Papers, 1885-1974.

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Papers, 1885-1974.

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Incomplete papers of a social activist, translator, and librarian active in a variety of areas, including correspondence, mainly with his mother Sarah, two of his three wives, and his daughter Sidney; his mother's diaries; brief financial papers; notebooks; a scrapbook; and a subject file documenting his many-faceted career and interests. Also present are files on his translations of works by Marcel Proust and Maxence van der Meersch, and concerning his work at the Library of Congress and his support of Margaret Sanger's birth control campaign, the Industrial Workers of the World, and the Southern Conference Educational Fund.

2.8 c.f. (7 archives boxes); plusadditions of 100 photographs,17 negatives, and2 drawings.

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Southern Conference Educational Fund

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Library of Congress

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Meersch, Maxence van der, 1907-1951

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Blossom, Sarah Zenk

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Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922

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Blossom, F. A. (Frederick Augustus), 1878-

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Nearing, Scott, 1883-1983

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Industrial Workers of the World

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Stuyvesant, Elizabeth.

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