Papers, 1943-1989.

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Papers, 1943-1989.

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Papers of Hart, a prominent Wisconsin socialist known for his numerous campaigns for elective office. Included are correspondence; biographical clippings (on microfilm); records of thirteen of his 25 unsuccessful election campaigns and the 1976 Presidential campaign of Frank Zeidler; subject files; photographs; transcripts of radio commentaries broadcast by WHA and WBOO and other speeches and writings; and records about Hart's leadership of the Socialist Party of Wisconsin and the Labor and Farm Party. Records of the LFP include minutes, platforms, and correspondence; Socialist records include correspondence and incidental administrative documents, with the majority dating from 1978, the year in which Hart resigned from the Socialist Party-USA. Prominent correspondents include Dennis Boyer, Virgil Vogel, and Frank Zeidler. Correspondence from Norman Thomas includes a recording of a 1964 greeting to Wisconsin socialists. Photographs include images of Hart, views of Badger Village where the Harts resided in the 1940s, views of a civil rights sit-in protest at the Wisconsin State Capitol in 1961-1962, and images of a press conference by Hart at the Capitol in 1976.

1.4 c.f. (4 archives boxes and 1 oversize folder),1 reel of microfilm (35mm),1 tape recording, and17 photographs.

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6925959

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Virgil J. Vogel was a professor at Truman College, who specialized in American Indian history, the history of medicine, and the origins of American place names. In the early 1980s, Vogel was involved in the revitalization of the Charles H. Kerr Company, a publisher of leftist political tracts, based in Chicago since 1886. From the description of Virgil Vogel papers, 1936-1990. (Chicago History Museum). WorldCat record id: 717316756 Chicago professor and author of books on Am...

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Hart, William Osborne

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Socialist Party of Wisconsin.

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Thomas Norman Mattoon, 1884-1968

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Socialist Party of the United States of America

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Zeidler, Frank P.

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