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BOX 66-73 |
Miscellany, 1920s-1980
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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. |
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Arranged by topic or type of material. |
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BOX 66 |
Post-retirement interests [PGS] |
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Plans for Ragged Island, Maine |
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Homes and houses |
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Inventions (new and proposed): "Bubble
curtain" and "Electronic Bumblebee" |
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Health aids, especially emphysema |
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Electric wheel |
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BOX 67 |
Hydrofoils, pontoons, and amphibious
boats |
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Electric cars |
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(3 folders) |
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Batteries |
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Windchargers |
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BOX 68 |
Vehicles, alternative |
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(2 folders) |
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Boats |
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(3 folders) |
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BOX 69 |
Engines, marine and other |
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(3 folders) |
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Fish, fisheries, and the Third World |
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(3 folders) |
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BOX 70 |
Pollution, man, and the environment |
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(3 folders) |
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Fragments, notes |
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(3 folders) |
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BOX 71 |
Condolences; other materials |
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1972,
obituaries [PFS], New York and Washington, D.C., funeral service, other
materials |
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1972,
condolences [PFS] |
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(2 folders) |
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1980,
obituaries [CGS], Washington, D.C., New York, and Mexico |
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1980,
condolences [CGS] |
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(2 folders) |
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1920s-1960s, retained work of others |
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BOX 72 |
Photographs, addresses, and
miscellany |
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Photographs |
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Of the Siftons |
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Of others |
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Passport, press passes, and calling
cards |
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Address book and loose addresses |
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Miscellaneous |
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BOX 73 |
Sifton family, including genealogy (Canadian) |
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(3 folders) |
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BOX 74-78 |
Addition, 1923-1948
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Typescripts of articles, books, and other writings, and miscellany. Includes first
and authors' editions of the Siftons' plays and books. |
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Chronologically arranged. |
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BOX 74 |
“Panorama” (novel) by CGS, a tale of small-town
Missouri from the 1850s to the 1920s [1925-1927]
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“Untitled” (novel) by CGS,a novel about the
"Young People" of the 1920s with (some autobiographical overtones) [1927-1928?]
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“A Week in the Country” (short novel) by CGS, on
contemporary manners and mores of Americans, 1931
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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]) |
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Hell Is A-Popping (one-act play) by CGS, 1942-1943
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Spring in Minnesota (play) by PFS and CGS |
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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
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Distribution(a textbook for high school seniors) by CGS, written for the National
Education Association, typescript (carbon), 1946-1948
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BOX 77 |
The Belt (1927) play by PFS, two first
editions of the book version |
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No. 1, inscribed to CGS' mother, with raison d'etre for the drama |
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No. 2, inscribed to CGS with clippings
pertaining to the Ford Motor Co. "speed-up" system, the subject of the
play |
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The Perfect Baby (1929) book by CGS, pseudonym
"Claire Morton" used by the author |
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1931----A Play (1931) by CGS and PFS, bound
authors' copy of the printed version with complete original Broadway cast
listed |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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) |
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BOX OV 1-OV 2 |
Oversize, 1929-1942
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Photocopies of clippings in scrapbooks. |
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Arranged and described according to the series, containers, and folders from which
the items were removed. |
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BOX OV 1 |
Printed matter |
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Photocopied clippings in
scrapbooks regarding John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers
Union |
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1929, 1935-1942
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(2 vols.) (Container 65) |
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BOX OV 2 |
1935-1940
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(2 vols.) (Container 65) |
