff income, 1947-1957, .




Box 40 / Folder 712
Staff meetings, 1958-1971




Box 40 / Folder 713
Staff memoranda, minutes, and procedures, 1970-1972




Box 40 / Folder 714
Staff picnic, 1971; Staff reports, 1970-1971; Staff resignations, 1954, .




Box 40 / Folder 715-717
Statistical reports, 1957-1971




Box 40 / Folder 718
Stevens, Nelson, 1967-1968; Stokes, Carl B., 1967-1969; Street Academy, 1969-1970; Student art show, 1971; Student Development, 1970; Student workers, 1971-1974, .




Box 40 / Folder 719
Students, 1952-1955




Box 40 / Folder 720
Subscriptions, 1969-1971




Box 40 / Folder 721-722
Summer Arts Festival, 1967




Box 40 / Folder 723
Summer Arts Festival 1967, appraisals and enrollment sheets, 1967




Box 40 / Folder 724
Summer Arts Festival 1967, League Park; Mount Pleasant; publicity; workshops, 1967




Box 40 / Folder 725-729
Summer Arts Festival 1968, 1968




Box 41 / Folder 730-745
Summer Arts Festival 1968 (including registration cards), .




Box 41 / Folder 746-748
Summer Arts Festival 1969, 1969




Box 42 / Folder 749-760
Summer Arts Festival 1969, 1969




Box 42 / Folder 761-768
Summer Arts Festival 1970, 1970




Box 43 / Folder 769-771
Masters' Series 100-500, undated




Box 43 / Folder 772-788
Mayor's Council on Youth Opportunities, undated




Box 43 / Folder 789
Summer Arts Festival, undated




Box 44 / Folder 790-792
Summer Arts Festival, undated




Box 44 / Folder 793
Summer funding, 1971; Summer Lab Theatre, 1970-1971, .




Box 44 / Folder 794-795
Summer program, 1970-1971




Box 44 / Folder 796
Summer recruitment, 1969; Summer tour, 1965; Sun, Tar Lee, 1970, .




Box 44 / Folder 797
Supplies, 1972-1973; Symposium, 1970, .




Box 44 / Folder 798
Tams-Witmark Music Library, 1968-1969; Tax-exempt status, 1970-1971, .




Box 44 / Folder 799
Tax exemptions, income and excise tax, 1941-1960; Tax exemptions, property, 1943-1959, .




Box 44 / Folder 800
Tax exemptions, sales tax, 1946-1956; Tax exemptions, scholarship funds, 1954; Tax status certificates, 1970-1971; Teachers, 1961; Teachers' Corps, 1969; Telegrams, 1968; Telephone bulletin board, 1971, .




Box 44 / Folder 801
Television (National Network Programs), 1956




Box 44 / Folder 802
Thank you letters, 1955-1971




Box 44 / Folder 803
Tlhotlhalemaje, Abram Cocky, 1965; Toka Films, 1969; Toronto Daily Star clippings, 1953-1958, .




Box 44 / Folder 804
Torrence, Ridgley (Theatre Study), 1938-1939




Box 44 / Folder 805-806
Tours, 1952-1973




Box 44 / Folder 807
Truth, Sojourner (speech), 1951; Tryout notices, 1966-1971; Tutoring program (Cleveland Board of Education), 1968, .




Box 44 / Folder 808
Uganda National Museum, 1968; Union negotiations, 1946; Unitarian Society of Cleveland, 1958, .




Box 44 / Folder 809
United Appeal, 1969-1973




Box 44 / Folder 810
United Black Artists, 1968; United Negro College Fund, 1956-1962, .




Box 44 / Folder 811
United Neighborhood House, 1968; United States Information Agency 1956-1971; United Torch 1972-1974, .




Box 45 / Folder 812
University Circle Festival 1964; Uptight (motion picture),1968; Upward Bound, undated; Urban Affairs, 1969, .




Box 45 / Folder 813
Urban Arts Corps, 1969; Urban Arts Education Motivation Project, 1970; Urban League of Cleveland, 1960-1971, .




Box 45 / Folder 814
Urban League Guild (address by Russell Jellife), 1960; Urban Neighborhood Arts Project (U-NAP), 1970; Urban studies, 1970; Urban Voices, 1969-1970; Vacation requests, 1971, .




Box 45 / Folder 815
Vailes, Don, memorial, 1972-1973; Vibrations, 1968;. Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1940-1942, .




Box 45 / Folder 816-819
VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America), 1967-1968




Box 45 / Folder 820
Voices, Inc., 1968




Box 45 / Folder 821-822
Volunteer sheets, 1962-1964




Box 45 / Folder 823
Volunteers, 1968-1972; Voter registration, 1965; W-2 withholding statements, 1959-1961, .




Box 45 / Folder 824
W.F. Todd Associates, Inc., 1963-1969




Box 45 / Folder 825
Wagner, E. (Miss), 1967; Walden School (New York, N.Y.), 1948-1955; Washington, D.C. (trip), 1971; Washington Theatre Club (Newsletter), 1970, .




Box 45 / Folder 826
Water service charge exemption, 1923-1949; WCUY (FM), 1971; Weaving, 1959-1962; Weekend workshop, 1966; Weimer, Susan, 1966, .




Box 45 / Folder 827-832
Welfare Federation of Cleveland, 1958-1972




Box 46 / Folder 833-848
Welfare Federation of Cleveland, 1940-1971




Box 47 / Folder 849-865
Welfare Federation of Cleveland, 1945-1972




Box 48 / Folder 866-867
Welfare Federation of Cleveland, 1953-1969




Box 48 / Folder 868
Western Reserve Historical Society (exhibit), 1958-1963; Western Reserve University, 1953-1969; White, Clarence Cameron, undated, undated




Box 48 / Folder 869
White House Conference on Children and Youth, 1959-1972




Box 48 / Folder 870
Whiting Business College, 1971; "Who Rules Cleveland?" (paper), undated; William J. Gall Printing Co., 1961; Williams, George D., 1969; Wingspread, Wisconsin, 1967-1968; Wirtshafters, Inc., 1969; Wisconsin Center for Theatre Research (University of Wisconsin), 1960; Women's City Club of Cleveland, 1961-1971, .




Box 48 / Folder 871-872
Women's Committee, 1957-1974




Box 48 / Folder 873
Women's groups, 1971; Woodhill Homes, 1964-1965; Woodland School, 1968-1969; Wooster College, 1970; Wooster College (course taught by Ken Snipes), 1970, .




Box 48 / Folder 874
Work camps, 1965; Work projects, 1958; Work Study Program (Cleveland Board of Education), 1962-1968, .




Box 48 / Folder 875
Workman's compensation, 1956-1958; Workshop information, 1971, .




Box 48 / Folder 876
"World Politics," educational discussion groups, 1955-1962; World's Fair (Negro Week), 1940, .




Box 48 / Folder 877-882
Writers' Conference, 1969-1970




Box 48 / Folder 883
Yellow Cab Company, 1958; Young Adult Science Group, 1963-1964; Young Adult Social Club, 1946-1954; Young Women's Christian Association, 1964; Young Women's Christian Association, (Cleveland chapter), 1968; Youth Department spending, 1970, .




Box 48 / Folder 884
Youth for Service, 1962-1964; Youth opportunity, (Washington, D.C.), 1967-1968, .




Box 48 / Folder 885
Youth staff, 1970; Youth Theatre, 1965-1972; Y-Miscellaneous, 1970, .





Series III: Ledgers, 1914-1973; undated

Box 49 / Folder 886
Playhouse daybook with financial records and descriptions of activities, 1916-1919




Box 49 / Folder 887
Treasurer's account book of the men's club of the Second Presbyterian Church, 1914-1920




Box 49 / Folder 888-900
Payroll, 1951--1961




Box 50 / Folder 901-903
Payroll, 1962-1964




Box 50 / Folder 904-915
Subscriptions, 1942-1951




Box 51 / Folder 916-925
Subscriptions, 1942-1961




Box 51 / Folder 926-931
Day Care, 1943-1952




Box 52 / Folder 932-933
Accounts payable, 1972-1973




Box 52 / Folder 934
Checking account, 1954




Box 52 / Folder 935
Kara-Brick pledges, 1957-1958




Box 52 / Folder 936
Ashtray sales book, 1960




Box 52 / Folder 937
Class account book, undated




Box 52 / Folder 938
Unidentified account book, 1942-1949




Box 52 / Folder 939-946
Loose account papers, 1949-1950




Box 53 / Folder 947
Men's Club, Second Presbyterian Church, account book, 1916-1917




Box 53 / Folder 948
Enrollment book, 1938-1941




Box 53 / Folder 949
Account book, 1943-1948




Box 54 / Folder 950-951
Budgets, 1951-1967




Box 54 / Folder 952
Payroll, 1947-1950




Box 54 / Folder 953
Payroll summary, 1963-1964




Box 54 / Folder 954
Expense account, 1943-1945




Box 55 / Folder 955
Expense account, 1943-1945




Box 55 / Folder 956
Construction account, 1947-1950




Box 55 / Folder 957
Camp Karamu expense account, 1945-1946




Box 56 / Folder 958
Play account book, 1950-1951




Box 56 / Folder 959-961
Cash receipts and disbursements, 1946-1949




Box 57 / Folder 962-965
Cash receipts and disbursements, 1947-1951




Box 58 / Folder 966-970
Cash receipts and disbursements, 1950-1954




Box 59 / Folder 971-975
Cash receipts and disbursements, 1952-1956




Box 60 / Folder 976-979
Cash receipts and disbursements, 1956-1960




Box 61 / Folder 980-983
Cash receipts and disbursements, 1959-1962




Box 62 / Folder 984-987
Cash receipts and disbursements, 1962-1967




Box 63 / Folder 988-991
Cash receipts and disbursements, 1964-1969




Box 64 / Folder 992-994
Cash receipts and disbursements, 1965-1969




Box 65 / Folder 995
Nursery, capital, and scholarship receipts and disbursements, 1952-1954




Box 65 / Folder 996
Nursery and capital receipts and disbursement, 1955-1956




Box 65 / Folder 997-998
Nursery receipts and disbursements, 1957-1960




Box 66 / Folder 999-1002
Theatre receipts and disbursements, 1952-1957




Box 67 / Folder 1003-1004
Theatre receipts and disbursements, 1959-1960




Box 67 / Folder 1005
Drawings by Karamu students, "Cowboys and Indians" and "Nursery Rhymes", undated




Box 67 / Folder 1006
Pamphlet on Cleveland Summer Arts Festival, 1967




Box 67 / Folder 1007
Magazine articles about Karamu House, 1951-1956




Box 67 / Folder 1008
Operation Kara-Brick, pledges, 1957-1958




Box 68 / Folder 1009
Parent's Council of Karamu Nursery, scrapbook, 1947-1949




Box 68 / Folder 1010-1011
General scrapbook, 1949-1953




Box 68 / Folder 1012
Blake, Dick (dance instructor), correspondence and newspaper clippings, 1966





Series IV: Student Enrollment Cards, ca. 1930-ca. 1965

Box 69-92
Student enrollment cards, alphabetical by last name, A through Z, ca. 1930-ca. 1965





Oversize Folder 1, 1942-1971; undated


Statement of purpose of Karamu Dancers, undated





Citizenship award certificate, Freedom Chapter American Veterans Committee, Russell and Rowena Jelliffe, 1957





Karamu House, Senior Volunteer of the Year Award certificate, J. Edward Cooper, 1956





Junior Volunteer of the Year certificate, Linton Lewis Nelson, 1956





Welfare Federation of Cleveland, Cleveland Volunteer of the Year certificate, J. Edward Cooper and Linton Lewis Nelson, 1956





Announcements of events, 1971





Calendar of events, 1964





Newspaper clippings mounted on poster board, 1942





Architectural drawings, undated