Papers, ca. 1822-1896.

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Papers, ca. 1822-1896.

Papers include correspondence with James Callahan, editor of "The labor enquirer," Elihu Finnie of the Leeds Liberal Association, Samuel Gompers, Judson Grenell, Burnette Haskell, Joseph Labadie, Alcander Longley, Dyer Lum, and others. Articles and essays are primarily on socialism and labor, but also on aerial navigation, perpetual motion, and farmers; accounts and receipts; a Knights of Labor dues book; an announcement of an Anti-Monopoly Convention; newspaper clippings; photos; and memorabilia. Also included are notes by Agnes Inglis about Bray and his parents; printed biographical articles about Bray; photocopy of part of his utopian tract; photocopy of his diary.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7357586

University of Michigan

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Gompers, Samuel, 1850-1924

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Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) was President of the American Federation of Labor and a member of the President's First Industrial Conference in 1919. He was a member of the President's Unemployment Conference in 1921. ...

Longley, Alcander.

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Grenell, Judson

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Detroit socialist and newspaperman. From the description of Judson Grenell papers, 1882-1930. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 66895327 From the description of Papers, 1882-1930. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34364066 From the description of [Autobiography] : typescript [1930]. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34364242 Journalist. From the description of Correspondence, with J.A. Labadie and the Labadie ...

Inglis, Agnes, 1870-1952.

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Anarchist, social worker, friend of Joseph A. Labadie, and first curator of the Labadie Collection, 1924-1952. From the description of Letters, 1932-1934, to Jack Conroy. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34363858 Anarchist, social worker, friend of J.A. Labadie, and first curator of the Labadie Collection, 1924-1952. From the description of Papers, 1909-1954. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34369551 ...

Lum, Dyer D. (Dyer Daniel), 1840-1893

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Editor of The Alarm. From the description of Letters, to George Schumm, 1887-1888. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34368841 ...

Finnie, Elihu.

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Haskell, Burnette G., 1857-1907

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Burnette Gregor Haskell was born in Downieville, California, June 11, 1857. A printer and attorney, in 1882 he abandoned the Republican Party, embraced socialism, and began publishing the International Workingmen's Association journal Truth. He organized (1882) the Socialist Labor Party in San Francisco, and on the Pacific coast, the Knights of Labor, as well as the Sailors' Union (1885), Musicians', and other unions. Haskell married Anna Fader about 1883. A founder of the short-lived Marxist Ka...

Labadie, Jo, 1850-1933

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Detroit anarchist printer, early labor leader, editor, writer on social and economic reform, and donor of the nucleus of the Labadie Collection. From the description of Jo Labadie papers, 1880-1931. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 68796432 From the description of Papers, 1880-1931. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34369754 Joseph Labadie (1850-1933) was an American labor organizer, anarchist, social activist, printer, publisher, essayist, ...

Bray, John Francis, 1809-1897

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John Francis Bray (1809-1897) was born in Washington in the United States, the son of a singer and comedian who was descended from West Riding farmers and cloth manufacturers. In 1822 the Bray family returned to Leeds. When his father died a few days following the family's return to Yorkshire Bray stayed with his aunt who was a milliner. During the 1820s he became apprenticed to a printer and bookbinder in Pontefract, West Yorkshire. He later moved to Selby, North Yorkshire to complete his appre...