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Show moreTyped and handwritten correspondence, envelopes, postcards, notes, research materials, and newspaper clippings from the years 1934, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, related to the biography of Charles F. Brush, Sr. The majority of correspondence is typed and handwritten letters from Margaret Richardson to Dorothy Hamilton Brush regarding Richardson writing the biography of Charles F. Brush, Sr. Other correspondence includes letters authored by or written to Sydney L. Hall, Charles Baldwin Sawyer, Dorothy Hamilton Brush, Charles F. Brush, Jr., Henry B. Allen. Also includes portions of typescripts related to chapter 2 of the biography of Charles F. Brush, Sr., as compiled by Richardson
Charles F. Brush, Sr., Papers
Series11: Margaret Richardson's Biography of Charles F. Brush (1948-1954)
Subseries 2: Miscellaneous Files
Box 34
Folder 3
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Show moreTyped and handwritten correspondence and television scripts, dated 1962 and 1963, relating to the production of a television program about Charles F. Brush, Sr., to be aired on WBOE, the Board of Education for Cleveland Public Schools television station in Cleveland, Ohio, as part of the Great Clevelanders series. Typed correspondence and written notes between Charles Baldwin Sawyer and Leonard A. Vitcha includes television scripts, compiled by Cleveland Public Schools, containing questions for Sawyer about Brush. Also includes handwritten and typed memos of phone messages from Vitcha to Sawyer regarding the Brush television program. Television series intended to include other famous and important Clevelanders
Charles F. Brush, Sr., Papers
Series 10: Charles Baldwin Sawyer's Collection Related to Charles F. Brush (1911-1966)
Box 31
Folder 6
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Show moreTyped and handwritten correspondence, typescript, illustrations, blueprint, publications, flyers, newspaper clippings, postcard and internal memorandums, from years 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, and 1950, related to the life, career, interests, legacy and scientific works of Charles F. Brush, Sr. Enclosed illustrated catalog and pricelist for the Pratt and Whitney Company Small Tool Department dated 1889, enclosed financial receipts from the Pratt and Whitney Company to Charles F., Sr., dated 1892. Internal memorandums authored by Ruth Sebastian, secretary to Charles Baldwin Sawyer. Letters authored by or written to Sawyer, W. S. Culver, R. G. Perkins, Alexander C. Dick, Peter I. Wold, Nora H. Schirg, Fred N. Acker, E. A. Harrington, George R. Stran, Frazier Hunt, David Sanders Clark, E. Philip Earl, Charles N. Moore, Frederick J. Root, Walter L. Flory, R. M Bushey, Leatha Logan, Brooks Shepard, John W. Love, J. C. Foster, Shelden Cary, F. E. Senftle. Clipping from the London based paper entitled, The Economist. Illustrated catalog and price list for the Pratt and Whitney Company Small Tool Department, dated 1889. Notes on Presentation of the Paper, by Peter Wold, on Mass Weight Ratio, 1931. Typescript of paper by E. A. Harrington entitled, Further Experiments on the Continuous Generation of Heat in Certain Silicates, including illustrations, no date. Program with speech notes for National Inventors Day, dated 1936. Blueprint for second floor of a building on Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, showing location of various pieces of apparatus requested by Sawyer, dated 1939
Charles F. Brush, Sr., Papers
Series 10: Charles Baldwin Sawyer's Collection Related to Charles F. Brush (1911-1966)
Box 31
Folder 7
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Show morePublications, typed and handwritten correspondence and internal memorandums, from years 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, and 1964, related to the life, career, interests, legacy and scientific works of Charles F. Brush, Sr. Internal memorandums authored by Ruth Sebastian, secretary to Charles Baldwin Sawyer. Correspondence and notes authored by or written to Brush Development Company, Charles Baldwin Sawyer, Frank S. Koral, Donald L. Millham, Ruth Sebastian, Roselyn Weir, The Franklin Institute, Henry B. Allen, T. Townsend Brown, D. N. Merrell, H. F. Bulkley, Daphne Humphreys, Margaret M. Butler, William Saxe, Mary C. O'Hair, R. H. Daisley, Gertrude Hassler, H. C. Meinzer, James L. Myers, William Ganson Rose, James S. Howard, Alan Kimber, S. Winifred Smith, William E. Scheele, Stella Marty, S. Stockton, A. D. Schwope, Kenneth L. Gebhart, Theodore J. Horvath, Ray H. Luebbe, Douglas P. Brush. Harold Wooster, Inez Budd, Oliver Emerson, Ralph Mueller, John D. Valentine, Ruth Sebastian. Publications, and clippings from publications including Upjohn News, Volume 7, Number 2, 1952. A General Electric Scrapbook History with Commentary, 1953. The Foundation, Volume 19, Number 2, October, 1954. General Electric Share Owners Quarterly, October 25, 1954. Ohio Historical Society, Museum Echoes, August, 1955. Time Magazine, January 18, 1960. Common subjects include Thomas Alva Edison and Brush, as well as exhibitions of materials built by Brush and the Brush Electric Company, Brush electric lighting in Wabash, Indiana, efforts by Sawyer to Have a Bibliography of Brush Written, 1948-1954, donating Brush materials to The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, and scientific research done in relation to Brush, Sr. and his experiments in gravitation
Charles F. Brush, Sr., Papers
Series 10: Charles Baldwin Sawyer's Collection Related to Charles F. Brush (1911-1966)
Box 31
Folder 8
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Show moreTyped and handwritten correspondence, envelopes, and postcards from 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, related to the biography of Charles F. Brush, Sr. by Margaret Richardson. Enclosures include list of bibliographical resources related to Charles F. Brush, Sr. from the University of Michigan library, dated 1949, as well as a patent by James W. Packard, dated 1901, for an igniting device for hydrocarbon-engines. Correspondence placed in alphabetical order, and designated as correspondence of importance by Richardson. Letters authored by or written to David W. Bailey, Francis P. Bolton, J. L. Borgerhoff, F. M. Bourret, F. J. Burtles, W. Gadell, A. D. Curtis, Robert A. Deasy, David Dietz, A. J. Housman, Edward Jenkins, Charles F. Kettering, Benjamin Levine, Lucia McBride, W. S. McKinstry, Ralph J. McMonagle, Severence A. Millikin, Walter Millis, Julie A. Noonan, Laurence H. Norton, Vincent Odea, Charles A. Otis, Richardson, E. S. Raymond, Neil B. Reynolds, Dorothy Hamilton Brush, Frank J. Ryan, J. Webb Saffold, Charles Baldwin Sawyer, Harlow Shapley, Margaret I. Smith, Milton Tibbetts, Florence C. Tracey, Beverley D. Tucker, W. R. Whitney, L. M Woodford
Charles F. Brush, Sr., Papers
Series11: Margaret Richardson's Biography of Charles F. Brush (1948-1954)
Subseries 2: Miscellaneous Files
Box 34
Folder 4
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Show moreTyped and handwritten correspondence, internal memorandums, typescripts, envelopes and enclosed letters, postcard, Western Union telegrams, transcript, and financial statements of expenses, from years 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, and 1954, related to the life, career, interests, legacy and scientific works of Charles F. Brush, Sr., and the efforts of Charles Baldwin Sawyer to have the bibliography of Charles F., Sr. written. Internal memorandums from the office of Sawyer authored by Ruth Sebastian, secretary to Sawyer. Letters authored by or written to Sawyer, Richardson, Roy E. Larsen, William R. Veazey, Fred C. Dorn, Dorothy Brush, John W. Dixon, Arthur Smith, Jr., Lauretta F. Keenan, A. V. Wilker, Edith Wilker, Roslyn Weir, Helen Custeau, Gertrude Hassler, R. T. Sawyer, Jr., Colton Storm, Robert G. Multhauf, Bern Dibner, E. S. Lincoln, E. C. Crittenden, Carl W. Mitman, Lavinia Dudley, Frank Caddy, R. J. Hoddinott. In addition to the Brush biography, some letters written in 1948 make reference to the fire at the Brush Beryllium Plant in Lorain, Ohio. Also contains correspondence from 1946 and 1954 about a written history of the evolution of electricity
Charles F. Brush, Sr., Papers
Series 10: Charles Baldwin Sawyer's Collection Related to Charles F. Brush (1911-1966)
Box 31
Folder 9
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Show moreTyped and handwritten correspondence, internal memorandums, clippings and reproductions from publications, from years 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, and 1959, related to the life, career, interests, legacy and scientific works of Charles F. Brush, Sr., and the efforts of Charles Baldwin Sawyer to have the bibliography of Charles F., Sr. written, as well as the inventory of electrical artifacts in the United States, and the interest of the Electrical Historical Foundation in Brush artifacts. Internal memorandums from the office of Sawyer authored by Ruth Sebastian, secretary to Sawyer. Letters authored by or written to Sawyer, Margaret Emily Richardson, Sebastian, Harry W. Dodds, E. S. Lincoln, Charles F. Brush, III, W. F. Taylor, Alene Lowe White, Robert J. Loeffler, Meredith B. Colket, Jr., Russell C. Putnam, Kent H. Smith. Clippings and reproductions from publications, including The Electrical World, March 28, 1995. The Electrical Historical Foundation, Formation, Aims, Plans, 1957. Frank J. Sprague and the Edison Myth, by Harriet Sprague, 1947
Charles F. Brush, Sr., Papers
Series 10: Charles Baldwin Sawyer's Collection Related to Charles F. Brush (1911-1966)
Box 31
Folder 10
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Show moreTyped and handwritten correspondence, internal memorandums, notes, clippings and reproductions from publications, postcard, from years 1960, 1961, and 1962, related to the life, career, interests, legacy and scientific works of Charles F. Brush, Sr., and the efforts of Charles Baldwin Sawyer to have the bibliography of Charles F., Sr. written. Internal memorandums from the office of Sawyer authored by Ruth Sebastian, secretary to Sawyer. Letters authored by or written to Sawyer, Sebastian, E. S. Lincoln, Carlton E. Tucker, F. W. Maxstadt, Robert J. Loeffler, Robert E. Schofield, John H. Hrones, James C. Hardie. Clippings and reproductions from publications, including Charles F. Brush and the First Public Electric Street Lighting System in America, by Mel Gorman, reprint from The Ohio Historical Quarterly, Volume 70, Number 2, April, 1961. Publicity release from Case Institute of Technology regarding the acquisition on indefinite loan of a collection of the personal and professional papers of Charles F., Sr. acquired through Sawyer. C. F. Brush Papers Put in Case Files, from the Plain Dealer, November 22, 1962. Typescript for A Proposed All Electric Museum Covering A Chronological History of Electricity, by E. S. Lincoln, dated June 21, 1960
Charles F. Brush, Sr., Papers
Series 10: Charles Baldwin Sawyer's Collection Related to Charles F. Brush (1911-1966)
Box 31
Folder 11
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Show more43 typed and handwritten letters and notes between Charles Sawyer, E. Lincoln, Bradley Terrace, Robert Schofield, and Ruth Sebastian regarding research for biography of Charles F., Sr., commissioned by Charles Sawyer, written in 1963, 1964, and 1966. Includes photocopies of newspaper clippings regarding death of Charles Sawyer and first draft of chapter on Brush Dynamo by Margaret Richardson sent by Ruth Sebastian to Harry Eisenman
Charles F. Brush, Sr., Papers
Series 10: Charles Baldwin Sawyer's Collection Related to Charles F. Brush (1911-1966)
Box 32
Folder 1
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Show more11 Typed letters between Mel Gorman, E. S. Lincoln, and Charles Baldwin Sawyer regarding information about Charles F., Sr., which Gorman requested for paper he wrote about history of arc lighting in United States, and later material on Brush Gorman found that neither Lincoln nor Sawyer had seen before, written in 1960 and 1961
Charles F. Brush, Sr., Papers
Series 10: Charles Baldwin Sawyer's Collection Related to Charles F. Brush (1911-1966)
Box 32
Folder 2
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Show more13 typed letters between Carl Mitman and Charles Baldwin Sawyer regarding proposed biography of Charles F., Sr., Mitman would write as requested by New York publisher and Smithsonian
Charles F. Brush, Sr., Papers
Series 10: Charles Baldwin Sawyer's Collection Related to Charles F. Brush (1911-1966)
Box 32
Folder 3
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Show moreTyped letters and handwritten notes between Charles Sawyer, John Gunn and Vernon Langille, typed speech drafts and interviews, newspaper clippings, and CEICO Motor regarding 75th anniversary celebration of lighting of Cleveland, Ohio, Public Square with Brush arc-light system
Charles F. Brush, Sr., Papers
Series 10: Charles Baldwin Sawyer's Collection Related to Charles F. Brush (1911-1966)
Box 32
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Show more20 typed letters between Charles Sawyer, Brooks Shepard, and Dorothy Hamilton Brush, and between Brooks Shepard, Harper and Brothers, and other sources, regarding Brooks Shepard taking over writing of Charles F. Brush, Sr. biography after biography by Margaret Richardson was rejected for publishing by Harper and Brothers, Brooks Shepard researching for said biography, and notes he took while researching. Written in 1953, 1954, and 1955, some research materials returned in 1957
Charles F. Brush, Sr., Papers
Series 10: Charles Baldwin Sawyer's Collection Related to Charles F. Brush (1911-1966)
Box 32
Folder 5
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Show more13 typed letters between Charles Baldwin Sawyer, E. S. Lincoln, Raymond Reilly, and James Siedel, regarding Reilly writing biographical article for Storycraft Incorporated regarding Charles F., Sr., for series titles Pioneers of Science and Invention in the Ohio Heritage
Charles F. Brush, Sr., Papers
Series 10: Charles Baldwin Sawyer's Collection Related to Charles F. Brush (1911-1966)
Box 32
Folder 7
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