Charles H. Kerr Company
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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
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- Chicago (Ill.) 1
- Correspondence 1
- Facsimiles (reproductions) 1
- Haymarket Martyr's Monument (Forest Park, Ill.) 1
- Haymarket Square Riot, Chicago, Ill., 1886 1
- Labor -- History 1
- Labor and globalization 1
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