Papers, 1852-1982; (bulk 1867-1911)

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Papers, 1852-1982; (bulk 1867-1911)

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Business and personal letters written to Charles Allen between 1867 and 1911 by friends, business associates, political and labor figures and those interested in local history. Many center on Allen's work with the Riverside Press and H.O. Houghton & Company. Of particular interest is a scrapbook of letters labeled "Valuable letters and papers, 1852-1909" that includes letters from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Joshua L. Chamberlain, William Dean Howells and William Lloyd Garrison among others. Collection also contains correspondence, pamphlets and leaflets from various labor organizations including Cambridge Typographical Union, Boston Typographical Union and Knights of Labor.

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Knights of Labor

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Labor organization. From the description of Minutes, 1886. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122536651 From the guide to the Knights of Labor minutes, 1886, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Organized in Philadelphia in 1869 as a general labor organization to protect and promote American laborers. One of ther goals was to prohibit the importation of foreign labor under contract. In 1880's, California's local Assemblies worked to ban use of Chinese immigrants and to pr...

Boston Typographical Union No. 13 (Boston, Mass.)

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Cambridge Typographical Union (Cambridge, Mass.)

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Portland Typopgraphical Union (Portland, Me.)

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H.O. Houghton & Company.

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Allen, Charles Edwin, 1839-1911

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Charles Edwin Allen was born in Sanford, Maine, Oct. 26, 1839. Allen worked as a printer and compositor for the Morning Star, a newspaper in Dover, N.H., the Eastern Argus in Portland, Maine, and the Boston Journal before being employed as a proofreader and compositor at the Riverside Press in Cambridge, Mass. He then worked as a bookkeeper and cashier at H.O. Hougton & Company. Allen moved to Dresden, Maine in 1874. There he wrote a history of Dresden and various articles for newspapers and...

Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.)

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