Papers, 1884, 1898-1963.

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Johnson, Albert Aaron, 1880-1963. Papers, 1884, 1898-1963.

Papers, 1884, 1898-1963.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173701623

Papers of an agricultural economist and educator and authority on the developing Soviet Union of the 1920s and 1930s. His activities included heading Long Island's Farmingdale Institute, being the commercial representative for several U.S. businesses in the Soviet Union, writing about the Soviet Union, patenting improvements to railroad cars, founding the Buy American Institute in 1938, and promoting research and education in psychic phenomena, particularly spiritualism. The collection contains fragmentary documentation of all these activities and consists of correspondence, writings including diaries and notes, patent records, genealogical information, and expense records and other materials concerning his trips to the Soviet Union. Extensive family correspondence includes letters written while serving with the military in the Philippines during and after the Spanish-American War, letters between Mr. and Mrs. Johnson and their son Albert R., and a 1926 letter from J. C. Penney reminiscing about his youth and his beginnings in the department store business. The photographs are from a 1923 tour by Johnson and a Congressional party to observe agricultural conditions in the Soviet Union and Poland. Images include portraits, townscapes, and landscapes. The processed portion of this collection is summarized above and described in the register. Additional accessions are described below.

2.2 c.f. (5 archives boxes, 1 oversize folder) and742 photographs (2 albums in 2 boxes); plusadditions of 649 photographs,149 negatives, and2 pieces of ephemera.

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project