Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 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
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:
1877-1993
Students for a Democratic Society and 1968 Democratic Convention. Publications Collection
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-SDS
Abstract
Compiled by Chicago-based Franklin Rosemont and donated by his wife, Penelope Rosemont, this collection consists of pamphlets, wall posters, and periodicals focusing on the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the 1968 Democratic convention.
Dates:
1967-1988; Majority of material found in 1968 - 1968