Ralph Albertson papers 1880-1974 1880-1951

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Ralph Albertson papers 1880-1974 1880-1951

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1752

The papers consist of correspondence, writings, personal files, and photographs documenting Ralph Albertson's professional career. The most substantive portion of the collection is comprised of published and unpublished writings on various topics, including religion and the cooperative movement. The writings include novels, plays, articles, and books. There are also noteworthy photographs of Russia and the Siberian front, 1917-1918.

4 linear feet

eng,

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6351631

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Albertson, Ralph.

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Ralph Albertson was born in Jamestown, New York, in 1866. He studied at Oberlin College and Theological Seminary and in 1891 he was ordained as a Congregationalist minister. Four years later he left the ministry to found the Christian Commonwealth of Georgia, a utopian society based on the principles of Christian Socialism. After the dissolution of this community in 1900, he founded a new utopian venture in rural Massachusetts, known as The Farm. Albertson was also the editor of var...