Bellefaire photographs, series II, 1867-1995 and undated [graphic].

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Bellefaire photographs, series II, 1867-1995 and undated [graphic].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/780306528

Consists of approximately two hundred and thirty photographs of residents, alumni, family of alumni, staff, athletic teams, and the Jewish Orphan Home campus. Notable alumni represented in this collection are JOH assistant superintendent Jack Girick and actor Lou Gilbert.

1 container and 1 oversize folder (0.41 linear feet)

Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8209518

Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library

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Bellefaire Jewish Children's Home (Shaker Heights, Ohio)

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Bellefaire, a residential treatment center for emotionally disturbed adolescents, is the oldest Jewish social-service agency in Cleveland. It was dedicated on July 14, 1868 as the Jewish Orphan Asylum, established to care for Civil War orphans. By 1900, more than 400 orphans lived there. The name was changed to the Jewish Orphan Home (JOH) in 1919, and later to Bellefaire when its facilities moved to the corner of Belvoir and Fairmount boulevards in 1929. In 1942 the orphanage changed its focus ...

Jewish Orphan Asylum (Shaker Heights, Ohio)

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Girick, Jack

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Gilbert, Lou, 1909-1978

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