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Tuesday Musical Association Records
Range: 1898 - 2015 Size: 37 cubic feet Record Group: 99/109The Tuesday Musical Association is non-profit classical music organization founded in 1887 in Akron, Ohio that provides concerts, scholarships, and educational programs for its members and the community. The records include meeting minutes, financial information, scrapbooks, programs, yearbooks, newspaper clippings, correspondence, photographs, VHS and audio cassette tapes, and memorabilia that document the administration, activities, and history of the association and its auxiliary society, St. Cecilia Choral Society.
What is this?ÐãÉ«¶ÌÊÓƵ Women’s Club Records
Range: 1989 - 2004 Size: 2.0 Record Group:ÐãÉ«¶ÌÊÓƵ Women’s Club (ÐãÉ«¶ÌÊÓƵWC), formerly ÐãÉ«¶ÌÊÓƵ Faculty Women’s Club, is primarily a social organization composed of women employees and female spouses of ÐãÉ«¶ÌÊÓƵ employees that promotes social, informational, and service opportunities to its members and raises funds for scholarships for female ÐãÉ«¶ÌÊÓƵ students. The records include meeting minutes, financial records, newsletters, membership lists, and special events information.
Telephone Directories
Range: 1912 - 1990 Size: 6 cubic feet Record Group:Akron and surrounding area telephone directories, including Barberton, Clinton, Cuyahoga Falls, Macedonia, Uniontown, Tallmadge, Copley, Ghent, and Kenmore.
Tel-Buch Office Records
Range: 1964 - 1997 Size: 22 cubic feet Record Group: 52The Tel-Buch is the annual yearbook of ÐãÉ«¶ÌÊÓƵ and its predecessors. The records mainly consist of photographs from the Tel-Buch Office that appeared in the yearbook. The photographs document student clubs and organizations, university athletics, campus buildings, and special events.
What is this?Tel-buch
Range: 1880 - 2008 Size: Record Group: 41/2The Tel-buch is the annual yearbook of ÐãÉ«¶ÌÊÓƵ. It was originally titled Argo (1880) and The Buchtel (1882-1908) before becoming The Tel-buch. Yearbooks were not published for 1934, 1943, 1945-1947, 1949-1951.
Talalay Foam Rubber Archives
Range: 1920s - 1994 Size: 12 cubic feet Record Group: 99/250Dr. Joseph Talalay and his sons, Leon and Anselm, were integral players in the history of rubber. They developed and perfected a process to make latex sponge rubber that was more sustainable than other processes. Much of their work occurred at the B.F. Goodrich Company in Akron, Ohio during the 1950s and '60s. The process was used by over 20 countries across the world and has continued to be used to create mattresses, pillows and other products comprised of foam rubber. The archive contains material relating to the Talalay Foam Rubber Process and the Talalay Family and includes agreements, correspondence, patents, products, processes, reports, foam rubber samples, and blueprints and photographs of plants and machinery.
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Collections are classified into the following broad categories:
- University Archives contain historical resources that document the history and development of ÐãÉ«¶ÌÊÓƵ and its predecessor institutions.
- Special Collections documents regional (mainly Akron and Summit County) history, and other designated collecting areas. Special Collections materials include personal and family papers and historical records of local governments, businesses, and civic and community organizations. Collection strengths are the history of the rubber and polymer industry, lighter-than-air flight, and Ohio canals. Special collections also include local government records for a nine county region.
- Book collections include rare books and books documenting the history of the university, the region, and special topics. All cataloged books are included in the .