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Guide to the Reference Center for Marxist Studies Pamphlet Collection, 1900-2004

Title: Guide to the Reference Center for Marxist Studies Pamphlet Collection, 1900-2004

The Reference Center for Marxist Studies (RCMS) was a radical library housed in the headquarters of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) in New York City. The Center was founded in the late 1970s or early 1980s. Its pamphlet collection consists of more than 10,000 pamphlets and includes nearly every pamphlet published by the CPUSA. It also includes pamphlets published by hundreds of organizations affiliated with or of interest to the CPUSA, and English language pamphlets published in the Soviet Union and other Communist countries. The pamphlets cover over 800 subject areas including: Communist Party activities throughout its history, anticommunism and the struggle against McCarthyism, the civil rights, labor and peace movements, the Spanish Civil War, anti-colonial and national liberation movements, and various Communist countries.

ArchivalResource: 48 Linear Feet (128 boxes)

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Guide to the Mark Starr Photographs, 1944-1955

Title: Guide to the Mark Starr Photographs, 1944-1955

Mark Starr was an educator and liberal activist, and was the educational director for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union from 1935-1960. In addition to several images of Starr, the collection principally consists of photographs of women workers in Great Britain during World War II.

ArchivalResource: 1 Linear Feet (2 boxes)

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Guide to the Norman Thomas Papers, 1925-1969

Title: Guide to the Norman Thomas Papers, 1925-1969

Norman Mattoon Thomas (1884–1968), was a leading American socialist, pacifist, author, and six-time presidential candidate for president on the ticket of the Socialist Party of America, between 1928 and 1948. The collection contains correspondence, including some in his capacity as co-executive director of the League for Industrial Democracy, unpublished political and biographical writings, biographical sketches of his grandfather, Stephen Mattoon, Daniel Bell's 1954 correspondence with socialist luminaries around the world in preparation for the celebration of Thomas's seventieth birthday, and one typescript each by Broadus Mitchell and Emil Rieve, president of the American Federation of Hosiery Workers.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 Linear Feet (1 box)

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James Leonard Farmer, Jr., and Lula Peterson Farmer papers

Title: James Leonard Farmer, Jr., and Lula Peterson Farmer papers

Collection documents the Farmers' professional and personal activities including their involvement in the U. S. civil rights movement. Correspondence, minutes, financial records, and other materials relate to the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the civil rights organization James Farmer founded in 1942. The papers also contain extensive documentation of three organizations Farmer established in the 1960s and 1970s: the Center for Community Action Education, the Council on Minority Planning and Strategy (COMPAS), and the Public Policy Training Institute. In addition, the papers contain material relating to Farmer's unsuccessful campaign for Congress in 1968; his tenure as assistant secretary in the U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare (1969-1970); printed materials on civil rights, education, housing, and labor issues in the 1960s and 1970s; extensive correspondence concerning Farmer's national lecture engagements (1967-1975); Farmer's literary productions; and personal papers relating to the Peterson and Farmer families.

ArchivalResource: 46.08 Linear Feet

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Guide to the Mark Starr Photographs, 1944-1955

Title: Guide to the Mark Starr Photographs, 1944-1955

Mark Starr was an educator and liberal activist, and was the educational director for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union from 1935-1960. In addition to several images of Starr, the collection principally consists of photographs of women workers in Great Britain during World War II.

ArchivalResource: 1 Linear Feet (2 boxes)

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Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968. [Letter].

Title: [Letter]. 1930.

The letter, dated Nov. 6, 1930, asks for contributions in money or clothing to aid striking workers. It describes a strike of members of a local of the United Textile Workers of America in Danville, Virginia, and one of members of the United Mine Workers in Kelly's Creek, West Virginia.

ArchivalResource: 2 leaves ; 28 cm.

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Radical Pamphlets Collection, 1899-1973

Title: Radical Pamphlets Collection 1899-1973

The collection contains pamphlets published by the Communist Party, U.S.A.,Communist Party, Soviet Union, various Socialist parties, and radical presses in the U.S. andabroad.

ArchivalResource: 38 boxes ( 37.35 cu. ft.)

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Guide to the Harry Laidler Photographs, 1893-1968

Title: Guide to the Harry Laidler Photographs, 1893-1968

Harry Wellington Laidler, longtime director of the League for Industrial Democracy (LID), was also a founder of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society, was elected to the New York City Council on the American Labor Party ticket, and was the author of many books and articles on social issues. The collection contains individual and group portraits featuring Laidler, many taken at LID events, which include prominent socialist and liberal figures, and several family portraits.

ArchivalResource: 0.33 linear feet

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Meier mss., 1927-2010

Title: Meier mss. 1927-2010

The Meier mss., 1927-2010, consists of the correspondence and papers of education reformer Deborah W. Meier (1931-), who is frequently credited with founding the modern small schools movement in the United States.

ArchivalResource: ca. 7,650 items

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Intercollegiate Socialist Society Records, 1900-1921

Title: Intercollegiate Socialist Society Records 1900-1921

The Intercollegiate Socialist Society (ISS), an on-campus student and faculty organization, was established in New York in 1905. The ISS established numerous study and reading groups, sponsored rallies and lecture engagements for prominent socialists, published book lists and phmphlets relating to a variety of socialist issues and held occasional national meetings and annual conventions. In 1921, the ISS changed its name to the League for Industrial Democracy so as to reflect its then older constituency and broader objectives. Harry W. Laidler was the organizing secretary of the ISS form 1910 to 1921 and the executive director of the League for Industrial Democracy from 1921 to 1956. The collection includes: correspondence, financial and membership records, executive committee minutes, organizing secretary reports, pamphlets, booklets, office materials, , 1908-1912, and newspaper clippings. Bulletin of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society NOTE: With the exception of photographs, patrons must use microfilm: R-7124/27-28.

ArchivalResource: 3.0 linear feet; (6 boxes)

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American Civil Liberties Union. Radical pamphlets collection, 1899-1973.

Title: Radical pamphlets collection, 1899-1973.

The Radical Pamphlet Collection contains many pamphlets published in what was the Soviet Union, as well as publications of the Worker's Publishing Company in the United States. The pamphlets include writings by and about the major leaders of the Communist Party, U.S.A. as well as Marx, Stalin, Lenin, Trotsky, and Molotov. Many well known writers of the twentieth century, such as H.G. Wells, G.B. Shaw, Jack London, and Upton Sinclair are also represented and provide an excellent overview of Leftist thought in the first half of the twentieth century. The pamphlets in the collection are mainly in English.

ArchivalResource: 38 boxes (37.35 cu. ft.)

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Papers, [ca. 1848]-1960, 1923-1960 (bulk).

Title: Papers, [ca. 1848]-1960, 1923-1960 (bulk).

Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, studies, plans and proposals, clippings, speeches, articles, notebooks, desk diaries, press releases, and other materials, 1923-1960, relating to his work with the Federal Power Commission, 1939-1960, concerning his appointment hearings, wartime activities, court cases, river basin studies, power market surveys, and the natural gas industry; with the President's Water Resources Policy Commission, 1950-1951; with the New England-New York Inter-Agency Committee, 1951-1960, concerning survey of land and water resources; with the Public Affairs Institute, 1953-1959, concerning their research studies on atomic energy, power project at Hell's Canyon, and dispute involving Dixon-Yates Company; with the Energy Research Associates, 1954-1961, concerning "giant power" companies and a study of South Dakota rates; and with the Saint Lawrence Advisory Commission, 1939-1953, concerning the Seaway Project and hydroelectric power.

ArchivalResource: 132 linear ft.

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Pamphlets relating to economic theories in Minnesota, 1915-

Title: Pamphlets relating to economic theories in Minnesota, 1915-

The Minnesota Historical Society Pamphlet Collection contains pamphlets and printed ephemera relating to industrial mobilization, depressions, principles of economics, capitalism, democracy, utopias, mortality statistics and other topics relating to Minnesota. Some material in Swedish.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

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Norman Thomas papers, 1904-1967, 1933-1967

Title: Norman Thomas papers 1904-1967 1933-1967

Norman Matoon Thomas (1884-1968), the American Socialist leader, started his career as a Presbyterian minister in New York City. He became active in the peace movement during World War I and founded the National Civil Liberties Bureau (renamed American Civil Liberties Union in 1920) with Roger Baldwin. Thomas became an active member of the Socialist Party of America, was co-director of the League for Industrial Democracy, and edited the socialist magazine, The World Tomorrow. He ran unsuccessfully for the presidency of the U.S. six times on the Socialist ticket and was active in the civil rights, universal disarmament and anti-war movements throughout his life. Collection consists of correspondence, diaries, speeches, writings, newspaper columns, press releases, and other papers relating to Thomas' career in national politics, his leadership of the Socialist Party and of the labor movement, and his association with various organizations. General correspondence, 1905-1967, accounts for the bulk of the collection and provides, particularly after 1932, an almost daily record of his activities and concerns. These papers document his relationship with leading politicians, government officials, trade union leaders, and major intellectual and political figures of his time. Organizational files, 1904-1967, consist of documents relating to the numerous organizations with which Thomas was involved. Speeches, 1911-1967, include drafts and final copies of his speeches, statements, interviews, publicity materials and many of his speaking schedules. Writings, 1917-1967, contain published and unpublished essays, books, newspaper columns, journals, diaries and unpublished autobiography. Subject files, 1905-1967, consist of reports, essays, clippings, and other printed matter concerning foreign and domestic affairs, civil liberties and discrimination, and war and peace. Also includes records and memorabilia, 1936-1964, from testimonial celebrations held in his honor; financial papers, 1933-1967, family papers, 1915-1969; biographical and publicity materials, 1903-1964; and photographs, ca. 1900-1966.

ArchivalResource: 97 linear feet (193 boxes, 2 packages and 7 v.); 85 microfilm reels

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Farquharson, F. B. (Frederick Burt). Frederick Burt Farquharson papers, 1923-1961.

Title: Frederick Burt Farquharson papers, 1923-1961.

The Frederick Burt Farquharson papers document his early political activity, as well as professional career as a civil engineer and University of Washington faculty member primarily through correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 1 cubic ft. (1 box)

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The Nation, records, 1879-1974 (inclusive), 1920-1955 (bulk).

Title: The Nation records, 1879-1974 (inclusive), 1920-1955 (bulk).

Records of the weekly magazine, The Nation, primarily during the editorship of Freda Kirchwey.

ArchivalResource: 34 boxes (42.5 linear ft.)

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Guide to the Harry Laidler Photographs, 1893-1968

Title: Guide to the Harry Laidler Photographs, 1893-1968

Harry Wellington Laidler, longtime director of the League for Industrial Democracy (LID), was also a founder of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society, was elected to the New York City Council on the American Labor Party ticket, and was the author of many books and articles on social issues. The collection contains individual and group portraits featuring Laidler, many taken at LID events, which include prominent socialist and liberal figures, and several family portraits.

ArchivalResource: 0.33 linear feet

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International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Charles S. Zimmerman papers, 1919-1958 [bulk 1920-1945].

Title: International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Charles S. Zimmerman papers, 1919-1958 [bulk 1920-1945].

The Charles Zimmerman papers consist primarily of correspondence, reports, minutes, newspaper clippings, and broadsides dealing with his activities as a leader in Local 22 (in Series I), as well as his other union and political activities (in Series II).

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Herman Wolf Papers, undated, 1926-1981.

Title: Herman Wolf Papers undated, 1926-1981.

Born in New York in 1912; graduated in 1933 with a B. A. in Economics from the University of Chicago; was actively involved in political journalism from 1934 to 1941; operated several public-relations firms, including Herman Wolf Associates; served as a chief campaign aide for many successful campaigns for offices; member of the National Press Club, the Public Relations Society of America, and the Bridgeport Chamber of Commerce.

ArchivalResource: 117.0 Linear feet

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Wheelwright, John, 1897-1940. Papers, 1920-1940, Part II (Bullock-Levine).

Title: Papers, 1920-1940, Part II (Bullock-Levine).

Letters, writings, notes, etc. generated by correspondents and authors "Bullock, Walter Llewellyn" to "Levine, Doris".

ArchivalResource: Approximately 5,000 items.

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Paul Blanshard Papers, 1912-1979

Title: Paul Blanshard Papers

Author and social and religious commentator. Papers include correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbooks and drafts of articles and books, and other papers, including material concerning his student years at the University of Michigan, as Congregational minister, educational director of the Amalgamated Textile Workers of America, assistant editor of , chief of the New York City Department of Investigations and Accounts under Fiorello La Guardia in the 1930's, economic analyst for the Caribbean Committee of the U.S. State Department during World War II, and free lance writer noted for his observations on the Catholic Church in America and abroad. The Nation

ArchivalResource: 30.3 linear ft.

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Guide to the Solon De Leon Papers, 1900-1980

Title: Guide to the Solon De Leon Papers, 1900-1980

Solon De Leon, son of Daniel De Leon, Marxist theoretician and leader of the Socialist Labor Party, was a socialist, labor educator and labor journalist. The collection contains correspondence with his father and other SLP leaders, unpublished writings, clippings, and memorabilia.

ArchivalResource: 2 Linear Feet in 2 record cartons

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