Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Michael Reid Anti-Fascism Collection
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Reid
Abstract
Appeals, calls to action, declarations, newspapers, notes, notices, poems, and resolutions by a variety of anti-fascist organizations in Chicago and United States that formed after Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. Groups such as the Chicago Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism, the Provisional United Front Anti-Fascist Committee (Chicago), the National Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism (New York City, New York), the International Relief Committee for Victims of Hitler...
Dates:
1933-1934
Michael Reid Maxwell Bodenheim Collection
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Bodenheim
Abstract
Letters, documents, photographs, drawings, and works by and regarding the poet and novelist Maxwell Bodenheim, a literary figure in Chicago (where he befriended and collaborated with Ben Hecht) and in New York City's Greenwich Village. Includes Bodenheim's letters to Alfred Kreymborg, his wife Minna, and his son Solbert. Also other letters and condolence notes, clippings and police documents regarding Bodenheim's 1928 arrest, photographs, an original pencil portrait, the first issue of New...
Dates:
1928-1954