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Charles H. Kerr Company

 Organization

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Allen Ruff Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Ruff
Abstract

Publications and working papers of Ruff, mostly in preparation for his book "We Called Each Other Comrade": Charles H. Kerr and Company, Radical Publishers (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997). The bulk of the material is photocopied documents used in research.

Dates: 1855-1997

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

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

May Walden papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Walden-M
Abstract

Collection of May Walden, wife of Socialist publisher Charles H. Kerr from 1892 to 1904, consisting of letters, diaries, literary manuscripts, account books, clippings, photographs, memorabilia, as well as publications relating to the Socialist movement. Included in the papers are items relating to May Walden's daughter, Katharine Kerr Moore.

Dates: 1869-1972; Majority of material found within 1892-1959

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Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 4
Correspondence 2
Haymarket Square Riot, Chicago, Ill., 1886 2
Manuscripts 2
Photographs 2
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Publishers and publishing 2
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
Book catalogs -- 1851-1900 1
Book catalogs -- 1901-1950 1
Book catalogs -- 1951-2000 1
Card files -- 1951-2000 1
Chicago (Ill.) 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Newspapers 1
Correspondence -- United States -- 1851-1900 1
Correspondence -- United States -- 1901-1950 1
Depressions -- 1929 -- Florida -- Sources 1
Depressions -- 1929 -- Illinois -- Sources 1
Diaries -- United States -- 1901-1950 1
Dissertations -- 1951-2000 1
Facsimiles (reproductions) 1
Families -- Florida -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Families -- Illinois -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Haymarket Martyr's Monument (Forest Park, Ill.) 1
Labor -- History 1
Labor and globalization 1
Labor union rules 1
Manuscripts, American 1
Mothers and daughters -- Florida -- Correspondence 1
Mothers and daughters -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
Newspaper clippings 1
Newspapers 1
Periodical editors 1
Periodicals 1
Photocopies -- 1951-2000 1
Photographs -- 1851-1900 1
Photographs -- 1901-1950 1
Proofs (printed matter) 1
Publishers and publishing -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Social action -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Socialism -- 20th century 1
Socialism -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Socialism -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Socialism -- United States -- Periodicals 1
Women anarchists 1
Women social reformers -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
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