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Jack Belden Papers, 1935-1989

Title: Jack Belden Papers 1935-1989

Correspondence, news dispatches, and other writings, relating primarily to the Sino-Japanese War, American military operations in North Africa, France, Belgium and Germany, the occupation of Germany, and the publication of China Shakes the World. Includes correspondence with Agnes Smedley.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes, 1 oversize box; 3 linear feet

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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.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00189/catalog View

International Committee for Political Prisoners records, 1918-1942, 1924-1938

Title: International Committee for Political Prisoners records 1918-1942 1924-1938

The International Committee for Political Prisoners was founded in 1924 to to agitate for the release and raise funds for the relief of political prisoners throughout the world. The ICPP dissolved in 1942 once the advent of World War II made assistance to political prisoners nearly impossible. The records consist of correspondence, memoranda, minutes, typescripts, financial statements, and supporting printed matter.

ArchivalResource: 7.25 linear feet; 8 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/1515 View

Smedley, Agnes, 1892-1950. Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1934.

Title: Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1934.

ArchivalResource: 6 items (7 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155893936 View

Smedley, Agnes, 1892-1950. Smedley-MacKinnon collection, 1911-1981 (bulk 1920-1950).

Title: Smedley-MacKinnon collection, 1911-1981 (bulk 1920-1950).

Comprised of research source materials, notes and correspondence regarding the life of journalist Agnes Smedley compiled by historian Stephen MacKinnon. Although the materials range from 1911-1986, the bulk of the collection consists of photocopied Smedley correspondence, publications and espionage investigation records extending from 1920-1950. Arranged in four series: Correspondence; Periodical and journal articles; Smedley investigation records; Beijing Chinese History Museum photocopies.

ArchivalResource: 3 ft. (5 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28979410 View

Jane Burr Papers MS 25., circa 1860s-1958

Title: Jane Burr Papers circa 1860s-1958

Journalist; Poet; Playwright. Papers include articles, photographs, and correspondence from Havelock Ellis,Margaret Sanger, H.G. Wells, Agnes Smedley, Fannie Hurst, Roger Baldwin, and Max Eastman, among others.

ArchivalResource: 1 box; (.5 linear ft.)

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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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Foster, John B. (John Burt), 1911-. John B. Foster papers, 1928-1984.

Title: John B. Foster papers, 1928-1984.

Letters, diaries, printed matter, memorabilia, photographs, and other items focusing on Foster's work in China as an Episcopal lay missionary and teacher (1934-1942) and as an editor, broadcaster, and foreign affairs officer for the U.S. government (1942-1947).

ArchivalResource: 3.5 cu. ft. (7 boxes and 26 oversize items); 1 box in Reserve.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313832178 View

Dennett, Mary Ware, 1872-1947. Papers: Series V, 1913-1945 (inclusive).

Title: Papers: Series V, 1913-1945 (inclusive).

Series V, Other organizations and causes, includes correspondence, publications, and other mailings from a variety of organizations: Twilight Sleep Association, American Union Against Militarism, Woman's Peace Party, International Free Trade League, People's Council, American Foundation for Homoeopathy, American Civil Liberties Union, and others. This series also contains material on Dennett's work in the Woodrow Wilson, Morris Hillquit, and Elinor Byrns election campaigns, and in the movements for the single tax and proportional representation; and her writings on various political issues.

ArchivalResource: 3.25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232008175 View

Roe, Gwyneth King, 1868-1968. Papers, 1880-1968.

Title: Papers, 1880-1968.

Papers of Gwyneth Roe, wife of Gilbert Roe, a New York attorney and former law partner of Robert M. La Follette; teacher of the Delsarte system of physical education with Emily Mulkin Bishop; advocate of women's dress reform, suffrage, and the Woman's Peace Party; and friend of several members of the La Follette family and of numerous political progressives, radicals, anarchists, and muckrakers.

ArchivalResource: 3.5 c.f. (9 archives boxes and 1 v.); plus.additions of 20 photographs.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173701222 View

Guide to the Grace and Max Granich Papers and Photographs, 1920s-1998

Title: Guide to the Grace and Max Granich Papers and Photographs, 1920s-1998

Grace Granich was the secretary for Earl Browder, the head of the Communist Party, USA. In the 1930s, she traveled to the Soviet Union and to Shanghai, China, where she served as a liaison to Chinese radicals, notably Agnes Smedley. She also edited The Voice of China (her husband Max Granich was its publisher), the organ of the League for National Salvation, headed by Mme. Sun Yat Sen. During World War II she headed Intercontinent News, a Communist Party news agency. Max (Manny) Granich was the younger brother of writer Michael Gold and served as chauffeur to Earl Browder. Following World War II, the Graniches distanced themselves from the CPUSA and in 1946 founded Higley Hill Camp (Wilmington, Vermont), a left-wing summer camp for children, which they ran until 1964. The collection contains typescripts, oral history transcripts, correspondence, clippings, government reports, photographs, and some ephemera and research notes and materials that document Grace and Max Granich's involvement with the Communist Party and Higley Hill Camp.

ArchivalResource: 1.75 Linear Feet in 1 record carton and 2 manuscript boxes

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_255/tam_255.html View

Belden, Jack, 1910-. Jack Belden papers, 1936-1989.

Title: Jack Belden papers, 1936-1989.

Correspondence, news dispatches, and other writings, relating primarily to the Sino-Japanese War, American military operations in North Africa, France, Belgium and Germany, the occupation of Germany, and the publication of China Shakes the World. Includes correspondence with Agnes Smedley.

ArchivalResource: 4 ms. boxes, 1 oversize box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/754872378 View

Lerner, Max, 1902-2001. Max Lerner papers, 1927-1992 (inclusive).

Title: Max Lerner papers, 1927-1992 (inclusive).

The papers consist of correspondence, speeches, writings, and other papers (including research and teaching materials, photographs, memorabilia, newspaper and periodical clippings, books, and radio and television tapes) of Max Lerner, an American educator, author, lecturer, historian, and political scientist. The papers focus on Lerner's public life and career with very little material on his personal or family life. The papers document Lerner's close association with Justice Felix Frankfurter and Harold J. Laski, his controversial writings on homosexuality, his work with the Democratic Party during Adlai Stevenson's presidential campaigns, his work on behalf of Jewish causes and Zionism, and his activities during the "red scare" of the 1950s.

ArchivalResource: 96.50 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702154142 View

Papers of Mary Ware Dennett

Title: Papers of Mary Ware Dennett

Correspondence, scrapbooks, writings, etc., of Mary Ware Dennett, suffragist, pacifist, artisan and advocate of birth control and sex education.

ArchivalResource: 23.69 linear feet ((43 file boxes, 2 folio boxes, 2 oversize boxes, 1 card file box) plus 5 folio+ folders, 5 oversize folders)

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00058/catalog View

Yaddo records, 1870-1980

Title: Yaddo records 1870-1980

Yaddo is an artists' community located in Saratoga Springs, New York. The Yaddo Records contain the administrative records of The Corporation of Yaddo since its establishment in 1900, as well as the institutional records of Yaddo from 1926, the year Yaddo began accepting guests. Notable guests have included Newton Arvin, John Cheever, Aaron Copland, Malcom Cowley, Leonard Bernstein, Truman Capote, Carson McCullers, Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Katherine Anne Porter, and Clyfford Still. The Yaddo Records also include the personal papers of Yaddo's principal founders, Spencer and Katrina Trask, and George Foster Peabody.

ArchivalResource: 190 linear feet; 550 boxes, 51 volumes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/4795 View

Russell, Maud. Maud Russell Papers, 1914-1990, bulk (1918-1989).

Title: Maud Russell Papers, 1914-1990, bulk (1918-1989).

Collection consists of correspondence, writings, subject files, photographs, printed matter, and other items documenting Russell's life and work. Other items consist of photographs, which were mainly taken in China; sound recordings of speeches relating to the work of CDFEP (1946) and of radio interviews with Maud Russell (1950-1963); and the files, 1938-1990, of Ida Pruitt, field director for the American Committee in Aid of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives.

ArchivalResource: 12 Sound recordings.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122486420 View

Guide to the Grace and Max Granich Papers and Photographs, 1920s-1998

Title: Guide to the Grace and Max Granich Papers and Photographs, 1920s-1998

Grace Granich was the secretary for Earl Browder, the head of the Communist Party, USA. In the 1930s, she traveled to the Soviet Union and to Shanghai, China, where she served as a liaison to Chinese radicals, notably Agnes Smedley. She also edited The Voice of China (her husband Max Granich was its publisher), the organ of the League for National Salvation, headed by Mme. Sun Yat Sen. During World War II she headed Intercontinent News, a Communist Party news agency. Max (Manny) Granich was the younger brother of writer Michael Gold and served as chauffeur to Earl Browder. Following World War II, the Graniches distanced themselves from the CPUSA and in 1946 founded Higley Hill Camp (Wilmington, Vermont), a left-wing summer camp for children, which they ran until 1964. The collection contains typescripts, oral history transcripts, correspondence, clippings, government reports, photographs, and some ephemera and research notes and materials that document Grace and Max Granich's involvement with the Communist Party and Higley Hill Camp.

ArchivalResource: 1.75 Linear Feet in 1 record carton and 2 manuscript boxes

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_255/tam_255.html View

Agnes Smedley Collection, 1911-1981, (Bulk 1938-1948).

Title: Agnes Smedley Collection, 1911-1981 (Bulk 1938-1948).

The Agnes Smedley Collection contains materials concerning Smedley's career as a journalist in China and also events in China during the Japanese conflict and World War II.

ArchivalResource: 46 volumes; 7.5 Linear Ft.

http://www.azarchivesonline.org/xtf/view?docId=ead/asu/smedley.xml View

Smedley, Agnes, 1892-1950. Letter, 1944, to Lewis Mumford.

Title: Letter, 1944, to Lewis Mumford.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 l.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155876079 View

Max Lerner papers, 1927-1998

Title: Max Lerner papers 1927-1998

The papers consist of correspondence, speeches, writings, and other papers, (including research and teaching materials, photographs, memorabilia, newspaper and periodical clippings, books, and radio and television tapes) of Max Lerner, an American educator, author, lecturer, historian, and political scientist. The papers focus on Lerner's public life and career with very little material on his personal or family life. The papers document Lerner's close association with Justice Felix Frankfurter and Harold J. Laski, his controversial writings on homosexuality, his work with the Democratic Party during Adlai Stevenson's presidential campaigns, his work on behalf of Jewish causes and Zionism, and his activities during the "red scare" of the 1950s.

ArchivalResource: 102.79 linear feet (185 boxes)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0322 View

Microfilm copy of New York Bureau of Legal Advice Records, 1917-1919

Title: Microfilm copy of New York Bureau of Legal Advice Records, 1917-1919

Holdings in Tamiment Library: about half the records of the New York Bureau of Legal Advice consist of case histories pertaining to selective service exemption, draft evasion, conscientious objector status, military imprisonment, military discharge, desertion, amnesty, civil liberties and deportations. One third of the collection consists of office files, administrative reports and correspondence, including extensive fundraising correspondence. The remainder of the collection is made up of press releases and newspaper clippings. Correspondents include Mary Beard, Sarah N. Cleghorn, Bina Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Agnes Smedley, Louis Untermeyer, Thorsten Veblen, H.L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, Judah L. Magnes, and Stephen Wise.

ArchivalResource: 5.42 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52209275 View

Frank, Adelaide Schulkind. Papers, 1925-1972 (inclusive).

Title: Papers, 1925-1972 (inclusive).

Correspondence, mainly letters to Frank concerning League assistance, and bulletins. Correspondents include Ralph J. Bunche, Mary Ware Dennett, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Katherine Anne Porter, Rosika Schwimmer, and Norman Thomas.

ArchivalResource: .75 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232006601 View

China War Reporting Conference (1982 : Scottsdale, Ariz.). Records, 1982.

Title: Records, 1982.

Includes cassette recordings and transcripts of discussions and papers relationg to war correspondents' experiences in China during World War II presented at the November 1982 China War Reporting Conference.

ArchivalResource: 1 ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24163501 View

Maud Russell papers, 1914-1990, 1918-1989

Title: Maud Russell papers 1914-1990 1918-1989

Collection consists of correspondence, writings, subject files, photographs, printed matter, and other items documenting Russell's life and work. Correspondence, speeches and writings, 1914-1989, include copies of outgoing letters, 1918-1943, describing her life and work in China and incoming letters, ca. 1951-1980, from friends in China with information which she used for her talks and for the Far East Reporter. Committee for a Democratic Far Eastern Policy (CDFEP) records, 1945-1955, 1982, are a combination of Russell's files and those of the Committee and include minutes of meetings, press releases, pamphlets, newsletters, and subject files. Far East Reporter files, 1953-1989, contain a complete run of the publication plus correspondence, itineraries for speaking tours, clippings and periodicals that she used as source material, financial records, and manuscripts. Also, income tax records, 1956-1986, providing information about Russell's business expenses; her notebooks, daybooks, calendars, etc., 1919-1988; notes, catalogs and correspondence concerning her collection of Chinese pottery; biographical materials; printed matter, 1917-1989, including clippings and China-related newsletters.

ArchivalResource: 30 linear feet (82 boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/2649 View