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Items in this collection:
Title:
Western Reserve Historical Society Manuscript Collections
Date:
1795 - 1869
Subject:
Ohio -- Cleveland
Western Reserve
Publisher:
Kelvin Smith Library, Case Western Reserve University
Format:
text/xml
image/jp2
application/pdf
Title:
Western Reserve Historical Society Manuscript Collections
Date:
1795 - 1869
Subject:
Ohio -- Cleveland
Western Reserve
Publisher:
Kelvin Smith Library, Case Western Reserve University
Format:
text/xml
image/jp2
application/pdf
Description:
Manuscripts Relating to the Early History of the Western Reserve, 1795-1869,
was the first collection of manuscripts to be assembled by the Western Reserve
Historical Society, and its provenance is closely intertwined with the circumstances of
the institution's founding. Chiefly responsible for the acquisition of the materials
comprising the collection was Charles W. Whittlesey, the Society's first president.
According to the Society's second annual report (1869), Whittlesey assembled the
collection from a variety of different sources and by several means: he purchased the
papers of the Connecticut Land Company under the authority of the Cuyahoga County
commissioners, solicited accounts and original manuscripts from early settlers and their
descendents, and added documents that he and some earlier enthusiasts had gathered as
their own personal collections. Prominent among these latter additions were the
materials collected by John Barr and Leonard Case for an earlier, failed historical
society.
Contributor:
Western Reserve Historical Society
Type:
text
Identifier:
ksl:wrhsms
http://hdl.handle.net/2186/ksl:wrhsms
Language:
en
Relation:
Cleveland, Ohio and the Western Reserve Digital Text Collection
Rights:
This work is in the public domain and may be freely downloaded for personal or academic use