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Open book Mother Jones

Title Mother Jones

Creator Charles H. Kerr Company

Date 1885-1999

Place United States

Subjects Charles H. Kerr Company, Industrial Workers of the World, Proletarian Party (U.S.), Publishers and publishing, Socialist Party of the United States of America

Summary Author contracts and manuscripts, correspondence, minutes of stockholder and board of directors' meetings, subscription lists, book order information, stockholder information, photographs, clippings, printed material, and some artwork, with much of the material dating from the 1940's. Notable pre-1920 records include photographs (many published in the International Socialist Review) of well-known radicals (William H. Carwardine, Eugene V. Debs, Charles H. Kerr, Mother Jones, Carlo Tresca, Big Bill Haywood, Emil Seidel), and of strike activity mainly in the U.S. Early files also include works by Edward Bellamy, Joseph Dietzgen, Friedrich Engels, Karl Kautsky, Karl Marx, Ben Reitman, Jack Sheridan, and Fred Thompson, as well as author contracts (with minimal correspondence). Order files contain correspondence with numerous labor and socialist organizations.

Biographical/Historical Note Chicago labor and socialist publishing house founded in 1886 by Charles Hope Kerr. The firm is best known for its editions of socialist classics, including the first American Enlish language edition of Karl Marx's Das Kapital, and its periodical, the International Socialist Review. Kerr authors included such well-known radicals as Eugene Debs, Mother Jones, Jack London, Mary E. Marcy, Joe Hill, Clarence Darrow, Sen Katayama, Antonio Labriola, V.I. Lenin, Frederich Engels, Leon Trotsky, Carl Sandburg, Ralph Chaplin, and Arturo M. Giovannitti. With the retirement of Charles Kerr in 1928, John Keracher, active in socialist, communist, and Marxist organizations and a founder of the Proletarian Party, took charge and combined the offices of the Kerr Company and Proletarian Party. The firm was later managed by Al Wysocki (1953-1971); Fred Thompson, Burton Rosen, Virgil Vogel, and Irving Abrams; and Franklin and Penelope Rosemont (1983-ongoing).

Extent 35 cubic ft. (48 boxes, 1 oversize box, 17 v.)

Format Contracts, Correspondence, Fliers, Photographs, Records

Archival Collection Title Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company records, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Kerr

BibID 200620

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 4423px × 2824px 35.77 MB

File Created 06/16/2015

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Unique Identifier NL11OB1H

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