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Tamiment Library Manuscript Files

Call Number

TAM.245

Dates

1749-1988, inclusive
; 1910-1965, bulk

Creator

Tamiment Library
Barnett, Joshua (Role: Donor)
Robbins, Sonia Jaffe (Role: Donor)
Dirk J. (Dirk Jan) Struik, 1894-2000 (Role: Donor)

Extent

7.5 Linear Feet
in 7 record cartons, 1 manuscript box, and 1 oversized folder

Language of Materials

English .

Abstract

The Tamiment Library, founded in 1906 as the library of the Rand School of Social Science, is a special collection documenting the history of United States radicalism, labor, and progressive social action. It accumulated this artificial collection of brief manuscript files over the years. The files pertain largely to individuals, and also to organizations, events and topics, and contain correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts, as well as a few items of printed ephemera.

Historical/Biographical Note

The Tamiment Library, a special collection documenting the history of United States radicalism, labor, and progressive social action, accumulated this artificial collection of brief manuscript files over the course of its early existence. The files pertain largely to individuals, and also to organizations, events and topics, and correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts, as well as some items of printed ephemera. While most of the individuals and organizations were active in the United States, there are also files for a number of prominent European and other foreign figures and organizations represented.

Arrangement

Folders are arranged alphabetically.

Arranged alphabetically.

The files are grouped into one series:

Scope and Content Note

The collection consists largely of correspondence to and from important figures in American and European radical and labor movements, among them Angela Balabanoff, Clarence Darrow, Karl Marx, Eugene V. Debs, Fredrick Engels, J. Keir Hardie, Darlington Hoopes, Samuel Gompers and Leon Trotsky. Some letters from the files of the Tamiment Library to and from researchers are also part of the collection.

Also included in the collection are a significant number of typescripts and manuscripts (some in the form of photocopies) by political and literary figures such as David Ben-Gurion, Earl Browder, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Jack London and Mark Twain.

Ephemeral items include a receipt for a payment to V. I. Lenin in Switzerland, two documents from the French Revolution, a manifesto signed by Emiliano Zapata and early nineteenth century British broadsides. Handwritten Russian-language newsletters circulated by Palmer Raid deportees known as the "Ellis Island Bulletins" are also included in the collection.

Subjects

People

Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin), 1874-1948; Ben-Gurion, David, 1886-1973; Fitzgerald, M. Eleanor (Mary Eleanor), 1877-1955; Berger, Victor L., 1860-1929; Adamic, Louis, 1899-1951; Hillquit, Morris, 1869-1933; Sugar, Maurice, 1891-1974; Nearing, Scott, 1883-1983.; Hook, Sidney, 1902-1989; Hardie, James Keir, 1856-1915; Germer, Adolph; Browder, Earl, 1891-1973; Ghent, William J. (William James), 1866-1942; Dubinsky, David, 1892-1982.; Gerber, Julius, 1862-1916; Fleischman, Harry; Kerensky, Aleksandr Fyodorovich, 1881-1970; Hourwich, Isaac A. (Isaac Aaronovich), 1860-1924; Hoopes, Darlington, 1896-; Colón, Jesús, 1901-; Carey, James B.; Ward, Henry Frederick, 1873-1966.; Fischer, Ruth, 1895-; Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963; Dodd, Bella V., 1904-1969; Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926; Dan, F. (Fedor), 1871-1947; Crosswaith, Frank Rudolph, 1892-1965; Powderly, Terence Vincent, 1849-1924.; Poyntz, Julia Stuart, 1886-1937?; Reuther, Walter, 1907-1970; Rocker, Rudolf, 1873-1958.; Sanial, L. (Lucien), 1836-; Schneiderman, Rose, 1882-1972; Shiplacoff, A. I. (Abraham Isaac), 1877-1936; Shub, David, 1887-1973; Josephson, Ben, 1895-1980; Silone, Ignazio, 1900-1978; Stamm, Thomas; Kuczynski, Jurgen; Twain, Mark, 1835-1910; Laski, Harold Joseph, 1893-1950; Lerner, Max, 1902-1992; Mooney, Thomas J., 1882-1942; Matthews, J. B. (Joseph Brown), 1894-1966; Moyer, Charles H.; Billings, Warren K., 1893-1972; Andrews, John B. (John Bertram), 1880-1943; Bohn, William E.; O'Connor, Harvey, 1897-1987; Perkins, Frances, 1880-1965; Lamont, Corliss, 1902-1995.; Wolfe, Bertram David, 1896-1977.; Lee, Algernon; Wilkerson, Doxey Alphonso, 1905-1993.; Van Kleeck, Mary, 1883-; Zucker, Abraham.; Woll, Matthew, 1880-1956.; Barnett, Joshua (Role: Donor); Robbins, Sonia Jaffe (Role: Donor); Dirk J. (Dirk Jan) Struik, 1894-2000 (Role: Donor)

Conditions Governing Access

Materials are open without restriciton.

Use Restrictions

Because of the assembled nature of this collection, copyright status varies across the collection. Copyright is assumed to be held by the original creator of individual items in the collection; these items are expected to pass into the public domain 120 years after their creation. Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archive is not authorized to grant permission to publish or reproduce materials from this collection.

Preferred Citation

Published citations should take the following form:

Identification of item, date; Tamiment Library Manuscript Files; TAM 245; box number; folder number; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Materials in this assembled collection were either donated or found in the repository. The accession numbers associated with this collection are 1950.037, 2011.033, 2013.032, 2013.035, 2014.039, and 2014.092.

Custodial History

This is an artificially created collection, which was created through several donations over the years. Additionally a 1965 research query from Bernard K. Johnpoll to Universiteit van Amsterdam and a 1975 issue of the "Objector" from the SUNY Albany Committee to End the War in Vietnam were found in the repository and added to the collection in 2014.

Custodial History

The provenance of much of the material is unknown; the bulk of it was given to or generated by staff of the Tamiment Library in its early years, before the Library was transferred.

The materials that comprise Box 8, Folders 17 and 18 were found in the repository and added to the collection in 2014. The accession number associated with these materials is 2014.039.

Existence and Location of Copies

A small number of items are available as photocopies only, with the originals stored in the vault. This is indicated in the folder title.

Collection processed by

Hillel Arnold. Edited by Rachel Searcy in July 2013 to reflect physical rehousing of oversized materials and for compliance with DACS and Tamiment Required Elements for Archival Description.

About this Guide

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Language: Description is in English

Processing Information

Paris Commune broadsides were received by Tamiment Library in frames which were later removed by Preservation Department and rehoused in archival quality folders and boxes.

The materials that comprise Box 8, Folders 17 and 18 were found in the repository and added to the collection in 2014.

Edition of this Guide

This version was derived from Tamiment Library Manuscript Files.doc

Repository

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10012