Fred Briehl papers, 1911-1974.
Collection Number: 3474
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Fred Briehl papers, 1911-1974.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
3474
Abstract:
Collection includes correspondence with friends and family members, diaries, scrapbooks,
and published materials concerning Briehl's activism, communism, socialism, agriculture,
pacifism, and radical causes
Creator:
Briehl, Fred, 1892-1974.
Quanitities:
9.4 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Fred Briehl was a dairy farmer and summer guest house operator, Wallkill, Ulster County;
political party and union organizer; accountant, printer and editor of THE FARM FRONT.
Collection includes correspondence with friends and family members, 1911-1947 (1911-1920
bulk); diaries (1917-1920) written primarily when Briehl was in prison for refusing
to serve in the armed forces during World War I; correspondence with various politicians
and the media concerning current affairs, 1917-1970; legal documents pertaining to
lawsuits, property and patents, 1942-1961, and the 1955 House Un-American Activities
Committee investigation of summer camps; tape recordings of interviews and events,
1962-1978; videotapes of home movies taken by Briehl, a clip from "Native Land," a
1942 documentary on civil rights in which Briehl acted, and a documentary film, "Fred
Briehl" by Charles Gershwin and Michael Mitchell, containing clips from his home movies
and interviews during 1970-1971; student notebooks and papers, 1914-1920; scrapbooks
and clippings, 1915-1974; correspondence, broadsides, handouts and speeches relating
to activities in the Communist Party and the Dairyman's League, the Farmer's Union,
and the Farmer's Emergency Committee; records from his dairy farm, 1927-1944; issues
of THE FARM FRONT, published by the New York Farm Commission of the Communist Party,
(1943-1959) and edited by or with Briehl; pamphlets and miscellaneous publications
concerning communism, socialism, agriculture, pacifism, and radical causes.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Fred Briehl. Papers, #3474. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University
Library.
Names:
Communist Party -- : New York (State).
Dairyman\'s League
Farmer\'s Union
Farmer\'s Emergency Committee
New York Commission of the Communist Party
United States. Congress. House Un-American Activities Committee
Brookside Farm (Wallkill, N.Y.)
Places:
Ulster County (N.Y.)
Wallkill (N.Y.)
Subjects:
Farmers.
Radicalism.
Pacifism.
Agriculture.
Socialism.
Communism.
Civil rights.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Conscientious objectors.
Form and Genre Terms:
Diaries.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Scope and Contents
All the material in the collection may not be covered by this guide.
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Series I: Correspondence
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Box 1 | Folder 1-39 |
Edna Kriegner - Fred Briehl
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Date unknown |
Box 1 | Folder 40-47 |
Briehl Family
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Date unknown |
Box 1 | Folder 48-49 |
Krieger Family
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Date unknown |
Box 1 | Folder 50-70 |
Friends
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Date unknown |
Scope and Contents
Robert Christian, Ubaldo Marra, William D. Paul, Theresa Wolfson, John Downey, Miscellaneous.
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Box 1 | Folder 71-77 |
Political
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Date unknown |
Box 2 | Folder 1-8 |
Political
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Date unknown |
Box 2 | Folder 9-11 |
Media
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Date unknown |
Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Miscellaneous
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Date unknown |
Series II: Personal Files
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Date unknown | ||
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous
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Box 3 | Folder 52-54 |
Student Notebooks and Papers
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Date unknown |
Box 2 | Folder 13-22 |
Student Notebooks and Papers
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Date unknown |
Box 2 | Folder 23 |
Union Materials
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1917-1921 |
Scope and Contents
NYC
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Box 2 | Folder 24 |
Letters of Recommendation
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Date unknown |
Box 2 | Folder 25-35 |
Prison Materials: Diaries
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Date unknown |
Box 2 | Folder 36 |
Prison Materials: Publications
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Date unknown |
Box 4 | Folder 4-7 |
Prison Materials: Publications
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Date unknown |
Box 2 | Folder 37 |
Prison Materials: Court Martial Statements
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Date unknown |
Box 4 | Folder 8 |
Prison Materials: Court Martial Statements
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Date unknown |
Box 2 | Folder 38 |
Prison Miscellaneous
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Date unknown |
Box 2 | Folder 39 |
Minutes of the Worker's Welfare Association
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Date unknown |
Box 2 | Folder 40 |
1949 Accident Material
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1949 |
Box 4 | Folder 41 |
Briehl vs. Porco
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Date unknown |
Box 2 | Folder 41 |
Broken Leg Material
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Date unknown |
Box 2 | Folder 41-45 |
Headlight Material
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Date unknown |
Box 4 | Folder 10 |
Headlight Material
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Date unknown |
Box 2 | Folder 46 |
Airman's Certificate Material
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Date unknown |
Box 2 | Folder 46 |
Fred and Edna's Retirement Tribute Material
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Date unknown |
Box 2 | Folder 46-51 |
Fred's Autobiography
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Date unknown |
Box 2 | Folder 52 |
Funeral Tributes
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Date unknown |
Box 2 | Folder 53 |
Personal Documents
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Date unknown |
Box 2 | Folder 54 |
Miscellany
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Date unknown |
Series III: Dairy Records
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Date unknown | ||
Box 2 | Folder 55-63 |
Herd Books
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Date unknown |
Box 2 | Folder 64-65 |
Disease Testing Records
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Date unknown |
Box 4 | Folder 11 |
Registration
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Date unknown |
Box 2 | Folder 66 |
Registration
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Date unknown |
Box 2 | Folder 69 |
Milk Receipts
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Date unknown |
Box 2 | Folder 67 |
Breeding Records
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Date unknown |
Box 4 | Folder 11 |
Auction Records
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Date unknown |
Box 2 | Folder 70-71 |
Farm Miscellany
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Date unknown |
Box 2 | Folder 72-73 |
Farm Improvements
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Date unknown |
Box 4 | Folder 12 |
Farm Improvements
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Date unknown |
Series IV:Financial and Land Records
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1923-1952 | ||
Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Statement of Income and Expenses
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1923-1952 |
Box 4 | Folder 13-20 |
Statement of Income and Expenses
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1923-1952 |
Box 3 | Folder 3-4 |
Mortgage Papers
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1923-1952 |
Box 4 | Folder 21-22 |
Mortgage Papers
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1923-1952 |
Box 4 | Folder 23 |
Middleton Production Credit Association
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1923-1952 |
Box 5 | Folder 5-6 |
Middleton Production Credit Association
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1923-1952 |
Series V: Farm Organizations
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Date unknown | ||
Box 3 | Folder 7 |
Sheffield Farms Company, Inc.
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Date unknown |
Box 3 | Folder 8 |
Emergency Committee of the NY Milk Shed
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Date unknown |
Box 4 | Folder 25 |
Emergency Committee of the NY Milk Shed
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Date unknown |
Box 3 | Folder 9-12, 51 |
Dairyman's Cooperative League
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Date unknown |
Box 4 | Folder 24 |
Dairyman's Cooperative League
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Date unknown |
Box 4 | Folder 25-26 |
Farmer's Union
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Date unknown |
Series VI: Socialist and Communist Papers
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1818-1956 | ||
Box 4 | Folder 27 |
Socialist Papers
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Date unknown |
Communist Papers
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Date unknown | ||
Box 3 | Folder 13-17 |
Correspondance
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Date unknown |
Box 4 | Folder 28 |
Correspondance
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Date unknown |
Box 3 | Folder 18-26 |
Radio Speeches
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Date unknown |
Box 4 | Folder 29 |
Radio Speeches
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Date unknown |
Box 4 | Folder 27 |
Broadsides and Leaflets
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Date unknown |
Box Unknown | BR-5024 |
Broadsides and Leaflets
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Date unknown |
Box 3 | Folder 27 |
Miscellany
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Date unknown |
Box 3 | Folder 28-36 |
The Farm Front
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Date unknown |
Series VII: Printed Matter
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Date unknown | ||
Scope and Contents
Note: No Catalog Number
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Box 3 | Folder 37 |
Book Lists
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Date unknown |
Box 6 |
Pamphlets
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Date unknown | |
Box 7 |
Pamphlets
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Date unknown | |
Box 8 |
Pamphlets
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Date unknown | |
Box 9 |
Pamphlets
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Date unknown | |
Box 10 |
Pamphlets
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Date unknown | |
Box 4 | Folder 37 |
Pamphlets
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Date unknown |
Box 5 | Folder 16 |
Pamphlets
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Date unknown |
Box 3 | Folder 38-39, 55 |
Pamphlets
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Date unknown |
Box 4 | Folder 31-34 |
Broadsides, Catalogs, Brochures, Programs and Reprints
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Date unknown |
Series VIII: Tape Recordings
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Date unknown | ||
Box Unknown | TR-263 A |
Tape Recording
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Date unknown |
Box Unknown | TR-263 B |
Tape Recording
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Date unknown |
Box Unknown | TR-263 C |
Tape Recording
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Date unknown |
Box Unknown | TR-263 D |
Tape Recording
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Date unknown |
Box Unknown | TR-263 E |
Tape Recording
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Date unknown |
Box Unknown | TR-263 F |
Tape Recording
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Date unknown |
Box 5 |
Series IX: Video Tapes
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Date unknown | |
Scope and Contents
Tapes 1-10.
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Series X: Scrapbooks, Photograph Album and Clippings
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Date unknown | ||
Box 5 | Folder 1 |
Prison Camp Photograph Album
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Date unknown |
Box 5 | Folder 2-3 |
Black Scrapbook
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1915 |
Box 5 | Folder 4-10 |
Maroon Scrapbook
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1954-1971 |
Box 4 | Folder 35 |
Loose Clippings
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Date unknown |
Box 5 | Folder 11-15 |
Loose Clippings
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Date unknown |