Rand School Archives Collection on Upton Sinclair
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Upton Sinclair (September 20, 1878 - November 25, 1968) was a socialist and the author of The Jungle (1906), an expose of dangerous and unsanitary working conditions in the Chicago stockyards, who, in 1934, ran for governor of California on the Democratic Party ticket, basing his campaign around the slogan "End Poverty in California" (EPIC). The collection includes correspondence and manuscripts by Sinclair, bibliographies of his writings, as well as critical essays relating to his life and work.
Historical/Biographical Note
Upton Sinclair (September 20, 1878 - November 25, 1968) was a socialist and author of books such as Manassas (1904) and The Jungle (1906), the latter becoming a world famous expose of dangerous and unsanitary working conditions in the Chicago stockyards, and which helped bring about the passage, later that year, of two federal laws, the Pure Food and Drug Act, and the Meat Inspection Act. In 1934, he ran for governor of California on the Democratic Party ticket, basing his campaign around the slogan "End Poverty in California" (EPIC).
Arrangement
The papers are organized into one alphabetically arranged series.
Scope and Content Note
The collection includes correspondence and manuscripts by Sinclair, bibliographies of his writings, as well as critical essays relating to his life and work, including "Hercules Cleaning the Augean Stables with a Toothbrush," by Karl Radek, 1934, commenting on Sinclair's recent nomination as the Democratic candidate for the Governor of California.
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Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archive has no information about copyright ownership for this collection and is not authorized to grant permission to publish or reproduce materials from it. Materials in this collection, which were created in 1911-1964, are expected to enter the public domain in 2084.
Preferred Citation
Published citations should take the following form: Identification of item, date; Collection name; Collection number; box number; folder number; Tamiment Library, New York University Libraries.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Materials found in collection; provenance is unknown. The accession number associated with this collection is 1963.024.
Custodial History
The materials in this collection were assembled by the library of the Rand School of Social Science (later the Tamiment Institute and Library). In 1963, members of the People's Education Camp Society, Inc. transferred the collection to the Tamiment Library at New York University in 1963. The accession number associated with this gift is 1963.024
