Leon Kramer papers, 1874-1964.

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Leon Kramer papers, 1874-1964.

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Papers, photographs, and ephemera relating to the business and political interests of Russian born, New York bookseller, Leon Kramer. From 1930, until his daughter, Jean, sold the business in 1964, Kramer's rare book business specialized in economics, the social sciences, and radical literature. The majority of the collection dates from the 1930s and 1940s. The collection contains business correspondence about orders placed with Leon Kramer Books from 1936 to 1964, a collection of booklists and catalogues issued by Kramer, photographs of the Kramer family, and a small amount of book trade ephemera. The collection also contains miscellaneous printed material produced by mainstream and radical American political parties. The bulk of the printed political material concerns a variety of American Socialist and Communist political parties. The political ephemera in the collection includes meeting announcements, party and union memberships, as well as photographs and postcards. The remainder of the collection consists of educational materials produced by workers' education organizations in the 1920s and 1930s.

2.8 cubic ft.

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, UWM Libraries

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University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, UWM Libraries

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