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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

Franklin Rosemont - T-Bone Slim research collection

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Rosemont-Slim
Abstract

Original manuscript writings by noted IWW member T-Bone Slim with research notes, book drafts, and correspondence from Franklin Rosemont used to produce his book, “Juice is Stranger than Friction: Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim” (Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, 1992).

Dates: approximately 1923-1993; Majority of material found within 1934 - 1993

Franklin W. Rosemont papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Rosemont
Abstract

Book reviews, flyers, articles, photographs, letters, and periodicals stemming from Franklin Rosemont's surrealist, leftist, and labor activities, including his work at the Charles H. Kerr Company.

Dates: 1933-2010; Majority of material found within 1964-2009

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Labor movement -- United States -- History -- 20th century 3
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 3
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Labor literature -- United States 2
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Charles H. Kerr Company 3
Rosemont, Penelope 3
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926 2
Thompson, Fred, 1900-1987 2
Abrams, Irving S., 1891-1980 1