John Griswold White
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John Griswold White was a prominent Cleveland attorney, a chess connoisseur, and a bibliophile.
White, circa 1920s, in a photograph from his former law firm Speith, Bell, McCurdy and Newell
Cleveland Public Library
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The Cleveland Public Library is a public library system in Cleveland, Ohio. Founded in 1869, it had a circulation of 3.5 million items in 2020. It operates the Main Library on Superior Avenue in downt
John Griswold White
…the largest in the world, made extensive use of the collection in writing his classic treatise A History of Chess. White donated his collection to the Cleveland Public Library to form the John G. White Collection on Folklore, Orientalia, and Chess. At the time of John. G. White's death in 1928, the valuable collection numbered…
Front entrance to the Cleveland Public Library Main Library on Superior Avenue
Main Branch Interior Hall
Louis Stokes Wing at the corner of Superior Avenue and East 6th Street in downtown Cleveland.
Rookwood Installation at Carnegie-West Branch