Archie Henderson - Conservatism, the Right Wing, and the Far Right - A Guide to Archives

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http://guides.library.illinois.edu/c.php?g=348250&p=2350886

[0669] Records of Consumers' Research, Inc., 1910-1983 (bulk 1928-1980), MC 3

Location: Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries, 169 College Ave, New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Description: Located for most of its existence in rural Washington, New Jersey, Consumers' Research, Inc., was the first American product testing organization to systematically document the reliability of twentieth century consumer goods. Administrative files. Series 8. Personnel--employees, directors and policies, 1917-1983, contains a file on Personnel: M. Stanton Evans (Board Member). Administrative files. Series 12. Publicity, 1927-1981, contains a file on Publicity: Speeches-J.B. Matthews. General Files. Series 21. Consumerism-Consumers Union, 1933-1980, contains pamphlets, handouts and other information documenting the alleged Communist connections of Consumers Union (CU), a rival organization which was formed by ex-CR associates or employees in 1935. The red scare information is particularly substantial in 1939-1940, when the House Un-American Activities Committee (Dies Committee) released a controversial report--written by Committee researcher and former CR Vice-President J.B. Matthews, on Communist infiltration in the consumer movement--and in 1953-1954 when CU was placed in and then removed from a list of "front organizations" by the Un-American Activities Committee. Several anti-CU broadsides or articles were produced by CR. General Files. Series 30. Government-National Recovery Administration (NRA), 1930-1958 (1933-1934-bulk), contains a file on Senators Borah & Nye Attacks on NRA, 1934-1937. General Files. Series 34. Labor, 1919-1980, contains files on Labor: CIO Communist Link and Labor: Anti-Labor Attitudes and Practices, 1935-1943. General Files. Series 41. Politics-Anti-Communism & Other Movements, 1930-1980, contains files on Fascism; Fascism-Agrarian Distributionism; Fascism in America; Fascism in America-Huey Long; Communism; Anti-Communism; Anti-Anti Communism; Martin Dies Un-American Activities Committee-J.B. Matthews Testimony; Martin Dies Un-American Activities Committee, F.J. Schlink letters to J.B. Matthews; Martin Dies Un-American Activities Committee, F.J. Schlink letters & News Release re Communist Connections in the Consumer Movement; and Senator Joseph McCarthy-Senate Permanent Investigation Sub-Committee. Publications include The American Legion Firing Line, ANR Report (American National Research Inc.), Borger (TX) News-Herald, reprints, 1952 (probably "We Owe a Debt" (April 16, 1952) by J.C. Phillips), The Communist Line Bulletin, Constitutional Educational League Pamphlets by Joseph P. Kamp, Counterattack, Exposure, Fighters For Freedom publications, Guardpost For Freedom (VFW), Headlines And What's Behind Them, Jews Against Communism, The Lewis-Bruce Report, J.B. Matthews publications, National Council For American Education- Educational Guidelines, Summary of Trends and Developments Exposing the Communist Conspiracy, Spotlight (American Legion), and VFW American Security Reporter. General Files. Series 42. Politics-Left-Wing Infiltration, 1930-1980, contains files on Exposé, Friday, Left-Wing Infiltration in Advertising Circles, Foundations (Fund For the Republic), Television-"Red Channels", 1949-1964, and Church League of America. General Files. Series 43. Politics-Front Organizations & Fellow Travelers, 1935-1980, contains files on Highlander Folk School, Uncensored, Attorney General's List of Communist or Subversive Organizations, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Federated Press, Foreign Policy Assn., Friday, Institute of Pacific Relations, Keep America Out of War Committee, and YMCA & YWCA.

References:

A Guide to the Manuscript Collection of the Rutgers University Library. Compiled by Herbert F. Smith (New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers University Library, Distributed by the Rutgers University Press, 1964), p. 130, https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/41241/PDF/1/; Gregory L. Williams, "Buyer Beware: The Consumers' Research Archives at The Rutgers University Libraries," Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries, Vol. LVII, Nos. 1 and 2 (1995), pp. 25-39, http://reaper64.scc-net.rutgers.edu/journals/index.php/­jrul/article/viewFile/1737/3179.

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http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/scua/manuscripts

http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/

https://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/scua/manuscripts/manuscripts.shtml

http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/scua/manuscripts/manuscripts.shtml

https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/122358315

http://www.worldcat.org/title/politics-general-files-anti-communism-and-other-movements-1930-1980/oclc/

122358315

Finding aids:

http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/manuscripts/consumers_introb.html

http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/manuscripts/consumers_introf.html

http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/manuscripts/consumers_adminb.html

http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/manuscripts/consumers_adminf.html

http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/manuscripts/consumers_gen1b.html

http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/manuscripts/consumers_gen1f.html

http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/manuscripts/consumers_gen2b.html

http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/manuscripts/consumers_gen2f.html

http://archive.is/QMMm

[0669a] Silvio O. Conte Congressional Papers, 1950-1991, MS 371

Location: Special Collections & University Archives, UMass Amherst Libraries, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 154 Hicks Way, Amherst, Mass. 01003-9275

Description: Silvio O. Conte (1921-1991) was Massachusetts State Senator for the Berkshire District, 1950-1958, and representative for Massachusetts's First District in the United States Congress for 17 terms, 1959-1991. The papers reflect his anti-abortion stance while also documenting his major support for federal funding of family planning facilities. There is much correspondence from both pro-choice and anti-abortion lobbyists and family planning center administrators. Subgroup II. Legislative. Series 3. House Appropriations Committee Files. Subseries 3g-4: Interior Subcommittee, General Subject Tim Shea, 1983-1990, contains files on Abortion Issues, Global Warming, and March for Life. Subgroup II. Legislative. Series 3. House Appropriations Committee Files. Subseries h: Labor, Health and Human Services, Education Subcommittee, 1981-1990. Part 2: Health and Human Services Files (HHS), contains files on Abortion and National Right to Life Newspaper. Subgroup II. Legislative. Series 6. Legislative Subject/Correspondence Files, contains mostly constituent correspondence and the office's response on such issues as the Civil Rights movement, Communism, firearms control, abortion, the Equal Rights Amendment, and federal aid to education. Subgroup V. Office Administration. Series 1: Pat Larkin Files (Administrative Asst.), 1980-1991, contains files on Abortion.

Finding aids:

http://scua.library.umass.edu/ead/mums371.html

http://scua.library.umass.edu/ead/mums371.pdf

http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/umass/mums371.html

[0669b] Contempo Collection, 1925-1945, undated, Manuscript Collection MS-0908

Location: Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin, 300 West 21st Street, Austin, Texas 78712

Description: Includes letters to the Great Depression-era literary magazine Contempo (Chapel Hill, North Carolina), as well as works by its contributors, mostly addressed to editors Milton Abernethy and Anthony Buttitta. Letters (except where noted) by Harry Elmer Barnes, Charles Austin Beard, Seward Collins, Max Eastman (with enclosure), Lewis Stiles Gannett, J. H. Gipson, Henry Hazlitt, Archibald Henderson, Granville Hicks, Carey McWilliams, Henry Louis Mencken, Gorham Bert Munson, Isabel Bowler Paterson, Ezra Loomis Pound (with enclosures), Edward Merrill Root, George Samuel Schuyler, Dorothy Thompson, George Sylvester Viereck, and Oswald Garrison Villard.