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Industrial Workers of the World

 Organization

Found in 6 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

Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company records

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Kerr
Abstract

Business records (financial, stock, and customer order files), manuscripts, author information, and publishing, production, and promotion information for the Charles H. Kerr Company, the oldest labor and socialist publishing house in the United States. The collections also includes some information about The Socialist Party, The Proletarian Party, unions, and radical organizations, primarily in the United States.

Dates: 1885-1999

Franklin and Penelope Rosemont collection of IWW publications and ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: Case-folio-HD-8055
Abstract

Publications, official documents, song books, and other materials created by and related to the Industrial Workers of the World, an historic union and labor organization.

Dates: 1905-2005; Majority of material found within 1905 - 1935

Franklin Rosemont-Haymarket research papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Rosemont-Haymarket
Abstract

Research notes, photocopies, drafts, proofs, photographs, and correspondence comprising the papers used to research and produce the Haymarket Scrapbook, edited by Franklin Rosemont and Dave Roediger (Charles H. Kerr Pub. Co., 1986). Also materials related to the activities commemorating the centennial of the 1886-1887 Haymarket Affair.

Dates: 1975-2009; Majority of material found within 1980-1993

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

Joseph Giganti papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Giganti
Abstract

Papers and photographs pertaining to Chicagoan Joe Giganti, a labor defense activist who served as the Chairman of the Board of the Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company. The collection includes 1930s periodicals, documents, and ephemera of Communist and Socialist groups in Chicago, New York, Italy, and elsewhere. Also included are Giganti's University papers, a file on Giorgio del Vecchio, an audio recording of Giganti, and a photograph album, which features Joe's wife, Rose.

Dates: 1917-1986; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1950

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  • Subject: Manuscripts, American X
  • Subject: Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago X

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Correspondence 3
Photographs 3
Haymarket Square Riot, Chicago, Ill., 1886 2
Labor movement -- United States -- History -- 20th century 2
Manuscripts 2
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Periodicals 2
Socialism -- 20th century 2
Albums (Books) 1
Anarchism 1
Anarchism -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century 1
Anarchism -- United States -- History -- 19th century 1
Anarchism -- United States -- History -- 20th century 1
Anarchists 1
Anarchists -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century 1
Audiocassettes 1
Chicago (Ill.) 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 20th century 1
Communist parties 1
Contracts 1
Direct action 1
Facsimiles (reproductions) 1
Fliers (printed matter) 1
Haymarket Martyr's Monument (Forest Park, Ill.) 1
Labor -- History 1
Labor and globalization 1
Labor literature -- United States 1
Labor union locals 1
Labor union rules 1
Labor unions -- Jurisdictional disputes 1
Labor unions -- United States -- History -- 20th century 1
Newspaper clippings 1
Newspapers 1
Pamphlets -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1901-1950 1
Pamphlets -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1951-2000 1
Pamphlets -- United States -- 1901-1950 1
Pamphlets -- United States -- 1951-2000 1
Periodical editors 1
Photographs -- Illinois -- 1901-1950 1
Photographs -- Illinois -- 1951-2000 1
Printed ephemera -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Printers -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Printing -- Illinois -- History 1
Proofs (printed matter) 1
Publishers and publishing 1
Publishers and publishing -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century 1
Publishing industry -- United States -- Records and correspondence 1
Radicalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century 1
Reports 1
Sacco-Vanzetti Trial, Dedham, Mass., 1921 1
Songbooks -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Strikes and lockouts -- United States 1
Women anarchists 1
Working class writings 1
World War, 1939-1945 1
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