Ben Josephson Papers
Josephson, Ben, 1895-1980
Josephson, Ben, 1895-1980 (Role: Donor)
The first three boxes of the collection principally contains contains personal letters, along with a few PECS and Rand School documents, a folder relating to Berthy Mailly (Treasurer of PECS), several pamphlets (most related to Camp Tamiment or the Rand School). The letters illustrate the character of Josephson's close contact with his many friends, and also his administrative duties as Director of Camp Tamiment. The last box, an unprocessed addendum donated to the Library after Josephson's death, contains a large accordion file of correspondence, a chapter length memoir, a lengthy oral history transcript of an interview conducted in several sessions sometime in the 1970s by Dorothy Swanson (then head of the Tamiment Library), a 50th birthday scrapbook of letters from friends, greeting cards, etc.
There is a preliminary folder level inventory available at the Library for the first three boxes, although researchers should be aware that the folder titles in the inventory vary somewhat from those written on the folders themselves. PLEASE DIRECT FURTHER INQUIRIES TO: tamiment.wagner@nyu.edu
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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Contains letters, and some administrative records from PECS and the Rand School, 1931-1955, inclusive
1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Contains letters, and some administrative records from PECS and the Rand School, 1955-1977, inclusive
2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Contains letters, and some administrative records from PECS, a folder on Bertha Mailly, some pamphlets, and negatives of correspondence that may be duplicates of items already in collection., 1967-1977, inclusive
3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The last box, an unprocessed addendum donated to the Library after Josephson's death, contains a large accordion file of correspondence, a chapter length memoir, a lengthy oral history transcript of an interview conducted in several sessions sometime in the 1970s by Dorothy Swanson (then head of the Tamiment Library), a 50th birthday scrapbook of letters from friends, greeting cards, etc., ca. 1930s-ca. 1970s
4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
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Camp Tamiment award, 1947
Shared Tamiment 006, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)