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O'Hara, Barratt, 1882-1969. Papers, 1948-1968.

Title: Papers, 1948-1968.

The collection consists of correspondence, clippings, legal records, congressional resolutions, agendas and minutes, maps, building plans, press releases, poll sheets, poems, sheet music, programs, bibliographies, and photographs. The materials pertain to such issues as public housing, medical insurance, the Indiana Dunes, veterans of the Spanish-American War, the Peace Corps, new independent nations in Africa, Israel-U.S. relations, the United Nations, the war in Vietnam, the House Un-American Activities Committee, the Soviet Union, and the extension of the draft.

ArchivalResource: 64 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53821118 View

Sampson, Edith S. (Edith Spurlock), 1901?-1979. Papers, 1927-1979 (inclusive) 1934-1979 (bulk).

Title: Papers, 1927-1979 (inclusive) 1934-1979 (bulk).

The bulk of the collection pertains to Sampson's activities as a judge, especially her election campaigns, and to her other professional and volunteer work, particularly her trips to Europe on behalf of the State Department and her work with the United Nations. There is little about her personal life or her work as a lawyer.

ArchivalResource: 7 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232007631 View

Chicago Federation of Labor and Industrial Union Council. Chicago Federation of Labor records, ca. 1890-1983.

Title: Chicago Federation of Labor records, ca. 1890-1983.

Minutes, 1903-22, of the Chicago Federation of Labor; sound recordings, ca. 1960s-1980s, and files from the office of the president, primarily incoming letters to John Fitzpatrick, 1913-39, and topical files of William Lee, primarily 1963-82. Includes some personal papers of Fitzpatrick as well. Topics include Fitzpatrick's work as an organizer for the American Federation of Labor. The Fitzpatrick material relates to his presidency (1899-1901, 1905-46) of the CFL, work as an organizer for the American Federation of Labor, leadership of the Journeyman Horse Shoers Union, and unsuccessful candidacy for mayor of Chicago on the Labor Party ticket (1919). Topics include labor, Chicago civic and political affairs, the Farmer-Labor Parties of Cook County and of the United States, Brookwood Resident Workers College (Katonah, N.Y.), Chicago and Illinois teachers organizations and school matters, African Americans in labor, William Z. Foster, socialism and communism and their relevance to the labor movement, the independence of Ireland, and Russian relief in the early 1920s. Correspondents include Samuel Gompers, William Green, Frank Morrison, and Edward Nockels. Also present is a microfilm copy of John H. Keiser's dissertation on Fitzpatrick. Also present are files relating to the Federation News and other CFL topics that were gathered by Irwin Klass.

ArchivalResource: 15 sound recordings.6 microfilm reels : neg. ; 35 mm. Camera negative of typed minutes.6 microfilm reels ; 35 mm. Reader copy of typed minutes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/717282914 View

Papers, 1927-1979

Title: Papers, 1927-1979

Papers of Cook County circuit judge Edith Spurlock Sampson.

ArchivalResource: 13 file boxes, 2 folio folders, 5 folio+ folders, 2 oversize folders, 35 folders of photographs, 5 folio folders of photographs, 1 folio+ folder of photographs

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00037/catalog View

Robert C. Weaver collection, 1943-1967.

Title: Robert C. Weaver collection, 1943-1967.

The collection consists of one letter from Weaver to Russell Ward Ballard and two letters from Weaver to U.S. Representative Barratt O'Hara. It also contains four articles addressing civil rights issues that were written by Weaver. Weaver left the government in 1969 to become president of Bernard Baruch College of the City University of New York and from 1970 to 1978 was professor of Urban Affairs at Hunter College. His other publications include The Urban Complex (1964) and Dilemmas of Urban America (1965).

ArchivalResource: 0.25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57419297 View