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| BOX 57-58 | Personal Files, 1963 | ||||||||||||
| Material assembled for a testimonial dinner given to Paul Sifton in Washington, D.C., April 23, 1963. Includes a bound volume of presented letters; a larger group of letters not included in the volume; photographs taken at the dinner; notes, remarks, and miscellany. One container has photocopies of letters presented to Sifton. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 57 | Testimonial dinner to PFS | ||||||||||||
| Bound volume of presented letters | |||||||||||||
| Letters not included in bound volume | |||||||||||||
| Photographs | |||||||||||||
| Remarks, notes, miscellany | |||||||||||||
| BOX 58 | Photocopies of letters sent to PFS | ||||||||||||
| (3 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 59-65 | Printed Matter, 1919-1971 | ||||||||||||
| Clippings, near-print itesm, pamphlets, and issue-oriented material that reflect Paul Sifton's newspaperman's instinct for the preservation of his sources. Notable groups include post-World War II issues (price decontrol, inflation, atomic energy, full employment, and civil rights); material on the United Automobile Workers; and scrapbooks on John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers. The latter complement a book project (1943) in the Writings File. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 59 | Clippings | ||||||||||||
| 1919-1950s | |||||||||||||
| (5 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 60 | 1960s | ||||||||||||
| 1940s-1960s, clippings on the UAW-CIO | |||||||||||||
| (3 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 61 | Pamphlets | ||||||||||||
| 1920s-1930s | |||||||||||||
| (2 folders) | |||||||||||||
| 1937 Steel Labor; The Progressive | |||||||||||||
| 1960s | |||||||||||||
| BOX 62 | Various subjects | ||||||||||||
| 1940s-1950s, un-American activities and anti-communism issues | |||||||||||||
| 1940s-1950s, farm labor issues | |||||||||||||
| 1945-1946, atomic and postwar issues | |||||||||||||
| 1945-1946, price decontrols and inflation | |||||||||||||
| 1940s-1950s, natural resources | |||||||||||||
| 1950s, civil rights issues and Rule 22 fight in Congress | |||||||||||||
| 1960-1961, Citizens' Research Foundation, reports | |||||||||||||
| BOX 63 | Foreign policy issues, includes United Nations press releases on Dominican and Congo situations, 1961-1962 | ||||||||||||
| (2 folders) | |||||||||||||
| UAW-CIO | |||||||||||||
| 1944-1945 | |||||||||||||
| (2 folders) | |||||||||||||
| 1945-1946, anti-UAW-CIO propaganda | |||||||||||||
| 1946-1947 | |||||||||||||
| (2 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 64 | 1948-1957 | ||||||||||||
| (6 folders) | |||||||||||||
| 1958, including Kohler strike testimony | |||||||||||||
| 1959 | |||||||||||||
| BOX 65 | 1961, includes textile workers' strikes | ||||||||||||
| 1962-1971 | |||||||||||||
| (3 folders) | |||||||||||||
| Undated | |||||||||||||
| (2 folders) | |||||||||||||
| Photocopied clippings in scrapbooks regarding John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers Union, 1935, 1938-1939 See Oversize | |||||||||||||
| BOX 66-73 | Miscellany, 1920s-1980 | ||||||||||||
| Material reflects Paul Sifton's post-retirement interests; also includes obituary, funeral, and condolence files, photographs, press cards, address files, Sifton family items, Sifton genealogy (Canadian), and other items. | |||||||||||||
| Arranged by topic or type of material. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 66 | Post-retirement interests [PGS] | ||||||||||||
| Plans for Ragged Island, Maine | |||||||||||||
| Homes and houses | |||||||||||||
| Inventions (new and proposed): "Bubble curtain" and "Electronic Bumblebee" | |||||||||||||
| Health aids, especially emphysema | |||||||||||||
| Electric wheel | |||||||||||||
| BOX 67 | Hydrofoils, pontoons, and amphibious boats | ||||||||||||
| Electric cars | |||||||||||||
| (3 folders) | |||||||||||||
| Batteries | |||||||||||||
| Windchargers | |||||||||||||
| BOX 68 | Vehicles, alternative | ||||||||||||
| (2 folders) | |||||||||||||
| Boats | |||||||||||||
| (3 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 69 | Engines, marine and other | ||||||||||||
| (3 folders) | |||||||||||||
| Fish, fisheries, and the Third World | |||||||||||||
| (3 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 70 | Pollution, man, and the environment | ||||||||||||
| (3 folders) | |||||||||||||
| Fragments, notes | |||||||||||||
| (3 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 71 | Condolences; other materials | ||||||||||||
| 1972, obituaries [PFS], New York and Washington, D.C., funeral service, other materials | |||||||||||||
| 1972, condolences [PFS] | |||||||||||||
| (2 folders) | |||||||||||||
| 1980, obituaries [CGS], Washington, D.C., New York, and Mexico | |||||||||||||
| 1980, condolences [CGS] | |||||||||||||
| (2 folders) | |||||||||||||
| 1920s-1960s, retained work of others | |||||||||||||
| BOX 72 | Photographs, addresses, and miscellany | ||||||||||||
| Photographs | |||||||||||||
| Of the Siftons | |||||||||||||
| Of others | |||||||||||||
| Passport, press passes, and calling cards | |||||||||||||
| Address book and loose addresses | |||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous | |||||||||||||
| BOX 73 | Sifton family, including genealogy (Canadian) | ||||||||||||
| (3 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX 74-78 | Addition, 1923-1948 | ||||||||||||
| Typescripts of articles, books, and other writings, and miscellany. Includes first and authors' editions of the Siftons' plays and books. | |||||||||||||
| Chronologically arranged. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 74 | “Panorama” (novel) by CGS, a tale of small-town Missouri from the 1850s to the 1920s [1925-1927] | ||||||||||||
| “Untitled” (novel) by CGS,a novel about the "Young People" of the 1920s with (some autobiographical overtones) [1927-1928?] | |||||||||||||
| “A Week in the Country” (short novel) by CGS, on contemporary manners and mores of Americans, 1931 | |||||||||||||
| BOX 75 | "The Washington Story" [current history as reportage], by CGS, alternate title: "A Woman's Eye View of the New Deal," 1939 [with irregular pagination]) | ||||||||||||
| Hell Is A-Popping (one-act play) by CGS, 1942-1943 | |||||||||||||
| Spring in Minnesota (play) by PFS and CGS | |||||||||||||
| BOX 76 | The E.M.I.C. Story [Emergency Maternity and Infant Care program, World War II], typescript report, prepared by CGS for the U.S. Children's Bureau (then in the Department of Labor), 1940-1944 | ||||||||||||
| Distribution(a textbook for high school seniors) by CGS, written for the National Education Association, typescript (carbon), 1946-1948 | |||||||||||||
| BOX 77 | The Belt (1927) play by PFS, two first editions of the book version | ||||||||||||
| No. 1, inscribed to CGS' mother, with raison d'etre for the drama | |||||||||||||
| No. 2, inscribed to CGS with clippings pertaining to the Ford Motor Co. "speed-up" system, the subject of the play | |||||||||||||
| The Perfect Baby (1929) book by CGS, pseudonym "Claire Morton" used by the author | |||||||||||||
| 1931----A Play (1931) by CGS and PFS, bound authors' copy of the printed version with complete original Broadway cast listed | |||||||||||||
| BOX 78 | "Give All Thy Terrors to the Wind" (1937), one-act play by CGS and PFS, printed in The Best Short Plays of the Social Theatre, edited by William Kozlenko (New York, Random House, 1939); play's subject is barratry, in this case the sinking of a ship for the insurance | ||||||||||||
| The Wave of the Future(November 25, 1940) book by Anne Morrow Lindbergh; copy retained and annotated by CGS and PFS to document Mrs. Lindbergh's pro-Nazi sentiments | |||||||||||||
| Selected Poems for Young People (1929) by Edna St. Vincent Millay, obtained by CGS and PFS after their purchase (1951) of Ragged Island, Millay's summer home | |||||||||||||
| The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems (first edition, 1923) by Edna St. Vincent Millay; CGS and PFS were given this work by Agnes Inglis (enclosed card explains provenance) | |||||||||||||
| BOX OV 1-OV 2 | Oversize, 1929-1942 | ||||||||||||
| Photocopies of clippings in scrapbooks. | |||||||||||||
| Arranged and described according to the series, containers, and folders from which the items were removed. | |||||||||||||
| BOX OV 1 | Printed matter | ||||||||||||
| Photocopied clippings in scrapbooks regarding John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers Union | |||||||||||||
| 1929, 1935-1942 | |||||||||||||
| (2 vols.) (Container 65) | |||||||||||||
| BOX OV 2 | 1935-1940 | ||||||||||||
| (2 vols.) (Container 65) | |||||||||||||