Skip to main content

Industrial Workers of the World

 Organization

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Carolyn Ashbaugh Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Ashbaugh
Abstract

Includes correspondence, memoranda, notes, cassette tapes of interviews, etc., for Carolyn Ashbaugh's biography of Lucy Parsons, published by the Charles H. Kerr Co. for the Illinois Labor History Society in 1976.

Dates: 1970-1976

Fred Thompson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Thompson
Abstract Correspondence, writings, publications, photographs, etc. of Fred W. Thompson, I.W.W. official and historian, and president of the Charles H. Kerr Company. A radical in his native Canada, Thompson came to the United States in 1922 and joined the I.W.W. He remained an active member for over 65 years. In the 1970s, he joined a Kerr Publishing Company rescue effort. There is considerable correspondence with Wobblies, some addressed to Franklin H. Rosemont, and also photographs of union...
Dates: 1915-1997; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1985

Filtered By

  • Subject: Correspondence X
  • Subject: Chicago (Ill.) X

Additional filters:

Subject
Anarchism 1
Audiocassettes 1
Chicago (Ill.) 1
Haymarket Square Riot, Chicago, Ill., 1886 1
Labor and globalization 1