Tamiment Institute Tapes, circa 1955-1965, inclusive

Location of Materials

Most materials in this series are stored offsite and advance notice is required for use. Please contact tamiment.wagner@nyu.edu at least two business days prior to research visit. An access copy of the Anna Strunsky Walling interview is available at Bobst.; Master copies can be found in box 89; User copies can be found in box 83

Scope and Content Note

This series contains a collection of tapes held by the Tamiment Institute that predated the establishment of the Oral History of the American Left. These tapes include recordings of meetings, speeches, panel discussions, and interviews recorded during the 1950s-1960s.

"Memorial Meeting" Brazier, Dick, et al., November 18, 1960

Box: 89, audiocassette: 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D (Material Type: Audio)

Box: 83, audiocassette: 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D (Material Type: Audio)

Judge Jacob Panken, Jun 21, 1960

Box: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Box: 83, audiocassette: 2 (Material Type: Audio)

Box: 89, audiocassette: 2 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Recording regarding Meyer London.

A. Philip Randolph, undated, inclusive

Scope and Content Note

Recording of a speech.

Access audiocassette

Box: 83, audiocassette: 3 (Material Type: Audio)

Master audiocassette

Box: 89, audiocassette: 3 (Material Type: Audio)

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Duration: 16 minutes

Audio

Master audiocassette

Open reel audio

Box: 42 (Material Type: Audio)

Upton Sinclair, Oct 15, 1958, inclusive

Box: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Box: 83, audiocassette: 4 (Material Type: Audio)

Box: 89, audiocassette: 4 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Speech at a League for Industrial Democracy Meeting.

Trachtenberg, undated, inclusive

Box: 83, audiocassette: 5 (Material Type: Audio)

Box: 89, audiocassette: 5 (Material Type: Audio)

Bertram Wolfe, Jul 12, 1960, inclusive

Box: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Box: 83, audiocassette: 6 (Material Type: Audio)

Box: 89, audiocassette: 6 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Recording of a speech titled "Has the Soviet Union Changed?"

Tamiment Discussion with the Children of Norman Thomas, 1959, inclusive

Box: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Box: 83, audiocassette: 7A, 7B (Material Type: Audio)

Box: 89, audiocassette: 7A, 7B (Material Type: Audio)

Harry Fleischman regarding Norman Thomas, Apr 23, 1964, inclusive

Box: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Box: 83, audiocassette: 8 (Material Type: Audio)

Box: 89, audiocassette: 8 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Harry Fleischman on Norman Thomas: A Biography.

Norman Thomas, 1964, inclusive

Box: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Box: 83, audiocassette: 9A, 9B (Material Type: Audio)

Box: 89, audiocassette: 9A, 9B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Recording of Speech titled "The Politics of Peace."

Norman Thomas, Nov 14, 1956, inclusive

Box: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Box: 83, audiocassette: 10 (Material Type: Audio)

Box: 89, audiocassette: 10 (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Recording of a speech.

Clarence and Ruth Senior on Norman Thomas, Feb 4, 1962, inclusive

Box: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Box: 83, audiocassette: 11 (Material Type: Audio)

Box: 89, audiocassette: 11 (Material Type: Audio)

Anna Strunsky Walling, Jun 27, 1960 and Jul 19, 1960, inclusive

Box: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Box: 25, CD: Walling 1-4 (Material Type: Audio)

Box: 83, audiocassette: 12A, 12B (Material Type: Audio)

Box: 89, audiocassette: 12A, 12B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

This interview was originally taken as part of a Tamiment Institute oral history series.

Interview by Melvin Drimmer and Melvyn Dubofsky.

Audio

Anna Strunsky Walling

Industrial Workers of the World, Apr 11, 1959, inclusive

Box: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Box: 83, audiocassette: 13A, 13B (Material Type: Audio)

Box: 89, audiocassette: 13A, 13B (Material Type: Audio)

Scope and Content Note

Tamiment Institute discussion, including a memorial meeting featuring speakers Dick Brazier, Herbert Mahler, and Sam Weiner.

Industrial Workers of the World Finances and Decline, unidentified IWW REp., undated, inclusive

Box: 83, audiocassette: 14 (Material Type: Audio)

Box: 89, audiocassette: 14 (Material Type: Audio)

Frank Bohn, Mar 1958, inclusive

Box: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Recording regarding the Socialist Party, the Industrial Workers of the World from 1900-1920, and the church and socialism.

Call Association, undated

Box: 55, reel: cuid1604A, cuid1604B, cuid1604C (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

E-records: tamwag_oh002, E-records: cuid1604A, cuid1604B, cuid1604C (Material Type: electronic records)

Extent

3 sound tape reels

Dimensions

1/4"

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Format: 1/4" open reel audio, Duration: 45 min.

Audio

Call Association

Max Shactman, Dec 31, 1966, inclusive

Box: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Recording of a speech titled "The Social Development of Communism."

Antonin Souchy, Feb 29, 1960, inclusive

Box: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Sam Weiner, 1962, inclusive

Box: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Content Note

Recording regarding the Industrial Workers of the World from a WCKR Broadcast.