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Seeger, Pete, 1919-. Spring Hill School collection, 1926-1939.

Title: Spring Hill School collection, 1926-1939.

The Spring Hill School collection documents a private school modelled on a philosophy of progressive education. Founded by Dorothy Bull and Mabel Foster Spinney in Litchfield, Conn., the school operated from 1926 to 1939. The collection includes correspondence, financial records, minutes, institutional records, brochures, and published editions of student work. The collection also contains tributes to co-founders Bull from 1934 and Spinney from 1951 and a compilation of Spring Hill School remembrances collected in 1999. In some of these publications are works by a student named Peter Seeger, who would later find fame as a folk songer, song writer, and activist, better known as Pete Seeger.

ArchivalResource: 0.83 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/743226267 View

Greenwich House (New York, N.Y.). Greenwich House records, 1896-1990 (bulk 1896-1946).

Title: Greenwich House records, 1896-1990 (bulk 1896-1946).

The records contain minutes, reports, correspondence, publicity material and ephemera, program files, financial documents, personnel records, publications, scrapbooks and 36,000 index cards detailing the activities of Greenwich House. Extensive correspondence of Mary Simkhovitch covers, in addition to House activities, such topics as political reform and public housing, as well as her unsuccessful 1937 campaign for the New York City Council. There is also some correspondence of staff members, including Robin Brown and Mabel Spinney.

ArchivalResource: 99.5 linear ft. (115 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/476161889 View