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Title
Mother Jones marching with striking miners at Calumet
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
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Correspondence
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Fliers (Printed matter)
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Photographs
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Records and correspondence
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Sources
Archival Collection Title
Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company records
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Midwest Manuscript Collection
Rights Status
Copyright Not Evaluated
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Contributing Institution
Newberry Library
Link to Catalog
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Call Number
Midwest MS Kerr
BibID
200620
Size
3329px × 2129px 20.32 MB
IIIF Resource Type
Canvas
File Created
06/16/2015
Filename
992006208805867_mms_kerr_bx_6_fl_97_023.tif
Unique Identifier
NL11OB1C
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