Finding aid for the Dunbar Company Photographs


Title:
Dunbar Company Photographs
Repository:
Western Reserve Historical Society
Phone: 216-721-5722
http://www.wrhs.org
Creator:
Dunbar Company
Dates:
1910-1970
Quantity:
1.40 linear feet (4 containers)
Abstract:
The Dunbar Company, also known as Dunbar Construction Company, was established in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1884 by William Dunbar, a carpenter. The collection consists of views of commercial, business, industrial, and other buildings, located in Cleveland, Ohio. Included are photographs of the Cleveland Trust Company, Elliott Shoe Company, Pathe Film Company, Dinner Bell Meat Company, Fisher Food Inc., Ohio Bell Telephone Company, Geauga Community Hospital, Slovak Home for the Aged, Immaculate Heart of Mary School, Ursuline College Campus Center, and other representative examples of the company's work.
Identification:
PG 314
Location:
closed stacks
Language:
The records are in English

Scope and Content

The Dunbar Company Photographs, ca. 1910s-1970s, consist of views of commercial, business, industrial, and other buildings, located in Cleveland, Ohio. Included are photographs of the Cleveland Trust Company, Elliott Shoe Company, Pathe Film Company, Dinner Bell Meat Company, Fisher Food Inc., Ohio Bell Telephone Company, Geauga Community Hospital, Slovak Home for the Aged, Immaculate Heart of Mary School, Ursuline College Campus Center, and other representative examples of the company's work. The collection includes 926 black and white and color photographs of varying sizes.

This collection will be useful to researchers studying the history of construction, architecture, and business in Cleveland, Ohio, in the twentieth century.

Statement of Arrangement

The collection is arranged in four series.
Series I: Commercial and Business Buildings is arranged alphabetically by subject.
Series II: Industrial Buildings is arranged alphabetically by subject.
Series III: Other Buildings is arranged alphabetically by subject.
Series IV: Albums is arranged chronologically.

Restrictions on Access

None.

Indexing Terms

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

Subjects:

Architecture -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
Buildings -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
Cleveland (Ohio) -- Commerce -- Photographs.
Construction industry -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.
Dunbar Company -- Photograph collections.
Industries -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Photographs.

Preferred Citation

[Container ___, Folder ___ ] PG 314 Dunbar Company Photographs, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio

Acquisition Information

Gift of the Dunbar Company in 1986.

Detailed Description of The Collection



Series I: Commercial and Business Buildings, ca. 1910s-1960s

Box 1 / Folder 1
Automobile dealers and service stations, including Broley Auto Livery; Chagrin Valley Ford; Craig Motor Company; Dowd Oldsmobile Showroom; Fixit Body and Fender Repair Company; Ralph Stewart Buick Company; and Schofield Motors, ca. 1910s-1960s




Box 1 / Folder 2
Automobile dealers and service stations, including Fisk Tires Store; Glenville Auto Service; Public Service Tire Company; Paragon Gas Service Station; Standard Oil Company; Willard Service Station; and an unidentified garage and tire store, ca. 1910s-1960s




Box 1 / Folder 3
Banks and insurance companies, including Cleveland Trust Company (Broadway-Harvard Branch and East 79th-Euclid Branch); and Twinsburg Banking Company, ca. 1920s-1960s




Box 1 / Folder 4
Banks and insurance companies, including John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, ca. 1950s




Box 1 / Folder 5
Photographic studio, Clifford Norton Studio, ca. 1920s




Box 1 / Folder 6
Restaurants, including Childs Restaurant; Clark's Lunch (1520 Euclid Avenue and East 9th Street); Schooner Restaurant; and Southern Barbecue, ca. 1920s




Box 1 / Folder 7
Stores and shops, including Elliott Shoe Company; and Van Gorder Shoe Store, ca. 1910s-1930s




Box 1 / Folder 8
Stores and shops, including Graves and Laughlin Company; Harry J. Glick company; and W. H. Quinby Company (clothing stores), ca. 1910s-1930s




Box 1 / Folder 9
Stores and shops, including James Vernor Company, soda fountain, ca. 1930s




Box 1 / Folder 10
Stores and shops, including Shaker Square Book Store, ca. 1930s




Box 1 / Folder 11
Miscellaneous commercial buildings, including Pathe Film Company; and Film Exchange Building under construction, 1920-1921




Box 1 / Folder 12
Miscellaneous commercial buildings, including Collister and Sayle Company; Haserot Company; J. L. Goodman Furniture Company; and Wolf's Harness Shop, ca. 1920s-1960s





Series II: Industrial Buildings, ca. 1910s-1960s

Box 1 / Folder 13
Consumer products manufacturers, Bailey Walker China Company, ca. 1940s




Box 1 / Folder 14
Consumer products manufacturers, Bedford China Company, ca. 1930s




Box 1 / Folder 15
Consumer products manufacturers, Clark-Waldorf Commissary, construction in progress, 1922-1923




Box 1 / Folder 16
Consumer products manufacturers, Crane Company, 1928




Box 1 / Folder 17
Consumer products manufacturers, Dinner Bell Meat Company, ca. 1967-1968




Box 1 / Folder 18
Consumer products manufacturers, Dougherty Lumber Company, ca. 1950s




Box 1 / Folder 19
Consumer products manufacturers, F. E. Walker Dairy Company, ca. 1930s




Box 1 / Folder 20
Consumer products manufacturers, Fisher Food Company, East 40th Street (Cleveland), dates vary




Box 1 / Folder 21
Consumer products manufacturers, Fisher Food, Inc., 1962




Box 1 / Folder 22
Consumer products manufacturers, George Worthington Company, ca. 1960s




Box 1 / Folder 23
Consumer products manufacturers, Globe Paper Company, 1960




Box 1 / Folder 24
Consumer products manufacturers, Ohio Bell Telephone Company, including West 35th and 150th Street, Lee-Miles, and 3445 Richmond Road (Cleveland), Solon, Ohio, and tornado damage (1953), ca. 1925-1960s




Box 1 / Folder 25
Consumer products manufacturers, including Cadillac Plastic Company; Cleveland Ice Cream Company; Dobeckmun Company; Fuller Canneries Company; Hill Floral Products Company of Cleveland; Independent Towel; Keetch Knitting Mills; Ohio Envelope Manufacturing Company; Philco Company; and Scott-Fetzer Company, ca. 1920s-1966




Box 2 / Folder 26
Industrial products manufacturers, Carnegie Body Company, ca. 1936




Box 2 / Folder 27
Industrial products manufacturers, Cleveland Hardware and Forging Company, 1954




Box 2 / Folder 28
Industrial products manufacturers, Dickey-Grabler Company, ca. 1920s




Box 2 / Folder 29
Industrial products manufacturers, Federal Gear Company, ca. 1920s




Box 2 / Folder 30
Industrial products manufacturers, North American Manufacturing Company, ca. 1940s-1960s




Box 2 / Folder 31
Industrial products manufacturers, Pompeian Manufacturing Company, 1920




Box 2 / Folder 32
Industrial products manufacturers, Republic Structural Iron Works, ca. 1960s




Box 2 / Folder 33
Industrial products manufacturers, Strong-Carlisle and Hammond Company, ca. 1930s




Box 2 / Folder 34
Industrial products manufacturers, Van Dorn Iron Works Company, 1918




Box 2 / Folder 35
Industrial products manufacturers, including Alpha Coal Company; Brierly Machine Company; Cleveland Auto Company; Cox Manufacturing Company; Elliott Electric Company; Enamel Products Company; Erie Dyeing and Processing; John Harsch Bronze and Foundry Company; McKinney Tool and Manufacturing Company; Pipe Machinery Company; Positive Safety Manufacturing Company; Robertson Manufacturing Company; Taylor Machine Company; Time Steel Service Inc.; Vermont Marble Company; York Ohio Ice Machine Company; Z. and W. Machine Products Inc.; and Zep Manufacturing Corporation, ca. 1910s-1960s




Box 2 / Folder 36
Publishing and printing companies, including Cleveland News Publishing Plant; and Deluxe Check Printers Inc., ca. 1950s




Box 2 / Folder 37
Publishing and printing companies, Corday-Gross Company, ca. 1922-1930s




Box 2 / Folder 38
Publishing and printing companies, Edwards and Franklin Company, ca. 1930s




Box 2 / Folder 39
Publishing and printing companies, World Publishing Company, Cleveland, ca. 1930s-1941





Series III: Other Buildings, ca. 1910s-1970s

Box 2 / Folder 40
Churches, including Emmanuel Episcopal Church; St. John Church; St. Paschal Baylon; and Trinity Church, ca. 1920s-1950s




Box 2 / Folder 41
Hospitals and nursing homes, Geauga Community Hospital, Chardon, Ohio, 1972-1973




Box 2 / Folder 42
Hospitals and nursing homes, including Ingleside Hospital; and Leonarda Memorial Hospital, 1926-1967




Box 2 / Folder 43
Hospitals and nursing homes, St. Alexis Hospital, 1925




Box 2 / Folder 44
Hospitals and nursing homes, Booth Memorial Women's Home and Hospital, 1930




Box 2 / Folder 45
Hospitals and nursing homes, including Slovak Home for the Aged, Chagrin Boulevard at woter tower, placement and blessing of cornerstone; and Villa Sancta Anna, Beachwood, Ohio, ca. 1958-1959




Box 2 / Folder 46
Residences, including Lorain Overlook Apartment; and M. D. Building, 1919




Box 2 / Folder 47
Schools and Colleges, including Holy Rosary School; Ohio Business College; Spencerian School; and St. Wenceslaus School, ca. 1919-1950s




Box 2 / Folder 48
Schools and colleges, Immaculate Heart of Mary School, 1924




Box 2 / Folder 49
Schools and colleges, Ursuline College Campus Center, 1973-1974




Box 2 / Folder 50
Miscellaneous buildings, including Beachmont Country Club; Sleepy Hollow Country Club; Al Foss Building; Euclid and 30th Building; Giddings Square Boulding; Hermes Building; Solon Center Building; Steuben Investment Building; Troop A Riding Academy; railroad stations at Shaker Boulevard and Coventry Road; and Gordon Gardens, ca. 1920s-1960s




Box 2 / Folder 51
Unidentified buildings, construction sites, workshops, and others, ca. 1920s-1960s





Series IV: Albums, ca. 1920s-1970s

Box 3 / Folder 52
Album 1, industrial buildings and offices, ca. 1940s




Box 3 / Folder 53
Album 2, banks, schools, industrial buildings, and offices, including Bank of Ohio; Carnegie Body Company; and others, ca. 1940s




Box 3 / Folder 54
Album 3, construction sites, including Ohio Bell Company and others, 1946-1947




Box 3 / Folder 55
Album 4, churches, banks, schools, stores, and office buildings, including St. Paschal Baylon; St. James Lutheran; Bank of Ohio; Ralph Stewart Buick Company; and others, ca. 1940s-1950s




Box 3 / Folder 56
Album 5, offices and sales rooms, including Prescott and Company; Provident Savings; and others, ca. 1940s-1950s




Box 3 / Folder 57
Album 6, banks, industrial buildings, and offices, including Cleveland paper Company; Deluxe Check Printers Inc.; Cleveland Trust Company; Twinsburg Banking Company; and others, ca. 1950s




Box 4 / Folder 58
Album 7, companies, schools, and colleges, including Campus Center of Ursuline College; Dinner Bell Meats Inc.; General Electric Company; SIFCO Industries Inc; and others, ca. 1960s-1970s




Box 4 / Folder 59
Album 8, construction sites of Globe Paper Company, ca. 1960s




Box 4 / Folder 60
Album 9, industrial and commercial buildings, including Cleveland Trust Company; Cadillac Plastic and Chemical Company; Deluxe Check Printers Inc.; Fisher Foods Inc.; Hammond Tube Company; Lee Motor Products Inc.; North American Manufacturing Company; Time Steel Services Inc.; and others, ca. 1960s




Box 4 / Folder 61
Album 10 and Album 11, social buildings, commercial buildings, industrial buildings, mercantile buildings, restaurants, studios, schools, churches, and residences, ca. 1920s-1930s