TABLE OF CONTENTS
Descriptive Summary of the Collection
History of The Charles H. Kerr Company Records
Scope and Content of the Collection
Series 1: Corporate Records, 1886-1999
Series 2: Financial Records, 1890-1983
Series 3: Author Files, 1885-1999
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Inventory of the Charles H. Kerr Company Records, 1885-1999
Machine-readable finding aid encoded by the NEH Grant Team, 2003. ©2003. |
Descriptive Summary of the Collection |
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| Creator | Charles H. Kerr Company |
| Title | Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company Records |
| Dates | 1885-1999 |
| Extent | 35 cubic ft. (48 boxes, 1 oversize box, and 17 volumes) |
| 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. |
| Language | Materials are in English. |
| Repository | Newberry Library, Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections |
| Collection Call Number | Midwest MS Kerr |
| Collection Stack Location | 3a 40 9-11 |
Administrative Information
Cite As
Charles H. Kerr Company Records, Midwest Manuscript Collection, The Newberry Library, Chicago.
Provenance
Purchase, Beasley Books, Aug. 1985; with subsequent donations.
Processed by
Martha Briggs, Alison Hinderliter, Pamela Olson, and Monica Petraglia, 2003.
Acknowledgements
This inventory was created with the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this inventory do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Access
The Charles H. Kerr Company Records are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).
Ownership and Literary Rights
The Charles H. Kerr Company Records are the physical property of the Newberry Library. Copyright may belong to the authors or their legal heirs or assigns. For permission to publish or reproduce any materials from this collection, contact the Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections.
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History of The Charles H. Kerr Company Records
The Charles H. Kerr Company, founded in Chicago in 1886 by Charles Hope Kerr, is the oldest labor and socialist publishing house in the United States. It is best known for its editions of radical classics; it was the first publisher to bring out the three volumes of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital in English, and published the International Socialist Review since its inception in 1900. Other authors whose books or contributions were published by Kerr include such well-known radical and socialist thinkers as Eugene Debs, Mother Jones, Jack London, Mary E. Marcy, Joe Hill, Clarence Darrow, Sen Katayama, Antonio Labriola, V.I. Lenin, Friedrich Engels, Leon Trotsky, Carl Sandburg, Ralph Chaplin, and Arturo M. Giovannitti.
Charles H. Kerr began his career in publishing in 1883 as an assistant editor and business manager for Unity, a monthly journal for the Western Unitarian Conference. By 1886, the interests of the Unity venture were transferred to the brand new Charles H. Kerr & Company. The new company expanded in the 1880's and 1890's to include the publication of other Unitarian-related literature, and expanded yet again at the turn of the century to start publishing populist, reform, socialist, communist, and other radical literature. When Charles Kerr retired in 1928 he left the company to be handled by John Keracher, who had been a Kerr Company board member since 1924, had been active in the past in socialist, communist, and Marxist organizations, and who was also one of the founders of the Proletarian Party. Keracher combined offices of the Kerr Company and of the Proletarian Party, and that practice was continued by his successor, Al Wysocki, when he assumed the management around 1953. The company nearly went out of existence in the late 1960's, and due to Wysocki's age and failing health, he transferred the company over to four men in 1971: Fred Thompson, Burton Rosen, Virgil Vogel, and Irving Abrams. Virgil Vogel resigned in 1973, and Joe Giganti replaced him. Burton Rosen, who was secretary and did the bulk of the day-to-day operations and office tasks, retired in 1983 and handed over operations and management to Franklin and Penelope Rosemont, who run the company to this day.
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Scope and Content of the Collection
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. Notable pre-1920 records include photographs (many published in the International Socialist Review) of well-known radicals, and of strike activity mainly in the United States.
The Proletarian Party's and Kerr Company’s records were searched by U.S. government agencies during the Palmer Raids of 1918-1921, and it is believed that many records were seized or destroyed at that time. The fate of the majority of records during the 1930's and early to mid-1940's is undetermined; the remaining records sold to the Newberry are primarily dating from the late 1940's forward.
Narrative descriptions of the subject matter, types of material, and arrangement of each series are available through the Organization section of the finding aid.
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Organization
Papers are organized in the following series:
- Series 1: Corporate Records, 1886-1999. Box(es) 1-7
- Series 2: Financial Records, 1890-1983. Box(es) 1-Vol. 17
- Series 3: Author Files, 1885-1999. Box(es) 1-10
- Series 4: Order Files, 1912-1999, . Box(es) 1-17
- Series 5: Book Production/Promotion Records,1894-1998. Box(es) 1-8
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Selected Search Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Newberry Library's public catalog. Researchers desiring additional materials on a particular topic should search the catalog using these headings.
Names
- Abrams, Irving S., 1891-1980
- C.H. Kerr Company
- Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926
- Engels, Friedrich, 1820-1895
- Giganti, Joe
- Industrial Workers of the World
- Keracher, John
- Kerr Company
- Kerr, Charles H., b. 1860
- Proletarian Party (U.S.)
- Rosemont, Franklin
- Rosemont, Penelope
- Rosen, Burton
- Socialist Party of the United States of America
- Thompson, Fred, 1900-1987
- Vogel, Virgil J.
- Wysocki, Al
Subjects
- Contracts
- Correspondence
- Fliers (printed matter)
- Manuscripts, American--Illinois--Chicago
- Photographs
- Publishers and publishing -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Publishing Industry -- United States -- Records and correspondence
- Reports
- Socialism -- 20th century.
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Container List
Series 1: Corporate Records, 1886-1999 |
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| Series includes minutes of the meetings of the Board of Directors and Stockholders, proxies, general correspondence to and from directors of the company, materials relating to officekeeping, forms, and ephemera. Incoming correspondence to the company consists of customer requests for catalogs, review copies, and inquiries about the books. It is interesting to note that a good portion of requests for free books came from people who were incarcerated, and on occasion the company did send free copies of books. At the end of this series there are substantial files of printed material from other organizations , some of which are fellow publishers, but the majority of which are labor organizations or independent organizations devoted to radical or progressive causes (such as the Socialist Party and the Proletarian Party). | |||||||||||
| Arranged into three sections: Founding Documents and Minutes, Administrative Subject Files, and Other Organizations; and alphabetically therein. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Founding Documents and Minutes - Article of Incorporation and List of Original Stockholders, 1893 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Founding Documents and Minutes - Amendment to the Articles of Incorporation, 1975 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Founding Documents and Minutes - Constitution, By-Laws, and Statement of Purpose (including drafts), 1973 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Founding Documents and Minutes - Articles of Dissolution, Serv-Well Printers (John Keracher, President), Jul. 24, 1940 | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Founding Documents and Minutes - Minutes, Board of Directors (1 copy has Kerr's signature), Jan. 15, 1908 | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Founding Documents and Minutes - Minute Book, Board of Directors and Stockholders, Jan. 16, 1922-Jan. 23, 1960 | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | Founding Documents and Minutes - Minute Book, Board of Directors and Stockholders, Jan. 14, 1961-Mar. 5, 1968 | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | Founding Documents and Minutes - Minutes, Board of Directors (incomplete), 1968-1983 | |||||||||
| 1 | 9 | Founding Documents and Minutes - Meeting Agendas, 1946, 1961, 1968 | |||||||||
| 1 | 10 | Founding Documents and Minutes - Stockholder Meetings, Notices (incomplete), 1934-1968 | |||||||||
| 1 | 11 | Founding Documents and Minutes - Stockholder Proxies, 1948 | |||||||||
| 1 | 12 | Founding Documents and Minutes - Stockholder Proxies, 1950 | |||||||||
| 1 | 13 | Founding Documents and Minutes - Stockholder Proxies, 1951 | |||||||||
| 1 | 14 | Founding Documents and Minutes - Stockholder Proxies, 1952 | |||||||||
| 1 | 15 | Founding Documents and Minutes - Stockholder Proxies, 1953 | |||||||||
| 1 | 16 | Founding Documents and Minutes - Stockholder Proxies, 1954 | |||||||||
| 1 | 17 | Founding Documents and Minutes - Stockholder Proxies, 1955 | |||||||||
| 1 | 18 | Founding Documents and Minutes - Stockholder Proxies, 1956 | |||||||||
| 1 | 19 | Founding Documents and Minutes - Stockholder Proxies, 1957 | |||||||||
| 1 | 20 | Founding Documents and Minutes - Stockholder Proxies, 1958 | |||||||||
| 1 | 21 | Founding Documents and Minutes - Stockholder Proxies, 1959 | |||||||||
| 1 | 22 | Founding Documents and Minutes - Stockholder Proxies, 1960 | |||||||||
| 1 | 23 | Founding Documents and Minutes - Stockholder Proxies, 1961 | |||||||||
| 1 | 24 | Founding Documents and Minutes - Stockholder Proxies, 1962 | |||||||||
| 1 | 25 | Founding Documents and Minutes - Stockholder Proxies, 1964 | |||||||||
| 1 | 26 | Founding Documents and Minutes - Stockholder Proxies, 1965 | |||||||||
| 1 | 27 | Founding Documents and Minutes - Stockholder Proxies, 1966 | |||||||||
| 2 | 28 | Administrative Subject Files - Agreement with Unity Publishing Cte., to publish Unity weekly, Mar. 19, 1886 | |||||||||
| 2 | 29 | Administrative Subject Files - Agreements, re: Printing Equipment, 1892-1895 | |||||||||
| 2 | 30 | Administrative Subject Files - Agreements to publish "The New Time" magazine, 1897-1898 | |||||||||
| 2 | 31 | Administrative Subject Files - Agreement, purchase of books from Wilshire Book Co., May 1908 | |||||||||
| 2 | 32 | Administrative Subject Files - Bids to acquire and/or buy the Kerr archive, 1965-1970 | |||||||||
| 2 | 33 | Administrative Subject Files - Book donations to the Kerr office, 1952, 1975 | |||||||||
| 2 | 34 | Administrative Subject Files - Burton Rosen Defense Committee, 1954, 1974 | |||||||||
| 2 | 35 | Administrative Subject Files - Chicago Typographical Union, membership etc., 1977-1983 | |||||||||
| 2 | 36 | Administrative Subject Files - Conference, North American Labor History, at Wayne State University, 1981 | |||||||||
| 2 | 37 | Administrative Subject Files - Cooper, Marguerite Debs (niece of Eugene Debs; daughter of Theodore Debs), 1972-1973 | |||||||||
| 2 | 38 | Administrative Subject Files - Customer Requests and Inquiries, 1942-1972 | |||||||||
| 2 | 39 | Administrative Subject Files - Customer Requests and Inquiries, 1973-1984 | |||||||||
| 3 | 40 | Administrative Subject Files - Director Correspondence: Kerr, Charles H., 1916 | |||||||||
| 3 | 41 | Administrative Subject Files - Director Correspondence: Keracher, John, 1937-1953 | |||||||||
| 3 | 42 | Administrative Subject Files - Director Correspondence: Wysocki, Al, ca. 1950-1970 | |||||||||
| 3 | 43 | Administrative Subject Files - Director Correspondence: Rosen, Burt, 1971-1982 | |||||||||
| 3 | 44 | Administrative Subject Files - Director Correspondence: Thompson, Fred, [n.d.], 1971-1984 | |||||||||
| 3 | 45 | Administrative Subject Files - Director Correspondence: Vogel, Virgil, [n.d.], 1970-1981 | |||||||||
| 3 | 46 | Administrative Subject Files - Director Correspondence: Giganti, Joe, 1983-1984 | |||||||||
| 3 | 47 | Administrative Subject Files - Director Correspondence: Rosemont, Franklin and Penelope, 1983-1999 | |||||||||
| 3 | 48 | Administrative Subject Files - Directors, Memorial Notices etc., [n.d.], 1980 | |||||||||
| 4 | 49 | Administrative Subject Files - forms and stationery, samples, [n.d.] | |||||||||
| 4 | 50 | Administrative Subject Files - Fundraising efforts and Donations, 1917-1984 | |||||||||
| 4 | 51 | Administrative Subject Files - Historical Research: Ruff, Allen, 1976-1981 | |||||||||
| 4 | 52 | Administrative Subject Files - Historical Summaries of the Kerr Company, correspondence and press releases, 19691-1983 | |||||||||
| 4 | 53 | Administrative Subject Files - Legal: Xerox Corporation vs. Charles H. Kerr Publishing Co., 1975 | |||||||||
| 4 | 54 | Administrative Subject Files - Library of Congress, correspondence regarding copyright, 1915-1947 | |||||||||
| 4 | 55 | Administrative Subject Files - Memberships and subscriptions, 1946-1980 | |||||||||
| 4 | 56 | Administrative Subject Files - Moore, Katherine Kerr (daughter of Charles H. and May Walden Kerr), correspondence, 1971-1979 | |||||||||
| 4 | 57 | Administrative Subject Files - Permissions - to publish, quote, translate, etc., 1946-1998 | |||||||||
| 4 | 58 | Administrative Subject Files - Speech Notes, unsigned: "May Day, 1946", ca. 1946 | |||||||||
| 4 | 59 | Administrative Subject Files - Stalcup, Alvin, correspondence, ca. 1960-1974 | |||||||||
| 5 | 60 | Other Organizations - AFL-CIO, directories, etc., [n.d.], 1980, 1992 | |||||||||
| 5 | 61 | Other Organizations - American Federation of Teachers, 1968-1972 | |||||||||
| 5 | 62 | Other Organizations - Black Maria Collective, 1975 | |||||||||
| 5 | 63 | Other Organizations - booksellers and publishers, miscellaneous, 1947-1998 | |||||||||
| 5 | 64 | Other Organizations - Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights, 1980-1981 | |||||||||
| 5 | 65 | Other Organizations - Chicago Council of American-Soviet Friendship, 1952 | |||||||||
| 5 | 66 | Other Organizations - Christ's Mission, 1945 | |||||||||
| 5 | 67 | Other Organizations - Communist Party, U.S.A., 1947 | |||||||||
| 5 | 68 | Other Organizations - Contemporary Publishers (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada), 1945-1946 | |||||||||
| 5 | 69 | Other Organizations - Engels Society, London, 1946-1948 | |||||||||
| 5 | 70 | Other Organizations - Esperanto League for North America, 1959, 1973-1974 | |||||||||
| 5 | 71 | Other Organizations - Eugene V. Debs Foundation, 1973-1976 | |||||||||
| 5 | 72 | Other Organizations - Facts for Women, 1945-1946 | |||||||||
| 5 | 73 | Other Organizations - Free Economy Publishing Co., (Freedom and Plenty, San Antonio, TX), 1945 | |||||||||
| 5 | 74 | Other Organizations - Hoehne, Val T., 1948 | |||||||||
| 5 | 75 | Other Organizations - Hornet, The, 1945-1946 | |||||||||
| 5 | 76 | Other Organizations - Illinois Labor History Society, General, [n.d.], 1970-1984 | |||||||||
| 5 | 77 | Other Organizations - Illinois Labor History Society, Reviews and Publications, ca. 1976-1980 | |||||||||
| 5 | 78 | Other Organizations - Illinois Old Age Pension Union, 1948 | |||||||||
| 5 | 79 | Other Organizations - Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.), [n.d.], 1936-1984 | |||||||||
| 6 | 80 | Other Organizations - Institute of Human Fellowship ("Free Mind"), 1944-1946 | |||||||||
| 6 | 81 | Other Organizations - Institute for Independent Social Journalism (The Guardian), 1986-1988 | |||||||||
| 6 | 82 | Other Organizations - International Labor Press Association, 1974 | |||||||||
| 6 | 83 | Other Organizations - Kent Popular Press, 1976 | |||||||||
| 6 | 84 | Other Organizations - Kourambis, Nicholas - Handbook for Active Rank and File Trade Unionists, 1977 | |||||||||
| 6 | 85 | Other Organizations - The Labor Herald, 1973-1974 | |||||||||
| 6 | 86 | Other Organizations - Labor Newspaper, 1973-1975 | |||||||||
| 6 | 87 | Other Organizations - Morrison, C.L. [self-published newsletter], 1945 | |||||||||
| 6 | 88 | Other Organizations - New American Movement, 1973 | |||||||||
| 6 | 89 | Other Organizations - News and Letters (Detroit, MI), 1976 | |||||||||
| 6 | 90 | Other Organizations - The Progressive, 1973-1974 | |||||||||
| 6 | 91 | Other Organizations - Proletarian Party of America, [n.d.], 1944-1976 | |||||||||
| 6 | 92 | Other Organizations - Rationalist Society, 1955 | |||||||||
| 6 | 93 | Other Organizations - Resistance Press (Chicago, IL), 1967 | |||||||||
| 6 | 94 | Other Organizations - The Searchlight, 1947 | |||||||||
| 6 | 95 | Other Organizations - Social Forum (Chicago, IL), 1948 | |||||||||
| 6 | 96 | Other Organizations - socialist parties, foreign, 1946-1980 | |||||||||
| 6 | 97 | Other Organizations - Socialist Party, A.M. Simons, secretary (editor of The Socialist Review), 1901-1908 | |||||||||
| 6 | 98 | Other Organizations - Socialist Party of California, 1972-1984 | |||||||||
| 6 | 99 | Other Organizations - Socialist Party of Illinois, 1973-1984 | |||||||||
| 7 | 100 | Other Organizations - Socialist Party, U.S.A., 1973-1981 | |||||||||
| 7 | 101 | Other Organizations - Socialist Party of Wisconsin, 1970-1975 | |||||||||
| 7 | 102 | Other Organizations - Technocracy, Inc., 1945-1947 | |||||||||
| 7 | 103 | Other Organizations - Trade Union Educational League: "The Shop Steward", 1946 | |||||||||
| 7 | 104 | Other Organizations - Truth and Reason Syndicate, 1947 | |||||||||
| 7 | 105 | Other Organizations - UAW, Agricultural Implement Department (directory), 1971 | |||||||||
| 7 | 106 | Other Organizations - United People, 1948 | |||||||||
| 7 | 107 | Other Organizations - University and College Labor Education Association, 1969 | |||||||||
| 7 | 108 | Other Organizations - Workers Education Local 189, 1979-1980 | |||||||||
| 7 | 109 | Other Organizations - World Socialist Party of the United States, 1974 | |||||||||
| 7 | 110 | Other Organizations - Miscellaneous Organizations, 1952-1983 | |||||||||
Series 2: Financial Records, 1890-1983 |
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| Financial records of the company include reports, tax records, accounting records, book inventories, bank statements, bank stub books, account cards, accounts payable records, and ledger books. Also included is stock information: stock certificates and stockholder card files. The stocks were non-dividend-paying shares, sold to interested individuals and organizations who wanted to support the publishing company and enjoy a discount on their purchases. There is a selection of records related to general office accounting: leasing of office space, supplies, etc. | |||||||||||
| Arranged by type of material and alphabetically thereunder. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Accounts Payable, D. Appelton-Century Co., 1929-1941 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Accounts Payable, Freethought Press Association, 1942-1957 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Accounts Payable, George Allen and Unwin, 1918-1974 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Accounts Payable, International Publishers Co., 1933-1957, 1971 | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Accounts Payable, MacMillan Co., 1934-1947 | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Accounts Payable, New York Labor News Co., 1938-1952 | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | Accounts Payable, Outlet Book Co., 1945-1948 | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | Accounts Payable, Random House, Inc. (Modern Library), 1935-1948 | |||||||||
| 1 | 9 | Accounts Payable, Truth Seeker Co., 1920-1968 | |||||||||
| 1 | 10 | Accounts Payable, Miscellaneous, A-E, ca. 1935-1952 | |||||||||
| 1 | 11 | Accounts Payable, Miscellaneous, F-M, 1890, 1937-1953 | |||||||||
| 1 | 12 | Accounts Payable, Miscellaneous, N-Z, 1935-1953 | |||||||||
| 1 | 13 | Annual Financial Report Summaries (included with stockholders notices), 1931-1974 | |||||||||
| 1 | 14 | Bank Check Stub Books, 1940-1949 | |||||||||
| 1 | 15 | Bank Check Stub Books, 1952-1966 | |||||||||
| 1 | 16 | Bank Check Stub Books, 1972-1976 | |||||||||
| 1 | 17 | Bank Passbooks, Sept. 1940-Jul. 1951 | |||||||||
| 1 | 18 | Book Sales Summaries, (see also Oversize Box), 1921-1952 | |||||||||
| 1 | 19 | Cash Received Stubs, 1946-1948, 1952 | |||||||||
| 1 | 20 | Financial Reports and Data, 1933-1949 | |||||||||
| 1 | 21 | Financial Reports and Data, 1950 | |||||||||
| 1 | 22 | Financial Reports and Data, 1951 | |||||||||
| 1 | 23 | Financial Reports and Data, 1952 | |||||||||
| 1 | 24 | Financial Reports and Data, 1953 | |||||||||
| 1 | 25 | Financial Reports and Data, 1954 | |||||||||
| 1 | 26 | Financial Reports and Data, 1955 | |||||||||
| 1 | 27 | Financial Reports and Data, 1956 | |||||||||
| 1 | 28 | Financial Reports and Data, 1957 | |||||||||
| 1 | 29 | Financial Reports and Data, 1958 | |||||||||
| 1 | 30 | Financial Reports and Data, 1959 | |||||||||
| 2 | 31-52 | Financial Reports and Data, 1960-1982 | |||||||||
| 2 | 53 | Inventories, Annual, ca. 1915-1968 | |||||||||
| 2 | 54 | Loans to the Kerr Company, 1914-1979 | |||||||||
| 2 | 55 | Office Operations - Cartage, Freight, Etc., 1937-1946 | |||||||||
| 2 | 56 | Office Operations - Insurance, 1938-1973 | |||||||||
| 2 | 57 | Office Operations - Lease, 1899 | |||||||||
| 2 | 58 | Office Operations - Leases and Rental Information, 1928-1983 (incomplete run) | |||||||||
| 2 | 59 | Office Operations - Printing Plates Storage (by Wisconsin Cuneo Press), 1933, 1957-1970 | |||||||||
| 2 | 60 | Office Operations - Office Furniture and Supplies, purchase information, ca. 1940's-1950's, 1970's | |||||||||
| 2 | 61 | Office Operations - Safe Deposit Box Rental, 1930-1963 | |||||||||
| 2 | 62 | Promissory Note, from Morrill Higgins and Co., 1893 | |||||||||
| 2 | 63 | Promissory Note Stubs, 1930-1950 | |||||||||
| 2 | 64 | Real Estate, Land in Coffee County, Tennessee, 1908-1953 | |||||||||
| 2 | 65 | Stocks, Certificates Original Artwork (see Oversize Box), n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 66 | Stocks, Certificates, 1-500 | |||||||||
| 2 | 67 | Stocks, Certificates, 501-1000 | |||||||||
| 2 | 68 | Stocks, Certificates, 1001-1500 | |||||||||
| 2 | 69 | Stocks, Certificates, 1501-2000 | |||||||||
| 2 | 70 | Stocks, Certificates, 2003-2500 | |||||||||
| 3 | 71 | Stocks, Certificates, 2512-2996 | |||||||||
| 3 | 72 | Stocks, Certificates, 3010-3806 | |||||||||
| 3 | 73 | Stocks, Correspondence, 1904-1972 | |||||||||
| 3 | 74 | Stock Shares, Declarations of Trust in Personal Property, 1927, 1954 | |||||||||
| 3 | 75 | Taxes - Correspondence, Leon Despres, 1979-1982 | |||||||||
| 3 | 76 | Taxes - Federal, Capital Stock Tax Returns, 1918-1945 | |||||||||
| 3 | 77 | Taxes - Federal, Corporation Income Tax Returns, 1931-1975 | |||||||||
| 3 | 78 | Taxes - Federal Tax Exemption documents, 1965-1976 | |||||||||
| 3 | 79 | Taxes - Federal Tax Returns, Proletarian Party of America, 1953-1956 | |||||||||
| 3 | 80 | Taxes - Illinois State - Correspondence and Annual Reports to the Secretary of State, 1898, 1937-1983 | |||||||||
| 3 | 81 | Taxes - Illinois State - Exemptions, 1974 | |||||||||
| 3 | 82 | Taxes - property Tax Information, 1912-1975 | |||||||||
| 4 | Stock Certificate Stubs, Volumes 1-14; Nos. 1-3817, 1893-1924 | ||||||||||
| 5 | Stockholder Card File, A-L, 1893-1924 | ||||||||||
| 6 | Stockholder Card File, M-Z, 1893-1924 | ||||||||||
| Vol. 1 | Ledger: Book Sales, 1908-1938 | ||||||||||
| Vol. 2 | Ledger: General, 1942-1945 | ||||||||||
| Vol. 3 | Ledger: General, 1946-1948 | ||||||||||
| Vol. 4 | Ledger: General, 1949-1968 | ||||||||||
| Vol. 5 | Journal: Book Sales, Sept. 1944-Sept. 1945 | ||||||||||
| Vol. 6 | Journal: Book Sales, Oct. 1945-1948 | ||||||||||
| Vol. 7 | Journal: Book Sales, Jan. 1949-Apr. 1968 | ||||||||||
| Vol. 8 | Journal: General, Jan. 1965-May 1968 | ||||||||||
| Vol. 9 | Trial Balances, Jan. 1934-Dec. 1943 | ||||||||||
| Vol. 10 | Sales Register, June 1972-July 1973 | ||||||||||
| Vol. 11 | Sales Register, Aug. 1973-Mar. 1975 | ||||||||||
| Vol. 12 | Sales Register, Apr. 1975-Dec. 1976 | ||||||||||
| Vol. 13 | Sales Register, Jan. 1977-Dec. 1980 | ||||||||||
| Vol. 14 | Order Register, Jan. 1977-Apr. 1983 | ||||||||||
| Vol. 15 | Journal: General, May 1971-Dec. 1972 | ||||||||||
| Vol. 16 | Journal: General, Aug. 1975-Dec. 1977 | ||||||||||
| Vol. 17 | Journal: Disbursements, Jan. 1976-Dec. 1979 | ||||||||||
Series 3: Author Files, 1885-1999 |
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| The Author Files include both General Files and Works Files. The first section, General Files, are where copyright certificates and correspondence from the authors and about the works is found; the section also contains folders of requests from "Aspiring Authors" (works that were never published) and general copyright information. The Works Files contain manuscripts, typescripts, (either complete or fragments), proof sheets, galleys, and title pages of the works submitted for publication. The nature and completeness of the work is indicated after the work's title; TMs refers to typed manuscript; AMs refers to autograph (handwritten) manuscript. At the end of the series are a few card files, the first of which inventories the Kerr-published works alphabetically by author. Subsequent card files are for the books in the Kerr office not published by Kerr, address lists for advertisers and suppliers, a short-lived card file of addresses of those requesting Kerr catalogs, and unidentified cards. | |||||||||||
| Organized into two sections: General Files (correspondence etc.), and Works. Arranged alphabetically within each section. The card file of works published is at the end of the series | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | General Files: Adams, Frederick V., "President John Smith", Apr. 3, 1897 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | General Files: Abrams, Irving S., 1971-1979 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | General Files: Allman, James, "God's Children" Copyright Information, 1901, 1903 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | General Files: Alloy, Evelyn, 1972-1974 | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | General Files: Ameringer, Oscar (letters from Freda Ameringer regarding his works), 1974 | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | General Files: Ashbaugh, Carolyn, "Lucy Parsons: American Revolutionary", 1975-1983 | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | General Files: Aspiring Authors, 1943-1998 | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | General Files: Aspiring Authors, 1975-1987 | |||||||||
| 1 | 9 | General Files: Atchison, Rena Michaels, "Un-American Immigration", June 3, 1895 | |||||||||
| 1 | 10 | General Files: Avrich, Paul, 1983 | |||||||||
| 1 | 11 | General Files: Baker, Arthur, "American Esperanto", Apr. 16, 1907 | |||||||||
| 1 | 12 | General Files: Banks, Charles Eugene, "Where Books Go Softly", Jun. 24, 1893 | |||||||||
| 1 | 13 | General Files: Beck, Meyer, "A Story of Pullmantown", 1894 | |||||||||
| 1 | 14 | General Files: Benedict, Leopold - See Winchevsky, Morris | |||||||||
| 1 | 15 | General Files: Bennett, J.W., "A Breed of Barren Metal", 1895 | |||||||||
| 1 | 16 | General Files: Billings, Della E., "Laurel Blossoms or My Fortune", Apr. 9, 1894 | |||||||||
| 1 | 17 | General Files: Bishop, W.H., "The Garden of Eden, U.S.A.", Mar. 29, 1895 | |||||||||
| 1 | 18 | General Files: Bissonette, W.S., "Bits of Blue", 1892-1894 | |||||||||
| 1 | 19 | General Files: Bixby, James Thompson, "Religion and Science as Allies", Jun. 27, 1889 | |||||||||
| 1 | 20 | General Files: Blake, James Vila, "Legends from Story Land", Oct. 27, 1887 | |||||||||
| 1 | 21 | General Files: Bland, T.A., "People's Party Shot and Shell", Sept. 8, 1892 | |||||||||
| 1 | 22 | General Files: Block, Louis J., "El Nuevo Mundo", Feb. 18, 1893 | |||||||||
| 1 | 23 | General Files: Boudin, Louis B., "The Theoretical System of Karl Marx", 1906-1907, 1951 | |||||||||
| 1 | 24 | General Files: Brady, A., "National Money", 1897 | |||||||||
| 1 | 25 | General Files: Brenholtz, Edwin A., "The Recording Angel", 1905 | |||||||||
| 1 | 26 | General Files: Brewer, George D., "The Fighting Editor", n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 27 | General Files: Brommel, Bernard, "Eugene V. Debs, Spokesman for Labor and Socialism", 1973-1979 | |||||||||
| 1 | 28 | General Files: Brommel, Bernard, "American Federation of Labor Directories, 1978 | |||||||||
| 1 | 29 | General Files: Brooklyn Ethical Association, "Life and Conditions of Survival", 1893 | |||||||||
| 1 | 30 | General Files: Brotherton, Alice Williams, "The Sailing of King Olaf and other Poems", "Beyond the Veil", 1887, 1886 | |||||||||
| 1 | 31 | General Files: Brown, Herbert E., "Betsey Jane on the New Woman", 1897 | |||||||||
| 1 | 32 | General Files: Bucher, W.H., "The Beginning", 1893 | |||||||||
| 1 | 33 | General Files: Burrowes, Peter E., "Revolutionary Essays", 1906 | |||||||||
| 1 | 34 | General Files: Burt, Mary E., "Seed Thoughts for the Growing Life from Robert Browning and Others", 1885 | |||||||||
| 1 | 35 | General Files: Cahn, William (Bill), "Mill Town", 1975-1976 | |||||||||
| 1 | 36 | General Files: Carwardine, W. H. and Arthur, "The Pullman Strike", 1894 | |||||||||
| 1 | 37 | General Files: Chicago Browning Society, "Robert Browning's Poetry, Outline Studies", 1886 | |||||||||
| 1 | 38 | General Files: Chicago Women's Club, "175 Choice Recipes", 1886 | |||||||||
| 1 | 39 | General Files: Chinn, William, "The Mercantile Agencies Against Commerce", 1896 | |||||||||
| 1 | 40 | General Files: Clarke, Francis H., "The Co-Opolitan", 1898 | |||||||||
| 1 | 41 | General Files: "Campaign Songs Our Fathers Sang" or "Our Nation's History and Song", 1896-1897 | |||||||||
| 1 | 42 | General Files: Clay, Bertha N., "The Kodak Woman", 1894 | |||||||||
| 1 | 43 | General Files: Cole, Cyrus, "The Auroraphone", 1890 | |||||||||
| 1 | 44 | General Files: Cooke, Matilda Vance, "The Zig Zag Path of Life", n. d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 45 | General Files: Copyright Cards, various authors, A - Z, 1897-1923 | |||||||||
| 1 | 46 | General Files: Copyright Fee Statements, unidentified, 1896-1897 | |||||||||
| 1 | 47 | General Files: Curran, Martin W., "Information for Nurses", 1892-1893 | |||||||||
| 1 | 48 | General Files: Davis, Ethel, "A Pure Souled Liar", 1888 | |||||||||
| 1 | 49 | General Files: Dawson, Miles Menander, "Elsie: A Christmas Story", 1894 | |||||||||
| 1 | 50 | General Files: Del Mar, Alexander, "A History of Monetary Systems", 1895 | |||||||||
| 1 | 51 | General Files: Deville, Gabriel, "Socialism, Revolution and Internationalism" and "The State and Socialism", 1900 | |||||||||
| 1 | 52 | General Files: Dexter, Ransom, "Kingdoms of Nature", 1888 | |||||||||
| 1 | 53 | General Files: Dietzgen, Eugen, 1927-1930 | |||||||||
| 1 | 54 | General Files: Easton, Arago, "Carter Harrison in Memoriam", 1893 | |||||||||
| 1 | 55 | General Files: Engels, Friedrich, "Herr Eugen Duhring's Revolution in Science" and "The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State", 1902, 1935 | |||||||||
| 1 | 56 | General Files: Fearing, L. Blanche, "Asleep or Awake", "Roberta", 1893-1895 | |||||||||
| 1 | 57 | General Files: Ferri, Enrico, "The Positive School of Criminology", 1906 | |||||||||
| 1 | 58 | General Files: Fitch, M. H., "Phenomenism", "The Physical Basis of Mind and Morals", 1906-1908 | |||||||||
| 1 | 59 | General Files: Flower, Sydney Blanchard, "Hypnotism Up to Date", 1896 | |||||||||
| 1 | 60 | General Files: Franklin, Charles Kendall, "The Socialization of Humanity", n. d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 61 | General Files: Fusfeld, Daniel R. 1983 | |||||||||
| 1 | 62 | General Files: Gage, Matilda Joslyn, "Woman, Church, and State", 1893 | |||||||||
| 1 | 63 | General Files: Gardener, Helen H., "Facts and Fictions of Life", 1893 | |||||||||
| 1 | 64 | General Files: Giles, Ella G., "Flowers of the Spirit", 1891 | |||||||||
| 1 | 65 | General Files: Finger, Ray, Biography of Eugene Debs, 1948 | |||||||||
| 1 | 66 | General Files: Gladys, Evelyn, "Thoughts of a Fool", 1907 | |||||||||
| 1 | 67 | General Files: Gordin, H. M., "Science, Religion, and Ethics", 1926 | |||||||||
| 1 | 68 | General Files: Gorman, Patrick, Introduction to Debs' "Walls and Bars", 1972-1975 | |||||||||
| 1 | 69 | General Files: Gould, A. W. and J. W. Crawford, Copyright Fee Statement, 1893 | |||||||||
| 1 | 70 | General Files: Green, Jim, 1983 | |||||||||
| 1 | 71 | General Files: Grumbine, J. C. F., "Evolution and Christianity", 1887 | |||||||||
| 1 | 72 | General Files: Hall, George F., "Tabernacle Talks", 1895 | |||||||||
| 1 | 73 | General Files: Hamblin, Jessie (Mrs.), "A New Woman", 1895 | |||||||||
| 1 | 74 | General Files: Hancock, Anson Uriel, "John Auburntop, Novelist, and "The Genius of Galileo", 1890-1891 | |||||||||
| 1 | 75 | General Files: Handy, William M., "The Banking Systems of the World", 1897 | |||||||||
| 1 | 76 | General Files: Hansen, Geo. P., "The Legend of Hamlet", 1886 | |||||||||
| 1 | 77 | General Files: Hay, Clyde Lemont, "Our American Court of Last Resort", 1952 | |||||||||
| 1 | 78 | General Files: Heisler, Francis, Introduction for "If You Don't Weaken", 1975-1981 | |||||||||
| 1 | 79 | General Files: Hill, Thomas E., "Money Found", 1893 | |||||||||
| 1 | 80 | General Files: Hinds, William A., untitled and "American Communities", 1901, 1906 | |||||||||
| 1 | 81 | General Files: Hobart, Mary E., "The Secret of the Rothschilds", 1898 | |||||||||
| 1 | 82 | General Files: Holden, Martha Everts, "A String of Amber Beads", 1893-1894 | |||||||||
| 1 | 83 | General Files: Hosmer, Frederick L., "The Royalty of Service", 1891 | |||||||||
| 1 | 84 | General Files: Howe, Robert H., untitled, 1915 | |||||||||
| 1 | 85 | General Files: Hubbard, Lester C., "The Coming Climax in the Destinies of America", 1892 | |||||||||
| 1 | 86 | General Files: Hubbard-Kernan, Will, and R. D. Kathrens, "Flaming Meteor", 1894 | |||||||||
| 1 | 87 | General Files: Huling, Caroline A., "The Courage of Her Convictions", 1895 | |||||||||
| 1 | 88 | General Files: Hunter, Marguerite, "Sickness and Accidents", 1894 | |||||||||
| 1 | 89 | General Files: Hustler, A. (pseudonym), "Industrial Primer", 1895 | |||||||||
| 1 | 90 | General Files: Jacobson, Augustus, "An Ounce of Prevention" (formerly "Higher Ground"), 1892 | |||||||||
| 1 | 91 | General Files: James, Cyril Lionel Robert (C.L.R.), "State Capitalism and World Revolution", 1984 | |||||||||
| 1 | 92 | General Files: Jandus, William, "Parasitic Wealth", 1897 | |||||||||
| 1 | 93 | General Files: Jelset, Christ, "Money and Money Reforms", 1947 | |||||||||
| 1 | 94 | General Files: Jones, Jenkin Lloyd, "The Faith That Makes Faithful", "Blessed By Drudgery", "Practical Piety", 1898, 1887 | |||||||||
| 1 | 95 | General Files: Jones, Mother (Mary Harris), Introduction to "The Autobiography of Mother Jones" by Fred Thompson, 1971 | |||||||||
| 1 | 96 | General Files: Jones, Mother (Mary Harris), re: French translation of "The Autobiography of Mother Jones" 1950-1982 | |||||||||
| 1 | 97 | General Files: Jones, Mother (Mary Harris), Italian translation of "The Autobiography of Mother Jones" by Giulio Einaudi Editore, 1975-1976 | |||||||||
| 1 | 98 | General Files: Jones, Mother (Mary Harris), Swedish translation of "The Autobiography of Mother Jones" by David Eyre, 1978-1980 | |||||||||
| 1 | 99 | General Files: Joslyn, R.W., "The Rights of Labor", 1894 | |||||||||
| 1 | 100 | General Files: Kanter, Emanuel, "The Amazons: A Marxian Study", "The Evolution of War: A Marxian Study", 1926-1927 | |||||||||
| 1 | 101 | General Files: Kast, Eric, 1975 | |||||||||
| 1 | 102 | General Files: Kathrens, R.D., (See Hubbard-Kernan, Will), "Flaming Meteor", 1894 | |||||||||
| 1 | 103 | General Files: Kelley, Florence, "Notes on Sixty Years: The Autobiography of Florence Kelley", correspondence by Kathryn Kish Sklar, 1983-1984 | |||||||||
| 1 | 104 | General Files: Kenyon, W.C., "A Knight of Columbia", "The Great American Problem", 1895-1896 | |||||||||
| 1 | 105 | General Files: Keracher, John, "Wages and the Working Day", "Frederick Engels", 1935, 1946 | |||||||||
| 1 | 106 | General Files: Kerr, Charles H., (compiler) "Unity Songs Resung", 1885 | |||||||||
| 1 | 107 | General Files: Kyle, Ruby Beryl, "Paul and St. Paul", 1894-1895 | |||||||||
| 1 | 108 | General Files: La Monte, Robert Rives, "Socialism: Positive and Negative", 1907 | |||||||||
| 1 | 109 | General Files: LaFargue, Paul, "The Right to be Lazy" translated from French by Dr. Harriet C. Lathrop for The International Publishing Co., 1898 | |||||||||
| 1 | 110 | General Files: Landon, Melville D., (see Perkins, Eli), 1895 | |||||||||
| 1 | 111 | General Files: Lassalle, Ferdinand, "International Library - Science and the Working Man" translated by Th. B. Veblen, 1900 | |||||||||
| 1 | 112 | General Files: Lewis, Arthur M., 1952 | |||||||||
| 1 | 113 | General Files: Long, Lily A., "The Masque of the Year", 1887 | |||||||||
| 1 | 114 | General Files: Lowry, Richard, "16 to 1", 1896 | |||||||||
| 1 | 115 | General Files: Malcolm, J.G., and O.B. Moss, "Medical Cyclopedia", 1894 | |||||||||
| 1 | 116 | General Files: Maple, W.H., "No Beginning", 1892 | |||||||||
| 1 | 117 | General Files: Marcotte, Charles, "Governments and Politicians, Ancient and Modern", 1893 | |||||||||
| 1 | 118 | General Files: Marcy, Leslie H., "Socialist Playing Cards", 1908 | |||||||||
| 1 | 119 | General Files: Marquart, Frank, "An Auto Worker's Journal", 1974-1976 | |||||||||
| 1 | 120 | General Files: Marx, Karl, "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte", "A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy", "Wage-Labor and Capital" 1898, 1904 & 1911, 1935 | |||||||||
| 1 | 121 | General Files: Mason, David H., "A Short Tariff History of the United States", 1896 | |||||||||
| 1 | 122 | General Files: McGrady, T. (Rev.), "Beyond the Black Ocean", 1900, 1907 | |||||||||
| 1 | 123 | General Files: McGuckin, Henry E. (Sr.), "Memoirs of a Wobbly", 1972-1974 | |||||||||
| 1 | 124 | General Files: Mitchell, H.L., "Roll the Union On", 1980-1984 | |||||||||
| 1 | 125 | General Files: Mitchell, H.L., "Roll the Union On", 1985 | |||||||||
| 1 | 126 | General Files: Mitchell, H.L., "Roll the Union On", 1986 | |||||||||
| 1 | 127 | General Files: Mitchell, H.L., "Roll the Union On", 1987 | |||||||||
| 1 | 128 | General Files: Mitchell, H.L., "Roll the Union On", n.d., 1988-1989 | |||||||||
| 1 | 129 | General Files: Myers, Gustavus, "History of the Great American Fortunes", "A History of Canadian Wealth", "History of the Supreme Court of the United States" 1909-1942 | |||||||||
| 2 | 130 | General Files: Nelson, Eugene, 1975-1976 | |||||||||
| 2 | 131 | General Files: Orcutt, Harriet E., "A Modern Love Story", 1893 | |||||||||
| 2 | 132 | General Files: Orrick, Lucy A., "Jetta" copyright fee statement, 1894 | |||||||||
| 2 | 133 | General Files: Ovington, Irene H., "Helps for Home Nursing", 1891 | |||||||||
| 2 | 134 | General Files: Parker, Benjamin S., "The Cabin in the Clearing", 1887 | |||||||||
| 2 | 135 | General Files: Perkins, Eli (Melville D. Landon), 1895 | |||||||||
| 2 | 136 | General Files: Plummer, Frank E., "Gracia, A Social Tragedy" (contract with L. Flora Plummer), 1899 | |||||||||
| 2 | 137 | General Files: Poorman, C.L., 1912 | |||||||||
| 2 | 138 | General Files: Porter, Anna, "Moscow Diary", 1937-1942 | |||||||||
| 2 | 139 | General Files: Powell, E.F., "Liberty and Life", 1889 | |||||||||
| 2 | 140 | General Files: Rabinovich, I. (Rab), (National Treasurer of the World Socialist Party of the United States), 1971-1981 | |||||||||
| 2 | 141 | General Files: Rappaport, Philip, "Looking Forward", 1906, 1910 | |||||||||
| 2 | 142 | General Files: Reitman, Ben L., "The Story of Ben Reitman's Life Among the Outcasts", 1925 | |||||||||
| 2 | 143 | General Files: Roe, William J., "Inquirendo Island", "The Last Tenet Imposed Upon the Kahn of Tomathoz", 1885-1892 | |||||||||
| 2 | 144 | General Files: Salter, William Mackintire, "First Steps in Philosophy", 1892 | |||||||||
| 2 | 145 | General Files: Scott, Addie M., "Aedoeology", "A Hygienic Check to Conception", 1894 | |||||||||
| 2 | 146 | General Files: "Show us the Father", Savage, Minot J., Calthrop, Samuel R., Simmons, Henry M., Chadwick, John W., Fannett, William, Jones, Jenkin Lloyd, 1888 | |||||||||
| 2 | 147 | General Files: Sinclair, Upton, "Prince Hagen", "Flivver King", 1909, 1958, 1983 | |||||||||
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