Thompson, Fred, 1900-1987
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1900 - 1987
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
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- Correspondence 2
- Photographs 2
- Chicago (Ill.) 1
- Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 20th century 1
- Contracts 1
- Direct action 1
- Fliers (printed matter) 1
- Labor and globalization 1
- Labor literature -- United States 1
- Labor movement -- United States -- History -- 20th century 1
- Labor union locals 1
- Labor union rules 1
- Labor unions -- Jurisdictional disputes 1
- Labor unions -- United States -- History -- 20th century 1
- Manuscripts 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
- 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
- Socialism -- 20th century 1
- Songbooks -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Strikes and lockouts -- United States 1
- Working class writings 1 + ∧ less
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