George J. Hecht papers, [ca. 1915]-1974.
Collection Number: 3473
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
George J. Hecht papers, [ca. 1915]-1974.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
3473
Abstract:
Correspondence, news clippings, and articles relating to George J. Hecht (Cornell
University Class of 1917). Correspondents of note include John Lovejoy Elliot of the
Ethical Culture Society and the Hudson Guild, William DeForest, James G. Blain, and
Senators Hubert Humphrey, Lister Hill, Cleveland Bailey, and Robert Kennedy. Also
included are three taped interviews and transcripts, 1974.
Creator:
Hecht, George J., 1895-1980.
Quanitities:
2.4 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Publisher.
Correspondence, news clippings, and articles relating to George J. Hecht (Cornell
University Class of 1917). Correspondents of note include John Lovejoy Elliot of the
Ethical Culture Society and the Hudson Guild, William DeForest, James G. Blain, and
Senators Hubert Humphrey, Lister Hill, Cleveland Bailey, and Robert Kennedy. Also
included are three taped interviews and transcripts, 1974.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
George J. Hecht papers, #3473. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Names:
Bailey, Cleveland.
Blain, James G.
DeForest, William.
Elliot, John Lovejoy.
Hill, Lister, 1894-
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978.
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968.
Ethical Culture Society
Hudson Guild
Subjects:
Publishers.
Social service.
Public welfare.
Education.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Personal Correspondence and Family Life
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1903-1967 | ||
Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Biographical Material
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1927, 1936, undated |
Scope and Contents
Contains clippings, articles, and a photograph
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Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Family Tree
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1953, 1955-1956, 1965 |
Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence, tables, and photographs
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Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Childhood and Youth
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1906, 1909, 1912-1913, undated |
Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence
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Frankfort, Maurice
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Sister Beatrice
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Ethical Culture School
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Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Cornell
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1913-1917 |
Scope and Contents
Contains a Basserman draft
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Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Letters from Cornell to parents
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1914, 1916, undated |
Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Letters from Cornell to parents
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1917, undated |
Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Correspondence
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1922, 1925-1927, 1929-1930 |
Frankfort, Maurice
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Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Marriage
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1929-1930 |
Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence, clippings, photographs, and a Basserman draft
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Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Meyer Hecht and Gella Stern Hecht (parents)
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1886, 1891, 1903, 1917, 1919, 1922-1923, 1925-1926, 1930, 1937-1942, 1944, undated |
Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence, photographs, and clippings
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Hecht, Meyer
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Stern Hecht, Gella
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Elliott, John Lovejoy
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Society for Ethical Culture
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Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Maurice Frankfort
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1903, 1935, undated |
Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence and a photograph
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Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Beatrice Hecht letters (adolescent)
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1917, 1920, undated |
Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Freyda Hecht (wife)
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1938, 1943, 1955, undated |
Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence, clippings, and a photograph
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Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Hecht children (Susan and George) childhood letters
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1931, 1937, 1941-1943, 1957, 1960-1961, undated |
Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence, clippings, and photographs
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Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Hecht Family Miscellany
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1903, 1930, 1940 |
Scope and Contents
Contains photographs, correspondence, and memorabilia
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Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Travel
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1936, 1939, 1950, 1952-1967 |
Social Welfare Work
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1919-1974 | ||
Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Better Times - Early Days
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1920-1929, 1945 |
Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Better Times
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1919, 1920-1924 |
United Neighborhood Houses
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Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Better Times
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1925-1931 |
Lehman, Herbert
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Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Better Times
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Undated |
Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Better Times Bulletins
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1920, 1922, 1924, 1926, 1930, 1965 |
Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Welfare Council
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1923-1928 |
Scope and Contents
Contains 1927-06-06 and 1927-11-21 copies of Better Times Bulletins
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Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Welfare Council
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1923-1930, 1934, 1937-1938, 1940-1941, 1945, undated |
Lane, Robert
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DeForest, William
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Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Greater New York Fund
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1938-1941, 1940-02-23, 1965 |
Blain, James G.
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Box 1 | Folder 24 |
How The Greater New York Fund Happened to Get Started
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1926-1938, 1966 |
Fakoner, Douglas P.
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Welfare Council, Executive Committee
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Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Ethical Culture Society
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1919, 1927, 1939, 1942, 1959-1960, 1963, 1966, undated |
Elliott, John Lovejoy
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American Ethical Union
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Ethical Culture Schools
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Box 1 | Folder 26 |
Hudson Guild
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1919, 1965 |
Elliott, John Lovejoy
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Box 1 | Folder 27 |
National Council of Social Work
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1926 |
Box 1 | Folder 28 |
UNICEF
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1953-1954, 1958, 1961, 1965-1966 |
Labouisse, Henry
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Pantaleoni, Helsenka
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United States Committee for UNICEF
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Box 1 | Folder 29 |
United Jewish Appeal
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1930, 1944, 1963, 1965-1966, undated |
Ben-Gurion, David
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Joint Distribution Committee
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Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies of New York City
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Box 1 | Folder 30 |
Population Explosion and Birth Control
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1950, 1964-1966 |
San Francisco Medical Center
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Population Reference Bureau
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Education and Educational Legislation
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1920-1974 | ||
Box 1 | Folder 31 |
Education and Educational Legislation
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1953, 1956-1958, 1963, 1965, undated |
Kennedy, Robert
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Humphrey, Hubert
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Box 1 | Folder 32 |
American Parents Committee
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1921, 1949, 1954-1959 |
U.S. Department of Labor, Children's Bureau
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Box 1 | Folder 33 |
American Parents Committee
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1960, 1962, 1964-1965, 1967, 1974, undated |
Hill, Lister
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Box 1 | Folder 34 |
Handbook on Federal Grants-in-Aid
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1953 |
American Parents Committee
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Box 1 | Folder 35 |
"In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term 1966. Motion for Leave to
File A Brief As Amicus Curiae and Brief of The American Parents Committee As Amicus
Curiae" (Gault Case)
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1966 |
Box 1 | Folder 36 |
Bipartisan Citizen's Committee for Federal Aid for Public Elementary and Secondary
Schools
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1959-1963, 1966, undated |
Bailey, Cleveland
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Harlow, Bryce
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Box 1 | Folder 37 |
Emergency Committee For The National Defense Education Bill; Citizens Committee for
Extension of the National Defense Education Act
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1958-1959, 1961 |
Elliott, Carl
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Hill, Lister
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Johnson, Eric
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Benton, William
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Box 1 | Folder 38 |
"The International Brains Race"
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1956-1959 |
Box 1 | Folder 39 |
Simplified Spelling and An International Language
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1959-1963, undated |
International Language Review
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Hecht Publications
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1917-1973 | ||
Box 1 | Folder 40 |
Washington Service, World War I
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1917-1918, 1921, undated |
American Ambulance Field Service
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Bureau of Cartoons
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Bureau of Research
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Box 1 | Folder 41 |
Correspondence from Washington, D. C. to parents
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1917, undated |
National Committee of Patriotic Societies
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Box 1 | Folder 42 |
Correspondence from Washington, D. C. to parents
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1918 |
National Committee of Patriotic Societies
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U.S. Department of State, War Trade Boards
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Committee on Public Information
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Box 1 | Folder 43 |
Cartoons (World War I)
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1918 |
Bureau of Cartoons
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Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Bulletin for Cartoonists
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1918 |
Creel, George
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Committee on Public Information
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Bureau of Cartoons
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Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Bulletin for Cartoonists
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1918 |
Committee on Public Information
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Bureau of Cartoons
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Box 2 | Folder 3 |
World War I
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1918, 1921 |
The Stars and Stripes
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Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Boy and Girls Newspapers
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1934-1935, undated |
The Children's Newspaper of London, England
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Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Comics (True Comics and WWII Comics)
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1941, 1943-1948, undated |
Box 2 | Folder 6 |
World War II
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1938, 1940-1943, 1945 |
Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Metropolitan Mothers Guide
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1932 |
Box 2 | Folder 8 |
School Supply and Equipment Directory
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1934 |
Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Hecht's other magazines
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1938, 1940-1942, 1953, 1966-1967, undated |
Better Babies
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Calling All Girls
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Children's Digest
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Humpty-Dumpty's
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Predictions of Things to Come
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True Comics
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Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Parents' Magazine Enterprises, Inc.
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1964-1966, undated |
Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Parents' Magazine
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1926-1966 |
Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Parents' Magazine
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1927-1966 |
Box 2 | Folder 13 |
Possible inspiration for Parents' Magazine
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1923 |
Rockefeller, John D.
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Box 2 | Folder 14 |
Parents' Magazine, 1920's
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1924-1929 |
Russell Sage Foundation
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Gavit, John Palmer
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Hill, Patty S.
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Meloney, William Brown
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Box 2 | Folder 15 |
Children, The Magazine For Parents
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1926-01 |
Box 2 | Folder 16 |
"Dean Russell's Inquiry Regarding Children, The Magazine For Parents, And the Replies
He Received"
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1927-03 |
Russell, James
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Box 2 | Folder 17 |
Editor's Handbook
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1927 |
Box 2 | Folder 18 |
Parents' Magazine, 1920's
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1926-1929 |
Box 2 | Folder 19 |
"The Greatest Profession in the World"
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1926-1927 |
Box 2 | Folder 20 |
Parents' Magazine, 1920's
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1926-1929 |
Box 2 | Folder 21 |
"A Suggested Plan For A Management Corporation To Conduct The Publishing Operations
of 'Boy's Life,' 'The American Girl,' And 'The Parents' Magazine."
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1930-05-23 |
Box 2 | Folder 22 |
Parents' Magazine, 1930's
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1930-1934 |
Hoover, Herbert
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Roosevelt, Eleanor
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Motion Picture Theatre Owners of America
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New York Urban League, Inc.
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Box 2 | Folder 23 |
Parents' Magazine, 1930's
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1935-1937 |
DeForest, Johnson
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Gavit, John Palmer
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Hill, George Parmley
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Hill, Patty Smith
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Lehman, Herbert
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Lenroot, Katharine
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Littledale, Clara Savage
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Roosevelt, Franklin
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Ruml, Beardsley
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Greater N.Y. Fund
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Box 2 | Folder 24 |
Parents' Magazine, 1930's
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1938-1939 |
Hoover, J. E.
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Perkins, Frances
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Better Parenthood Week
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National Father's Day Committee
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Box 2 | Folder 25 |
Parents' Magazine, 1930's
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1930-1931, 1934, 1936-1938 |
Box 2 | Folder 26 |
Parents' Magazine, 1940's
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1940 |
Roosevelt, Eleanor
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Better Parenthood Week
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National Father's Day Committee
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Box 2 | Folder 27 |
Parents' Magazine, 1940's
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1940-1945, 1948-1949 |
Box 2 | Folder 28 |
Parents' Magazine, 1940's
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1940-1945 |
Box 2 | Folder 29 |
Parents' Magazine, 1950's
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1950-1953, 1955-1957 |
Truman, Harry
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Box 2 | Folder 30 |
Parents' Magazine, 1950's
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1958-1959 |
Elliott, Carl
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Humphrey, Hubert
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Box 2 | Folder 31 |
Parents' Magazine, 1960's
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1960-1961, 1963-1967, 1971 |
Humphrey, Hubert
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Kennedy, John F.
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Lindsay, John
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Ribicoff, Abraham
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Calling All Parents
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Box 2 | Folder 32 |
International Federation of The Periodical Press
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1959-1960, 1963-1965 |
Box 2 | Folder 33 |
Parents' Magazine, 1960's
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1963, 1965, undated |
Box 2 | Folder 34 |
Parents' Magazine
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Undated |
Littledale, Clara Savage
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Box 2 | Folder 35 |
Parents' Magazine
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Undated |
Box 2 | Folder 36 |
Baker and Taylor Co.
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1960, 1966-1967, undated |
Box 2 | Folder 37 |
Correspondence Courses
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1961, 1966 |
Parents' Magazine Foundation for Child Welfare, Inc.
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University of Wisconsin Home Study Department
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Box 2 | Folder 38 |
F.A.O. Schwartz
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Box 2 | Folder 39 |
Miscellaneous
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1924-1973 |
Box 2 | Folder 40 |
Titles for Basserman manuscript
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1966 |
Box 2 | Folder 41 |
Basserman manuscript notes
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1965 |
Box 2 | Folder 42 |
"An Unpublished Biography: The First 70 Years (1895-1965) of the Life of George J.
Hecht"
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1966 |
Hill Basserman, Maude
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Miscellaneous Hecht Publications
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1966, undated | ||
Box 3 |
"Baby Care"
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Fall 1973, Spring 1974 | |
Box 3 |
"Baby Care Digest"
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1944 | |
Box 3 |
"Books For Young Readers"
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Fall 1973, Fall 1974 | |
Scope and Contents
Contains catalogues
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Box 3 |
"The Book Buyer's Guide"
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1960-09 | |
Baker and Taylor Co.
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Box 3 |
"Calling All Girls"
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1965-12 | |
Box 3 |
"Children's Digest"
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1966-09, 1974-04, 1974-07 | |
Box 3 |
"Expecting"
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1974 | |
Box 3 |
F.A.O. Schwartz catalogues
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Christmas 1965, Christmas, 1966 | |
Box 3 |
"Humpty-Dumpty's"
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1973-01-1974-09 | |
Box 3 |
"Parents' Magazine"
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1944-1966-12 | |
Box 3 |
"The Pictorial News Digest"
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1943-06-06 | |
Box 3 |
"Predictions"
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1943, Winter 1946 | |
Box 3 |
"School Management"
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1932-03 | |
Box 3 |
"Student's Guide To American Industry"
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1959-1960 | |
Scope and Contents
Pamphlet
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Box 3 |
"Young Miss"
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1974-05 | |
Transcript Box 1 | TR-519-521 |
Interviews with George J. Hecht
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1974-07-03-1974-11-25 |
Scope and Contents
3 tape recorded interviews and transcripts
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Hecht, George J.
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Densmore, Christopher
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