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Title
Slim Brundage papers, [box 06] 1955-1991
Date Created
1964-1972
Subjects
Alternative education
,
Culture Vulture (Chicago, Ill.)
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Dill Pickle Club (Chicago, Ill.)
Summary
Primarily writings and personal correspondence of Slim Brundage, together with correspondence, press releases, speaker solicitations, and poetry relating to the College of Complexes. Among Brundage's writings are several about the Dill Pickle Club, Bughouse Square, and the College, two attempts at autobiography, a novel about union politics and corruption, and a wide variety of unpublished and published newspaper articles and letters to the editor. College of Complexes materials date mainly from 1964-1972, and there are also materials relating to the Culture Vulture. Among the correspondents are friend and sometime agent Roy Alexander, and College of Complexes colleagues David Jacobson and Meta Toerber. There are also materials relating to a legal dispute with Brundage's Culture Vulture partner Theodore Zimmerman and to the writing of Brundage's memoirs by Samuel Henderson. Also includes one reel-to-reel tape labeled "Madalyn Murry - Speech, Questions and Rebuttal" (no date).
Biographical/Historical Note
During the late 1920's Brundage frequented the Dill Pickle Club, where he may have worked for a time. With this club's 1932 closing Brundage founded the first College of Complexes which lasted only a few months. He then started a hobo college, the Knowledge Box (1936-1937), operated a second College of Complexes (1951-1961), founded a similar organization called the Culture Vulture (1961-1962), and reinstated the College of Complexes in 1965. By the late 1960's Brundage began spending winters in Mexico and gradually ended his involvement with the College. He apparently moved to California in the mid-1970's and died there at the age of eighty six in 1990.
Extent
4.6 linear feet (11 boxes)
Format
Correspondence
Archival Collection Title
Slim Brundage papers
Rights Status
Copyright Not Evaluated
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Contributing Institution
Newberry Library
Projects Tag
IMLS Cares 2020
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Call Number
Midwest MS Brundage
BibID
184078
IIIF Resource Type
Manifest
IIIF Resource ID
https://collections.newberry.org/IIIF3/Presentation/Manifest/2KXJ8ZF67NWH
Filename
midwest_ms_brundage_box_006_fl_168_001
Unique identifier
NL116HNF
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Slim Brundage papers, [box 06] 1955-1991
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Slim Brundage papers, [box 06] 1955-1991
Slim Brundage papers, [box 06] 1955-1991
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Slim Brundage papers, [box 06] 1955-1991
Slim Brundage papers, [box 06] 1955-1991
Slim Brundage papers, [box 06] 1955-1991
Slim Brundage papers, [box 06] 1955-1991
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Slim Brundage papers, [box 06] 1955-1991
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