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

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998006.3

http://rs5.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/1998/ms998006.pdf

[0758b] Lee de Forest papers, 1896-1971, MS 1210

Location: Manuscripts and Archives, Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, 128 Wall Street, P.O. Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520

Description: Lee de Forest (1873-1961) was a contributor to the development of wireless telegraphy in the United States and an inventor. The papers consist of correspondence as well as two versions of his autobiography, Father of Radio: Autobiography of Lee de Forest (1950), a copy of the published volume, typescripts of his diary, an article by him, newspaper clippings about him, and several miscellaneous items.

Finding aids:

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1210

http://drs.library.yale.edu/fedora/get/mssa:ms.1210/PDF

[0758c] Lee and Marie de Forest Papers, 1873-1977 (bulk 1890-1961), Coll. 2003-34

Location: History San Jose Research Library, 1650 Senter Road, San Jose, CA 95112

Description: Papers of electronics inventor, radio and film pioneer Lee de Forest (1873-1961) and his fourth wife, Marie Mosquini de Forest. The collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, sketches and diagrams, notebooks, patents, memoirs, patent notes and legal papers, scrapbooks, speeches, poems, photographs, and articles and other printed material, and awards.

Finding aid:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8js9r0x/entire_text/

[0758d] Kenneth Dean Film collection, 1972, MP/1993.01 [films]

Location: Archives and Library Division, William F. Winter Archives and History Building, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, 200 North Street, Jackson, MS 39201

Description: Reel 1 consists of footage of Thomas Albert Tarrants, a Ku Klux Klan bomber, describing to WLBT reporter Lincoln Warren his religious conversion while in prison at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, Parchman, Miss.

Reference:

Preston Everett, "Audio-Visual Collections," The Primary Source (Society of Mississippi Archivists) Vol. 23, No. 1 (Summer 2001), pp. 1-11 (p. 5), http://aquila.usm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1110&­context=theprimarysource.

Websites with information:

http://catalog.mdah.state.ms.us/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=96238#

http://library.msstate.edu/FindingAid/WLBT_archives_finding_aid_MSS.366.pdf.

[0759] Vera Micheles Dean Papers, 1929-1973, A-17

Location: Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, 3 James St, Cambridge, MA 02138

Description: Vera Micheles Dean (1903-1972) was a Russian-American international affairs specialist, author, and editor. After earning her doctorate, she joined the staff of the Foreign Policy Association, where she spent most of her professional life. The papers consist of biographical material, articles, travel and research notes. speeches, and typescript drafts of books and articles. Box 24. Accusations of being pro-Communist and subversive, 1960-1963, contains documentation of charges leveled by conservative groups that Foreign Policy Association literature was left-wing and subversive.

Websites with information:

http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/allFindingAids?_collection=oasis

Finding aid:

http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch00545

[0760] Dearborn Independent Aaron Sapiro v. Henry Ford Lawsuit Collection, 1919-1929, Accession 48

Location: Benson Ford Research Center, The Henry Ford, 20900 Oakwood Boulevard, Dearborn, MI 48124-5029

Description: Aaron Sapiro was an agricultural cooperative advocate In 1924, Sapiro initiated a libel lawsuit against Henry Ford for anti-Semitic articles that appeared in the Dearborn Independent newspaper. The articles, appearing over Henry Ford's signature, accused Sapiro of using the cooperative movement to seize control of American farmers for Jewish bankers and financiers. Ford's defense centered around William Cameron and Ernest Liebold, who claimed editorial control of the newspaper over Henry Ford. Hoping to avert additional negative publicity and avoid taking the stand in court, Ford agreed to an out of court settlement with Sapiro involving a cash payment and a written apology in the Dearborn Independent. The collection includes correspondence and transcripts of the trial as well as information on similar cases around the country. Series IV: Publications, contains selected issues of the Dearborn Independent, 1919-1927.

Finding aid:

http://www.dalnet.lib.mi.us/henryford/docs/DearbornIndependentAaronSapiroVHenryFordLawsuitCollection

_Accession48.pdf

[0761] Déclaration commune sur la situation politique: typescript, 1944, Coll. YY119

Location: Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-6010

Description: Relates to proposed changes in Vichy government policy following the Allied landings in Normandy. Written by a group of right-wing French political figures.

Finding aids:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt3q2nd7p8/

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt3q2nd7p8/entire_text/

[0761a] Defence Regulation 18B Internee's Autograph Book, Second World War, 1941-1945, Documents.2008

Location: Department of Documents, Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, London SE1 6HZ, United Kingdom

Description: Autograph book (108pp), compiled during 1941-1945, containing handwritten messages and signatures of some 100 individuals detained in British prisons and camps under the provisions of Defence Regulation 18B, including leading members of the BUF and its supporters, notably Sir Oswald Mosley, John Beckett, Alexander Raven Thomson, Archibald Ramsay MP, and Admiral Sir Barry Domvile. There are also contributions by Captain H W Luttman-Johnson.

Websites with information:

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030001744

[0762] Defence Regulation 18B Research Papers, 1934-1997, MS 287

Location: Special Collections, The University Library, The University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK

Description: The collection consists of documents and correspondence assembled by Professor A.W. Brian Simpson (1931-2011) during the writing of his book In the Highest Degree Odious: Detention Without Trial in Wartime Britain (Clarendon Press, 1992). Most of the British citizens detained were members of Fascist or extreme right-wing groups, who were generally opposed to the war with Germany. As the most prominent Fascist group active in Britain at the time, Sir Oswald Mosley's movement British Union (whose full title was "British Union of Fascists and National Socialists"), which had campaigned vigorously against the war up to and beyond its outbreak, was particularly affected by the measure, with many leading members arrested and interned. Both Mosley and his wife, Lady Mosley (Diana Mosley) were imprisoned. In addition there is an appendix on the spy Tyler Kent, an American citizen who worked at the U.S. Embassy in London. Kent stole highly sensitive documents relating to communications between Churchill and Roosevelt. Names include Action, Guy A. Aldred, John Amery, J. Larratt Battersby, John Warburton Beckett, Francis Beckett, formerly Marquess of Tavistock, Duke of Bedford, British Union, British Peoples Party, British Council for Christian Settlement in Europe, Britons Publishing Society, The Britons, Brixton Prison, John W. Charnley, Winston Churchill, Conservative Party, Sir Barry Domvile, Stephen Dorril, Sir Oscar Dowson, Nellie Driver, 18B Publicity Council, 18B Club, J.F.C. Fuller, R.C. and Mrs. Gordon-Canning, Benjamin Greene, Lord Halifax, E. Jeffrey Hamm, Adolf Hitler, Italian Fascist Party, January Club, William Joyce, Tyler Kent, League of Christian Reform, Arnold S. Leese, Liberty Restoration League, The Link, R.W. Liversidge, H.W. Luttman-Johnson, John Angus Macnab, Arthur Marson, Hector G. McKechnie, Sir Oswald Mosley, Nicholas Mosley, Diana Mosley, George H.L-F. Pitt-Rivers, Captain Maule Ramsay, Right Club, Robert Saunders, John Scanlon, Brocard Sewell, Henry St. George, Press Strickland, Margaret Thatcher, Leigh Vaughan-Henry, John Warburton, Henry Williamson, Anna Wolkoff, and John Wynn.