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Series I: Papers, 1888-1971, inclusive

Nelson Frank Papers, 1931-1972, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Extent

0 Linear Feet

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Personal correspondence, 1931-1966; Fred Woltman (World-Telegram) correspondence; Committee for the Nation's Health; Red spy stories; Spy story: chapter for a possible book; clippings by and about NF; Notes and stories on espionage, including Elizabeth Bently; Harry Belafonte research file; Labor movement research notes; Senate Internal Security Committee documents; Various autographs of prominent figures, congressmen etc. collected by Frank; Frank's WPA ID card, City Projects Council ID card, International Labor Defense membership card, other various material related to his involvement with these organizations, and 3 unidentified photographs.

Nelson Frank Papers, 1940-1965, inclusive

Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

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Frank story on Russian tariff and relief food shipments, 1940s, some correspondence; Waste paper handling during WWII, series of Frank stories; Notes, unrelated to other material; New York Toiler, 19871; Frank: misc. articles, 1940s-1950s; Frank: bio/historical sketches of 19th century U.S. labor, socialist progressive individuals and organizations; NF correspondence, 1946-1965; NF articles on Theodore Kheel, JFK; Newspaper clippings: 1947, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952.

Nelson Frank Papers, 1953-1954, inclusive

Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

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Files of Newspaper clippings(1953-1954); Correspondence and clippings regarding the FBI.

Nelson Frank Papers, 1930s-1960s, inclusive

Box: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

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Newspaper clippings: the CIA, Cuba, Spies, the Kennedys, Communist organizations, American China policy, the Foreign Policy Association, Maxwell S. Stewart, Telford Taylor, Faculty of Social Science; National Committe to Combat Anti-Semitism.

Nelson Frank Papers, 1930s-1960s, inclusive

Box: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

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Trials against pro-Communist figures; U.S.S.R; Communist (Commie) Party; Marxian Theory; Fascism-Nazism, Italy and Germany; Book Reviews on Russia, CPUSA and Unionism; O'Dwyer and Reds in 1945 NYC Mayoral Campaign; 1940s, Russia and U.S. Army; Fascists: U.S. Native Groups; Nuremburg Trials, Mikhail Shastakovitch[?]; Russia: 1946 and after, and American Relations; Socialist party; Russo-German War; Accusation against Office of War Information of including reds in anti-fascist front; Reader's Digest clippings; Reds in unionism; Russian foreign affairs; John Reed; Upton Sinclair and other personalities; Marx; Personalities: Clarence Darrow, Samuel Gompers, etc.; the Daily Worker clippings.

Nelson Frank Papers, 1930s-1960s, inclusive

Box: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

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International and U.S.S.R.; War clippings and notices; John Altigeld and others; Communism and the atomic bomb; 1940s: Palestine; U.S.S.R.; CPUSA Clippings; CPUSA: back to Marx; CPUSA; New Masses and Daily Worker; CPUSA Policy; American Youth Congress and Soviet Union students.

Nelson Frank Papers, 1930s-1960s, inclusive

Box: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

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Comintern and Communist Party; CP: [illegible] and Policy; Communist Radicals; CP Trials; UAW-CIO: Clippings, Correspondence, bios of union leaders; Union picketing and legal opinions; labor newspaper clippings; News clippings on Dr. Jerome Davis and Labor Unions; Victor Riesel; rackets in various unions; CIO Publications; Labor, early 20s and 30s; Communist Party, AFL-CIO, Carbon 1921, S. Gompers letter; correspondence on Distributive, Processing, and Office Workers Union and C.P. affiliation; Union activities and communists; Eugene Syms: books; Communism in trade unions; Communism and Socialism: Unionism materials; Africa (NF?); Unions and government action; William Green: AFL and Russian connections; Workers Party, unionism/radical groups; American Communications Association; Telegraphers Union story.

Nelson Frank Papers, 1950s-1960s, inclusive

Box: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

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Newspaper clippings, 1940s and 1950s; Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union's communist ties, 1950s; Welfare and Union material; Department of Labor press releases, correspondence; union and organized labor publications; Transportation Union; 1952 AFL Convention; news clippings, pamphlets and mailings related to the NAACP; news clippings and other print pieces regarding government figures, communists, Linus Pauling, and Herbert Hoover Jr.; Printed materials regarding Democratic and Republican presidential candidates; 1960 Presidential election material; J.F.K and Nixon election materials, and reports on Kennedy's private life; Robert Kennedy; Lyndon Johnson; Story on suspected Communists in the New York City Housing Authority; local New York election materials (1960s); Lee Pressman; newsclippings about Hollywood figures.

Nelson Frank Papers, 1943-1969, inclusive; 1947-1959, bulk

Box: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

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Background material for the 7th Biennial Textile Workers Union of America; CIO Convention; newsclippings and union publications about the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, and a change in the union's leadership; Printed materials regarding Textile Workers Union; Correspondence: Louise Waldman, Longshoremens Union; International Brotherhood of Teamsters material focusing on Dave Beck; Politics and unions; International Longshoremens Association: clippings, newsletters, releases; National Maritime Union: clippings, newsletters, releases; National Lawyers Guild; National Maritime Union; Bakery Union.

Nelson Frank Papers, 1913- 1950s, inclusive

Box: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

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Dinner programs and related materials; Printed materials on alcoholism; Clippings on science; "Common Cause" notes, story; The Svetlana [Stalin's daughter] Memoirs; Clippings on crime, the mafia; Stories about the Communist Party in the U.S.; Printed materials on communist sabotage; Clippings, including from The People (Socialist Labor Party); Reports and correspondence regarding the Socialist Labor Party; Information from clipppings and releases on U.S. soviet organizations and supporters; Pro-communist publications and leftist flyers, etc.; Foreign publications; Printed materials about anti-communist and anti-Soviet groups; Materials on fascism and Germany; Piece on Tokyo Rose.

Nelson Frank Papers, 1930s-1960s, inclusive

Box: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

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Freedom House materials; printed materials on peace groups, Vietnman, Cuba and the women's movement; Spanish Civil War and Franco; printed materials by and about Upton Sinclair; Nelson's notes and memos on suspected Soviet spies and Eizabeth Bentley; Taylor Kent, correspondence; clippings about spies and Alger Hiss / Whittaker Chambers; clippings on Russian agents in U.S. government; printed material on the Rosenbergs; grand jury indictment Rudolf Abel; clippings, grand jury idictments about Robert Soble, Dodd Sterns, the Zlatovskis.

Nelson Frank Papers, 1950s-1970s, inclusive

Box: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

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Clippings on spy stories, electronic monitoring, codes; Clippings and other print material on Soviet espionage in the U.S. and at the U.N.; Clippings on Gary Powers etc.; Spies: Gary Powers' flight; Clippings and stories on spies, intelligence information; Nelson's notes, stories and clippings on possible communist spies; Clippings on Russian spy efforts, U-2 flights; Stories on Solzhenitsyn and other Soviet emmigrants; Clippings on Russian/U.S. spies; clippings on spies, with an international theme; Clippings on Red Defectors; clippings, Canadian 'affairs' booklets, Notes on atomic secrets and spying; book reviews, New Yorker article, and clippings on Soviet/Sweden spying; Americans syping for Russia; clippings on Soviet trials of spies, escaped agents; clippings on spy cases in Germany, France and Israel.

Nelson Frank Papers, 1930s-1950s, inclusive

Box: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

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American Labor Party; clippings on Blue Cross; article on Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union; Carlo Tresca; Jay Lovestone; Tom Mooney, Benjamin Gitlow; Sacco and Vanzetti; Cafe Society and Barney Josephson; American Peace Mobilization, etc.; Red Channels, Counterattack; Jewish Groups; Norman Thomas correspondence; Communist Youth, Labor Youth League; International Workers Oorder; RFF 51; RJG 45; RFG 42.

Nelson Frank Papers, 1940s-1960s, inclusive

Box: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

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Clippings on Soviet Spies around the world; WBAI; Clippings on various unions; Building Trades; Morton Sobell; Soviet Affairs Analysis documentsl; Commies in CIO; Browder, ex[pulsion from?] CP; Browder (cont.); Free Browder campaign.

Nelson Frank Papers

Box: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

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Maxwell S. Stewart; Mrs. Earl Browder; CPUSA History; IWW; CIO: Eight U.S. Commies; Trotsky-Jacson; Senate etc. Committes; May Day.

Nelson Frank Papers, 1940s-1970s, inclusive

Box: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

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Martin Dies Committe; Lists of [Communist] Fronts; Socialist Party and League for Induatrial Democracy; Socialist publications; Orlemanski clippings; Otepka; PM; Assorted columns; Clippings on China; Hanns Eisler clippings and biographical information; Clippings and pamphlets involving William Gailmor;UAW; Notes and clippings on Communists in American labor organizations; League of American Writers; Morton Sobell; Misc. clippings on CIO; Clippings: Daily Worker, etc.; Politics; Anti-Nazi/German print material; Communist people, Fellow Traveler fronts.

Nelson Frank Papers

Box: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

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Peoples Council of America for Democracy and Peace, and misc.; Press releases regarding Communism and trade unionism; Unions; Socialist Party Organizations; AFL-Theater and Music Unions; Clippings on unemployment, pensions, etc; Publications analyizing Communist activity in the U.S.; Soviet fronts; Meyer Levin.

Nelson Frank Papers, 1930s-1970s, inclusive

Box: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

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Ford Foundation; Live RIR and Cold War; CPUSA, 1972; Clifford McAvoy; Jewish Peoples Committes; War and peace; Mail, Woltman; Army-Navy; Frederic Hammer.

Nelson Frank Papers, 1930s-1960s, inclusive

Box: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

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Newspaper clippings regarding Communist activity in American groups; Clippings regarding Russians in the U.S.; National Council of American-Soviet Friendship: newsletters; American Civil Liberties Union, Ford [Foundation?], Misc.; Rosenberg II: clippings; Communists, espionage, Russia: clippings; Workers Alliance for Peace in Vietnam: clippings; Organizations: Fronts, Fellow travellers, others; Binghamton: Publicity materials, pamphlets; Newspaper Clippings; Research Institute of America: Twenty-Fifth Century; Clippings and stories of active socialists; William Donovan.

Nelson Frank Papers, 1930s-1970s, inclusive

Box: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

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Nelson Frank Clippings; World Telegram clippings, CPUSA; Clippings and other print materials regarding deportations; NF [?]; Joseph F. Suffey; Roger N. Baldwin.

Nelson Frank Papers, 1930s-1970s, inclusive

Box: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

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AFL-CIO Unity; [illegible]-CP; Fellow Traveler; CP Fellow Traveler; Obituaries: CP general front; Obits: Labor; Obits: General; Obits: Socialists, Trotskyists; Obits: HUAC, experts, friends; Press Libel: Faulk; Libel-newspapers; Newspapers: Time, etc.; Oppenheimer, Ed Teller, Atomic Energy, A-Bomb; Richard Rovere, Granville Hicks; Robert Morris, J.B. Matthews, Don Levine; Grantland Rice; American Youth for Democracy; Youth; Union Clips File.

Nelson Frank Papers, 1930s-1960s, inclusive

Box: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

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Clippings regarding Communists, unions, and espionage; Maxwell S. Stewart; Labor: Teamsters; Misc. Newspaper clippings; Literary CP, etc.; England: spies; LBJ and Walter Jenkins.

Nelson Frank Papers, 1930s-1960s, inclusive

Box: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

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Vassal; Blake; Lonsdale, Cohen; Non C, Orgs; Fronts; Amerasia; Amerasia, Few; Barghoorn; Bentley, Chambers, White, Hess, etc.; Bentley; Budenz; McSean, Petrov, etc.; Noel Field, etc.; Walter Krivitsky; Semi-CP, American Labor Party; China, Japan, Asia, etc.

Nelson Frank Papers, 1856-1970, inclusive

Box: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Creator

Frank, Tillie (Role: Donor)
Frank, Nelson, 1906-1974

Scope and Content Note

Counter-Subversives Seminar: Addresses(bound); Report on Venezuela (bound); Flyers, notices, press material regarding anti-war protests and anti-communist movements; Profile of Fred Woltman; Flyers: Peace movements and other social movements; Flyers: Peace rallies, socialist meetings, ect.; The American Forum of the Air: "Do we need a new labor legislation?"; Unsere Zeit (Basil, Switzerland): German language periodical; The International Socialist Review; Die Neue Zeit; "America Now": from The Navy League of the United States; Clippings and letters to the editor from communist newspapers; "A Catalogue of Books:" periodical; "The Problem of Police Legislation": publication; "Obsequies of Red Jacket at Buffalo": publication; "Birds and all of Nature": publication; Notes, memos and correspondence regarding communists in the United States; Notes, memos and correspondence regarding unions and communists in the United States; Publications on social ecomics, political econmy of the Left and Zionist strategy; Flyers: Peace Activists and Civil Rights information; Fortune: Hammer and Tongs:"The New C.P. Line"; Newspaper Clippings; Flyers: Anti-Imperialism, Socialist, Anti-Fascist; Peace; Agreement Between the United States and the Republic of Nicaragua; Two photo prints; Joseph Gasset, bar of music; German print materials; Centennial Book of the John Wanamaker New York Store; Correspondence; Correspondence: William Moody to Bessie; Theodore Roosevelt: booklet, newspaper clipping; Newspaper clippings; "On a Labor Faker's Trail: The Shady Record of Frank Farrington"; Communistic Infiltration in Venezuela III, issued by Anti-Soviet Inter-American Committee.

Nelson Frank Papers: Bulletin of the Joint Committee for the Defense of Revolitionists Imprisoned in Russia (Oversize), 1925, inclusive

Box: Shared Tamiment MSOS003, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
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