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{"value"=>"1168", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"MssCol 1168", "type"=>"local_call"}
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{"value"=>"1903-1940", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1903/1940"}
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1903
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1940
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1903
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1903
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1940
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{"value"=>"Emma Goldman papers"}
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.</span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">Stephen A. Schwarzman Building</span> <span class=\"addressline\">Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Emma Goldman (1869-1940) was an anarchist, feminist, author, editor, and lecturer on politics, literature and the arts. She was born in Lithuania and died in Canada. Her lectures and publications attracted attention throughout the U.S. and Europe. She was associated with the anarchist journal Mother Earth from 1906 to 1917 and was imprisoned for publicly advocating birth control in 1916 and pacifism in 1917. In 1919 she was deported to Russia but had to leave because of her criticism of the Bolshevik government and was allowed to reenter the U.S. for a lecture tour in 1934. Collection contains correspondence, typescripts, address books, scrapbook, photographs, clippings, and printed matter. Correspondence, 1906-1940, of Goldman, Alexander Berkman and Stella Ballantine concerns Goldman's experiences in Russia, Germany and England following World War I, and Spain during the civil war of 1936-1939; letters, 1927-1928, written on Goldman's behalf soliciting funds to subsidize the writing of her memoirs; and letters, 1917-1927, from Goldman to Bayard Boyesen. Typescripts consist of a few chapters of \"My Further Disillusionment in Russia\" and other writings by Goldman and typescripts of some of Berkman's writings. Also, address books compiled by Goldman and Berkman; photographs of Goldman; scrapbook, 1909-1936, containing letters relating to the periodical Mother Earth, clippings, leaflets, etc.; clippings and other printed ephemera; and one reel of negative microfilm of Goldman materials in the Institute of Historical Sciences in Holland."}
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{"value"=>"Materials in English"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Emma Goldman papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}
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{"value"=>"Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940", "type"=>"persname"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Emma Goldman (1869-1940) was an anarchist, feminist, author, editor, and lecturer on politics, literature and the arts. She was born in Lithuania and died in Canada. Her lectures and publications attracted attention throughout the U. S. and Europe. She was associated with the anarchist journal Mother Earth from 1906 to 1917 and was imprisoned for publicly advocating birth control in 1916 and pacifism in 1917. In 1919 she was deported to the Soviet Union. She was allowed to reenter the U. S. for a lecture tour in 1934.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>This small collection is rich in information documenting the activities of Emma Goldman, anarchist and political activist. Collection contains correspondence, typescripts, address books, photographs, clippings, and printed matter. Correspondence, 1906-1940, of Goldman, Alexander Berkman and Stella Ballantine concerns Goldman's experiences in Russia, Germany and England following World War I, and Spain during the civil war of 1936-1939; letters, 1927-1928, written on Goldman's behalf soliciting funds to subsidize the writing of her memoirs; and letters, 1917-1927, from Goldman to Bayard Boyesen. Typescripts consist of a few chapters of \"My Further Disillusionment in Russia\" and other writings by Goldman and typescripts of some of Berkman's writings. Also, address books compiled by Goldman and Berkman; studio photographs of Goldman by noted photographer Carl Van Vechten; clippings and other printed material.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Emma Goldman papers are arranged in six series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1168#c1036950'>I. General Correspondence</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series is mainly letters between Emma Goldman and others. The correspondence for the most part, reflects Goldman's role as an anarchist, feminist and co-editor of <em>Mother Earth</em>. There is also some correspondence of Alexander Berkman as co-editor of <em>Mother Earth</em>. Correspondents include Roger Baldwin, Stella Ballantine with Harry Kelly and John Haynes Holmes. Letters dated 1940 are telegrams expressing sympathy upon the death of Goldman.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1168#c1036967'>II. Solicitation of Funds</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The focus of this series is the solicitation of funds for Emma Goldman for the years 1927-1928. The correspondence indicates that the original purpose of the fund was to secure enough money so that Goldman would be able to enter the United States under bond. Having failed in this endeavor, her friends refocused their efforts to raise money so that Goldman would have material to write her autobiography. By December 1927, the fund was officially named \"The Emma Goldman Memoirs Fund\", with Howard Irving Young, Chairman, and Bolton Hall, Treasurer. The founders included Theodore Dreiser, William P. Hap good, and Peggy Guggenheim Vail. Goldman at this date remarried and was living in Toronto, Canada under the name Emma Goldman Colton. This series consists mainly of form letters soliciting funds. The remaining material in this series is a legal document that is the last will and testament of Goldman accompanied by instructions.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1168#c1036972'>III. Writings</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The writings for the most part reflect Goldman's political interest or those topics, which were of concern to her. Due to the uncertainty of the authorship some of the writings, all of the writings are not credited to her. Some of the writings mistakenly attributed to Goldman were in fact transcripts typed by a secretary as reading notes for her lectures. The writings include a typescript of the monograph <em>Exploiting the famine</em> (chapter X) and Goldman's article <em>the spectators in starvation</em> typed on the back of Mother <em>Earth</em> letterhead paper. There are also writings attributed to other individuals including \"The Bolshevik Myth\" by Alexander Berkman. The remaining material is a daybook and a telephone book.</p> <p>The index in the Goldman writings series include some verbatim transcripts of material published by authors other than Emma Goldman, typed by a secretary as reading notes for her lectures, but mistakenly attributed to Goldman.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1168#c1037008'>IV. Printed Matter</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The printed matter is a miscellaneous mixture of newspaper clippings, magazine articles relating to Goldman. Included in the printed matter is an article entitled <em>Red Emma on Spain</em> dated March 6, 1937. The publication is not cited.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1168#c1037014'>V. Photo prints</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The photo prints contain eleven photographs of Emma Goldman taken by photographer and author Carl Van Vetches. Goldman's portraits were studio poses printed in black and white on half-tone. The series also contains a photograph of Emma Goldman in Barcelona, Spain speaking at a memorial meeting, and a family photograph of the Goldman family taken in St. Petersburg, Russia, 1883.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/1168#c1037018'>Additions not microfilmed</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Roger Baldwin, Stella Ballantine, Hjalmar Boyensen, Harry Kelly, Ethel Mennin, Black (purchase), Sweet (purchase) 1940-1982. Additions purchased, 1985, from Paul Richards, Swann Galleries and George Patterson</p>"}
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{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Revised finding aid by Valerie Wingfield, June 2001</p>"}
- accessrestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>box 4 contains additions Master negative microfilm includes Goldman material in Rose Pesotta Papers, and the Records of the International Committee for Political Prisoners. The Division holds only the microfilm of the original scrapbook (1909-1936).</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Entire collection (except for 1985 accessions) available on microfilm; New York Public Library</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>Scrapbook, 1909-1936, available on microfilm; New York Public Library</p>"}
- note
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{"type"=>"did", "value"=>"Master megative microfilm includes Goldman material in Rose Pesotta Papers and the Records of the International Committee for Political Prisoners"}
- extent_statement
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1.2 linear feet (3 boxes); 2 microfilm reels
- date_bulk_start
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1919
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1940