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Norton, William J. (William John), 1883-1975. William J. Norton papers, 1906-1975.

Title: William J. Norton papers, 1906-1975.

Materials relating to his welfare activities, his interests in mental health and the work of the American Red Cross, and his general interest in the field of social work; also papers detailing his activities with the Detroit Prismatic Club; essays concerning the legislation of prohibition in Michigan; and photographs.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft.

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Amberson, William Ruthrauff, b. 1894. William Ruthrauff Amberson papers, 1919-1968; 1971 [manuscript].

Title: William Ruthrauff Amberson papers, 1919-1968; 1971 [manuscript].

The collection is primarily personal correspondence relating to Amberson's activities as a member of the Socialist Party and his relationship with the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union (STFU) and the Delta and Providence cooperatives farms. Also included are a few clippings, manuscript copies of some speeches and articles, eviction notices, and several financial papers, including receipts of tenants and expense sheets of H. L. Mitchell, secretary of the STFU. Also scattered through the main body of the papers are items dealing with the Socialist Party in Tennessee, the Communist Party in the South, the Llano del Rio Cooperative Colony in Louisiana, race relations, the condition of the southern tenant farmer, and southern politics. Correspondents include Roger Baldwin, C. T. Carpenter, Sherwood Eddy, Sam H. Franklin, Robert S. Keebler, Howard Kester, Koss Kimberlin, George Lambert, A. James McDonald, Mary Connor Myers, Clarence Senior, Norman Thomas, Frank Trager, Blaine Treadway, James Peter Warbasse, and Lawrence Westbrook. Also included is a small amount of correspondence with Pauli Murray, regarding Amberson's participation in a March 1940 National Sharecroppers Week event. Later correspondence documents Amberson's donation of his papers to the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In addition, there is a very small amount of scattered family correspondence, as well as professional correspondence relating to Amberson's work at the University of Tennessee Medical School at Memphis and later at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, circa 1939 to 1959, and the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., after 1960.

ArchivalResource: About 1600 items (3.5 linear feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25678031 View

Papers, 1900-1958.

Title: Papers, 1900-1958.

Correspondence, memoranda, speech and article files, surveys, subject files, financial records, clippings, pamphlets, and memorabilia resulting from personal and family matters; work with the Davis Coal and Coke Co. in West Virginia, 1923-1926, the United States Coal Commission, 1922, and other firms; editorship of COAL AGE and FACTORY AND INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT, 1927-1933; trip to Russia surveying industrial development for the McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., 1931; affiliation with engineering societies, 1918-1934; work with the Civil Works Administration, the Wagner (NRA) Labor Board and the National Labor Relations Board, 1933-1936, the Rural Electrification Administration, 1936-1939, and the Federal Works Administration, 1939-1941; membership on the United States Maritime Commission, 1941-1946, the President's Water Resources Policy Commission, 1950-1951, and the Small Business Administration, 1951-1953; and his interest in public power projects and labor arbitration, 1944-1950. Correspondents in the general correspondence files include Otto S. Beyer, Francis Biddle, Morris L. Cooke, Herbert Hoover, Harry Hopkins, Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, Estes Kefauver, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Colonel Walter L. Simpson, Colonel Lawrence Westbrook, and General Arthur Wilson.

ArchivalResource: 146 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155521899 View

William J. Norton papers, 1906-1987, 1916-1972

Title: William J. Norton papers 1906-1987 1916-1972

Detroit, Michigan, social worker, executive vice president of the Children's Fund of Michigan, and chairman of various relief commissions during the depression. Materials relating to his welfare activities, his interests in mental health and the work of the American Red Cross, and his general interest in the field of social work; also papers detailing his activities with the Detroit Prismatic Club; essays concerning the legislation of prohibition in Michigan; and photographs and sound recordings.

ArchivalResource: 4 linear feet and 1 outsize folder

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-85343?rgn=main;view=text View

Norton, William J. (William John), 1883-1975. William J. Norton papers, 1906-1987.

Title: William J. Norton papers, 1906-1987.

Materials relating to his welfare activities, his interests in mental health and the work of the American Red Cross, and his general interest in the field of social work; also papers detailing his activities with the Detroit Prismatic Club; essays concerning the legislation of prohibition in Michigan; and photographs.

ArchivalResource: 4 linear ft. and 1 oversize folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78312339 View