Guide to the Lena Morrow Lewis Papers, 1899-1951

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Guide to the Lena Morrow Lewis Papers, 1899-1951

1899-1951

Lena Morrow Lewis was a socialist activist in California and Alaska, a candidate for public office, journalist, editor of The Labor World, and worked for the release of Warren K. Billings who had been imprisoned for complicity in the July 1916 Preparedness Day parade bomb explosion in San Francisco. The papers contain correspondence, scrapbooks, unpublished writings, memorabilia and ephemera. NOTE: the collection has been microfilmed (with the exception of a few files), and researchers must use the microfilm copy (R-7124, reels 63-65).

2.5 Linear Feet in 5 manuscript boxes.

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