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The Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections The University of Toledo Finding Aid Ward M. Canaday Collection, 1902-1991 MSS-072 |
Size: 1 lin. Ft.
Provenance: The majority of the materials in the Ward Canaday Collection were donated by Mr. Canaday’s daughter, Doreen Damaris Canaday Spitzer. Other items such as publications and memorabilia relating to Mr. Canaday or Overland were given by Ralph D. Meeks as a member of the Willys-Overland Knight Registry, Inc. The Christmas broadside was donated by Mary Gillham, and Willys-Overland Company advertisements were given to the Center by Paul Rieger.
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Copyright: The literary rights to this collection are assumed to rest with the person(s) responsible for the production of the particular items within the collection, or with their heirs or assigns. Researchers bear full legal responsibility for the acquisition to publish from any part of said collection per Title 17, United States Code. The Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections may reserve the right to intervene as intermediary at its own discretion.
Completed by: Barbara A. Shirk, May 1991
Reformatted by: Arjun Sabharwal, January 2010
Introduction
This collection centers primarily on Ward M. Canaday, a Toledo community leader and chairman of the Board of Willys-Overland Motors, Inc. It contains personal information on Mr. Canaday as well as information on Willys-Overland with much emphasis on the development of the Jeep. It also shows his connection with the University of Toledo and the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece.
In addition, there are biographies and papers relating to other members of the Canaday family; namely, his wife, Mariam Coffin Canaday; their daughter, Doreen Damaris Canaday Spitzer; and her husband, Lyman Spitzer, Jr. Also included is information relating to Mr. Canaday's brother, Frank; and Frank’s wife, Molly Morpeth Canaday.
Anyone doing research in the areas of business administration, automobiles, University of Toledo and City of Toledo history, astronomy, and nuclear engineering would find this collection of interest.
No restrictions have been placed on the use of this collection.
Scope and Content Note
The Ward M. Canaday Collection focuses on Mr. Canaday and the activities associated with his role as businessman and leader in civic enterprises in the United States and abroad. The material in this collection is divided into nine sections which deal mainly with Mr. Canaday personally and Willys-Overland Motors, Inc. Included is information on some of the Canaday family members; however the portion relating to Mr. Canaday is the most extensive.
The first section of the collection deals with Mr. Canaday’s speeches; photographs, which date from childhood to his 90th birthday; clippings on his obituary, as well as personal clippings (1949-1976), and clippings relating to Mr. Canaday and Willys-Overland (1934-1976). A great portion of this section shows his strong connection with the University of Toledo; particularly with his dedication of the William S. Carlson Library in 1973 and his affiliation with the Friends of the University Libraries. (The Ward M. Canaday Center of the Library was dedicated to him on September 25, 1979.) He also paved the way for the construction of the Engineering Science Building in 1960 and the establishment of a nuclear engineering department there. In addition to the University of Toledo, Mr. Canaday was committed to the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece where he served as Trustee and President for several years. As the papers indicate, he was instrumental in acquiring funds for completion of the Agora excavations and the reconstruction of the Stoa of Attalos (digging, landscaping, building of a museum, etc.); and on April 1, 1983, Gennadeion West House, the residence of the director of the American School, was renamed Canaday House in memory of Mr. Canaday. Also among the items in this section are honors, citations and gifts to Ward Canaday that can be found under “Artifacts.” One of these came from Chinese President, Chiang Kai-Shek, in 1947 as a thank you for wartime training in technical methods of production; another is a chrome-plated forty millimeter anti-aircraft projectile inscribed to him by Wilson Foundry and Machine Co.
The second section of the collection is devoted to Ward Canaday’s wife, Mariam and contains primarily clippings (1971-1975) and news items relating to the many organizations to which she belonged; a few of which were the American Association of University Women, The Women’s League of Toledo Symphony Orchestra and Toledo Opera Association, Women’s Auxiliary of Riverside Hospital, etc. She attended Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania and was a member of The Friends of the Library and Friends of Music there. Some of the items in the collection refer to the College library which was named the Mariam Coffin Canaday Library. Included also is a program for the dedication of the Mariam C. Canaday Medical Arts Building at Riverside Hospital in Toledo; her obituary, and correspondence, etc.
The third section is composed of personal material that relates to Ward and Mariam Canaday as a couple. For example, there are photographs taken on trips and social occasions; Christmas cards sent and received by the Canadays, including a framed church scene from Ward and Mariam; and clippings, some of which refer to their Inlands (Toledo) home and some which refer to Annaly, their Virgin Islands Estate.
The fourth and fifth sections of the collection refer to Ward and Mariam’s daughter, Doreen, and her husband, Lyman Spitzer, Jr. There is correspondence referring to Doreen’s honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from the University of Toledo and the Doreen Canaday Spitzer Fellowship, etc. There are also clippings (1939-1983) and book reviews of Doreen’s biography of the Canadays, By One and One.
There are also clippings which chronicle the work of Doreen’s husband, Lyman Spitzer, Jr., world-famous Princeton University astronomer and researcher.
The sixth and seventh sections relate to Ward Canaday’s brother, Frank, and Frank’s wife, Molly. Researchers will find a great deal of information on Frank, Molly, Ward, other family members, as well as Willys-Overland Motors in the Frank Canaday Papers (Collection No. 031). There is a list of items found in scrapbook No. l of Collection No. 031 in this sixth section of the Ward M. Canaday Collection. The scrapbook contains personal correspondence and photographs.
The eighth portion of the Ward Canaday Collection deals with Willys-Overland Motors with emphasis on the Jeep which Ward Canaday was credited with developing and building during World War II. The collection contains clippings and photographs of the Jeep as well as photographs, ad proofs, slides, negatives, and two original watercolor paintings in the “Jeep at War” series of paintings done by illustrator, James M. Sessions. There are also auto ads in the Willys-Overland” section which include a framed, pencil-drawn Willys ad by John Taylor Arms and publications that refer to the operation, care, and parts for the Aero, Overland, Knight, and Whippet autos. Included are clippings, photos, floor plans, etc. relating to the Jeep Administration Building which was demolished in 1979 and a World War II History of the plant (1941-1954) and a plot plan layout.
The final section (Miscellaneous) contains primarily clippings on Greece’s royal family (1961-1966) and a book given to Ward Canaday by the author entitled, An Analysis of Plutonium Recycle in a Gas-Cooled Graphite-Moderated Reactor.
A bibliography listing publications which are located in The Canaday Center is attached to this finding aid.
Box -Folder Inventory
Box Folder Series Item
1
Ward Murphey Canaday
1
Biography
2
Correspondence, 1909-1917
3*
Advertisements (Hoosier Kitchen Cabinet Co.),
n.d.
4
Programs, 1917
5
Speeches, 1949-1963
6
Reunion Anniversary Reports, Secretary’s Report, and
Alumni Bulletin (Harvard Class of 1907),
1913-1942
7
Toledo Social Register, 1928
8
Chronological Lists of Events and Articles in
Toledo Blade and New York Times,
1934-1979
Clippings
9
New York Times - “Canaday-Willys”
1909-1956
10
Toledo Blade - “Canaday/Willys”
1936-1976
11
Personal, 1949-1976
The University of Toledo
12*
The Friends of the University Libraries
(Miss Emch), 1942-1979
13
Engineering-Science Building, 1955-1960
14
Affiliations, 1963
15
William S. Carlson Library
Dedication, 1970-1973
The Ward M. Canaday Center
16
Dedication, 1977-1984
17
Book Collector’s Corner, 1978-1982
18
Bookplate, 1979
19
Collections , 1980-1983
20
American School of Classical Studies,
Athens, Greece, 1964-1984
21
Photographs
22
Drawing of Ward M. Canaday, n.d.
23
Ninety-fifth Birthday Celebration, December 8, 1980,
1975-1980
24^
Artifacts
25
Obituary, 1976
Mariam Louise Coffin Canaday
26
Biography
27
Association of Collegiate Alumnae
and American Association
of University Women, 1917-1924
28
Correspondence, 1970
29
Clippings, 1971-1975
30
Mariam Coffin Canaday Library
Bryn Mawr, 1970-1975
31
Obituary, 1974-1975
32
Memorial Book, 1975
33
Medical Arts Building, Riverside Hospital,
Toledo, 1976
Ward and Mariam Canaday
34
Correspondence (Personal), 1960-1967
Clippings
35
1970-1971
36
Residence: Inlands (Toledo) 1972-1977
37
Residence: Annaly (Virgin Islands Estate),
1976
38
Photographs
Christmas Cards
39^
Sent by the Canadays
40
Received by the Canadays
Doreen Damaris Canaday Spitzer
41
Biography
42
Correspondence, 1979-1987
43
Clippings, 1939-1983
44
Book Reviews of By One and One
(Biography
of the Canadays by Doreen Canaday Spitzer),
1985-1986
Lyman Spitzer, Jr.
45
Biography
46*
Work In Astronomy and Related Newspaper Articles,
1947-1990
Frank Harrison Canaday
47
Biography
48
Description of Scrapbook No. l,
1913-1919
49
Address at the Jubilee Celebration of Levin District
High School, 1940 (by Robert Pope)
Molly Morpeth Canaday
50
Biography
The Willys-Overland Company/Willys-Overland Motors, Inc.
“The Jeep”
51*
Clippings and Photographs, 1945-1991
52^
Videos (2) -History of Jeep and 50th Anniversary Jeep
53
“Jeep at War” Series
Photographs and Negatives (23)
54*^
Ad Proofs (23) and Paintings (2)^
55
Slides (23)
56
Sessions, James M., Illustrator, (Biography, etc.)
57
Jeep - Family of Four-Wheel Vehicles in Public Service
Ad Brochure, 1956
58
“Salute to a Steel Soldier: The Jeep”
(WTOL - TV’s Documentary on the Jeep) ,
May 23, 1964
59
Jeep Administration Building
Floor Plan
60
Clippings
(Destruction of the Building), 1979
61
Photographs
Destruction of the Building, 1979
62*
Overland Auto and Truck Ads, 1913-1916
63*
Willys Auto Ads, 1936-1937
64*
Aero Willys Ads, 1953
Publications
65
Econorama (Booklet), 1948
66
“Directions for the Operation, Care and
Adjustment of Overland”
Automobiles” (Booklet), 1915
(The Willys-Overland Company/Willys-Overland Motors, Inc.)
(Publications)
67
Publications for Vehicles and Parts, 1902-1970
68
“The Superior Whippet Six Model 98-A
Preliminary Parts List “(Booklet ), 1928
69
“Willys-Knight Parts List - Model 70-70a”
(Booklet), 1927
79
The Willys War News, Vol. 3, No. 3, May 19, 1945
70
The Knight-Overland Starter Magazine, March 1979, No. 67
71
World War II History, 1941-1954
Clippings
72*
Willys-Overland Knight-Registry (WOKR), 1970-1974
73
Plot Plan Layout, 1947
Miscellaneous
74^
Their Majesties The King and Queen of the
Helene’s Visit - Toledo, Ohio,
November 5, 1953 (Photo Scrapbook)
75
Juan Carlos and Sophia de Bourbon, 1961-1962
76
Queen Frederika of Greece, 1966
77
An Analysis of Plutonium Recycle in a
Gas-Cooled Graphite-Moderated Reactor
78
General
Legend
*=oversize cabinet, drawer 2
^=oversize area
**=locked cabinet