Charles H. Kerr Company
Organization
Found in 3 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
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
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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- 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.) -- Newspapers 1
- Contracts 1
- Dissertations -- 1951-2000 1
- Fliers (printed matter) 1
- Labor and globalization 1
- Labor union rules 1
- Manuscripts 1
- Periodical editors 1
- Photocopies -- 1951-2000 1
- Publishers and publishing -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century 1
- Publishing industry -- United States -- Records and correspondence 1
- Reports 1
- Socialism -- 20th century 1
- Socialism -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Socialism -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
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