Charles H. Kerr Company
Organization
Found in 3 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
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 2
- Photographs 2
- 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
- Chicago (Ill.) 1
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century 1
- Correspondence 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
- 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
- Haymarket Square Riot, Chicago, Ill., 1886 1
- Labor -- History 1
- Labor and globalization 1
- Labor union rules 1
- Manuscripts 1
- Manuscripts, American 1
- Mothers and daughters -- Florida -- Correspondence 1
- Mothers and daughters -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
- Newspapers 1
- Periodical editors 1
- Periodicals 1
- Photographs -- 1851-1900 1
- Photographs -- 1901-1950 1
- Proofs (printed matter) 1
- Publishers and publishing 1
- Publishers and publishing -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Social action -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Women social reformers -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1 + ∧ less
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