White, John G.

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John Griswold White (1845-1928) was a prominent lawyer in Cleveland, Ohio. As a board member of the Cleveland Public Library and committed bibliophile, White donated his materials to the Library beginning in 1885 and continuing until his death. His interest in chess, stemming from childhood, developed into a desire to obtain knowledge of chess origins and the societies responsible for the development. Using this as a basis of his collection, White extended his collection to include folklore and orientalia. White was critical in the development of the Cleveland Public Library's growth to a critical research library and its position as an important public library in the United States.

From the guide to the John G. White Arabic and Persian Manuscript Collection, 1330-1862, (Cleveland Public Library)

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creatorOf White, John Griswold, 1845-1928. Some materials for the early history of Jackson's Hole and the Teton basin / [compiled by John G. White]. Cleveland Public Library, Main Library
referencedIn Lyons, Will Henry, 1849-1932. [Correspondence of Will Henry Lyons]. Cleveland Public Library, Main Library
referencedIn Holmes, Thomas James, 1874-1959. Notes on the appraisal of the John Griswold White collection of chess and checkers / by Thomas J. Holmes. Cleveland Public Library, Main Library
creatorOf White, John Griswold, 1845-1928. Incipit tractatus de ludo scacorum cuius prima pars de inventione eius. Cleveland Public Library, Main Library
creatorOf Vida, Marco Girolamo, ca. 1485-1566. Marci Hieronymi Vidae scacchorvm liber. Cleveland Public Library, Main Library
creatorOf Alfonso X, King of Castile and Leon, 1221-1284. Libro del acedrex. Cleveland Public Library, Main Library
creatorOf López de Segura, Ruy, 16th cent. Copia fatta dal manoscritto magliabechiano, cartaceo in 4 ̊del sec. XVII, segnato classe XIX. 7.65. Cleveland Public Library, Main Library
creatorOf White, Alain Campbell, 1880-1951. En passant : eight hundred and fifty nine chess problems, in the solution of which pawn takes pawn en passant plays a part / compiled and arranged by Alain C. White. Cleveland Public Library, Main Library
creatorOf White, John Girswold, 1845-1928. Biblioteca Riccardiana ms. 2871, formerly O.II.30. Princeton University Library
creatorOf White, John Griswold, 1845-1928. Copy of folios 1 to 65 of Additional Manuscript 9351 in the British Museum : with photographs of folios 2a, 3a, 3b ... and full descriptions of the manuscript. Cleveland Public Library, Main Library
creatorOf Aspa, Rosario, 1829-1905. Chess articles, games, problems and game endings / by Rosario Aspa ; collected from his papers and arranged by John G. White. Cleveland Public Library, Main Library
referencedIn H.J.R. Murray Papers, 19th-20th century Bodleian Library, Oxford
creatorOf John G. White Arabic and Persian Manuscript Collection, 1330-1862 Cleveland Public Library
creatorOf Greco, Gioachino. Il nobillissimo gioco delli scacchi : ms. 481 de la Bibliothèque d'Orléans / [Gioachino Greco]. Cleveland Public Library, Main Library
creatorOf White, John Griswold, 1845-1928. [Chess history scrapbook pages]. Cleveland Public Library, Main Library
creatorOf White, John Griswold, 1845-1928. A Copy of Extracts from and notes upon Marca hispanica, auctore Petro de Marca, Parisiis, 1688, by T. von Heydebrand u.d. Lasa, with a copy of the title page. Cleveland Public Library, Main Library
creatorOf Fraser, George, d. 1905. Letters to John G. White relating to chess, July, 1875-16 May, 1900. Cleveland Public Library, Main Library
creatorOf White, John Griswold, 1845-1928. [Letters to Eugene B. Cook, 1872-1913]. Cleveland Public Library, Main Library
creatorOf Hazeltine, Miron J. (Miron James), 1824-1907. Chess autographs, end-games, games, and problems / collected by Miron J. Hazeltine. Cleveland Public Library, Main Library
creatorOf Clarke, Charles. Copy of Add. M.S.S. British Museum 28.710. Cleveland Public Library, Main Library
creatorOf Nicolas, de Nicolai, 14th cent. Codex Wolfenbuttelanus, chartaceus, 17. 30. A. August. 4to. saeculi XVI-XVII. Cleveland Public Library, Main Library
creatorOf White, John Griswold, 1845-1928. [Diary and views of fishing trips taken in Wyoming, Yellowstone National park, and Newfoundland] / J.G.W. Cleveland Public Library, Main Library
creatorOf Cleveland Public Library. Board of Trustees. Tribute to John Griswold White / [Library Board of the Cleveland Public Library]. Cleveland Public Library, Main Library
creatorOf Nicolas, de Nicolai, 14th cent. [Manuscrit no. 10502 de la Bibliothèque royale de Bruxelles]. Cleveland Public Library, Main Library
creatorOf Cook, E. B. (Eugene Beauharnais), 1830-1915. Letters relating to chess, 8 October, 1871 to 10 December, 1907. Cleveland Public Library, Main Library
creatorOf Hazeltine, Miron J. (Miron James), 1824-1907. The chess and draughts columns of The New York clipper : chess edited by Miron J. Hazeltine ; draughts edited by J.D.J. Sweet. Cleveland Public Library, Main Library
creatorOf White, John Griswold, 1845-1928. A souvenir of Wyoming [microform] : being a diary of a fishing trip in Jackson Hole and Yellowstone Park, with remarks on early history and historical geography / by John G. White. University of Wyoming, William R. Coe Library
referencedIn Collection of chess games. Cleveland Public Library, Main Library
creatorOf Greco, Gioachino. The booke of the ordinary games at chestes / composed by Joachino Greco, an Italian borne in Calabria ; written for Nicholas Mountstephen dwellinge at Ludgate in London, Anno Dominj 1623. Cleveland Public Library, Main Library
creatorOf Alfonso X, King of Castile and Leon, 1221-1284. English translation of the Alphonsine ms. / from J.G. White's long hand copy. Cleveland Public Library, Main Library
creatorOf White, John Griswold, 1845-1928. A list of a collection of books, manuscripts, columns, photographs, engravings and other matters relating to chess and draughts, with some corrections of the Jartausend [!] Princeton University Library
creatorOf Polerio, Giulio Cesare. Ordini di giuochi degli scacchi in diversi modi, cosi di mano, come sottomano, cio è inoffenza, e difeza co altri belissimi partiti sono / di Giulio Cesare Polerio, alias l'Apruzzese. Cleveland Public Library, Main Library
creatorOf Greco, Gioachino. Trattato del nobilissimo et militare essercitio de scacchi nel qvale si conteg̃ono molti bellissimi tratti et la vera scienza d'esso gioco / composto da Gioachino Greco Calabrese. Cleveland Public Library, Main Library
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associatedWith Alfonso X, King of Castile and Leon, 1221-1284. person
associatedWith Aspa, Rosario, 1829-1905. person
associatedWith Cook, E. B. (Eugene Beauharnais), 1830-1915. person
associatedWith Fraser, George, d. 1905. person
associatedWith Greco, Gioachino. person
associatedWith Holmes, Thomas James, 1874-1959. person
associatedWith López de Segura, Ruy, 16th cent. person
associatedWith Lyons, Will Henry, 1849-1932. person
associatedWith Nicolas, de Nicolai, 14th cent. person
associatedWith Polerio, Giulio Cesare. person
associatedWith Vida, Marco Girolamo, ca. 1485-1566. person
associatedWith White, Alain Campbell, 1880-1951. person
Place Name Admin Code Country
Wyoming
Ohio--Cleveland
Yellowstone National Park
Jackson Hole (Wyo.)
Subject
Arabic language
Book collectors
Chess
Chess
Chess Early works to 1800
Islamic law
Islamic magic
Islamic poetry
Manuscripts, Arabic
Muḥammad
Prayer
Quran
Rituals. Islam
Shi'ah
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Birth 1845

Death 1928

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