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Kreuter, Kent, 1932-. An American dissenter; the life of Algie Martin Simons, 1870- 1950.

Title: An American dissenter; the life of Algie Martin Simons, 1870- 1950. [1966?]

ArchivalResource: iii, 300 l. 28 cm.

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Berger, Victor L., 1860-1929. Papers, 1862-1980.

Title: Papers, 1862-1980.

Papers, mainly 1895 to 1929, of a prominent Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Socialist Party leader and politician, newspaper editor, German-American community leader, and the first Socialist Party member in Congress, and of his wife Meta, longtime member (and first woman president) of the Milwaukee Board of School Directors, and prominent in the Socialist Party and in women's rights, education, and peace issues. Included is correspondence, Congressional files and mailings, scrapbooks, speeches and writings, Social Democratic Party and Social-Democratic Publishing Company records, papers of their daughters, and other papers. The processed portion of this collection is summarized above and is described in the register. Additional accessions are described below.

ArchivalResource: 14.6 c.f. (33 archives boxes, 1 flat box, and 4 card boxes) and56 reels of microfilm (35mm); plusadditions of 2 tape recordings,663 photographs,138 negatives, and11 drawings.

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Richard T. Ely papers, 1812-1963 (bulk 1882-1939)

Title: Richard T. Ely papers, 1812-1963 (bulk 1882-1939)

Papers, dating mainly 1882-1939, of Richard Ely, an economist, educator, reformer, and faculty member at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Wisconsin, and Northwestern University. Also included are genealogical information and records of several academic, patriotic, and reform organizations which Ely helped found, including the American Association for Agricultural Legislation, American Bureau of Industrial Research, Christian Social Union, Ely Economic Foundation, Institute for Economic Research, Institute for Research in Land Economics and Public Utilities, League to Enforce Peace-Wisconsin Branch, and Wisconsin Loyalty Legion. During his long career Ely made numerous contributions to American life and also had significant contacts in Europe and in Japan. As a social scientist and an educator he was greatly influenced by the German higher education system. In this country he pioneered the seminar method of graduate education, was a founder of the American Economic Association, a frequent lecturer at Chautauqua, and a symbol of academic freedom. He established the areas of labor economics, labor history, agricultural economics, conservation, real estate, and land economics as fields of academic interest. Ely corresponded with hundreds of individuals including many prominent in the social sciences and education, in the field of business, and in Wisconsin political, educational, and business circles. A prolific author and editor, Ely had frequent contacts with publishers and editors, especially those at the Macmillan Company. Ely is also widely recognized as a key figure in the development of the reform ideology which characterized the Progressive Era. He had many contacts with prominent political, reform, religious, labor, and socialist leaders. Ely received and wrote thousands of letters during his career; selected correspondents are noted in the subject headings below and a correspondent index was compiled for inclusion in the microfilm edition. Additions received in 1991 consist primarily of family correspondence and miscellaneous professional papers.

ArchivalResource: 81.8 c.f. (198 archives boxes, 3 cartons, 2 card file boxes, and 1 oversize folder) and191 reels of microfilm (35 mm); plusadditions of 0.6 c.f. and42 photographs.

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Hayes, Max S. (Maximilliam Sebastian), 1866-1945. Papers, 1891-1949.

Title: Papers, 1891-1949.

Editor of the Cleveland "Citizen" and labor leader. Chiefly correspondence (1900-1928) from Hayes to his wife, Dora (Schneider) Hayes, relating to personal and civic affairs, leadership in the American Federation of Labor, and activities with the Socialist Party and National Labor Party.

ArchivalResource: 2 cubic feet.

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Simons, A. M. (Algie Martin), 1870-1950. Algie M. Simons and May Wood Simons papers, 1901-1951.

Title: Algie M. Simons and May Wood Simons papers, 1901-1951.

Papers of Algie M. Simons and his wife, May Wood Simons, both Wisconsin-born journalists, authors, and socialists. The collection includes many letters exchanged between them during lecture tours and trips to socialist meetings in the United States and abroad such as the 1910 International Socialist Congress in Copenhagen, Denmark, to which Mrs. Simons was a delegate and Simons' visit to England, France, and Italy as chairman of the 1918 American Socialist Labor Mission. A few letters relate to their editorial work on the staff of the Chicago daily Socialist and the Milwaukee leader. Among the prominent correspondents are J. Ramsay MacDonald, Upton Sinclair, and William English Walling. Papers for the years 1931 to 1950 relate mainly to Simons' employment as an economist by the American Medical Association, and include copies of his articles on medical economics. Other materials in the collection include notes of interviews with European political leaders, reports and records of the American Socialist Labor Mission, notes taken as a student at the University of Wisconsin, a paper evaluating his socialist histories, and diaries kept by his wife. Photographs include portraits of Simons and his associates, ca. 1890-1920. There is also an image of Coxey's Army that includes author Jack London.

ArchivalResource: 1.8 c.f. (8 archives boxes) and13 photographs (1 folder)

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Hillquit, Morris, 1869-1933. Papers, 1886-1944.

Title: Papers, 1886-1944.

Papers of Morris Hillquit, a New York attorney and internationally known socialist leader, theoretician, and author, including correspondence, 1895-1943; writings by Hillquit; a manuscript of an unpublished biography of Hillquit and biographical sketches of international socialist leaders, written by Nina E. Hillquit; photographs of Hillquit and his family; broadsides and circulars; and press releases and clippings. The correspondence contains information on the factional disputes and struggles for leadership within the Socialist Party of America in the early years of the twentieth century; the International Socialist Congresses held between 1904 and 1922; the establishment of the Rand School of Social Science in 1905; the activities, history, and philosophy of the Industrial Workers of the World, founded in 1905; trade unionism, 1909-1933; divergent socialist attitudes toward World War I; Bolshevism and red-baiting, 1918-1921; the formation of the Conference for Progressive Political Action which endorsed Robert M. La Follette for president in 1924; and reconstruction and decline of the Socialist Party, 1925-1933.

ArchivalResource: 3.2 c.f. (8 archives boxes),10 reels of microfilm (35mm), and17 photographs (1 folder); plusadditions of 1.0 c.f.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173701482 View

Labadie, Jo, 1850-1933. Jo Labadie papers, 1880-1931.

Title: Jo Labadie papers, 1880-1931.

Chiefly includes correspondence with fellow workers in the labor movement, publishers and writers for anarchist, socialist, and labor journals, and a wide circle of friends ...

ArchivalResource: 3,166 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/68796437 View