Henry Dumont and Nina Webster Dumont Papers 1905-1943 (bulk 1930-1936)

London, Charmian (Clara Charmian Kittredge), 1871-

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Charmian Kittredge was born in Southern California and educated at home, developing excellent secretarial skills. A free spirit and devoted traveller, she married Jack London in 1905. The two shared an adventurous life of travel until London's death in 1916. Charmian wrote fiction, travel books, and biography, including the two-volume Book of Jack London. She was an intriguing personality in her own light, and a devoted promoter of Jack London's works. From the description of Charmia...

Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968

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Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1878. Sinclair was an American author, novelist, journalist, and political activist who wrote many books in several genres. He is most well-known for his exposé, The Jungle regarding conditions in Chicago's meat packing plants, which influenced the passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906. Much of Sinclair's writing was related to the economic and social conditions of the early twentieth century. He was heavily in...

Mencken, H.L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956

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Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956), was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Mencken, known as the "Sage of Baltimore", is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the 20th century. Mencken worked as a reporter and drama critic for the Baltimore Morning Herald from 1899 to 1906. From 190...

Routhwaite, Mary Isabelle Sterling

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Seymour, George Steele

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Poet. From the description of The taxpayer's lament : typescript poem, circa 1943. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980768 ...

Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945

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Theodore Dreiser was an American literary naturalist and author of two of the most significant works of early twentieth-century American fiction, SISTER CARRIE (1900) and AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY (1925). From the description of The mercy of God : manuscript, [1900-1945?] / by Theodore Dreiser. (Peking University Library). WorldCat record id: 63051908 Editor and author. From the description of Theodore Dreiser papers, 1910-1930. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71009534 ...

London, Charmian

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Business Men's Art Club of New York

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Pacific Coast Borax Company

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In 1872, Francis Marion Smith discovered borate near his cabin in Teel's Marsh, Nevada, founding the Pacific Coast Borax Company. In 1891, the focus of the company shifted to Death Valley from Teel's Marsh, as disclosed in correspondence to Teel's Marsh superintendent J.H. Strachan. From the description of Pacific Coast Borax Company letters : TLS, 1891-1892. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 56712941 ...

Business Men's Art Club of San Francisco

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Business Men's Art Club of Chicago

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Gregory, Alice Chrystal Sterling

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Dumont, Henry, 1878-1942

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Businessman, author, and poet. Married Nina Webster, statistician for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and other federal and state agencies. From the description of Henry Dumont and Nina Webster Dumont papers, 1905-1943 (bulk 1930-1936). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980076 Biographical Notes Henry Dumont 1878, Mar. 17 Born...

Sterling, George, 1869-1926

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California poet. From the description of Papers of George Sterling [manuscript] 1910-27. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647944409 American poet. From the description of To Ruth Chatterton : typed poem signed, n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122445441 From the description of Letter, San Francisco, Ca. to Norbert Hyatt, Hartford, Ct. [manuscript] 1922 March 5. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647944413 George Sterli...

McDevitt, William

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Markham, Virgil, 1899-

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Dumont, Nina Webster, 1887-1953

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Biographical Notes Henry Dumont 1878, Mar. 17 Born, San Francisco, Calif. 1897 1899 Office boy, Pacific Coast Borax Co., San Francisco, Calif. 1899 ...

Bender, Albert M. (Albert Maurice), 1866-1941

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Prominent 19th Century poet and social activist. Born Charles From the description of Letter,1925 October 7, New York City [to] Mr. [Edwin Markham], Poet of my heart [Staten Island] / Albert M. Bender. 1925. (Wagner College). WorldCat record id: 43935480 From the description of Letter,1926 April 5, New York City [to] Mr. [Edwin Markham], Poet [Staten Island] / Albert M. Bender. 1926. (Wagner College). WorldCat record id: 43935496 From the description of Letter,1922 ...

Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942

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German-born American photographer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to [Isadora Duncan], [1915 or later]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 501196416 From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to [Isadora Duncan], Tuesday [ca. 1915]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 501196335 Photographer and pioneer in dance photography. From the description of Correspondence and writings, 1928-1942. (New York Public Library). Worl...

United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics

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The need for the collection of labor statistics was recognized by Congress in 1884 when it established the Bureau of Labor in the Department of the Interior. In 1913 the Bureau was transferred to the newly created Department of Labor under the title Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Commissioner is nominated by the President of the United States. He has advisory committees from labor and management to provide him with practical advice in the preparation and publication of statistics t...