Adolph Germer Papers on Microfilm
Collection Number: 5809 mf
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Title:
Adolph Germer Papers on Microfilm,
1898-1966
Collection Number:
5809 mf
Creator:
Germer, Adolph
Quantity:
30 microfilm reels
Forms of Material:
Papers (documents), microfilm.
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and
Archives, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Correspondence, speeches, subject files, and personal
materials of Adolph Germer.
Language:
Collection material in English
Mr. Germer was born in Welan, Germany In 1881 and came to the United States in 1888.
His father was a miner, and Adolph went to work in the coal mines of Staunton,
Illinois, when he was eleven years old. He joined the United Mine Workers of America
in 1894 and held various offices; among them the United Mine Workers representative
to the World Miners Congress in Amsterdam in 1912. He participated in the Colorado
strike in 1913.
He joined the Socialist Party in 1900, and was its national secretary from 1916 to
1919. He was arrested, tried and convicted of subversion in the famous trial of
1918. With Eugene V. Debs and Victor L. Berger he wrote the Socialist Party report
on the West Virginia Coal Strike in 1913.
In 1933 he joined the Oil Field, Gas Well and Refinery Workers and became an
international organizer He participated in the formation of the Congress of
Industrial Organizations and was on its staff as an organizer. He was its delegate
to the World Federation of Trade Unions meeting in Prague in 1947.
The Germer collection is divided into six overlapping series of manuscripts:
Series 1: Correspondence, 1901-1966.
Series 2: Speeches, 1914[?]-1961.
Series 3: Personal material regarding Adolph Germer, 1900-1960.
Series 4: Subject files on the labor movement, 1898-1961.
Series 5: Diaries, 1930-1958.
Series 6: Scrapbook, 1930-1964.
Names:
Germer, Adolf
Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.)
Subjects:
Labor unions--Organizing--United States.
Strikes and lockouts--Coal mining--United States.
Coal miners--Labor unions--United States.
Collective bargaining--Coal mining
industry--United States.
Form and Genre Terms:
Papers (documents)
Microfilm.
Access Restrictions:
Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a
reference archivist for access to these materials.
Restrictions on Use:
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet
and Procedures for Document Use.
Cite As:
Adolph Germer Papers on Microfilm #5809 mf. Kheel Center for Labor-Management
Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
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Reel 1 | |||
Reel 1 | Item 1 | 1901-1910 | |
Reel 1 | Item 2 | 1911-1913 | |
Reel 1 | Item 3 | 1914-1918 | |
Reel 1 | Item 4 | 1919-1929 | |
Reel 1 | Item 5 | 1930 | |
Reel 1 | Item 6 | 1931 | |
Reel 2 | |||
Reel 2 | Item 1 | 1932 | |
Reel 2 | Item 2 | 1933 | |
Reel 2 | Item 3 | 1934 | |
January-February 1934.
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Reel 2 | Item 4 | 1934 | |
March 2-16, 1934
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Reel 2 | Item 5 | 1934 | |
March 17-31, 1934
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Reel 2 | Item 6 | 1934 | |
April-December, 1934
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Reel 2 | Item 7 | 1935 | |
January-August 1935
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Reel 3 | |||
Reel 3 | Item 1 | 1935 | |
September-December 1935
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Reel 3 | Item 2 | 1936 | |
January-March 1936
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Reel 3 | Item 3 | 1936 | |
April-June 1936
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Reel 3 | Item 4 | 1936 | |
July-December 1936
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Reel 4 | |||
Reel 4 | Item 1 | 1937 | |
Reel 4 | Item 2 | 1938 | |
Reel 4 | Item 3 | 1939 | |
Reel 4 | Item 4 | 1940 | |
January-June 1940
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Reel 4 | Item 5 | 1940 | |
July 1940
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Reel 4 | Item 6 | 1940 | |
August 1940
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Reel 5 | |||
Reel 5 | Item 1 | 1940 | |
September 1940
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Reel 5 | Item 2 | 1940 | |
October 1940
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Reel 5 | Item 3 | 1940 | |
November-December 1940
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Reel 5 | Item 4 | 1941 | |
January-February 1941
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Reel 5 | Item 5 | 1941 | |
March-April 1941
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Reel 6 | |||
Reel 6 | Item 1 | 1941 | |
May-December 1941
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Reel 6 | Item 2 | 1942 | |
January-March 1942
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Reel 6 | Item 3 | 1942 | |
April-May 1942
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Reel 6 | Item 4 | 1942 | |
June-July 1942
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Reel 6 | Item 5 | 1942 | |
August-September 1942
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Reel 6 | Item 6 | 1942 | |
October-December 1942
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Reel 7 | |||
Reel 7 | Item 1 | 1943 | |
January-March 1943
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Reel 7 | Item 2 | 1943 | |
April-June 1943
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Reel 7 | Item 3 | 1943 | |
July-December 1943
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Reel 7 | Item 4 | 1944 | |
January-April 1944
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Reel 8 | |||
Reel 8 | Item 1 | 1944 | |
May-June 1944
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Reel 8 | Item 2 | 1944 | |
July-August 1944
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Reel 8 | Item 3 | 1944 | |
September 1944
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Reel 8 | Item 4 | 1944 | |
October-December 1944
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Reel 8 | Item 5 | 1945 | |
January-March 1945
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Reel 9 | |||
Reel 9 | Item 1 | 1945 | |
April-May 1945
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Reel 9 | Item 2 | 1945 | |
June 1945
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Reel 9 | Item 3 | 1945 | |
July 1945
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Reel 9 | Item 4 | 1945 | |
August 1945
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Reel 10 | |||
Reel 10 | Item 1 | 1945 | |
September 1945
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Reel 10 | Item 2 | 1945 | |
October-December 1945
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Reel 10 | Item 3 | 1946 | |
January-May 1946
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Reel 10 | Item 4 | 1946 | |
June-December 1946
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Reel 11 | |||
Reel 11 | Item 1 | 1947 | |
January-July 1947
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Reel 11 | Item 2 | 1947 | |
August-December 1947
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Reel 11 | Item 3 | 1948 | |
January-March 1948
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Reel 11 | Item 4 | 1948 | |
April-May 1948
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Reel 12 | |||
Reel 12 | Item 1 | 1948 | |
June 1948
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Reel 12 | Item 2 | 1948 | |
July-August 1948
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Reel 12 | Item 3 | 1948 | |
September-October 1948
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Reel 12 | Item 4 | 1948 | |
November-December 1948
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Reel 13 | |||
Reel 13 | Item 1 | 1949 | |
January-May 1949
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Reel 13 | Item 2 | 1949 | |
June-December 1949
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Reel 13 | Item 3 | 1950 | |
January-March 1950
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Reel 13 | Item 4 | 1950 | |
April-June 1950
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Reel 14 | |||
Reel 14 | Item 1 | 1950 | |
July-December 1950
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Reel 14 | Item 2 | 1951 | |
January-April 1951.
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Reel 14 | Item 3 | 1951 | |
May-December 1951
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Reel 14 | Item 4 | 1952 | |
Reel 14 | Item 5 | 1953 | |
January-June 1953
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Reel 15 | |||
Reel 15 | Item 1 | 1953 | |
July-December 1953
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Reel 15 | Item 2 | 1954 | |
Reel 15 | Item 3 | 1955 | |
Reel 15 | Item 4 | 1956 | |
Reel 15 | Item 5 | 1957 | |
Reel 16 | |||
Reel 16 | Item 1 | 1958 | |
Reel 16 | Item 2 | 1959 | |
Reel 16 | Item 3 | 1960 | |
Reel 16 | Item 4 | 1961 | |
Reel 16 | Item 5 | 1962 | |
Reel 16 | Item 6 | 1963 | |
Reel 16 | Item 7 | 1964-1966 | |
1964-1966 and Undated.
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Reel 17 | |||
Reel 17 | Item 1 | 1933-1942 | |
[1914], 1933-1942
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Reel 17 | Item 2 | 1914 | |
Reel 17 | Item 3 | 1933 | |
Reel 17 | Item 4 | 1934 | |
Reel 17 | Item 5 | 1936 | |
Reel 17 | Item 6 | 1937 | |
Reel 17 | Item 7 | 1936 | |
[1936?]
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Reel 17 | Item 8 | 1937 | |
[1937?]
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Reel 17 | Item 9 | 1937 | |
Reel 17 | Item 10 | 1938 | |
Reel 17 | Item 11 | 1937 | |
Reel 17 | Item 12 | 1937 | |
Reel 17 | Item 13 | 1939 | |
Reel 17 | Item 14 | 1939 | |
Reel 17 | Item 15 | 1940 | |
Reel 17 | Item 16 | 1940 | |
Reel 17 | Item 17 | 1942 | |
Reel 17 | Item 18 | 1939 | |
Reel 17 | Item 19 | 1939 | |
Reel 17 | Item 20 | 1940 | |
Reel 17 | Item 21 | 1942 | |
Reel 17 | Item 22 | 1941 | |
Reel 17 | Item 23 | 1942 | |
Reel 17 | Item 24 | 1942 | |
Reel 17 | Item 25 | 1942 | |
Reel 17 | Item 26 | 1943-1961 | |
1943-[1961?]
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Reel 17 | Item 27 | 1942 | |
[1942?]
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Reel 17 | Item 28 | 1943 | |
[1943?]
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Reel 17 | Item 29 | 1944 | |
[1944?]
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Reel 17 | Item 30 | 1945 | |
Reel 17 | Item 31 | 1945 | |
Reel 17 | Item 32 | 1948 | |
[1948]
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Reel 17 | Item 33 | 1947 | |
Reel 17 | Item 34 | 1948 | |
Reel 17 | Item 35 | 1948 | |
Reel 17 | Item 36 | 1948 | |
[1948?]
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Reel 17 | Item 37 | 1949 | |
Reel 17 | Item 38 | 1949 | |
Reel 17 | Item 39 | 1950 | |
Reel 17 | Item 40 | 1951 | |
[1951?]
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Reel 17 | Item 41 | 1951 | |
Reel 17 | Item 42 | 1951 | |
Reel 17 | Item 43 | 1950 | |
Reel 17 | Item 44 | 1954 | |
[1954?]
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Reel 17 | Item 45 | 1950-1959 | |
[1950s?]
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Reel 17 | Item 46 | 1954 | |
[1954?]
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Reel 17 | Item 47 | 1954 | |
[1954?]
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Reel 17 | Item 48 | 1961 | |
[1961?]
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Reel 17 | Item 49 | 1960-1962 | |
Reel 17 | Item 50 | 1931-1966 | |
Reel 17 | Item 51 | 1917-1919 | |
Reel 17 | Item 52 | 1931-1958 | |
1931-1958 and Undated.
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Reel 17 | Item 53 | 1946-1947 | |
Reel 18 | |||
Reel 18 | Item 1 | 1900-1960 | |
1900-1960 and Undated
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Reel 18 | Item 2 | 1931-1936 | |
1931-1936 [1930-1936]
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Reel 18 | Item 3 | 1916-1934 | |
1916, 1932-1934
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Reel 18 | Item 4 | 1933-1935 | |
Reel 18 | Item 5 | 1933-1935 | |
Reel 18 | Item 6 | 1935 | |
February-May 1935.
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Reel 18 | Item 7 | 1930-1958 | |
1930-1958 and Undated.
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Reel 19 | |||
Reel 19 | Item 1 | 1936-1956 | |
Reel 19 | Item 2 | 1930-1939 | |
[1930s?]
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Reel 19 | Item 3 | 1943-1954 | |
Reel 19 | Item 4 | 1936-1946 | |
Reel 20 | |||
Reel 20 | Item 1 | 1948 | |
Reel 20 | Item 2 | 1949 | |
Reel 20 | Item 3 | 1950 | |
Reel 20 | Item 4 | 1950 | |
Reel 20 | Item 5 | 1951-1952 | |
Reel 20 | Item 6 | 1953 | |
Reel 20 | Item 7 | 1954 | |
Reel 20 | Item 8 | 1955-1961 | |
1955, 1959-1961
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Reel 20 | Item 9 | 1938-1939 | |
Reel 20 | Item 10 | 1940 | |
Reel 21 | |||
Reel 21 | Item 1 | 1948-1950 | |
Reel 21 | Item 2 | 1947-1948 | |
Reel 21 | Item 3 | 1940-1953 | |
Reel 21 | Item 4 | 1951 | |
Reel 21 | Item 5 | 1945-1949 | |
Reel 21 | Item 6 | 1939 | |
[1939?]
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Reel 22 | |||
Reel 22 | Item 1 | 1936-1937 | |
Reel 22 | Item 2 | 1930-1953 | |
1930s, 1946, 1952-1953
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Reel 22 | Item 3 | 1934-1955 | |
Reel 22 | Item 4 | 1937-1963 | |
1937-1963 and Undated.
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Reel 23 | |||
Reel 23 | Item 1 | 1949-1959 | |
1949, 1954-1959.
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Reel 23 | Item 2 | 1943-1951 | |
1943, 1948-1951
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Reel 23 | Item 3 | 1943-1957 | |
1943, 1948-1957
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Reel 23 | Item 4 | 1951-1956 | |
Reel 23 | Item 5 | 1941 | |
Reel 24 | |||
Reel 24 | Item 1 | 1941 | |
Reel 24 | Item 2 | 1940 | |
Reel 24 | Item 3 | 1941 | |
Reel 24 | Item 4 | 1943 | |
Reel 24 | Item 5 | 1945 | |
Reel 24 | Item 6 | 1947 | |
Reel 24 | Item 7 | 1949 | |
Reel 24 | Item 8 | 1945 | |
Reel 25 | |||
Reel 25 | Item 1 | 1945 | |
Reel 25 | Item 2 | 1949 | |
Reel 25 | Item 3 | 1935-1936 | |
Reel 25 | Item 4 | 1938-1945 | |
1938, 1945 [, and 1950s]
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Reel 25 | Item 5 | 1946-1950 | |
Reel 25 | Item 6 | 1898-1929 | |
1898-1929 [1942]
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Reel 26 | |||
Reel 26 | Item 1 | 1930-1944 | |
Reel 26 | Item 2 | 1933-1937 | |
Reel 26 | Item 3 | 1930 | |
Locations: Illinois, Missouri, Ohio, Iowa, Kansas, Indiana, West
Virginia, New York, Kentucky.
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Reel 26 | Item 4 | 1931 | |
Locations: Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia.
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Reel 26 | Item 5 | 1932 | |
Locations: Illinois, Michigan. [Diaries dating 1933-1934 missing in
original]
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Reel 26 | Item 6 | 1935 | |
Locations: Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, District of Columbia, Ohio,
Michigan, Indiana.
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Reel 27 | |||
Reel 27 | Item 1 | 1936 | |
Locations: Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Missouri, Indiana,
Ontario, Kentucky, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Georgia, Alabama.
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Reel 27 | Item 2 | 1937 | |
Locations: Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Texas, Missouri, Mexico, Indiana,
Kansas, West Virginia, District of Columbia, Wisconsin, New York, New
Jersey.
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Reel 27 | Item 3 | 1938 | |
Locations: Michigan, Ohio, District of Columbia, Illinois, Texas,
California, Wyoming, Colorado, Indiana, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania.
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Reel 27 | Item 4 | 1939 | |
Locations: Michigan, Pennsylvania, District of Columbia, Illinois,
Missouri, Ohio, California, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut.
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Reel 27 | Item 5 | 1940 | |
Locations: New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Connecticut, New Jersey,
District of Columbia, Illinois, Michigan, Oregon, Washington, British
Columbia, Idaho, California.
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Reel 28 | |||
Reel 28 | Item 1 | 1942 | |
Locations: Washington, Illinois, District of Columbia, Minnesota,
Montana, Oregon, New York, California, Missouri, Colorado.
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Reel 28 | Item 2 | 1942 | |
Locations: Colorado, Wyoming, Oregon, Washington, Illinois, District of
Columbia, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Montana, California, Utah, Nevada,
Texas, Mexico, Michigan, Massachusetts, New York, Missouri, Tennessee,
Arkansas.
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Reel 28 | Item 3 | 1943 | |
Locations: Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Missouri, Illinois, Montana,
California, Idaho, Utah, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi,
District of Columbia, Nevada, Pennsylvania, New York, Wisconsin,
Wyoming.
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Reel 28 | Item 4 | 1944 | |
Locations: Oregon, Montana, Colorado, Utah, Illinois, Wisconsin, District
of Columbia, Missouri, Nebraska, Washington, Iowa, Minnesota, Texas,
Oklahoma, Arkansas, Michigan, British Columbia, Kentucky, Ohio.
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Reel 28 | Item 5 | 1945 | |
Locations: Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, District of
Columbia, Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa,
Wisconsin, Montana, Utah, Washington, Oregon, California, Kentucky,
Massachusetts, British Columbia, Manitoba.
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Reel 29 | |||
Reel 29 | Item 1 | 1946 | |
Locations: Illinois, Nebraska, Colorado, Montana, Utah, Wisconsin, Iowa,
Minnesota, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Texas, Ohio,
California, Mexico, Oregon, Washington, District of Columbia, New
Mexico, Virginia, West Virginia, Quebec, Nova Scoti
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Reel 29 | Item 2 | 1947 | |
Locations: Illinois, District of Columbia, New York, Great Britain,
France, Germany, Senegal, Czechoslovakia, New Jersey, Ohio, Kentucky,
West Virginia, Colorado, Utah, Oregon, Massachusetts, Wisconsin,
Nebraska, Minnesota, Wyoming, California, Washington
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Reel 29 | Item 3 | 1948 | |
Locations: Illinois, District of Columbia, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah,
Oregon, California, British Columbia, Washington, Iowa, Minnesota,
Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, New York, Wyoming.
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Reel 29 | Item 4 | 1949 | |
Locations: Illinois, California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia,
Utah, Colorado, District of Columbia, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska,
Ohio, Wyoming.
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Reel 29 | Item 5 | 1950 | |
Locations: Illinois, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, California,
Utah, Colorado, Nebraska, Ontario, Michigan, Wyoming, Idaho, District of
Columbia, Montana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama.
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Reel 29 | Item 6 | 1951 | |
Locations: Illinois, District of Columbia, Ohio, Michigan, Colorado,
Wyoming, Oregon, Utah, New York, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Tennessee,
Quebec, Pennsylvania, Arizona, California, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa.
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Reel 30 | Item 1 | 1952 | |
Locations: Oregon, Washington, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, California,
Illinois, Idaho, District of Columbia, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, Wisconsin, Minnesota.
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Reel 30 | Item 2 | 1953 | |
Locations: Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah,
Oregon, Washington, California, Mexico, District of Columbia, Michigan,
Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Ohio, New York, New Jersey, Virginia,
British Columbia, Idaho.
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Reel 30 | Item 3 | 1954 | |
Locations: Minnesota, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado.
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Reel 30 | Item 4 | 1954 | |
Locations: Illinois, District of Columbia, New Jersey, New York,
Wisconsin, Colorado, Wyoming, Oregon, Idaho, Washington, British
Columbia, California, Minnesota, Montana, Utah, Puerto Rico, United
States Virgin Islands, Missouri.
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Reel 30 | Item 5 | 1955 | |
Locations: Illinois, Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, District of
Columbia, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Alabama, Tennessee,
Ohio, Missouri, Louisiana, Oregon, California, Arkansas, Washington
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Reel 30 | Item 6 | 1956 | |
Locations: Illinois, Oregon, Ontario, Wisconsin.
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Reel 30 | Item 7 | 1957 | |
Locations: Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Georgia, Michigan, Ohio.
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Reel 30 | Item 8 | 1958 | |
Locations: Illinois, Tennessee, Kentucky, California.
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Reel 30 | Item 9 | 1930-1964 | |
1930-1964 and Undated
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