Anne Burlak Timpson Papers, 1886-2003 (bulk 1912-2003).

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Anne Burlak Timpson Papers, 1886-2003 (bulk 1912-2003).

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Papers include include correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, speeches, legal documents, photographs, printed materials, notes, scrapbooks, interviews, audiovisual materials, memorabilia, and an unfinished autobiography. They document Timpson's years as a labor organizer, social and political activist, and Communist Party official. Her early years are best documented through her autobiography and oral histories/interviews. Scrapbooks containing sketches, photographs, commentary, maps, newspaper clippings and other memorabilia document her family life and the relationships. The subject and organization files are a boon to anyone interested in the history of the Communist Party of the U.S.A. (CPUSA), as well as Timpson's involvement in the U.S. Council for International Friendship, and other peace and justice organizations. Timpson's Smith and McCarran Act indictments are well documented and there is considerable material regarding others who were indicted. Correspondence between Timpson and her brothers, Nicholas, Mike and John Burlak in the Soviet Union, as well as subject and organization files, offer a wealth of material that illuminates U.S.-Soviet relations. There is also correspondence and other material about her husband Arthur Timpson's experiences in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade as a volunteer soldier in the Spanish Civil War. Notable correspondents include Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Gus Hall, Joe Moakley, Eulalia Figueiredo Papaandreu Matusiak, Fred Whitehead, Henry Winston, and Helen and Carl Winter.

22.25 linear ft. (55 boxes; oversize materials)

Smith College, Neilson Library

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Smith College, Neilson Library

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