Papers, 1902-1970.

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Papers, 1902-1970.

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Correspondence, documents, manuscripts, photographs and films concerning the Llano del Rio Cooperative Colony ; New Llano (La.), and the United Cooperative Industries, Los Angeles. Some correspondence with Job Harriman, Walter Rosenow, and Upton Sinclair.

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University of California, Riverside, UCR

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University of California, Riverside, UCR

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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...

Rosenow, Walter.

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Millsap, Walter, 1886-1971

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Walter Millsap was from 1916 to 1919 an active member of the utopian Llano colony, a socialist community which moved from its original location in California to Louisiana in 1917. Millsap was trustee of United Co-Operative Industries and head of the Llano Co-Operative Association. Keikichi Akana Imamura was a salesman for Millsap's United Co-Operative Industries before World War II and an adjunct professor in Oriental languages at Yale University in the fall of 1945. ...

United Cooperative Industries.

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Llano Colony (Secular community)

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Utopian socialist community formed in 1914 in Southern Calif.; moved to La. in 1917; declared bankruptcy in 1936; attempt to recover assets begun in 1959. From the description of Llano del Rio records, 1911-1969. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122642341 The Llano del Rio Co-operative Colony was incorporated in 1914 by Los Angeles attorney Job Harriman, the socialist nominee for mayor of Los Angeles in 1911. The settlement was located in California's Ant...

Harriman, Job.

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