Carroll D. Wright. Selected writings,
1878-1901

Collection Number: 5399mf

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives
Cornell University Library

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EAD encoding:
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DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Carroll D. Wright. Selected writings, 1878-1901.
Collection Number:
5399mf
Creator:
Wright, Carroll Davidson, 1840-1909.
Quantity:
1 reel negative microfilm
Forms of Material:
Microfilm.
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University.
Abstract:
Selected writings of Carroll D. Wright, first United States Commissioner of Labor.
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Carroll D. Wright was chief of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor, 1873-1888; President of the National Convention of Chiefs and Commissioners of Bureaus of Statistics of Labor, 1883-1903; and the first U.S. Commissioner of Labor, 1885-1905. For additional information see: "Wright, Carroll Davidson." Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. 20, p. 544.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Selected writings of Carroll D. Wright, first United States Commissioner of Labor.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Wright, Carroll Davidson, 1840-1909.

Form and Genre Terms:
Papers

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Cite As:
Wright, Carroll D. Selected writings, 1878-1901. 5399mf. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University.
CONTAINER LIST

Description
Container
Selected Writings, 1878-1901
1. The Present Actual Condition of the Workingman. An address delivered before the National Conference of Unitarian Churches, at Saratoga, September 23, 1886. 12 pp.
2. The Working of the Department of Labor. Washington, D.C. U.S. Department of Labor Exhibit, Pan-American Exposition, 1901. 17 pp.
3. Newsclipping, 1878. (Concerned with Mr. Moody's Unemployed)
4. Mr. Moody's Unemployed, handwritten ms., 4 pp., n.d.
5. Circulair Sur Les Heures Uniformes De Travail Et Les Canadiens-Francais. Boston, 1881. 1 p.
6. Letter from John S. Lord, Secretary of the Illinois Bureau of Labor Statistics, to Carroll D. Wright relative to the Pullman Co., dated, Springfield, Illinois, October 17, 1884. 6 pp.
7. Report of the Investigation of the economic and social experiment of the Pullman Palace Car Company and the town of Pullman, Illinois, by the chiefs and commissioners of the various bureaus of statistics of labor in the United States. 22 pp. plus additional handwritten sheets and marginal notes.