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Milton Wolff Photographs, 1939-1960

Title: Milton Wolff Photographs 1939-1960

Milton (Milt) Wolff (1915-2008) was born in Brooklyn, NY to a working-class family. He left school at fifteen, found work in a Manhattan garment factory, and became politically active through membership in the Young Communist League. When the Civil War broke out in Spain he responded to a YCL appeal for volunteers and sailed for Europe, aged 21, in March 1937. He fought in the Battle of Brunete, at Belchite and in the unsuccessful assault at Fuentes del Ebro, and was promoted to captain during the battle of Teruel in January 1938. Wolff, aged 22, soon became the youngest commander of the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. He served in Burma, Italy, France and India in World War II, and continued to be active in a variety of left-wing causes throughout his life. The collection consists of 27 black and white photos and 7 contact sheets, mostly dating from the 1940s. Many of the images are of Milton Wolff speaking at meetings or demonstrations; others show him marching in demonstrations or with other Spanish Civil War veterans and guests at Abraham Lincolon Brigade anniversaries or other large gatherings. Prominent individuals pictured include Hugo Gellert, Burl Ives, Vito Marcantonio, John Gates, and Paul Robeson.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 linear feet; (1 box)

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Marcantonio, Vito, 1902-1954. Vito Marcantonio papers, 1935-1953.

Title: Vito Marcantonio papers, 1935-1953.

Bulk of the papers reflects Marcantonio's activities as a lawyer and congressman and includes correspondence, 1935-1956, with relatives, friends, law associates, and congressional colleagues; correspondence and papers, 1935-1951, relating to constituency matters, congressional committees, and sponsorship of various bills; correspondence and papers relating to various subjects such as the American Labor Party, civil liberties, international relations, Puerto Rico, veterans' affairs, labor and labor unions, housing, and welfare projects; research files on subjects of interest to Marcantonio such as the Spanish Civil War, anti-fascism, etc.; papers relating to election campaigns; office card files; and photographs of Marcantonio, Dorothy Parker, Dashiell Hammett, East Harlem community activities, motion picture promoting Henry Wallace, and phonodiscs and audio tapes of speeches, campaign dinners, press conferences, etc.

ArchivalResource: 79.6 linear feet (86 boxes)

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Guide to the Transport Workers Union of America Records, 1911-2007

Title: Guide to the Transport Workers Union of America Records, 1911-2007

The Transport Workers Union of America, founded in 1934 and led until 1966 by charismatic Irish-American radical Mike Quill, initially organized subway workers and bus drivers in the New York City area. Eventually the union chartered locals in cities and towns across the country, and it branched out to include taxi drivers, railway employees, airline workers and utility workers among its members. This collection is comprised of administrative records of the Transport Workers Union of America. The Michael J. (Mike) Quill files document the trade-union and political activity of Quill, who served as TWU president from 1935 to 1966. The collection also contains records of Quill's three successful campaigns for the New York City Council (on the American Labor Party ticket and as an independent) and his work as a councilman. Other series contain files of Quill's successor, Matthew Guinan, other TWU officers and staff, TWU divisions, and national conventions. Included are incoming and outgoing correspondence, financial records, reports, speeches, bargaining files, arbitration and mediation decisions, publicity materials and clippings.

ArchivalResource: 153 Linear Feet (153 boxes), 5 VHS cassettes, 10 8mm open reel films, 3 16mm open reel films, 1 35mm open reel film, 12 videodiscs (dvd), 5 archived websites.

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Garcá Rivera, Oscar, 1900-1969. Papers, 1912-1987 ; bulk: 1930-1940.

Title: Papers, 1912-1987 ; bulk: 1930-1940.

Collection consists of personal documents, correspondence, photographs, politically related handbills, flyers, and other ephemera, clippings, and artifacts. The folders are organized alphabetically and the documents are arranged chronologically. The papers are an important source for the study of early Puerto Rican political life and of the existent conditions of the East (Spanish) Harlem community in the first part of the twentieth century. In addition, they provide a viewfinder into labor politics and the political and social alliances created amongst emerging ethnic communities in New York City.

ArchivalResource: 3 cubic ft.

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Guide to the Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection, 1920-2001

Title: Guide to the Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection, 1920-2001

The official organ of the Communist Party, USA, the Daily Worker's editorial positions reflected the policies of the Communist Party. At the same time the paper also attempted to speak to the broad left-wing community in the United States that included labor, civil rights, and peace activists, with stories covering a wide range of events, organizations and individuals in the United States and around the world. As a daily newspaper, it covered the major stories of the twentieth century. However, the paper always placed an emphasis on radical social movements, social and economic conditions particularly in working class and minority communities, poverty, labor struggles, racial discrimination, right wing extremism with an emphasis on fascist and Nazi movements, and of course the Soviet Union and the world-wide Communist movement. The paper has had a succession of names and has been published in varying frequences between daily to weekly over the course of its existence. In 2010 it ceased print publication and became an electronic, online-only, weekly publication titled the People's World. The bulk of the collection consists of printed photographic images produced through a variety of processes, collected by the photography editors of the Daily Worker and its successor newspapers as a means of maintaining an organized collection of images for use in publication. Images of many important people, groups and events associated with the CPUSA and the American Left are present in the collection, as well as images of a wide variety of people, subjects and events not explicitly linked with the CPUSA or Left politics.

ArchivalResource: 227 Linear Feet in 226 record cartons and 2 oversized boxes

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J. B. Matthews Papers, 1862-1986 and undated

Title: J. B. Matthews Papers, 1862-1986 and undated

J. B. Matthews (1894-1966) was a Methodist missionary, college professor, author, lecturer, and prominent conservative spokesman. Collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, statements, speeches, reprints, clippings, broadsides, newsletters, press releases, petitions, and other printed material, chiefly 1930-1969. The principal focus of the collection relates to the work and research of Matthews and his associates in the area of anti-communism, particularly in connection with Matthews' role as Director of Research for the Special Committee on Un-American Activities of the U.S. House of Representatives (1938-1945), Executive Director of the Permanent Subcommittee on Government Operations of the U.S. Senate (1953), and a consultant for John A. Clements Associates. Many of the organizations, newspapers, periodicals, and persons represented in the collection have various leftist, socialist, communist, radical, or pacifist (especially anti-Vietnam War) connections.Individuals represented in the files include Ralph Abernathy, Bella Abzug, Roy Cohn, John Foster Dulles, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Michael Harrington, Alger Hiss, J. Edgar Hoover, Jesse Jackson, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Coretta Scott King, Joseph Lash, Joseph McCarthy, Carl McIntire, Benjamin Mandel, Richard Nixon, Aristotle Onassis, Lee Harvey Oswald, Linus Pauling, Drew Pearson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Louis Untermeyer.

ArchivalResource: 479 Linear Feet; 307,000 Items

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Abram Flaxer Papers, 1935-1992

Title: Abram Flaxer Papers 1935-1992

Abram Flaxer was deeply involved in the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) during its formation and early development, and served as the President of the United Public Workers of America, a CIO union, from 1946. He was an active member of the radical left wing of the CIO until his union was expelled in 1950. The collection consists primarily of Flaxer's unpublished memoir and related research materials. The memoir conveys Flaxer's personal perspective on events he witnessed or participated in, and touches on prominent figures, including Fiorello LaGuardia, Vito Marcantonio, John L. Lewis, Philip Murray, and Jimmy Hoffa. Among the events described are the organizing of a State, County and Municipal Workers of America local in Stockton, CA (the "Stockton Raiders") and of so-called "silver" workers in the Panama Canal Zone, who eventually became UPW, Local 713.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear feet; (2 boxes)

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Julius Edelstein Papers, 1917-1963, [Bulk Dates: 1948-1958]

Title: Julius Edelstein Papers, 1917-1963 [Bulk Dates: 1948-1958]

Julius Caesar Claude Edelstein (1912-2005), served as advisor and executive assistant to military officials and political figures. His papers primarily encompass his job as executive assistant and chief of legislative staff to Senator Herbert H. Lehman during Lehman’s senatorial years 1949-1956. Edelstein remained executive assistant to former senator Lehman from 1957-1960. His files include correspondence, memoranda, press releases, clippings, speeches, statistics, maps, pamphlets and government publications.Julius Caesar Claude Edelstein (1912-2005), served as advisor and executive assistant to military officials and political figures. His papers primarily encompass his job as executive assistant and chief of legislative staff to Senator Herbert H. Lehman during Lehman’s senatorial years 1949-1956. Edelstein remained executive assistant to former senator Lehman from 1957-1960. His files include correspondence, memoranda, press releases, clippings, speeches, statistics, maps, pamphlets and government publications..

ArchivalResource: 76.11 linear ft. (141 document boxes, 33 index card boxes )

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International Labor Defense. Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1928-1942.

Title: Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1928-1942.

Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser from various members of the ILD.

ArchivalResource: 86 items (134 leaves).

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Vélez de Vando, Emelí, 1917-1999. Papers, 1919-1999.

Title: Papers, 1919-1999.

Collection consists primarily of letters, articles, photographs, police reports, audiotapes, programs, and flyers. The folders are arranged alphabetically and the documents in chronological order. This collection is valuable for examining the history of the independence movement, specially the history of the Nationalist Party, the Partido Independentista de Puerto Rico and Movimiento Pro Independencia. It is of particular importance for the insight it provides on the role of women in the independence movement and of women activists. The collection also contains significant information about political repression and the persecution of political activists in Puerto Rico.

ArchivalResource: 5.43 cubic ft.

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Fiorello H. La Guardia papers, 1918-1945

Title: Fiorello H. La Guardia papers 1918-1945

Fiorello H. La Guardia (1882-1947) began his political career as deputy attorney of the state of New York in 1915. He was a representative in the U.S. Congress from 1917 to 1932 except for service in World War I and a term as president of New York's Board of Aldermen from 1919 to 1921. La Guardia ran for mayor of New York City in 1933 and served in that office for twelve years. He became director of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation program in 1945 after leaving the mayor's office. Papers document La Guardia's career as a congressman, president of the Board of Aldermen and three-term mayor of New York. The two largest portions of the collection are the congressional and mayoral correspondence files. Congressional correspondence, ca. 1918-1933, includes letters received and carbons of responses written either by La Guardia or by his secretary on his behalf, clippings, greeting cards, printed House bills, invitations, photographs, memoranda, notes, press releases, printed matter, and telegrams. Letters from constituents concern topics such as employment and naturalization and letters from citizens around the country relate to La Guardia's stand on issues before Congress, including social issues and prohibition. Mayoral correspondence files, 1933-1945, consist largely of correspondence with members of the public who wrote requesting help with education, employment, immigration, prison terms, and other problems; suggesting appointments for various city offices; and offering ideas, opinions and appreciation. Very little appears to document the daily operations of city business. Also included is a small group of press releases; typescript and printed speeches, articles, and other writings; printed matter; flight logbook, 1917-1919, kept by La Guardia on the Italian front; scrapbooks of clippings; and miscellaneous papers on a variety of topics (of note among these are photographs, printed matter and correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 62 linear feet (76 boxes and 2 scrapbooks); 54 microfilm reels

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Records of the Lyman R. Bradley Academic Freedom Case, 1947-1961

Title: Records of the Lyman R. Bradley Academic Freedom Case 1947-1961

The Records of the Lyman R. Bradley Academic Freedom Case detail the action of New York University in hearing charges and subsequent suspension of a tenured associate professor who was convicted of contempt of Congress in 1948. The collection consists of administrative records retained by three offices of the University: the Office of the Dean of Washington Square College; the Office of the Chancellor; and the Office of the Vice Chancellor, who as Secretary and Clerk of the University Council (later Board of Trustees) maintained the Council files.

ArchivalResource: 4.0 Linear feet; 4 linear feet (6 boxes)

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Baldwin, Calvin Benham, 1902-1975. Papers of C.B. Baldwin, 1933-1975.

Title: Papers of C.B. Baldwin, 1933-1975.

The papers of C.B. Baldwin document his career in government and politics. A political liberal, Baldwin supported the New Deal's most radical programs and was often accused of being a communist sympathizer. The general subject files include such topics as Henry Wallace, presidential elections, Farmers' Union and correspondence. There are speeches by Baldwin, Wallace, and others. The CIO-PAC grouping includes news releases, memos, and publicity while the NCPAC series contains notes from trips, correspondence, and more publicity. The PCA documents contain minutes, leaflets, foreign policy papers, and information on state chapters. The Progressive Party papers include fact sheets, platform statements, and convention materials. A series on the U.S. Department of Agriculture contains information about the Farm Security Administration (FSA). The last four series consist of photographs, tape recordings of interviews, news clippings, and scrapbooks dating from 1945 to 1948. The correspondence is not confined to one series, rather it is scattered throughout the collection. The correspondents include: Will W. Alexander, Paul H. Appleby, Charlotta A. Bass, Elmer A. Benson, Anita McCormick Blaine, Jo Davidson, W.E.B. Du Bois, Elinor Gimbel, Vincent W. Hallinam, Robert E. Hannegan, Moss Hart, Lyndon B. Johnson, Frank Kingdon, Fiorello La Guardia, Fulton Lewis, Vito Marcantonio, Henry Morganthau, Dorothy Parker, and James G. Patton. More correspondents include: Claude Pepper, Gifford Pinchot, Eslanda Robeson, Paul Robeson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fred W. Stover, Glen Taylor, Theodore O. Thackrey, Rexford G. Tugwell, Henry A. Wallace, and Alexander F. Whitney.

ArchivalResource: Papers, 30 linear ft. (61 boxes)Photographs, 1 linear ft. (2 boxes)Scrapbooks, 3 items.Tape recordings, 8 items (1 box)

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Guide to the Daily Worker and Daily World Negatives Collection, 1930-2001

Title: Guide to the Daily Worker and Daily World Negatives Collection, 1930-2001

The official organ of the Communist Party, USA, the Daily Worker's editorial positions reflected the policies of the Communist Party. At the same time the paper also attempted to speak to the broad left-wing community in the United States that included labor, civil rights, and peace activists, with stories covering a wide range of events, organizations and individuals in the United States and around the world. As a daily newspaper, it covered the major stories of the twentieth century. However, the paper always placed an emphasis on radical social movements, social and economic conditions particularly in working class and minority communities, poverty, labor struggles, racial discrimination, right wing extremism with an emphasis on fascist and Nazi movements, and of course the Soviet Union and the world-wide Communist movement. The paper has had a succession of names and has been published in varying frequences between daily to weekly over the course of its existence. In 2010 it ceased print publication and became an electronic, online-only, weekly publication titled the <i>People's World</i>. The bulk of the collection consists of printed photographic images produced through a variety of processes, collected by the photography editors of the <i>Daily Worker</i> and its successor newspapers as a means of maintaining an organized collection of images for use in publication. Images of many important people, groups and events associated with the CPUSA and the American Left are present in the collection, including many local and national labor unions, particularly those affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).

ArchivalResource: 36 Linear Feet

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Vito Marcantonio papers, 1935-1953

Title: Vito Marcantonio papers 1935-1953

Vito Marcantonio (1902-1954), American radical congressman, New York City lawyer and politician, was a protege of Fiorello H. LaGuardia in whose law firm he became a law clerk. He made his political debut in 1924 when he managed LaGuardia's campaign for reelection to Congress. In 1934, after LaGuardia became Mayor of New York, Marcantonio ran successfully as a Republican for LaGuardia's East Harlem seat in Congress, a constituency he would represent for seven terms, six of them consecutively. Bulk of the papers reflects Marcantonio's activities as a lawyer and congressman and includes correspondence, 1935-1956, with relatives, friends, law associates, and congressional colleagues; correspondence and papers, 1935-1951, relating to constituency matters, congressional committees, and sponsorship of various bills; correspondence and papers relating to various subjects such as the American Labor Party, civil liberties, international relations, Puerto Rico, veterans' affairs, labor and labor unions, housing, and welfare projects; research files on subjects of interest to Marcantonio such as the Spanish Civil War, anti-fascism, etc.; papers relating to election campaigns; office card files; and photographs of Marcantonio, Dorothy Parker, Dashiell Hammett, East Harlem community activities, motion picture promoting Henry Wallace, and phonodiscs and audio tapes of speeches, campaign dinners, press conferences, etc.

ArchivalResource: 79.6 linear feet (86 boxes)

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Claiborne, Robert Watson, 1888-1966. Papers of Robert Watson Claiborne [manuscript], 1934-1966.

Title: Papers of Robert Watson Claiborne [manuscript], 1934-1966.

The collection consists chiefly of letters from Claiborne to his wife, Virginia Spotswood McKenney Claiborne of Richmond, Va., concerning personal matters and his views on politics, labor activities, agriculture, living conditions and social conditions in the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Copies of letters to others and of his official Dept. of Labor correspondence are frequently enclosed in his letters home. Topics include a suffrage case for the Virgin Islands Teachers Association; enforcement of the wage and hour law, resulting conflicts with leaders of needlework, sugar and tobacco industries including a suit by Eastern Sugar Associates and an attempt to exempt Puerto Rico from the Fair Labor Standards Act; cases handled by Claiborne's law firm; conduct and charges that led to his dismissal from the bar; and his agricultural experiments developing a cash crop to replace coffee. The collection also contains a photograph of Robert W. Claiborne, in Maricao, Puerto Rico, 1965, and two postcard photographs of Maricao.

ArchivalResource: 9600 items.

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Guide to the Labor Research Association Records, 1914-2009

Title: Guide to the Labor Research Association Records, 1914-2009

The Labor Research Association was founded in 1927 by Grace Hutchins, Anna Rochester, and Robert Dunn (LRA's director from 1927-1975) along with Solon DeLeon and Alexander Trachtenberg. Hutchins was the principal writer on wage-earning women for the Communist Party of the United States of America; Rochester, a Marxist historian, economist, and Communist Party member, and Hutchins' lifelong companion. The LRA was politically close to the CPUSA and its purpose was to "conduct investigations and studies of social, economic, and political questions in the interest of the labor movement." The principal activities of the LRA have been research, consulting, and the publication of books, pamphlets, articles, and serials on issues of concern to the labor movement. The seventeen volumes of the Labor Fact Book, published between 1931 and 1965, were widely circulated reference books. The collection consists mainly of unpublished manuscripts and reports, research notes and memos, and correspondence, a good portion of which deals with individuals and organiations who opposed the labor movement, including "labor spies." Also included in the collection are personal memorabilia and other materials documenting Dunn's related political activities.

ArchivalResource: 17.5 Linear Feet (21 boxes)

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Arocho, Juanita, 1910-1998. Papers, 1940-1994.

Title: Papers, 1940-1994.

Collection consists of personal documents, correspondence, publications, clippings and organizational ephemera. In addition, the papers contain a strong collection of photographs, particularly of Masonic activities. The folders are organized alphabetically and the documents are arranged chronologically. The Juanita Arocho Papers provide insight into community organizing efforts in the Puerto Rican community of East (Spanish) Harlem, Puerto Rican independence movements, and the participation of Puerto Ricans in the Masonic Order.

ArchivalResource: 1 cubic ft.

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Vito Marcantonio collection of political speeches and advertisements [sound recording], 1938-1952

Title: Vito Marcantonio collection of political speeches and advertisements [sound recording] 1938-1952

Vito Marcantonio was a New York politician active from the early 1930's up to his death in 1954. He was a congressman for the 18th New York District from 1935 to 1937 and from 1939-1951. He ran unsuccessfully for mayor of New York City in 1949. He was a member of the American Labor Party. The sound recordings date from 1938 to 1952. Several selections consist of political advertisements for the 1949 mayoral campaign. Other selections include a 1951 press conference with an assistant to Marcantonio, Clifford T. McAvoy, who was running for City Council; a political speech given by Marcantonio in 1938 to the Harlem Legislative Committee; a 1943 speech on the downfall of Mussolini; and a 1952 speech given to the American Labor Party.

ArchivalResource: 6 sound tapes

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Guide to the Labor Research Association Records, 1914-2009

Title: Guide to the Labor Research Association Records, 1914-2009

The Labor Research Association was founded in 1927 by Grace Hutchins, Anna Rochester, and Robert Dunn (LRA's director from 1927-1975) along with Solon DeLeon and Alexander Trachtenberg. Hutchins was the principal writer on wage-earning women for the Communist Party of the United States of America; Rochester, a Marxist historian, economist, and Communist Party member, and Hutchins' lifelong companion. The LRA was politically close to the CPUSA and its purpose was to "conduct investigations and studies of social, economic, and political questions in the interest of the labor movement." The principal activities of the LRA have been research, consulting, and the publication of books, pamphlets, articles, and serials on issues of concern to the labor movement. The seventeen volumes of the Labor Fact Book, published between 1931 and 1965, were widely circulated reference books. The collection consists mainly of unpublished manuscripts and reports, research notes and memos, and correspondence, a good portion of which deals with individuals and organiations who opposed the labor movement, including "labor spies." Also included in the collection are personal memorabilia and other materials documenting Dunn's related political activities.

ArchivalResource: 17.5 Linear Feet (21 boxes)

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Earl Browder Papers, 1879-1990

Title: Earl Browder Papers 1879-1990

Papers of the General secretary of the Communist Party of the United States from 1930 through its dissolution in 1944. When the Party was reconstituted as the Communist Political Association later that year, Browder was chosen as its President, however he was expelled in 1946 following a debate over Party leadership. Following his expulsion, Browder lectured and wrote about Marxism and represented Soviet writers and publishers for publication in the United States. Collection incluces correspondence/subject files (1879-1970) relating to Marxist philosophy, the workings of the C.P.U.S.A., Browder's role within the Party and to Browder's business ventures as well as legal files (1938-1958); manuscripts (1924-1967) of Browder and others, including Browder's manuscripts for articles, books, memoranda, news releases, pamphlets, reports, and speeches; and memorabilia including personal files and photographs of Browder and his family, and some colleagues. Notable correspondents include Roger Baldwin, Daniel Bell, Bruce Bliven, Rudy Blum, Louis B. Boudin, Juan Antonio Corretjer, Theodore Draper, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, William Z. Foster, Joseph Freeman, A.A. Heller, Lotte Jacobi, Alfred Kohlberg, Robert S. Minor, Tom Mooney, Paul and Eslanda Goode Robeson, Anna Rochester, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jack Selford, Joseph R. Starobin, I.F. Stone, John Strachey, Anna Louise Strong, Dirk Jan Struik, Norman Thomas, Harry Frederick Ward, Sumner Welles, and others. Also included is a holograph letter of greeting from Mao Zedong. The collection also includes Browder's personal library and other published materials.

ArchivalResource: 48.0 linear ft.

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La Guardia Fiorello H. (Fiorello Henry), 1882-1947. Fiorello H. La Guardia Papers. 1880-1980.

Title: Fiorello H. La Guardia Papers. 1880-1980.

The Fiorello H. La Guardia Collection contains material from La Guardia's public career. It consists of correspondence, transcriptions of broadcasts, reports, press clips, campaign literature, press releases, oral histories, photographs, and artifacts. Of particular interest are the records of La Guardia's tenure as director general of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), a post-World War II humanitarian agency. The Collection also includes La Guardia's mayoral papers and mayoral newspaper scrapbooks on microfilm and La Guardia's Congressional papers on microfilm.

ArchivalResource: 100 linear feet.

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Guide to the Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection, 1920-2001

Title: Guide to the Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection, 1920-2001

The official organ of the Communist Party, USA, the Daily Worker's editorial positions reflected the policies of the Communist Party. At the same time the paper also attempted to speak to the broad left-wing community in the United States that included labor, civil rights, and peace activists, with stories covering a wide range of events, organizations and individuals in the United States and around the world. As a daily newspaper, it covered the major stories of the twentieth century. However, the paper always placed an emphasis on radical social movements, social and economic conditions particularly in working class and minority communities, poverty, labor struggles, racial discrimination, right wing extremism with an emphasis on fascist and Nazi movements, and of course the Soviet Union and the world-wide Communist movement. The paper has had a succession of names and has been published in varying frequences between daily to weekly over the course of its existence. In 2010 it ceased print publication and became an electronic, online-only, weekly publication titled the People's World. The bulk of the collection consists of printed photographic images produced through a variety of processes, collected by the photography editors of the Daily Worker and its successor newspapers as a means of maintaining an organized collection of images for use in publication. Images of many important people, groups and events associated with the CPUSA and the American Left are present in the collection, as well as images of a wide variety of people, subjects and events not explicitly linked with the CPUSA or Left politics.

ArchivalResource: 227 Linear Feet in 226 record cartons and 2 oversized boxes

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Wilson, Luke W. (Luke Woodward), 1912-1985. Luke W. Wilson papers, 1933-1977.

Title: Luke W. Wilson papers, 1933-1977.

Papers, bulk 1936-1954, of Luke Wilson, an investigator, researcher, campaign worker, and freelance writer. Included are investigative and background materials used as evidence for the Senate Subcommittee of the Committee on Education and Labor (1936-1940) in its investigation of oppressive labor practices of agricultural companies in California. Also included are publications of the Army Morale Services Division (1942-1946), which later became the Information and Education Division, some of which Wilson either researched or helped write as well as materials related to Wilson's testimony before the Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security, which was investigating Communist activity in the U.S. government and army. In addition, there is extensive material for both the Progressive Party and the American Labor Party (1948-1953), focusing on 1948 presidential candidate, Henry Wallace, and 1949 New York mayoral candidate, Vito Marcantonio.

ArchivalResource: 4.4 c.f. (10 archives boxes),22 photographs, and4 posters (3 folders and 1 oversize folder)

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Edelstein, Julius C. C. (Julius Caius Caesar), 1912-2005. Julius Edelstein papers, 1917-1961 [Bulk Dates: 1948-1958].

Title: Julius Edelstein papers, 1917-1961 [Bulk Dates: 1948-1958].

This collection holds the papers of Julius C. C. Edelstein. The records that comprise this collection primarily encompass the years in which Edelstein acted as executive assistant and Chief of Legislative Staff to Senator Herbert H. Lehman, 1949-1956. He remained Lehman's assistant through 1960. The records are primarily political in nature although there is personal correspondence of Edelstein's included. The subjects found throughout the collection are agriculture, appropriations, civil rights, civil service, defense, foreign policy and aid, health, housing, immigration, internal security, labor, minimum wage, St. Lawrence project, social security and welfare, tideland offshore oil, tariffs, taxes and veterans. The types of records that can be found are correspondence, pamphlets, government publications, clippings, press releases, statistics, maps and memoranda.

ArchivalResource: 76.11 linear ft.( 141 document boxes, 33 index card boxes )

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Marcantonio, Vito, 1902-1954. Reminiscences of Vito Marcantonio : oral history, 1949.

Title: Reminiscences of Vito Marcantonio : oral history, 1949.

New York election of 1949.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 7 leaves.Tape: 1 reel.

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La Guardia, Fiorello H. (Fiorello Henry), 1882-1947. Fiorello H. La Guardia papers, 1918-1945.

Title: Fiorello H. La Guardia papers, 1918-1945.

Papers document La Guardia's career as a congressman, president of the Board of Aldermen and three-term mayor of New York. The two largest portions of the collection are the congressional and mayoral correspondence files.

ArchivalResource: Originals: 62 linear feet (76 boxes and 2 scrapbooks).Copies: 54 microfilm reels.

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Guide to the Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Papers, 1896-1964

Title: Guide to the Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Papers, 1896-1964

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was an orator, writer, union organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World, a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union, a Communist, and an activist born in New Hampshire in 1890. Influenced by her mother's political views, Elizabeth Flynn became a socialist and was active in the suffrage movement and Irish nationalism. She died in 1961 after leaving New York and moving Moscow in 1961. These papers span the years 1896 - 1964, the bulk covering Flynn's years in the Communist Party, 1937 - 1964. Contents include correspondence, scrapbooks, poetry, published and non-published articles, speeches, itineraries, clippings, programs, invitations and galley proofs for her prison memoir: 'The Alderson Story.' The Papers of her son Fred comprise series 5, subseries B and series 8, subseries D consists of material by Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall pertaining to her book: 'Words on Fire: the life and writing of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn,' 1988, Rutgers University Press. Series IX consists of FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) U.S. government files on Flynn obtained by Rosalyn Baxandall and Helen Camp. NOTE: original collection, 8 boxes, and the first 4 of the 6 boxes of Series IX (Addendum) have been microfilmed and researchers must use the microfilm copy.

ArchivalResource: 17.5 Linear Feet in 14 record cartons, 5 manuscript box, 1 oversize flat box, 1 flat box, 1 card box and 1 oversize folder in a shared box.

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Guide to the Labor Research Association Records, 1914-2009

Title: Guide to the Labor Research Association Records, 1914-2009

The Labor Research Association was founded in 1927 by Grace Hutchins, Anna Rochester, and Robert Dunn (LRA's director from 1927-1975) along with Solon DeLeon and Alexander Trachtenberg. Hutchins was the principal writer on wage-earning women for the Communist Party of the United States of America; Rochester, a Marxist historian, economist, and Communist Party member, and Hutchins' lifelong companion. The LRA was politically close to the CPUSA and its purpose was to "conduct investigations and studies of social, economic, and political questions in the interest of the labor movement." The principal activities of the LRA have been research, consulting, and the publication of books, pamphlets, articles, and serials on issues of concern to the labor movement. The seventeen volumes of the Labor Fact Book, published between 1931 and 1965, were widely circulated reference books. The collection consists mainly of unpublished manuscripts and reports, research notes and memos, and correspondence, a good portion of which deals with individuals and organiations who opposed the labor movement, including "labor spies." Also included in the collection are personal memorabilia and other materials documenting Dunn's related political activities.

ArchivalResource: 17.5 Linear Feet (21 boxes)

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Garcá Rivera, Oscar 1900-1969. Papers, 1912-1987 ; bulk: 1930-1940.

Title: Papers, 1912-1987 ; bulk: 1930-1940.

Collection consists of personal documents, correspondence, photographs, politically related handbills, flyers, and other ephemera, clippings, and artifacts. The folders are organized alphabetically and the documents are arranged chronologically. The papers are an important source for the study of early Puerto Rican political life and of the existent conditions of the East (Spanish) Harlem community in the first part of the twentieth century. In addition, they provide a viewfinder into labor politics and the political and social alliances created amongst emerging ethnic communities in New York City.

ArchivalResource: 3 cubic ft.

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Dizard, George E. (George Emil), 1917-. George E. Dizard and family papers, 1923-1991 (bulk 1938-1988).

Title: George E. Dizard and family papers, 1923-1991 (bulk 1938-1988).

Correspondence, speech transcripts, newspaper clippings, printed political materials, and related files documenting the activities of a Duluth labor leader and his wife (Rhoda Levine Dizard) in many peace, labor, and third party movements from the 1930s through the 1990s, with information on the Farmer-Labor Association, Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, the Progressive and Communist parties, and various peace groups, especially the American Peace Mobilization (1940-1941) and SANE (1965-1991).

ArchivalResource: 2.0 cu. ft. (2 boxes).

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Guide to the Tamiment Library Poster and Broadside Collection, 1904-1991

Title: Guide to the Tamiment Library Poster and Broadside Collection, 1904-1991

The Tamiment Library Poster Collection consists of items published between 1904 and 1991, that relate to left-radicalism, progressive movements, labor unions, and counter-culture in the United States, and in over thirty other countries. With new additions being received on a regular basis, the collection can be expected to grow well beyond its present size of 2,165 posters and broadsides.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 Linear Feet in flat file folders and 2 oversize flat boxes.

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Covello, Leonard, 1887-1982. Papers, 1907-1974.

Title: Papers, 1907-1974.

The papers document Covello's career as a teacher at DeWitt Clinton High School (1913-1934); principal of Benjamin Franklin High School, East Harlem (1934-1956); and educational consultant to the Migration Division of the Puerto Rican Department of Labor (1956-1971?); as well as his long-term research on Italian American immigrants and his activities as a leader in the Italian American community. The papers include correspondence, his files as an educator, records of organizations in which he was active, print material, and extensive writing and research files. The latter include questionnaires, I.Q. test scores, and other data on Italian and Puerto Rican students and their families; reports and studies on East Harlem; and drafts of The Social Background ... and other writings.

ArchivalResource: 54 linear ft. (122 boxes)

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Marcantonio, Vito, 1902-1954. Vito Marcantonio collection of political speeches and advertisements [sound recording], 1938-1952.

Title: Vito Marcantonio collection of political speeches and advertisements [sound recording], 1938-1952.

The sound recordings date from 1938 to 1952.

ArchivalResource: 6 sound tapes : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 4 track, mono. ; 10 in.

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Warren K. Billings Papers, 1899-1973, (bulk 1920-1939)

Title: Warren K. Billings Papers 1899-1973 (bulk 1920-1939)

Laborer and union organizer. Family and general correspondence, legal files, printed matter, newspaper clippings, and other papers relating primarily to the 1916 bombing conviction of Billings and Tom Mooney and papers relating to the Industrial Workers of the World, Billings’s activities in the union movement, especially in California, his life in Folsom State Prison, and his activities on behalf of the civil liberties of Vern Smith and Communist Party leader Earl Browder.

ArchivalResource: 2,600 items; 14 containers plus 1 oversize; 506 linear feet

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Arocho, Juanita 1910-1998. Papers, 1940-1994.

Title: Papers, 1940-1994.

Collection consists of personal documents, correspondence, publications, clippings and organizational ephemera. In addition, the Papers contain a strong collection of photographs, particularly of Masonic activities. The folders are organized alphabetically and the documents are arranged chronologically. The Juanita Arocho Papers provide insight into community organizing efforts in the Puerto Rican community of East (Spanish) Harlem, Puerto Rican independence movements, and the participation of Puerto Ricans in the Masonic Order.

ArchivalResource: 1 cubic ft.

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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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Bernard, John T. (John Toussaint), 1893-1983. John Toussaint Bernard papers, 1934-1973.

Title: John Toussaint Bernard papers, 1934-1973.

Correspondence and clippings (mainly 1936-1956) on Bernard's activities as a labor union organizer, a participant in antifascist and civil liberties groups, and as U.S. congressman (Farmer-Labor Party) from Minnesota's eighth district (1937-1939). Includes material concerning his support of the Loyalists during the Spanish Civil War, his lone vote against the Spanish arms embargo (1937), and his work with the Steel Workers Organizing Committee of the CIO (1937-1942) and with the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America (1943-1954). Correspondents include Irene Paull, Jerry O'Connell, and Vito Marcantonio.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 cu. ft. (1 box).

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Mooney Molders Defense Committee. Mooney pamphlet collection : miscellaneous material on Tom Mooney.

Title: Mooney pamphlet collection : miscellaneous material on Tom Mooney. 1916-1940.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes.

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Vito Marcantonio FOIA Files, undated

Title: Vito Marcantonio FOIA Files undated

Vito Marcantonio (1902-1954), who received his law degree from New York University in 1931, was an American Labor Party leader and U.S. Congressmen representing East Harlem, New York, 1935-1937 (as a Republican), and 1939-1951 (American Labor Party). Contains six United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) files obtained under the Freedoom of Information Act and one U.S. State Department document.

ArchivalResource: 0.75 linear feet; (2 boxes)

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Wanda Gág papers

Title: International Labor Defense. Correspondence with Wanda Gág, 1941-1944.

Personal papers of Wanda Gág, including correspondence to and from Wanda, as well as letters to and from Alma Schmidt Scott, a biographer of Gág, and letters among Gág family members; writings, such as diaries, children’s books, autobiographical works, and juvenilia; notes for talks and for writings; artwork; exhibition catalogs and related publicity material; writings about Gág, including obituaries, biographical pieces, and book reviews; financial records; materials regarding the Estate of Wanda Gág; newspaper clippings; memorabilia; photographs; and examples of Happiwork, a product for children created by Gág.

ArchivalResource: 5 items (7 leaves).

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Vélez de Vando, Emelí 1917-1999. Papers, 1919-1999.

Title: Papers, 1919-1999.

Collection consists primarily of letters, articles, photographs, police reports, audiotapes, programs, and flyers. The folders are arranged alphabetically and the documents in chronological order. This collection is valuable for examining the history of the independence movement, specially the history of the Nationalist Party, the Partido Independentista de Puerto Rico and Movimiento Pro Independencia. It is of particular importance for the insight it provides on the role of women in the independence movement and of women activists. The collection also contains significant information about political repression and the persecution of political activists in Puerto Rico.

ArchivalResource: 5.43 cubic ft.

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Guide to the Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Papers, 1896-1964

Title: Guide to the Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Papers, 1896-1964

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was an orator, writer, union organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World, a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union, a Communist, and an activist born in New Hampshire in 1890. Influenced by her mother's political views, Elizabeth Flynn became a socialist and was active in the suffrage movement and Irish nationalism. She died in 1961 after leaving New York and moving Moscow in 1961. These papers span the years 1896 - 1964, the bulk covering Flynn's years in the Communist Party, 1937 - 1964. Contents include correspondence, scrapbooks, poetry, published and non-published articles, speeches, itineraries, clippings, programs, invitations and galley proofs for her prison memoir: 'The Alderson Story.' The Papers of her son Fred comprise series 5, subseries B and series 8, subseries D consists of material by Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall pertaining to her book: 'Words on Fire: the life and writing of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn,' 1988, Rutgers University Press. Series IX consists of FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) U.S. government files on Flynn obtained by Rosalyn Baxandall and Helen Camp. NOTE: original collection, 8 boxes, and the first 4 of the 6 boxes of Series IX (Addendum) have been microfilmed and researchers must use the microfilm copy.

ArchivalResource: 17.5 Linear Feet in 14 record cartons, 5 manuscript box, 1 oversize flat box, 1 flat box, 1 card box and 1 oversize folder in a shared box.

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New York Times Company records. Arthur Hays Sulzberger papers, 1823-1999

Title: New York Times Company records. Arthur Hays Sulzberger papers 1823-1999

Arthur Hays Sulzberger was the publisher of xxThe New York Timesxx from 1935 until 1961 and chairman of the board of The New York Times Company from 1961 until 1968. While he was publisher, circulation of The Times almost doubled; the editorial page developed a reputation for strong opinions; news events were subjected to more analysis and coverage of specialized topics was strengthened; new sections and departments were created for food, fashion, and women; and the overall style of the paper became less rigid and more aesthetically pleasing. The papers document Sulzberger's life and career at xxThe New York Timesxx, with the majority of the collection relating to Sulzberger's 26 years as president and publisher of the paper. Included in the collection are correspondence with family members, friends, colleagues, world leaders, and other dignitaries; memoranda regarding the business of the newspaper, including Sulzberger's notes of praise and criticism to his editors, managers, and writers; reports on his meetings with world leaders, including Winston Churchill, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Harry S. Truman; and photographs of Sulzberger, his family, business trips, vacations, and The Times' buildings.

ArchivalResource: 129.9 linear feet; 297 boxes, 10 volumes

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