Paul Kagan utopian communities collection 1845-1980 1910-1975

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Paul Kagan utopian communities collection 1845-1980 1910-1975

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.utopia

The collection contains both primary and secondary source material accumulated by Kagan while conducting research for his book, New World Utopias: A Photographic History of the Search for Community. In addition to personal correspondence pertaining to his research, and drafts of his manuscript for the book and related writings, Kagan's collection contains letters, photographs, documents, notes, writings, and other visual material and printed material, which document 19th and 20th century utopian communities, most of which were located in California. The archives of Walter Millsap, William and Lucille Riker and John and Agnes Varian, participants in Llano del Rio and Newllano, Holy City, and Halcyon respectively, are also present. The photographic component of the archive is particularly strong: numerous original photographs taken by community members are supplemented by field photographs that Kagan took in the 1970s, as part of his research. Utopian communities represented in the collection include Llano del Rio, Newllano, Holy City, Halcyon, Fountaingrove, Icaria Speranza, Kaweah, Krotona and Ojai Valley, Pisgah Grande, Point Loma, and the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center.

Total Boxes: 56; Other Storage Formats: Oversize, 1 framed item, 9 broadside folders; Linear Feet: 29.25

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6349844

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Varian, John P.

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Riker, William E.

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Temple Home Association.

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Tassajara Zen Mountain Center (Calif.)

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Riker, William G.

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Millsap, Walter, 1886-1971

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Walter Millsap was from 1916 to 1919 an active member of the utopian Llano colony, a socialist community which moved from its original location in California to Louisiana in 1917. Millsap was trustee of United Co-Operative Industries and head of the Llano Co-Operative Association. Keikichi Akana Imamura was a salesman for Millsap's United Co-Operative Industries before World War II and an adjunct professor in Oriental languages at Yale University in the fall of 1945. ...

Kagan, Paul, 1943-

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Paul Kagan (1943-1993), photographer and author of New World Utopias. From the description of Paul Kagan utopian communities collection, 1845-1980 (bulk 1910-1975) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79724772 From the description of Paul Kagan utopian communities collection, 1845-1980 (bulk 1910-1975). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702152294 Author of the book New world utopias: a photographic history of the search for community, published in 1975. From the ...

Llano Colony (Secular community)

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Utopian socialist community formed in 1914 in Southern Calif.; moved to La. in 1917; declared bankruptcy in 1936; attempt to recover assets begun in 1959. From the description of Llano del Rio records, 1911-1969. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122642341 The Llano del Rio Co-operative Colony was incorporated in 1914 by Los Angeles attorney Job Harriman, the socialist nominee for mayor of Los Angeles in 1911. The settlement was located in California's Ant...

Tassajara Zen Mountain Center (Calif.)

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Temple Home Association.

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Perfect Christian Divine Way

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Krotona Institute of Theosophy (Ojai, Calif.)

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Point Loma theosophical society

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Varian, John

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Riker, Lucille Archives.

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Kaweah Colony

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The Kaweah Cooperative Colony, established in 1886 and inspired by Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward, was a short-lived utopian community organized in Tulare County, California. From the description of Kaweah Cooperative Colony papers, 1886-1890. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702127629 ...

Varian, Agnes Archives.

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Riker, William E.

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